Jessica Miles

The full draft of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act landed shortly after midnight on Tuesday ahead of a markup scheduled for Thursday at 10:30 — and the conflict-of-interest carve-out is the provision likely to decide whether the bill clears the floor.

Western Union went live with USDPT, a dollar-backed stablecoin, on Solana on May 4. Anchorage Digital Bank is the issuer, and the company plans to use it for agent settlement, institutional listings, and a consumer payments product launching in more than forty countries this year.

AIMCo, the C$194.7 billion Alberta provincial pension manager, has disclosed a $219 million Strategy position — its first ever Bitcoin-linked allocation, and a return to a stock it sold in September 2020 specifically before Saylor's pivot. The fund is already up $69 million.

Patrick Witt, Trump's new digital-assets adviser, told the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas that the White House is preparing a 'big announcement' on the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve within weeks — without specifying what it will contain.

Western Union confirmed its Solana-based dollar stablecoin USDPT will launch next month, connecting crypto wallets to the company's network of 360,000 retail payout locations across 200 countries.

A vulnerability in Litecoin's MimbleWimble Extension Block allowed attackers to forge invalid peg-out transactions and attempt double-spends, triggering the deepest chain reorganisation in the network's history. GitHub commits show developers had a fix weeks before the exploit landed.

Federal prosecutors have charged a Green Beret with using classified intelligence to earn more than $400,000 on Polymarket, marking the first DOJ prosecution of insider trading on a prediction market.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 101,627 ether last week — its largest weekly purchase of 2026 — bringing its total holdings to 4.97 million ETH and within striking distance of its stated goal of controlling 5 per cent of Ethereum's circulating supply.

Faryar Shirzad told Fox Business that the Senate Banking Committee could mark up the bill this month, with a floor vote following in May — a timeline the committee's own chairman has yet to confirm.

The first spot bitcoin ETF from a major US bank has drawn $103 million in net inflows within its opening week, charging 0.14 per cent — eleven basis points below BlackRock's dominant IBIT fund.

The tokenised Treasury market has grown 37-fold since early 2023, with Circle's USYC fund now leading BlackRock's BUIDL by $250 million as institutional demand outpaces stablecoin growth in absolute terms for the first time.

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed the exchange's confidential SEC filing at the Semafor World Economy summit, while a concurrent Deutsche Börse investment valued the company at $13.3 billion — a $6.7 billion markdown from its November 2025 fundraise.

Emmanuel Macron delivered the opening address at Paris Blockchain Week on Tuesday, calling for the rapid development of euro-denominated stablecoins and a digital euro to counter the dollar's near-total grip on the tokenised money market.

Visa will operate critical blockchain infrastructure on Tempo, the Stripe-backed layer-1 network built for AI-driven payments, alongside Stripe itself and Standard Chartered's Zodia Custody.

The European Central Bank's formal endorsement of centralised crypto oversight threatens the licensing arbitrage that has made Ireland, Luxembourg and Malta the preferred jurisdictions for exchanges seeking the easiest path to MiCA compliance.

Analyst Benjamin Buddish warns that global trading activity has fallen to pre-ETF levels despite a favourable regulatory backdrop, projecting Q1 transaction revenue nearly $200 million below consensus.

The tokenisation platform behind BlackRock's BUIDL fund has added TRON to its multichain distribution strategy, gaining access to a network that processed $7.9 trillion in transfers last year.

Paris Blockchain Week 2026 opens tomorrow at the Carrousel du Louvre with four sitting French ministers, nearly twenty members of parliament, and senior executives from BNP Paribas, HSBC and JPMorgan in attendance.

IBIT pulled in roughly $8.4 billion during the first three months of 2026 while the broader spot bitcoin ETF category bled nearly $500 million. BlackRock reports Q1 earnings today.

Aave pays 2.61% on USDC while high-yield savings accounts offer 5%. The yield premium that drew billions into decentralised finance has evaporated, and the protocols' best remaining rates come from repackaging traditional finance.

Mantle Network's xStocks product — built with Bybit, BackedFi, and Flowdesk — lets traders buy ERC-20 tokens tracking Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, and seven other US equities around the clock on its Ethereum Layer 2, using Swiss DLT-compliant tracker certificates as the legal wrapper.

The mutual termination, effective 8 April, ends what would have been the largest crypto-focused SPAC deal since 2021. Dynamix receives a $50 million break fee and has until November to find an alternative target.

Vice President JD Vance confirmed no agreement was reached after 21 hours of negotiations in Pakistan, reversing a week-long rally that had carried bitcoin above $74,000 on ceasefire optimism.

Binance has set 23 April as the removal date for six long-tail altcoins in its latest periodic review, with Beefy.Finance, FIO Protocol, FunToken, Measurable Data Token, Orchid and Wanchain all losing their spot trading pairs and their affected holders seeing double-digit price drops.

Changpeng Zhao's new memoir, drafted in 15-minute bursts on a federal prison tablet, has reignited a decade-old dispute with OKX founder Star Xu over a disputed 2015 employment contract — and a reported claim that Xu personally turned in Huobi's Li Lin to Chinese authorities.

The amended S-1/A filed on 11 April names the ticker BHYP, sets a 0.67% management fee, and lists FalconX, Flowdesk, Nonco and Wintermute as approved trading counterparties. The trust will pursue a secondary objective of staking yield.

Six of the most recognisable names in institutional financial data have agreed to distribute proprietary feeds directly through Pyth Network, pulling some of Wall Street's most lucrative subscription businesses onto public blockchains for the first time.

Subnet operator Covenant AI exited Bittensor on Thursday, publishing a detailed indictment of co-founder Jacob Steeves that wiped up to 23 percent off the TAO token's price and triggered a whistleblower document dump alleging near-total founder control over the network's governance.

UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank and BCV have opened a controlled testing environment for a Swiss franc stablecoin alongside Swiss Stablecoin AG, an unusually large coalition by European banking standards.

Polygon Labs is seeking between $50 million and $100 million in equity to fund its Open Money Stack stablecoin payments business, built on the Coinme and Sequence acquisitions it completed in January. The raise positions Marc Boiron's company as a settlement layer underneath Stripe, Mastercard, and the banks, rather than a consumer-facing payments brand.

OKX Ventures and HashKey Capital have taken equity stakes in Vietnam Prosperity Crypto Asset Exchange, lifting the venue past the VND 10 trillion capital threshold Hanoi requires for its pilot crypto licensing regime. The deal closes an awkward gap in OKX's Southeast Asian footprint and turns a single domestic operator into the first serious candidate for one of five licences on offer.

The non-profit initiated an $11 million conversion through CoWSwap's time-weighted average price mechanism, just days after reaching its 70,000 ETH staking target — highlighting the tension between generating yield and meeting dollar-denominated expenses.

The new Ethereum execution client processes 1.7 billion gas units per second on a disk footprint of just 240 gigabytes, delivering a 20-fold improvement in block persistence and removing the execution layer as a bottleneck for the network's scaling roadmap.

Implied volatility on bitcoin options has fallen to its lowest level since January even as March CPI is expected to hit 3.4% year-on-year, up from 2.4% in February, driven by the Iran war energy shock.

The bank's analysts estimate first-quarter flows ran at roughly one-third of last year's pace, with Strategy's bitcoin purchases and a handful of large VC rounds accounting for most of the capital that did arrive.

South Korea's financial regulators have ordered all domestic crypto exchanges to adopt standardised withdrawal delays and eliminate individual exemption policies, a move designed to disrupt voice phishing scams that exploit the speed of crypto transactions.

CME Group will list Avalanche and Sui futures on 4 May, extending its regulated crypto derivatives lineup to nine assets as the exchange prepares to move all digital asset products to round-the-clock trading later that month.

Risk assets reversed sharp losses within hours after the US president stepped back from a threat to annihilate Iranian infrastructure, accepting a Pakistani-brokered pause that sent oil tumbling 8 per cent from session highs.

Privy, the Stripe-owned wallet infrastructure provider, has integrated the Uniswap API to offer native token swaps across 18 chains. The move gives developers building on Privy access to Uniswap's $4.3 trillion in cumulative liquidity with a single API call.

Privy, the Stripe-owned wallet infrastructure provider, has integrated the Uniswap API to offer native token swaps across 18 chains. The move gives developers building on Privy access to Uniswap's $4.3 trillion in cumulative liquidity with a single API call.