Raw News Items
21 itemsMay 3, 2026
- CointelegraphScore: 85
New York forces Uphold to pay $5M over fraudulent crypto investment scheme
New York AG Letitia James secured a $5 million settlement from Uphold for promoting CredEarn, a crypto savings product that misled users about its risks.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitcoin preps highest weekly close since January as BTC price nears $79K
Bitcoin canceled out the week's earlier losses to tease the highest BTC price weekly candle close since the end of January near $79,000.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Fake HSBC bank stablecoins hit the market showcasing dangerous new crypto scam wave
The most dangerous stablecoin scam probably looks nothing like what most people picture. There's no anonymous founder, no Discord full of bots, no promise of returns that defy basic economic logic. Instead, it has a professional ticker, institutional branding, and a name that tens of millions of peo...
- The BlockScore: 85
New York AG settles for $5 million with Uphold in first enforcement action against a crypto yield product promoter
The settlement is the first New York enforcement action to target a platform that promoted someone else's crypto yield product rather than its own issuer.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Wall Street’s $292 billion risk-on rotation just created a new bullish setup for Bitcoin
Global equity funds pulled in over $15 billion in the week through Apr. 1, then $23.47 billion, $31.26 billion, and finally $48.72 billion in the week through Apr. 22. Global money-market funds simultaneously bled a $173.24 billion outflow in the week through Apr. 15, the biggest single-week exit fr...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Mike Cagney’s second act: Turning blockchain into Wall Street’s new plumbing
Figure’s $1 billion month capped a years-long push to strip out middlemen from credit markets, bringing real-world assets, lending and even equities onchain.
- The BlockScore: 70
North Korea terrorism creditors move to seize Arbitrum-frozen Kelp DAO ETH ahead of DeFi United vote
The plaintiffs are not Kelp DAO hack victims but families holding three unsatisfied terrorism judgments against North Korea looking to collect on debts.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
A Tether-linked billionaire poured £22M into UK politics – Now new donation rules may close the door
Christopher Harborne is British-born, Cambridge-educated, and has lived in Thailand since 1996. He goes by the Thai name Chakrit Sakunkrit, holds Thai citizenship, and controls a reported 12% stake in Tether, the stablecoin issuer behind roughly $184 billion in circulating USDT. According to the Gua...
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Bitcoin logs best monthly performance in 12 months during April
Despite being the best-performing month in the past 12 months, it still came in slightly below its historical average, according to CoinGlass data.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Why XRP Ledger is becoming a $3.6B hot spot for tokenized energy commodities
XRPL currently holds about $3.6 billion in real-world assets, excluding stablecoins, split roughly between $1 billion in distributed assets and $2.6 billion in represented assets. That 71% tilt toward represented assets means XRPL's RWA growth is concentrated in a model in which blockchain serves as...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Iran’s largest crypto exchange founded by sons of family tied to supreme leaders: Reuters
Nobitex, Iran’s largest crypto exchange, was founded by brothers linked to the powerful Kharrazi family, which has ties to the country’s supreme leaders.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Strategy takes Bitcoin buying breather ahead of Q1 earnings report
Michael Saylor signaled a “pause” on BTC buying ahead of Tuesday’s earnings report, with Wall Street expecting a loss for Q1.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Americans distrust crypto, AI as industry super PACs flood midterms, poll finds
A new Politico poll finds most Americans distrust crypto and AI, raising questions about whether candidates backed by industry super PACs could face voter backlash.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
U.S. voters don't trust Trump administration to oversee crypto sector, CoinDesk poll finds
The new poll suggests the vast majority of people think that government officials should keep their own financial interests separate from the industry.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
XRP’s leverage has been flushed out while price holds – and the next move is now wide open
XRP's estimated leverage ratio has flattened at low levels, while price has held near $1.39, with a market cap of $85.7 billion and roughly $1.75 billion in daily volume. CryptoQuant analyst PelinayPA flagged that traders reduced speculative exposure, and the price didn't follow them down. When leve...
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Crypto is at bottom of U.S. voters' priorities heading into elections, CoinDesk survey shows
Americans had a generally unfavorable view of cryptocurrencies, the survey of 1,000 randomly selected registered voters found.
- DecryptScore: 40
North Korea's Crypto Hack Playbook Won't Work on Canton Network, Says Digital Asset CEO
Because Canton allows participants to implement guardrails, Digital Asset's Yuval Rooz isn't afraid of North Korean-linked hacking groups.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Policy Summit and other things at Consensus 2026: State of Crypto
We are kicking off the show in Miami this week. Here's what you should attend.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Crypto industry will be ‘just fine’ if CLARITY Act doesn’t pass: Chris Perkins
The efforts of the SEC and CFTC chairmen indicate that the crypto industry will not suffer without the CLARITY Act, according to crypto executive Chris Perkins.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Americans still prefer banks over crypto for financial access, CoinDesk's survey shows
New polling of voters suggests they aren't yet warming much to crypto, tending to see it as a negative force in the economy, and they have similar distrust of AI.
- DecryptScore: 20
You Installed Hermes. Now Make It Look Better Than ChatGPT or Claude
The terminal is fine. But if you actually want to live in your Hermes agent, here are the four best GUIs the community has built—and how to run them.