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Tether Billionaire Christopher Harborne Enters UK’s Richest People List

16 May 2026 at 15:00
Christopher Harborne entered the Sunday Times Rich List in sixth place, as Parliament opened a probe into Farage. The Sunday Times Rich List 2026, published on May 15, placed Christopher Harborne sixth among Britain’s wealthiest individuals. His estimated £18.2bn fortune…

Myanmar proposes life imprisonment for crypto scam operators

16 May 2026 at 03:30
Myanmar’s military published a draft bill on May 14 proposing life in prison for crypto scam operators. The draft legislation, called the Anti-Online Scam Bill, states that anyone convicted of “digital currency fraud” or running an online scam center faces…

CME and ICE push US regulators to scrutinize Hyperliquid

16 May 2026 at 01:50
CME Group and ICE urged US regulators to scrutinize Hyperliquid for manipulation and sanctions risks on May 15. CME and ICE warned that Hyperliquid’s anonymous, round-the-clock perpetual futures trading could distort global commodity benchmarks, particularly in oil markets. The exchanges…

Connex releases $17.95 million in CONX tokens on schedule

16 May 2026 at 01:29
Connex released 1.32 million CONX tokens worth $17.95 million on May 15 in a scheduled cliff unlock. Connex, a Web3 professional networking platform that uses its native token for payments, governance and credential verification, executed the unlock on a preset…

Lombard joins Chainlink CCIP as LayerZero exodus tops $4b

16 May 2026 at 01:20
Lombard has joined a wave of protocols switching to Chainlink CCIP as LayerZero migrations top $4 billion. LayerZero exploit sparks industry-wide migration The shift accelerated after a $292 million exploit drained 116,500 rsETH from Kelp DAO’s LayerZero-powered bridge in April…

a16z says CLARITY Act’s Senate breakthrough could be crypto’s 1933 moment

16 May 2026 at 01:00
The CLARITY Act’s bipartisan 15–9 Senate Banking vote moves a bill that could finally split SEC–CFTC jurisdiction and give crypto its first bespoke market‑structure law, a16z argues. According to a16z, the CLARITY Act is designed to build a bespoke legal framework…

Saudi Arabia moves to tokenize its multi-trillion economy

16 May 2026 at 00:45
Saudi Arabia is pushing to tokenize its multi-trillion economy to protect national wealth from global shocks. Vision 2030 drives on-chain asset strategy Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which manages roughly $1 trillion in assets, approved its 2026-2030 strategy in April,…

KuCoin data flags 250 wrapped Bitcoin sale worth $20.3m

16 May 2026 at 00:30
An anonymous address sold 250 wrapped Bitcoin worth $20.3 million on-chain, on-chain data showed on May 15. Whale offloads $20.3m in wrapped Bitcoin “A chain address sold 250 WBTC worth $20.3 million,” on-chain data aggregated by KuCoin’s flash news desk…

Poland passes MiCA crypto bill as Zondacrypto fraud probe deepens

15 May 2026 at 22:00
Poland’s lower house has approved a long‑delayed crypto assets bill to align national rules with the EU’s MiCA framework. Parliament backs MiCA bill under pressure from Zondacrypto scandal With lawmakers under pressure to act before a July implementation deadline and…

Visa and WeFi test “on‑chain banking” for stablecoin spending

15 May 2026 at 21:00
Visa’s WeFi pilot lets self‑custodied stablecoins fund everyday card payments across Europe, Asia and Latin America. Visa and WeFi have launched a collaboration to explore on‑chain banking and stablecoin‑based payment use cases in selected markets, expanding the card network’s stablecoin…

State Street’s tokenized fund servicing is the boring infrastructure shift that actually matters

15 May 2026 at 20:00
State Street is wiring its Luxembourg fund stack so tokenized fund units run on the same custody, NAV and TA rails as traditional funds, turning RWAs from brochure‑ware into production infrastructure. State Street is wiring its Luxembourg fund stack to…

TON’s agentic wallets turn Telegram bots into spending entities

15 May 2026 at 18:30
TON’s new Agentic Wallets standard lets Telegram AI bots hold user‑funded wallets on TON, spending within tight limits as semi‑autonomous financial actors inside chat. TON Tech — the infrastructure team behind The Open Network — rolled out Agentic Wallets on…

Nigel Farage faces scrutiny over £1.4M property linked to crypto donor

15 May 2026 at 11:37
Nigel Farage has come under renewed scrutiny in the United Kingdom after reports linked a £1.4 million property purchase to a multimillion-pound personal payment from crypto investor Christopher Harborne, adding to existing concerns over the Reform UK leader’s financial ties…

Trump family bought Coinbase and Strategy shares amid crypto losses

15 May 2026 at 11:10
Donald Trump and his family have expanded their exposure to crypto-linked equities during the first quarter of 2026, adding positions in Coinbase, MARA Holdings, and Strategy as several Trump-backed digital asset ventures continued posting heavy paper losses. According to a…

Dubai’s Kanvas lets Koopmans & Wexell’s digital ruins swallow the room

15 May 2026 at 08:37
The Wild Within pushes ruin‑romantic digital art into a fully immersive Dubai environment, reanimating global architectural remains with lush, time‑based ecosystems inside Kanvas. The May 18 event at Kanvas is billed as an “immersive exhibition opening” under the umbrella “IN…

Myth of the Digital: how Art Dubai 2026 embeds code, scent and sound in the fair’s core

15 May 2026 at 08:16
Art Dubai 2026 uses its 20th anniversary to make digital art a structural pillar, not an NFT-era novelty, with immersive, multisensory work driving both discourse and market. Art Dubai’s 20th‑anniversary edition in 2026 is, bluntly, a stress test for whether…

Will SIREN price recover after a 51% daily crash below key moving averages?

15 May 2026 at 05:00
SIREN price crashed 51.36% on May 14, closing at $0.5574 after opening above $1.14. SIREN price dropped 51.36% on the daily chart on May 14, opening at $1.1455 and collapsing to a low of $0.5041 before closing at $0.5574 on…

TownSquare unveils $100 million USD1 liquidity initiative

15 May 2026 at 00:43
The company said the program is designed to promote institutional yield generation and cross-chain returns for a wider range of users through stablecoin-based lending and liquidity strategies. TownSquare announced the launch of a $100 million liquidity program tied to the…

CoinList’s Passage targets tokenization’s distribution problem

15 May 2026 at 00:30
CoinList’s Passage pitches itself as an “access layer” for on‑chain capital markets, wiring compliant distribution, allocation, and infra so tokenized assets can actually circulate instead of rotting in silos. CoinList has rolled out Passage, a new platform it describes as…

Aptos claims ‘first L1’ status for AI‑assisted formal verification of dynamic dispatch

15 May 2026 at 00:24
Aptos says it is the first L1 to support AI‑assisted formal verification for dynamically scheduled Move contracts, pitching Move Prover as an “oracle” between markets and machine agents. Aptos has declared that its network is now “the first L1 to…

Circle and Sequoia back Turnkey wallet infrastructure

14 May 2026 at 23:45
Crypto wallet infrastructure firm Turnkey has raised $12.5 million backed by Circle Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Turnkey announced the raise on May 14, with participation from Archetype, Bain Capital Crypto, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy Ventures, and Variant alongside Circle Ventures and…

Grove launches $1 billion liquidity network for tokenized Treasury funds

14 May 2026 at 23:39
Grove’s Basin liquidity network can supply up to $1 billion in daily stablecoin liquidity to support redemptions for tokenized U.S. Treasury funds. Blockchain credit infrastructure company Grove has launched a liquidity network called Basin aimed at supporting instant redemptions for…

Fasset raises $51M for stablecoin neobank push

14 May 2026 at 22:40
Fasset, a stablecoin neobank serving 125 countries, has raised $51 million backed by Japan’s SBI Group and Investcorp. Fasset, a Los Angeles-based digital banking platform, uses stablecoin rails to move money across borders for small and medium-sized businesses, bypassing correspondent…

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