According to Bloomberg, prediction market Kalshi raised $200 million from new investors Baillie Gifford and Layer Global on May 21. The funding extended the platform's Series F round, which was led by Coatue Management and raised $1

According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Rathnakishore Giri, 31, was sentenced to nine years in prison for orchestrating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded over $10 million from investors. Giri falsely portrayed himself as an expert Bitcoin derivatives trader, guaranteeing risk-f

According to Lookonchain, trader 0x082e has held a long position of 1.38 million Hyperliquid (HYPE) tokens with 5x leverage since over six months ago, with an initial position size of around $66.3 million. The position faced unrealized losses exceeding $25 million as HYPE prices declined; however, f

Galaxy Digital received BitLicense and Money Transmission License from New York Department of Financial Services on May 18, enabling its subsidiary GalaxyOne Prime NY to expand digital asset services to institutional investors and firms in New York. Registered investment advisers, hedge funds, and f

According to Beating, OpenClaw released version v2026.5.18 on May 18, bringing real-time voice conversations to Android and full support for GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3, and openai-codex models. The Android update enables streaming microphone input with real-time audio playback, tool-result bridging f

According to TechCrunch, South Korean optical module startup LetinAR secured $18.5 million from Korea Development Bank, Lotte Ventures, and other investors on May 19, ahead of a planned 2027 IPO. The funding brings LetinAR's total capital raised to $41.7 million and will support production scaling f

According to Beating, Nous Research has open-sourced Lighthouse Attention, a long-context training mechanism that achieves 17x speedup for 512K-length text processing on a single B200 GPU, and 1.4–1.7x end-to-end training acceleration at 98K length. The technique uses a coarse-to-fine approach: it f

According to blockchain forensics firm TRM Labs, North Korea-linked hacking groups used artificial intelligence to target and exploit cryptocurrency platforms in April, netting approximately $600 million combined. The two attacks, carried out roughly two weeks apart, triggered investor withdrawals f

US prosecutors accused short seller Andrew Left, founder of Citron Research, of securities fraud and market manipulation on May 13. Prosecutors alleged that Left used his public profile and commentary on companies including Nvidia and Tesla to trigger price movements, then rapidly closed positions f

According to BDACS, on May 13, the digital asset infrastructure company signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Layer 1 blockchain platform Aptos to expand its KRW1 won-backed stablecoin to the Aptos network and build multi-chain on-chain commerce infrastructure. The integration marks the f