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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have had a very public falling out and meme coins tied to the figures have slumped as a result.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and alts have been volatile this week as investors fret about a slowing economy.

The AI firm said the order to retain deleted ChatGPT chats undermines user privacy as legal its battle escalates.

Meta’s Oversight Board ordered the removal of a Ronaldo deepfake ad, calling out the platform’s weak enforcement of anti-fraud rules.

Circle closed with an $18.4 billion valuation, well below Coinbase’s IPO but ahead of newer entrants like Fold and eToro.

Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs has proposed axing the ApeCoin DAO, with plans to create a new entity to oversee the Ethereum token.

Pornhub’s France block over age checks sparked a 1,000% ProtonVPN signup surge, highlighting pushback against ID laws.

Myriad Markets users are putting their money where their mouths are on the Musk/Trump schism, Ethereum’s price, the French Open, and beyond.

What happens when two of the most powerful people in the world have a messy split—and it all happens in public? Sweet, sweet calamity.

The wallet, launched by Trump’s meme coin business partners, has faced pushback from his sons, who plan to launch a similar product.

Bitcoin is back near $100K as major alts like Ethereum, Solana, and Dogecoin dive amid Trump and Musk drama—but Circle had a great day.

During an April interview, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino unloaded on competitor Circle and its big Wall Street plans—which culminated today, to massive success.

But social media observers say the miner rented extra hashpower.

“You don’t see that often,” Bitwise’s Juan Leon remarked.

The birth went just fine. But the meme coin? There were complications.

Yorkville America Digital, the same company through which the Trump Media & Technology Group and Crypto.com plan to debut  a suite of “America first” funds, will manage the Bitcoin ETF.

Decrypt’s Ryan S. Gladwin went to Token2049 in Dubai to ask the Crypto world to choose either “this” or “that” for some of the industries most popular coins, tokens and assets

Trading of CRCL shares was almost immediately halted on NYSE as the stock tripled the company’s IPO price.

Circle’s USDC stablecoin has a dominant presence across the crypto industry’s growing number of decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and other DeFi settings, the analysts say.

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NBA star Tristan Thompson spoke with Decrypt at Bitcoin 2025, dishing on assets and athletes alike as he navigates the crypto space.

The spat between Elon Musk and President Trump has spawned an unflattering meme and the Kill Big Beautiful Bill, or KBBB, Solana meme coin.

Crypto hackers siphoned $302M in May alone as DNS attacks and code vulnerabilities expose fatal flaws in DeFi security—and it’s getting worse.

Hong Kong may soon be able to trade crypto derivatives thanks to the securities regulator’s new plan.

Amazon’s AI expansion may boost jobs, but it risks concentrating innovation in Big Tech’s hands, an expert told Decrypt.

The Tokyo-listed company aims to land its RESILIENCE probe on the moon Friday, marking its second attempt to reach the lunar surface.

BidenCash served 117,000 users and trafficked over 15 million stolen credit cards and personal data before being taken down.

The new policies seek to lower operating costs, establish strict triggers for ETH sales, and enforce “Defipunk” privacy standards.

Reddit is accusing AI firm Anthropic of scraping content to train Claude, fueling a broader legal battle over the use of online data.

Running to lead California, Zoltan Istvan said the state needs Universal Basic Income and robots before jobs begin to vanish.