The US Senate voted unanimously to bar all senators and their staff from placing bets on political prediction market platforms including Polymarket and Kalshi, with the resolution authored by Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, who also set the end-of-May CLARITY Actβ¦
Tether posted $1.04 billion in Q1 2026 net profit and a record Tether profit reserve buffer of $8.23 billion, backed primarily by $141 billion in US Treasuries, in a quarterly attestation published May 1 by accounting firm BDO, its mostβ¦
President Trump signed an executive order on April 30 directing the Labor Department to allow Trump retirement account access to cryptocurrency, private equity, and other alternative assets inside US 401(k) plans, targeting the roughly $12.5 trillion defined-contribution market that hasβ¦
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee on April 30 that the Pentagon is running classified Bitcoin programs on two operational tracks β enabling the technology and countering it β and that those efforts provide the Unitedβ¦
Pi Network confirmed its sponsorship of Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 5 to 7, with co-founders Dr. Chengdiao Fan and Nicolas Kokkalis each scheduled to speak at the Convergence Stage, marking the projectβs most prominent mainstream industry appearance asβ¦
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has scheduled a CLARITY Act roundtable for May, bringing together SEC and CFTC officials with crypto industry representatives to debate digital asset market structure jurisdiction, one of the final regulatory steps before the Senateβ¦
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has pushed back against a resurfaced 2017 post in which he said XRP could not stay βdirt cheap,β rejecting the communityβs reading of it as a price guarantee and separately dismissing claims that Ripple holdsβ¦
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse declared at XRP Las Vegas that the CLARITY Act will pass by the end of May, his third public deadline for the bill after predicting 80% odds of April passage on Fox Business in February andβ¦
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said at XRP Las Vegas on April 30 that if the CLARITY Act does not clear the Senate Banking Committee before the Memorial Day recess on May 21, the bill could be shelved until 2030, asβ¦
Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their landmark 2019 partnership on April 27, converting Microsoftβs cloud license from exclusive to non-exclusive, allowing OpenAI to sell its full model suite on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud for the first time, as Amazonβ¦
Pi Network has set May 11 as the activation date for Protocol 23, the upgrade that introduces full smart contract functionality to the Pi blockchain and transforms the network from a mobile mining project into a programmable platform capable ofβ¦
Coinbase activated Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, making XRP TAS the first altcoin to receive the same institutional block-trade execution mechanism already available for Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and crude oil futures, following a CFTC filing onβ¦
Bitcoin price rose nearly 3% to $78,700 on May 1 as Iran submitted a new peace proposal through Pakistani mediators to the United States, easing oil pressure and improving risk sentiment across global markets for the second time in aβ¦
Major US banking trade groups have asked the Treasury Department and the FDIC to pause three GENIUS Act rulemaking comment periods until the OCC finalises its primary stablecoin framework, while stablecoin startup Agora simultaneously filed for a national trust bankβ¦
Coinbase Asset Management announced CUSHY on April 30, a tokenised stablecoin credit fund for qualified institutional investors running on Ethereum, Solana, and Base, with Apollo handling private credit origination, Superstate issuing tokenised shares via FundOS, and Northern Trust administering theβ¦
XRP Las Vegas 2026 opened today, April 30, as Ripple covered the Las Vegas Strip with βRaise the Standardβ billboards and Steven Zeiler of Yellow Network posted live from the floor calling XRP βonly a step on the trajectory toβ¦
Bitcoin has failed to sustain a move above $78,000 in the 24 hours following Wednesdayβs FOMC decision, with three straight sessions of Bitcoin ETF outflows totaling over $490 million signaling that institutional allocators are pausing rather than adding exposure asβ¦
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig confirmed the agency is deploying AI tools to review crypto registration applications and monitor trading data, the first major US financial regulator to use artificial intelligence to compensate for a workforce cut of more than 20%β¦
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on April 29 that the United States has seized almost $500 million in Iranian crypto assets under Operation Economic Fury, including a $344 million Tether freeze on two Tron addresses, while saying Iranβs currency hasβ¦
Ripple-backed XRP treasury company Evernorth has named OpenAI Foundation CFO Robert Kaiden and Antalpha COO Derar Islim as independent directors in its second SEC S-4 amendment, bringing AI and institutional finance expertise onto the board of the company aiming toβ¦
President Trump will receive a military briefing today from CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper on new Iran options, including a βshort and powerfulβ wave of infrastructure strikes, a Strait of Hormuz ground operation, and a special forces mission to secureβ¦
Visa added Base, Polygon, Canton, Arc, and Tempo to its global stablecoin settlement pilot on April 29, bringing the total to nine supported blockchains and reaching a $7 billion annualized settlement run rate, up 50% from last quarter. Visa stablecoinβ¦
Meta has begun paying select creators in USDC stablecoin on Solana and Polygon via Stripe, marking Facebookβs first crypto payout program four years after the company shut down its Libra project under regulatory pressure. Meta USDC creator payouts went liveβ¦
Jerome Powell announced at his final FOMC press conference on April 29 that he will remain on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors past May 15, saying Trumpβs legal attacks on the institution had βleft me no choiceβ but toβ¦
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