Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company disclosed a 16% increase in its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust position to $566 million in its Q1 2026 SEC 13F filing.
Tether reported $1.04 billion in net profit for Q1 2026 and a record excess reserve buffer of $8.23 billion, up 47% from a year earlier.
Former Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist proposed building a new ETH-aligned organization with at least $1 billion in funding.
The Bank of England has formally launched a Digital Securities Sandbox with 16 firms, including HSBC and London Stock Exchange Group.
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt told attendees at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas that the Trump administration has cleared a key legal hurdle.
CME Group has announced the launch of Nasdaq CME Crypto Index futures, the first market capitalization-weighted crypto index futures product from CME.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to draft policies recognizing cryptocurrency held on U.S.-regulated exchanges as reserve assets when qualifying for a home mortgage, …
At least eight senior researchers have left the Ethereum Foundation in 2026, with five departures occurring in May alone.
XRP spot ETFs posted their strongest monthly inflow of 2026 in May, accumulating over $84 million in net new capital and lifting total cumulative inflows to $1.39 billion.
The SEC and CFTC issued a joint interpretation establishing a five-category crypto asset taxonomy.
Rakuten Wallet has added XRP to its Rakuten Pay app, enabling 44 million users to buy, hold, and spend XRP at over 5 million merchant locations across Japan.
SpaceX's S-1 IPO filing discloses 18,712 BTC worth $1.45 billion on its balance sheet, with a cost basis of $661 million.
Animoca Brands-backed NUVA launched on Ethereum, connecting nearly $19B in tokenized real-world assets from Figure Technologies to DeFi.
Bitcoin Depot, once North America's largest Bitcoin ATM operator, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 18 and shut down all 9,200+ kiosks.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act cleared the U.S. Senate Banking Committee 15-9 and now heads to the full Senate floor.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed HF 3709 into law, authorizing state-chartered banks and credit unions to offer crypto custody services starting August 1.
ARK Invest projects Bitcoin's market cap will reach $16 trillion by 2030, driven by spot ETF growth, corporate treasury adoption, and Bitcoin's potential to capture 40% of gold's market value.
Strategy added 24,869 BTC for approximately $2 billion last week, funded through preferred stock sales.
Canada launched CADD, its first regulated Canadian dollar stablecoin backed by Shopify and the National Bank of Canada.
A May 2026 industry reckoning with the $293 million KelpDAO exploit reveals that DeFi's biggest vulnerability has shifted from smart contracts to operational security and bridge dependencies.
