The world’s largest cryptocurrency has slipped to its lowest ranking in over two years, overtaken by surging AI-driven tech stocks and record-setting precious metals. But not everyone is alarmed. Bitcoin has once again fallen out of the world’s top 10 assets by market capitalization, a milestone that is drawing both concern and shrugs across the…
Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC, a unit of Mastercard, has been granted a BitLicense by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) in May 2026, allowing the company to conduct digital asset-related activities in New York. This move reinforces Mastercard’s strategy in payment infrastructure and settlement for digital assets, including stablecoins and tokenized deposits,…
Sony’s Soneium Integrates NFT Cats Game for Season 8 of Its Scoring Program Source link
President says the U.S. must remain the global leader in digital assets as states push for tighter regulation of event-based betting platforms President Donald Trump on Tuesday reaffirmed his support for the cryptocurrency industry and prediction markets, pledging to protect both sectors as regulatory tensions escalate between federal authorities and state governments. In a post…
OpenSea Unveils NFT Tool Registry for AI Agents on Ethereum Source link
A single off-exchange transaction involving nearly 29 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust rattled crypto markets and drew fresh scrutiny to the growing influence of institutional behavior on Bitcoin’s price. On a Tuesday morning in late May, a trader quietly sold 29.2 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) through a dark pool…
Stake DAO was exploited on Arbitrum on May 27, 2026, when an attacker minted over 5.4 trillion vsdCRV by exploiting the token’s cross-chain configuration. Stake DAO has warned users not to interact with vsdCRV, while Curve Finance also recommended that users with deposits or loans in the asdCRV LlamaLend market on Arbitrum withdraw them to…
Base, the Coinbase-backed Ethereum Layer-2 network, has introduced a new infrastructure layer that allows AI assistants to interact directly with users’ crypto wallets — marking a significant step toward AI-driven financial autonomy in the decentralized finance space. Coinbase‘s Base network moved to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and decentralized finance on May 26 with…
On-chain data shows BlackRock’s IBIT fund moved roughly $1.01 billion in Bitcoin between May 18–22, 2026 — the largest weekly redemption wave of the year, triggering widespread alarm that analysts say was largely misread. What the Data Shows Between May 18 and May 22, 2026, BlackRock moved roughly 13,000 to 15,000 BTC out of custody…
The week of May 18–22 will be remembered as one of the starkest divergences in the short history of crypto exchange-traded funds — not because the market collapsed, but because it quietly reorganized itself. Spot bitcoin ETFs recorded net outflows of $1.26 billion for the week, making it one of the weakest weekly performances of…
