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La pièce de confidentialité Zcash (ZEC) a franchi la barre des 560 $ et confirmé un breakout de drapeau haussier quotidien, les analystes pointant désormais vers 625 $ et 680 $ comme les prochaines cibles à la hausse.
ZEC Franchit une Résistance Ancrée Depuis Longtemps
Le token a dépassé à la fois une ligne de tendance descendante sur plusieurs mois et la résistance macro critique de 540 $, clôturant pour la première fois depuis le changement de marché plus large au-dessus du précédent plus bas près de 560 $.
L'analyste technique Ardi a posté sur X que ZEC est maintenant en consolidation dans une nouvelle fourchette, avec la région de 590 $ à 600 $ servant de prochain test évident pour les acheteurs.

XRP (XRP) exchange-traded funds have pulled in roughly $270 million more than rival Solana (SOL) products since launch, even as SOL has outperformed on price.
XRP Fund Inflows Top $1.39B
Market analyst Sam Daodu flagged the divergence in a breakdown published this week. XRP ETFs have absorbed $1.39 billion in cumulative inflows since their November 2025 debut, while Solana funds launched a month earlier have gathered $1.12 billion. The roughly $270 million gap has held even as XRP slipped well off its summer 2025 high.
SOL has logged stronger token performance across much of the year, yet ETF capital keeps flowing the other way.
XRP funds posted $81.6 million in April inflows and ran a 14-day positive streak that month.
Year-to-date inflows reached about $124 million by the end of April. Solana products took in $38.69 million across the same stretch, less than half the XRP figure, after monthly inflows tumbled from $419 million in November 2025.
May numbers show a tighter race. Solana has pulled in more than $99 million over 19 trading days, with XRP close behind at roughly $95 million.
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CLARITY Act Versus Alpenglow
Daodu argued the structural difference is regulatory, not technical. The CLARITY Act would set defined rules for XRP custody, collateral treatment, and balance-sheet exposure, a compliance template that pension funds and regulated asset managers need before deploying capital at scale.
Solana's catalyst is different. Alpenglow, a network upgrade targeting sub-150ms transaction finality, aims at throughput rather than legal clarity. Faster settlement matters for developers and traders, Daodu said, but it does not unlock the same tier of institutional money that statutory classification would.
Standard Chartered has projected $4 billion to $8 billion in XRP ETF inflows by year-end if the bill becomes law, several times the current cumulative total.
XRP Price Slide Continues
At the time of writing, XRP traded at $1.37, down 3.8% on the week, while SOL changed hands near $86 after a 6% weekly drop.
The Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act in a 15-9 vote last week, pushing XRP briefly above $1.50 before sellers reclaimed the $1.45 level. The token has since recorded five straight bearish sessions, with the $1.36 area now acting as resistance. XRP remains well below its 2025 highs, with traders watching whether the bill's path through the full Senate can deliver the breakout that ETF flows alone have not produced.
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Google a lancé Gemini 3.5 Flash lors de l'I/O, obtenant 55 sur l'Index d'Intelligence de l'Analyse Artificielle, à portée de main des rivaux d'Anthropic et OpenAI.
Tarification Flash de Gemini
Le modèle est désormais disponible en général via l'API Gemini, Google AI Studio, Antigravity, Vertex AI et le Mode IA dans la recherche. Il est tarifé à 1,50 $ par million de jetons d'entrée et 9,00 $ par million de jetons de sortie, ce qui représente environ un tiers de ce que facture GPT-5.5 à 5,00 $ et 30,00 $. Anthropic facture 5 $ et 25 $ par million de jetons d'entrée et de sortie pour Claude Opus 4.7, plaçant la nouvelle catégorie de Google à environ un tiers de ce tarif également.

Tether International has acquired SoftBank's entire stake in Twenty One Capital, ending the Japanese investor's role in the Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm.
Tether Consolidates XXI Control
The stablecoin issuer disclosed the transaction on Wednesday, with SoftBank's representatives resigning from the Twenty One board at closing under the company's shareholder agreement. Financial terms were not made public. Tether did not say what it paid.
Twenty One Capital, which trades on the NYSE under the ticker XXI, debuted in December 2025 through a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners.
The company launched with more than 43,500 BTC, valued at roughly $4 billion at the time, ranking as the third-largest corporate Bitcoin holder.
SoftBank had contributed about 10,500 BTC to the founding structure, with Tether and Bitfinex supplying the bulk of the reserves. The Japanese conglomerate's exit leaves Tether as the uncontested controlling shareholder.
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Ardoino Signals Next Phase
Paolo Ardoino, Tether's chief executive, credited SoftBank for lending early credibility but cast the buyout as a fresh start. He said the firm leaves behind a company with "a stronger foundation, a clearer mandate, and an ambitious path ahead."
The exit reshapes XXI's ownership and governance, removing one of three founding sponsors that had backed the venture led by Strike chief executive Jack Mallers.
Markets received the news cautiously.
XXI shares climbed 3.15% to $7.86 in pre-market trading on Wednesday, though the stock has shed 84% over the trailing year and now carries a market capitalization of $2.64 billion.
Bitcoin Strategy Beyond Treasury
The deal arrives weeks after Tether proposed folding Twenty One together with Strike and mining firm Elektron Energy under a single holding company.
The combination would bundle a Bitcoin treasury, a payments platform, and mining infrastructure into one publicly traded entity. Tether's full control could accelerate that pivot.
Twenty One has positioned itself as a counter to Michael Saylor's Strategy, tracking Bitcoin Per Share and Bitcoin Return Rate rather than standard earnings figures. The framing presents the company as a vehicle for direct Bitcoin exposure.
Twenty One's first months on public markets have been turbulent.
Shares plunged 19% on the December debut and have not recovered, with profitability remaining distant amid losses of $4.42 per share over the most recent twelve months.
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Security practitioners are pushing back against alarms that Anthropic's unreleased Mythos AI model would unleash a wave of hacking, calling the response overblown one month after launch.
Practitioners Dial Back Mythos Panic
The hacking risks tied to Mythos look smaller than governments first feared, Reuters reported Wednesday. At launch in Apr., Anthropic said the model had uncovered thousands of software flaws spanning every major operating system and browser.
Officials in several countries met with banks to gauge exposure, and the White House by early May was weighing rules on how labs release new models after safety testing.
Inside the cybersecurity field, the reaction has been calmer. "I think there's a really big communication gap between practitioners and policymakers," Isaac Evans, founder and CEO of software security firm Semgrep, told Reuters. The model is "a real technical advance," he added, though the public response "is not substantiated by what we actually know."
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Experts See Measured Risk
The bigger problem is not finding bugs but triaging them. One vulnerability researcher with early access said AI has surfaced more flaws than teams can handle for months, with validation and patching the real bottleneck.
Mythos lowers the barrier to entry because it produces results from weaker prompts than earlier models required.
Anthony Grieco, senior vice president and chief security and trust officer at Cisco, pointed to faster code scanning and fewer false positives, helping defenders focus on the most pressing risks. Mythos also carries fewer guardrails than earlier releases.
Cynthia Kaiser, a former senior FBI cybersecurity official now at security firm Halcyon, said most attacks still do not depend on AI. "Our adversaries have gotten really good without AI," she said, noting that ransomware crews are now hitting victims in under an hour.
Project Glasswing Background
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing on Apr. 7, giving select organizations access to the Claude Mythos Preview for defensive cybersecurity work, with partners including Apple, Microsoft, Google, AWS and CrowdStrike. The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk in March, even as the NSA reportedly kept using Mythos Preview. The White House in late Apr. rejected a plan to widen the partner list from roughly 50 firms to about 120.
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Les flux de baleines XRP (XRP) ont fortement ralenti depuis début mai, même si les traders d'options se positionnent pour un rebond vers la zone des 1,40 $.
Le flux des baleines XRP refroidit fortement
Le token se consolide dans une bande étroite de 1,36 $ à 1,40 $ alors que les marchés crypto plus larges absorbent une vague de ventes. Les données de CryptoQuant montrent que le flux de baleines a chuté à environ 4 millions d'XRP par jour, en baisse de plus de la moitié par rapport au pic quotidien de 9 à 13 millions observé début mai.
Ce rythme plus frais ramène l'accumulation des baleines à des niveaux de mars.
Ce changement indique une position plus prudente parmi les gros détenteurs plutôt qu'une distribution active.

Bitcoin (BTC) edged about 1% higher on Wednesday to trade near $77,500, a tentative rebound after a brutal stretch that pushed the largest cryptocurrency to two-week lows.
Bitcoin Price Action Today
The recovery follows a 4.61% weekly drop, with Bitcoin opening Wednesday at $76,757 before climbing past $77,400 by mid-morning Eastern time. Investors are watching for any sign of de-escalation in the U.S. and Iran standoff.
Bitcoin's weekly candle opened near $81,010 and slid steadily to a low close to $75,800 before stabilizing.
The 200-day moving average at roughly $82,228 has now rejected five separate attempts this month.
The immediate hurdle sits at $77,400, with a more meaningful test at $78,400.
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Macro Pressure Mounts
The chart looks bad, but the macro backdrop looks worse. Thirty-year U.S. Treasury yields hit 5.198% this week, a level last seen in 2007, and the 10-year touched 4.687%.
Higher yields pull capital toward fixed income and away from risk assets, leaving Bitcoin to compete with a 5.2% risk-free rate while Brent crude trades above $110 and keeps inflation in the picture.
Futures markets now price in a 44% chance of a Fed rate hike by December, a dramatic flip from earlier consensus on cuts.
K33 Research said Tuesday that Bitcoin's 30-day average funding rate has stayed negative for 81 consecutive days, the longest such stretch on record. Glassnode analysts pointed earlier this month to the Active Realized Price near $85,200 as the next structural threshold above the market.
A daily close above $80,000, paired with positive spot ETF flows and Brent below $108, would mark a full regime change.
BTC Recent Swings
Bitcoin set an all-time high of $126,198 on Oct. 6, 2025, then began an extended slide that wiped out roughly 40% of that peak by spring.
Spot ETF demand briefly drove a recovery to $81,800 in early May before sellers reasserted control near the 200-day moving average.
Through April and into May, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs continued to absorb supply at multiples of daily issuance, with BlackRock's IBIT and Fidelity's FBTC leading flows. That structural bid has so far failed to overpower the macro headwinds dragging price toward the $74,000 to $75,000 structural support zone.
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Martti Malmi, an early Bitcoin (BTC) developer who coded alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, has shipped a new version of Nostr VPN, a decentralized mesh network that swaps corporate servers for cryptographic keys.
Mesh Architecture Replaces Central Servers
Malmi announced the update on May 19, calling the tool a Tailscale-style mesh that runs on public keys rather than email accounts or third-party logins.
The release adds native multiplatform interfaces, improved network management, and Nostr-based multihop routing through the FIPS protocol.
The architecture peels out the central server that defines commercial VPNs like NordVPN or ProtonVPN.
Devices connect directly through a peer-to-peer mesh, with Nostr relays handling discovery and signaling.
WireGuard, by way of boringtun, carries the actual encrypted traffic between nodes. Each user identity is a cryptographic key pair, the same primitive that secures Bitcoin transactions.
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Why The Trust Model Matters
The structural flaw in conventional VPNs is concentration. All traffic routes through company-owned servers, leaving users to trust providers not to log, analyze, or hand data to authorities. Several services marketed as no-log have produced records under legal pressure.
Sirius, the alias Malmi used in early Bitcoin circles, received the first peer-to-peer Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi and maintained bitcoin.org for years.
Nostr VPN reassigns the trusted-operator role to the user. A home server, a rented VPS, or any controlled machine can serve as the exit node, meaning no third party holds the logs that could otherwise be subpoenaed.
His philosophy maps cleanly onto the new project, which strips intermediaries from privacy infrastructure the way Bitcoin stripped them from payments.
Privacy Push Lands Amid Surveillance Crackdown
The release lands as governments across multiple jurisdictions tighten controls over VPN usage and expand surveillance powers.
Bitcoin-aligned developers have argued for years that financial privacy and network privacy cannot be cleanly separated.
Malmi originally seeded the project in Mar. 2026, writing on X that Tailscale's account requirement pushed him to build an alternative.
The codebase shipped 11 releases in seven days that month, adding Windows support, LAN pairing, and an Android sidecar.
Two months later, the project has expanded into a Rust workspace with mobile and desktop shells, exit-node leak protection turned on by default, and per-network mesh identities. The latest update also folds in multihop routing to handle cases where direct NAT traversal fails.
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Bitget rolled out a new market integrity framework on Tuesday designed to tighten oversight of listed tokens, project teams and market makers.
Bitget Surveillance Rules
The exchange said the framework strengthens post-listing surveillance and speeds up action against abnormal trading or suspicious wallet activity.
Newly listed projects remain bound by contracts that prohibit price manipulation, artificial volatility and abusive liquidity practices.
When violations surface, the platform can apply Special Treatment labels, post high-risk warnings or restrict token visibility. It may also suspend deposits and withdrawals, freeze suspected accounts, pause trading pairs, revoke market-maker status or delist the asset.
Spot trading risk analysis now relies on a structured review model. The system scores tokens across on-chain activity, technical fundamentals, community sentiment and liquidity, building a traceable record for ongoing monitoring.
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Industry Coordination Push
The model flags contract-level concerns, high holder concentration, weak liquidity, order-book imbalance and sudden drops in asset health. Promotional activity may be paused for tokens under review if continued marketing could expose users to greater risk.
Following internal investigations, Bitget said suspected insider dumping, wash trading or market-maker misconduct may be reported to regulators in jurisdictions where it operates.
The exchange added that the framework supports broader coordination among major venues to share verified market-abuse cases. Bitget has expanded its compliance footprint over the past year, securing registrations in several jurisdictions and adding senior compliance hires as global exchanges face tighter scrutiny from regulators.
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Bankr, an AI-powered crypto trading assistant, disabled transactions on Tuesday after an attacker accessed 14 user wallets and drained roughly $150,000.
Bankr Wallet Breach Details
The team paused operations to investigate the breach and pledged to reimburse affected users. Bankr lets people instruct an AI to trade, transfer, and launch tokens through plain language posts on X.
Each X handle that interacts with the bot gets an auto-generated wallet on the Base network. That mechanism has now produced its second public incident this year.
Bankr urged victims to abandon any compromised wallet immediately, since the attacker may already hold the seed phrase. Users were told to revoke approvals, generate a fresh wallet on a clean device, and scan their machines for malware.
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SlowMist Flags Social Engineering
SlowMist founder Yu Xian described the incident as a social engineering exploit aimed at the trust layer between automated agents. He pointed to interactions between Grok and Bankrbot that allowed unauthorized transaction signing.
Three attacker addresses linked to the breach now hold around $440,000 in crypto, SlowMist said.
The earlier May 4 incident drained roughly $175,000 worth of DRB (DRB) tokens from a Bankr-managed wallet tied to Grok, xAI's chatbot. An attacker had sent a Morse code message that Grok decoded and posted, tagging Bankrbot, which then executed the transfer.
2026 Crypto Hack Losses Mount
Apr. was the worst month for crypto security in recent memory, with losses topping $630 million. Drift Protocol lost $285 million on Apr. 1 in a Solana-based exploit linked to North Korean actors, and Kelp DAO was drained of $292 million on Apr. 18 through its LayerZero bridge.
Bad actors stole more than $168 million in the first quarter alone, with Verus Protocol's Ethereum bridge hit on Monday. The Bankr breach extends that streak into mid-May and shifts attention to a new attack surface, agentic systems with on-chain authority.
The pattern over recent months has been consistent. Drift fell to pre-signed durable nonce transactions after months of social engineering, Kelp's bridge collapsed because of a single-verifier setup, and Bankr is now grappling with prompt injection in its AI layer. Each case targeted operational trust rather than smart contract code.
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Le gestionnaire d'actifs Bitwise a qualifié Hyperliquid (HYPE) de l'un des tokens les plus mal évalués du crypto, même après un rallye de 77 % cette année.
Le mémo de Hougan suscite le débat
Le directeur des investissements de Bitwise, Matt Hougan, a publié cette note haussière mardi. Il a soutenu que les traders évaluent encore la plateforme comme un lieu de dérivés restreint.
Hougan a estimé qu'Hyperliquid génère entre 800 millions et 1 milliard de dollars de revenus annualisés, et il a indiqué que le token se négocie près de 10 à 14 fois son flux de rachat, avec 99 % des frais de la plateforme dirigés vers des rachats de HYPE.

Le PDG de Google, Sundar Pichai, a ouvert I/O 2026 en déclarant une "ère agentique de Gemini", dévoilant un agent IA personnel 24/7, un nouveau modèle phare et un système multimodal.
Pichai dévoile Spark, Gemini 3.5 Flash
Le PDG d'Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, a déclaré aux développeurs à Mountain View mardi que Google traite plus de 3,2 quadrillions de tokens par mois sur ses surfaces, un bond sept fois plus important par rapport à l'année dernière.
La keynote était centrée sur Gemini Spark, un agent polyvalent qui fonctionne sur des machines virtuelles dédiées dans Google Cloud et agit au nom de l'utilisateur sans avoir à garder un ordinateur portable ouvert.

Wintermute flagged Ethereum (ETH) as the "wrong asset for this macro" on Tuesday after a 10.2% weekly drop pushed the ETH/Bitcoin (BTC) ratio to a 10-month low of 0.0275.
Wintermute Posts 10.2% ETH Slide
The market maker posted the warning on X, citing underperformance across spot and derivatives along with softer funding and elevated relative implied volatility. ETH traded near $2,119 on May 20, leaving it trailing Bitcoin and several large-cap peers.
The ETH/BTC ratio has not printed this low since July 2025.
Spot Ether ETFs recorded $255 million in outflows last week, the largest weekly withdrawal since late January.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs also registered net outflows over the same stretch, a sign the pressure runs broader than one asset.
Reserves on Binance climbed from 3.4 million ETH to nearly 3.8 million ETH through May. Total exchange reserves rose from 14.5 million to 14.94 million ETH, hinting at more sell-side liquidity on standby.
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Whales Accumulate As Taker Ratio Sinks
Not every signal leans bearish. Santiment data shows wallets holding 1 million to 10 million ETH lifted their stack from 6.15 million to 6.54 million ETH between May 1 and May 20, adding roughly 390,000 coins.
Mid-tier holders went the other way.
Wallets in the 10,000 to 100,000 ETH band cut positions from 27.77 million to 27.27 million ETH over the same window, a split that suggests supply is rotating toward deeper-pocketed buyers while short-term sellers set the tape.
CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost highlighted that the weekly Taker Buy Sell Ratio on Binance fell to 0.91, the lowest reading since September 2023. A value under 1 means sellers dominate order flow, a condition that can precede a short squeeze when positioning gets too crowded.
ETH Price History And Range
Ethereum has spent most of the year inside a wide $1,500 to $4,000 range and has corrected nearly 9% over the past seven days alone. The asset has lost ground against Bitcoin for much of the cycle, with the ETH/BTC ratio sliding steadily from the spring through Tuesday's low.
Long-dated U.S. Treasury yields above 5% have added to the pressure, lifting the discount rate on assets whose bull case rests on future cash flows. Federal Reserve commentary in the weeks ahead may decide which side breaks first.
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Solana (SOL) est tombé dans une zone baissière cette semaine après avoir échoué à se maintenir au-dessus de 92 $, les taureaux défendant maintenant un sol mince près de 84 $.
Le prix de SOL glisse en dessous de la ligne de tendance
Le token a chuté en dessous de 90 $ et 88 $ face au dollar, imprimant un plus bas de session à 83,35 $ avant de consolider ses pertes. SOL s'échangeait près de 84,27 $ mardi, en baisse d'environ 10,9 % au cours des sept derniers jours.
Une ligne de tendance baissière avec une résistance à 85 $ s'est formée sur le graphique horaire SOL/USD.
Le token est en dessous de la moyenne mobile simple à 100 heures, et le MACD horaire continue de prendre de l'ampleur en territoire baissier tandis que le RSI horaire reste en dessous de la ligne des 50.

Ethereum (ETH) reclaimed the $2,100 zone in a tentative recovery wave, though traders warn the bounce remains fragile below $2,150 resistance.
ETH Recovery Meets Resistance
The second-largest cryptocurrency climbed from a $2,075 swing low after forming a base above the $2,050 support zone, mirroring a similar stabilization attempt in Bitcoin.
Bulls drove price toward $2,150 before sellers stepped back in.
The pair now trades below $2,120 and the 100-hourly simple moving average, with a bearish trend line capping further gains on the hourly ETH/USD chart.
Price has cleared the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of the drop from the $2,197 swing high to the $2,075 low.
The 61.8% retracement near $2,150 marks the next major hurdle. A decisive break above $2,200 would open the path toward $2,220 and potentially $2,300 in the near term.
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Bearish Momentum Signals Strengthen
Technical indicators continue to lean against the bulls. The hourly MACD is gaining ground in bearish territory, while the hourly RSI sits below the 50 line.
Independent analysis noted ETH was trading near $2,108 after losing a rising support line on the 4-day chart.
The breakdown puts sellers back in control on shorter timeframes.
Other analysts pointed to a similar setup, with ETH trading below both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages near $2,115. A weekly close above $2,125 would open the door to $2,160, while a loss of $2,108 sets up a retest of $2,080.
ETH Price Context This Month
A failure to clear $2,150 would likely send Ethereum back toward initial support at $2,085, then $2,075. A clean break below could push price toward $2,020 and the psychological $2,000 mark, with major support at $1,940.
The current consolidation follows a turbulent stretch for the asset. After rebounding from $1,837 in late February, ETH traded around $2,200 through March before correcting to the $2,040 to $2,060 range by early Apr. The token then surged to a monthly high of $2,450 in mid-April, only to shed 8% by month-end after a $500 million deleveraging event broke the ascending trendline. ETH closed April down 22.8% year-to-date.
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AI startup Viktor has raised $75 million to develop a virtual coworker that operates inside Slack and Microsoft Teams.
The company was founded by former Meta engineers and says it has reached a $15 million annual revenue run rate in approximately 10 weeks, according to a report.
What Viktor Builds
Viktor's product is an AI agent embedded directly in workplace messaging platforms. It handles tasks assigned through normal chat channels without requiring users to switch to a separate app. The company describes the agent as a "virtual coworker" rather than a chatbot or copilot.
Viktor did not disclose its full investor list. The lead investor remains undisclosed as well.
The $75 million figure represents the total raised in the current round.
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Revenue Speed Draws Attention
A $15 million annual run rate in 10 weeks is an unusually fast commercial ramp for an enterprise software startup. It places Viktor well above the typical early traction benchmarks that trigger Series A-scale funding. The company's founders did not specify which enterprise clients are generating that revenue.
The raise arrives as AI agent tooling becomes one of the most competitive categories in venture-backed software. Established players including Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft have all announced native agent features in the past six months.
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Background
The market for AI workplace agents has grown rapidly since early 2025. Enterprise buyers have shifted from evaluating AI tools to actively deploying them in production. That shift created demand for lightweight integrations that avoid replacing existing workflows. Viktor's Slack and Teams approach targets that preference directly.
The founding team's Meta background lends credibility in a space crowded with less experienced entrants. Several AI agent startups have raised nine-figure rounds in 2026, including Armada at $230 million and the separate raise by enterprise AI platform Unframe, which closed a $50 million Series B this month.
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Les utilisateurs touchés par l'exploit du Drift Protocol de 285 millions de dollars pourraient théoriquement attendre entre 737,5 ans et 983,3 ans pour être entièrement remboursés si le protocole continue de générer des revenus au rythme actuel post-exploit, selon une nouvelle analyse.
Que s'est-il passé
La recherche, publiée par Cryptonary mardi, soutient que le cadre de récupération très médiatisé de Drift, annoncé avec le soutien de Tether (USDT), repose presque entièrement sur une histoire de retournement futur qui pourrait s'avérer difficile à réaliser après l'un des plus grands exploits de l'histoire de Solana (SOL).

Bitcoin (BTC) may be starting to enter the same financial machinery that powers mortgages, securities-backed lending and structured credit markets, according to crypto lender Ledn, which now predicts Bitcoin-backed consumer loans could grow into a $1 trillion industry over the next decade as institutional finance becomes more comfortable treating BTC as collateral rather than speculation.
The forecast follows what Ledn described as the first investment-grade Bitcoin-collateralized asset-backed security deal earlier this year, a $200 million issuance that received a BBB- rating from S&P Global.
According to Ledn, the bonds are now trading approximately 5% tighter in secondary markets than at issuance, signaling growing institutional comfort with Bitcoin-backed credit structures.
“That transition is already underway,” Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, Ledn’s co-founder and CSO, told Yellow.com when asked whether Bitcoin is evolving from a speculative asset into prime financial collateral.
“Bitcoin is held by tens of millions of people, nearly 200 public companies, and more than a dozen governments,” Di Bartolomeo said. “S&P rated Ledn’s Bitcoin-backed ABS investment grade earlier this year, and those bonds are now trading roughly 5 percent tighter than at issuance.”
Ledn Says Trust, Not Technology, Is Holding Bitcoin Lending Back
The company’s projection is built around what it calls a massive “demand-to-adoption gap.”
A new survey commissioned by Ledn and conducted by Protocol Theory found that 88% of crypto holders in the United States and Australia would consider borrowing against their digital assets, while only 14% currently do.
Ledn argues the difference represents a large untapped market that could eventually scale similarly to securities-backed lending or mortgage markets in traditional finance.
The firm believes the primary obstacle is no longer access or technical infrastructure, but trust.
“It’s mostly trust, and the trust deficit has a specific origin,” Di Bartolomeo said.
“Celsius, BlockFi, and now the DeFi blowups taught a generation of crypto holders that the wrong platform can lose your Bitcoin permanently.”
The crypto lending sector suffered catastrophic collapses during the 2022 market downturn, wiping out billions in customer assets and severely damaging confidence in centralized crypto lenders.
More recent decentralized finance exploits have further reinforced those fears.
“The Kelp DAO exploit last month is a fresh reminder of why people are nervous,” Di Bartolomeo said. “Every event like that resets the trust clock for the entire decentralized finance lending protocol category.”
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Bitcoin Credit Markets Begin Looking More Like Traditional Finance
Ledn’s broader argument is that Bitcoin lending is gradually converging with traditional collateralized finance rather than replacing it.
The company compares Bitcoin-backed borrowing to long-established wealth-management practices where investors borrow against stocks, real estate or gold instead of liquidating long-term holdings.
The survey found 72% of respondents agreed crypto-backed loans provide convenient liquidity without forcing investors to sell their Bitcoin positions.
Di Bartolomeo argued the institutionalization of Bitcoin-backed securitization could become the mechanism that eventually scales the market into the hundreds of billions.
“The market reaches that size when the rest of the financial system has the tools to underwrite Bitcoin on standard terms, at scale, through familiar structures,” he said.
Ledn believes that operational maturity, rather than speculative enthusiasm, will determine whether Bitcoin-backed lending reaches institutional scale.
The company said respondents ranked risk management practices, reputation, clarity of terms and operational track record above rates or product features when choosing lending platforms.
Institutional Acceptance Could Redefine Bitcoin’s Financial Role
The emergence of investment-grade Bitcoin-backed credit products may also reshape how traditional finance views Bitcoin itself.
While Bitcoin has historically been framed primarily as a store of value or speculative technology asset, collateralization introduces a more practical institutional use case.
“Bitcoin remains digital gold,” Di Bartolomeo said. “Collateralization adds a function on top.”
That distinction matters because global collateral markets underpin much of modern finance, from mortgages and securities-backed loans to repo markets and structured credit.
If Bitcoin increasingly enters those systems as recognized collateral, its role inside the financial sector could expand far beyond exchange trading or treasury reserves.
Ledn’s forecast remains highly ambitious relative to today’s market size. Galaxy Research estimated the entire crypto lending market across decentralized finance, centralized lenders and institutional platforms reached roughly $73.6 billion at its previous peak in 2025.
Yet, Ledn argues the broader trajectory is becoming increasingly visible as institutional infrastructure matures around Bitcoin credit markets.
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XRP (XRP) has slipped into a so-called volatility vacuum near $1.37 as on-chain activity and derivatives leverage collapse to multi-month lows.
CryptoQuant Flags Speculative Exhaustion
Analyst CryptoOnChain at on-chain data firm CryptoQuant argues that XRP has entered a classic volatility vacuum after price slipped from $1.58 on May 14 to roughly $1.38 during the broader crypto pullback.
Daily transactions on the XRP Ledger have dropped 20% over three months.
The count now sits near 1.78 million, signaling cooler organic usage on the network.
Derivatives data tells a parallel story. Funding rates on Binance turned negative at -0.003. Total liquidations have collapsed roughly 99% to a few thousand dollars per day, down from levels that previously ran into the millions.
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Leverage Ratio Reveals Reset
Binance's Estimated Leverage Ratio for XRP sits at 0.173, well below the six-month peak of 0.260. The reading points to a structurally de-risked market rather than aggressive short positioning.
Negative funding paired with low leverage carries a different meaning than negative funding paired with crowded shorts, the firm noted.
There is no squeeze setup, and no overcrowded longs waiting to be unwound either.
CryptoQuant said the XRP market has completely exhausted its speculative fuel. Periods of such extreme stagnation, the firm added, have historically preceded sharp directional moves once a macro or fundamental catalyst arrives.
XRP Holds $1.30 Range Floor
XRP traded near $1.36 on Tuesday, with 24-hour volume around $1.25 billion. The token has spent roughly 60% of 2026 trapped between $1.30 and $1.50, and every rally attempt has stalled near the descending 100-day moving average.
The $1.30 floor has held since February. A daily close below that level would open the path toward $1.13, last printed in November 2024, while reclaiming $1.45 to $1.50 would be needed to revive momentum.
XRP has remained under pressure since the February capitulation that dragged price toward $1.15. The token reached $1.58 on May 14 after the Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act, but profit-taking and a wider risk-off tone have since erased those gains and pulled XRP back into the lower half of its long-running range.
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Wallets holding at least 100 Bitcoin (BTC) climbed to 20,229 this week, marking an 11.2% jump from a year ago even as price slipped to $76,000.
Santiment Flags Whale Accumulation
The on-chain analytics firm Santiment reported the figure on Monday, noting that the cohort has expanded by 2,038 wallets since the same week in 2025.
Each address in the group now holds roughly $7.7 million or more, placing it firmly in the territory of funds, custodians and long-term holders rather than retail traders.
The growth pattern held through a year of sharp drawdowns, ETF outflows and forced liquidations.
Bitcoin briefly touched $76,000 earlier this week, roughly 40% below its October 2025 all-time high near $126,100.
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Retail Sentiment Versus Whale Conviction
Bearish chatter on social platforms has now outpaced bullish posts for the first time since Apr. 21, with smaller traders bracing for further downside.
Crypto markets often run against the prevailing mood, and the firm argued that the surge in negative chatter could improve the odds of a near-term rebound. CryptoQuant data adds nuance to the picture.
Coinbase premium has stayed negative since late April, suggesting US institutional demand has cooled even as wallet counts climb.
Dessislava Ianeva, an analyst at Nexo Dispatch, told reporters the CLARITY Act could shape the next leg.
She pointed to Polymarket pricing the bill's 2026 passage at 68%, with a full Senate vote expected as the next major catalyst rather than the committee markup. Ianeva noted that the GENIUS Act produced a 7.5% Bitcoin rally over two weeks last March before fully retracing, a precedent she said may apply to CLARITY.
Bitcoin Price Recap
Bitcoin peaked near $126,000 in late 2025 before slipping to $60,000 in February, then recovered to $82,000 alongside the CLARITY Act committee vote on May 14. It has since rolled back to roughly $76,000 to $77,000 as rising bond yields and oil prices pulled risk appetite lower.
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