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Robinhood Now Lets AI Agents Trade Stocks and Spend for You

Robinhood has launched Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card, letting customers connect AI agents that can trade stocks and make purchases on their behalf. The tools bring hedge-fund-style automation to retail investors, with guardrails to keep agents in check.

By Sonia Paganuzzi • May 27, 2026 • 3 min

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AI Coinbase

Coinbase's Base Launches AI Tool to Manage Crypto in ChatGPT

Coinbase's Base network has launched an AI tool that lets ChatGPT and Claude manage crypto wallets and use DeFi apps through plain-language prompts. The agent proposes actions, but the user approves every transaction.

By Shoaib Ali • May 27, 2026 • 3 min

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Stablecoins Security

StablR Exploit: $13.5M Unbacked Stablecoins Minted in MiCA Breach

European issuer StablR has frozen its USDR and EURR stablecoins after an attacker compromised a single key in a 1-of-3 multisig and minted $13.5 million in unbacked tokens. The breach was a governance failure, not a smart contract bug, and it left a MiCA-regulated issuer under-collateralised.

By Samson Mackeown • May 26, 2026 • 4 min

Prediction Markets DeFi

Hyperliquid Takes Aim at Polymarket With Macro Event Bets

Hyperliquid has expanded its HIP-4 outcome markets to cover real-world events like inflation and Fed decisions, settling them through its own validators rather than an external oracle. It is a direct challenge to Polymarket, with a very different resolution model.

By Sonia Paganuzzi • May 26, 2026 • 3 min

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Security Bitcoin AI

Quantum Computing Crypto Threats: Why AI is Accelerating Timelines

Researchers say AI is accelerating quantum computing research and compressing the timeline for the day quantum machines could break the encryption securing Bitcoin and Ethereum. Not everyone agrees the threat is imminent, but the industry is already moving.

By Shoaib Ali • May 26, 2026 • 4 min

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AI Exchanges

MoonPay Integration Brings Crypto Onramp to ChatGPT App Store

MoonPay has launched in ChatGPT's App Store as the first crypto onramp integrated into OpenAI's chatbot, letting users buy more than 100 tokens without leaving the conversation. The move is the clearest sign yet that AI assistants are becoming a crypto distribution channel.

By Matthew Curtis • May 25, 2026 • 3 min

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Bitcoin Institutional Regulation

Nasdaq Bitcoin Index Options (QBTC) Win SEC Approval: What's Next?

The SEC has approved Nasdaq's cash-settled QBTC Bitcoin index options, which trade through ordinary brokerage accounts and are sized at just 1 BTC per contract. But the product cannot launch until the CFTC signs off, and that timeline is unknown.

By Sonia Paganuzzi • May 25, 2026 • 3 min

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Guides DeFi

Crypto Coins vs Tokens: What's the Difference?

"Coin" and "token" get used interchangeably, but they describe two different kinds of crypto asset. A coin is the native currency of its own blockchain. A token is built on top of an existing one. Here is the full breakdown.

By Sonia Paganuzzi • May 25, 2026 • 6 min

Exchanges AI

Coinbase Says AI Cut Compliance Resolution Times by 90%

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the exchange has cut account restriction resolution times by 90% by rebuilding its compliance workflows around AI, two weeks after cutting 14% of its workforce. Humans still review every outcome.

By Samson Mackeown • May 24, 2026 • 3 min

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Polymarket Prediction Markets Regulation

Polymarket Targets Japan Approval by 2030 in Global Push

Polymarket has appointed a representative in Japan and is lobbying for prediction market approval by 2030, betting that one of the world's strictest gambling jurisdictions can be persuaded to create a legal path for on-chain event contracts.

By Afshan Rasheed • May 24, 2026 • 3 min

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Bitcoin Guides

How Many Bitcoin Are There? The Complete BTC Supply Explained

How many Bitcoin are there? With 19.95M BTC already mined, only 1.05M remain. Learn about the halving schedule, lost coins, and the 2140 cap.

By Sonia Paganuzzi • May 24, 2026 • 6 min

Security Ethereum Crypto Crime

Verus-Ethereum Bridge Hacker Returns $8.5M After Bounty Deal

The hacker who drained $11.58 million from the Verus-Ethereum bridge has returned $8.5 million after the protocol offered a bounty to keep the rest. The deal recovered 75% of the stolen funds within days of the exploit.

By Matthew Curtis • May 23, 2026 • 3 min

Polymarket Prediction Markets

India Blocks Polymarket and Lines Up Kalshi as Next Target

Polymarket has gone dark for users in India after a government blocking order, and US-regulated rival Kalshi could be next as soon as Friday. India classifies both as illegal online money gaming under a law that took effect on 1 May.

By Sonia Paganuzzi • May 23, 2026 • 3 min

Stablecoins

Non-Dollar Stablecoins Are Still Stuck Below 0.5% of the Market

Non-dollar stablecoin supply has nearly tripled since 2021, but market share has actually slipped. Dollar-pegged tokens now hold 99.76% of the stablecoin sector, and the gap is widening rather than closing.

By Matthew Curtis • May 23, 2026 • 4 min

Prediction Markets Polymarket Security

Polymarket Report: 98% Win Rate on Iran War Bets Triggers Security Alarm

Bubblemaps says nine coordinated Polymarket accounts won $2.4 million betting on US military strikes in Iran with a 98% win rate. Investigators warn the pattern could hand US adversaries a real-time intelligence signal. Congress is now moving to ban war contracts.

By Miracle Kyauta • May 22, 2026 • 4 min

Exchanges Institutional IPO

Blockchain.com SEC Filing: Crypto Giant Targets 2026 Listing Despite Market Slump

Blockchain.com confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC for a US IPO on Thursday. The move stands out because several major crypto firms have paused or delayed their own listings amid weaker market conditions.

By Soonhan Rani • May 22, 2026 • 3 min

Tokenization RWAs Institutional

Securitize Posts Record Revenue as It Heads Toward a Public Listing

Securitize posted record first-quarter revenue of $19.5 million, up 39%, as the tokenization platform prepares to list publicly through a $1.25 billion SPAC merger. Losses widened on growth and public-company spending.

By Shoaib Ali • May 22, 2026 • 3 min

Binance Bitcoin Markets

Binance Launches SpaceX Pre-IPO Perps Ahead of $2T Listing

Binance has launched pre-IPO perpetual futures starting with SpaceX, letting retail traders trade the rocket maker's valuation ahead of its expected Nasdaq listing. The contracts bring a historically institutional market on-chain.

By Sonia Paganuzzi • May 21, 2026 • 3 min

ETF DeFi

Hyperliquid ETFs Defy a Down Market With a 50% Volume Jump

Hyperliquid ETFs from Bitwise and 21Shares recorded a 50% volume jump on Wednesday, a rare feat for newly launched funds. The growth comes as HYPE outperforms a market where almost everything else is falling.

By Samson Mackeown • May 21, 2026 • 3 min

Regulation Stablecoins

Singapore Pulls Bsquared's Crypto Licence in Rare Enforcement Move

Singapore's central bank revoked Bsquared Technology's Major Payment Institution licence on 14 May after finding serious breaches and false statements. Licence revocations of this kind remain rare in the city-state.

By Matthew Curtis • May 21, 2026 • 3 min

ETF Bitcoin Institutional

Robinhood Now Lets AI Agents Trade Stocks and Spend for You

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Coinbase's Base Launches AI Tool to Manage Crypto in ChatGPT

StablR Exploit: $13.5M Unbacked Stablecoins Minted in MiCA Breach

Hyperliquid Takes Aim at Polymarket With Macro Event Bets

Quantum Computing Crypto Threats: Why AI is Accelerating Timelines

MoonPay Integration Brings Crypto Onramp to ChatGPT App Store

Nasdaq Bitcoin Index Options (QBTC) Win SEC Approval: What's Next?

Crypto Coins vs Tokens: What's the Difference?

Coinbase Says AI Cut Compliance Resolution Times by 90%

Polymarket Targets Japan Approval by 2030 in Global Push

How Many Bitcoin Are There? The Complete BTC Supply Explained

Verus-Ethereum Bridge Hacker Returns $8.5M After Bounty Deal

India Blocks Polymarket and Lines Up Kalshi as Next Target

Non-Dollar Stablecoins Are Still Stuck Below 0.5% of the Market

Polymarket Report: 98% Win Rate on Iran War Bets Triggers Security Alarm

Blockchain.com SEC Filing: Crypto Giant Targets 2026 Listing Despite Market Slump

Securitize Posts Record Revenue as It Heads Toward a Public Listing

Binance Launches SpaceX Pre-IPO Perps Ahead of $2T Listing

Hyperliquid ETFs Defy a Down Market With a 50% Volume Jump

Singapore Pulls Bsquared's Crypto Licence in Rare Enforcement Move

BlackRock Leads $331M Bitcoin ETF Outflow as Altcoin Funds Buck the Trend

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