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India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is examining the consent and data collection practices of startups that record home-service workers and sell the footage to robotics labs. The probe comes weeks after Human Archive, a startup founded by four UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers, announced $8.2 million in seed funding to scale exactly that kind of operation across India.
The leading organizations in the funding round included Wing Venture Capital and NVP Capital, along with Y Combinator, and angel investors from companies such as OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, and Meta.
The money funds camera-equipped headsets and custom sensor hardware deployed with gig workers who clean homes, cook in cloud kitchens, and staff hotels. Robotics labs that are training machines to perform physical tasks will buy the resulting footage.
According to CEO Raj Patel, the firm is running over a thousand headsets in various parts of India, and is developing gloves, motion capture suits, and wrist cameras to complement its video feeds.
Human Archive pays workers $1 per hour. Rival firms pay between $2.63 and $4.20, according to ET. According to Patel, the gap reflects lower overhead from operating directly in India.
Workers do not know where the footage goes
Workers interviewed by MIT Technology Review said none knew how recordings would be stored, shared, or used by the robotics companies purchasing them.
“It is important that if workers are engaging in this, that they are informed by the companies themselves of the intention … where this kind of technology might go and how that might affect them longer term,” said Yasmine Kotturi, a professor of human-centered computing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Human Archive said its contracts comply with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, that it displays a privacy notice with consent details, and that all footage is anonymized with faces blurred.
The DPDP Act is still in its early stages of enforcement. The ministry’s review could set a precedent for how regulators treat video data collected from workers and the homes they enter.
The argument that made India’s IT ministry pay attention
Urban Company CEO Abhiraj Singh Bhal posted on X that his company would not participate in data collection from workers. Patel fired back that Urban Company would “soon be forced to reconsider or risk losing relevance.”
Co-founder Rushil Agarwal posted that Pronto founder Anjali Sardana had “laughed at him and called him stupid” when he pitched the idea.
Pronto confirmed early discussions before walking away.
According to reports, Pronto conducted separate tests for opt-in recording while performing household chores. The evaluation conducted by the IT Ministry came after media coverage of the pilot and the ongoing debate about which firms should be allowed to record in Indian households.
As Cryptopolitan reported in February, India positioned itself at the 2026 AI Summit as the leader of a Global South push to shape AI policy.
The government’s willingness to investigate a Y Combinator-backed startup within weeks of its funding announcement signals that the push extends to policing how foreign-backed companies collect data from Indian workers.
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TeraWulf geht eine viel größere Wette auf die Infrastruktur der künstlichen Intelligenz ein. Es geht jedoch nicht mehr um Chips. Es geht um Energie. Das Unternehmen hat ein 285 Hektar großes Grundstück im östlichen Kentucky gesichert. Es wird erwartet, dass es mehr als 1 Gigawatt (GW) an KI- und Hochleistungsrechenkapazität unterstützen wird.
Nach der Ankündigung stiegen die TeraWulf-Aktien im letzten Handel um 10,3 %. Zur Pressezeit wurde für $25,18 gehandelt. Der neue Standort, bekannt als Muskie Data Campus, platziert TeraWulf unter einer wachsenden Liste von Firmen, die in einem Wettlauf sind, um massive Stromzugänge zu sichern.

Is Elon Musk really planning to put SpaceX and Tesla (TSLA) under one roof? It’s all anyone’s talking about on Wall Street, in executive offices, regarding AI expenditure, rockets, and some strange family tree of businesses.
SpaceX is getting ready for a Nasdaq listing in a little over two weeks, after hitting a private value of $1.25 trillion earlier this year through its merger with xAI. Tesla is already worth about $1.6 trillion.
The merger talk did not come out of nowhere, because allegedly, Elon has already spoken with colleagues about combining the companies.
One current Tesla employee reportedly told CNBC that many workers inside the EV company have expected this kind of deal for years, and that staff talk about it openly.
Tesla and SpaceX already share boards, engineers, cash, batteries, trucks, and AI infrastructure
Relationships between Tesla and SpaceX have many different aspects and are quite strong. Elon Musk serves on the boards of both firms. Another individual, who is a board member for both, is Ira Ehrenpreis, who founded DBL Partners. Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother, is currently on the Tesla board and was previously a SpaceX director. Additionally, Antonio Gracias and Steve Jurvetson were board members of Tesla before switching their allegiance to SpaceX.
Staff relationships are rather evident too. For example, Charles Kuehmann is vice president of materials engineering for both companies. He moved from Apple ten years ago. Since then, he works on solving engineering challenges in large-scale hardware projects. This type of job is relevant because material science, heat exchange, weights, battery safety, manufacturing pressures, and hard engineering problems cannot be overcome with an inspiring speech.
Financial relations between SpaceX and Tesla cannot be denied either. In January, Tesla said that it had invested $2 billion in xAI, Elon’s artificial intelligence company. One month later, SpaceX and xAI merged, thus making Tesla’s investment in xAI stock linked to SpaceX. Therefore, Tesla established financial connection with SpaceX before any stock market listing.
SpaceX also buys a lot from Tesla. According to its prospectus, in 2024 and 2025, the company plans to spend $697 million to buy Tesla Megapack batteries, which will power the data centers owned and operated by xAI around its Colossus facility in Memphis, Tennessee. This is not merely an internal order but hundreds of millions worth of battery hardware for AI compute capacity.
According to the prospectus, SpaceX will also spend $131 million in purchasing Tesla Cybertrucks at listed retail prices.
Lawyers said a Tesla-SpaceX merger would probably not create a big antitrust fight because the companies do not mainly sell the same thing. Shareholders would have questions: Which company becomes the parent? What exchange ratio would investors get? Who decides the correct value for each side? Those are not small details when one company is valued at $1.25 trillion and the other is worth around $1.6 trillion.
For SpaceX, Elon controls about 85% of the voting power there, so he controls every major company decision.
SpaceX receives billions in military funding from Trump administration
In an attempt to create a secure military satellite network, the United States Space Force provided SpaceX with a $2.29 billion deal to develop an architecture known as the Space Data Network Backbone (SDN Backbone).
This new architecture will interconnect military sensors, missile-warning systems, tracking capabilities, and weapon delivery platforms. The plan is to allow fast, secure, and high-capacity data transfer between platforms and sensors with minimal latency. The space force hopes for a prototype of the architecture by 2027.
The SDN Backbone project has connections to missile defense projects that have been developed under the Golden Dome project from the Trump administration. The network is aimed at making sure that the data gathered from the missile warning and tracking sensors are relayed to interceptors in near real time.
Cryptopolitan earlier reported that Elon Musk will get $1 trillion if he achieves certain things at SpaceX. These things are; attaining market capitalization of $7.5 trillion and settling more than 1 million humans on Mars.
Similarly, Tesla has a large pay plan for Elon Musk, which is composed of 12 stages depending on market cap and operational achievements.
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Europe is getting ready to shut American satellite companies out of the majority of a key wireless frequency band, handing most of it to homegrown operators in what would be the bloc’s most significant space policy decision to date.
The European Commission is finalising a plan to set aside two-thirds of the 2 GHz mobile satellite band for European companies, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter who spoke to Reuters on Tuesday.
Elon Musk’s Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper would only be allowed to compete for what remains, one third of the total. A formal announcement was expected at a commissioners’ meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, though one source warned the details could still shift.
The band, a 30 MHz pair running between 1980-2010 MHz and 2170-2200 MHz, is what lets mobile phones and vehicles stay connected where regular networks do not reach.
The licences covering it were issued in 2009 to Inmarsat, now part of Viasat, and Solaris, now EchoStar, and both expire in May 2027. Because EU member states manage this band collectively through the Commission, a single bloc-wide decision on what comes next is possible.
Europe’s IRIS2 stands to gain the most
The main winner under the proposal would be IRIS2, Europe’s 290-satellite constellation built by the SpaceRISE consortium of SES, Eutelsat and Hispasat, with Airbus, Thales Alenia Space and OHB as contractors.
A 12-year contract was signed in December 2024 at around €10.5 billion, with roughly €6.5 billion coming from public money. Government services are expected to go live in 2030. British and Norwegian companies would also be eligible to bid.
The decision reflects Europe’s growing unease about relying on American technology for critical infrastructure. Musk’s threats to cut Starlink access in Ukraine sharpened that concern, as did his closeness with Donald Trump’s administration. Brussels has been tightening access for US companies across sensitive sectors from cloud services and chip equipment to cybersecurity tools, and satellite communications now appears on the same list.
Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said on Tuesday that EU-wide satellite connectivity had become “synonymous with resilience, security, and capability” given the current geopolitical climate. “Satellite connectivity is a key piece of our technological sovereignty, our security, and our defence, as also highlighted by IRIS2,” he said.
One commissioner pushed for a full lockout
The proposal was not without internal disagreement. One commissioner argued the entire band should go to European businesses with no outside access at all, putting them at odds with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen, who opposed a full lockout. According to one source, Virkkunen was expected to prevail, which is how the two-thirds compromise landed.
The current licence holders, Viasat and EchoStar, face an uncomfortable position. Both are American-listed, meaning they would be treated as non-European bidders and pushed into the smaller open portion despite holding the licences today. Whether either could get around that through partnerships or restructuring is a question Wednesday’s announcement was unlikely to answer.
Starlink and Kuiper are not being removed from Europe entirely, but limiting them to one third of the only regulated band that mobile operators rely on for direct-to-device services puts a hard ceiling on how far they can grow on the continent. The Commission’s formal proposal was expected Wednesday afternoon, Brussels time.
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Honeywell-backed quantum computing firm Quantinuum announced terms for its US initial public offering on Tuesday. It is aiming for a valuation of around $12.7 billion. The company plans to sell shares between $45 and $50 each. However, it hopes to raise as much as $1.05 billion.
Quantinuum intends to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker “QNT.” The proposed valuation turns out to be quite high from the the $10 billion valuation it received during its private funding round in September 2025. At that time, it managed to raise $600 million with investors. This included Nvidia’s NVentures, Quanta Computer, JPMorgan Chase, Mitsui, and Amgen.
Quantinuum bets big on Quantum IPO boom
If this IPO is successful, then this would make Quantinuum the first company focused solely on quantum computing to go public. However, IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum previously went public through SPAC mergers.
Just days before the IPO filing, Cryptopolitan reported that the Trump administration announced $2 billion in equity investments. This included the nine quantum computing firms.
According to reports, Quantinuum received a $100 million grant from this initiative. Meanwhile, France has also committed over $1 billion to its national quantum strategy,
This might come as a shock, but Quantinuum’s financials have revealed growing losses. The company reported $30.9 million in revenue for 2025. This marked a 35% increase from the last year. However, its net loss widened to $192.6 million from $144.1 million.
Over the first quarter of 2026, its Revenue dropped by 73% year over year to $5.2 million. Its net losses grew to $136.6 million from $30 million a year earlier. Almost three-quarters of Quantinuum’s 2025 revenue has come from US govt contracts and Japan’s RIKEN.
Quantum hype outruns revenue
The dependency of the company on govt funded project has flagged some concerns for investors. Quantinuum’s valuation suggests a price-to-sales ratio that exceeds 400 times its 2025 revenue. It is much higher than the estimate seen in past deep-tech IPOs.
Semiconductor designer Arm Holdings went public in 2023. It had a valuation of about 20 times trailing sales. Similarly, AI infrastructure company C3.ai debuted in 2020. It saw a valuation of around 40 times its forward revenue estimates.
This disparity indicates that investors view quantum computing differently from traditional tech sectors. They might be watching it as a long-term and strategic investment that focuses on anticipated breakthroughs rather than current earnings. Market analysis hints that the area has shifted from an experimental phase to early commercialization.
Quantinuum focuses on developing trapped-ion quantum computers. It uses electrically controlled ions as qubits. This strategy is different from the superconducting systems used by firms like IBM and Google.
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OpenAI’s founder and CEO Sam Altman sat before a massive crowd at a conference and said with a straight face that: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and then we’ll make people buy it from us on a meter.” Chilling, isn’t it?
Sam said OpenAI expects demand to keep rising as AI becomes harder to separate from serious work. “The demand that we see for that seems like it’s going to continue to just go like this. When can a CEO of a major company, a president of a major country, a Nobel Prize winning scientist, when can they not do their job without making heavy use of AI? This doesn’t mean that there will be an AI CEO or an AI president,” said Sam.
Sam Altman says leaders will use AI because one person cannot manage every detail alone
“We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water,” Sam added. He added that people would “buy it from us on a meter” and use it for whatever they want.
Sam believes the role of a human CEO is already changing because no single person can cover every corner of a big company. He said:
“You still do need a person to stand behind decisions and kind of exercise human judgment and all of the understanding that we expect out of someone running a an important organization to do. But the actual parts of my role that I will increasingly have to rely on an AI to do because no human can.”
Sam’s view is that top jobs will become more about watching AI systems, checking their work, choosing when to trust them, and giving them direction. The human stays in charge, but the job becomes less about doing every task and more about managing the machines doing the work.
Sam said this threshold may take “a little bit longer,” but “probably not a lot longer.”
Sam Altman says OpenAI’s tools already shape his own business decisions
Sam also said he is already leaning on OpenAI’s own agents and AI tools inside his daily job.
“It’s ramping incredibly quickly,” he said.
He said when he gets a new idea for a business model, a product, or a strategy change, he asks OpenAI’s tools before he speaks to another person about it.
Sam said the answers get better when the systems have more company context, like internal documents, communication, code, customer data, and other company information, as the kind of material that can improve AI output. (This is absolutely not a good idea.)
“As they can get close to full context of our company,” he said, “the quality of the answers gets better and better.”
During the interview, Sam referred to the recent reports surrounding OpenAI, which raised $110 billion through an investment round just two weeks prior to the discussion. Among others, Amazon, Nvidia, and Softbank participated in the fundraising.
He likened the fundraising to the public market and mentioned that the latter was four times smaller than the record-setting largest public offering ever made. It is worth noting that the public market deal was $25 billion raised by Saudi Aramco. Simply put, even though the public market should theoretically provide the largest amounts of money available, OpenAI raised more privately.
Then, the interviewer wanted to know how OpenAI would be spending that vast amount of money. Sam did not really answer that, though.
At another tech conference this week, Sam also admitted that some of his earlier job-market warnings were off. He had previously said AI could remove “entire classes” of jobs, especially as companies adopted the technology after ChatGPT launched in 2022.
“My scorecard, at the highest level, would be we’ve been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications,” Sam said during a conversation with Matt Comyn, CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia ($CBA.AX).
Matt’s conversation with Sam was summarized on Tuesday.
Sam said the near-term hit to entry-level white-collar jobs has not been as bad as he expected.
“I’m delighted to be wrong about that,” Sam said.
That is a major change from his older tone. In 2023, Sam told The Atlantic that jobs would “definitely” go away as companies used AI more widely. He also said better jobs would be created after that. Last year, at a Federal Reserve conference, Sam warned that “entire classes” of jobs would vanish.
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Europa steht vor der Gefahr, in eine "Abhängigkeitsspirale" im globalen KI-Handel zu geraten, laut einem neuen Bericht von Allianz. Der Kontinent ist derzeit stark auf die USA und Asien für KI-Infrastruktur und -Produktion angewiesen.
Das internationale Rennen um die KI-Hoheit wird intensiver, und Europa bleibt zurück, laut einem neuen Bericht der Versicherungsgruppe Allianz. Technologische Branchen wie Cloud-Computing, Halbleiter und Rechenzentren sind bereit, die gesamte Weltwirtschaft neu zu organisieren. Die Analyse von Allianz argumentiert, dass die USA und Asien im Marktanteil in diesen Sektoren führend sind, was ihnen großen wirtschaftlichen Hebel über Europa für die Zukunft gibt.

Die Strategie hat bis zu 1,38 Milliarden Dollar aus ihren Bargeldreserven verwendet, um Schulden zurückzukaufen, die 2029 fällig werden. Obwohl der Schritt als Verbesserung der Bilanz dargestellt wird, sind Analysten besorgt, dass das Unternehmen eine viel kürzere Laufzeit für Dividendenzahlungen hat.
Die Strategie hat ihre 8-K-Einreichung einen Tag zu spät vorgelegt, in der ihre Schuldenrückkaufoperationen skizziert wurden. Insgesamt erreichte der Schuldenrückkauf 1,5 Milliarden Dollar, und die letzte Einreichung erwähnte die Nutzung von Bargeldreserven und BTC-Operationen.
Wie Cryptopolitan früher berichtete, hat die Strategie eine Woche lang auf BTC-Käufe verzichtet, nachdem es eine Woche ohne neue STRC-Erhöhungen gab.

The combination of an age-old UFO enigma in America with the crypto world has led to the holding of Bitcoins in Roswell, the capital of New Mexico, USA.
In this regard, on-chain analytics company Arkham Intelligence has drawn attention to the entity that apparently holds 0.173 BTC, worth $13,312.52. The timing and location of the event seem to have sparked discussions suggesting that aliens might be quietly collecting their Bitcoin hoard.
Roswell’s UFO legacy revisited through Bitcoin
Roswell became a global interest in 1947 when the United States Air Force issued a report stating that they found a “flying disc” in the vicinity of Roswell. This report, issued on July 8, 1947, sparked rumors about the crash of an alien spacecraft.
The military later denied their claim, explaining that the object was merely a piece of a weather balloon. Decades of witness claims, secret documents, and mysterious metallic remains have kept the story of Roswell alive.
This has contributed to the city becoming a hotspot for UFO conspiracy theorists. In fact, the city’s very logo exploits this extraterrestrial background, something crypto fans cannot ignore, given recent Bitcoin transactions.
In the last year, Roswell has become the first U.S. municipality to officially establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve via donations. The very first seed contribution, deposited on April 29, 2025, included 3,050,323 satoshis, equaling 0.0305 BTC and valued at around $2,906.
ALIENS ARE BUYING BITCOIN
The city of Roswell, New Mexico was the site of a famous UFO crash in 1947. The US Army Air Force announced possession of a “flying disc”, believed by many to be an alien spacecraft.
Now, that same city holds $13.3K of BTC that it received as donations… pic.twitter.com/u2mn9rWL58
— Arkham (@arkham) May 26, 2026
Anonymous subsequent contributions increased the balance to 0.173 BTC. The donations appear as deposits from various Bitcoin addresses, including some associated with regular retail wallets and services like Robinhood.
The city’s Arkham profile features a customized avatar combining extraterrestrial imagery with the Roswell Cosmicon logo. The reception of the first contribution has been signed by the mayor pro tem, Juliana Halvorson, and Bitcoin enthusiast Guy Malone.
The Arkham dashboard shows that the reserve is maintained on the Bitcoin blockchain and that there have been no outflows. The chart showing the evolution of balances shows a continuous increase since mid-2025, indicating that the total current market value is driven by Bitcoin price growth, not the municipality’s purchases.
Roswell passes landmark 10-year HODL ordinance
According to reports, the management of Roswell’s Bitcoin is regulated by a very restrictive municipal ordinance that prohibits quick selling of these digital currencies. All Bitcoin donations have to be held for at least 10 years.
After the fund exceeds $1 million in value, the city can spend no more than 21 percent of the funds annually. Such spending can take place once every five years. Uses of the Bitcoin reserve are highly restricted to two purposes only—subsidizing the payment of elderly people’s water bills and financing disaster relief efforts.
The announcement has led to a great deal of discussion on crypto forums. The Arkham blog post presented a provocative question: “Is this the first BTC in the possession of extraterrestrials?”
This prompted a number of comments suggesting that the original visitors from 1947 might have returned and diversified into Bitcoin. Another interesting point to note is that the irony of a city known for covering up a weather balloon as aliens is now amassing Bitcoins under the table. CoinDelisi, a Turkish crypto analyst, found a way to spin the story into an amusing tale, pointing out that, even though these are donated coins, they’ve become memes in the crypto community.
Do UFOs – now officially termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena – exist?
The Department of Defense created the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022 to research UAP in an evidence-based fashion. The first volume of AARO’s Historical Record Report, published in 2024, states that, over 80 years of investigation by various government bodies, there is no empirical evidence to support the theory of an extraterrestrial origin of any UAP incident or of the United States’ recovery and reverse engineering of alien spacecraft.
On February 21, 2026, President Donald Trump issued a directive ordering various government agencies to declassify any documents regarding UAP/UFOs and other matters related to extraterrestrials. In accordance with that directive, the Department of Defense (through the website war.gov/ufo) has published multiple batches of papers and videos (the first batch was released on May 8, 2026; the second on May 22, 2026).
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Der S&P 500 erreichte am Dienstag einen weiteren Rekord und sprang während der Sitzung auf 7.539,8, was den Index auf einen neunwöchigen Gewinnlauf bringt, den ersten seit 2023. Die Tech-Werte haben den Großteil der Arbeit geleistet, denn natürlich hat Wall Street nach dem langen Wochenende sofort wieder die Chips verehrt.
Der Nasdaq Composite hat auch einen neuen intraday Rekord erzielt, während der Dow Jones Industrial Average in die andere Richtung ging. Der S&P 500 lag bei 0,5% im Plus, der Nasdaq legte um 0,9% zu, und der Dow fiel um 216 Punkte, oder 0,4%. Die US-Märkte waren am Montag wegen des Memorial Day geschlossen.

The 30-day liquidity index for XRP on Binance indicated on Tuesday that the digital asset’s liquidity has declined to its lowest level since January 2020. The 30D Liquidity Index for XRP on the crypto exchange has fallen to approximately 0.043.
The drop in XRP’s liquidity on Binance to its lowest in the last five years reflects a significant decrease in market depth and confidence in the virtual asset. The decline also shows that the liquidity of XRP available for trading has decreased compared to previous periods.
XRP’s low liquidity signals potential end to selling pressure
XRP Liquidity on Binance Falls to Its Lowest Level Since January 2020
“Liquidity at these low levels could make the market more sensitive to sudden price movements, as large orders may have a greater impact on price.” – By @ArabxChain
Link ⤵️https://t.co/ugoh9111zo pic.twitter.com/oMYPDDzvtV
— CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) May 26, 2026
On-chain data showed that XRP’s liquidity index rose to elevated levels between 2022 and 2024, reaching 3 and 4 points. The high liquidity levels also coincided with increased trading activity and strong market volatility.
The 30D Liquidity Index for XRP on Binance has also declined sharply in recent months to its current low levels. The drop indicates weakening speculative interest in the digital asset and a reduction in new liquidity inflows into the market.
Source: CryptoQuant. XRP Binance 30D Liquidity Index.
Continued low liquidity at the current levels could also make the market more sensitive to sudden price fluctuations. Large market orders tend to have a significant impact on price due to a lack of market depth, as evidenced in periods of low liquidity, when price is more prone to sharp movements if trading volumes suddenly surge.
XRP’s low liquidity on Binance also reflects caution and anticipation among market participants amid lower market activity and declining selling pressure. The virtual asset has traded bearish for the past few weeks, but the latest liquidity crunch, close to zero on the world’s largest crypto exchange, suggests momentum may flip soon.
At the time of publication, XRP has plunged 1.04% in the past 24 hours to $1.34. The digital asset has also dropped by 1.67% over the past 7 days and by nearly 6% over the past 30 days.
Binance XRP reserves have also dropped to a 3-month low, down from roughly 3 billion when the asset was trading above $3 last year, to roughly 2.7 billion XRP. The drop in XRP reserves on the crypto exchange suggests there’s less immediate selling pressure.
CME prepares to launch 24/7 XRP futures trading
Crypto tracking platform XRPScan revealed on Monday that wallets tied to Chris Larsen, Ripple’s co-founder and present executive chairman, became active in the wake of his pledged donations in the midterm elections. Larsen has pledged $3.5 million in contributions to support New York Democrat Alex Bores, while he also plans to back Gavin Newsom’s anticipated 2028 presidential campaign. The firm found modest transactions registered under Larsen’s wallets, which prompted speculation among market participants.
On-chain data revealed that Larsen currently holds an estimated 2.58 billion XRP across eight addresses. The crypto official’s holdings are worth roughly $3.5 billion under the current XRP price of $1.34, making him among the digital asset’s largest individual holders.
Larsen’s XRP transactions are closely monitored due to historical correlations between transfers and price volatility. In January 2025, one of his wallets transferred more than $109 million in XRP to major exchanges, including Coinbase, Bybit, and Bitstamp, after being dormant for nearly 7 years. In July 2025, another Larsen-linked wallet transferred 50 million XRP worth roughly $175 million, with more than $140 million going to trading platforms. The transfer occurred while XRP approached its record high above $3.40.
There are also institutional developments adding a long-term structural shift to XRP’s price, with the CME Group preparing to launch 24/7 crypto futures trading on Friday, including XRP-linked derivatives. The new initiative will eliminate traditional trading-hour restrictions and is expected to improve the asset’s liquidity flow across weekends and global sessions. CME’s previously launched XRP futures products have already attracted institutional participation, and continuous trading could further increase activity by improving price discovery.
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Der Ölmarkt befindet sich in einem schrecklichen Dilemma für die Öl-Spekulanten; es gibt zu viele Nachrichten und doch keinen Platz, besonders die Straße von Hormuz, die von einer Person kontrolliert wird, die definitiv zu viel Macht hat.
Jedenfalls, da Brent die reaktivste internationale Benchmark in Bezug auf Ölfragen im Nahen Osten ist, stieg es um 2,5 % auf $98,47 pro Barrel, nachdem die IRGC aus dem Iran mit einer Reaktion auf die US-Luftangriffe gedroht hatte.
Anschließend stieg Brent um 4,1 % und erreichte $100,11. WTI-Rohöl wurde zuletzt mit $93,91 notiert, ein Rückgang von 2,8 % im Vergleich zum Freitagspreis. Allerdings ist dies eine Verbesserung im Vergleich zu den Zahlen vom Montag. Die Ölpreise sind am Montag drastisch gefallen, da die Annahme besteht, dass bald ein Friedensabkommen erreicht werden könnte.

Die Ethereum Foundation (EF) setzt verstärkt auf Datenschutz- und Sicherheits-Tools, auch wenn Kritiker fordern, dass die Organisation mehr tun sollte, um den ETH-Preis zu unterstützen, der in den letzten fünf Jahren um fast 60 % gegenüber Bitcoin gefallen ist.
Ethereum-Mitbegründer Vitalik Buterin hat am 26. Mai Kohaku, eine datenschutzorientierte Initiative innerhalb der EF, gefördert und gefordert, dass Sicherheit und Datenschutz auf der Zugriffsebene von Ethereum „normal“ werden.
Die Unterstützung kommt Tage nachdem Buterin eine ausführliche Verteidigung der Strategie der Stiftung veröffentlicht hat, in der er erklärte, dass sie ein Forschungsorgan bleiben und kein ETH-Preisstützmechanismus sein sollte.

Strive (NASDAQ: ASST) hat heute laut CEO eine frische Ladung von 1.109 Bitcoins gekauft, für etwa 85,4 Millionen Dollar, was die Gesamtbestände auf 16.500 BTC erhöht.
Das Unternehmen hat nun Coinbase und die verkaufenden Riot Platforms überholt und ist zum siebtgrößten börsennotierten Bitcoin-Halter geworden.
Ersetzt Strive Strategy als den Top-Bitcoin-Käufer?
Der Kauf von Strive fand in der gleichen Woche statt, in der Strategy, das Unternehmen, das den Trend zur Unternehmens-Bitcoin-Akkumulation gestartet hat und mehr als 843.000 BTC hält, seine wöchentlichen Käufe pausierte und seine Ressourcen darauf richtete, 1,5 Milliarden Dollar an wandelbaren Schulden, die 2029 fällig sind, abzubauen.

Die britische Regierung hat 18 Einzelpersonen und Organisationen sanktioniert, um eine laufende Strategie zur Zerschlagung von Mechanismen zur Umgehung von Sanktionen durch die russische Regierung umzusetzen. Zu den Maßnahmen gehört das Fokussieren auf Krypto-Börsen und andere Unternehmen, die am Fluss von Geldern beteiligt sind, die zur Finanzierung der Kriegsmaschinerie Russlands verwendet werden.
Dies sind die ersten Fälle, in denen das Vereinigte Königreich seine Russland-Sanktionen gegen Krypto-Börsen anwendet. Berichten zufolge werden die Maßnahmen gemäß den Russland (Sanktionen) (EU-Austritt) Vorschriften von 2019 automatisch alle mit dem Vereinigten Königreich verbundenen Vermögenswerte einfrieren. Dies verhindert, dass britische Staatsbürger mit den benannten Organisationen interagieren.

Die Banken von Wall Street wollen, dass die Fed ihr lockeres Aufsichtssystem so verstärkt, dass es den nächsten politischen Kampf in Washington übersteht. Vier Personen mit Wissen über die privaten Gespräche sagten, dass die Kreditgeber die Federal Reserve drängen, den neuen Prozess rechtlich fester abzusichern, damit eine zukünftige demokratische Verwaltung ihn nicht einfach auflösen kann.
Da die Regulierungsbehörden unter Präsident Donald Trump die Bankenregulierungen seit der letzten Finanzkrise 2008 massiv ändern, wird der Druck von allen Beteiligten erhöht.

Die Regierung von Singapur hat den ehemaligen CEO der beliebten Krypto-Börse Hodlnaut wegen sechs Betrugsanklagen angeklagt. Dies ist auf falsche Darstellungen zurückzuführen, die aus dem Zusammenbruch des Unternehmens während der Marktvolatilität 2022 resultierten.
Der UST-Crash Anfang Mai 2022 hat im Krypto-Sektor für massive Verluste gesorgt. Hodlnaut blieb davon nicht verschont. Das Unternehmen hat 317 Millionen Dollar aus den Benutzerkonten im Anchor Protocol auf Terra investiert, ohne diese Details den Kunden offenzulegen. Als UST abstürzte, erlitten sie Verluste von 189,7 Millionen Dollar.

Die BTC-Märkte zeigen divergierende Signale bezüglich der bevorstehenden impliziten Volatilität der führenden Münze. Gleichzeitig signalisieren Optionshändler ihre Erwartung eines eventualen turbulenten Ereignisses.
BTC hat bisher in einem relativ engen Bereich zwischen $75.000 und $78.000 gehandelt, ohne dramatische Ausbrüche oder Anzeichen von Kapitulation. Die Spotmärkte bleiben gedämpft, während die Optionen eine deutlich höhere potenzielle Volatilität signalisieren.
Die führende Kryptowährung hielt sich bei $76.743,42 und verlor am Dienstag die $77.000-Marke. Die Handelsstimmung bleibt ängstlich, obwohl das offene Interesse sich etwas erholt hat. Die Trader sind bereit für bedeutendere Preisschwankungen, da die BTC-Niveaus auf geopolitische Unsicherheiten reagieren.

SpaceX will, dass das Pentagon viel mehr für den Starlink-Service auf US-Kamikazedrohnen zahlt, die im Krieg mit Iran eingesetzt werden.
Der Kampf begann, nachdem amerikanische Drohnen, die durch Elon Musks Satelliteninternet geleitet werden, in der Kampagne Ergebnisse erzielten, und SpaceX-Beamte den Verteidigungsbeamten mitteilten, dass das Militär etwa 5.000 Dollar pro Terminal für eine Serviceebene zahlte, die sie näher bei 25.000 Dollar ansetzten.
Die Drohnen im Mittelpunkt des Kampfes sind LUCAS-Suizid-Drohnen, ein günstigeres US-System, das darauf ausgelegt ist, über einem Zielgebiet zu warten, dann hineinzutauchen und zu explodieren. Sie werden oft mit Irans Shahed-Drohnen verglichen.