Coinbase's Base L2 activated the Azul hardfork on mainnet May 29, 2026. The upgrade focuses on transaction speed and protocol security on the OP Stack chain.

Paxos becomes the first blockchain-native registered clearing agency in the US, a regulatory milestone for tokenized settlement and TradFi convergence.

Wallets holding 100K+ ETH now control 17.41M tokens, a 9-week high reached as ETH trades near $2,002 after a 6% weekly drop.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce publicly defended crypto privacy tools, warning fellow regulators not to treat privacy-enhancing technologies as inherently suspicious.

Crypto exchange Gemini is plugging Grok into its prediction market product to push personalized AI-curated feeds, following a broader exchange shift toward AI features.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent restated the administration's opposition to a US central bank digital currency, leaving stablecoins as the dollar's digital path.

Ether fell below $2,000 on May 28 as ETH futures open interest hit a record 16 million ETH, a leverage build that often precedes sharp liquidation events.

Falcon Finance is issuing fUSD through Anchorage Digital as a GENIUS Act-compliant payments stablecoin, separate from its synthetic USDf.

Foreign holdings of US Treasuries in Fed custody dropped to $2.68T, the lowest in years, as Bitcoin fell below $73K and ETH lost 4.6% on May 28.

United Texas Bank, which clears about $10B a month for crypto firms, completed its conversion to an OCC-chartered national bank with direct Federal Reserve access.