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Global crypto intelligence. Edition: EN
A coalition of Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, and more than 140 other companies has launched Open USD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin designed to share reserve yield with the businesses that use it.
Web3 Warsaw 2026 returns as Eastern Europe's largest blockchain conference on September 9–10. Bringing together over 5,000 builders, 300 speakers, and 100 exhibitors, the event cements its place as a leading global hub for Web3 innovation.
FIFA's decision to build its 2026 World Cup ticketing, loyalty, and digital collectibles infrastructure on a dedicated Avalanche blockchain has given AVAX its strongest bullish signal in a month — but analysts say sustained demand still needs to be proven.
Mastercard's new Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) service enables AI agents to autonomously permission, orchestrate, and settle high-frequency micro-payments across cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins — with more than 30 industry partners already on board.
Polymarket has appointed a local representative and set a 2030 target for regulatory approval in Japan, even as the country's strict gambling laws and a global wave of prediction market restrictions make the path forward uncertain.
SpaceX's landmark SEC filing ahead of its Nasdaq debut has disclosed an 18,712 BTC position worth $1.45 billion, placing the aerospace company among the largest known corporate Bitcoin holders.
Revolut has launched its first physical crypto debit card — a Dogecoin-themed, LED-equipped card accepted anywhere Visa and Mastercard are supported — marking a significant step in the fintech's push to bring digital asset spending into everyday consumer finance.
THORChain has halted all trading and signing operations after a suspected exploit drained approximately $10.8 million across four blockchain networks, sending its native RUNE token down sharply.
Charles Schwab, one of the world's largest brokerages, has begun rolling out direct spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to eligible U.S. retail clients through its new Schwab Crypto platform.
The Ethereum Foundation has gone live with Clear Signing, an open standard built on ERC-7730 that replaces unreadable transaction prompts with plain-language wallet approvals — marking a significant step forward for both UX and on-chain security.
Circle's first-ever token presale — backed by a16z, BlackRock, and Apollo — signals a pivotal shift from stablecoin issuer to full-stack institutional blockchain platform.
A Bitcoin wallet silent since November 2013 moved 500 BTC worth $40 million on May 10, 2026, with on-chain data pointing toward an institutional OTC transaction rather than an exchange sell-off.
Kraken's parent company Payward has applied for an OCC national trust charter, aiming to become a federally regulated qualified custodian for institutional digital asset clients across all 50 U.S. states.
Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley revealed at Consensus 2026 that up to 20 financial institutions and major tech companies are actively preparing to issue stablecoins through the firm following the passage of the GENIUS Act.
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud have introduced Pay.sh, a pay-per-request API gateway that lets autonomous AI agents settle payments in stablecoins on Solana — no accounts, subscriptions, or API keys required.
Coinbase is eliminating approximately 700 jobs — 14% of its global workforce — as CEO Brian Armstrong restructures the crypto exchange around artificial intelligence and leaner operations amid a prolonged market downturn.
The $150M+ DSJ Exchange and BG Wealth Sharing Ponzi scheme has collapsed, with blockchain investigator ZachXBT leading a coordinated effort alongside Tether, Binance, OKX, and U.S. law enforcement to freeze over $41.5 million in illicit assets.
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Kraken's parent company, Payward, has intensified its legal battle against former custody partner Etana, alleging a 'Ponzi-like' scheme that wrongfully appropriated more than $25 million in client reserve funds.
Sonic Labs has committed $1 million to buy back its native $S token through a Binance Learn & Earn campaign, while simultaneously advancing Spawn, its AI-powered platform that converts plain-language prompts into fully deployed decentralized applications.
Coinbase will halt DAI trading on May 4, 2026, automatically converting remaining user balances to USDS at a 1:1 rate as part of a broader asset review that also affects TIME and TRU tokens.
The Ethereum Foundation has finalized another OTC sale of 10,000 ETH to Bitmine Immersion Technologies at $2,292.15 per token, deepening a recurring institutional partnership that is reshaping how the network's stewards fund operations.
April 2026 closed as the most-hacked month in crypto history by incident count, with DefiLlama confirming up to 30 separate exploits and over $635 million stolen — nearly all linked to two North Korea–attributed attacks on Drift Protocol and KelpDAO.
MARA Holdings is acquiring Long Ridge Energy & Power for $1.5 billion, pivoting from pure-play Bitcoin mining toward owning energy and AI data center infrastructure.
Ripple has inaugurated a new Middle East and Africa headquarters inside Dubai's DIFC, doubling down on a region where regulatory wins and institutional demand are converging to lay the groundwork for broader XRP adoption.
A $5M+ admin-key compromise drained Wasabi Protocol's perpetual vaults across four chains, capping what analysts are calling DeFi's worst month on record.
Tether's bold proposal to merge Twenty One Capital, Strike, and Electron Energy into a single publicly traded Bitcoin giant collides with a divided Federal Reserve and weakening retail demand, painting a complex picture for BTC in 2026.
Meta has quietly begun paying select creators in USDC stablecoin on Solana and Polygon — marking the social media giant's first live crypto payout integration, four years after its failed Libra project.
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New York and Illinois moved simultaneously to restrict prediction market activity — filing lawsuits against Coinbase and Gemini while banning state employees from trading on insider information — deepening a federal-versus-state jurisdictional clash that rattled crypto markets.
The Solana-based BELIEVE token has collapsed over 99% from its all-time high as founder Ben Pasternak now faces both a federal class action lawsuit over an alleged rug-pull scheme and separate criminal charges for assault and strangulation.
TRON founder Justin Sun has filed a federal lawsuit against Trump-linked World Liberty Financial, alleging fraud, wrongful token freezing, and governance rights violations tied to his ~$75 million WLFI investment.
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BTC holds firm above key support as institutional accumulation from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Börse, and MicroStrategy signals a structural demand shift that could catalyze a breakout toward the $78K–$80K resistance zone.
Actor-turned-filmmaker Ben McKenzie's debut documentary dismantles the mechanics of cryptocurrency fraud — from Bitcoin's origins to FTX's collapse and the Trump family's meme coin millions — in a sharply reported, 90-minute takedown now in theaters.
North Korean state-linked hackers have drained over $577 million from two major DeFi protocols in less than three weeks, exposing deep structural vulnerabilities in cross-chain infrastructure and on-chain governance.
US Government transfers 2.44 BTC of seized assets worth approximately 177,000 USD to a Coinbase Prime wallet on April 10, 2026, marking the first such move in over a month. These assets originate from the criminal case of Glenn Olivio involving illegal steroid distribution and money laundering. The movement is part of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve policy, which has halted routine sales of seized Bitcoin, instead holding them as strategic reserves totaling approximately 328,000 BTC, valued at over 22 billion USD."