Day: May 27, 2026

Cross-border payments platform Nium and stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group Inc. have launched a partnership to connect onchain digital dollar settlement with traditional last-mile fiat payouts. Circle Internet Group Connects USDC Settlement with Nium Cross-Border Infrastructure The collaboration integrates Nium into the Circle Payments Network, an infrastructure stack operated by Circle Technology Services LLC. Through […]

Polymarket, one of the world’s largest prediction market platforms, is tightening its grip on anonymous access by pushing traders to complete identity verification, according to a May 27, 2026, report from The Information. Polymarket Cracks Down on Non-KYC Users The Information’s Michael Roddan reports that the platform is blocking suspicious accounts and cracking down on […]

If this is true, and I believe it could be true, it is quite sad, because NVIDIA cannot get enough wafers even if they wanted to (they could be going to Samsung for cost but it is not like they could go all TSMC anyway).As for AMD, to partner exclusively with TSMC they need to […]

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Kraken launched Bitcoin Vault on Wednesday, giving long-term bitcoin holders a way to earn up to 2.5% annual percentage yield on idle BTC without selling or giving up price exposure. Kraken Bitcoin Vault Goes Live: BTC Holders Can Now Earn Yield The new product sits inside Kraken’s Earn suite alongside its existing decentralized finance ( […]

Bitcoin trended downward on Wednesday, dropping beneath the $75,000 threshold to trade at $74,570 at the time of writing. This slide erased nearly 3% of its weekly value and dragged its market capitalization back below $1.5 trillion. Onchain Metrics Signal Fading Momentum For the second consecutive day, bitcoin trended downward, slipping below the $75,000 threshold […]

Onchain data has flagged a smart money whale running heavily leveraged short positions on bitcoin and ether simultaneously with long positions on traditional financial (TradFi) market indexes through Hyperliquid. Long TradFi, Short Crypto: The Trade in Detail The wallet holds a $5.09 million long position on the XYZ100 index perpetual at 4x leverage, currently sitting […]

Ok–I didn’t want to start one. I thought all the RFK Jr. nonsense could stay in the anti-vaxxer thread. But folks, this is now a real concern. I’m actually seeing RFK Jr. bumper stickers (plural–more than one) driving around town and saw a few stickers in the Bay Area during my Fourth trip earlier in […]

Robinhood launched a beta product on Wednesday that lets users connect third-party artificial intelligence (AI) agents to dedicated brokerage accounts for autonomous stock trading. Robinhood AI Trading Beta Lets Users Deploy ChatGPT and Claude in Sandboxed Accounts The feature, called Agentic Trading, allows users to link AI systems built on platforms like Claude or ChatGPT […]

Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC received a Virtual Currency License from the New York State Department of Financial Services on Wednesday, giving the global payments company formal standing to operate digital asset services in one of the most tightly regulated financial jurisdictions in the country. Mastercard Wins NYDFS Bitlicense, Opening New York Digital Asset Access […]