Crypto News

Coin Bureau reports the XRP Ledger pulled in $1.9 billion in net real-world asset inflows, pushing it to the front of crypto's tokenization race in mid-2026.

Bitmine holds 5.54 million ETH, about 4.59% of the circulating supply, putting it within reach of its 5% target. A look at the numbers and the concentration risk.

Bitdeer has run a zero-Bitcoin treasury since late February 2026, selling all 921 BTC it mined in May to fund an AI and datacenter pivot. Here is the breakdown.

Solana's official account flagged $1 billion in weekly tokenized equities volume, with the chain now holding the bulk of on-chain stock trading.

India's Enforcement Directorate has raided Bengaluru firms over alleged crypto-linked transfers above $260 million, raising compliance stakes for Indian users.

US bankers are escalating lobbying against yield-bearing stablecoins as the Senate moves closer to action, per Cointelegraph. The fight is over deposits.

Arthur Hayes's attributed wallet sold 6,000 ETH near $1,690 for a ~$606K realized loss, days after buying, while large holders kept accumulating near $1,700.

Five public companies now hold more than $1 billion in SOL combined, led by Forward Industries with over 7 million tokens, per a June 2026 Decrypt report.

WuBlockchain, citing Unchained, says at least eight senior Ethereum Foundation members have departed in five months, as core-dev funding worries persist.

Delaware's Payment Stablecoin Act cleared the House 36-0 after a 20-0 Senate vote, setting a state licensing framework for stablecoin issuers and service providers.

Capital B's shareholders cleared up to $120B in financing capacity to fund its Bitcoin treasury, a vote landing with BTC at $62,406 and Fear & Greed at 19.

Franklin Templeton filed two SEC ETFs that hold US stocks and reinvest the dividends into Bitcoin, starting at 5% BTC and capped at 20%. Here's the structure.

STRC fell to $82.50 and Strive's SATA slid below $93 on June 19. CEO Matt Cole blamed leverage liquidations, not credit deterioration. Here is what happened.

Morgan Stanley filed amended spot Ether and Solana ETF applications, both at a 0.14% sponsor fee, as ETH trades near $1,695 and SOL near $68 in Extreme Fear.

Fidelity launched the Reserves Digital Fund (FYMXX), a government money market fund built to hold stablecoin reserves under the GENIUS Act. Details and stakes.

A former Ethereum Foundation contributor warns core development funding may run out within 3 to 9 months, as ETH sits at $1,702 and the market reads Fear.

Billionaire Ricardo Salinas says Mexico's central bank gave banks standing orders to steer clear of crypto, explaining why retail access routes around them.

JPMorgan says Bitcoin has traded under its estimated $78,000 production cost for five straight months. With BTC at $62,953, miner margins are deep underwater.

The SEC and CFTC issued a rare joint request for public comment to harmonize derivatives definitions and clarify which agency regulates what.

MiCA's transition period closes July 1, 2026. Only around 200 firms hold full authorization, and unlicensed providers lose the right to serve EU users.

Nuvei's $2.75B all-cash purchase of Payoneer pulls stablecoin settlement inside regulated payment networks. Here is what the deal means for crypto spending.

The Federal Reserve proposed GENIUS Act stablecoin screening rules on June 18, 2026. Every governor voted yes except Chair Kevin Warsh, who abstained.

Estonian PM Kristen Michal approved a plan to issue AI agents government IDs with auditable rights to book flights, file taxes, and make payments.

Bitcoin fell to $63,856 and ether to $1,729 after the Fed turned hawkish and markets priced a 2026 rate hike, even as equities rose on a signed US-Iran deal.

Oman has made membership in a single state-run Bitcoin mining pool mandatory for every licensed operator, a first-of-its-kind move that centralizes national hashrate.

Strategy's variable-rate STRC perpetual preferred closed at a record low $89, below its $100 par design even after a 11.50% June dividend rate. The funding engine is straining.

Inveniam Capital Partners is acquiring MANTRA, the VASP-licensed RWA layer-1, in a deal set to close by June 30, 2026. Here is what changes and what stays.

CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, plans to sue its own regulator over the CFTC's decision to allow perpetual futures onshore in the US.

Standard Chartered set a $100 long-term price target on Uniswap's UNI for 2030, citing DEX market share and untapped fee revenue. UNI rallied on the note.

Moody's expanded its Token Integration Engine to Solana, letting issuers embed credit ratings directly into tokenized bonds and fixed-income securities onchain.

Ready restricted USDC card spending for non-EEA users after switching card providers, with some holders reporting an hour's notice before deactivation.

Singapore's central bank placed Bybit on its Investor Alert List on June 17, 2026, days before the June 30 cutoff for unlicensed crypto exchanges.

Governor Pritzker signed Illinois' Digital Asset Privilege Tax into law despite industry pushback: 0.2% per trade, custody included, felony penalties for unregistered brokers.

Reuters reports the SEC is poised to grant an innovation exemption letting crypto firms offer blockchain-based stocks. The tokenized equity market already tops $6.4B.

US House and Senate negotiators agreed to bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC through 2030, folded into the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.

Fairshake, the crypto super PAC, spent over $12 million to push Barry Moore to a 56% win in Alabama's GOP Senate runoff, its biggest single-race bet of 2026.

HYPE futures open interest rose 32% in a week to about $3B, while stock and index perps on Hyperliquid hit $2.9B in OI, overtaking Bitcoin on the venue.

BNB Chain says $SPXCB is live on PancakeSwap, giving 24/7 onchain exposure to SpaceX (SPCX) days after the company's record Nasdaq debut. Here is what it is.

China signed 26 financial institutions, including Standard Chartered, onto its cross-border digital yuan payment network, per CoinDesk. Here is why it matters.

A bipartisan group led by Cynthia Lummis is urging the Treasury to clarify how state authority works under the GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law.

Coinbase is launching tokenized stock trading with 1:1 backed onchain shares and dividend payments, joining a tokenization race that already includes DTCC and Binance.

Ripple has acquired a stake in Flutterwave, valuing the African fintech at $3.3B, as it pushes deeper into cross-border payments and stablecoin settlement in Africa.

Reuters reports Binance's application for an EU MiCA license is heading for rejection, weeks before the transition deadline that forces unlicensed exchanges out.

Mirae Asset, a $721B manager, signed an MOU with Ondo Finance to tokenize US-listed ETFs through Global X, including a covered-call ETF share class in Q3 2026.

The Fed meets today for its first rate decision under new governor Kevin Warsh. Crypto is rallying into it, with ETH up 3.5% and SOL 4% as of June 16, 2026.

BlackRock debuted BITA, a Bitcoin income ETF that sells call options to pay double-digit yield while limiting upside. Here is the tradeoff, as of June 16, 2026.

The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark rate to 1%, the highest since 1995. The yen pared gains and altcoins held firm. Here is what it means for crypto.

DTCC says it is close to a live demonstration of tokenizing securities held at The Depository Trust Company, the clearest step yet toward on-chain Wall Street settlement.

The Bank of Japan is set to raise rates to a 31-year high and signal more hikes. Here is the yen carry-trade link to crypto, with ETH up 3.2% as of June 16, 2026.

Nous Research connected its Hermes agent to Stripe so it can make purchases, pay APIs, and provision SaaS on its own, with configurable safety limits as the guardrail.

China's May retail sales fell for the first time in over three years. Here is the data, the deflation risk, and how it reads against a 3%+ crypto bid.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says his instinct is that Bitcoin already bottomed at $60,000. The call lands while the Fear and Greed index reads 25.

Ether, XRP and Solana each rose about 4% on June 16, 2026 as the Dow closed at a record on a US-Iran deal, yet crypto's Fear and Greed index held at 24.

US headline CPI hit its highest reading since 2023, yet ETH, SOL and XRP rose 4-6% on the day while the Fear & Greed index sat at 25. Here is the divergence.

China is preparing a commercial rollout of mBridge, a blockchain-based multi-CBDC settlement network that has cleared 470B yuan and is pitched against SWIFT.

A Brazilian Chamber of Deputies committee advanced Bill 4212/25, which would stop any future CBDC from replacing cash, becoming forced legal tender, or enabling surveillance.

A bipartisan House bill would cap crypto ATM transactions, force scam warnings, and require refunds for fraud after Americans lost $333M to kiosk scams in 2025.

Kraken opened CFTC-regulated perpetual futures to US customers through Bitnomial on June 15, 2026, ending years of offshore-only access to a $60T market.

BitMine added 76,881 ETH this week after a $274M preferred stock raise, lifting its stack to 5.62M ETH, or 4.66% of circulating supply, as ETH jumped 7.7%.

XRP spot ETFs pulled net inflows last week while Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana spot ETFs saw net outflows, a rotation that landed as XRP led the majors at $1.18.

Charles Hoskinson says Cardano's disputed 1,096 BTC funded a 2016 crowdsale audit. The coins cost about $454,000 then and are worth roughly $72M now.

Bitcoin rose to $65,740 and oil fell nearly 5% after the US and Iran reached an interim deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with signing set for Switzerland Friday.

Illinois passed the first U.S. state tax on digital asset trading: 0.2% per covered transaction, registration rules, and Class 3 felony charges for unregistered brokers.

Three US-listed spot HYPE ETFs gathered $161M in net inflows a month after launch, with only one outflow day, even as broad crypto sentiment stayed in fear.

MiCA's transitional permission ends July 1, 2026. With only 194 firms licensed, ~75% of registered EU crypto companies may lose the right to operate.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas told licensed crypto firms to stop listing privacy-enhancing coins like Monero, citing travel-rule and AML compliance gaps.

The SEC has cleared a T. Rowe Price multi-asset crypto ETF that could hold BTC, ETH, and SOL in one wrapper, per Cointelegraph. Here is what it signals.

Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework let builders list equity and S&P 500 index perpetuals fully onchain, which Cointelegraph says helped drive $200B in volume.

Eleanor Terrett says the CLARITY Act crypto market-structure bill cannot logistically clear Congress by July 4th. What the slipped timeline means for US crypto.

India's Income Tax Department issued over 44,000 VDA tax notices and surfaced about $104M in undisclosed income, per The Economic Times. Here is what it means.

Cointelegraph says ETH is tracking toward a third consecutive red quarter, a first in its history. ETH trades near $1,685 as of June 14, 2026.

Reuters estimates the Trump family earned about $616M from the $TRUMP meme coin while buyers lost more than $700M, a sharp winner-loser split as of June 14, 2026.

Strategy's CEO says the company sold 32 BTC to 'inoculate the market and test our selling process,' the first disclosed sale from the largest corporate bitcoin holder.

Bitcoin's June 13 difficulty adjustment of 10.3% is the second-largest of 2026 and 11th-largest ever, landing as average miner production cost nears spot BTC.

Brian Armstrong says gold and silver futures now trade around the clock on Coinbase Derivatives in the US, extending a metals push that began with USDC-settled perps in May 2026.

Binance's first-week data for direct stock and ETF trading shows over 80% of volume from emerging markets, $400M+ in stock AUM, and a young, small-ticket user base.

SpaceX jumped as much as 30% in its Nasdaq debut and closed up 19%, the world's largest IPO. The listing settles weeks of crypto pre-IPO bets.

Zimbabwe's finance minister now requires crypto businesses to register with the Financial Intelligence Unit and pay $500 a year, ending the 2018 ban era.

A US appeals court has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year sentence, leaving the FTX verdict intact as of June 12, 2026.

Circle moved $4B in USDC to Coinbase on HyperEVM, the largest single USDC transfer on record per Arkham. Here is what the flow signals for stablecoin liquidity.

Poland's president has vetoed the country's MiCA implementation bill for a third time, leaving Poland the EU's only member without a domestic crypto licensing path with the July 1 deadline near.

The SEC has proposed scrapping its 20-year-old order protection rule, a change that would remove a structural barrier keeping AMMs out of tokenized US securities.

Japan's Lower House passed a crypto tax bill that would cut gains to a 20% flat rate from 2028 and open the door to Tokyo Stock Exchange crypto ETFs by 2027.

Tether blacklisted a Tron wallet linked to a 120.2M USDT transfer and froze 72M USDT, the latest in a run of large on-chain freezes that keep reviving the centralization debate.

Binance Wallet's SpaceX pre-IPO subscription drew roughly $557M from 27,689 addresses, per Dune data shared by WuBlockchain on June 12, 2026.

Michael Saylor says he never claimed Strategy could not sell Bitcoin and may do so when necessary, days after JPMorgan flagged the firm's thin cash runway.

Ripple and Bitso are expanding their partnership to put Bitso's MXN-backed stablecoin MXNB on the XRP Ledger for enterprise settlement across Latin America.

The White House met law enforcement groups over the CLARITY Act on June 11, 2026, with developer protections the sticking point and Senate Democrats still undecided.

Bitcoin climbed back above $63,600 and Solana jumped 5.7% as Trump said the US reached a settlement of the Iran war, with crypto fear still at 18.

BlackRock filed a fourth amendment for its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), setting a 0.65% fee that undercuts YBTC and BTCI as it races Goldman to market.

Hungary is rolling back the restrictive crypto laws introduced under Viktor Orban, decriminalizing trading and scrapping prison terms of up to 8 years, per CoinDesk.

Citigroup, a $2.78 trillion asset manager, is moving to tokenize private-company shares, pushing pre-IPO access onto onchain rails as RWA momentum builds.

SpaceX's IPO filing suggests its Bitcoin holdings may act as a strategic reserve for excess cash, per Coin Bureau citing Bloomberg, a day before the SPCX listing.

Fold Holdings sold 633.8 BTC to clear $20M in Bitcoin-backed debt, leaving it with 192.2 BTC. A Bitcoin-rewards card firm cuts its treasury during extreme fear.

Seoul police have booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a bribery suspect over a lawmaker's son hired at Korea's second-largest crypto exchange.

DBS will let retail customers buy tokenised physical gold through its digibank app in H2 2026, each token backed by one gram of vaulted bullion and redeemable.

The US DOJ has subpoenaed JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo over alleged debanking of customers for political reasons, Reuters reports.

Visa is partnering with OpenAI to let AI agents pay over its global network using tokenized credentials, pushing agentic commerce onto mainstream card rails.

Ripple released an XRPL AI Starter Kit giving developers tools to build agentic payment apps that move XRP and RLUSD autonomously on the XRP Ledger.

Delaware's House Bill 441 cleared committee on June 10, 2026, proposing a total ban on crypto kiosks. Existing machines would shut off at once and come out within 90 days.

New York's financial regulator proposed its first formal stablecoin rules, updating its 2022 framework to match the federal GENIUS Act, with a 60-day comment window.

A May CPI print seen at a three-year high pushed Bitcoin and gold down together. BTC sits at $61,248 and Fear & Greed reads 14 as of June 10, 2026.

US spot Bitcoin ETF assets have fallen to $77.58B, the same level as Trump's November 2024 win, after a $169.54B peak. Over $5B left in four weeks.

Bitcoin just recorded its worst weekly performance since the November 2022 FTX collapse, per Bloomberg, with BTC near $61,260 and Fear & Greed at 14.

CME Group is launching Nasdaq CME crypto index futures covering Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, bundling three assets into one regulated contract during extreme fear.

DefiLlama added pre-IPO perpetual futures for Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Quantinuum on Aster and Lighter, putting synthetic exposure to private firms onchain.

Gate says more than $60M has been committed to SpaceX through its IPO Access product, as OKX pushes the same pre-IPO pitch and exchanges chase private-equity demand.

Onchain crypto card payment volume reached a record $833 million in May 2026, up 180% year over year, pushing cumulative spend past $9 billion as prices fell.

The FCA has proposed letting UCITS and NURS retail funds hold up to 10% of assets in crypto ETNs, the next step after lifting its retail ban in October 2025.

Lending protocol Morpho raised $175M led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital. It already holds ~$11B in deposits and powers Coinbase and Kraken loans.

Ethena has partnered with $480B asset manager Janus Henderson to allocate and distribute tokenized CLO funds, pushing structured credit onchain.

MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho are targeting a joint stablecoin launch in FY2026, Nikkei reports, with a yen token first and a dollar version due late 2026.

Reuters puts the Trump family's crypto profit at a minimum of $2.3 billion across its main ventures, landing while the market sits in Extreme Fear.

SBI Shinsei Bank, a roughly 1 trillion yen Japanese lender, plans to reward depositors in Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP, pushing crypto rewards into regulated banking.

Base says MXNB, a Mexican peso stablecoin from Bitso, is launching on the network, adding a local-currency option to its growing stablecoin roster.

Circle launched cirBTC, a 1:1 bitcoin-backed token, on Ethereum for institutional DeFi collateral. Here is what the USDC issuer's move into tokenized BTC means.

Crypto lending deposits have fallen from a $125B October 2025 peak to about $60B, Cointelegraph reports, as extreme fear grips the market in June 2026.

A New York suit claims title to 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets holding 3.8M BTC. A June 2 spend from one address and a June 5 court stay reset the case.

Sam Bankman-Fried has formally applied for a presidential pardon, Yahoo Finance reports, three years into a 25-year sentence for the FTX fraud.

South Korea's KOSPI fell more than 8% and hit trading halts Monday, yet Bitcoin rebounded above $63,000 and crypto turned green across the board.

BitMine Immersion made its biggest ether purchase of 2026, adding 126,971 ETH during a sharp selloff and lifting total holdings to 5.54 million ether.

JPMorgan turned cautious on crypto and warned that Strategy's cash reserves cover only about 6.3 months of obligations, landing during Extreme Fear on June 8, 2026.

A wallet tied to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin moved 110,000 ETH into Sky vaults as extra collateral on $259M in DAI debt, per Onchain Lens, as ETH fell.

Morgan Stanley now lets eligible wealth management clients borrow against Bitcoin and Ethereum through a Galaxy deal, testing crypto as Wall Street collateral.

XRP held above $1.10 after a slide to four-month lows, part of a broad relief bounce that left the Fear and Greed index pinned at 15 on June 8, 2026.

A 3% oil spike adds risk-off pressure to a crypto market already down double digits on the week, with Fear and Greed at 14 as of June 8, 2026.

House Ways and Means circulated 7 crypto tax discussion drafts ahead of a June 9 hearing, but left out a de minimis break for everyday spending.

Six Republican senators told the Fed, FDIC and OCC to rewrite a Basel rule that forces banks to hold $1 of capital for every $1 of Bitcoin exposure.

Indonesia's finance ministry and central bank pledged to stabilize the rupiah after stocks fell fastest worldwide and the currency hit record lows, as crypto sat in extreme fear.

ADA fell below $0.20 on June 6, 2026, its weakest level in roughly four years, even as Cardano social activity climbed during a broad crypto selloff.

Galaxy Research's Alex Thorn cut the odds of the CLARITY Act passing in 2026 to 60% as Senate floor time runs short. Here is what is at stake for US crypto.

Greece is preparing to tax cryptocurrency gains for the first time, per Reuters. What a new disposal-tax regime could mean for Greek holders and card users.

CoinShares data shows professional Bitcoin holdings dropped to 261K BTC in Q1, with hedge funds and brokers behind 95% of the cut as BTC sits at $61,302.

Bitcoin fell to $61,332 on June 6, 2026, closing in on the ~$57,900 average price Germany sold its seized BTC at in 2024. Fear and Greed hit 14.

Tom Lee's BitMine priced preferred shares carrying a 9.5% dividend during ETH's worst week since July 2024, a costly way to fund more Ethereum at $1,565.

The SEC approved Securitize's registration to go public via a $1.25 billion SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II. A shareholder vote is set for June 29.

A US jobs report that roughly doubled expectations pushed stocks and crypto lower on June 5, 2026. BTC fell to $61,154 and ETH to $1,631 as fear hit 16.

The full text of the American Reserve Modernization Act is now online. It drops the 1M BTC buy mandate, funds the reserve from seizures, and locks coins for 20 years.

The UK FCA added Hyperliquid to its unauthorized-firms warning list days before the US CFTC let Kalshi offer Bitcoin perpetual futures, splitting regulators.

Bloomberg reports the Trump family crypto venture is booking heavy stablecoin profits, helped by a Binance promo deal. USD1 reserves and concentration explained.

JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo are building a joint tokenized deposit network through The Clearing House, targeting a 2027 launch.

Zcash's ZEC dropped 31.1% on June 5, 2026 amid concerns over a Zcash Orchard pool exploit, with Arthur Hayes saying he sold his entire ZEC position.

Visa is running a proof-of-concept with Brale to settle institutional payments using the SBC stablecoin on Canton, a network built to hide transaction data.

A House panel with jurisdiction over tax policy is preparing crypto tax legislation for release as early as Friday, ahead of a hearing next week, per Bloomberg.

The first US mortgage backed by Fannie Mae that counts Bitcoin toward qualification has closed using Coinbase, a milestone for crypto in home lending.

Russia's Foreign Ministry sanctioned Alexander Browder, 17, for a report linking the A7A5 ruble stablecoin to war funding. The token has moved over $110B.

Coinbase has opened pre-IPO perpetual futures, letting traders bet on private company valuations. SpaceX is the first reference asset, launched June 4, 2026.

Arthur Hayes disclosed selling his HYPE and NEAR positions on June 4, 2026. NEAR fell 19.5% and HYPE 5.8% as a broad crypto selloff deepened.

Goldman Sachs launched a blockchain-native real estate fund on GS DAP with Apex, Archax, Ownera and LRC, pushing institutional RWA tokenization past bonds.

Apyx's apxUSD fell to 93 cents as Bitcoin dropped below $63K. The protocol calls the depeg expected behavior for a stablecoin backed by preferred equity.

Hyperliquid's May perpetuals volume hit a record 6.63% of total global centralized-exchange volume and 14.4% of Binance's, per WuBlockchain, during a broad selloff.

The ECB says gold hit 27% of global central bank reserves at end-2025 while US Treasuries slid to 22%. The debasement trade that skips crypto, for now.

Charles Schwab is adding round-the-clock crypto futures for BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP across thinkorswim, closing the gap between fixed brokerage hours and crypto.

Senate Banking chair Cynthia Lummis says the CLARITY Act could reach the Senate floor by July 4, setting a firm timeline for US crypto market-structure law.

Bitcoin dropped below $63,000 on June 4, 2026, with $1.12B liquidated in 24 hours and the Fear & Greed index at 20. Longs took most of the damage.

The CFTC dropped a longstanding rule that barred defendants from settling enforcement cases while denying the allegations. Here is what it means for crypto.

CoinDesk reports Stripe, Visa and Mastercard are among the backers of a soon-to-launch stablecoin platform, with Coinbase exploring a role. Here is what it means.

Euroclear and Banque de France will pilot tokenized NEU commercial paper in late 2026, putting the euro area's largest short-term debt market on a ledger.

BitMine is down $8.9B on its ETH stack and Strategy is $7.6B underwater on Bitcoin, per Cointelegraph, as BTC and ETH both slide on June 3, 2026.

Mastercard expanded settlement to regulated stablecoins USDC, RLUSD and PYUSD across Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum and XRPL. Here is what changes for card rails.

The European Banking Authority and New York's NYDFS signed a June 3 memorandum to share stablecoin data and coordinate supervision across the Atlantic.

Senators Sanders and Warren are pushing back on a Labor Department plan to let crypto into 401(k) retirement accounts, warning it puts savings at risk.

Bitcoin's BVIV implied volatility index jumped nearly 20% to 46.45% on June 3, 2026, its biggest move since the February 5 crash, as BTC fell to about $67K.

The US is proposing tariffs of at least 10% on most major trading partners, rebuilding the wall the Supreme Court struck down. BTC fell 6.4% the same day.

Binance is closing NFT support on its main exchange and shifting the service to Binance Wallet, a custodial-to-self-custody move during a market-wide selloff.

The FCA backed the UK Payments Initiative on June 2, 2026, an industry scheme for commercial variable recurring payments that lets account-to-account rails handle subscriptions.

Bitcoin fell to $67,001 and every major token dropped 5-7.5% in 24 hours as the Fear & Greed Index hit 26, even as the S&P 500 and Dow closed higher.

A House of Lords committee has urged the Bank of England to ease its proposed stablecoin rules, warning that strict holding caps could leave GBP tokens stranded.

Strive added 2,500 BTC to reach 19,000 total on June 2, one day after Strategy disclosed its first sale, as bitcoin fell to about $69,076.

MoneyGram issued its own dollar stablecoin, MGUSD, on Stellar on June 2, 2026, with a self-custodial wallet for 60M customers across 500,000 retail locations.

ProCap sold 52 BTC to repurchase 2M shares at a ~50% discount to net asset value. Pompliano calls it accretive. The discount itself is the bigger story.

Mt. Gox shifted 10,306 BTC (~$731M) to a fresh wallet for the first time in two months, landing as Bitcoin trades near $70,557 in a Fear-gripped market.

Grayscale priced its planned Hyperliquid Staking ETF at a 0.29% fee, undercutting a rival 21Shares product and pushing the ETF fee war into staking wrappers.

SWIFT is launching a cross-border payments framework with 50-plus banks, promising instant settlement, fixed fees, and full traceability by end of June 2026.

Ethereum's staking ratio reached an all-time high of 32.4%, with 39M ETH worth about $80B now locked, even as ETH trades under $2,000 on June 2, 2026.

Charles Schwab, with roughly $10 trillion in client assets, is aiming to launch spot crypto trading for registered investment advisors in 2027.

The US Senate is expected to take the CLARITY Act back to the floor this week, picking up the digital asset market structure bill after the Memorial Day recess.

Robinhood closed its C$250M WonderFi acquisition on June 1, 2026, entering Canada with Bitbuy and Coinsquare and pushing its international base to 1M.

A jury convicted Citron Research founder Andrew Left of securities fraud over trading against his own published calls. The crypto-markets read.

The world's largest derivatives exchange now trades Bitcoin, ETH, SOL and XRP futures and options around the clock, ending the weekend CME gap.

Binance launched commission-free equities trading for eligible non-US and non-UK users and previewed tokenized 'bStocks', as BTC sits at $71,364 on June 1, 2026.

Japan's LDP asked Finance Minister Katayama on June 1 to legalize crypto ETF trading and push yen stablecoins against the $315B dollar-token market.

BitMine Immersion added 26,497 ETH on June 1, 2026, lifting its treasury to 5.42M ETH (~$10.7B) even as ether fell to $1,978 in a broad selloff.

Michael Saylor's Strategy disclosed selling 32 BTC for about $2.5M in late May, the first sale on record for a firm built on never selling Bitcoin.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs have lost $2.96B over 10 straight days, pushing 2026 net flows negative for the first time. AUM fell from $104B to $94B.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.42B in net outflows for the week of May 25-31, the third-highest weekly drawdown on record, per WuBlockchain data.

A solo home miner running a roughly $300 machine solved a full Bitcoin block worth about $232K against 149 million-to-1 odds. Here is the math behind the win.

Bank of England's Megan Greene predicts stablecoin demand fades within five years as tokenized bank deposits take over. What it means for crypto payment rails.

Coinbase has switched on direct Indian rupee deposits and withdrawals in India, cutting out third-party rails for one of crypto

Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US grabbed roughly $1B of Iranian crypto. Only $344M is documented, and the path into the Bitcoin reserve is far from clear.

Cointelegraph flags that ETH has never closed three straight red quarters. With ether at $2,024 on May 31, Q2 2026 is the test. Here's the setup.

Vietnam's Finance Ministry has proposed allowing SMEs to pledge digital and virtual assets as loan collateral, a step toward formalizing crypto in credit markets.

An ETF mirroring Republican lawmaker disclosures shows IBIT at 4% of holdings and Intel at 7.72%, tracking the same assets President Trump has promoted.

The PBOC is pushing e-CNY into fiscal spending, lottery draws and Belt and Road payments, the opposite of the US anti-CBDC, pro-stablecoin path.

Over $1.5B in long positions have been liquidated since May 25, Cointelegraph reports, even as BTC holds near $73,400 and spot prices stay flat. The damage is leverage, not selling.

DTCC, the $100T US clearing backbone, plans to issue tokenized equities, ETFs, and Treasuries on Stellar by 2027. XLM rose 33.7% on the news as of May 30, 2026.

Senator Cynthia Lummis says the CLARITY Act must pass this Congress or US crypto market structure rules likely stall until 2030, with November midterms in the way.

Sui's mainnet is back online after a multi-hour end-of-epoch halt that reporting traces to a gas-charging bug in v1.72, the chain's second long stall of 2026.

Coinbase and Kalshi are launching regulated perpetual crypto futures for US investors, bringing a product long confined to offshore exchanges onshore.

Strategy's STRC preferred share has slipped below the $99 par mark as Strive's rival Bitcoin treasury vehicle pulls investor attention away from MSTR.

A New York filing asks the court to treat Satoshi Nakamoto's dormant wallets as lost property under state law, valuing each address at under $10.

CryptoQuant says BTC whale balances are shrinking at the fastest pace of 2026 while dolphin growth has stalled, conditions last seen in the 2022 bear market.

Central banks now hold 26.6% of global reserves in gold, the highest share since 1993. The shift reshapes the Bitcoin-as-reserve-asset debate.

Michael Saylor said Strategy may sell Bitcoin to cover STRC preferred dividends at 11.5%. The signal reverses years of pure accumulation rhetoric.

Sui experienced its second network stall in five months on May 28, raising fresh questions about validator coordination and chain reliability.

Hyperliquid's SpaceX pre-IPO market saw a 45% intraday drop, the latest reminder that synthetic private-company exposure on-chain carries its own risk profile.

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.

Pumpfun's cumulative SOL sales have reached 4.46 million tokens worth $780M at an average price of $175, with the platform still drip-selling into a weak market.

US-listed Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a $733M net outflow on May 27, per SoSoValue data, as BTC traded near $72,967 with crypto Fear & Greed at 31.

Bitcoin slipped under $75,000 in a sharp four-hour move, wiping out more than $150M in long positions. Here is what the data shows and what changed.

Tencent connected PayPal to WeChat Pay's QR-code merchant network, letting US users pay at Chinese stores via PayPal balances for the first time.

A Google software engineer faces US insider trading charges over trades on a prediction market, with prosecutors alleging roughly $1 million in gains.

The CFTC has filed to vacate its $5M settlement with Gemini, telling the court the deal it struck in 2025 no longer meets its standard of fairness.

Bitcoin slips to $74,377 and ether falls 2.7% after fresh US strikes on Iran follow drone attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

BIS and seven central banks including the Fed and ECB will move Project Agorá from prototype to live transactions, with HSBC, Citi, JPMorgan, Visa and Mastercard participating.

Cumulative volume on crypto-linked payment cards has hit $7.8B with monthly throughput at fresh highs, a quiet adoption signal as token prices wobble.

Mastercard has been granted a New York BitLicense to operate stablecoin and digital asset payment infrastructure, opening direct rails for tokenized money in the US.

HTX denies UK sanctions allegations and says it refused to list a ruble-pegged stablecoin offered by a Russia-linked issuer earlier this year.

CoinDesk reports crypto PACs spent $9M in Texas primaries, backing winning candidates in both parties as the industry sets up for the 2026 midterms.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfrost flags an 81% drop in Bitcoin spot trading volume since October 2025, with BTC at $75,889 on May 27, 2026.

South Korean crypto trading volume has collapsed to roughly 10% of local stock market activity, a sharp reversal for what was once the world's most retail-heavy market.

The stablecoin market reached $322B on May 27, 2026, and policy researchers are escalating warnings that issuer reserves resemble pre-FDIC banking risk.

Seoul prosecutors filed the country's first criminal indictment over a decentralized exchange rug pull, setting a precedent for on-chain fraud cases.

Bernstein puts the tokenized real-world asset market at $51B, with Figure's $18B in tokenized private credit leading by a wide margin over treasuries.

Kairos Research data shows spot HYPE ETFs have absorbed 1.04% of Hyperliquid's circulating market cap in their first 10 trading days, a faster pace than early BTC ETF demand.

Hong Kong regulators finalized licensing rules for crypto advisors and fund managers under a same-business, same-risk, same-rules principle.

Bitcoin holds near $75,241 as traders track a forming golden cross signal, while Zcash slides 9% and altcoins follow majors lower on May 27, 2026.

Bankless co-founder David Hoffman says the 'ETH is Money' thesis has largely played out, prompting personal ETH sales as the asset trades near $2,077.

A single $1.3B block trade of BlackRock's IBIT printed at 10:30am ET, dwarfing every other trade as BTC sat near $75,800 in a Fear-rated market.

CryptoQuant data shows XRP liquidity on Binance has dropped to its lowest reading since January 2020, raising slippage risk for large orders.

Binance is re-entering the Philippines through a BlockShoals partnership placed inside the SEC's regulatory sandbox, after losing access to local users in 2024.

Alipay unveils AI Wallet and Token Pay as its AI Pay product crosses 100 million users, pushing tokenized payments into one of the world's largest super-apps.

Hyperliquid extends HIP-4 outcome markets to Fed decisions, CPI prints, and NVDA earnings, using validator-run settlement instead of Polymarket's UMA oracle.

CoinDesk says the $318B stablecoin float now exceeds the foreign exchange reserves of 95 countries, putting issuers in sovereign company.

Hyperliquid's HYPE token briefly flipped Dogecoin in market cap on May 26 as US strikes on Iran weighed on risk assets and privacy tokens sold off hardest.

Beijing launches a sweeping crackdown on offshore trading venues accused of helping investors bypass capital controls after an estimated $1 trillion left China last year.

The top 7 token unlocks this week total $77.27M, led by GUA at $27.71M, dropping fresh supply into a market sitting at Fear 39 with BTC near $76,600.

Stani Kulechov says rsETH is fully restored after the KelpDAO drain, with the final tranche routed into the LayerZero lockbox and Aave markets back to normal.

Strategy and BitMine both posted a zero-buy week in the seven days to May 25. Four smaller public firms still added a combined 612 BTC to corporate treasuries.

Wallets holding 100,000+ LINK reached a record 805, up 8.2%, signaling steady whale accumulation even as broader crypto markets trade in fear territory.

Cointelegraph reports the death of Ondo Finance founder and CEO Nathan Allman, raising leadership questions for one of the largest RWA tokenization protocols.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov backs Babylon's proposal for the first novel Spoke on Aave V4, bringing native BTC as collateral without wrapping.

Vitalik Buterin frames the latest Ethereum Foundation departures as a deliberate move toward a leaner org, and discloses that roughly 90% of his net worth sits in ETH.

Polygon says it has moved $2.5T in stablecoin transfer volume since launch, cementing its role as a low-fee USDC and USDT rail.

SEC approved Nasdaq PHLX's QBTC Bitcoin index options on May 22, but the contracts cannot trade until CFTC exemptive relief and OCC disclosure clearance arrive.

Arkham flagged $1B in Bitcoin moved off BlackRock-tagged wallets last week as IBIT extends a multi-day outflow streak and BTC holds $77,455.

An early Bitcoin miner from the Satoshi era deposited 2,650 BTC, around $203M, into FalconX and Cumberland OTC desks, per Onchain Lens.

A new report says the Federal Reserve is considering direct settlement access for crypto firms, while US banks warn the shift would pull deposits and tighten funding.

Tether and Georgia announce plans for GEL®, a lari-pegged stablecoin, marking Tether's first national fiat partnership outside the US dollar and euro.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs have shed assets for six straight days. 2026 net inflows have shrunk to $536 million, putting the year close to going net negative.

FDIC has proposed a Bank Secrecy Act rule requiring FDIC-supervised stablecoin issuers to run AML/CFT programs, sanctions controls, and reporting under the GENIUS Act.

B3 registered the first guaranteed OTC flexible option tied to Hashdex's HASH11 crypto-index ETF, a piece of market plumbing US issuers still cannot offer.

CryptoQuant says Bitcoin's apparent demand metric is approaching -147,000 BTC, its most bearish reading since December 2025 as spot price hovers near $77,300.

The Fed's April minutes show policymakers ready to tighten if inflation stays sticky. CME FedWatch now prices a 54% chance of a December hike.

Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Federal Reserve chair Friday, with early reporting pointing to an Alan Greenspan-style approach to policy.

BitMine added 60,000 ETH worth $126M near $2,000, building a treasury position large enough to test inclusion in Russell indexes tied to $12.2T in passive assets.

BTC +3.3%, ETH +4.6%, SOL +5% in 24h after Secretary Rubio cites significant progress in past 48 hours toward an Iran deal covering the Strait of Hormuz.

Tether holds $141B in US Treasuries directly and indirectly, ranking 17th globally and entangling stablecoin demand with sovereign debt financing.

Hyperliquid has redirected nearly all of its $1.16B trading fee revenue into buying back HYPE, a mechanism unlike anything on rival perp DEXs.

NEAR climbs roughly 50% in seven days as AI-themed tokens outpace a soft BTC and ETH tape. Traders are now watching the $5 level for follow-through.

BTC sits at $76,800 with 10-year Treasury yields back near 5%. The first clean macro test of Bitcoin's hard-money thesis in over a year is now live.

Serious credit card delinquencies have climbed to 13.1% of accounts, the highest reading since 2010, per data circulating on X this week.

Trump Media's 11,542 BTC stash is now worth roughly $455M less than it paid, after sliding BTC prices and a second transfer to Crypto.com on May 23.

Rio Civil Police raid uncovers a Comando Vermelho scheme converting stolen electricity into crypto, exposing a new model for laundering criminal energy theft.

Michael Saylor said it is 'not unlikely' Strategy sells some bitcoin before the end of 2026, a softening of the firm's long-held never-sell posture.

Bitcoin slid below $75,000 on May 23, 2026, wiping out more than $100 million in long positions within a single hour as the selloff deepened.

US banks are sitting on roughly $306B in unrealized losses while BTC drops to $75,272 and ETH falls under $2,060 on May 23, 2026. Here is the read.

Law firm Fenwick & West agreed to pay $54 million to resolve claims it helped Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX structure transactions that hid customer fund misuse.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer says the CLARITY Act will reach President Trump's desk, citing the Senate Banking Committee's 15-9 bipartisan vote.

ICE Markets and OKX rolled out perpetual oil futures tied to Brent and WTI prices, giving 120M OKX retail users access to regulated energy contracts that never expire.

BofA's latest 13F shows the second-largest US bank lifting its IBIT position while cutting spot Ether and Solana ETF holdings into a crypto-wide drawdown.

SpaceX is letting employees sell shares before the usual six-month lock-up window, adding real liquidity to a stock already traded via crypto pre-IPO perps.

Bitcoin lost 2.6% and Ethereum 3.1% on May 22 while the Dow closed at a record high. Fear and Greed dropped to 35 as majors sold off in unison.

ECB rejected a Bruegel paper that asked the central bank to ease liquidity rules and backstop euro stablecoin issuers. Euros sit at 0.3% of the $300B market.

Asset-backed private credit reached $1B in tokenized form in under six months, while tokenized venture capital took over seven years to clear the same bar.

JPMorgan says tokenized money market funds will stay under 10-15% of the stablecoin market until US securities rules let them clear without broker gating.

Polymarket confirmed a compromised governance role drained roughly $520K from its Polygon contracts, but says user funds remain safe and trading continues.

Qivalis has tripled its backing from 12 to 37 European banks across 15 countries as the MiCA-regulated euro stablecoin pushes toward H2 2026 launch.

BTC's options-implied volatility fell to a seven-month low this week even as oil rallied on Iran tensions and BTC slipped under $77,400.

May 21 ETF flows split: HYPE, SOL and XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows while BTC and ETH spot ETFs posted outflows as Bitcoin slid to $77,300.

South Korea is reportedly considering abolishing its 22% crypto tax, a policy delayed since 2021. The move would reset retail incentives in one of Asia's largest crypto markets.

Tokenized equities passed $1.6B in market cap on May 22, 2026 with Ethereum leading chain share at 41.1%. Solana and other L1s split the rest.

Trump Media moved 2,650 BTC, worth roughly $205M, into Crypto.com on May 22, expanding a treasury stack now reported across multiple custody venues.

India's regulators have forced Polymarket to go dark in the country, with Kalshi potentially next as authorities classify event contracts as illegal betting.

The FCA expanded its Scale-up Unit to solo-regulated firms on May 20, 2026, opening a four-week application window that covers UK crypto fintechs.

Billionaire Mark Cuban says he exited most of his Bitcoin position, calling the asset directionless as BTC trades near $77,470 after a 5% weekly slide.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce signals the agency's innovation exemption for tokenized stocks will cover native onchain equity only, not wrapped securities.

The Trump administration plans $2B in awards to quantum computing firms in exchange for equity stakes, per WSJ. The move pulls Bitcoin's quantum clock forward.

Aave V4 has activated Smart Value Recapture, redirecting MEV from liquidations away from searchers and back into the protocol's revenue stack.

SoftBank exits its near $1B position in Twenty One, the Tether-cofounded Bitcoin treasury firm, in a buyout reported by Decrypt on May 21, 2026.

Bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced the PARITY Act on May 21, 2026, directing the IRS to study a $200 de minimis exemption for everyday crypto transactions.

Binance has opened perpetual futures on a SpaceX pre-IPO index, letting traders take leveraged positions on a private company widely tipped to hit a $2T valuation.

MoneyGram joins Tempo, the Stripe and Paradigm-backed L1, as anchor remittance validator and will route stablecoin settlement through global payment flows.

Hyperliquid's HYPE token has overtaken Solana on fully diluted valuation, reaching $54.47B versus SOL's $54.22B as of May 21, 2026.

Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum will fold privacy into the base layer through three upgrades targeting censorship resistance, transaction linking, and wallet reads.

Unsealed filings claim Jane Street tapped a private Telegram channel for Terraform insider tips, dumped $192M UST near par, and made $134M shorting the token.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the agency's most consistent pro-crypto voice, will join Regent University School of Law as an associate professor in November.

The Federal Reserve is sketching out narrower master accounts for crypto and fintech firms, days after Trump ordered a review of access rules.

Trump signed an executive order directing the Fed to revisit crypto firms' access to master accounts, putting Kraken, Ripple, Coinbase, and Circle in line.

Bernstein says Bitcoin miners have signed over $90B in AI infrastructure partnerships and control 27 GW of planned power capacity, reshaping the sector.

South Carolina enacts a sweeping pro-crypto law banning state taxes on crypto payments, protecting self-custody, and barring CBDC use by state agencies.

Bitfinex traders added size into Bitcoin's five-day drop, pushing aggregate long positions to their highest level since late 2023.

AllUnity, the BaFin-licensed DWS-Galaxy-Flow Traders venture behind EURAU, plans a Swedish krona stablecoin and an AI agentic payments stack.

Stablecoin circulating supply crossed $323 billion for the first time, even as BTC sits flat at $77K and the Fear & Greed index reads Neutral at 40.

Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to the OCC arguing nine national trust bank charter approvals for crypto firms breach the National Bank Act.

Value investor Duan Yongping, the founder behind BBK and Vivo, has opened his first equity position in USDC issuer Circle, signaling deeper traditional capital interest in stablecoin rails.

The CFTC asked a federal court to stop Minnesota from enforcing a new state law that bans prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket from operating.

Polymarket and Nasdaq Private Market launch contracts tied to private unicorn valuations and IPO timing, opening a $5 trillion pool to retail traders.

Trump Media's Truth Social has withdrawn its spot Bitcoin ETF application from the SEC, removing one of the brand-name issuers from the pending queue.

Senator Cynthia Lummis outlined the procedural next steps for the CLARITY Act, including a plan to combine Senate Banking and Agriculture committee texts.

House Republicans are attaching a permanent CBDC ban to the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, with Majority Whip Tom Emmer leading the surveillance-state framing.

The Bank of England and FCA want UK wholesale settlement infrastructure running near 24/7 to support tokenized finance. Here is what changes.

Anthropic says tokenized representations of its private stock are void after on-chain valuations swung past $1B, exposing a tokenization legal gap.

Echo Protocol froze cross-chain transactions and ECHO token fell double digits after a suspected exploit hit the Bitcoin restaking project on May 19.

SEC under Chair Paul Atkins prepares a tokenized stock innovation exemption that would let crypto-native platforms list onchain equities with lighter rules.

AI Financial, the public treasury vehicle holding World Liberty Financial's WLFI token, flagged substantial doubt about going concern in a fresh SEC filing.

The White House is reviewing whether to kill a decades-old SEC rule requiring brokers to deliver the best available stock prices, per Bloomberg.

Kevin Warsh is set to be sworn in as Fed Chair on May 22, 2026, replacing Jerome Powell. Crypto markets brace for a new rate path under a former hawk.

Ronin's RON token surged 39.6% after Coinbase confirmed it will list the ERC-20 wrapped version on its exchange, opening US retail access.

Bitwise will hold HYPE on its balance sheet and route 10% of its Hyperliquid ETF management fee back into the token, an unusual issuer commitment.

Santiment data shows wallets holding at least 100 BTC have grown to 20,229, up 11.2% in a year, even as price slid below $77,000 this week.

The SEC has rescinded its decades-old gag rule, letting companies and individuals speak publicly after settling enforcement cases. Here is what changes.

Strategy added 24,869 bitcoin for $2.01B as BTC sat near $77K, pushing total holdings to 843,738 BTC and extending its corporate accumulation lead.

BTC traded at $76,796 on May 18, 2026 after Trump's fresh Iran warning rattled risk assets. ETH off 3.6%, SOL down 2.9%, Fear & Greed at 39.

Goldman Sachs sold its entire XRP and Solana ETF positions in Q1 2026 and cut Ethereum ETF holdings by 70%, according to the bank's latest 13F filing.

Standard Chartered is set to fully absorb Zodia Custody's institutional crypto custody business, ending its joint-venture structure, Bloomberg reports.

Irish police recovered a long-dormant Bitcoin wallet holding 500 BTC linked to convicted drug dealer Clifton Collins, worth roughly $38.5M at current prices.

House Agriculture Committee leaders urged President Trump to fill the CFTC's four vacant commissioner seats, citing urgent regulatory work facing the agency.

Cointelegraph reports SOL and XRP spot ETFs took net inflows last week while BTC and ETH spot ETFs posted net outflows, deepening a flow divergence.

Leveraged crypto longs lost $563M in 24 hours per CoinDesk, with ether and bitcoin positions taking the worst hits as ETH fell 3.1% and BTC slid 1.5%.

Anthropic will brief the G20's Financial Stability Board on cyber vulnerabilities surfaced by its Claude Mythos AI model, per FT. Implications for crypto.

VanEck and Grayscale filed amended BNB ETF proposals on May 17, positioning the products as the next major altcoin spot ETFs in line for SEC approval.

KuCoin Australia rolls out its KuCard on Mastercard rails as the exchange leans into a regulatory-first identity ahead of broader AUSTRAC compliance work.

Iran says its new Hormuz Safe program insures Persian Gulf cargo shipments in Bitcoin and claims $10B in revenue. Here is what the announcement actually says.

Aave V3 has restored WETH loan-to-value ratios on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle and Linea in line with the rsETH technical recovery plan.

Bitwise BHYP recorded $4.31M in day-one volume on May 15, the largest opening day of any altcoin ETF launched in 2026. Inflow data lands next.

Solana's official X account flagged $1B in cumulative spot ETF assets and an allocation from Europe's largest asset manager in a May 17 status post.

Vietnam's Deputy Finance Minister set a Q3 2026 launch for the country's first regulated crypto market, with five approved operators and a $408M capital floor.

With CLARITY Act through the Senate Banking Committee, traditional banks are expected to intensify lobbying ahead of a Senate floor vote within weeks.

Kraken trimmed roughly 150 roles after deploying AI internally, and reports now suggest its long-tracked IPO could slip into 2027.

Harvard's Q1 2026 13F shows the endowment sold its full Ethereum ETF position and trimmed 2.3 million shares of BlackRock's IBIT, a sharp reversal from its prior buildup.

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala raised its BlackRock IBIT position to roughly $660M, accumulating while US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $1B in a week.

Japan's biggest brokerage houses are preparing to distribute crypto investment funds, opening a major retail channel for digital asset exposure in Asia's third-largest economy.

Cointelegraph reports Bitmine's ETH treasury is more than five times larger than the next-biggest public ETH holder, deepening single-name concentration.

Washington Post reports more than 20% of senior Trump administration officials disclose crypto holdings totaling at least $193M, raising conflict questions.

Polymarket pegs the chance of Bitcoin trading below $75,000 at 60%, with BTC at $78,214 as of May 16, 2026 and ETF flows turning red this week.

Cointelegraph reports USDC circulation fell by roughly $1 billion over the past week, contracting alongside a softening crypto tape and BTC near $78K.

Canaccord Wealth UK, a $70B AUM manager, will let select clients allocate up to 5% to Bitwise BTC and ETH ETPs under an exclusive partnership.

Ether's ratio against Bitcoin has slipped to a level last seen in mid-2025. Exchange inflows are picking up, and the 7-day gap between ETH and BTC keeps widening.

Bhutan's sovereign wealth arm tells CoinDesk it has no record of selling the BTC that on-chain trackers logged as a $1 billion drawdown from its wallets.

US-listed Bitcoin ETFs shed $1 billion in net weekly outflows, the worst capital flight since late January, as inflation fears rattle institutions.

BTC slides 3.2% to $78,016 and SOL drops 5.7% as analysts map credit, currency, and liquidity tripwires that would confirm a fresh financial crisis.

Italy's largest bank Intesa Sanpaolo grew its crypto exposure to $235M in Q1 2026, deepening its push into digital assets under MiCA-era European banking rules.

Cointelegraph data shows HyperLiquid commands 90% of daily active users across perp DEXs, leaving dYdX, GMX, and Vertex fighting for the rest.

Public companies added roughly 369,000 BTC to corporate treasuries over the past 12 months, accumulation that continues as Bitcoin trades near $79,000.

Kraken is migrating its cross-chain messaging from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP, joining a broader retreat from LayerZero since the April 2026 exploit.

Senator Elizabeth Warren says the CLARITY Act will blow up the economy, opening Democratic opposition as the crypto market structure bill heads to markup.

Cardano whale wallets now control 67% of circulating ADA, the highest concentration since 2020, raising questions about retail dispersion and price risk.

Gerstein Harrow, the firm fighting Arbitrum over $71M in Kelp-exploit ETH, is now going after the $344M USDT that Tether froze for OFAC.

Senator Cynthia Lummis says bank permissibility language in the CLARITY Act will make the US dollar a digital asset under federal banking rules.

Dune Analytics laid off 25% of its workforce as CEO Fredrik Haga shifts the on-chain data company toward AI-driven products and a leaner cost base.

Bitwise will list its Hyperliquid ETF BHYP on May 16, 2026, with in-house HYPE staking, putting it ahead of Grayscale's pending filing.

Anthropic has agreed to a $30B raise led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia and Altimeter at a $900B valuation, per FT. Crypto markets noted but barely moved.

Hana Bank acquired a 1 trillion won ($670M) stake in Upbit operator Dunamu, signaling South Korean commercial banks are ready to back digital asset operators.

Sui introduces Spheres, controlled execution environments designed for institutional multiparty workflows on the Sui blockchain. Here is what it changes.

An Office of Government Ethics filing shows President Trump purchased Marathon Digital shares in Q1 2026, linking the White House to a public BTC miner.

Sei has joined Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program with a joint blockchain framework paper coming. Here is what the partnership unlocks for the L1.

Bullish reported a $605M loss tied to a fall in the value of its crypto holdings, missing estimates and sending BLSH shares lower after the print.

CME Group's first market-cap weighted crypto index futures debut June 8, tied to the Nasdaq CME Crypto Index. Here is what changes for institutional desks.

The Senate Banking Committee is marking up the CLARITY Act today after 100+ amendments. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong calls the vote a major opening for US crypto.

The Bank of England is reconsidering proposed holding caps and reserve rules for sterling stablecoins after sustained industry pressure, per a May 14 report.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a $635 million one-day outflow as BTC slid 1.5% to $79,874, a sharp swing in institutional positioning.

Anthropic's Claude AI walked a long-time bitcoin holder through recovering 4.96 BTC, worth roughly $395,000, from a damaged computer untouched for years.

Court documents show OpenAI CEO Sam Altman holds over $2 billion in stakes across companies that have done business with OpenAI, Cointelegraph reports.

Kevin Warsh takes over the Federal Reserve with inflation still elevated and oil rising. Bitcoin fell 2.1% to $79,324 on the news.

Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing family is offloading large parts of its empire to build a cash stockpile, while SOL drops 5% and BTC dips 2.2% in 24 hours.

Cerebras priced its IPO at $185 per share, raising $5.55 billion in one of 2026's largest tech listings as AI compute demand reshapes capital flows.

Solana fell 4.4% and Bitcoin slipped 1.8% on May 14 as Trump and Xi opened Beijing talks with a trade truce and Iran war on the agenda.

Latvia's central bank granted Paybis a combined MiCA CASP and PSD2 payment institution license, the first dual authorization the regulator has issued.

Global M2 climbed to a record $121.9 trillion, adding $17.1T in two years. The number revives the Bitcoin debasement trade as BTC trades at $79,582.

Metaplanet posts ¥3.08B Q1 FY2026 revenue, up 251% year over year, with BTC Yield reaching 2.8% quarter to date on its Bitcoin treasury strategy.

eToro's Q1 2026 crypto revenue fell to $2.15B from $3.5B as commodities became 60% of trading commissions, yet the broker still posted a record $82M profit.

JPMorgan filed a prospectus on May 12 for a tokenized cash fund built on Ethereum and Solana, putting institutional liquidity on two public chains.

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic closes a $120M Series D backed by Nasdaq Ventures and Deutsche Bank, valuing the company at $670M as compliance demand grows.

Arkham identified wallets linked to Iran's central bank after Tether froze $344 million in USDT flagged for sanctions evasion.

Injective's INJ added roughly $56M in market cap following the on-chain launch of pre-IPO stock tokens for OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic.

Coinbase added Solana as accepted collateral for USDC loans up to $100,000, giving SOL holders cash without selling and adding a third asset to its lending product.

BlackRock has filed with the SEC for a second tokenized fund built on Securitize infrastructure, deepening its on-chain asset push beyond BUIDL.

Sen. Jack Reed introduced legislation to bar crypto from US tax payments, federal reserves, and Fed master accounts, raising the regulatory bar mid-CLARITY Act.

Senate Banking Committee members filed over 100 amendments to the crypto market structure bill ahead of Thursday's markup, Politico reports.

Charles Schwab has started rolling out Schwab Crypto accounts to retail clients, letting them buy BTC and ETH alongside stocks and bonds.

US banking groups sent more than 8,000 letters to Senate offices since Friday urging lawmakers to revisit the stablecoin yield compromise.

VanEck data shows Layer 1 blockchain tokens have fallen 49% since the start of 2025 while listed crypto equities have gained 48%, a near 100-point gap.

CleanSpark posted a $378.3M net loss for fiscal Q2 2026, with $224.1M tied to non-cash items, even as the miner kept expanding its hashrate footprint.

Exodus Movement reported a $32.1M Q1 net loss as revenue dropped 36.8% to $22.7M. The wallet maker sold 63% of its bitcoin treasury to finance deals.

Banque de France's Denis Beau calls for private tokenized euro mobilization, splitting publicly with ECB President Lagarde's wholesale-first digital euro plan.

DTCC is wiring Chainlink standards into its Collateral AppChain to enable 24/7 collateral workflows across a $114 trillion settlement footprint.

Anthropic voided all unauthorized secondary share trades on May 11 as tokenized venues pushed its implied valuation past $1.6 trillion, raising litigation risk.

Grayscale updates its Hyperliquid ETF prospectus to add HYPE staking, putting yield-bearing exposure in front of US regulators just as a competing product begins trading.

Standard Chartered estimates XRP ETFs could draw $4-8B by year-end if the CLARITY Act passes, with Flare's XRPFi catching institutional attention.

May 2026 token unlocks reach $187.65M across the top 7 names, with TON's $86M release leading the pack and adding supply pressure to a flat market.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest bought $5.5M of Circle stock across ARKK, ARKW, and ARKF on May 11, adding to existing positions in the USDC issuer.

South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit adds Venice Token (VVV) with KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs, opening Korean retail access to the AI inference token.

MultiBank's mb.io launches institutional gold tokenization with Kings Orbis, EON3, and Mavryk. West African bullion is vaulted in Dubai under LBMA custody.

Bitmine's Ethereum treasury crossed 5.2 million ETH after a 26,659 ETH purchase last week. At current prices the position is worth more than $12 billion.

Hidden Road, Ripple's prime-brokerage unit, raised $200M from Neuberger Berman to expand cross-asset margin trading across TradFi and crypto markets.

Digital asset funds drew $858M last week, a six-week high, as a Senate stablecoin deal and CLARITY Act progress pulled institutional money back in.

Circle pulled in $222M from investors for the token tied to its Arc blockchain at a $3B valuation, per CNBC reporting picked up by WuBlockchain on May 11.

Bloomberg reports a16z crypto is leading a funding round for Canton Network operator Digital Asset that targets a $2 billion valuation.

Tether's QVAC project debuts as a decentralized, local-first AI runtime that the company frames as its second reserve asset alongside the dollar.

CoinGecko data shows tokenized gold spot volume in Q1 2026 has already surpassed the entire 2025 total, with XAUT and PAXG leading the surge.

Mining pools controlling roughly 75% of Bitcoin hashrate are joining a common open standard for block construction, a structural decentralization shift.

Crypto.com received the UAE Central Bank's Stored Value Facilities license, the first VASP to do so, opening direct AED issuance and wallet rails.

A redemption wave is sweeping the $1.8 trillion private credit market while Apollo looks to sell a $3 billion fund. Crypto's tokenized RWA pitch faces its first real test.

Morgan Stanley's spot bitcoin product MSBT pulled in $194M of net inflows during its first month and recorded no daily net outflows, per WuBlockchain.

Sui announced plans to launch confidential transactions this year, promising free private payments at scale. Here is what the rollout could mean for users.

The Federal Reserve's latest Financial Stability Report cites DefiLlama three times, marking a notable institutional nod to onchain data infrastructure.

The US government's crypto holdings have grown by more than $4 billion since April 1, 2026, according to Cointelegraph, signaling tighter custody of seized assets.

Tokenized real-world assets cross $30 billion in on-chain value, a tenfold rise in two years, with nearly half of holdings concentrated in the United States.

Three apps returned a combined $96.3M to token holders in the last 30 days as revenue-sharing becomes a defining competitive feature in 2026.

CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Volatility futures on June 1, 2026, pending CFTC review, giving traders a direct way to hedge BTC price swings.

Trump Media reported a $405.9M Q1 2026 net loss driven largely by markdowns on its crypto treasury, putting digital asset accounting back in the spotlight.

Roughly $2B in protocol TVL has shifted from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP, even as LayerZero still leads on cross-chain volume, per analyst Tom Wan.

Jane Street generated a record $16.1 billion in trading revenue in Q1 2026, cementing its place as one of the most profitable trading firms in the world.

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%.

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.

Revolut users saw Bitcoin priced near zero on May 8 after a third-party data feed glitch. Trades were not executed at the bad price, the company says.

WLF co-founder Zach Witkoff says the Trump-linked crypto venture is in final stages of conditional approval for a US national trust bank charter.

JPMorgan analysts project Strategy could buy up to $30B in Bitcoin in 2026 after Saylor's firm already added 145,834 BTC worth $11B year to date.

Germany may end its one-year tax exemption on Bitcoin and crypto holdings from 2027, ending one of Europe's most generous long-term holder benefits.

Santiment data shows Bitcoin lost 245,000 holder wallets in five days, the steepest drop in nearly two years, as BTC slips below $80K with neutral sentiment.

Jack Dorsey's Block jumped 8% after Q1 earnings beat estimates, even as the company posted its first quarterly loss in three years on weaker Bitcoin revenue.

Anthropic is in talks for up to $50B in fresh funding at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, per the FT, putting OKX's new pre-IPO perp in motion.

Coinbase Exchange has been down for more than two hours, blocking trading and withdrawals during a soft session for BTC and ETH.

Coinbase reported a $400M Q1 2026 loss and missed revenue estimates as CFO Alesia Haas blamed tough macro conditions. Shares fell after hours.

Bitwise rolled out its first tokenized fund as the asset manager pushes deeper into onchain wrappers for traditional crypto exposure products.

Kalshi closed a $1 billion funding round at a $22 billion valuation, confirming earlier reports as prediction market volumes hit record highs.

SoFi's relaunched crypto business pulled in $121.6M in Q1 transaction revenue, but disclosures show costs swallowed nearly the entire haul.

Kraken parent Payward is acquiring Asia-based stablecoin payments infrastructure firm Reap for $600M, expanding into card issuance and merchant rails.

A White House crypto adviser says the administration is targeting July 4 for CLARITY Act passage, with Senate Banking markup planned this month.

White House official Patrick Witt says a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve announcement is coming within weeks, signaling movement on Trump's March 2025 executive order.

Coinbase has rolled out GOLD-PERP and SILVER-PERP contracts for eligible non-US users, pushing its derivatives venue beyond crypto into traditional commodities.

XRP whale deposits to Binance just hit their weakest reading in over three years, signaling large holders are sitting on supply rather than rotating to sell.

South Korea confirms a January 2027 start for crypto income tax, per Edaily. The 20% levy above 2.5M won applies to gains from digital assets.

OKX is rolling out perpetual futures contracts pegged to private valuations of OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic, opening crypto-funded exposure to AI giants.

UK regulators open a competition probe into digital wallet agreements between PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa, with knock-on risk for crypto card issuers.

BNY Mellon, the world's largest custody bank with $52T under custody, is expanding crypto services in Abu Dhabi as the UAE pushes deeper into digital assets.

Aave liquidated the KelpDAO attacker's rsETH positions on Ethereum and Arbitrum, leaving the protocol about 10% short of clearing the bad debt.

Ripple, Ondo Finance, JPMorgan's Kinexys, and Mastercard are testing a pilot that links the XRP Ledger to traditional bank settlement rails.

Bitcoin trades near $81,732 on May 6 as oil drops 6% and the dollar sinks on reports the US and Iran are nearing a one-page memo to end the war.

Tokenized US Treasuries on Ethereum reached an ~$8B all-time high on May 6, 2026, even as ETH spot price drifted lower. Here is what is driving the flow.

Zcash (ZEC) printed a fresh 2026 high of $525 after a 23.2% single-day move, leading a privacy coin rally as Bitcoin idles near $81,400.

Michael Saylor said Strategy may sell some of its 818,334 BTC to fund dividend payments, the first crack in the company's never-sell stance.

SoFi is launching SoFiUSD on Solana, citing low cost and fast settlement. The bank-chartered fintech now joins a growing list of US issuers.

Morgan Stanley will roll out spot crypto trading on its wealth management platform later in 2026, alongside tokenized assets and ETF integration.

Andreessen Horowitz closed $2.2B Crypto Fund 5, a narrower crypto vehicle focused on stablecoins and onchain finance.

Coinbase is cutting 14% of headcount and experimenting with one-person teams as it restructures around AI tooling, the company confirmed on May 5, 2026.

Spanish lenders Sabadell and Bankinter plan to join a euro stablecoin consortium alongside nine other European banks under MiCA, per Expansion.

Coinbase rolls out support for self-managed super funds in Australia, giving SMSF trustees direct crypto access inside a retirement pool worth over $1 trillion AUD.

Aave raised the GHO borrow cap to 150 million on its Core instance, signaling steady demand for the protocol's native stablecoin as DeFi TVL hits records.

Aave is fighting a $71M crypto seizure motion tied to KelpDAO funds and a North Korea debt claim, arguing the protocol has no custody over the disputed ETH.

Tetra Trust has launched CADD, a CAD-pegged stablecoin issued by a federally regulated trust company and backed by Shopify and National Bank of Canada.

Circle led a Monday rally in crypto-linked equities, jumping nearly 20% as the Senate

FINRA approved Securitize to expand its broker-dealer activities and custody tokenized securities, a key regulatory step for tokenized fund growth in the US.

Pavel Durov says Telegram will take a direct lead on TON and run the network's largest validator, tightening the messenger's grip on the chain.

The DTCC, which clears $114 trillion in securities annually, plans a July pilot and October launch for a new tokenized securities platform.

Western Union, the world's largest remittance provider, has launched its USDPT stablecoin on Solana, putting a 175-year-old payments giant on a public chain.

Nansen says DeFi TVL set a new all-time high on May 4, 2026, with Aave clearing a $1B milestone in 19 days and a ZK rollup transition adding to the move.

US law firm Gerstein Harrow has filed in connection with stolen KelpDAO ETH and a North Korea judgment debt, Coin Bureau reported on May 4, 2026.

BlackRock's European iShares Bitcoin ETP has surpassed $1.1B in assets under management, holding roughly 14,200 BTC as European demand picks up.

BlackRock is urging the OCC to drop a proposed 20% ceiling on tokenized reserve assets, arguing the cap would throttle growth of its on-chain treasury fund.

The US government's cash balance has surged $300B in three weeks to hit ~$1 trillion, draining liquidity even as Bitcoin pushes higher.

The CFTC received over 1,500 responses to its prediction market rulemaking proposal, with deep splits between operators, gambling regulators, and consumer groups.

Strategy paused its weekly bitcoin accumulation before Tuesday's Q1 2026 earnings, the largest corporate BTC holder going quiet ahead of disclosure.

Argentina's National Securities Commission expanded tokenization rules to cover more asset types and removed listing requirements, opening LatAm tokenization markets.

Tether added more than 6 tons of gold in Q1 2026, pushing total holdings past 132 tons and putting the stablecoin issuer in central-bank territory.

Crypto card spending has climbed 500% since September 2024, with monthly volumes near $600M led by stablecoin rails and global Visa and Mastercard issuers.

Japan's only licensed stablecoin exchange is rolling out a 10% APY product on USDC, paired with local bank rails for deposits and withdrawals.

The US Senate released CLARITY Act compromise text that bans stablecoin issuers from paying yield on reserves, a sharp shift in stablecoin policy.

Polymarket's monthly trading volume climbed from about $1.2 billion in 2025 to north of $20 billion per month by early 2026, CoinDesk reports.

Ethereum core contributors held a week-long Soldogn interop in Svalbard to harden client implementations for the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms reported its first revenue from AI infrastructure hosting after AMD scaled up capacity at its Texas sites.

April crypto venture funding dropped to $659M, the weakest monthly total in nine months as deal counts thin out and late-stage rounds dry up.

Bitso's latest LatAm Crypto Landscape report shows stablecoins captured 40% of regional crypto purchases, with USDT and USDC leading dollar demand.

A Taiwan legislator wants Taipei to convert part of its $580B foreign exchange reserves into Bitcoin, citing geopolitical risk and dollar exposure.

Reuters reports that Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, handled tens to hundreds of millions linked to the IRGC and the country's central bank.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $1.97B in April 2026, the strongest monthly inflow of the year. BTC trades near $78,420 as institutional demand resets.

MoonPay launches MoonAgents Card, a virtual Mastercard that pulls stablecoins from onchain wallets at swipe time. UK and LATAM first, US and EU later.

Brazil's central bank has prohibited digital assets from being used in parts of the country's regulated cross-border payment and transfer services.

Senators Warren and Wyden opened a fourth probe into Commerce Secretary Lutnick's Tether ties, citing a loan to a trust benefiting his four children.

More than $300M in voluntary contributions across the DeFi ecosystem repaid Aave depositors hit by the rsETH exploit, Messari said on May 1, 2026.

Tether's Q1 2026 BDO attestation shows $1.04B in net profit and a record $8.23B reserve buffer above USDT liabilities. Here's what the numbers mean.

BlackRock's IBIT and ETHA crossed $60B in combined AUM but generated only $42M of Q1 fees, a rounding error against the firm's $7T franchise.

Coinbase rolled out CUSHY, a tokenized stablecoin credit fund built with Superstate and Northern Trust, just as banks press Congress to strip yield from CLARITY.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told Congress he is a Bitcoin enthusiast and confirmed the Pentagon has ongoing classified crypto operations.

A South Korean court has suspended a six-month sanction against Bithumb, letting the exchange keep onboarding new users while it fights the regulator.

The US Department of Labor is proposing regulations that could let 401(k) plans hold more alternative assets, a category that has long included crypto debates.

Tom Lee's Bitmine added 162,088 ETH to its validator stack, lifting total staked ether to a fresh high as the company keeps pulling supply off exchanges.

SBI Holdings says it has entered formal discussions to make Bitbank a subsidiary, a deal that would consolidate two of Japan's largest crypto exchanges.

BTC squeezed shorts above $77K but absent spot demand and low long leverage are capping the move. Why this rally lacks the fuel for a sustained breakout.

Bhutan's state mining program shifted roughly $287M of BTC as Bitcoin reclaimed $77,000, extending a quiet but persistent sovereign sell pattern.

Tether Investments has pitched a three-way merger of Twenty One Capital, Bitcoin payments firm Strike, and miner Elektron Energy, consolidating its BTC empire.

Gemini just secured a CFTC Derivatives Clearing Organization license, letting the exchange clear its own regulated perps and prediction market contracts.

Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered US crypto bank, partners with stablecoin platform M0 to power the next wave of regulated dollar tokens.

xStocks, the Backed Finance tokenized equities platform, has gone live on BNB Chain with more than 50 US stocks tradable onchain alongside its Solana deployment.

US banking groups are pressing Congress to delay stablecoin rulemaking while Agora pushes ahead with a federal charter application of its own.

Canada's $195B AIMCo pension fund disclosed a $219M position in Strategy, its first ever Bitcoin-linked exposure, according to BitcoinNews.

The US has seized close to $500M in Iranian crypto assets under Operation Economic Fury, marking the largest disclosed action against Tehran's onchain flows.

MARA Holdings is acquiring Long Ridge Energy for $1.5 billion to power an AI data center buildout, marking the bitcoin miner's biggest move beyond mining.

Japan Exchange Group CEO Hiromi Yamaji says JPX wants to list spot BTC and ETH ETFs as early as 2027, citing the success of US products.

Rakuten Pay opened XRP conversion for 44 million users, putting a $23B loyalty network on rails that reach 5 million Japanese merchant locations.

Shinhan Card, one of South Korea's largest card issuers, is testing stablecoin payments on the Solana testnet, signaling Korea's deepest card-rail crypto experiment yet.

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says Malaysia's Securities Commission removed the exchange from its alert list after months of formal engagement and policy discussions.

FBI, Dubai Police, and Chinese authorities dismantled nine crypto scam centers in a joint sweep, while European police separately arrested ten suspects.

Ripple is deploying its institutional custody stack inside Kbank, Korea's first internet-only bank, to power digital asset wallet services for clients.

World Liberty Financial begins voting on a proposal to unlock 62.3B previously frozen WLFI tokens via staggered vesting plus a 4.5B insider burn.

FTC settles with Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky for $10M and a permanent industry ban, sharply down from the original $4.7B judgment.

Steak 'n Shake reports Bitcoin payments cost roughly half what credit card processing does, the first concrete merchant data on Lightning savings.

Jerome Powell tells reporters he will remain a Federal Reserve governor after his chair term ends May 15, keeping a seat at the policy table under Warsh.

FOMC keeps rates unchanged but drops easing bias as three officials dissent. BTC at $75,008 with Fear & Greed at 38, traders read a hawkish hold.

Meta is rolling out stablecoin payouts for creators through Stripe, its first live crypto payments product since the Diem wind-down.

Kevin Warsh advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee toward a full vote, putting a hawkish-leaning Fed chair within reach as crypto trades flat.

Wall Street is filing the first prediction market ETFs for US elections, pulling political odds out of crypto venues and into regulated brokerage wrappers.

MoonPay buys Tel Aviv-based crypto security firm Sodot for $100M in stock, adding MPC key management to its payments and wallet infrastructure stack.

Binance's gold futures product has cleared $100 billion in cumulative trading volume just months after launch, per CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost.

Visa expands its stablecoin settlement rails to Polygon, letting issuers and acquirers move USDC across a faster, cheaper chain alongside Ethereum and Solana.

Securitize and Computershare are partnering to let US public-company shares settle as tokenized assets, opening a path for $70T in equities to move onchain.

State Street, the world

Canada is moving to ban crypto ATMs nationwide as scam losses mount, following Tennessee

Pumpfun removed roughly $370M worth of PUMP from circulation, and the token climbed 7.6% the same day. What the burn changes about supply and float.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington is moving to cut Iran off from crypto, signaling a sharper enforcement push beyond traditional banking.

Senator Cynthia Lummis pushed back on critics of the CLARITY Act's developer protection language, arguing the clause is narrower than opponents claim.

Lightspark CEO David Marcus is launching a Bitcoin wallet that lets AI agents buy BTC and send or receive payments, pitching neutrality as the hook.

Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl says a 1% Bitcoin sleeve raised expected returns without meaningfully lifting portfolio risk in koruna terms.

The CFTC filed suit against Wisconsin, accusing the state of encroaching on federal authority over crypto prediction markets. The action mirrors its New York case.

Visa is partnering with Reeve Collins' WeFi to route self-custodied crypto onto its rails across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs broke a nine-day inflow run with $263M in outflows on April 27, with Fidelity's FBTC leading the exit.

Polymarket is asking the CFTC to authorize its main exchange to operate in the US, per Bloomberg, four years after a settlement pushed it offshore.

Galaxy Digital booked a $216M Q1 loss as crypto prices fell, but CEO Mike Novogratz says Hyperliquid trading gains kept the bleeding contained.

BNB Chain shipped its Osaka and Mendel hard forks on April 28, 2026, promising faster finality, predictable gas pricing, and stability fixes for builders.

Rep. Nick Begich says he will reintroduce the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve bill in the current Congress, reviving the House companion to Lummis's BITCOIN Act.

Bits of Gold gets the green light from Israel's Capital Market Authority to launch BILS, a 1:1 shekel-pegged stablecoin, after a 2-year Solana pilot.

Aave's DeFi United relief fund crossed $303M in commitments, exceeding the $292M lost in the KelpDAO exploit and clearing the path to full rsETH user recovery.

Bitcoin fell 2.9% to $76,854 overnight as Fed rate uncertainty, climbing oil prices, and a fresh AI-stock wobble dragged risk assets lower.

Roman Storm's lawyers rebuked Acting AG Todd Blanche's suggestion that Tornado Cash and Samourai cases could be elevated, journalist Eleanor Terrett reports.

DefiLlama says stablecoins moved over $1T this month and launched a public tracker to compare issuers, chains, and flows side by side.

Senator Thom Tillis says he will vote against the Senate crypto market structure bill unless it includes ethics rules restricting officials' use of digital assets.

Gemini's new Agentic Trading lets users plug ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI agents into the exchange to run live order flow on their accounts.

Kalshi and Polymarket plan to offer crypto perpetual futures in the US, putting offshore-style derivatives under CFTC-regulated prediction-market venues.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced the Bitcoin community at Bitcoin 2026, addressing the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet prosecutions head on.

MARA Holdings is creating a foundation focused on Bitcoin's quantum threat and network resilience, CoinDesk reports during Bitcoin 2026.

Tether unveiled MDK, an open-source infrastructure layer aimed at giving Bitcoin miners full control over their hardware, firmware, and pool routing.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies added 101,901 ETH last week, bringing its total holdings to roughly 5.08M ETH worth about $11.8B at current prices.

A CEX survey says more than a third of US crypto traders have trimmed everyday spending due to market losses, with BTC at $77,747 as of April 27, 2026.

Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $933M last week, lifting total crypto fund assets to their highest level since February, according to CoinDesk's weekly tracker.