May 1, 2026
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Solana Crypto Lost 68% From Its All-Time High and Validators Are Disappearing at the Same Rate

Solana crypto hit an all-time high of $295 in January 2026. It now trades near $84 – a 68% collapse that has wiped out billions in market value and triggered over $300 million in long liquidations on a single day, including one individual position worth $6.69 million obliterated in hours. That kind of drawdown doesn’t

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CFTC Chair Mike Selig argues for agency’s ‘exclusive regulatory authority’ in prediction markets fight: State of Crypto

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig told CoinDesk that the agency will continue to defend its “exclusive regulatory authority” to oversee prediction markets in court. “It doesn’t matter if it’s on sports, politics or anything else, if it’s a validly offered product within a CFTC-regulated exchange, then we regulate that,” Selig said. You’re reading

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Relics Of A Revolution, Part II: False Profits And Freedom

Revolutions leave behind artifacts — not always weapons or flags, but the quieter objects that carried a message before anyone knew how far it would travel. A wheat-pasted broadside on a Los Angeles overpass. A hand-lettered cardboard sign held up in the snow outside a Tokyo office building. A newspaper headline, pulled from the front

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Ether Machine Nasdaq Deal Ends, $50M Fee Due

Ether Machine and Dynamix Corporation end their Nasdaq merger deal. A $50M termination fee is due as the SPAC hunts a new target by 2026. The Ether Machine’s planned Nasdaq debut is officially off the table.  Dynamix Corporation (Nasdaq: ETHM) and The Ether Machine announced that they have mutually terminated their pending business combination.  The

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Bitget Exchange Launches IPO Prime With Tokenized SpaceX Pre-IPO Exposure

Bitget Exchange just did something that would have sounded absurd five years ago: a crypto exchange is now selling retail investors tokenized exposure to SpaceX, a private company that hasn’t filed for an IPO and may not for years. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is what this token actually gives you, because the

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Tron’s Justin Sun slams Trump-backed WLFI for treating users as ‘personal ATM’ after $75 Million DeFi loan

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial has lost a key backer after its $75 Million DeFi loan tied up user liquidity, with Justin Sun publicly breaking and criticizing the project’s treatment of investors. “Every action taken by the WLFI team to extract fees from users and to treat the crypto community as a personal ATM is illegitimate,”

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Tim Draper Confirmed As A Bitcoin 2026 Speaker

Tim Draper has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026. The founder of Draper Associates, DFJ, and the Draper Venture Network, Draper is one of the longest-standing and most vocal Bitcoin advocates in the venture capital world and one of the few investors who put real money behind the asset before it was

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Better Than the FIL ICO? How BlockchainFX ($BFX) Became the Most Popular Crypto for Early Buyers

Did you stand on the sidelines while others turned small change into fortunes? Many people regret ignoring a popular crypto when it first appeared. Failing to act on the right price news often leads to years of wondering what if. The market is shifting with BlockchainFX ($BFX) news showing a massive move toward unified trading.

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BTC, ETH, XRP fall as U.S., Iran negotiators fail to reach war resolution

Bitcoin BTC$71,801.05 and other major cryptocurrencies all fell around 2% late Saturday evening U.S. hours after Vice President J.D. Vance announced that U.S. and Iranian negotiators had failed to agree to an extended ceasefire. The parties met in Pakistan Saturday to negotiate an agreement after the U.S.’s nearly six-week long campaign against Iran. Vance said

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Stacked (formerly Lightning Pay) Launches Self-custodial Lightning Wallet As New Zealand’s Last Major Non-custodial Bitcoin Exchange

Formerly known as Lightning Pay, Stacked may be the only Bitcoin exchange left standing after a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the New Zealand crypto industry. Doubling down on their vision to make Bitcoin “useful as money,” they just launched a self-custodied Lightning wallet. Found at StackedBitcoin.com, the company has taken a different path

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