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BreakingMay 4, 20263 min read

Bitcoin Grinds Into $80,000 Resistance as Volume Fades on the Push

Bitcoin pressed into $80,000 on Monday after hitting an inverse-flag target at $80,500, but declining volume on the grind higher is flashing a warning to bulls.

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BreakingMay 4, 20265 min read

Anthropic Nears $1.5B AI Venture With Blackstone, Goldman Sachs to Push Tools Into Private Equity

Anthropic is close to a $1.5B JV with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs to push AI tools into private-equity portfolio companies, per a WSJ report Monday.

Russia Tables Comprehensive Crypto Bill, Legalizing Licensed Trading and Foreign-Trade Settlement

Token Unlocks Worth $229M Hit HYPE, ENA, RED This Week as Tokenomist Flags Fresh Supply Risk

Breaking Crypto News

Bitcoin Grinds Into $80,000 Resistance as Volume Fades on the Push

Anthropic Nears $1.5B AI Venture With Blackstone, Goldman Sachs to Push Tools Into Private Equity

Russia Tables Comprehensive Crypto Bill, Legalizing Licensed Trading and Foreign-Trade Settlement

Token Unlocks Worth $229M Hit HYPE, ENA, RED This Week as Tokenomist Flags Fresh Supply Risk

CFTC Draws 1,500-Plus Comments on Prediction Market Rule, Industry Splits on Definition of an Event Contract

Jeddah Emerges as Saudi Shipping Pivot After Iran Conflict Reroutes Gulf Trade

Bitcoin Miners Pivot To AI Compute As Analysts Cut May 2026 BTC Target To $115K

Bitcoin Stalls Between $75K and $78K as Kabuki Floats $400,000 Cycle Target

Bitcoin Tests $80K Resistance as Cost-Basis Band Decides Bull-Market Reset

Chainlink Lands Multi-Billion-Dollar TradFi Deals as Analysts Float 'Bloomberg Terminal of DeFi' Tag

Dennis Porter Calls Bitcoin a National Security Tool on Wolf Of All Streets

Ethereum Validators Push Toward 200M Gas Limit, Tripling Network Capacity

XRP Ledger Hosts $3.6B in Tokenized Real-World Assets, With Energy Commodities Leading

Ripple's David Schwartz Denies Post-Departure 'Gag Order' Rumors

Tom Dunleavy Says DeFi's True Risk-Adjusted Yield Should Be 12.5% as Exploits Top $606M

Bitcoin Opens May Above $78,000 as Weekly Developments Point to a Shifting Cycle

Iran Conflict Escalates as Strait of Hormuz Closure Threatens Global Oil Supply

North Korea-Linked Hackers Could Drain $1.2B From Crypto in 2026, Cryptobriefing Projects

XRP margin Ratio Climbs As CryptoQuant Flags Setup For A Short-Squeeze Move

Bitcoin Holds 21-Week EMA Into Weekly Close as $78,000 Cap Stalls Push Toward $80,000

Phantom, Consensys Push Back on OCC's Stablecoin Yield Ban Under GENIUS Act

US Clears $8.6B Arms Package for Israel and Qatar, Raising Mideast Tensions

Bitcoin Holds Above $68K as Middle East Conflict Rattles Global Markets

Anthropic Moves Could Reset Google's Top-Model Odds By May, CryptoBriefing Reports

Bitcoin Holds Above $75,000 But Binance Spot Demand Fades, Analyst Warns

Dogecoin Whales Log 6-Month High In Activity As DOGE Prints Third Monthly Morning Star

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Matches Anthropic's Mythos on End-to-End Cyberattack Benchmark, AISI Says

Mantle Puts 30,000 ETH Aave Loan to Snapshot Vote as DeFi United War Chest Hits $314M

Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Jumps 5.92% to $57.6B as Traders Re-Lever Into BTC Derivatives

Israeli Strikes on Iran Threaten Oil Supply, Brent Could Test $150, CryptoBriefing Reports