HYPE Price Rises As 21Shares Unveils Groundbreaking Hyperliquid ETF

21Shares said it will list its spot Hyperliquid ETF, THYP, on Nasdaq on May 12. The product gives brokerage clients regulated exposure to the native token of the Hyperliquid perpetuals trading network. The fund is structured as a grantor trust, not a 1940 Act fund. That setup lets the sponsor stake held HYPE for yield … Read more

Spain’s CNMV Fines Gerard Piqué 4 Times What He Made From Insider Trading Tip

Spain’s market regulator has fined former Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué €200,000 ($236,000 ) for insider trading. The 2021 trade involved shares of a workplace safety firm bought two days before takeover talks went public. Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) called the move a “very serious” market abuse offence on Monday. Piqué was sidelined with … Read more

DeepSeek-R1 Hallucinates 4x More Than V3, Raising Red Flags for Crypto AI Agent Tokens

DeepSeek-R1, the flagship reasoning model from Chinese lab DeepSeek, hallucinates at 14.3% according to Vectara’s HHEM 2.1 benchmark. That is nearly four times higher than its non-reasoning predecessor DeepSeek-V3, which scored 3.9%. The gap raises hard questions for the crypto sector. A fast-growing class of AI agent tokens now leans on reasoning-style LLMs for autonomous … Read more

3 Bullish Altcoins to Watch This Week

Venice (VVV), Toncoin (TON), and Internet Computer (ICP) rank among the altcoins to watch this week. All three sit at key technical levels after leading last week’s altcoin rally. Each token broke out of a multi-month accumulation phase into an active expansion leg. The price action this week could decide whether the rally extends or … Read more

Nearly 40% of Trump’s China CEO Delegation Have Crypto Ties

President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing this week with roughly 17 US chief executives for meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a White House official confirmed Monday. The state visit runs from May 13 to 15, according to Chinese state media. The delegation spans technology, finance, aerospace, and agriculture sectors central to US-China trade … Read more

Crypto Lawyer Warns Anthropic Stock Crackdown Risks Litigation as Claude Launches on AWS

Crypto lawyer Gabriel Shapiro warned that Anthropic’s May 11 stock crackdown could trigger major litigation, with the AI company declaring void all secondary share trades on Forge, Hiive, and similar platforms. His warning landed the same day Anthropic switched on Claude Platform inside Amazon Web Services (AWS), opening direct enterprise access to its first-party APIs. … Read more

Senator Moreno Vows to ‘Break the Cartel’ as Banks Panic Over CLARITY Act Stablecoin Yields

Senator Bernie Moreno on Monday accused the U.S. banking lobby of full panic mode over CLARITY Act stablecoin yields. The American Bankers Association is urging bank CEOs to pressure senators against the provisions. The Ohio Republican sits on the Senate Banking Committee. He published the criticism on X ahead of Thursday’s CLARITY Act markup. ABA … Read more

Top 3 Meme Coins to Watch This Week as BUILDon Targets $0.60 Breakout

The top 3 meme coins on the weekly radar split into very different technical paths. BUILDon (B) extends a breakout, MemeCore (M) loses key support, and Siren (SIREN) coils below a descending trendline that has capped price since March. Daily charts show BUILDon pressing the 0.618 Fibonacci level at $0.48, MemeCore correcting toward $3.27 after … Read more

Nvidia Stock Explodes Despite Rumors Jensen Huang Is Cut From Trump’s China Trip

Nvidia (NVDA) shares advanced on Monday even after a “source familiar” report indicated chief executive Jensen Huang will not travel to Beijing with President Donald Trump for this week’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Earlier Reuters reporting named Nvidia among roughly a dozen companies invited to a trimmed CEO delegation. Trump arrives in Beijing … Read more