Wall Street executives warned at Consensus 2026 that legacy markets built for slower trading are breaking under 24/7 crypto pressure. Wall Street executives gathering at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 5 warned that traditional financial infrastructure was not builtβ¦
Anthropic venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs will deliver enterprise AI tools to private equity-backed companies. Anthropic is close to finalising a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman and Friedman, targeting private-equity-backed companies as its primaryβ¦
Aave court motion filed today in New York asks a federal judge to unfreeze $71 million in ETH. Aave LLC filed an emergency motion today in the Southern District of New York to vacate a restraining notice blocking 30,765 ETH,β¦
K Wave Media reversed its $485 million Bitcoin treasury plan today, redirecting funds to AI data centres and GPUs K Wave Media scrapped its Bitcoin treasury strategy on May 5 and redirected the capital to AI data centres and GPUβ¦
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 servesβ¦
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 itsβ¦
Major US banking associations rejected the Clarity Actβs 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 groupsβ¦
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 overβ¦
XRP Evernorth has named Robert Kaiden, CFO of the OpenAI Foundation, to its board of directors XRP Evernorth, the Ripple-backed treasury company building an XRP-denominated balance sheet ahead of a Nasdaq listing, has appointed two senior executives to its board.β¦
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse defended Clarity Act progress at Consensus 2026, calling the past week a βbig positive shift.β Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse took the Consensus 2026 stage in Miami today and told attendees the Clarity Act is gaining genuineβ¦
Chainlink price rose 3% on May 4, its biggest single-day gain in two weeks, as Consensus 2026 opened. LINK rose alongside Bitcoinβs $80,000 reclaim and the Consensus 2026 conference opening in Miami on May 4. As crypto.news reported, LINK hadβ¦
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: cryptoβ¦
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 intervalβ¦
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 pathβ¦
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 βnot totally out of the question,β citing 16 months of regulatory progress while warningβ¦
Pi Network co-founder Dr. Chengdiao Fan is set to speak at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 6, delivering a session titled βAligning Web3, AI, and Blockchain for Utilityβ at the Convergence Stage, six days before Protocol 23 brings fullβ¦
Ripple Custody entered a strategic partnership with Kyobo Life Insurance on April 15, making Ripple Custody Koreaβs 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-timeβ¦
XRP price climbed from $1.3840 to $1.4065 in early Asia trading on May 4 on a sharp pickup in volume, breaking through resistance at $1.40 alongside Bitcoinβs return above $80,000. XRP price broke above $1.40 for the first time inβ¦
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 institutionalβ¦
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: βMark it up,β urging the Senate Banking Committee toβ¦
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 βcoordinated media smear campaignβ after Sun sued the projectβ¦
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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¦
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