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  • Cardano’s Hoskinson denies ADA misappropriation allegations, calls them deeply personal and damaging
    by Gino Matos on May 20, 2025 at 1:00 am

    Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson expanded his response to allegations that Input Output Global (IOG) misappropriated over 318 million ADA from unredeemed pre-sale wallets, calling the situation deeply personal and damaging. In a May 18 post on X, Hoskinson reflected on the reputational toll of the allegations, noting that the incident has reshaped his view of The post Cardano’s Hoskinson denies ADA misappropriation allegations, calls them […]

  • CME XRP futures debut hits $15M in daily volume, fueling hope for ETF approval
    by Gino Matos on May 20, 2025 at 12:00 am

    XRP futures contracts began trading on CME Group’s derivatives platform on May 19, surpassing $15,6 million in trading volume as of 9:20 P.M. UTC across standard and micro contract offerings.  According to CME data, 120 standard XRP contracts traded at an average price of $2.3965, representing approximately $14.3 million in notional volume. Each contract equates The post CME XRP futures debut hits $15M in daily volume, fueling hope for ETF […]

  • SEC delays decision on Bitwise, 21Shares Solana ETF applications, opens public consultation
    by Assad Jafri on May 19, 2025 at 10:53 pm

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended its review of two high-profile proposals for spot Solana (SOL) exchange-traded funds, signaling further delays in the approval process for crypto-linked investment products. The agency said it would begin a new round of proceedings to assess whether the ETF proposals from asset managers Bitwise and 21Shares comply The post SEC delays decision on Bitwise, 21Shares Solana ETF applications, […]

  • Tether on TRON Surpasses $75 Billion, Tops All Stablecoin Activities
    by News Desk on May 19, 2025 at 10:21 pm

    May 19, 2025 – Geneva, Switzerland – TRON DAO announced today that the total circulating supply of Tether (USDT) on the TRON blockchain has surpassed $75 billion, once again making TRON the leading network for USDT. As the most widely adopted stablecoin, Tether represents more than 63 percent of the global market share with over The post Tether on TRON Surpasses $75 Billion, Tops All Stablecoin Activities appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • DOJ launches probe into Coinbase’s insider-driven data leak
    by Gino Matos on May 19, 2025 at 10:00 pm

    The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating how attackers infiltrated Coinbase in their recent customer data breach incident, Bloomberg News reported on May 19, citing a person familiar with the matter. Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal confirmed the company is cooperating with federal law enforcement and intends to pursue legal action against those The post DOJ launches probe into Coinbase’s insider-driven data leak appeared […]

  • US Senate to vote on GENIUS stablecoin bill despite political divide
    by Gino Matos on May 19, 2025 at 9:29 pm

    The US Senate is expected to vote on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act today at approximately 8 P.M. EDT. However, its unclear whether the bill will pass or continue to face delays. The GENIUS Act seeks to establish a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, but has faced hurdles in The post US Senate to vote on GENIUS stablecoin bill despite political divide appeared first on […]

  • Bitcoin realized cap hits $906B, hints at new all-time high despite today’s pullback
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 19, 2025 at 8:15 pm

    Bitcoin’s realized capitalization has reached a new peak of $906 billion, marking its fourth consecutive weekly high, per CryptoQuant’s data. Unlike traditional market cap, which multiplies current price by circulating supply, realized market capitalization calculates the value of each coin at its last transaction price. This offers a clearer view of capital committed to the The post Bitcoin realized cap hits $906B, hints at new all-time […]

  • Circle in talks with Coinbase, Ripple over potential sale amid $5B IPO plans
    by Assad Jafri on May 19, 2025 at 7:45 pm

    Circle is pressing ahead with plans to go public, but the stablecoin issuer is also exploring the possibility of a sale to either Coinbase or Ripple, Fortune reported on May 19, citing people familiar with the matter. The company filed paperwork in April for a long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) targeting a $5 billion valuation, The post Circle in talks with Coinbase, Ripple over potential sale amid $5B IPO plans appeared first on […]

  • JPMorgan to support Bitcoin buying despite Jamie Dimon’s ongoing skepticism
    by Gino Matos on May 19, 2025 at 7:01 pm

    JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the Wall Street lender plans to offer Bitcoin (BTC) to its customers in a stark shift from his historical stance toward the digital asset. During JPMorgan’s Investor Day, Dimon reiterated that he is “not a fan” of Bitcoin, but acknowledged that clients will continue to demand access to it.  He The post JPMorgan to support Bitcoin buying despite Jamie Dimon’s ongoing skepticism appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • SEC chair Atkins reaffirms end of harsh crypto enforcement, proposes unified framework
    by Assad Jafri on May 19, 2025 at 5:46 pm

    US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins announced a sweeping pivot in the agency’s approach to digital assets, signaling the end of what he called a “shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later” enforcement regime. In his remarks at the SEC Speaks conference, Atkins said the agency would begin drafting formal rule proposals tailored to the crypto industry and open The post SEC chair Atkins reaffirms end of harsh crypto […]

  • India Says China Provided Intelligence To Pakistan During Border Clashes
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 12:55 am

    India Says China Provided Intelligence To Pakistan During Border Clashes Via The Cradle China provided direct logistical and intelligence support to Pakistan during the recent 15-day border conflict with India, marking a significant escalation in Beijing’s involvement in South Asia’s most volatile rivalry, Bloomberg has reported. According to Ashok Kumar, director general of the Center for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), a […]

  • Alarming Graph Reveals US Beef Industry Is “Hijacked By Chemical Pushers” 
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 12:30 am

    Alarming Graph Reveals US Beef Industry Is “Hijacked By Chemical Pushers”  The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement is gaining steam as a disruptive force in helping to rescue the nation’s deteriorating food supply chain and public health. It marks a clear inflection point from decades of dependency on ultra-processed foods and pharmaceutical giants profiting from Americans’ imploding health over the last […]

  • The WHO Cannot Be Saved
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 12:05 am

    The WHO Cannot Be Saved Authored by David Bell and Ramesh Thakur via The Brownstone Institute, As humans, we commonly consider ourselves, our beliefs, and our work of particular importance. It is not surprising, then, that when we form institutions, those within them seek to promote the institution’s relevance, expand their work, and centralize decision-making within their own ‘particularly important’ group. Few want to […]

  • Historic Women’s College Gives Honorary Degree To Rachel Levine (A Man)
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 11:40 pm

    Historic Women’s College Gives Honorary Degree To Rachel Levine (A Man) It is an interesting kind of horror that modern academia, an environment where objective facts should be most revered, has instead become an environment where objective facts are most reviled.  The complete denial of biological reality within the western academic community is an enduring source of social disruption.  Their continued promotion of gender fluid […]

  • Marx’s Economic Forecasts: Over 150 Years Of Failure
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 11:15 pm

    Marx’s Economic Forecasts: Over 150 Years Of Failure Authored by Richard Fulmer via The Mises Institute, From atop the flawed foundation of the Labor Theory of Value, Karl Marx made a series of predictions about capitalism that time has proven incorrect. Among these are the immiseration of the masses due to capital accumulation, chronic overproduction, capitalist-driven imperialism, and the inevitable rise of monopolies. […]

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  • House Republicans Press Harvard For Transparency Over Alleged Ties To Chinese Military
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 10:50 pm

    House Republicans Press Harvard For Transparency Over Alleged Ties To Chinese Military Woke elites running Harvard University into the ground faced fresh controversy on Monday morning as House Republicans launched a formal inquiry into the school’s reported ties with foreign adversaries, citing serious national security and ethical concerns. The House Select Committee on China, joined by the House Committee on Education and […]

  • Don’t Take The Black Pill
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 10:25 pm

    Don’t Take The Black Pill Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, What kinds of attitudes do you bring to the prospect of political and social change? The answer matters more than we think. Those with hope and passion for improvement tend to win the day, especially if the other side merely wallows in grievance and despair. This is true for writers and intellectuals too. We are all trying to find our way through in a […]

  • Vance Abruptly Cancels Israel Visit As IDF Expands Gaza Operations
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 10:00 pm

    Vance Abruptly Cancels Israel Visit As IDF Expands Gaza Operations More friction between Israel and the United States has come to light Monday as Vice President JD Vance has canceled a planned official trip to Israel due to the expansion of Israel’s military operation in Gaza, according to a senior US official cited in Axios. The report emphasizes that “The US official said Vance made the decision because he didn’t want his trip […]

  • Top FDA Official Discloses She Never Received COVID-19 Vaccine
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 9:40 pm

    Top FDA Official Discloses She Never Received COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official said on May 15 that she never took a COVID-19 vaccine due to concerns about biodistribution. Dr. Sara Brenner, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, said during an event in Washington that she did not receive any of the COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. […]

  • A Third Of Russell 3000 Energy Companies Trade Below Book Value
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 9:20 pm

    A Third Of Russell 3000 Energy Companies Trade Below Book Value Looking at Berkshire’s mindblowing $350 billion cash stash… … one would think that there is nothing in the market that a value investor would find attractive. One would be wrong: almost half of all mid- and small-cap oil and gas stocks in the US are now trading below their book values. That’s the highest level since the pandemic. And according to Bloomberg, […]

  • Bessent Warns Tariffs Will Go Back Up For Nations That Do Not Negotiate In ‘Good Faith’, Doesn’t “Put Much Credence” In Moody’s Downgrade
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    Bessent Warns Tariffs Will Go Back Up For Nations That Do Not Negotiate In ‘Good Faith’, Doesn’t “Put Much Credence” In Moody’s Downgrade Authored by Aldgra Fredly and Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on May 18 that reciprocal tariffs could return to the levels set by President Donald Trump on April 2 if trading partners don’t negotiate in good faith. On April 2, Trump announced a minimum 10 […]

  • Script Flipped: Shock Cancer Diagnosis Wipes Biden Autopen-Presidency From Headlines
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 8:40 pm

    Script Flipped: Shock Cancer Diagnosis Wipes Biden Autopen-Presidency From Headlines Former President Biden’s shock cancer diagnosis strains credulity, while conveniently wiping the headlines over the fact that he was essentially a vegetable during his presidency – begging the obvious question of ‘who was actually in charge?’ A few weeks ago, many in the mainstream media began framing a half-assed mea culpa over their coverage of […]

  • “…The Entire Profession Sold Out The Country To Act As The Democrats’ Damage Control Agency…”
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 8:20 pm

    “…The Entire Profession Sold Out The Country To Act As The Democrats’ Damage Control Agency…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Swamp Fever “Don’t misunderstand me. I want Biden to get better and live many more years, so he can watch his family go broke from running out of influence to sell.”  – Oilfield Rando on X If the slithering denizens of Okefenokee-on-the-Potomac were nervous about their fates before Sunday […]

  • Why Keynesians Got Inflation And Growth Wrong
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 7:40 pm

    Why Keynesians Got Inflation And Growth Wrong Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Inflation is not soaring, and economic growth is solid… The Tariff Tantrum has proven that consensus was wrong about soaring inflation and an economic slump. Why? The exaggerated perception of tariffs’ economic impact stemmed from the belief that American consumers would bear the full burden of tariffs. Why were they wrong? The first reason was that […]

  • ZH At The White House: Epstein, Clinton Body Count & Proxy Wars
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 7:25 pm

    ZH At The White House: Epstein, Clinton Body Count & Proxy Wars ZeroHedge White House correspondent Liam Cosgrove was in the “new media” seat during Monday’s press briefing, where he asked several questions related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, the ‘Clinton body count,’ and whether the US will continue funding proxy wars overseas. Proxy Wars We then asked about the US funding proxy wars overseas. “The president has made […]

  • Supreme Court Sides With Trump – Allows Removal Of ‘Protected Status’ From 300,000 Venezuelan Migrants
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 7:00 pm

    Supreme Court Sides With Trump – Allows Removal Of ‘Protected Status’ From 300,000 Venezuelan Migrants The Supreme Court handed a major win to the Trump administration on Monday, granting its request to proceed with revoking legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants. In a brief order, the justices approved an emergency application from the administration, allowing officials to undo a Biden-era extension […]

  • Guess Who Democrats Blame For The Mexican Pirate Ship Smashing Into Brooklyn Bridge…
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 7:00 pm

    Guess Who Democrats Blame For The Mexican Pirate Ship Smashing Into Brooklyn Bridge… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, As we highlighted yesterday, a bizarre accident caused a Mexican Naval vessel to hit the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge while crowds looked on from a pier and traffic drove overhead on the bridge. Scores of Mexican naval cadets were standing on the masts and rigging of the Cuauhtémoc training […]

  • The FBI Washington Headquarters Won’t Be Missed
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 6:20 pm

    The FBI Washington Headquarters Won’t Be Missed Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Current FBI Director Kash Patel is closing down the agency’s Washington, DC, mothership office and moving at least 1,500 employees out of the DC area to regional offices. The decision was not just Patel’s. During the Biden Administration, it was determined that the 50-year-old Hoover building headquarters was structurally […]

  • US Leading Economic Indicators Tumble Most In Over 2 Years
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    US Leading Economic Indicators Tumble Most In Over 2 Years Since December’s Trump-optimism-driven surge in Leading Economic Indicators (the first since last February), The Conference Board’s headline index has decelerated rapidly with April data released today plunging 1.0% MoM – the biggest drop since March 2023… Source: Bloomberg Once again, Consumer Sentiment (cough UMich Democrats) and Stock Prices were the biggest […]

  • Goldman Raises Oil Demand Outlook
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 5:45 pm

    Goldman Raises Oil Demand Outlook Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Goldman Sachs has increased its global oil demand forecast but maintained its price predictions for Brent crude and WTI for the current year, despite current trading values exceeding those projections. The potential for a US-Iran nuclear deal and the progression of the tariff war are significant factors creating uncertainty in the oil market, […]

  • “It Went Very Well” – Trump Sees Imminent “End To The War” After Two-Hour-Call With Putin
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 5:40 pm

    “It Went Very Well” – Trump Sees Imminent “End To The War” After Two-Hour-Call With Putin Update (1335ET): Confirming the optimistic readout from the Kremlin, President Trump just posted on TruthSocial stating that his call with Putin “went very well.” (emphasis ours) Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.  I believe it went very well.  Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations […]

  • What Comes Next After The (Allegedly Fraudulent) Liberal-Globalist Victory In Romania?
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 5:15 pm

    What Comes Next After The (Allegedly Fraudulent) Liberal-Globalist Victory In Romania? Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, The battle was lost but the political war isn’t over… The struggle between liberal-globalists and populist-nationalists in Romania ended in the former’s favor after Sunday’s presidential run-off election, which was preceded by the authorities controversially annulling the first round in early […]

  • Israel Allows Aid Into Gaza As WHO Warns 500,000 On Brink Of Starvation
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 5:05 pm

    Israel Allows Aid Into Gaza As WHO Warns 500,000 On Brink Of Starvation Israel has enforced a nearly three-month blockade on humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip, amid reports that Hamas and criminal elements have been intercepting and stealing the aid, and then reselling it. The Wall Street Journal reports Monday that “Israel will allow the resumption of limited aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip, ending a nearly three-month […]

  • GM Urges The Senate To Kill California’s 2035 EV Rules
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    GM Urges The Senate To Kill California’s 2035 EV Rules Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, GM once supported California’s 2035 EV target. It wisely has second thoughts… Sanity Prevails In 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom approved regulations banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and trucks by 2035. GM foolishly supported the idea. I am pleased to report that sanity has prevailed. The Wall Street […]

  • Dept Of Defense Tells Commanders To Identify Troops With Gender Dysphoria
    by Tyler Durden on May 19, 2025 at 4:05 pm

    Dept Of Defense Tells Commanders To Identify Troops With Gender Dysphoria Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Department of Defense has directed commanders to identify service members with a history of gender dysphoria who have not come forward under a new policy that bans transgender troops. “Commanders who are aware of Service members in their units with gender dysphoria, a history of gender dysphoria, or […]

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