Robinhood said at Consensus Miami 2026 that Wall Street is now actively building on crypto rails, though institutional adoption is moving slower and more fragmented than the industry expected. Executives from Robinhood-owned Bitstamp, Ondo Finance, and Babylon Labs told Consensusโฆ
Eric Trump mocked JPMorgan at Consensus Miami 2026 for reversing its bitcoin stance within 18 months, saying banks have accepted they can no longer hold back the tide. Eric Trump took the stage at Consensus Miami 2026 on Wednesday andโฆ
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took the Consensus Miami 2026 mainstage on Day 2 and expressed optimism about the CLARITY Actโs prospects in Congress, appearing alongside Kevin OโLeary and Coinbaseโs Paul Grewal. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took the mainstage at Consensus Miami 2026โฆ
Tim Scott said the Senate Banking Committee is nearing consensus and working toward a bipartisan CLARITY Act markup in May, setting the most concrete timeline commitment yet on the long-delayed legislation. Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott said his panelโฆ
Arthur Hayes told Consensus Miami 2026 that the CLARITY Act misses the point of crypto, arguing that bitcoinโs value comes precisely from operating outside any regulatory system. BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes took the stage at Consensus Miamiโฆ
Michael Saylor said Strategy will โprobably sell some bitcoinโ to pay dividends, marking the first public reversal of the firmโs long-held never-sell position. Strategy, the largest publicly traded corporate holder of bitcoin, may sell a portion of its holdings toโฆ
Hut 8 has signed a 15-year, $9.8 billion AI data center lease at its Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas, sending its stock nearly 30% higher on Wednesday. Hut 8 has signed a 15-year, $9.8 billion AI data centerโฆ
A Fairshake poll finds 45% of Americans call crypto too risky as industry PACs deploy over $100 million into midterms. A Politico poll conducted by Public First in April 2026 found that 45% of Americans say investing in cryptocurrency isโฆ
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 builtโฆ
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 primaryโฆ
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,โฆ
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 GPUโฆ
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 servesโฆ
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 itsโฆ
Major US banking associations rejected the Clarity Actโs 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 groupsโฆ
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 overโฆ
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.โฆ
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse defended Clarity Act progress at Consensus 2026, calling the past week a โbig positive shift.โ Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse took the Consensus 2026 stage in Miami today and told attendees the Clarity Act is gaining genuineโฆ
Chainlink price rose 3% on May 4, its biggest single-day gain in two weeks, as Consensus 2026 opened. LINK rose alongside Bitcoinโs $80,000 reclaim and the Consensus 2026 conference opening in Miami on May 4. As crypto.news reported, LINK hadโฆ
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: cryptoโฆ
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 intervalโฆ
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 pathโฆ
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 โnot totally out of the question,โ citing 16 months of regulatory progress while warningโฆ
Pi Network co-founder Dr. Chengdiao Fan is set to speak at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 6, delivering a session titled โAligning Web3, AI, and Blockchain for Utilityโ at the Convergence Stage, six days before Protocol 23 brings fullโฆ
Ripple Custody entered a strategic partnership with Kyobo Life Insurance on April 15, making Ripple Custody Koreaโs 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-timeโฆ
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 Bitcoinโs return above $80,000. XRP price broke above $1.40 for the first time inโฆ
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 institutionalโฆ
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: โMark it up,โ urging the Senate Banking Committee toโฆ
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 โcoordinated media smear campaignโ after Sun sued the projectโฆ
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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 Actโฆ
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 mostโฆ
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 hasโฆ
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 โ enabling the technology and countering it โ and that those efforts provide the Unitedโฆ
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 projectโs most prominent mainstream industry appearance asโฆ
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 Senateโฆ
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has pushed back against a resurfaced 2017 post in which he said XRP could not stay โdirt cheap,โ rejecting the communityโs reading of it as a price guarantee and separately dismissing claims that Ripple holdsโฆ
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 andโฆ
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, asโฆ
Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their landmark 2019 partnership on April 27, converting Microsoftโs 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 Amazonโฆ
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 ofโฆ
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 onโฆ
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 aโฆ
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 bankโฆ
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 theโฆ
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