The Senate Banking Committee has scheduled a markup hearing for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (Clarity Act) on Thursday, May 14, 2026. The bill had stalled after Coinbase withdrew suppo…

The US stock market rose on Friday, with the S&P 500 gaining 0.78% to 7,393.03, driven by a strong April jobs report and progress on the US-Iran peace memo. The April nonfarm payrolls rose by 115,000,…

A coalition of six top U.S. banking trade groups, representing Wall Street giants and community banks, issued a statement Friday expressing concerns about new language in the Clarity Act compromise re…

Ethereum whale Garrett Jin deposited 165,000 ETH (worth $178 million) into Binance on May 8, continuing a pattern after moving a similar amount two days earlier. Simultaneously, BlackRock and Fidelity…

On Friday, cryptocurrency markets rallied alongside equities, with bitcoin holding above $80,000 and altcoins such as Solana, Chainlink, SUI, and DOT posting gains of around 5%. Near Protocol and Unis…

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner TeraWulf (WULF) reported a net loss of $427 million in Q1 2026, up from $61.4 million in Q1 2025. The firm's total revenue reached $34 million, with 60% ($21 million) com…

Apple and Intel have reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture chips for Apple devices, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The deal, which involved direct lobbying from President T…

BMNR stock price fell to $22.00 on May 7, down 3.97%, after chairman Tom Lee indicated at Consensus Miami that BitMine may slow its Ethereum purchases as it approaches its 5% supply target. The compan…

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging the company to fully disclose its stablecoin-related plans. Warren argued that Congress needs to understand Meta's inte…

Telegram has formally replaced the TON Foundation as the main force behind The Open Network (TON), with founder Pavel Durov confirming the messenger will become the chain’s largest validator. The anno…

Prediction market Myriad now indicates an 82% probability that Michael Saylor's firm Strategy will sell some of its Bitcoin holdings this year. The odds surged after Saylor stated during a Q1 earnings…

At the EasyA Hackathon held during Consensus Miami 2026, nearly 1,000 developers from ecosystems like Base and Solana, and companies including Microsoft and Google, competed to build products centered…

SpaceX is approaching a public listing with an estimated valuation of $1.75 trillion, potentially the largest IPO in history. The public S-1 filing is expected by late May, with the listing scheduled …

GoMining has launched GoBTC Pay, a Bitcoin payment protocol enabling instant and free transactions on Bitcoin's base layer. The protocol uses a 2-of-3 multi-signature architecture and is backed by GoM…

Economist Steve Hanke, a Johns Hopkins professor and former Reagan aide, warned that the US stock market is in bubble territory. His warning is based on his proprietary bubble detector and the bond-st…

The U.S. Department of Defense has launched a new website, PURSUE, to host declassified files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), releasing videos, photos, and documents previously scattered o…

Intel (INTC) shares hit an all-time high on May 8 after a preliminary deal to manufacture chips for Apple, lifting the value of a U.S. government stake from $8.9 billion to $56.5 billion. The rally yi…

SEC Chair Paul Atkins, speaking at the AI+ Expo in Washington on May 8, 2026, indicated the agency is considering formal rulemaking to adapt securities regulations for blockchain-based trading systems…

Zoomex announced the launch of its 2026 Zero-Cost Trading Competition, featuring a total prize pool of up to $600,000 USDT. The competition aims to eliminate financial barriers by providing newly regi…

Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, announced on Friday that it had filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust company charte…

Solana-based UFO-themed meme coins experienced significant price surges following the Pentagon's first declassified UAP file release on Friday. The Department of War launched the Presidential Unsealin…

British Olympic sprinter CJ Ujah, 32, is among ten suspects charged in a UK cryptocurrency fraud investigation. The Eastern Region Special Operations Unit conducted raids across Kent, Essex, and Londo…

Nvidia and IREN Limited announced a strategic partnership on Thursday to deploy up to 5 gigawatts of next-generation AI infrastructure using Nvidia's DSX architecture. The deal includes a $3.4 billion…

Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has applied for a national trust company charter with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). If approved, the charter would es…

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned that large stablecoins such as Tether (USDT) and USDC, which dominate a $310 billion market, present significant risks to financial stability a…

A long-term altcoin market cap chart shows a structure that preceded the last two altcoin seasons. The Altcoin Season Index, however, reads 35, firmly in Bitcoin Season territory, indicating altcoins …

US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $1.97 billion in net inflows during April 2026, the highest monthly total of the year so far, according to data from SoSoValue. This surpassed March's $1.37 billion and …

The Pentagon released its first declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files, known as the 'Alien Files,' on Friday via the PURSUE system. Crypto-native prediction market Polymarket saw i…

Andreessen Horowitz general partner David George argues that fears of AI-driven mass unemployment are historically unfounded, citing the lump-of-labor fallacy. He contends that human wants are unlimit…

ECB President Christine Lagarde pushed back on calls for euro-denominated stablecoins, stating they are not an efficient way to strengthen the euro's international role. Speaking at the Banco de Españ…

On Thursday night, Coinbase users experienced widespread issues with trading, fund transfers, and the mobile app after failures in Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The exchange traced the pro…

XRP price moved higher on a late volume burst on May 8, 2026, with traders watching whether compression near the $1.39-$1.40 range resolves into a larger move. The cryptocurrency traded in a tight 1.4…

Toncoin (TON), Zcash (ZEC), and Venice Token (VVV) are the top three altcoins exhibiting bullish daily structures this weekend, each having cleared critical resistance levels on rising volume. Toncoin…

On Thursday morning, trading platform Revolut experienced a technical glitch that briefly displayed Bitcoin's price at near-zero levels—about $0.02—instead of its actual market price near $79,000. The…

Global losses from crypto wrench attacks reached $101 million in the first four months of 2026, nearly doubling the $52.2 million recorded in all of 2025. According to Web3 security firm CertiK, 34 do…

The CoinDesk 20 Index rose 0.1% on May 8, 2026, with 17 of 20 assets trading higher. Leading performers included NEAR (+6.3%) and ICP (+5.8%), while BNB (-0.4%) and CRO (-0.1%) lagged. The index is cu…

New daily XRP addresses on the XRP Ledger have fallen 85% from 18,000 in December 2024 to 5,020, while monthly active supply dropped 73% from 7.45 billion to 2 billion XRP per day, according to Glassn…

At Consensus Miami 2026, executives from MoonPay, Ripple, and Paxos said regulation has accelerated stablecoin adoption, but infrastructure, privacy, and distribution remain major obstacles. Richard H…

Several analysts covering Coinbase (COIN) have indicated that the company's long-term growth prospects may depend more on its expansion into stablecoins and potential U.S. crypto legislation than on a…

Zcash is set to roll out quantum-recoverable wallets within a month, aiming to enhance security against future quantum computing threats. The privacy coin targets full post-quantum status within 12 to…

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), indicated on the company's Q1 2026 earnings call that the firm will likely sell a portion of its 818,334 BTC holdings to fund d…

The U.S. labor market showed modest strength in April, adding 115,000 jobs against 62,000 expected, though down from March's revised 185,000. The unemployment rate held at 4.3%, aligning with forecast…

Revolut has confirmed a glitch where its app briefly displayed Bitcoin prices at just $0.02, while actual market prices were near $79,000. The issue was reported by users on social media and quickly r…

Block Inc. (XYZ) shares jumped 7.93% in after-hours trading after reporting first‑quarter earnings that exceeded analyst expectations. The Jack Dorsey‑led company posted adjusted diluted EPS of $0.85,…

OpenZeppelin completed a security audit of the Argent Labs yearly-approval-contract, focusing on the yearly_allowance.cairo Starknet module. The audit examined allowance lifecycle management, spend ex…

BlackRock has filed a comment letter with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) endorsing the agency's proposed regulatory framework for payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS …

Chainlink (LINK) is positioning for a potential move toward $15, driven by aggressive whale accumulation and a bullish daily chart breakout. On-chain data from Santiment shows that wallets holding 100…

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde rejected calls for euro-denominated stablecoins, arguing they cannot strengthen the euro's international role and could destabilize bank funding…

Crypto markets declined another 1-2% on Friday, with Bitcoin at $80,200 and Ethereum at $2,290, while stock futures were green. Coinbase reported Q1 2026 earnings with a net loss of $1.49 per share, m…

X has rolled out a significant upgrade to its cashtag feature, embedding live stock charts and real-time price data directly into posts on the social platform. The change was demonstrated by Nikita Bi…