The Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15 to 9 on Thursday, sending Bitcoin above $82,000 for the first time in weeks. The Clarity Act advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday in a 15 to 9β¦
The Tether freeze coalition known as T3 FCU has surpassed $450 million in blocked illicit USDT since launching in 2024. The T3 Financial Crime Unit, a joint initiative backed by Tether, TRON, and blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, has crossedβ¦
Coinbase stock surged 8% after the Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act in a 15 to 9 bipartisan vote. The Senate Banking Committee passed the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on May 14 by 15 votes to 9, withβ¦
Kraken is deprecating its cross-chain provider and migrating to Chainlink CCIP as the exclusive infrastructure for its wrapped assets. Kraken posted the announcement on X on May 14, confirming that Chainlinkβs Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol will become its exclusive bridge infrastructureβ¦
Blockchain security firm Blockaid flagged an active smart contract exploit draining $132,700 from ShapeShiftβs FOX Colony on Arbitrum. Blockaid flagged the incident on X on May 13, identifying the attacker wallet at 0xeed236Afb6967f74099a0a6bf078BC6b865fbf28. FOX Colony is ShapeShiftβs community governance andβ¦
Solanaβs Jupiter Lend has launched its first institutional lending market, with Bitwise Asset Management curating a dedicated USDe pool. Jupiter announced the partnership on May 13 via X, describing it as a turning point for onchain lending. The new Ethenaβ¦
Striveβs SATA stock will become the first U.S. listed security to pay cash dividends every business day. Strive (Nasdaq: ASST) announced on May 14 that its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will shift from monthly to daily dividendβ¦
Crypto wallet infrastructure firm Turnkey has raised $12.5 million backed by Circle Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Turnkey announced the raise on May 14, with participation from Archetype, Bain Capital Crypto, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy Ventures, and Variant alongside Circle Ventures andβ¦
Dune Analytics has laid off 25% of its staff, with CEO Fredrik Haga citing AI tools as the primary driver. Haga posted on X Thursday morning that the company had let go of 25% of its team, calling those affectedβ¦
Fasset, a stablecoin neobank serving 125 countries, has raised $51 million backed by Japanβs SBI Group and Investcorp. Fasset, a Los Angeles-based digital banking platform, uses stablecoin rails to move money across borders for small and medium-sized businesses, bypassing correspondentβ¦
South Korean exchange Upbit will pause Cosmos ATOM deposits and withdrawals from May 20 to support a network upgrade. Upbit announced the temporary halt via an official notice to users, stating the pause begins at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Mayβ¦
AI Layer-2 token Matchain MAT surged 349% in a single session as speculative capital rotated into small-cap altcoins. Matchain is an AI-powered zk-rollup blockchain built on BNB Chain that focuses on decentralised identity, data sovereignty, and performance-based advertising. Its nativeβ¦
Parliamentary standards watchdog formally launched a probe into Nigel Farage over an undeclared Β£5M gift tied to crypto donations. The investigation centers on a Β£5 million payment Farage received from Christopher Harborne in early 2024, weeks before he reversed aβ¦
The copper gold ratio has broken above its 200-day moving average for the first meaningful time since September 2020. The copper gold ratio is a closely watched macro signal measuring the relative strength of copper, an industrial metal tied toβ¦
Keith Gillβs verified X account was apparently hacked on May 11, with bad actors using the Roaring Kitty profile to launch and dump a Solana meme coin. Two posts appeared on Gillβs verified X account at around 21:13 UTC onβ¦
Yellow Network chairman Alexis Sirkia says the CLARITY Act is the structural reset U.S. crypto has waited for. The CLARITY Act is moving faster than at any point in its legislative history. The Senate Banking Committee released a new 309-pageβ¦
Animoca-backed NUVA has launched a marketplace connecting $19 billion of tokenized assets from Figure Technologies to Ethereumβs DeFi markets. NUVA, developed by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, is now live on Ethereum, giving retail and institutional users access to real-worldβ¦
Tokenized Treasuries hit a record $15.35 billion on May 13 as Fed rate-hike fears drove investors toward on-chain yield. Tokenized Treasuries reached $15.35 billion in total value locked on May 13, surpassing the previous mid-April peak of $15.10 billion, accordingβ¦
Metaplanet loss hit $725 million in Q1 2026, driven entirely by a $737 million non-cash Bitcoin writedown. Tokyo-listed Metaplanet (TSE: 3350) reported a net loss of Β₯114.5 billion ($725.6 million) for Q1 2026, a figure that reflects Japanβs accounting requirementβ¦
Anthropic and OpenAI have declared PreStocks tokens backed by their shares worthless, sending the Solana products down up to 39%. Anthropic and OpenAI have both issued warnings declaring that Solana-based PreStocks tokens claiming to offer exposure to their private sharesβ¦
Japan telecom KDDI has agreed to buy a 14.9% stake in KDDI Coincheck Group for $65 million. KDDI Corporation (TYO: 9433), Japanβs second-largest telecom company with over 72 million mobile subscribers, has announced an agreement to acquire a 14.9% stakeβ¦
Ledger has put its Ledger IPO plans on hold, citing difficult market conditions and weak investor appetite for crypto listings. Ledger, the French crypto hardware wallet maker, has paused its plans for a US initial public offering, according to twoβ¦
CryptoQuant signal has flipped Bitcoin into early bull territory for the first time since March 2023, analysts say. CryptoQuantβs Bull-Bear Market Cycle Indicator entered bullish territory on May 12 for the first time since March 2023, signaling what analysts describeβ¦
Ray Dalio said Bitcoin lacks privacy and its transparency is why central banks will not hold it. Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio posted on X on May 11 that Bitcoinβs public ledger is the core reason central banks are unlikelyβ¦
The DTCC Chainlink Collateral AppChain partnership will automate 24/7 collateral management across global markets by Q4 2026. The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has announced that its Collateral AppChain will integrate the Chainlink Runtime Environment and Chainlinkβs data standard toβ¦
Exodus wallet sold 1,076 bitcoin in Q1 2026 to fund its $175 million acquisition of W3Cβs payments business. Exodus Movement (NYSE: EXOD), developer of the self-custody Exodus wallet, sold 1,076 bitcoin during Q1 2026, reducing its BTC holdings from 1,704β¦
MARA Holdings sold $1.5 billion in bitcoin in Q1 2026, dropping to the fourth largest public BTC holder. MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA) sold 20,880 bitcoin during Q1 2026 at an average price of $70,137 per coin, generating approximately $1.5 billionβ¦
An Aave vote opening May 15 would transfer 30,765 ETH to Aave LLC as part of the Kelp exploit recovery. Aave and other affected parties launched a binding Arbitrum Improvement Proposal on May 12, opening a governance vote on Mayβ¦
Denis Beau urged immediate private-sector mobilisation to build euro stablecoins, breaking publicly with ECB president Christine Lagardeβs slower approach. Denis Beau, deputy governor of the Banque de France, called on May 12 for a βmobilization of all relevant European players,β¦
Ronin L2 migration completed May 12, ending four years as a sidechain after a 10-hour network shutdown. The Ronin L2 hard fork executed at block 55,577,490 on May 12, transitioning the gaming blockchain from an independent EVM sidechain into aβ¦
Ethereum whale Garrett Jin moved 577,896 ETH worth $1.35 billion to Binance over four days, per Lookonchain. An Ethereum whale identified as Garrett Jin deposited all 577,896 ETH worth roughly $1.35 billion into Binance over four consecutive days, raising concernsβ¦
Galaxy Digital and SharpLink have launched the Galaxy SharpLink Onchain Yield Fund with $125 million to deploy into DeFi protocols. Galaxy Digital and SharpLink announced a non-binding agreement on May 11 to launch the Galaxy Sharplink Onchain Yield Fund, aβ¦
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the CLARITY Act gave banks their must-haves as the Senate released its 309-page bill text. The Senate Banking Committee released the 309-page substitute text of the CLARITY Act on May 12, setting a committee markupβ¦
Tom Lee has slowed Bitmine ETH purchases after the firm amassed over 5.2 million tokens and 4.3% of Ethereumβs supply. Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) bought 26,659 ETH last week worth roughly $63 million, sharply down from the more than 100,000β¦
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