Bitcoin Mining Pool Giants Foundry, Antpool and F2pool Signal Stratum V2 Shift
Key Takeaways Antpool, F2pool, Foundry, and 4 others joined the Stratum V2 Working Group on May 7, 2026. Stratum V2...
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Coinbase Says Outage ‘Unacceptable’ as CEO Weighs Speed-Resilience Tradeoffs
Key Takeaways Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called the AWS-linked exchange outage unacceptable for customers. Trading, account access, and customer account...
Ethereum’s DeFi TVL Dominance Drops to 53%, Approaching Multi-Year Low
Key Takeaways Ethereum’s DeFi TVL share fell from 63.5% to 53% between January 2025 and May 2026. Defillama data shows...
Lagarde Blocks Euro Stablecoin Push, Calls $300B Market a Stability Risk for ECB Policy
Key Takeaways ECB President Lagarde called euro-denominated stablecoins a financial stability risk on May 8, 2026. Lagarde mentioned that USDC...
Kraken Parent Payward Targets OCC Charter to Unlock Institutional Digital Asset Custody
Key Takeaways Payward, the parent company of Kraken, filed an OCC application to establish a national trust company for institutional...
Layerzero Discloses RPC Poisoning Incident Linked to $292M KelpDAO Hack
Key Takeaways Lazarus Group attacked Layerzero Labs internal RPCs and poisoned data sources in order to attack the KelpDAO DeFi...
Judge Clears $71M ETH Transfer to Aave as rsETH Recovery Enters Final Phase
Judge Garnett cleared 30,765 ETH ($71M) for transfer to Aave’s wallet on May 9, 2026. The April 18 KelpDAO exploit...
Blackrock to Launch Tokenized Money-Market Funds on Ethereum
Key Takeaways Blackrock filed to tokenize its $6.1B BSTBL fund on Ethereum, targeting stablecoin investors. The move builds on Blackrock’s...
MiCA Decoded: ‘We Have an EU Office’ Is Not Enough: Here’s What Regulators Actually Want to See
MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor...
Sydney Huang Warns AI Bot Collusion Could Spread Before Regulators Respond
Key Takeaways The IMF predicts that a shift to agentic AI will trigger a radical increase in the velocity of...
Six Months in, the AGA Exodus Has Reshaped US Gambling’s Lobbying Landscape
Key Takeaways AGA Q1 2026 outlook: 81% of gaming executives flag prediction markets as “very significant” threat. Four major operators...
Nigerian Fintech Paga Expands Into Tokenized Bonds and Real Estate Through Sui Partnership
Key Takeaways Paga partnered with Sui on May 7 to launch high-yield accounts and crypto rails for 1 billion people....
Crypto Prediction Markets Move Into Mainstream Finance as Institutional Interest Grows
Key Takeaways Traditional firms are expanding their presence as crypto prediction markets attract deeper liquidity. Retail activity helped draw market...
SEC Commissioner Urges Restraint on Crypto Rules as Retail Trading Expands
Key Takeaways Peirce said regulators should understand evolving markets before deciding whether new rules are needed. Retail investors continue trading...
CLARITY Act Markup: Senate Banking Sets May 14 Crypto Rules Session
Key Takeaways Senate Banking scheduled a May 14 markup for the CLARITY Act at 10:30 a.m. Committee members will debate...
