Under the plan, 98% of FTX creditors will get at least 118% of their claims back — the remainder will receive all of their claims “plus billions in compensation,” says FTX.

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has reiterated his view that crypto is a field full of noncompliance. While noting that crypto is a small piece of the overall U.S. financial market that his agency oversees, the SEC chair emphasized that it is “an outsized piece of the scams […]

So far, Dogecoin has emerged as a significant player among the largest altcoins, exhibiting signs of a strong comeback, particularly highlighted by the recent profitability of numerous wallet addresses. A Surge In Dogecoin Profitable Addresses Recent data from IntoTheBlock reveals a notable uptick in the profitability of Dogecoin addresses. Of the myriad wallets in the Dogecoin ecosystem, roughly 82.66%, representing approximately 5.21 million addresses, are currently profitable. Related Reading: Dogecoin Breaks Out Of Descending Triangle Like It Did In 2021, Analyst Sets $6 Target According to data from IntoTheBlock, the profitability price range remains between $0.143 and $0.150. Conversely, a smaller segment of the network, about 13.5% or 850,400 addresses, remains in the red. These addresses are positioned to turn profitable if Dogecoin’s market price is between $0.183 and $0.671. An intriguing midpoint exists where approximately 3.83% of addresses, totaling 241,340, will break even if prices reach between $0.150 and $0.167. DOGE’s Market Dynamics And Future Prospects Despite the positive sentiment, Dogecoin’s journey is not devoid of challenges and speculative dynamics. The meme coin, often buoyed by social media trends and celebrity endorsements, particularly from figures like Elon Musk, is gaining traction through technical milestones and broader ecosystem developments. Analytical experts like Ali have pointed out significant patterns on Dogecoin’s charts that echo its historical rallies. Notably, Ali identifies a recurring descending triangle breakout akin to those seen before substantial price surges in 2017 and 2021. Related Reading: Brace For Price Impact: Dogecoin Whales Move Massive 456 Million DOGE To Exchanges If historical patterns hold true, Dogecoin might revisit its all-time high and potentially exceed it, with targets set ambitiously at $1.2 and even $6 in the ongoing bull cycle. Now, in 2024, #DOGE has yet again broken out of a descending triangle! It is currently undergoing a 47% price correction, very similar to previous cycles, which could ignite the next $DOGE bull run! pic.twitter.com/ZmuHmvIwei — Ali (@ali_charts) May 1, 2024 Furthermore, sentiments from market analysts like Altcoin Sherpa reinforce the bullish outlook for Dogecoin. Sherpa’s analysis, based on long-term consolidation phases and current market positioning, suggests that Dogecoin could outperform other cryptocurrencies significantly this year. Sherpa noted: DOGE is looking good. I strongly feel like this is going to be a strong coin for 2024. I think averaging between $.12 and $.14 would be a solid play and this one should outperform many other tokens for a lot of reasons. It chopped for almost 2 years, it’s going to moon later. Meanwhile, Dogecoin’s price has recently experienced a notable uptick, rising over 10% in the past week. However, in the last 24 hours, it has slightly declined by 2.4%, trading at $0.155 at the time of writing. Featured image from Unsplash, Chart from TradingView

Robinhood Markets is preparing to fight the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in court to defend its crypto business and establish “regulatory clarity in the United States for the benefit of our customers,” CEO Vlad Tenev said after his company received a Wells notice from the securities regulator. “The SEC’s continued attack on crypto, […]

The withdrawal comes a little over two weeks before the United States securities regulator will be forced to make a decision on at least one spot Ether ETF application.

Excluding Bitcoin, memecoins were the biggest narrative of this cycle. However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tokens also performed remarkably during the first quarter of 2024. The crypto market recovered over the weekend from the May 1st retrace, with AI tokens showing significant gains. As a result, many industry experts think that the sector is poised for a ‘Round 2’ this cycle. Related Reading: Analysts Foresee Altcoins ‘Explosive Rally’ Incoming, Is The Correction Phase Over? AI Sector Recovers By 8% Crypto analysts highlighted AI tokens alongside memecoins as the hottest topic of 2024, responsible for most of the massive gains during this cycle. According to CoinGecko’s report, AI was one of the three sectors that delivered three-digit returns in Q1. Moreover, the largest AI token by market capitalization, Fetch.ai (FET), saw gains of 378.3% during this period. As a result, some analysts deem the AI sector to be the next main narrative of the cycle. Trader John Walsh, known as CryptoGodJohn, considers “The future of AI coins preparing round 2.” Walsh added that the AI season is “extremely obvious” and will go “so much higher” based on the developments in the sectors, including Nvidia earnings, Apple AI, and Microsoft’s $100 billion AI fund. To this, crypto analyst MacroCRG replied that a massive AI growth “will be obvious in hindsight,” considering that the sector’s market capitalization is “just” $27.3 billion. AI mcap still just $27B It will be obvious in hindsight https://t.co/HH0Tb86fNY pic.twitter.com/71qgdwdM1C — CRG (@MacroCRG) May 6, 2024 According to a MacroCRG post, the AI market cap had increased 8% by Monday morning, and its daily trading volume was around $1.9 billion. On Tuesday, the market cap surged to $27.8 billion, a 2.3% increase from 24 hours ago. In comparison, memecoins $54.4 billion market cap doubles AI’s. However, its market cap decreased by 2.8% in the last day, with the top ten memecoins showing red numbers in the past 24 hours. Is Artificial Intelligence About To Bloom Or Ruin the World? Despite the remarkable performance, some figures think the sector has a more pessimistic future. According to memecoin trader Murad, the developments in the industry will “be replacing more & more jobs every year.” As a result, there will be an increase in “Anxieties and desperate attempts to ‘make it.’” To the trader, the industry will serve as a push for the memecoins sector, as “Growing AI capabilities will be one of the big forces accelerating the Memecoin Bubble.” Financial giant Warren Buffett shared a more skeptical view on Saturday. The Co-founder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway revealed he is not sold yet by artificial intelligence. To the CEO: We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons. AI is somewhat similar — it’s part way out of the bottle. Despite this, Buffet recognized the potential for AI technology to change the world positively. On The Brink Of A Millionaire Boom “The AI industry is on the brink of a multi-trillion-dollar boom,” stated Alex Wacy. The analyst believes the reasons behind this are the vast and diverse potential of applications. Moreover, the expert highlights that interest in the sector has steadily increased over the last year. A crypto and AI combination could potentially “create a market valued in the trillions.” According to the post, the market is projected to reach nearly $2 trillion by 2030, which suggests that the crypto industry should not overlook it. Tokens like RNDR showed a remarkable performance over the past week, with the price soaring by 45%. RNDR regained the $10 support zone this week after struggling to retest it over the last month. In the past 24 hours, the token’s price surged 6.4%, and its daily trading volume increased by 16.8%, with over $455 million being traded. FET is “a top performing AI coin headed into the Nvidia earnings,” as stated by John Walsh. The trader forecast that the token is “looking for a next leg higher up” after successfully retesting the $2.35 resistance level. $FET break retest now looking for next leg up higher FET will be a top performing AI coin headed into the nvidia earnings pic.twitter.com/Agl0eqB9mD — Johnny (@CryptoGodJohn) May 6, 2024 FET broke above this level over the weekend, rising to $2.5 on Monday and remaining above the $2.40 support zone since. At writing time, the token is trading at $2.42, representing a 2.4% increase in the last 24 hours and a $22.9% surge in the past week. Related Reading: Crypto Analyst Reveals 6 Must-Buy Altcoins With The Most Potential FET’s performance in the weekly chart. Source: FETUSDT on TradingView Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com

U.S. authorities indicted former Digitex CEO Adam Todd in February for failure to implement and maintain an effective Anti-Money Laundering program at the exchange.

The bestselling author, philosopher and historian sees grim potential for AI to get out of control in the financial system.

On Tuesday, two Bitcoin-centric layer two (L2) initiatives successfully secured funding from strategic investors. Botanix Labs, a startup focused on developing a decentralized Turing-complete L2 EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine), garnered $11.5 million. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin L2 ZKM attracted $5 million during a pre-seed investment phase. Bitcoin L2 Projects Gain Momentum With New Financing Rounds Throughout […]

According to a filing with the U.S. SEC, Susquehanna International Group invested more than $1 billion in Bitcoin ETFs in Q1 2024.

Ethereum has put on a disappointing performance for its investors over the last few weeks, leading to concerns on whether the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap has lost its shine. The cryptocurrency continues to skirt around the $3,100 level, not making any significant breaks upward. This points to weak fundamentals that could trigger a price decline. Ethereum Fails To Make Meaningful Moves Markus Thielen, Head of Research at 10x Research, has pointed out some worrying developments with the Ethereum price. In a new report shared with NewsBTC, he explains that despite Ethereum remaining highly correlated to Bitcoin with an R-Square of 95%, it continues to perform poorly while the latter has made new all-time highs. Related Reading: Here’s Why This Crypto Analyst Believes Bitcoin Is At A ‘Prime Buy Zone’ Thielen points back to ETH’s performance in the last bull market, which was closely tied to new sectors popping out of the network, such as decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This caused demand to skyrocket, and in turn, the price followed as users gobbled up ETH for the high gas fee required to transact on the blockchain. However, Ethereum has failed to maintain this momentum, which can be attributed to its inability to bring the upgrades that users needed in time. Thielen explains that the Dencun upgrade which helped solved the high gas fee issues had come three years too late because by 2024 when the upgrade arrived, users had moved on to Layer 2 networks. Also, during this time, other Layer 1 networks have seen a rise in users and Solana is one example of this. Source: 10x Research The researcher further explained that the weak fundamentals of ETH are now not only affecting its price but has had a spillover effect to Bitcoin. “Ethereum’s weak fundamentals are becoming a roadblock for Bitcoin as they prevent broad fiat inflow into the crypto ecosystem,” Thielen stated. Better To Short ETH Thielen’s analysis of Ethereum also spreads to the drop in stablecoin usage on the network. Back in 2021, Ethereum had dominated stablecoin transactions such as USDT and USDC. However, it seems like, with other things, the high fees have driven users towards other networks. Blockchains such as Tron (TRX) are now dominating stablecoin transactions, leaving ETH in the dust. Additionally, there is also the fact that ETH’s issuance is turning inflationary once again. After the London Hard Fork, also known as EIP-1559, was completed in 2021, the network saw its issuance turn deflationary for the first time as ETH burned quickly surpassed ETH being brought into circulation. Related Reading: Crypto Whale Spends $10.4 Million On PEPE, Do They Know Something You Don’t? However, this has now changed in the past months as there have been more ETH issued than those burned, Thielen notes. To put this in perspective, a total of 74,000 ETH were issued compared to only 43,000 ETH burned. This inflation, coupled with the fact that staking rewards have now dropped to 3%, below the 5.1% offered by Treasury Yields, Ethereum has had a hard time maintaining bullish sentiment. Given these developments, the researcher believes it is better to be bearish on Ethereum right now. “Right now, we would be more comfortable holding a short position in ETH than a long one in BTC as Ethereum’s fundamentals are fragile, which is not yet reflected in ETH prices,” Thielen concludes. ETH price fails to hold $3,100 | Source: ETHUSD on Tradingview.com Featured image from Watcher Guru, chart from Tradingview.com

In a recent interview on Bloomberg Television, Steve Eisman of Neuberger Berman, who gained prominence from “The Big Short,” shared insights on the impending U.S. election and his investment strategies. Eisman identified three significant current themes, including cryptocurrency, about which he expressed skepticism. Steve Eisman’s Take: Trump’s Re-Election and the So-Called Crypto Conundrum Steve Eisman, […]

PRESS RELEASE. May 7, 2024, Austin, TX – In less than four weeks, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will take the stage in Austin, TX, at Consensus 2024, the world’s largest, longest-running, and most influential gathering that brings together all sides of the crypto and Web3 community. As an environmental lawyer, scion of […]

The Polkadot community has approved a proposal to sponsor Inter Miami, the football club co-owned by David Beckham and featuring superstar Lionel Messi. The move could be a strategic decision to propel Polkadot, a smart contracts platform similar to Ethereum, into the global spotlight.  Polkadot To Sponsor Inter Miami The proposal, approved by Polkadot’s Open Gov community, sought 968,000 DOT (roughly $6.5 million) to secure the sponsorship. Under the “sports sponsorship fund,” the goal was to partner with Inter Miami, a team described as one of the “world’s most engaging and followed sports teams.”  Related Reading: Cardano (ADA) Trading Activity Goes Quiet: Will This Drag Down The Price? While the goal is to “elevate” Polkadot’s global brand visibility, the plan is to develop other deeper integration, leveraging Inter Miami’s global fanbase. For instance, the team plans to enhance user experience through engaging non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other gamified experiences deployed on Polkadot’s parachains. Additionally, the team plans to explore how Polkadot-based solutions can be implemented at Inter Miami, resulting in greater efficiency and improved fan engagement initiatives.  While the potential deal’s specifics are confidential, the proposal emphasizes transparency. Accordingly, funds will be held in a multi-signature wallet, accessible only with community approval. Moreover, ORSEN SA, a Swiss sports marketing agency, will manage the partnership rights. Polkadot’s Plans to Scale As Polkadot enhances its global visibility, developers are also working on activating a key update: “Asynchronous Backing.” Last year, Sophia Gold, the Engineering Lead at Parity Technologies, said the technology would be a game changer.  Asynchronous Backing will allow Polkadot to scale the number of Parachains from 100 to 1,000 by the end of the year. The network will boost its transaction processing capacity, with Polkadot supporting more “independent blockchains” via Parachains.  Related Reading: Here’s How This Ethereum Whale Made $16 Million From A Single Trade Furthermore, improvements via techniques like “pipelining” will permit multiple parachains to process data simultaneously, halving transaction confirmation times. Though Polkadot continues to enhance its network and strike more deals, DOT prices remain under pressure. At spot rates, DOT is down 40% from 2024 highs. While CoinMarketCap data shows that the coin has risen 14% in the last week, the failure of bulls to break above $7.5 is a concern. Technically, a high volume lifting the coin above this local liquidation level would pave the road for an expansion toward $9 and March 2024 high in the coming sessions. Feature image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Mike McGlone, Senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, has made a rather pessimistic prediction for Bitcoin, emphasizing that the cryptocurrency’s potential rise to $150,00 was a long shot. The strategist has revealed factors that could make Bitcoin’s projected surge to $150,000 difficult, highlighting both macroeconomic trends and Bitcoin’s performance in 2024.  Bitcoin Surge To $150,000 Unlikely In a recent interview with Scott Melker, the host of “The Wolf Of All Streets,” podcast, McGlone discussed Bitcoin’s price fundamentals and its possible rise to $150,000 in the 2024 bull cycle.  Related Reading: Crypto Whale Spends $10.4 Million On PEPE, Do They Know Something You Don’t? Comparing Bitcoin with the stock market index, the S&P 500, the Bloomberg strategist disclosed that the cryptocurrency was currently showing “divergent weakness,” highlighting that Bitcoin’s performance against the S&P 500 in 2021 was greater compared to 2024.  He also revealed that Bitcoin was displaying a similar weak performance to Gold, emphasizing current market conditions and the risk of short-term deflation in the financial market.  The combination of these factors pushes McGlone to believe that Bitcoin’s short-term projected rise to $150,000 was unlikely.  While the Bloomberg strategist made his foreboding prediction despite Bitcoin’s overperformance at the beginning of the year, McGlone still remains optimistic about the cryptocurrency’s price and fundamental value in the long term.  Co-founder and CEO of CoinRoutes, Dave Weisberger, who was also in the podcast with McGlone, made a more optimistic prediction for Bitcoin. Basing his analysis on historical trends and patterns as far back as 2015, Weisberger forecasted that Bitcoin could rise to $200,000 this cycle.  His forecast is also acknowledged by reformed hedge fund manager, James Lavish, who revealed in the podcast that Spot Bitcoin ETFs could become a potential driver for Bitcoin’s continuous growth. This is attributed to the massive impact Bitcoin ETFs had on the cryptocurrency’s price following its launch on January 11, 2024.  After Spot Bitcoin ETFs were successfully released into the market, the price of Bitcoin skyrocketed to new all-time highs above $73,000. At the time of writing, the cryptocurrency is trading at $63,778, marking a 0.89% increase over the past seven days, according to CoinMarketCap.  BTC Crash Presents Perfect Opportunity According to Lavish, if Bitcoin crashes down to the $30,000 to $40,000 range, it would present a “tremendous opportunity” for investors to acquire substantial value in a long-term asset that will essentially hold its value and continue to appreciate in the future.  Related Reading: Crypto Analyst Says Cardano Bloodbath Far From Over, Sets Bottom Price For ADA The reformed hedge fund manager revealed that Bitcoin’s short-term volatility and market unpredictability could produce long-term capture of value. This suggests that by strategically navigating through the price fluctuations of Bitcoin, investors could potentially capitalize on its volatility to accumulate wealth over time, which in turn could favorably impact the price of the cryptocurrency. BTC bears and bulls continue tug of war | Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview.com Featured image from ETF Stream, chart from Tradingview.com