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Today β€” 6 May 2026Main stream

Bullish acquisition of Equiniti targets tokenized securities

5 May 2026 at 23:00
The Bullish acquisition of Equiniti, announced today, values the transfer agent at $4.2 billion The Bullish acquisition of Equiniti, announced on May 5, positions the crypto exchange as a core piece of infrastructure for tokenized securities markets. Equiniti currently serves…

Coinbase cuts 700 jobs and blames AI productivity

5 May 2026 at 22:30
Coinbase cuts 700 jobs today, with CEO Brian Armstrong saying AI is making small engineering teams far more productive Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced on May 5 that the company is eliminating roughly 700 employees, representing approximately 14% of its…

Yesterday β€” 5 May 2026Main stream

Banking groups reject Clarity Act yield compromise

5 May 2026 at 22:10
Major US banking associations rejected the Clarity Act’s stablecoin yield compromise, splitting publicly from Coinbase and Circle Major US banking associations publicly rejected the stablecoin yield compromise brokered by Senators Tillis and Alsobrooks in the Clarity Act. The banking groups…

Pi Network launches Protocol 23 push at Consensus 2026

5 May 2026 at 21:40
Pi Network co-founders took the Consensus 2026 stage in Miami, six days before Protocol 23 activates on May 11 Pi Network co-founders Dr. Chengdiao Fan and Nicolas Kokkalis both appeared at Consensus 2026 in Miami this week, speaking to over…

Garlinghouse defends Clarity Act Senate momentum

5 May 2026 at 21:10
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse defended Clarity Act progress at Consensus 2026, calling the past week a β€œbig positive shift.” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse took the Consensus 2026 stage in Miami today and told attendees the Clarity Act is gaining genuine…

ZeroStack CEO claims CLARITY Act uncertainty is keeping larger players out

5 May 2026 at 03:30
ZeroStack CEO Daniel Reis-Faria says the CLARITY Act stablecoin deal reduces investor uncertainty but has not resolved institutional hesitation yet. The stablecoin deal was finalised on May 1 by Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks, drawing a clear line: crypto…

US voters rank crypto last before midterms

5 May 2026 at 03:15
US voters ranked crypto last among election priorities in an April poll of 1,000 registered Americans. Public Opinion Strategies conducted the poll in late April on behalf of CoinDesk, surveying 1,000 randomly selected registered US voters with a credibility interval…

Paradigm Bitcoin launches PACTs, a quantum proposal that could let Satoshi prove he is still alive

5 May 2026 at 02:55
Paradigm Bitcoin general partner Dan Robinson published a proposal on May 1 for Provable Address-Control Timestamps, or PACTs, a system that lets dormant Bitcoin holders privately timestamp proof of key ownership before quantum computers arrive, creating a potential rescue path…

Why Morgan Stanley says Bitcoin on US bank balance sheets is coming but not yet

5 May 2026 at 02:44
Morgan Stanley head of digital asset strategy Amy Oldenburg said at the Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas that Bitcoin on US bank balance sheets is β€œnot totally out of the question,” citing 16 months of regulatory progress while warning…

Why Pi Network’s Dr. Chengdiao Fan takes the Consensus 2026 stage with Protocol 23 six days away

5 May 2026 at 02:00
Pi Network co-founder Dr. Chengdiao Fan is set to speak at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 6, delivering a session titled β€œAligning Web3, AI, and Blockchain for Utility” at the Convergence Stage, six days before Protocol 23 brings full…

Ripple Custody signs South Korea’s first insurance deal to pilot near real-time bond settlement

5 May 2026 at 01:55
Ripple Custody entered a strategic partnership with Kyobo Life Insurance on April 15, making Ripple Custody Korea’s first blockchain-based government bond settlement platform for a Tier 1 insurer, targeting a compression of the standard T+2 settlement cycle to near real-time…

Bitcoin price reclaims $80,000 for first time since January as Consensus 2026 opens

5 May 2026 at 01:19
Bitcoin price broke above $80,000 on May 4 for the first time since January 31, reaching the level as Consensus 2026 opened in Miami and $630 million in US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows on May 1 gave the move institutional…

Before yesterdayMain stream

Brian Armstrong tells the Senate to β€œmark it up” after CLARITY Act stablecoin yield deal lands

4 May 2026 at 22:57
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted a three-word response on X on May 1 after Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks released the final stablecoin yield compromise text for the CLARITY Act: β€œMark it up,” urging the Senate Banking Committee to…

World Liberty Financial sues Justin Sun for defamation after his fraud claims go viral

4 May 2026 at 22:37
World Liberty Financial, the crypto project co-founded by President Trump and his family, filed a defamation lawsuit against Tron founder Justin Sun on May 4 in Miami-Dade County, Florida, alleging a β€œcoordinated media smear campaign” after Sun sued the project…

The reason May 2nd 2026 matters for anyone searching top 1000x crypto to buy

2 May 2026 at 20:46
The top 1000x crypto to buy right now is gaining serious traction as its presale deadline approaches. DOGEBALL is capturing attention with real utility, strong funding momentum, and a clearly defined launch trajectory that sets it apart from speculative plays.

Senate unanimously bans senators and staff from trading on prediction markets

2 May 2026 at 17:00
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 Act…

Tether posts $1.04B profit and record $8.23B reserve buffer in Q1 2026

2 May 2026 at 16:10
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 most…

Trump retirement order opens 401(k) plans to crypto and alternative assets for the first time

2 May 2026 at 15:55
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 has…

Why Pete Hegseth believes Bitcoin battles China and gives the US classified leverage

2 May 2026 at 15:30
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 United…

Pi Network’s two co-founders set to speak at Consensus 2026 as sponsor amid Protocol 23 countdown

2 May 2026 at 15:10
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 project’s most prominent mainstream industry appearance as…

SEC schedules CLARITY Act roundtable in May as Senate markup targets week of May 11

2 May 2026 at 14:47
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 Senate…

David Schwartz rejects XRP price promise claim and denies Ripple holds a β€œmagic switch”

2 May 2026 at 14:01
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has pushed back against a resurfaced 2017 post in which he said XRP could not stay β€œdirt cheap,” rejecting the community’s reading of it as a price guarantee and separately dismissing claims that Ripple holds…

Why Brad Garlinghouse believes the CLARITY Act will pass in May despite missing two deadlines

2 May 2026 at 02:50
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 and…

OpenAI ends Microsoft exclusivity and can now sell its models on AWS and Google Cloud

1 May 2026 at 21:55
Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their landmark 2019 partnership on April 27, converting Microsoft’s 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 Amazon…

Pi Network sets May 11 for Protocol 23, its first full smart contract launch

1 May 2026 at 21:30
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 of…

Coinbase XRP TAS launches today, making XRP the first altcoin with institutional settlement tools

1 May 2026 at 21:10
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 on…

Banks push back on GENIUS Act rules as Agora races for a federal charter

1 May 2026 at 20:30
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 bank…

Coinbase CUSHY fund brings institutional credit on-chain ahead of Q2 launch

1 May 2026 at 20:16
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 the…

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