Gaming took 63% of all Web3 venture funding in 2022, but by 2025 its share had fallen to single digits as capital rotated into AI, real-world assets and layer-2 infrastructure.
Admiral Samuel Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, told two congressional panels this week that the military is running a live Bitcoin node for cybersecurity testing and views the protocol as a tool of national power in competition with China.
The Crypto venture fund Pantera Capital, with $3.8 billion in AUM, has urged London-listed Satsuma Technology to sell its remaining $50 million in Bitcoin and return that capital directly to shareholders. Meanwhile, Satsuma’s stock has collapsed more than 99% from its June 2025 peak, now trading around $0.21 with a market cap of just $25 …
The founder of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX said he might file for a retrial after a decision on his appeal is ruled upon.
What you need to know for April 23, 2026
BELIEVE token is back under pressure, dropping nearly 19% in a day as serious legal charges against its founder, Benjamin Pasternak, shake already fragile market confidence. According to New York Criminal Court records, Pasternak has been charged with second-degree strangulation and assault, with a court appearance scheduled for June 11. The timing couldn’t be worse …
Bitcoin dips after testing $80,000 as oil surges and traders stay bearish, even though a breakout hints the rally could accelerate on short squeezes.
Key priorities include defining clear SEC and CFTC oversight roles, protecting non-custodial developers, simplifying disclosure rules, and avoiding a patchwork of state laws.
Pantera Capital is urging London-listed Satsuma Technology to liquidate its remaining bitcoin holdings and return cash to shareholders.
Bitcoin, the pioneer cryptocurrency, jumped roughly 6% over the past week, pushing straight into the key $79K resistance zone. Meanwhile, well-known crypto trader Michael van de Poppe says that as long as the $75,000 support holds, Bitcoin could still move higher toward $85,000–$88,000 in the next one to two weeks. Why $79K Is Such a …
The San Francisco-based firm is raising for its seventh early-stage fund and second growth fund, which are expected to be completed in the next five to six months.
The Digital Asset Market Structure CLARITY Act is hitting a key moment, with Senate talks now slipping into May due to delays around stablecoin rules. Most issues are close to being sorted, but timing is becoming the real problem. According to the reports, with a tight calendar and a possible July vote window, the bill …
When Charles Hoskinson and others in the crypto space talk about operating with regulatory clarity today, one name rarely gets the credit it deserves: Ripple. That is the argument analyst Bradley Kimes made in a recent podcast, and it is starting to cut through as new money flows into crypto and asks the obvious question …
Six Coinbase senior marketing executives, including the exchange's former chief marketing officer, have jumped to OpenAI in the past year and a half.
Asteroid Shiba is down nearly 12% in 24 hours, trading around $0.00036. The drop comes as profit-takers exit after one of the most explosive meme coin runs of 2026, where the token surged over 700,000% in a single week from near-zero to a high of $0.00046, driven by viral retail interest and buzz around SpaceX …
The index has returned to neutral territory, a rare milestone that has historically marked market turning points, but not always correctly.
SpaceX's agreement to acquire AI coding startup Cursor at a $60 billion valuation has retroactively turned a routine bankruptcy asset sale by FTX's estate into one of the largest missed recoveries in crypto history.
The CLARITY Act could be completed by the end of May 2026, according to Senator Bernie Moreno, raising hopes for long-awaited crypto regulation. Meanwhile, prediction market odds have slightly improved from 38% to 46%, but delays and political pressure remain doubtful. On the other hand, a Republican on the Senate Banking Committee is still pushing …
The engineering organization behind Cardano submitted nine proposals totaling $46.8 million for the 2026 voting cycle, down from $97.5 million last year.
Bitcoin has finally broken out of its long sideways phase that lasted for weeks between roughly $65,000 and $75,000. Price has now moved into the $77,500–$78,000 zone, shifting the market from consolidation into what looks like an early trend phase. In under two weeks, BTC is up nearly 10%. Prediction Markets Turn More Bullish at …
Bitcoin traded at $77,794 on Thursday morning, up 0.4% over 24 hours but well off the $79,388 high hit Wednesday evening, with ether, XRP and Solana all closing red.
Co-founder Eric Trump went further, saying the only thing more 'ridiculous' than Sun's lawsuit is a $6 million banana duct-taped to a wall.
Analyst Tim Warren, in his latest video, says while retail investors are losing interest, major institutions like BlackRock, JPMorgan, DTCC, and Goldman Sachs are positioning for a huge move into real-world assets (RWAs). The focus is on tokenizing traditional assets like U.S. treasuries, real estate, bonds, and loans, bringing them onto blockchain rails. If regulations …
The prediction market platform, which has been caught in the middle of a regulatory battle between the feds and the states, is seeking to demonstrate strong controls.
The company's bitcoin stash remained at 11,509 BTC, worth about $880 million at bitcoin's current price of around $78,000.
U.S. banking groups argued that a number of federal agencies are moving quickly on stablecoin regulations, making it hard to understand how rules will interact.
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In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jennifer Rosenthal writes on the need to protect the people actually building DeFi infrastructure. Then, Alexis Sirkia comments on how Ethereum's L2 strategy is failing due to a fundamental design flaw.
A viral thread alleging that Ripple systematically dumps hundreds of millions of XRP on its own holders every month to fund company operations has reignited one of crypto’s oldest debates. The argument laid out a detailed case against Ripple’s tokenomic structure. The main claim was when XRP launched in 2012, 100 billion tokens were created …