Author: James Wilson

Hester Peirce will leave the SEC in November 2026 to join Regent University School of Law as professor. Summary Regent University School of Law announced on May 19 that Hester Peirce will join as associate professor starting in November 2026. Peirce has led the SEC’s Crypto Task Force since January 2025 and served as commissioner since 2018, appointed by President Trump. She will teach securities regulation, financial markets, digital assets and public policy at Regent Law in Virginia Beach. Regent University School of Law announced on May 19 that Hester Peirce will join its faculty as associate professor starting in…

Bitcoin quantum exposure covers 1.92 million BTC, or 9.6% of total supply, Glassnode warned in a new report. Summary Glassnode classified 1.92 million BTC as structurally exposed to a quantum breakthrough because their output types reveal public keys by design. Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins represent about 1.1 million BTC of the structural risk, with another 620,000 BTC in other early Satoshi-era outputs. A broader 4.12 million BTC, or 20.6% of supply, is operationally exposed due to address reuse and key management practices at exchanges. Blockchain analytics firm Glassnode published a full analysis on May 20 classifying 1.92 million BTC, or 9.6%…

Raoul Pal says AI and crypto could add $100T to global GDP within a decade. Summary Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal forecasts crypto will grow from roughly $2.7 trillion today to $100 trillion within a decade, driven by AI convergence. Pal argues AI adoption is accelerating faster than the internet era, describing the current moment as equivalent to “Metcalfe’s law squared.” He calls crypto the ownership layer for the AI economy, saying individuals can “front-run Wall Street” by owning blockchain infrastructure now. Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal argued that AI and blockchain are converging into a single new infrastructure layer…

AI search startup Exa Labs has raised $250 million in a new funding round led by Bloomberg, pushing its post-money valuation to $2.2 billion. Summary Exa Labs raised $250 million in a new round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company’s valuation climbed to $2.2 billion from about $700 million last fall. Investors are betting that AI-native search infrastructure could disrupt traditional web search. Exa Labs has secured $250 million in fresh financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to Bloomberg, in a deal that values the AI search startup at $2.2 billion. The round marks a sharp jump from the roughly…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. WhiteBIT launches dedicated UK platform as exchange expands presence in regulated British market. Summary WhiteBIT launches whitebit.uk, expanding crypto trading and GBP services for users across the United Kingdom. WhiteBIT UK introduces spot trading, FPS deposits, lending, and auto-invest tools for UK crypto users. It expands into the UK with a regulated-focused platform offering retail and institutional crypto services. WhiteBIT, the largest European cryptocurrency exchange by traffic, has announced the launch of whitebit.uk, a dedicated platform designed to serve…

Plume has obtained a digital asset business license from the Bermuda Monetary Authority, making it the first regulated on-chain vault manager and giving the real-world asset protocol a formal place inside one of crypto’s best-known regulatory regimes. Summary Plume said it received a Bermuda digital asset business license. The protocol says the approval makes it the first regulated on-chain vault manager. The move places Plume alongside firms operating under Bermuda’s digital asset framework, including Circle, Coinbase, and Kraken. Plume announced the approval in an official post on X, where it said the Bermuda Monetary Authority had granted it a digital…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Hyperliquid highlights shift in crypto design as user experience overtakes token-first product narratives. Summary Hyperliquid shows crypto is shifting from token-driven hype to product-driven usage, dominating perpetual futures volume without incentives. Nika Finance builds on this shift with a mobile-first, non-custodial trading app combining spot, perps, staking, yield, and prediction markets. Nika reflects the new model where small teams ship fast, integrate proven infra like Hyperliquid, and compete on product rather than token narratives. For most of the last…

Six months ago, the first spot Dogecoin ETF started trading on a major US exchange. The flows have been tiny, the price has gone almost nowhere, and the whole experiment has played out in near-silence. That silence is the story. For an asset built on noise, behaving like a normal investment product is the most surprising thing Dogecoin has ever done. Summary Spot Dogecoin ETFs have remained active six months after launch, with combined assets under management reaching nearly $14.7 million despite muted inflows and limited price movement. Products from REX Osprey, 21Shares, and Grayscale have started giving institutional investors…

LayerZero Labs has released its incident report on the KelpDAO bridge attack, saying about $292 million in rsETH was stolen after attackers poisoned RPC infrastructure used by its verification network and forcing policy changes around single-signer configurations. Summary LayerZero said KelpDAO was exploited for about $290 million, or roughly 116,500 rsETH, in an attack isolated to rsETH’s single-DVN setup. The company said preliminary indicators point to North Korea-linked TraderTraitor and described the exploit as an infrastructure compromise rather than a protocol flaw. LayerZero said it will stop signing messages for applications using 1/1 DVN configurations and is pushing affected integrators…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Prop trading firms weigh building custom technology versus licensing ready-made infrastructure in 2026. Summary Prop trading firms now choose between building custom tech stacks or licensing white-label systems for faster market entry. Custom prop firm platforms offer control but require $500K+ and 6–12 months of development before launch. Licensed prop trading systems enable faster launch, lower risk, and built-in crypto-ready infrastructure for new operators. The proprietary trading industry has gone from a niche segment to a multibillion-dollar industry in…