Author: Kryptonews

Éliane Radigue, a composer and electronic-music pioneer whose music paid meditative attention to the subtleties of sound, died on Monday at the age of 94. She was surrounded by family in Paris, according to Blank Forms, an organization that represents her electronic compositions for magnetic tape in partnership with the storied French enterprise Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Ina GRM). Radigue was born in Paris in 1932 and started working in the 1950s with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, who together developed the avant-garde movement known as musique concrète. Among their contributions was a stated prompt to consider sound as a…

Short sellers betting against (Micro)Strategy (MSTR) are facing estimated paper losses of more than $3.3 billion as the stock stages a sharp recovery alongside Bitcoin’s return to $69,000. The enterprise software firm, which effectively functions as a leveraged Bitcoin treasury under Chairman Michael Saylor, has seen its share price rebound to approximately $135, punishing bearish investors who accumulated positions during the company’s recent decline. Strategy tops the list of the 50 most-shorted companies with market capitalizations exceeding $25 billion. Bearish investors have sold short approximately 14% of the company’s float, totalling roughly $6 billion in short positions. This aggressive positioning…

UNI climbed roughly 15% over the past 24 hours, outperforming bitcoin’s 4.7% gain and ether’s 8.5% rise, as investors reacted to a Uniswap governance vote aimed at broadening the protocol’s revenue capture across multiple layer-2 networks.If approved, the proposal would expand the so-called fee switch to eight additional chains and replace the current pool-by-pool model with a tier-based v3 system that activates fees across all liquidity pools by default.Fee switch is the mechanism that redirects a portion of the platform trading fees to the protocol treasury itself from liquidity providers. This captured fee revenue is then used for UNI token…

Pepe coin price prediction is back in focus as investors weigh whether this meme-driven token still has room to grow through 2030. Built on Ethereum and structured as a deflationary meme coin, PEPE has a fixed supply of 420.69 trillion tokens, a design that fuels scarcity narratives and speculative momentum. Strong community support and viral appeal have driven explosive rallies before. Now the real question is simple. Should you hold, trade, or buy Pepe at current levels?This article focuses on PEPE’s market snapshot, price history, and performance, technical indicators like moving averages and Relative Strength Index (RSI), and key support…

Three major DeFi tokens — Morpho (MORPHO), Uniswap (UNI), and Jupiter (JUP) — rallied sharply over the past week after Wall Street firms Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, and ParaFi Capital struck landmark deals to acquire direct stakes in onchain financial infrastructure.The moves signal a structural shift, as traditional asset managers move beyond crypto exposure and begin acquiring governance and economic ownership in decentralized trading and lending rails.Morpho Surges after Apollo Agrees to Acquire 90 Million TokensMorpho posted the strongest rally after Apollo Global Management announced a cooperation agreement to acquire up to 90 million MORPHO tokens over four years. The…

AllUnity, a stablecoin platform backed by Deutsche Bank, has launched a new stablecoin denominated in Swiss francs (CHF).After introducing its euro-pegged EURAU stablecoin last year, AllUnity is rolling out CHFAU, a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the franc, the company said in an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on Thursday.Initially available to institutional and professional investors, CHFAU launches on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC-20 token, with plans to expand to additional networks later this year.CHFAU enters the market fully aligned with the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), as AllUnity secured an E-Money Institution (EMI) license from the German Federal Financial…

Many people around the world were cooped up at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but few had the same good fortune as Charlotte Meyer, who spent some of her unexpected downtime after a house move going through a folder of works on paper that her late grandfather had handed down to her. She shared her findings with the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, who confirmed that the 35 etchings are in fact by the Dutch Old Master. According to Omroep, the Netherlands Public Broadcasting network, the folder had been stored in a drawer in the family home in Zutphen, a town…

IntroductionThe recent waves in the cryptocurrency world have been significantly influenced by the high-profile activities of Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin. His decision to offload a substantial amount of his Ethereum holdings has generated considerable discussion among crypto enthusiasts and investors. This development raises concerns about the stability of Ethereum’s price, indicating potential volatility and market fluctuations that might follow.BackgroundVitalik Buterin holds a unique position in the cryptocurrency industry as one of the leading engineers behind Ethereum. Founded in 2015, Ethereum quickly emerged as a dynamic player, defining itself as a blockchain capable of running smart contracts—a feature that distinguished it…

Bitcoin came within touching distance of $70,000 on Wednesday before pulling back to around $68,300 in Thursday morning trading, a nearly 5% swing from the session high to the overnight low of $67,700. The move marks the strongest attempt to reclaim the $70,000 level since the Feb. 5 crash but stopped short of a clean breakout.The more interesting story was underneath. Altcoins outperformed across the board, with ether up 8.5%, solana gaining 6.9%, cardano surging 10.8%, and dogecoin adding 8.3%. Bitcoin’s 4.3% gain was among the smallest in the top 10.That kind of divergence typically signals risk appetite returning to…

Financial technology firm Stripe says blockchains may need to process up to 1 billion transactions per second to support the future of artificial intelligence agents. In an annual letter posted to X on Tuesday, Stripe CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison and co-founder John Collison gave a rundown of the firm’s performance over 2025, while also making some predictions for the near future. One of the key talking points was the adoption of AI agents and what widespread use could look like in the future. The duo argued that blockchain transaction activity will soon skyrocket as AI agents gradually become the primary conductors…