📉 Bearish
Stablecoin settlement enables weekend/holiday settlement, reducing trapped capital by over 40%. This improves card economics and financial flexibility for issuers.
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The ECB President argued that euro-denominated stablecoins risk financial stability and monetary policy, pushing for a digital euro instead.
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Screenshots showed BTC briefly far below global market prices, though it remains unclear whether any trades were executed at those levels or whether the move was a display issue.
📈 Bullish
As Wall Street chases upside in stocks like never before, the implications for bitcoin appear bullish, though with an important caveat.
📉 Bearish
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has turned one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence clusters into a commercial compute product, creating a new challenge for Bitcoin miners racing to recast themselves as AI infrastructure companies. Anthropic said it reached a deal to use the full computing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee, giving the […] The post Bitcoin miners using AI as a bear market escape plan just got a new rival in Elon Musk appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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Bitcoin no longer holds up as the cypherpunk-grade money it was meant to be, Zcash's Zooko Wilcox told an engaged audience.
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South Korean authorities are also planning to start imposing a 22% capital gains tax on crypto from January 2027.
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Coinbase resumes trading after hours of AWS-linked disruption, restoring markets following 'Cancel Only' and auction-mode restrictions.
📈 Bullish
CryptoQuant says traders are cashing out into strength, Enflux ties the move to easing Hormuz tensions, while Glassnode argues bitcoin has reclaimed key levels needed for a broader recovery.
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However, a May 1 court order restricted Arbitrum DAO from moving the recovered funds, prompting Aave to file an emergency motion against it.
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Chappy Asel says autonomous software may be more natural users of wallets and stablecoins than humans, though agentic payments remain mostly theoretical.
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Aptos announced a $50 million commitment to grow the blockchain's ecosystem, covering first-party products and protocol infrastructure.
📉 Bearish
Bitcoin pulled back from this week's $81,500 high after U.S. forces fired on Iranian targets, while crypto futures markets logged their 67th straight day of negative funding rates, the longest streak in a decade per K33 Research.
◎ Neutral
The firm has deployed $216 million to acquire approximately 7.3 million HYPE tokens since its inception in December 2025.
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World Liberty co-founder Zach Witkoff also said Thursday that the crypto firm is “in the final stages” of receiving bank charter approval from the Trump administration.
📈 Bullish
Coinbax took the top spot at Consensus Miami with software built to add compliance controls to onchain payments.
◎ Neutral
Leading Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies may start slowing its ETH purchases as it approaches its 5% supply goal.
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Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI on your devices. And now, its latest version has removed the disclosure that promised to keep your data off Google’s servers.
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A new study finds ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity all share user data with third-party ad trackers—sometimes even when you say no to cookies.
◎ Neutral
XRP has moved from a deleveraging panic to a fragile base-building phase, and the question of when the next all-time high will return hinges on catalysts that have yet to show up in price. The asset trades around $1.42 on CryptoSlate's live XRP page today, May 7, with a market value near $87.5 billion, roughly […] The post XRP can still break its all-time high and climb 170% this year appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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The Nasdaq-listed fund offers exposure to Canton Coin, native token of the privacy-focused institutional blockchain network.
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Bitcoin briefly fell below $80,000 on Thursday as analysts say profit taking has increased among crypto traders.
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Shares in Eric Trump's mining firm American Bitcoin have fallen more than 9% after reporting a quarterly loss of nearly $82 million.
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The new Amazon Web Services system lets AI agents use the USDC stablecoin to pay for APIs, data, and online services.