Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

The US crypto industry has spent years in a regulatory twilight zone, unsure whether its tokens are securities, commodities, or something else entirely. Sen. Cynthia Lummis wants to turn the lights on.Lummis, who chairs the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets, threw her weight behind the D...

The prediction markets industry just got its own lobbying arm, and it’s not being shy about picking a fight.Americans for Fair Markets, a new advocacy organization backed by Kalshi, launched on May 22 with a clear mission: push back against the gambling industry’s efforts to block federally regulate...

TL;DRCryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju says Bitcoin’s bull market is still not fully confirmed despite improving on-chain conditions. The firm’s Bull Score Index remains in neutral territory, showing mixed market signals. At the same time, long-term Bitcoin holders continue accumulating BTC, reinforci...

France just wrote a very large check to the future. President Emmanuel Macron announced €1.5 billion in new public funding split between quantum computing and microelectronics, a move that plants France’s flag firmly in what’s becoming one of the most expensive technology races on the planet.The bre...

Kevin Warsh took the oath of office as the 17th Chair of the Federal Reserve on May 22, becoming the first Fed chair since Alan Greenspan in 1987 to be inaugurated at the White House. The ceremony caps a politically charged confirmation process and installs a leader whose personal financial ties to ...

Kevin Warsh was sworn in as chair of the Federal Reserve on May 22, 2026, in a White House ceremony that hasn’t happened for a Fed chief since Alan Greenspan took the oath in 1987. President Trump, standing nearby, told Warsh to be “totally independent” and not to look at him while making decisions....

President Donald Trump swore in Kevin Warsh as the new Chair of the Federal Reserve on May 22, 2026, and he didn’t let the ceremony pass without taking a few shots at the institution’s prior leadership. Trump accused the previous Fed regime of losing its focus on the dual mandate, price stability an...

One day after Meta announced 8,000 job cuts, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed what his office called a “first-in-the-nation” executive order aimed squarely at the economic fallout of artificial intelligence. The order, signed on May 21, 2026, directs state agencies to develop policies coverin...

Google is preparing to fundamentally change what happens when you type a question into a search bar. Instead of the familiar wall of blue links, users will increasingly get synthesized, conversational answers generated by AI, personalized to their lives using data from Gmail, Google Photos, and Cale...

ChainCatcher report: The U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a new bipartisan bill, the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026 (ARMA), proposing to include Bitcoin held by the U.S. government in its strategic reserves and requiring that these assets be locked for at least 20 years. Unli...

When a blockchain leans into a stablecoin strategy, it typically signals a more forward-looking shift.The idea is pretty straightforward. Payments are a trillion-dollar global market, and Layer-1 chains are clearly aiming to position themselves in the middle of it. Stablecoins are becoming the core ...

Goldman Sachs quietly exited its XRP ETF positions in Q1 2026 — but the market barely blinked. What happened - Goldman, which only entered the XRP ETF space in late 2025, had amassed roughly $154 million in XRP-linked ETF exposure by the end of Q4 2025. That stake, spread across Bitwise, Grayscale,...

Polymarket has quietly put a senior local hire in place as it prepares a long-term push into Japan, Bloomberg reports — a sign the prediction-market platform is getting serious about winning formal regulatory approval in one of Asia’s most tightly regulated gambling and financial markets. Key move:...

Blockchain sleuths at Arkham Intelligence flagged a big bitcoin shuffle on Thursday: addresses tied to Trump Media & Technology Group (ticker: DJT) moved more than 2,650 BTC — roughly $204 million — to Crypto.com in two transfers around 8:00 p.m. ET. Arkham’s data doesn’t reveal the reason for ...

Polymarket confirms internal wallet compromise after up to $700K drained Polymarket disclosed on Friday that an internal “top‑up” wallet used for rewards payouts was drained after its private key was compromised — but stressed that user funds and market outcomes were not affected. What happened - ...