May 16, 2026

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Tether Expands USDT to Celo: What Stablecoin Expansion Means for DeFi Users

Tether’s USAT stablecoin – a regulated, U.S.-market digital dollar – is leaving Ethereum mainnet for the first time, landing on Celo, a mobile-first Ethereum layer-2 network with 14 million Opera MiniPay wallet users already transacting across 66+ countries. That’s not a minor technical footnote. It’s a direct pipeline from regulated dollar infrastructure into one of

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Pearl, prediction markets and the long tail of AI liquidity

Pearl is Olas’s consumer gateway to a future where narrow AI agents quietly trade, curate and create prediction markets at a scale humans will never touch, says co‑founder David Minasch. Summary Olas co‑founder David Minasch traces Pearl back to early agent work at Fetch.ai and Valory, then pivots from B2B DAO tools to a consumer

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon floats prediction market services

People have been gambling forever, so prediction markets aren’t so different as long as you don’t blow up your life. That’s how Jamie Dimon sees one of the biggest trends of the year and he might not want to miss out. The longtime chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest bank by

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Franklin Templeton to Acquire CoinFund Crypto Spinoff, Accelerating Digital Asset Push

Franklin Templeton deepens its commitment to crypto with a newly-announced acquisition. Global asset manager Franklin Templeton is expanding its commitment to digital assets with the acquisition of a newly formed crypto-oriented spinoff from venture firm CoinFund. The move signals continued alignment between traditional finance and cryptocurrencies. According to a WSJ exclusive, the deal is

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US DOJ charges 10 in crypto wash trading case linked to Gotbit, Vortex

The United States Department of Justice has brought charges against 10 individuals for allegedly manipulating digital asset prices through so-called “pump-and-dump” schemes. Summary The US Department of Justice charged 10 individuals linked to four crypto market making firms for alleged pump and dump schemes dating back to 2018. Prosecutors said the group inflated trading volumes

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Musk jokes lost Bitcoin could get a second chance thanks to future quantum computers

Your lost crypto might not be gone forever if quantum computers decide to show up, Elon Musk has joked. On the plus side, if you forgot the password to your wallet, it will be accessible in the future https://t.co/xAFtNGC5FE — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2026 That came after Google Quantum AI on Monday released

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Bitcoin Tapped $69K, Oil Prices Ended March With 60% Surge: Market Watch

Oil futures prices ended March with the most significant gains in their nearly 40-year history. Bitcoin jumped to a new multi-day peak of over $69,200 earlier today as the markets prepare for Trump’s highly anticipated speech on the war against Iran. Most larger-cap alts are also in the green, with ETH climbing past $2,100

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Zcash patches critical bug affecting the Sprout shielded pool

Zcash has patched a major vulnerability that would have allowed bad actors to drain funds from the protocol’s deprecated Sprout shielded pool. Summary Zcash patched a critical flaw in zcashd nodes that skipped proof verification in the legacy Sprout pool, a bug that could have exposed more than 25,000 ZEC to potential draining. The vulnerability

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Anthropic’s Claude Code leak reveals autonomous agent tools and unreleased models

Anthropic exposed the full source code for Claude Code after a misconfigured source map file was published to npm, offering a rare look inside one of the company’s most important commercial products. The file, bundled with version 2.1.88, contained nearly 60 megabytes of internal material, including about 512,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files. Chaofan

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Bitcoin Price Rises Ahead of Trump’s Key Iran War Announcement

Earlier today, the Trump administration said the US could “be done” in Iran within 2-3 weeks. The market-wide volatility fueled by the major developments in the war against Iran continues, as bitcoin just tapped a multi-day peak of almost $69,000 after dropping to $66,000 yesterday. The latest leg up coincided with reports citing information

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