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The new lawsuit targets MARA’s Granbury site as cryptocurrency mining companies pivot to providing AI infrastructure.

Bitcoin just hit its highest price in months, right as $65 billion treasury firm Strategy took a rare week off from BTC accumulation.

GameStop has built a 5% stake in eBay and proposed to fund the deal with cash on hand plus third-party financing.

Bitcoin rallied above $80,000 overnight before selling off on reports of a U.S. warship struck by Iranian missiles. Plus, Clarity Act odds spiked after a new compromise on stablecoin yield.

Bitmine added 101,745 ETH last week, pushing total Ethereum holdings to 5.18 million tokens now.Staked ETH reached 4.36 million tokens, giving Bitmine about $10.2 billion in staked assets.Ethereum Foundation sales added context as Bitmine moved closer to its 5% ETH supply target.

Bitget says its contracts-for-difference (CFD) business has reached a new all-time high, with single-day trading volume surpassing $8 billion.Gold-related products drove roughly 95% of the incremental activity, making precious metals the core engine of Bitget’s cross-asset trading uptick.Chinese-speaking, European, and Southeast Asian markets together accounted for 85% of the growth, underscoring a broad regional expansion.

DAXA warned South Korea’s AML plan could raise exchange reports from 63,000 to 5.4 million.The proposal would flag overseas-linked crypto transfers above 10 million won as suspicious transactions automatically.Korean exchanges are already fighting FIU sanctions as courts review several AML-related enforcement actions.

Bitcoin jumped 2.6% above $80,000, and Ether gained 3.6% to trade at $2,382 as of 11:40 p.m. ET Sunday.Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will guide stranded ships through the Strait of Hormuz, while an Iranian official warned that such a mission could be considered a violation of the ceasefire.

Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor announced that the company will not purchase bitcoin this week.Strategy’s first-quarter earnings report is set to release on Tuesday, with Wall Street analysts expecting a $18.98 loss per share.

GameStop offered $125 per eBay share, valuing the unsolicited takeover proposal at about $55.5 billion.Ryan Cohen would lead the combined company if GameStop’s cash-and-stock acquisition proposal for eBay succeeds.GameStop says $2 billion in yearly cost cuts could come within twelve months of closing.

Capital B has raised €1.1 million through warrants fully subscribed by Blockstream CEO Adam Back, increasing his stake to 9.97% on a diluted basis.The company said the funds will support its Bitcoin treasury strategy, as shares rose over 6.5% on the announcement despite a 16% decline in 2026.

Strategy has paused Bitcoin purchases for the week ahead of its first quarter earnings report, with Michael Saylor confirming no buys in a Sunday update.The company last acquired 3,273 BTC for $255 million, taking total holdings to 818,334 BTC valued at roughly $63.7 billion.Analysts expect a $18.98 per share loss, while criticism has intensified around STRC’s 11.5% dividend and its long-term sustainability.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an April 29 settlement requiring Uphold HQ Inc. to pay more than $5 million to customers who lost money through Cred’s CredEarn product, which the platform promoted from Jan. 2019 to Oct. 2020.Uphold CEO Simon McLoughlin called the attorney general’s characterization “profoundly inaccurate,” saying the DOJ identified Uphold as a victim of Cred’s fraud in a separate criminal case.The settlement is the first New York enforcement action to target a platform that promoted someone else’s crypto yield product rather than the product’s own issuer.

CFTC has received more than 1,500 public comments on its prediction markets rule, with firms backing its authority while state regulators push back.Kalshi, Polymarket, and Andreessen Horowitz supported the CFTC, urging it to retain exclusive control over event contracts.State gaming regulators from Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Missouri said sports contracts resemble unregulated betting and should fall under state oversight.

Coinbase said Senate negotiators reached a stablecoin rewards deal, easing delays around the CLARITY Act.NYSE filed to trade tokenized securities under DTC’s pilot while preserving traditional share rights rules.Founders Fund raised $6 billion as Tether backed a Bitcoin merger involving Strike and Elektron.

NYSE wants tokenized securities to trade beside traditional shares on the same exchange order book.Eligible tokenized assets must keep the same ticker, CUSIP, rights, and privileges as originals.Clearing and settlement would remain through DTC, keeping tokenized trading inside existing market rails now.