Donald Trump is scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday for a two-day state visit, the first by a sitting US president in eight years. The trip comes at a moment when the relationship between the world’s two largest economies could charitably be described as “complicated.” The agenda reads like a geopolitical greatest hits album:
Institutional blockchain is having a moment. Digital Asset Holdings, the company behind Canton Network, is reportedly in advanced talks to raise $300 million at a $2 billion valuation, with a16z crypto leading the round. The Canton Network token (CC) is trading near its pivot point of $0.152, caught between near-term resistance and a funding catalyst
US spot Bitcoin ETF products drew $622.75 million last week, their sixth straight week of net inflows. Summary SoSoValue data for the week of May 4 to 8 shows $622.75 million in total net inflows across US spot Bitcoin ETF products. BlackRock’s IBIT attracted $596 million during the week, bringing its cumulative total to $66.1
Masayoshi Son is apparently not done writing checks with a lot of zeros. The SoftBank founder and CEO is in active discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron about building a massive AI data center in France, with the price tag potentially climbing toward $100 billion. The talks were confirmed on May 11, 2026, and a
Bitcoin price is holding above $80,000 as prediction markets price a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire at near-certainty, and the question of whether that signal is real or a diplomatic mirage is now the single most important variable in the crypto market analysis. At the time of writing, BTC USD is trading at $80,600, up roughly +0.2% over
Ripple’s Prime President said that such dependable access to financing and balance sheet strength are ‘critical to institutional participants.’ The company behind XRP and RLUSD has announced its latest push toward increasing its presence in institutional crypto finance, which comes with a $200 million boost. Ripple said it has officially secured a substantial debt
MoonPay buys Dawn Labs and launches Dawn CLI, letting AI agents and traders turn natural‑language prompts into live prediction‑market strategies on Polymarket. Summary MoonPay has acquired AI trading startup Dawn Labs and launched Dawn CLI, an AI-powered assistant that turns natural language prompts into executable crypto trading strategies. The first live integration is with prediction
Ed Yardeni just moved the goalposts. Again. The veteran Wall Street strategist hiked his year-end 2026 S&P 500 target to 8,250, up from an already-bullish 7,700, in what amounts to a full-throated endorsement of the equity melt-up that refuses to quit. The index is currently hitting all-time highs, and the people paid to predict where
Bitcoin price has been pinned between $77,899 and $80,339 for weeks. Retail sees a dead chart. But historically, this kind of BTC consolidation is exactly when altcoin start moving and starts its season. The mechanism is called crypto capital rotation. The total crypto market is one pool of money. When Bitcoin surges, everyone piles in
Ripple’s prime-brokerage unit has secured up to $200 million in financing from Neuberger Berman to expand margin services for institutional investors. Summary Ripple Prime can draw up to $200 million based on institutional client borrowing demand across markets. The Neuberger facility supports margin trading across crypto, equities, fixed income, and foreign exchange. The deal follows