Alpine Fox Discloses $125M Crypto: Cipher Mining & IBIT Dominate Q1
Alpine Fox reports $125 million in crypto positions, with Cipher Mining and IBIT calls leading its Q1 filing Alpine Fox reported $125 million in crypto positions in its Q1 2026 filing. That is most of a $154 million Form 13F portfolio. Plain signal: the Las Vegas fund is leaning hard int ...
Coinbase Launches Perpetual Futures for AI Infrastructure Stocks!
Coinbase to Launch Perpetual Futures for AI Infrastructure Stocks Including TSMC and Cerebras Coinbase plans to launch perpetual futures for AI infrastructure stocks, including TSMC and Cerebras, on May 18, if there is enough liquidity. For crypto traders, that is the part worth circling ...
SodaBot & BONDXID Merge AI Automation with Web3 Payments
SodaBot and BONDXID link AI automation with Web3 payments SodaBot announced a partnership with BONDXID on May 14, 2026, bringing AI based DeFi automation closer to payment infrastructure. My take: crypto investors should not dress this up as a grand adoption moment. We have had plenty of ...
Prediction Markets Weigh Hardware Flaws vs. Nvidia’s Earnings Streak
Prediction markets weigh hardware flaws against Nvidia's quarterly earnings streak Nvidia reports on May 20, and prediction markets are leaning hard toward another beat. Crypto traders should not shrug at that. AI chip demand has become part of the same risk trade that can pull BTC, ETH, ...
0x Co-Founder Will Warren Steps Down as Co-CEO: What’s Next?
0x Co-Founder Will Warren Steps Down as Co-CEO 0x co-founder Will Warren has stepped down as co-CEO, leaving Amir Bandeali to run the Ethereum-based decentralized exchange protocol. This is not just inside-baseball crypto news. I would not file it under executive churn a ...
South Korea’s Biggest Exchange Fights Deepfake Fraud Wave
South Korea's biggest exchange fights deepfake fraud wave as crypto risk widens Deepfake scams now use fake voices and video to hit crypto investors at the weakest point: trust. South Korea's biggest exchange is pushing back after Bithumb published a May 14 anti-phishing ...
Fabio Panetta Elected Chair of BIS Board: What It Means
Fabio Panetta elected Chair of Bank for International Settlements Board Fabio Panetta has been elected Chair of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Board. For crypto, this is not just a personnel update. My take: the name matters because the policy bias is already visible. ...
Kraken Dumps LayerZero for Chainlink CCIP: What It Means
Kraken drops LayerZero for Chainlink CCIP after $292 million kBTC security scare Kraken is replacing LayerZero with Chainlink CCIP after April's $292 million KelpDAO breach pushed cross chain bridge risk back into the center of the room. ...
Bybit Expands Institutional Options Access with Orbit Markets RFQ
Bybit adds Orbit Markets liquidity to its RFQ options workflow Bybit is adding Orbit Markets liquidity to its RFQ workflow, giving professional traders a way to request options quotes inside the same setup they already use on Bybit. Dry? Very. But in crypto derivatives, this is the plumb ...
Turnkey Raises $12.5M Backed by Circle & Sequoia Capital
Turnkey raises $12.5 million in round backed by Circle Ventures and Sequoia Capital Turnkey, a New York company that builds wallet and key management tools for crypto apps, raised $12.5 million in a new funding round. My take: the check size is not the story. For crypto infrastructure, $ ...