Cryptocurrency

Polymarket now hosts “tweet markets” on Elon Musk’s weekly post count, turning his X activity into on‑chain micro‑event data with wild intraday probability swings. Summary Polymarket’s “Elon Musk # tweets…

American Bitcoin mined coins at $36,200 each in Q1 2026, cutting costs 23% and posting a 50% gross margin. Summary American Bitcoin cut its cost to produce one bitcoin by…

Galaxy Ventures‑backed Boundary Labs is preparing to launch USBD, an over‑collateralized Ethereum stablecoin that swaps monthly attestations for continuous on‑chain verification of reserves and net asset value while pushing yield…

IREN has signed a $3.4 billion IREN Nvidia deal to deploy up to 5 gigawatts of AI infrastructure over five years. Summary IREN will provide Nvidia with managed GPU cloud…

Corpay has launched stablecoin wallets for its 800,000 business clients through a new partnership with BVNK. Summary Corpay’s integration with BVNK lets clients hold, send, receive, and convert stablecoins alongside…

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…