Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

A fresh phishing campaign using fake Uniswap sites advertised through Google Search has siphoned off at least $400,000 from unsuspecting crypto users, highlighting a persistent weak spot in search-ad policing. What happened - On-chain analyst “b-block” flagged a malicious website impersonating Unis...

For years, crypto companies competed to build faster blockchains, deeper liquidity pools, and more scalable decentralized applications. Increasingly, however, the next major race inside Web3 appears to be centered on something else entirely: artificial intelligence.Across the industry, developers ar...

NEAR Protocol [NEAR] delivered one of the market’s strongest rallies after gaining more than 15% within 24 hours at press time. Notably, the trading volume also climbed 53% to $1.11 billion, reflecting rapidly expanding participation during the breakout phase. Buyers continued to drive the prices hi...

The S&P 500 options market just had its most chaotic day in recent memory. On May 7, traders pushed $2.6 trillion in notional call option volume through the system, a single-day record that forced dealers into a frantic hedging spiral.Call options made up roughly 60% of all trading activity that...

The United States and India formalized a Critical Minerals Framework on May 26, covering the full lifecycle of rare earth and critical mineral supply chains. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar signed the agreement in New Delhi, with over $30 billion ...

ChainCatcher report: According to The New York Times, AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter has announced the completion of a $1.13 billion Series B funding round, led by CapitalG, the growth fund under Google’s parent company, with participation from a16z, Menlo Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA’s inv...

PANews, May 27: Coinbase Markets announced the listing of MetaDAO (META) and Derive (DRV) spot trading on May 27, opening the META-USD and DRV-USD trading pairs. Trading will commence after 9:00 AM Pacific Time, subject to sufficient liquidity, and is available in compliant regions. MetaDAO is an SP...

BlockBeats news, on May 26, Pump.fun announced a major upgrade to its app, officially launching frictionless multi-chain trading functionality, allowing users to trade assets across multiple EVM chains—including Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain—directly within the app. Pump.fun stated that this upgrade...

According to CoinMarketCap data, the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization today performed as follows: Top 5 gainers: Worldcoin (WLD) up 30.06% at $0.3929; OKB (OKB) up 12.85% at $94.00; Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) up 11.59% at $0.2513; Render (RENDER) up 7.00% at $2.35;...

BlockBeats news: On May 26, according to official announcements, Coinbase has declared that spot trading for MetaDAO and Derive will launch on May 27, 2026.The META-USD and DRV-USD trading pairs will open at or after 9:00 AM Pacific Time, subject to liquidity requirements, and will be officially ena...

ICP supports decentralized cloud computing with scalable on-chain applications and governance features.SEI improves decentralized trading efficiency through optimized order books and low-latency infrastructure.SUI offers fast, scalable blockchain performance using the secure and flexible Move progra...

Huo Xing Finance reports that, according to HyperInsight monitoring, as of May 26, Huang Licheng, known as "Maji Dage," has been continuously reducing his long positions in ETH over the past hour. He currently holds a 5500 ETH long position (approximately $11.5 million) with 25x leverage, at an aver...

LI.FI has announced the launch of its intent-based execution architecture, LI.FI Intents, optimized for stablecoin payments, tokenized assets, and on-chain liquidity execution, enabling cross-chain swaps between USDC and USDT along with multi-asset integration. The architecture is now live on applic...

CoinDesk reports:CME Group has officially launched futures contracts linked to Avalanche and Sui, further expanding its regulated crypto derivatives coverage beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum to include additional major Layer 1 assets. The new products are cash-settled and integrated into CME’s existing c...

CoinDesk reports:The company disclosed that last week, Strategy repurchased $1.5 billion in convertible notes for approximately $1.38 billion, using the majority of its previously reserved cash for debt repayment and dividends. After the repurchase, the company’s dedicated cash reserve for paying pr...