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The Trump-family crypto firm filed a defamation suit against Justin Sun in Florida state court two weeks after Sun sued it for fraud — turning a token-freeze dispute worth roughly $240 million into a contested public trial.
The European Union's 20th sanctions package against Russia takes effect on May 24, banning EU persons from any transaction with Russian or Belarusian crypto-asset service providers — and, for the first time, with decentralised platforms operating from those jurisdictions.
Aave's 29-page filing argues that briefly-stolen ETH cannot be treated as North Korean property, even when Lazarus Group was the thief — and warns the SDNY restraining order could chill every future DeFi hack recovery.
Crypto exchange Bullish announced a $4.2 billion deal on May 5 to acquire shareholder-services giant Equiniti from Siris Capital, structured as $1.85 billion in assumed debt and $2.35 billion in stock. The strategic logic only works if tokenised securities actually arrive on schedule.
Wasabi Protocol's deployer EOA held the only ADMIN_ROLE for the entire permission system, and an attacker drained roughly $4.55 million from perp vaults across four chains. The vulnerability was governance, not code.
Meta has begun routing creator earnings through Circle's USDC on Solana and Polygon via Stripe, starting in Colombia and the Philippines. It is the company's first stablecoin product since regulators forced it to abandon Libra in 2019.
Paul Atkins, the first sitting SEC chair to address a Bitcoin conference, used Las Vegas to confirm a 12-to-36-month sandbox for on-chain securities issuance and to declare the agency's enforcement-driven era over.
A coordinated industry rescue has raised $160 million to cover Aave's bad debt from the KelpDAO exploit, with total pledges exceeding $300 million after Consensys committed 30,000 ETH on Sunday.
The stablecoin issuer blocked two TRON wallets holding a combined $344 million after OFAC designated them as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion network. Treasury Secretary Bessent called it part of a broader campaign to cut off Tehran's financial lifelines.
AWS now lists Chainlink Data Feeds, Data Streams and Proof of Reserve on its marketplace, complete with reference architectures for reserve monitoring and automated trading systems built on Lambda, Fargate and DynamoDB.
Wisconsin's attorney general filed three lawsuits arguing prediction market contracts are illegal sports bets, escalating a jurisdictional battle between states and the CFTC that is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court.
Brussels published a policy paper framing distributed ledger technology as the foundation of an 'internet of value' and confirmed that Pontes, the Eurosystem's DLT settlement platform, will go live in the third quarter of 2026 — making Europe the first major jurisdiction to offer central bank-settled tokenised asset trading.
The release replaces Bitcoin's decade-old transaction queuing system with a cluster-based architecture and introduces private broadcasting through Tor and I2P, marking the protocol's most significant infrastructure upgrade in years.
On-chain evidence suggests RaveDAO insiders moved millions of RAVE tokens to exchanges before and during a vertical price surge that added $5.7 billion in market capitalisation in nine days, then erased it all in 48 hours.
SWIFT has completed the design phase of its blockchain-based shared ledger and is building an MVP for live tokenised deposit payments across more than 200 countries. The system, built on Hyperledger Besu, aims to make cross-border settlement a 24/7 operation.
Ethereum's base layer handled 200.4 million transactions between January and March 2026, surpassing 200 million for the first time. Yet ether remains more than 50 per cent below its August 2025 peak, exposing a structural disconnect between network usage and token value.
House Bill 798, signed on 14 April, requires crypto custodians to transfer abandoned digital assets to the state in-kind rather than liquidating them — and bars the treasury from selling for at least a year.
