The team behind the Fortnite-like battle royale game OpenSeason has stopped production on the Ethereum-powered shooter—and instead launched a nudity-filled, crypto-infused puzzle game called Booby Bot. Inspired by Battle Nips, a cult internet game played across various forums and websites, Booby Bot asks players to guess where a woman’s nipples are hidden on a grid of 100 squares. Booby Bot evolves the concept further by using AI to generate the images, and requires players to find a tattoo whil...

NVIDIA introduces Helix Parallelism, a breakthrough in AI, enabling faster real-time inference with multi-million-token contexts, enhancing performance and user experience.

The recent tariff tension coincided with Chainlink's price struggles, further weakening investor sentiment.

Ethereum treasury company SharpLink Gaming's stock was up Tuesday after the company announced another ETH buy, bringing its total holdings of the second-biggest cryptocurrency to 205,634 coins—or over $527 million worth. The gambling marketing firm's stock (NASDAQ: SBET) was recently trading at nearly $16 a share, up nearly 26% over the past day.  SharpLink said Tuesday that it bought 7,689 ETH during the week spanning June 28 to July 4, at a weighted average price of $2,501 per coin.  NEW: Sha...

Trump Media and Technology Group has applied with federal regulators to offer an exchange-traded fund tracking the prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cronos, and XRP, the fintech firm said Tuesday in a statement.  The Truth Social Crypto Blue Chip ETF will be composed of 70% BTC, 15% ETH, 8% SOL, 5% CRO, and 2% XRP, according to an S-1 registration statement filed last Thursday with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. The filing calls attention to yet another crypto-based fund that could...

ReserveOne, a newly formed digital assets management firm, will debut on the Nasdaq through a $1 billion business combination with M3-Brigade Acquisition V, a blank-cheque company, both firms said in a press release on Tuesday. Mirroring U.S. President Donald Trump’s Bitcoin reserve and digital asset stockpile, ReserveOne plans to accumulate Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, among other cryptocurrencies that could be leveraged in staking and lending, the companies said. Under the business combinati...

XRP broke out, but its pullback and sentiment metrics raise questions about sustainability.

Bitcoin price volatility has sunk to historical lows with its price hovering about 2% off its all-time high, but QCP Capital analysts are warning investors to "beware the quiet." "Volatility may be on summer break, but Q3 and Q4 could still deliver fireworks," the analysts wrote in a recent blog post. The current low volatility is a sign that markets have priced in a Goldilocks scenario with delayed tariffs, rate cuts from the Federal Open Markets Committee later this year, and sustained fiscal...

Vladimir Tenev, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, has outlined the platform’s intent to list “thousands” of private companies as tokenized stocks. The statement follows controversy regarding its tokenized stocks for private firms OpenAI and SpaceX. The ChatGPT creator went so far as to publicly denounce the offering. Private companies are not publicly traded on stock exchanges. The firms typically attract investment from founders, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and also sometimes ange...

UK authorities have jailed a pair of criminals for cold-calling 65 victims and convincing them to invest in a fake crypto consultancy firm. Raymondip Bedi and Patrick Mavanga "conspired to drive a coach and horses through the regulatory system," Judge Martin Griffiths said at Southwark Crown Court sentencing last week. Raymondip Bedi and Patrick Mavanga have been sentenced to a combined total of 12 years for cold-calling victims to sell fake crypto investments, defrauding at least 65 investors....

As U.S. allies face new duties, Bitcoin acts less like gold and more like tech.

BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has broken the 700,000 BTC barrier, according to Glassnode data, just a year and a half after its debut in January 2024. That makes its assets under management worth just under $75.6 billion at today's values, per CoinGecko data. The Bitcoin exchange-traded fund is now the third most profitable fund by revenue at the world's largest asset manager, outstripping both the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) and the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM). IBIT has surpas...

Phantom just launched in-wallet perpetuals, offering retail users access to 100+ markets. Its mobile-first rollout could reshape trading—or expose new risks to the unprepared.

SharpLink's ETH playbook just got sharper. With 205K ETH staked and a new transparency metric in play, its treasury model is drawing attention far beyond the crypto crowd.

The Altcoin Index says “not yet,” but the charts suggest something bigger is brewing.

Nasdaq-listed BioSig Technologies is looking to raise $1.1 billion to tokenize gold on Solana

Turkish regulators recently outlined their approach to DeFi apps, which could lead to more bans.

Bitcoin metrics suggest mid-cycle strength, but volatility could rise as historical patterns repeat.

Morpho's crypto token changed hands around $1.39 as the total value locked on Base inched towards $2 billion

DigitalX (DCC), Australia’s sole ASX-listed crypto fund manager, has raised A$20.7 million (US$13.5 million) from a consortium of digital asset investors to expand its Bitcoin holdings and establish a new strategic advisory board. The placement, priced at A$0.074 (US$0.048) per share, drew participation from Animoca Brands, UTXO Management, and ParaFi Capital.  Investors received one warrant for every two shares, exercisable at A$0.15 (US$0.10) and expiring in 18 months. The company said $12.8 m...