IBIT options open interest topped Deribit on Friday, signaling rapid institutional adoption of regulated crypto derivatives in the U.S. Source: www.coindesk.com Read Full Story
Bitcoin hash rate recovery and negative funding rates signal potential gains ahead, according to the ETF provider’s latest network analysis. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
VettaFi’s Cinthia Murphy finds more exchange-traded funds are tackling the space theme more directly as excitement over the SpaceX IPO grows. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more. Source: www.wired.com Read Full Story
On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s previous models, V4 is open source, meaning it is available…
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Bitcoin held near $78,000 on Friday as oil prices climbed past $100 a barrel, testing whether the largest digital asset can sustain its April rebound while the US-Iran conflict keeps energy markets on edge. The move came after President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric over the Strait of Hormuz, saying the US Navy controlled the…
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies has bought 10,000 ether (ETH) from the Ethereum Foundation (EF) through an over-the-counter (OTC) transaction. The trade settled at an average price of $2,387, the foundation has confirmed. The deal moves roughly $23.9 million worth of ether from the foundation’s treasury. The buyer is one of Ether’s most vocal institutional…
In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the “shock and awe” attack on Iraq over two decades ago. This acceleration was made possible by AI systems that speed up the targeting process. Chief among them is the Maven Smart…
The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants. It’s been an epoch in AI since then, and while DeepSeek has released several updates to…