Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu told Consensus Miami 2026 that the metaverse is over as a consumer destination, and that 100 billion AI agents will become blockchainβs primary users. Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu told Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursdayβ¦
Prediction markets closed out Consensus Miami 2026 as the subject of a live debate on whether they are regulated financial derivatives or gambling products operating outside state law. Prediction markets closed out Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday as the subjectβ¦
Mason Lynaugh, executive director of Stand With Crypto, took the Consensus Miami 2026 stage on Thursday to outline how the groupβs 2.7 million advocates will engage in the November midterms. Mason Lynaugh, executive director of Stand With Crypto, outlined theβ¦
Executives at federally regulated banks told a Consensus Miami 2026 panel that crypto companies are increasingly seeking bank licenses as the industry moves toward regulated financial infrastructure. Executives at federally regulated banks told the Consensus Miami 2026 Policy Summit onβ¦
Breadcrumbs analyst James Delmore presented a live breakdown of crypto PAC spending at the Consensus Miami 2026 Policy Summit on Thursday. James Delmore, a research analyst at Breadcrumbs who has tracked crypto industry political spending since the 2024 cycle, tookβ¦
Blockstream CEO Adam Back told Consensus Miami 2026 that bitcoin is winning a security war against DeFi, and that pension funds and sovereign entities are the next buyers. Blockstream CEO Adam Back argued at Consensus Miami 2026 that Bitcoinβs comparativelyβ¦
Bitcoin lenders at Consensus Miami 2026 said crypto lending must look and feel more like traditional banking if it wants institutional capital to keep flowing in. Bitcoin lenders at Consensus Miami 2026 argued that the future of crypto lending doesβ¦
Senator Ashley Moody took the Consensus Miami 2026 stage on Thursday to tell the crypto industry how she sees the relationship between Washington and digital assets. Senator Ashley Moody took the Consensus Miami 2026 stage on Thursday alongside Digital Chamberβ¦
Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff took the main stage at Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday to defend World Liberty Financial as the project fights a federal lawsuit from Justin Sun. Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff took the Consensusβ¦
American Bitcoin posted an $81.8 million net loss in Q1 2026, even as the Trump-backed miner set a new quarterly production record of 817 BTC and cut its mining cost by 23%. American Bitcoin reported a net loss of $81.8β¦
SoFi generated $121.6 million in crypto transaction revenue in Q1 2026, its first detailed public disclosure since the bank relaunched crypto trading, but $120.7 million of that went to costs. SoFiβs relaunched crypto unit generated $121.6 million in transaction revenueβ¦
Core Scientific sold $208 million in bitcoin in Q1 2026 to fund its shift to AI data center operations, as colocation revenue surpassed mining for the first time. Core Scientific sold 2,385 bitcoin for $208.3 million in the first quarterβ¦
Box Elder County commissioners approved Kevin OβLearyβs 9GW Stratos AI campus in Utah on May 4, amid loud public protests from hundreds of local residents. Box Elder County commissioners in Utah voted unanimously on May 4 to approve the Stratosβ¦
Fairshake has spent $28 million in 2026 primaries as a new poll shows most Americans distrust crypto and AI, raising questions about the political value of industry-backed super PAC money. Fairshake, the pro-crypto super PAC backed by Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz,β¦
Erik Reppel said at Consensus Miami 2026 that AI agents bypass internet ads entirely, threatening the webβs core business model and pointing to x402 stablecoin micropayments as the structural replacement. Coinbase Developer Platform head and x402 founder Erik Reppel tookβ¦
NYSE parent ICE and Securitize warned at Consensus Miami 2026 that offshore synthetic tokenized stocks are misleading retail investors and creating serious risks for the broader market. NYSE executives and partners raised the alarm at Consensus Miami 2026 on Wednesdayβ¦
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 Consensusβ¦
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 andβ¦
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took the Consensus Miami 2026 mainstage on Day 2 and expressed optimism about the CLARITY Actβs prospects in Congress, appearing alongside Kevin OβLeary and Coinbaseβs Paul Grewal. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took the mainstage at Consensus Miami 2026β¦
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 panelβ¦
Arthur Hayes told Consensus Miami 2026 that the CLARITY Act misses the point of crypto, arguing that bitcoinβs value comes precisely from operating outside any regulatory system. BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes took the stage at Consensus Miamiβ¦
Michael Saylor said Strategy will βprobably sell some bitcoinβ to pay dividends, marking the first public reversal of the firmβs long-held never-sell position. Strategy, the largest publicly traded corporate holder of bitcoin, may sell a portion of its holdings toβ¦
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 centerβ¦
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 isβ¦
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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