Month: May 2026

Kraken’s parent Payward has filed a Payward charter application with the OCC to establish a federally regulated national trust company. Summary Payward filed for an OCC national trust charter on…

Google and PayPal told Consensus Miami AI agents will run on crypto rails as bank accounts remain inaccessible. Summary Google Cloud’s Richard Widmann said at Consensus Miami that an AI…

Base Azul is set to go live on mainnet May 13, bringing a multiproof security system to the Coinbase Layer 2. Summary Base Azul combines trusted execution environment proofs with…

A logic bug in Huma’s legacy V1 Polygon credit pools let an attacker drain about $101,400 in USDC, but its Solana‑based PayFi V2 and PST token remain structurally unaffected. Summary…

Seven pools covering 75% of Bitcoin hashrate have joined Stratum V2, shifting block control to individual miners. Summary Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, MARA Pool, Block Inc., and DMND have all…

Bored Ape floor prices have doubled in a month as Yuga Labs CEO Michael Figge says blue-chip NFTs were oversold. Summary BAYC floor prices climbed from around 5 ETH to…

US spot Bitcoin ETF products drew $622.75 million last week, their sixth straight week of net inflows. Summary SoSoValue data for the week of May 4 to 8 shows $622.75…

USDG, still issued by Paxos Singapore and regulated by MAS, will remain in market as one of many institutionally backed dollars as regulators, banks and VCs push toward a fragmented,…

Australia is weighing a capital gains tax overhaul that would scrap the long‑standing 50% discount on assets held more than a year and replace it with an inflation‑indexed system, a…

CoW DAO approved CIP‑86 to offer discretionary grants of up to 100% to victims of April’s cow.fi domain hijack, with detailed claims due by May 14 and payouts targeted by…