Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

According to Fortune, AI startup Viktor has completed a $75 million Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, Inovo VC, Tenacity Capital, and executives from Slack co-founder, Synthesia CEO, Google DeepMind, Figma, and ElevenLabs.

CoinDesk reports:On May 19, Trump Media withdrew all three applications submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the Truth Social cryptocurrency ETF.Yorkville America Digital stated that these products will return under different regulatory frameworks, rather than disappear...

Qivalis, a group of European banks building a regulated euro stablecoin, said Wednesday that 25 more lenders joined the initiative, more than tripling its membership as banks across the region deepen their push into blockchain finance.The expansion brings the consortium to 37 financial institutions ...

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to update its regulatory frameworks to integrate "digital assets and innovative technology into traditional financial services and payment systems" in an executive order signed Tuesday.According to the document, the U.S. should foster financ...

Non-dollar stablecoins have grown sharply over the past five years. Despite the headlines, they just have not become any more important.The combined supply of euro, Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, Singapore dollar, and other non-USD stablecoins rose to about $771 million in April 2026 from $261 milli...

Bitcoin’s BTC$77,028.21 price has been falling lately alongside an upswing in U.S. Treasury yields. Yet BTC’s implied volatility, a measure of uncertainty, is acting as if none of that is true. That’s the real story because it’s setting the stage for “volatility bulls” to step in and bet on wild swi...

Bitcoin BTC$77,028.21 failing to break above its key moving average around $83,000 sparked renewed fears that another brutal leg lower is coming.But this cycle, K33 Research argued in a Tuesday report, is behaving very differently from the crashes of 2014, 2018 and 2022 crashes that happened after s...

PI loses key support. Where will buyers return?PI Network (PI) Price Predictions: AnalysisKey support levels: $0.15, $0.13Key resistance levels: $0.16, $0.20PI Loses Key Support as Sellers ReturnSince late last week, selling has intensified, which put pressure on the $0.16 support until this level c...

PANews, May 20: According to Fortune, the decentralized derivatives trading protocol Variational has announced the completion of a $50 million Series A round led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, and others. Its seed round previously raised $10.3 m...

TL;DR:Former CFTC director Timothy Massad stated that a U.S. CBDC is inevitable and is being privately explored despite Trump’s public opposition.U.S. officials participate in the BIS Project Agora, an initiative bringing together seven central banks to develop tokenized money infrastructure.The Sen...

The U.K.’s ambitions to become a dominant global digital asset hub is running into a wall of political inertia and regulatory gridlock, Jonny Fry, a blockchain and global banking researcher, founder of Digital Bites and CEO at TeamBlockchain Ltd., told CoinDesk.Despite outward assurances of progress...

In the lead up to taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump fiercely opposed a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) or government-backed dollar-pegged stablecoin, however the global market dynamics means it is inevitable, said Timothy Massad, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Com...

Truth Social withdrew filings for spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in the U.S.Sponsor Yorkville is shifting focus toward 1940 Act crypto ETF products.The move comes as competition in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs continues to intensify.Trump Media & Technology Group-owned Truth Social has withdrawn three...

In a bold move to give merchants and crypto users access to the wider DeFi landscape, DashPay, a cryptocurrency payment application platform, today entered into a strategic integration with Aurora, a layer-2 network that powers cross-chain swaps and unified liquidity for on-chain markets. With the t...

ChainCatcher reports that AI search startup Exa Labs has completed a new funding round of $2.5 billion, led by a16z, raising its post-money valuation to $22 billion. The company focuses on building infrastructure for search engines in the AI era; its valuation has more than tripled since approximate...