Cryptocurrency 15 May 2026

Strive Stock’s Bitcoin Play Grows, Traders Eye the Open

Strive Inc. Class A shares moved up in premarket trade Friday, building on Thursday’s jump with traders still pushing into the bitcoin-treasury angle going into Memorial Day weekend. ASST changed hands at $19.24 ahead of the open, according to Google Finance, after closing at $18.53 on Thursday, up 9.13%. U.S. equity markets will be shut Monday, May 25, for Memorial Day, per the Nasdaq holiday schedule.

22 May 2026

Bitcoin·Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:ASST·Stock Market

Kraken’s Dubai Approval Gives It a Regulated Shot at UAE Crypto Traders

Payward, the parent of Kraken, has secured preliminary approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority for a broker-dealer, investment and management licence, moving the U.S.-founded crypto exchange closer to a fuller UAE launch.

21 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·Fintech

POET Eyes $400 Million Raise as Traders Focus on Key Risk

POET Technologies Inc. shares slipped in premarket Nasdaq trading Thursday, retreating after a bounce. Investors questioned if the $400 million stock-and-warrant sale arms the AI photonics firm to grow or just piles on more headwinds.

21 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:POET

MARA Stock Just Jumped — Now Its $1.5 Billion AI Power Bet Faces a Test

MARA Holdings shares edged lower before Thursday’s open, pausing after a 5.7% jump in the prior session as investors weighed fresh insider filings against the bitcoin miner’s push into power-backed AI infrastructure. The stock closed Wednesday at $13.15 and was indicated at $13.10 in pre-market trading at 8:02 a.m. EDT.

21 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:CLSK·NASDAQ:MARA·NASDAQ:RIOT·Stock Market

MARA Holdings Stock Gains as Bitcoin Recovery and AI Plans Run Into Morgan Stanley Downgrade

MARA Holdings shares rose in U.S. morning trade Wednesday as bitcoin steadied and investors discussed if the one-time miner can shift its power holdings into an AI infrastructure business.

20 May 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Bitcoin·Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:MARA

Crypto Bill Gets Past Senate Obstacle, Details Remain a Threat

US crypto market legislation that cleared a Senate committee is facing pushback from decentralized-finance developers after a last-minute amendment. The new language could drag more software projects under securities law. The debate has shifted from the committee vote to the text that could determine the bill’s fate.

20 May 2026

Blockchain·Cryptocurrency

Canaan Shares Drop on Mining Hardware Maker’s Wider Losses

Canaan Inc. shares dropped roughly 14% Tuesday on Nasdaq. The bitcoin-mining hardware maker posted another quarterly loss and cut its revenue outlook for this quarter.

19 May 2026

Bitcoin·Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:CAN·Stock Market

XRP’s $10 Bet Just Ran Into a $1.37 Problem

XRP traded near $1.37 on Tuesday as new forecasts sharpened a split over the token: one camp still sees a staged path toward $4 and beyond, while skeptics say Ripple’s own payments strategy could weaken XRP’s role. Recent articles from 24/7 Wall St., The Motley Fool and TipRanks put that divide back in front of investors within a softening crypto market.

19 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·LSE:STAN·XRP

HIVE Stock Up 29% While Nasdaq Moves Lower as Traders Eye AI Gigafactory

HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. shares caught a strong bid overnight heading into Tuesday after the crypto miner and data-center operator laid out plans for a bigger artificial-intelligence buildout.

19 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:HIVE·Stock Market

Bitmine Shares Fall as Lee Raises Ethereum Exposure

Bitmine Immersion Technologies shares dropped hard Monday. The move came as the company increased its Ethereum holdings, but Ether’s price fell and risk assets stayed weak.

18 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·Ethereum·Stock Market

Lee: Oil Shock Is Hitting Ethereum, Creating Fresh Macro Worry

Ether dropped Monday after Fundstrat’s Tom Lee pointed to surging oil as the main short-term drag on Ethereum. Lee linked the token’s latest selloff to a broader move away from risk assets.

18 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·Ethereum

XRP Slides; $1.38, ETF Inflows and Washington on Traders’ Radar

XRP dropped near $1.38 on Monday. The coin pulled back as the wider crypto market decline erased gains from last week, when U.S. regulation and fund inflow optimism had boosted prices.

18 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·NYSE:BEN

Bitcoin Drops $80,000 With Focus Turning to Bonds

Bitcoin dropped under $77,000 Monday, moving closer to its lowest in two weeks. The slide came as oil prices ticked up and bond yields climbed, with a spate of forced selling also weighing on crypto demand. Bitcoin was trading at $76,753 at the dateline, off around 2.1% after hitting a session low of $76,655.

18 May 2026

Bitcoin·Cryptocurrency

Riot Platforms’ AI spending puts pressure on Bitcoin investors

Riot Platforms is trying to shift from bitcoin mining to being an AI data-center landlord, but now it has to show that its power deals, land, and nuclear project can actually bring in tenants. Shares most recently traded at $23.49 ahead of the Nasdaq open, putting the company’s market cap near $8.2 billion.

18 May 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Bitcoin·Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:RIOT·Technology Trends

MARA slips 6% as Bitcoin miner’s AI strategy gets set for Monday trial

MARA Holdings starts the week weaker, after sliding 6.4% to $12.44 on Friday. The drop followed broad losses in bitcoin-mining names. MARA still finished the week lower by about 3.9%, even after bouncing twice in the middle of the week on its Q1 numbers.

17 May 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:MARA·Stock Market

Bitmine Faces $13.4B Ether Position Into Monday After Weekend Drop

Bitmine Immersion Technologies is on the back foot at the start of the week after shares sold off hard on Friday. Traders are watching its big Ethereum stake as the token fell over the weekend.

17 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·Ethereum·NYSE:BITM·Stock Market

Bitcoin Slides Under $80,000 Ahead of ETF Reopen

Bitcoin slipped in weekend trading, sticking around $78,183 after a spike in U.S. bond yields and oil prices sent risk assets tumbling Friday and pulled the largest cryptocurrency under $80,000. Crypto trades all weekend, but with U.S. stocks and bitcoin ETFs closed, traders faced the fallout from Friday’s selloff in a thinner market.

16 May 2026

Bitcoin·Cryptocurrency·ETFs·NYSE:BLK

XRP drops over weekend as $1.50 seen as key before crypto vote in Washington

XRP was down Saturday, hovering near $1.42 after getting a policy push from Washington this week and a pickup in fund flows, but the price didn’t break higher. It dropped 2.15% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap, with market cap around $87.6 billion. About $1.82 billion traded in the past day.

16 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·Price Prediction·XRP

MARA Holdings Slips as Bitcoin Drop Pressures $1.5B AI Power Gamble

MARA Holdings shares lost ground Friday as bitcoin weakened, with investors eyeing a looming consent deadline from bondholders related to the company's pursuit of Long Ridge Energy & Power. For the bitcoin miner, snapping up Long Ridge marks a pivotal move into AI-focused power and data center assets.

15 May 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Cryptocurrency·NASDAQ:MARA·NYSE:FTAI

Bitmine Stock Slides as Tom Lee’s $13.4 Billion Ethereum Bet Enters a New Test

Bitmine Immersion Technologies shares slid roughly 7.7% in New York on Friday, putting further pressure on one of the largest public Ethereum treasury holdings as ether stumbled. BMNR was changing hands at $20.30 at 15:51 UTC. ETH, the native Ethereum token, hovered around $2,221, down 3.4% for the day.

15 May 2026

Cryptocurrency·Ethereum·NYSE:BMNR·Stock Market

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