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The day ahead in crypto: May 11, 2026

Michael Saylor confirmed the company was prepared to sell bitcoin, reviving a tax loss harvesting strategy first used in 2022.

Nearly 600,000 deposits worth $60 million have been collected for a gold T1 phone that has not been delivered to a single confirmed buyer, with terms quietly rewritten in April to remove delivery guarantees.

Circle raised $222 million for its Arc blockchain token at a $3 billion valuation, drawing backing from BlackRock, Apollo and Bullish.

BTC briefly topped $82,400 before slipping below $81,000 as traders repositioned around CME futures open and geopolitical risks rattled markets.

Sources familiar with the matter told the news outlet the fundraiser is expected to close in the coming weeks and that the final amount might vary.

Investors look beyond bitcoin volatility towards long term AI infrastructure and data center revenue opportunities.

Here's what the widening Wall Street–Main Street divide is telling us about the state of the economy.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting May 11.

Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, and MARA Pool are among seven pools joining the Stratum V2 working group, putting nearly three-quarters of global bitcoin hashrate behind a protocol that returns block construction decisions to individual miners.

Sharp move through resistance came with one of the biggest volume spikes in weeks, though profit-taking quickly emerged near session highs.

A long-dormant whale woke up Sunday, moving millions worth of bitcoin on-chain. here's is what it means for BTC.

This was a hectic week.

Senior figures from PayPal and Google Cloud said open payment protocols, machine-readable merchant catalogs and multi-party crypto custody are needed to scale agentic commerce.

BAYC floor prices have doubled in a month as traders rotate back into speculative crypto bets, reviving hopes of a broader NFT recovery.

The loss was primarily driven by $244 million in unrealized losses on cryptocurrency holdings and an additional $108.2 million investment loss.

The quantum computing advent does not only threaten blockchains, it also poses huge risks to banking systems, military communications, digital identities and more, Project Eleven’s report warns.

The bill's progress follows talks on jurisdiction, consumer/developer protections, and stablecoin rewards, with crypto firms backing a yield compromise.

One point three billion adults lack financial services, 4.7 billion lack credit, and 1.4 billion savers in low-income nations earn no deposit interest, Binance said.

The initiative sought to amend Switzerland's constitution, requiring the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to hold BTC alongside gold and foreign-currency reserves.

CME Group plans to launch bitcoin volatility futures on June 1 pending regulatory approval bringing a easy way to bet on the degree of price swings.

DeFi is quietly shifting from niche crypto experiment to a legitimate financial tool across the region, explains Serrano.

Trust Wallet CEO Felix Fan and Mesh CTO Arjun Mukherjee said AI agents are creating a new role for crypto wallets.

The world's largest asset manager filed paperwork to expand its tokenized fund lineup as real-world assets grow 200% year over year.