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South Korea FSC reviews Hana Bank deal, finance-crypto rules still murky South Korea's FSC review of Hana Bank's Dunamu deal is becoming a real 2026 stress test for bank exposure to crypto. On May 18, the Financial Services Commission's Virtual Asset Division confirmed that it is reviewi ...

Elon Musk and Sam Altman clash in OpenAI lawsuit trial Elon Musk and Sam Altman are in court over what OpenAI said it would be, and what it turned into. Jury selection began on April 27, 2026, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. For crypto t ...

Iran may be turning the Strait of Hormuz into a bitcoin-based insurance market, local reports say Iran may be trying to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a bitcoin-settled insurance market, according to local reports. My take: this is not just another crypto payments angle with a geopoliti ...

Crypto bridge Garden Finance suffers $11M hack via compromised solver Crypto bridge Garden Finance lost about $11 million after one of its solvers was compromised. Garden says user funds were not touched. Good, assuming that holds. My take: the uncomfortable risk here is ...

EU weighs rules to move supply chains away from China The European Union is weighing new rules that would force companies to buy less from China. Crypto should care. I’ll be honest: this is the kind of policy story traders skip until it starts showing up in capex, lead times, and server ...

Top NFT performers by weekly sales: Courtyard, ATMC BRC-20 NFTs, X@AGI BRC-20 NFTs, CryptoPunks lead collectibles market CryptoSlam's weekly NFT data for the week ending May 17, 2026 is messy. Sales fell 13.53% to $60.227 million, while buyers jumped 235.23% to 91,290. That is not exactl ...

Ethereum Devs Clash Over Rising Data Costs as ETH Faces Node Risk Ethereum developers are fighting over EIP-8037, a proposal that would raise the upfront cost of new smart contracts and storage slots. The argument is not cosmetic. Ethereum's live state is already around ...

Bitget AI Hits 1 Million Users and $1.2B in Agent Trading Volume Across 58 Tools Bitget AI says it reached 1 million users and $1.2 billion in agent trading volume across 58 tools by mid-May 2026. Fine, the user count is the headline. My take: the sharper signal is what traders are now ...

Expert Warns 2-Year Nasdaq Bubble Phase Beginning, Urges Investors to Position Now Clem Chambers told Kitco this week that AI infrastructure spending, U.S. deficit money printing, and reindustrialization could push the Nasdaq into a bubble phase. That is a stock market call, but crypto t ...

Crypto Owners Forced at Gunpoint to Unlock Accounts in $6.5M Robbery Spree Federal prosecutors said on May 11 that Elijah Armstrong, Nino Chindavanh, and Jayden Rucker were indicted over a series of alleged home invasions targeting cryptocurrency owners. In one case, prosecutors say, a v ...