Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

ChainCatcher report: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, the entity suspected to be a16z withdrew 114,533.98 HYPE tokens over the past 24 hours from exchanges and market makers, valued at $6.45 million, at an average price of $56.31. Since 2026, this entity has accumulated a total of 5.93 million H...

PANews, May 23: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, at 3:00 AM, the address 0x60a…685f6 deposited 10 million USDC into Hyperliquid, followed by additional positions of 28,500 BRENTOIL and 1,000 CL. Its cumulative long position in crude oil shorts now totals $15.49 million, ranking among the top thr...

A whale trader who recently closed profitable long positions on HYPE, ZEC, and ETH has opened a substantial short position against Bitcoin. According to on-chain data from Onchain Lens, the anonymous trader, identified by the handle Evaded (@ICanPlug), established a short worth $74.51 million, equiv...

JPYC Corporation, the issuer of the Japanese yen stablecoin, has announced the completion of its Series B funding round, raising a total of 5 billion JPY (approximately $31.4 million) across its first and second funding rounds. New institutional investors include Life Design Fund, IHD STRATEGY FUND,...

The tokenized commodities market just crossed $7.3 billion in total market capitalization, a record that would have sounded absurd two years ago. Ethereum accounts for 66.6% of that figure, reinforcing its position as the go-to blockchain for real-world asset tokenization.To put the growth in perspe...

The Altcoin Season Index, a widely tracked metric from CoinMarketCap, has declined to 40, down one point from the previous day. The reading signals a continued shift in market sentiment away from altcoins and toward Bitcoin, as the index remains firmly in Bitcoin season territory.Understanding the A...

CoinDesk reports:Grab is integrating robots and autonomous driving into its next phase of growth. Chief Technology Officer Suthen Paradatheth said that the future importance of delivery robots could be comparable to that of platform drivers. On May 20, Grab announced that its delivery robot Carri wi...

CoinDesk reports:A clothing website linked to FBI Director Kash Patel was inaccessible on Friday after it was targeted with malware designed to steal crypto assets. The incident drew attention because the attack method tricked users into manually executing commands, thereby exposing browser data, se...

Rep. Tom Emmer wants you to know that the CLARITY Act didn’t materialize overnight. The House Majority Whip and co-chair of the Congressional Crypto Caucus described the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 as roughly the “fifth or sixth iteration” of Congress’s attempts to build a federal regul...

Cerebras Systems is now serving Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model, at 981 output tokens per second. That number, verified by independent testing from Artificial Analysis, represents 6.7 times the speed of the next-best GPU cloud provider.For context...

The SEC just gave Nasdaq the green light to list options tied directly to a Bitcoin price index. Not options on a Bitcoin ETF. Not options on Bitcoin futures. Options on the index itself, settled in cash, traded on a regulated equities exchange.It’s a distinction that matters more than it sounds. Th...

Roundhill Investments has filed with the SEC for a new exchange-traded fund built around one of the fastest-growing corners of AI infrastructure: companies that rent out GPU capacity to enterprises hungry for machine learning compute.The Roundhill Neocloud ETF, proposed under the ticker $NCLD, would...

Odaily Planet Daily reports: JPYC Co., Ltd. has announced the completion of its Series B funding round, with the total Series B fundraising expected to reach approximately ¥5 billion. Four new investors—Life Design Fund, IHD STRATEGY FUND, Mirai Sōzō Investment Partnership, and Meiji Yasuda Mirai Sō...

BlockBeats news, on May 23, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart stated that Grayscale has again submitted an amended filing to the U.S. SEC for the Hyperliquid ETF, now updated to the third amendment (Amendment #3), with the ETF ticker confirmed as "GHYP".James Seyffart said that as the application...

According to CoinPost, Japanese stablecoin issuer JPYC announced the completion of its Series B funding round, raising approximately $32 million. New investors include four institutions, such as Life Design Fund. Since its launch in October 2025, JPYC has experienced significant business growth, rea...