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The UK Home Office announced a major £9 million funding package on 19 May 2026 to equip police forces across England and Wales with AI-enabled intelligence tools to help identify and prosecute grooming gangs and child sex offenders. The technology will enable officers to examine vast amounts of

XRP Price Compression Signals Imminent Volatility Expansion Market analyst Xaif Crypto suggests XRP may be entering a volatility vacuum—a phase where market activity tightens, participation slows, and price action becomes unusually compressed. On-chain and derivatives signals align with this

XRP Ledger's upcoming 3.1.3 upgrade has sparked fresh debate after Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz explained why XRPL sees more events that look like "technical hard forks." Summary David Schwartz said XRPL has more "technical hard forks" than most established public ledgers. XRPL 3.1.3

Bitcoin price remained under pressure on Monday as weakening technical indicators, heavy ETF outflows, and rising geopolitical tensions continued weighing on investor sentiment, with traders increasingly watching whether BTC could revisit the key $75,000 support zone next. Summary Bitcoin price

Three Wall Street firms converged Monday on shared investment arguments across four publicly traded crypto companies, maintaining buy-equivalent ratings even as analysts adjusted price targets downward to reflect compressed valuation multiples across the payments and crypto sectors. Benchmark, TD

AI Financial Corporation, a World Liberty Financial (WLFI) treasury firm chaired by World Liberty Financial CEO Zachary Witkoff, reported a $271.5 million net loss for the quarter ended March 28, 2026, and warned that its financial conditions "raise substantial doubt" about its ability to continue o

Opening Bernstein analysts assigned "Outperform" ratings to four bitcoin miners—IREN, Riot Platforms (RIOT), CleanSpark (CLSK), and Core Scientific (CORZ)—citing their positioning to benefit from rising AI infrastructure demand, while maintaining a "Market Perform" rating on

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has officially approved a new policy concept proposal to build the future financial system using artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. The proposal, titled "Next-generation AI & Onchain Finance Concept," was drafted by a project team

Echo Protocol, a Bitcoin liquidity aggregation and yield infrastructure platform, was hit by an exploit on its Monad blockchain deployment on May 19, 2026, after an attacker minted 1,000 unauthorized eBTC tokens worth approximately $76.7 million. The protocol's investigation revealed that a

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Policy Research Council approved the "Next-Generation AI and On-Chain Finance" proposal on May 19, 2026, positioning on-chain finance—including stablecoins and tokenized deposits—as the country's next-generation national financial infrastructure. The proposal is

Opening President Trump disclosed more than 3,500 stock trades on his behalf in the first quarter, according to a government filing released late last week. The trading activity included purchases of at least $1 million each in shares of Nvidia, Oracle, Microsoft, Boeing, and other companies,