Crypto Industry News & Market Trends

EUR/USD: Sentiment-led rally eyes 1.1825 – Scotiabank

Finance　　EUR/USD: Sentiment-led rally eyes 1.1825 – Scotiabank　　Scotiabank strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret report the Euro (EUR) is modestly higher, extending a sentiment-driven recovery despite softer expectations for European Central Bank (ECB) tightening. Stronger German factory orders and resilient Eurozone retail sales have helped, but they stress that broader risk sentiment is the main driver. Technically, EUR/USD is bullish, with key support in the mid-1.16s and upside focus on 1.1825.　　Bullish bias with clear upside targets　　“The EUR is entering Thursdays NA session with a modest 0.2% gain as it seeks to extend its recent sentiment-driven recovery.”　　“The outlook for relative central bank policy has softened somewhat, with a notable moderation in expectations for ECB tightening with June now priced for 19bpts and September just shy of 50bpts.”　　“The erosion of fundamental support has been offset by the improvement in the broader markets mood, and sentiment remains the dominant driver in the current environment.”　　“The next major upside target is the 61.8% Fibo at 1.1825, and a break would pave the way for a full retracement and a push back above 1.20.”　　“We look to a near-term range bound between 1.1720 and 1.1820.”

05-08Industry

Raoul Pal Stays Bullish on Crypto Through 2026

Crypto　　Raoul Pal Stays Bullish on Crypto Through 2026Pal remains bullish on crypto through 2026 and into 2027 with SUI, TAO, and ZCash as top picks.Bitcoin could touch the high 90s this year, but Pal warns the short term will be bumpy and choppy.A failure to resolve the Iran conflict and oil hitting $200 is Pals single biggest market risk.　　When asked at a recent event where crypto markets are heading by the end of 2026, veteran macro investor Raoul Pal did not hesitate. He is still bullish, and his conviction has not changed.　　“I still feel it will continue positively till the end of 2026, maybe 2027,” Pal said.　　Bitcoin is trading around $81,500 at press time, the broader crypto market cap is sitting at $2.7 trillion, and the Fear and Greed Index is at a neutral 51.　　The Coins Pal Is Watching in 2026　　When pressed on which specific assets he believes will perform well this cycle, Pal named three that stood out.　　“Im still focused on SUI. ZCash is interesting. TAO is interesting. I still think ETH and SOL should do super well as well,” he added.　　Bullish Into Year End, With One Major Caveat　　In a separate interview, Pal elaborated on the broader outlook. He

05-08Industry

If The Bitcoin Price Crosses $400,000, Will The Solana Price Reach $1,500?

Bitcoin　　If The Bitcoin Price Crosses $400,000, Will The Solana Price Reach $1,500？　　A crypto analyst has projected explosive price targets for both the Bitcoin price and the Solana price. According to the forecast, if Bitcoin surpasses $400,000, Solana could be trading around $1,500 at the same time. The basis of this projection rests on the assumption that altcoins could mirror BTCs explosive rally to reach their respective all-time high targets. The analyst has also urged investors and traders to buy more Bitcoin before this surge, underscoring his strong belief that the cryptocurrency could soon enter a fresh bull market.　　Analyst Sees Bitcoin Price At $400,000 And Solana Price At $1,500　　The Bitcoin price is currently sitting at above $80,000. However, market analyst Crypto Fergani predicts that the flagship cryptocurrency could eventually reach an ambitious price target of $400,000.　　According to the analyst, Bitcoin reaching such a high level could mean the Solana price may rise to $1,500 around the same period. He also projected that other altcoins such as Ethereum, XRP, Binance Coin, and Dogecoin could experience a similar price explosion alongside Solana.　　Notably, the analyst has shared a timeline for his bullish outlook. He believes that one year from now, Bitcoin could reach explosive

05-08Industry

Google Found a Way to Make Local AI Up to 3x Faster—No New Hardware Required

The approach is called speculative decoding, and it‘s been around as a concept for years. Google researchers published the foundational paper back in 2022. The idea didn’t go mainstream until now because it required the right architecture to make it work at scale.　　Heres the short version of how it works. Instead of making the big, powerful model do all the work alone, you pair it with a tiny “drafter” model. The drafter is fast and cheap—it predicts several tokens at once in less time than the main model would take to produce just one. Then the big model checks all of those guesses in a single pass. If the guesses are right, then you get the whole sequence for the price of one forward pass.　　According to Google, “if the target model agrees with the draft, it accepts the entire sequence in a single forward pass—and even generates an additional token of its own in the process.”　　Nothing is sacrificed: The large model—Gemma 4‘s 31B dense version, for example—still verifies every token, and the output quality is identical. You’re just exploiting idle compute power that was sitting unused during the slow parts.　　Google says the drafter models share the target model‘s KV cache—a

05-08Industry

XRP Price Prediction: JPMorgan And Mastercard Settle On XRPL In Five Seconds As ETF Inflows Hit $13M

The SMC chart shows a symmetrical triangle forming since the February low at $1.1181, both boundaries converging at current price.　　The 0.382 FVG sits at $1.4320, just above where price is trading now, and four more FVG zones are stacked above it running through $1.6259, $1.6975, $1.7640, and the large FVG between $1.8800 and $1.9500. Each zone represents a price inefficiency from the January to February sell-off that price tends to fill on recovery.　　The CMF at negative $0.17 is the warning. Capital is still leaving despite the fundamental catalyst landing today. Price needs CMF to turn toward zero before the triangle resolves upward with conviction.　　XRP Key levels for May 8Triangle lower boundary: $1.3500Current price: $1.42010.382 FVG: $1.43200.5 level: $1.52900.618 FVG: $1.62590.786 level: $1.7640Large FVG zone: $1.8800 to $1.9500　　What The JPMorgan Settlement Actually Proved？　　Ondo Finance processed an OUSG tokenized Treasury redemption on the XRP Ledger. Mastercard‘s Multi-Token Network routed the instructions to JPMorgan’s Kinexys platform. JPMorgan then delivered US dollars to Ripples Singapore bank account. The whole sequence took under five seconds outside traditional banking hours, a settlement that typically takes one to three business days through correspondent banks.　　JPMorgans Kinexys has processed over $3 trillion in cumulative transactions. The DTCC announced its

05-08Industry

Quantum Also Adds Proof-of-Ownership Headaches

The push comes after researchers at Google and the California Institute of Technology said in March that functional quantum computers could arrive sooner than expected and would need far less computing power to break cryptography than previously thought.　　Google claimed that quantum computers could potentially break Bitcoins cryptography within 10 minutes, allowing hackers to perform an “on-spend” attack.　　Astafiev said Near One is researching how to solve the problem of not knowing whether a transaction is made by the owner or not.　　He also noted that NEAR developers are building a post-quantum-safe signing system for the layer-1 blockchain, which secures more than $137.6 million in user funds.　　One of the first quantum solutions being implemented on NEAR is “FIPS-204,” which has been approved by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and is set to launch on testnet by the end of the second quarter.　　Other crypto ecosystems are taking swift action, too.　　The Ethereum Foundation created the Post-Quantum Ethereum team to build quantum solutions into Ethereum at the protocol level by 2029.　　Two of Solanas validator clients, Anza and Firedancer, have also implemented a test version of Falcon, a new post-quantum signature solution, to help prepare the Solana network for future quantum threats.　　The Bitcoin community

05-08Industry

Tethers Medical AI Runs on Your Phone and Outperforms Models 16x Its Size

Source: Tether　　The test suite spans MedQA-USMLE, which measures clinical knowledge using US medical licensing exam-style questions scored as percentage accuracy, all the way to AfriMedQA, which tests performance specifically for underserved African healthcare contexts.　　Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino credited the gains to efficiency rather than scale. “With QVAC MedPsy, our focus was improving efficiency at the model level, rather than scaling up size,” he said in a statement. “Our 4 billion model exceeded results from models nearly seven times its size, while using up to three times fewer tokens per response.”　　That token efficiency is the other headline. The 4B model averages around 909 tokens per response versus 2,953 for comparable systems—a 3.2x reduction. Fewer tokens means lower compute cost, faster responses, and crucially, the ability to run locally without a cloud backend.　　“You can run medical reasoning where the data already exists, inside a hospital system or on a device, without moving sensitive information through the cloud or waiting on external processing,” Ardoino said.　　The models ship as quantized GGUF files—1.2 GB for the 1.7 billion-parameter model and 2.6 GB for the 4 billion—with compressed versions retaining most benchmark performance while fitting on standard consumer hardware. That means a hospital system, rural clinic,

05-08Industry

Genius Group closes $8M offering to buy stake in Bermuda digital bank

Tech　　Genius Group closes $8M offering to buy stake in Bermuda digital bank　　Genius Group closed an $8 million registered direct offering to fund part of its push into regulated stablecoin and digital asset banking infrastructure.　　The AI education company sold 21.6 million ordinary shares, or pre-funded warrants in lieu of shares, at $0.37 each. D. Boral Capital acted as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.　　Genius Group said it will use $5.5 million of the proceeds to acquire a senior secured convertible promissory note that will immediately convert into 9.9% of Jewel Financial Limited. Jewel Financial is the sole shareholder of Jewel Bancorp Limited, which the company describes as Bermudas only dual licensed digital bank.　　The company will also issue 15 million ordinary shares to the sellers at a deemed price of $0.40 per share as additional consideration for the acquisition. The remainder of the net proceeds will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.　　Jewel Bancorp holds a full banking license and a Class F digital asset business license from the Bermuda Monetary Authority under the Digital Asset Business Act 2018. The bank is developing JUSD, a US dollar stablecoin, along with digital asset banking services covering custody, settlement, and stablecoin

05-08Industry

$3,000 Invested in Little Pepe (LILPEPE) Could Offer Significant Upside if Momentum Holds

Tech　　$3,000 Invested in Little Pepe (LILPEPE) Could Offer Significant Upside if Momentum Holds　　In a time-sensitive market environment, smaller, earlier allocations will likely offer asymmetric upside potential, particularly when the presales take place. As such, given the current stability in the price range for Bitcoin and the recent stabilisation of Ethereum prices, focus is beginning to move towards altcoin opportunities. This is where Little Pepe (LILPEPE) is beginning to draw interest.　　For an investor considering a $3,000 position, the question is not about hype; it is about whether the current structure leaves room for further upside.　　LILPEPE will be priced at $0.0022 at Stage 13. An initial investment of $3,000 will give you about 1.36 million tokens if the prices remain unchanged until the token sale period. The price for the following stage is $0.0023.　　Presale Numbers Show the Window is Narrowing　　This means that Little Pepes momentum is more than just an abstract concept; it can be seen from the figures. So far, the project has managed to secure a total amount of $28,101,728 against a target of $28,775,000. At the same time, 16,943,966,303 tokens have been sold out of a total allocation of 17,250,000,000 for this stage. That leaves a thin margin before

05-08Industry

The metaverse isnt a place: Why Animoca’s Yat Siu says the future is 100 billion AI agents

The crypto industry may have fundamentally misunderstood the metaverse, according to Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu, who argues that the next phase of virtual economies would arrive not through VR headsets or immersive digital worlds, but through fleets of AI agents transacting across blockchain networks behind the scenes.　　Siu said the metaverse maybe coming to us rather than being a place that humans go to, during his keynote at Consensus Miami 2026.　　For Animoca, this marked a distinct pivot from the pandemic-era vision of the metaverse it once championed, in which users were expected to spend increasing amounts of their social and economic lives in immersive virtual worlds.　　Siu now says the more consequential shift may be AI systems operating in the physical world on behalf of humans, handling transactions, bookings, coordination and commerce in the background while blockchain networks function as the infrastructure connecting those agents.　　Instead, Siu argued the next phase of the internet may revolve around AI systems operating continuously in the background of everyday life, handling tasks such as bookings, payments, scheduling, and online transactions on behalf of users.　　He said consumers could eventually rely on dozens, or even hundreds, of AI agents to coordinate their digital activities, with blockchain networks

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