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Today — 8 May 2026Main stream

Clarity Act edges toward Senate markup as stablecoin fight narrows options for crypto yield

8 May 2026 at 00:30
Stablecoin yield compromise puts CLARITY back in motion. The CLARITY Act, a sweeping U.S. digital asset market structure bill, is inching closer to its next procedural test in the Senate after negotiators released compromise language on stablecoin rewards that had…

Yesterday — 7 May 2026Main stream

Michael Saylor says Strategy is turning Bitcoin into “digital credit” and “digital equity”

7 May 2026 at 22:30
Michael Saylor says Strategy is “converting digital capital Bitcoin into digital credit (STRC) and digital equity (MSTR),” pitching a three‑layer capital stack with BTC as reserve asset, STRC as yield‑focused credit, and MSTR as the levered equity layer. Michael Saylor,…

Kraken buys Hong Kong stablecoin firm Reap for $600 million in Asia push

7 May 2026 at 21:00
Kraken’s $600 million acquisition of Reap folds a Hong Kong stablecoin business‑payments specialist into its stack, with Payward issuing stock at a $20 billion valuation to anchor its IPO‑era M&A currency. Kraken’s parent company Payward Inc. has agreed to acquire…

Anthropic’s on-chain pre-IPO market value jumps to $1.2 trillion, overtakes OpenAI for the first time

7 May 2026 at 20:30
Anthropic’s tokenized pre‑IPO shares now imply a $1.2T valuation—above OpenAI—showing how on‑chain markets are front‑running late‑stage AI pricing before any IPO. In February 2026, Anthropic closed a Series G round at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue, already…

Pi Network consolidates around $0.18 as market weighs long-term narrative against near-term drift

7 May 2026 at 20:00
Across major aggregators, Pi Network (PI) is quoted today at roughly $0.179 per PI, with 24‑hour trading volume near $28–35 million. One representative feed has PI at $0.1782 and down about 2–3% on the day, placing it in the mid‑cap range with…

Gate rolls out localized fiat on-ramps in CIS, chasing ~$650M in daily volume

7 May 2026 at 19:30
Gate has rolled out localized fiat on‑ramps for selected CIS countries, letting users fund Gate accounts in domestic currencies and move into mainstream crypto without cross‑border friction. Gate’s CIS-focused fiat channel allows users to fund their accounts in local currency…

BNY Mellon lifts Strategy stake to 1 million shares worth $187.2 million

7 May 2026 at 19:00
BNY Mellon has increased its holdings in Strategy (MSTR) to 1 million shares worth about $187.2 million, deepening its use of the Bitcoin treasury company as a proxy for BTC exposure without holding coins directly. The Bank of New York…

TrustedVolumes confirms $6.7 million exploit, seeks “constructive” talks with hacker

7 May 2026 at 18:30
TrustedVolumes has confirmed it was hacked for roughly $6.7 million and says it is willing to negotiate a bounty and “mutually acceptable solution” with the attacker. In a post on X, the 1inch‑linked liquidity provider said the stolen funds are…

Bitcoin stalls at 200-day average, rekindling fears of a “false breakout”

7 May 2026 at 18:00
Bitcoin failed to clear its 200‑day simple moving average near $83,300 and slipped back under $81,000, reviving comparisons with the March 2022 breakout that quickly reversed into a deep selloff. Bitcoin’s latest rally hit a wall just below its 200‑day…

ZachXBT accuses LAB founder of CEX manipulation that “harms retail investors”

7 May 2026 at 17:30
On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has accused the founder of LAB of running centralized exchange manipulation schemes that he says “harm retail investors,” after a private warning DM was read and ignored ZachXBT alleged in a new post on X that the…

Fed’s Collins pushes back on cut talk, wants “either way” guidance

7 May 2026 at 17:00
Boston Fed President Susan Collins backed holding rates steady and urged the Fed to strip out language that implicitly points to cuts as the next move, reinforcing a higher‑for‑longer stance that has repeatedly whipsawed crypto when markets price in dovish…

US jobless claims come in at 200,000; strong labor data keeps pressure on crypto

7 May 2026 at 16:43
Initial US jobless claims came in at 200,000 for the week ending May 2, beating the 205,000 consensus and reinforcing a picture of a still‑resilient labor market that keeps pressure on the Federal Reserve to delay or dilute rate cuts…

Ethereum price prediction: ETH holds near $2,350 as markets eye grind higher into 2026

7 May 2026 at 16:36
Ethereum is trading around $2,350 today with a live market cap near $281 billion and more than $20 billion in 24‑hour volume, sitting far below its $4,955 all‑time high but well above the sub‑$1,000 lows of the last bear market.…

Dogecoin price prediction: can DOGE break out of its $0.10 range?

7 May 2026 at 16:22
Dogecoin is trading around $0.11 with a market cap near $18.9 billion and more than $2.6 billion in 24‑hour volume, still sitting over 80% below its 2021 peak but firmly inside the top‑10 coins by size. Dogecoin (DOGE) is currently…

Before yesterdayMain stream

Arthur Hayes pegs Zcash target at 10% of Bitcoin price

6 May 2026 at 22:00
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes says his target for Zcash is 10% of Bitcoin’s price, arguing ZEC’s latest rally is early innings despite mounting pressure on privacy coins. BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has set an aggressive upside target for privacy coin…

Gold spikes above $4,700 as silver rallies more than 6% in a day

6 May 2026 at 20:00
Spot gold smashed through $4,710 per ounce while silver jumped more than 6%, extending a months‑long precious‑metals rally that is now outpacing most risk assets and reopening the gold‑versus‑Bitcoin safe‑haven debate. Spot gold pushed through the $4,710 mark on Wednesday,…

Stockcoin.ai raises seed round from Amber Group to fuse AI, stocks, and crypto

6 May 2026 at 18:00
Stockcoin.ai has raised a seed round led by Amber Group to build an AI-native trading OS that pipes on-chain signals into stock and crypto futures flows while adding Hong Kong IPO and US pre‑IPO access from a single interface. Stockcoin.ai,…

Lubin calls Ethereum DATs a “profound innovation,” backs them with 30,000 ETH

6 May 2026 at 15:09
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin calls Ethereum Digital Asset Treasuries “profound innovations,” backs unlevered ETH treasuries, and commits 30,000 ETH to rsETH recovery while pitching Ethereum’s quantum-safe roadmap. Lubin backs ETH treasury companies and the DAT model According to a new…

RootData maps 30 Hyperliquid Web3 partners as it builds an on-chain liquidity OS

6 May 2026 at 15:05
RootData’s new map shows 30 core Web3 partners plugging custody, trading, wallets, and infra into Hyperliquid’s L1 as it pushes toward an on-chain liquidity OS. RootData’s latest ecosystem map shows Hyperliquid positioning itself as a performant L1 “optimized from the ground up”…

GoMining unveils GoBTC payments protocol with 0.2% merchant fee

6 May 2026 at 01:00
GoMining’s GoBTC protocol promises instant authorization and on-chain Bitcoin settlement with a 0.2% merchant fee, positioning miner-run rails as a low-cost challenger to Visa and Mastercard. According to Forbes, GoMining will formally debut its GoBTC payment protocol at this year’s Consensus…

Global Millennial Capital raises $100M IPO fund for AI and DeFi mid-caps

5 May 2026 at 23:00
Dubai-based Global Millennial Capital closes a $100M IPO Opportunities Fund to back overlooked AI and DeFi mid-cap tech names one to three years before exit. According to the PR Newswire announcement, Global Millennial Capital has completed a final close of $100 million…

OnRe Finance raises $5M as Forward lines up $25M ONyc buy

5 May 2026 at 22:00
OnRe Finance raised $5M from Forward and RockawayX as Forward prepares up to $25M into ONyc, scaling Solana-based, tokenized reinsurance with DeFi integrations. OnRe Finance said it has closed a $5 million strategic funding round to accelerate development of its…

Ripple to share DPRK hacker intel with crypto industry after $577M in DeFi hacks

5 May 2026 at 21:00
Ripple is feeding North Korea–linked threat intelligence into Crypto ISAC, hoping shared context on DPRK operatives and DeFi exploits can blunt a 2026 hack wave led by Drift and KelpDAO. Ripple said it has begun sharing internal threat intelligence on…

Galaxy and State Street launch Solana-based SWEEP tokenized cash fund

5 May 2026 at 19:00
U.S. stocks opened higher on Tuesday, with major indexes gaining and AI‑linked storage names outperforming, even as PayPal sank about 10% after disappointing profit guidance. According to CoinDesk, State Street and Galaxy have rolled out SWEEP, a “tokenized private liquidity fund”…

Elastics raises $2M pre-seed to build AI OS for prediction markets

5 May 2026 at 18:00
Elastics, which describes itself as an “AI predictive market operating system,” announced it has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by early-stage investor Frst. Frst leads oversubscribed round into Elastics According to details shared by Menlo Times…

Ark Invest sees Bitcoin hitting $16T and crypto $28T by 2030

5 May 2026 at 17:01
Ark Invest’s Big Ideas 2026 sees Bitcoin compounding about 63% annually to a $16T cap by 2030, anchoring a $28T crypto market dominated by BTC, Ethereum, and Solana. According to Forbes, the Ark report estimates that Bitcoin’s market value could climb…

Somnia taps Frax to launch USDso stablecoin for high-frequency DeFi

5 May 2026 at 16:43
Somnia’s new USDso stablecoin, issued by Frax Finance and backed by tokenized Treasuries, routes reserve yield back into Somnia’s high-throughput DeFi ecosystem. How USDso is structured on Somnia Somnia, a high-throughput L1 developed with Improbable and the Somnia Foundation, has…

Cipher Digital secures $200M credit line to scale AI and HPC footprint

5 May 2026 at 16:37
Cipher Digital secures a $200M revolving credit facility to fund its pivot from Bitcoin mining to long-duration, AI and HPC data center revenues anchored by multi-campus leases. New credit facility underpins data center growth Cipher Digital said in its first-quarter…

Suspected Multicoin-linked wallets stake $82M in HYPE on HyperCore

5 May 2026 at 16:18
HyperCore staking by Arkham-flagged Multicoin wallets locks $82M in HYPE, deepening a concentrated, yield-bearing bet on Hyperliquid’s DeFi-native L1. Arkham flags Multicoin-associated HYPE staking activity According to market monitors citing Arkham’s AI attribution engine, an address predicted to be associated…

Coinbase to open BILL-USD spot trading for Billions token

5 May 2026 at 01:00
BILL-USD pair to launch once liquidity is ready. According to Coinbase’s latest listing update, the exchange “will launch BILL (Billions) spot trading” and expects to open the BILL-USD order book later today in supported trading regions, contingent on sufficient liquidity…

Hyperliquid whales hold $4.016B with longs barely edging shorts

5 May 2026 at 00:00
Latest Coinglass data show Hyperliquid whale accounts holding a combined $4.016 billion in notional positions, with longs only marginally ahead of shorts on size but comfortably in the lead on PnL as one heavily leveraged ETH long dominates the winner’s…

Ondo joins DTCC tokenization working group for U.S. markets

4 May 2026 at 22:00
DTCC has formed a tokenization working group for U.S. markets and tapped Ondo alongside BlackRock, Goldman, JPMorgan, Circle, and others to help design how equities and Treasuries move on-chain. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has launched an industry working…

DeFi Development launches $200M ATM to keep buying Solana

4 May 2026 at 19:00
Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp has launched a $200M at-the-market equity program, pledging to issue stock only when it boosts “SOL per share” and fuels its Solana reserve strategy. DeFi Development Corp, a Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury company focused on Solana…

Solana Strategies buys privacy-focused cross-chain aggregator HoudiniSwap for $18M

4 May 2026 at 18:00
SOL Strategies is acquiring privacy-focused cross-chain aggregator HoudiniSwap for $18M in cash, notes, and stock as it builds an institutional Solana treasury and routing stack. According to reporting from The Block, SOL Strategies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HoudiniSwap…

Bitget CFD daily volume hits record $8B on gold surge

4 May 2026 at 17:00
Bitget’s CFD platform has logged a record $8B day, with gold-linked contracts driving 95% of the jump as Chinese-speaking, European, and Southeast Asian traders pile into metals. Bitget reported that daily trading volume on its CFD segment has broken through…

WLFI sues Justin Sun over alleged smear campaign to crash token price

4 May 2026 at 16:31
WLFI alleges paid smear effort after token freeze. World Liberty Financial has announced it is suing Justin Sun for defamation, alleging that after a Sun-affiliated entity called Blue Anthem bought $WLFI tokens in November 2024 and then transferred some of…

Rain adds Mastercard support as $1.95B stablecoin startup targets on-chain settlement

4 May 2026 at 16:27
Rain, a $1.95B-valued stablecoin infrastructure firm, is adding Mastercard support to extend its Visa-based model and plug on-chain settlement into legacy payment systems. Stablecoin payments startup Rain, fresh off a $250 million Series C at a $1.95 billion valuation, has…

Korean crypto exchanges push back against strict 10M won AML trigger

4 May 2026 at 16:06
South Korea’s Digital Asset Exchange Alliance (DAXA), representing 27 registered virtual asset service providers, has lodged formal objections with the Financial Services Commission and the Financial Intelligence Unit over proposed amendments to the enforcement decree of the Specific Financial Information…

Bitget and WIW3CH expand Blockchain4Her for women in Web3

4 May 2026 at 15:45
Bitget has entered a strategic partnership with women-focused Web3 collective WIW3CH to deliver more structured education, networking, and career support under its Blockchain4Her initiative. Bitget said it has formed a strategic alliance with WIW3CH, describing the group as a Web3…

Kashkari tempers hopes for 2026 cuts as war muddies inflation path

1 May 2026 at 23:00
Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari has shifted from penciling in one or two 2026 cuts to a data‑dependent stance as the Iran war and higher oil muddy the inflation path. According to Jinshi’s summary of recent remarks, Federal Reserve official…

Mantle’s 30,000 ETH loan for Aave enters vote as DeFi United tops $314m

1 May 2026 at 22:00
Mantle’s proposal to lend up to 30,000 ETH to Aave’s DeFi United rsETH rescue has gone live on Snapshot, adding structured credit to a $314m multi‑DAO war chest. Mantle Network has confirmed that its strategic credit facility proposal to support…

Huang Licheng levers up: $14.5m BTC long and $23.3m ETH long on the line

1 May 2026 at 20:30
According to monitoring shared by on‑chain and derivatives tracker HyperInsight, high‑profile trader Huang Licheng has sharply increased his Bitcoin long exposure, pushing his total BTC long position to around $14.5 million with more than 40x leverage. HyperInsight flags fresh BTC and…

Curve’s new bad‑debt pools turn losses into tradable claims

1 May 2026 at 18:05
Curve Finance is turning CRV‑linked bad debt into tradable onchain claims via crvUSD–debt pools, shifting bailouts from socialized rescues to market pricing of losses. Curve Finance has rolled out a bad debt recovery framework that formalizes what founder Michael Egorov…

Bitcoin open interest jumps nearly 6% as traders re‑lever into futures

1 May 2026 at 18:01
Bitcoin futures open interest has climbed 5.92% to $57.621b, signaling traders are re‑levering into BTC derivatives as open positions concentrate on a few major exchanges. The Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives market has seen a notable uptick in risk-taking over the past…

Brazil shuts crypto out of its official cross‑border payment pipes

1 May 2026 at 17:55
Brazil’s central bank has barred crypto from settlement inside regulated eFX payment rails, forcing banks and fintechs back to fiat-only channels for cross‑border flows. Brazil’s central bank has introduced a foreign‑exchange rule that prohibits regulated cross‑border payment channels from using…

Bithumb wins court stay on six‑month Korea FIU suspension

1 May 2026 at 17:51
Seoul’s Administrative Court has stayed a six‑month partial suspension against Bithumb, halting Korea FIU’s harshest crypto penalty while the exchange fights it in court. South Korea’s Seoul Administrative Court has sided with Bithumb, temporarily blocking the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit…

Fun raises $72m to wire fiat and crypto into the same checkout

1 May 2026 at 17:45
Fun raises $72m to power unified fiat and crypto rails for apps like Polymarket and Aave, after quietly processing over $18b in annual payment volume. Fun, a payment infrastructure startup that plugs both fiat and crypto rails into high-growth consumer…

MoonPay’s AI-native debit card gives agents a live stablecoin rail

1 May 2026 at 17:32
MoonPay has launched the MoonAgents Card, a Mastercard-enabled debit product that lets AI agents spend stablecoins directly at the point of sale with onchain settlement behind the scenes. MoonPay has unveiled the MoonAgents Card, a Mastercard-network debit card designed so…

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