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Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. DOGEBALL gains attention as investors search for the next 100x crypto opportunity in 2026 market cycle. Summary DOGEBALL presale shows early traction with burns, staged pricing, and utility-driven gaming and payments ecosystem. With staged price increases and token burns, the presale aims to reward early buyers before launch pricing. Buying DOGEBALL involves wallet connection, selecting stage price, and locking allocation before the next price jump. Dogecoin’s rise is still one of crypto’s most painful missed opportunities. A token that…

Ethereum price slipped lower on Monday as weakening momentum indicators and slowing institutional accumulation raised concerns that ETH could retest the key $2,200 support zone in the near term. Summary Ethereum price formed a bearish RSI divergence near the $2,400 resistance zone, raising risks of a retest below the $2,200 support level. Ethereum whale wallets accumulated roughly 360,000 ETH during the recent correction, though Bitmine has slowed purchases as it nears its supply target. Fundstrat’s Tom Lee said “Crypto Spring has commenced” as ETH continued holding above its long-term ascending support trendline. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price…

Singapore Gulf Bank has entered a strategic banking partnership with Standard Chartered to strengthen cross-border settlement and multi-currency payment services across emerging digital asset markets. Summary Singapore Gulf Bank partnered with Standard Chartered to improve cross-border settlement and correspondent banking services across the Middle East and Asia. SGB said the collaboration will help clients access faster multi-currency payment flows through Standard Chartered’s clearing network. According to a release shared with crypto.news on Tuesday, the agreement expands the bank’s correspondent banking network and improves payment routing in regions where digital asset activity has been growing quickly, particularly across the Middle East…

SharpLink reported $12.1 million in first-quarter 2026 revenue, up from $742,000 in the same period last year.  Summary SharpLink’s Q1 revenue rose to $12.1 million as ETH staking drove higher treasury income growth. Its 872,984 ETH treasury keeps SharpLink behind BitMine among public Ethereum treasury companies today. The Galaxy fund will test whether SharpLink can earn DeFi yield while managing risk. The company said the increase came mainly from its actively managed Ethereum treasury strategy, which began in June 2025. The Nasdaq-listed firm now presents itself as an institutional Ethereum treasury platform. Its website says SharpLink is listed under the…

Morgan Stanley launched a crypto price war on E*Trade at 50 basis points, undercutting Coinbase and Schwab. Summary Morgan Stanley launched a pilot on May 6 allowing E*Trade users to trade Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana at 50 basis points per trade via Zerohash. The fee undercuts Schwab’s 75bps, Fidelity’s 1%, and Coinbase’s retail rates, prompting Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas to warn crypto exchanges to be scared. Morgan Stanley plans to expand crypto access to all 8.6 million E*Trade clients later in 2026 alongside a proprietary digital wallet. Morgan Stanley has launched a crypto trading pilot on its ETrade platform at…

Ronin Ethereum is migrating to a Layer 2 on May 12 with roughly 10 hours of scheduled downtime. Summary Ronin will hard fork at block 55,577,490 on May 12, transitioning from an independent sidechain to an Ethereum Layer 2 on the OP Stack. All transfers, swaps, and smart contract interactions will pause for roughly 10 hours during the migration window. RON token inflation will drop from over 20% to below 1%, with 90 million RON redirected to the treasury as marketplace fees rise to 1.25%. Ronin, the gaming-focused blockchain behind Axie Infinity, is executing a hard fork on May 12…

Tom Lee has slowed Bitmine ETH purchases after the firm amassed over 5.2 million tokens and 4.3% of Ethereum’s supply. Summary Bitmine bought 26,659 ETH last week, worth roughly $63 million, down from over 100,000 ETH in each of the prior three weekly periods. Tom Lee said the previous pace would have taken Bitmine to its 5% Ethereum supply target by mid-July, prompting the slowdown. Bitmine holds over 4.7 million ETH staked, generating an estimated $319 million in annualised staking rewards at current yields. Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) bought 26,659 ETH last week worth roughly $63 million, sharply down from…

Crypto compliance demand is surging as AI fraud evolves faster than firms can respond, Sumsub CEO Andrew Sever says. Summary Sumsub CEO Andrew Sever told Consensus Miami that sophisticated AI fraud attacks on crypto firms increased 180% year over year. Only 23% of crypto companies are ready to comply with new identity and fraud rules, according to Sumsub’s State of the Crypto Industry 2026 report. Chainalysis has separately launched blockchain intelligence agents to help compliance teams manage growing alert volumes at machine speed. Crypto compliance firms are reporting a sharp rise in demand as AI fraud attacks become faster, more…

IREN has signed a $3.4 billion IREN Nvidia deal to deploy up to 5 gigawatts of AI infrastructure over five years. Summary IREN will provide Nvidia with managed GPU cloud services worth $3.4 billion over five years for the chipmaker’s internal AI and research workloads. Nvidia received a five-year warrant to purchase up to 30 million IREN shares at $70 each, representing a potential $2.1 billion equity stake. The partnership builds on IREN’s prior $9.7 billion agreement with Microsoft, pushing the company’s total committed revenue past $15 billion. Bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure provider IREN has announced a five-year, $3.4…

Bored Ape floor prices have doubled in a month as Yuga Labs CEO Michael Figge says blue-chip NFTs were oversold. Summary BAYC floor prices climbed from around 5 ETH to over 10 ETH across the past month, with ApeCoin rallying from below $0.10 to $0.16. Yuga Labs CEO Michael Figge said the collection was clearly oversold during the prolonged downturn, calling the rally a recovery rather than hype. Pudgy Penguins and other blue-chip collections have also rallied as retail traders return to speculative crypto assets. Bored Ape Yacht Club floor prices have doubled over the past month, climbing from around…