Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Tether and the Government of Georgia have announced GEL₮, the official stablecoin of Georgia, putting the Georgian Lari directly on digital asset market. The announcement on May 25, 2026 marks one of the first joint efforts between a national government and a stablecoin issuer to put a fiat currency...

Key Insights:Vitalik Buterin says the Ethereum Foundation will focus more on long-term stability and less on broad expansion.The Ethereum Foundation plans to reduce ETH sales and preserve more of its holdings for future needs.Market traders are watching Ethereum closely as discussions around strong ...

Here’s something economists don’t see every day: companies spending more money precisely when things get more expensive. Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Sheets, the firm’s Global Head of Fixed Income Research, laid out the case in a May 11 podcast that AI infrastructure spending is fundamentally rewriting h...

The S&P 500 just posted its best earnings growth in over three years. Blended earnings per share grew between 27.1% and 28.4% year-over-year in Q1, the strongest performance since Q4 2021, when the index clocked 32% growth.The Magnificent Seven, that now-familiar group of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple...

Google Research wants AI to start saying “I’m not sure” more often. A paper from the company’s researchers argues that large language models should hedge their answers when internal confidence is low, rather than delivering every response with the unearned swagger of someone who definitely did not j...

The Ethereum Foundation's Kohaku Initiative announced the release of its SDK for integrating privacy protocols into Ethereum wallets without intermediaries. The team achieved a major milestone with v0.0.1-alpha.21 of the kohaku-eth/railgun integration, which now features operational 4337 mempool rel...

CoinDesk reports:As AI simultaneously enhances both defense and attack efficiency, crypto wallets are facing a more complex security environment. Ledger’s newly disclosed roadmap focuses on two key priorities: using AI to proactively identify risks, while keeping final authorization firmly in users’...

CoinDesk reports:Perplexity has open-sourced a security tool called Bumblebee, designed to scan developers' computers for compromised packages, malicious browser extensions, and AI tool connector configurations. It features a design that avoids executing the programs under inspection, instead direct...

ChainCatcher report, according to CNBC, CME's "FedWatch" tool shows a 99.9% probability that the Fed will hold rates steady by June, with a 0.1% probability of a cumulative 25-basis-point cut. By July, the probability of holding rates steady is 90.3%, a cumulative 25-basis-point hike is 9.6%, and a ...

HYPE has ripped past its prior all-time high and briefly touched $65 in a blistering breakout that’s caught the wider market’s eye — particularly because of who’s been quietly accumulating into the move. Hyperliquid data shows prominent trader Garrett Jin — the same whale who famously put on a $735...

Tom Lehman, co‑founder of Layer‑2 network Facet, is reviving a push to bake privacy directly into Ethereum’s protocol with EIP‑8182 — a proposal he wants included in the upcoming Hegota upgrade. Why it matters - Today’s privacy tools on Ethereum are fragmented: multiple “shielded pools” compete for...

Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 would tighten crypto reporting and tax digital payments as authorities push to widen revenue collection across the financial system. Key crypto and reporting measures - Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) would be required to file annual returns with the Kenya Revenue ...

Samson Mow says he “feels sorry” for Ethereum — and the market data gives him reason to be concerned. What he said - Jan3 CEO and longtime Bitcoin maximalist Samson Mow took to X to renew his criticism of Ethereum, admitting that while he dislikes ETH like many Bitcoin supporters, he “can’t help bu...

Pope Leo XIV has made AI the Vatican’s first major tech manifesto — and its message will resonate across Silicon Valley and the crypto world. On May 25, at the Vatican’s Synod Hall, the pope released Magnifica Humanitas ("Magnificent Humanity"), a 245-paragraph encyclical devoted entirely to artifi...

Tether is teaming up with Georgia’s government to launch a government-backed stablecoin tied to the Georgian lari, marking a bold step in the country’s bid to become a U.S.-aligned crypto hub. What’s happening - Tether announced plans to issue GELT, a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian lari, calling...