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Trump Says He 'Saved' Crypto, But Did Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP Actually Benefit?
Parshwa Turakhiya, Yahoo Entertainment
President Trump on Wednesday posted on Truth Social that he saved the American crypto industry from Gary Gensler’s “Anti-Crypto Army,” declaring America is...
May 31, 2026, 10:00 PM

Bitcoin, ether, XRP, dogecoin lag a nine-week stocks rally as ETF demand cools
Shaurya Malwa, CoinDesk
The S&P 500 posted its longest weekly winning streak since 2023 and Brent oil stabilized near $92 on US-Iran ceasefire hopes. The biggest cryptocurrencies still drifted lower, with Hyperliquid's HYPE the only major name to rally.
May 30, 2026, 5:41 AM

Crypto’s Most Powerful PAC Sends a Warning to Politicians: Resistance Is Futile
Rhett Jones, Gizmodo.com
"Rep. Green’s defeat proves that anti-crypto hostility carries real electoral consequences..."
May 27, 2026, 9:45 PM

Bitcoin, crypto prices tick up as US-Iran peace deal odds climb
Francisco Rodrigues, CoinDesk
Iranian negotiators arrived in Doha for talks, focusing on the Strait of Hormuz and highly enriched uranium, as Pakistan and Qatar are mediating.
May 25, 2026, 4:46 PM

Crypto and the Fed: State of Crypto
Nikhilesh De, CoinDesk
This past week saw incremental, but potentially important steps.
May 24, 2026, 6:30 PM

10 Thursday AM Reads
Barry Ritholtz, Ritholtz.com
My morning train WFH reads: • Before you invest in crypto, watch this film: Mother Jones on a documentary diagnosing crypto as a wealth-transfer machine pointed at retail. The OC star turned skeptic remains an unlikely but effective explainer. Ben McKenzie sc…
May 21, 2026, 10:30 AM

Trump-Linked Crypto Company Notes ‘Substantial Doubt’ It Can Survive Another 12 Months
Kyle Torpey, Gizmodo.com
AI Financial is a publicly traded company heavily invested in Trump-related crypto.
May 20, 2026, 12:33 AM

Massive Crypto ATM Company Bitcoin Depot Is Shutting Down as the Whole Industry Collapses
Bruce Gil, Gizmodo.com
The company has filed for bankruptcy amid legal scrutiny over allegations its ATMs were used to facilitate fraud.
May 18, 2026, 9:30 PM

ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Android 17's showcase to Claude cracking a $400,000 crypto wallet
hamish.hector@futurenet.com (Hamish Hector) , Hamish Hector, TechRadar
The week's 7 biggest tech stories from Android, Apple, Insta360 and more.
May 16, 2026, 9:00 AM

The crypto Clarity Act returns to the Senate this week. The banks are already trying to kill it.
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe with no internal logi…
May 13, 2026, 7:11 PM

Trump’s World Liberty to Get Legal Cover From New Crypto Law, Influential Expert Says
Mike Pearl, Gizmodo.com
He claims WLFI is an unregistered security as it exists today, and that the SEC lacks the integrity needed to enforce the law.
May 11, 2026, 9:30 AM

Policy at Consensus Miami: State of Crypto
Nikhilesh De, CoinDesk
This was a hectic week.
May 10, 2026, 6:30 PM

Parent company of Trump’s Truth Social site reports $400m loss this year
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
Losses driven largely by depreciation of cryptocurrency assets as prices of digital currencies tumble.
May 9, 2026, 5:47 PM

DeFi Visa Card Takes Our Casino Economy to the Next Level With ‘Buy Now, Pay Maybe’ Scheme
Rhett Jones, Gizmodo.com
It's just innovation upon innovation.
May 8, 2026, 6:10 PM

She Opposed His Plan for a Blockchain City. Now He’s Bankrolling Her Primary Opponent.
Matt Sledge, The Intercept
A crypto mogul gave $2.5 million to a candidate running against state Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro in the Nevada attorney general race. The post She Opposed His Plan for a Blockchain City. Now He’s Bankrolling Her Primary Opponent. appeared first on The Intercept.
May 6, 2026, 10:19 AM

Coinbase to Layoff 14% of Workforce Amid AI Disruption and Crypto Volatility
Kyle Torpey, Gizmodo.com
The crypto exchange has joined the bull market for blaming cuts on AI.
May 5, 2026, 8:55 PM

Section 702 Vote Pushed Back Another Six Weeks Following GOP’s ‘But With Cryptocurrency Ban’ Failure
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The administration isn’t exactly winning here. The GOP has been opposed to a clean reauthorization since its first brush with warrantless surveillance back during the Biden administration. GOP members weren’t upset that the FBI routinely abused the NSA’s Sect…
May 4, 2026, 8:08 PM

Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial Accuses ‘Victimized’ Crypto Billionaire of Defamation
Kyle Torpey, Gizmodo.com
Justin Sun was once one of the biggest supporters of Trump's crypto agenda.
May 4, 2026, 7:40 PM

Trump family's crypto firm sues investor Justin Sun, escalating feud
Lucien Bruggeman, Abcnews.com
The Trump family's cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, has filed a defamation suit against Chinese crypto mogul Justin Sun, escalating an ongoing feud.
May 4, 2026, 3:09 PM

Poll Finds 62% of Americans Don’t Trust Trump on Crypto
Kyle Torpey, Gizmodo.com
Despite his campaign's emphasis on crypto, one of Trump's signature pledges remains unfulfilled.
May 4, 2026, 9:30 AM

Policy Summit and other things at Consensus 2026: State of Crypto
Nikhilesh De, CoinDesk
We are kicking off the show in Miami this week. Here's what you should attend.
May 3, 2026, 6:30 PM

U.S. voters don't trust Trump administration to oversee crypto sector, CoinDesk poll finds
Jesse Hamilton, CoinDesk
The new poll suggests the vast majority of people think that government officials should keep their own financial interests separate from the industry.
May 3, 2026, 2:00 PM

Americans still prefer banks over crypto for financial access, CoinDesk's survey shows
Jesse Hamilton, CoinDesk
New polling of voters suggests they aren't yet warming much to crypto, tending to see it as a negative force in the economy, and they have similar distrust of AI.
May 3, 2026, 2:00 PM

Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in "white glove" transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
Techmeme.com
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in “white glove” transactions — The pitch was straightforward: Invest in the cryptocurrency venture of D…
May 2, 2026, 9:40 PM