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A campaign to force the Swiss National Bank to hold Bitcoin in reserves has fallen short on signatures, ending the initiative before it reached a vote.

ONDO climbed 17.9% on May 9, 2026 after a tokenized US Treasury settlement pilot with Ripple, Mastercard, and JPMorgan went live on the XRP Ledger.

Three of the largest US crypto exchanges lobbied lawmakers to remove anti-market manipulation provisions from the CLARITY Act, per a Cointelegraph report May 9.

Strategy CEO Phong Le says the company will sell BTC to fund dividends when accretive to shareholders, calling the call 'math over ideology.'

Goldman Sachs delayed its Fed rate cut forecast by a quarter, citing sticky inflation. Crypto held green: BTC $80,299, SOL +6.3%.

April 2026 saw over $635M stolen across 28 crypto exploits, the worst month of the year so far. Here is what drove the spike and what users can do.

US credit card balances reached an all-time high of $1.33 trillion, raising fresh questions about consumer borrowing costs and crypto card alternatives.

Bitcoin miner IREN secures a $3.4B AI infrastructure agreement with Nvidia, granting Nvidia rights to invest up to $2.1B in IREN shares.

ECB President Christine Lagarde says Tether and Circle threaten European monetary sovereignty, urging the bloc not to copy the US stablecoin model.

BNB Chain's tokenized US Treasury market cap reached $3.5 billion, expanding the chain's role in the fast-growing on-chain government debt sector.