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At the World Fintech Summit 2026, Bybit’s Global Head of Policy outlined how Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenisation and blockchain-based financial infrastructure can broaden retail access, unlock liquidity in illiquid asset classes, and support India’s ambitions to build a $1 trillion fintech economy. The firm engaged with policymakers and industry le…
Bitcoin traded above the $80,000 mark, reaching $80,760, as risk-on sentiment and renewed legislative progress in Washington buoy digital assets. The Senate Banking Committee has set a markup date for the CLARITY Act, a market-structure bill that backers say would create regulatory certainty for institutional participation. At the same time, crypto…
Bitcoin surpassed the $80,000 mark this week, trading at $80,227.3 as of 04:00 ET (08:00 GMT), amid heavy institutional inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs, custody service rollouts from major financial custodians and a legislative push to clarify the regulatory status of digital tokens. Network fundamentals such as record hash rates and growing integra…
The Senate Banking Committee will meet on May 14 to consider the Clarity Act, a legislative framework that would assign regulatory jurisdiction over digital assets and decide whether particular tokens are securities or commodities. The bill includes a compromise on dollar-backed stablecoins that would bar crypto firms from paying rewards on idle ho…
Bitcoin retreated on Friday amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran around the Strait of Hormuz, dragging broad cryptocurrency prices lower. Despite the intraday decline, Bitcoin remained on track for a sixth straight weekly rise, supported by institutional purchases, bargain hunting, and progress among U.S. lawmakers on a regulatory bil…
Roobet has launched a prediction markets product on May 6, 2026, becoming the first major crypto casino to natively integrate prediction markets into its platform. The feature allows users to take positions on real-world outcomes across sports, culture, and global events using their existing Roobet accounts and balances, with an initial rollout foc…
Atlas, supported by CoinMarketCap, is assuming responsibility for the price feeds and data delivery services previously run by Binance Oracle across BNB Chain, opBNB and other applicable networks. A 90-day migration window has begun; Atlas offers protocol-level configurability, access to CoinMarketCap’s aggregated pricing from over 905 sources, and…
Bybit is providing its Bybit Card users with an exclusive early access window to buy Tomorrowland Brasil 2027 tickets beginning May 12, 2026, at 10 a.m. BRT (1 p.m. UTC). Eligible cardholders will be able to purchase select ticket categories before public release and enjoy up to 20% off certain passes, with maximum savings of R$400. The move follow…
Bitcoin traded marginally higher but pared some intraday gains after Strategy said it may sell a portion of its 818,334 BTC holdings to help fund dividend and debt payments. The cryptocurrency remained close to a three-month high as broader markets responded to comments suggesting progress toward de-escalation between the U.S. and Iran.
Banco Sabadell has confirmed it will join the Qivalis consortium, a coalition of European banks creating a company to launch a euro-pegged stablecoin in the second half of 2026. The project, which includes a dozen institutions such as ING, UniCredit, BNP Paribas, Caixabank and BBVA, is presented as a European initiative to improve transaction effic…
Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $2.2 billion fund dedicated to crypto investments, bringing its cumulative capital allocated to digital assets to about $9.8 billion across five funds. The raise arrives as token prices remain well below recent highs and smaller venture vehicles struggle to attract commitments. The firm said it will target projects …
DeLorean Labs has integrated its native token, $DMC, onto the Solana blockchain with support from the Solana Foundation and a technical bridge provided by Wormhole Labs and Sunrise. The move aims to make DeLorean's intellectual property accessible to a broad Solana user base, enable participation in governance and tokenized vehicle drops, and posit…
Bitcoin advanced to a three-month peak on Monday, surpassing $80,000 as sizable inflows into U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds and renewed bargain buying supported the rally. Gains were moderated by continued geopolitical and interest-rate uncertainty, and corporate demand softened as Strategy Inc paused its weekly Bitcoin purchases ahead of first-…
Orbs has launched SPOT (Spot Advanced Swap Orders), a trading interface purpose-built for AI agents that enables gasless market swaps, limit orders, TWAP, stop-loss, take-profit, and delayed-start executions on EVM-compatible chains. The system relies on Orbs' production Layer-3 trading protocols and is distributed as machine-readable documentation…
Bitcoin extended its rally into weekend trading, rising to $78,323.5 in early hours as record institutional flows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs in April supported the market. Despite a robust capital influx that pushed cumulative ETF assets to roughly $102 billion, geopolitical tensions and a divided Federal Reserve are constraining a clear breakout …
Russia's Ministry of Finance said the government has approved a bill to change the Tax Code to regulate domestic circulation of digital currencies and digital rights. The measures clarify VAT treatment, designate brokers and trustees as tax agents for individuals, allow intra-period offsetting of gains and losses for individuals, and set new corpor…
Cycol Gallery, which opened on the Lower East Side in November 2025, is operating a hybrid model that pairs physical exhibitions with on-chain certificates of authenticity using Solana and the BONK token. Founder JT Liss has leveraged his background across street photography and digital collage to create a space where collectors can buy tangible wo…
Stratosphere has completed the acquisition of Movimentum in a transaction combining cash and equity, bringing the CoinMarketCap-specialist agency’s founding team into Stratosphere’s ownership structure. The move consolidates complementary growth, marketing and go-to-market capabilities and integrates both firms’ client rosters and technical experie…
Abu Dhabi Global Market’s Registration Authority and Hashed Open Research published a policy report built from discussions at a closed-door Web3 Leaders Roundtable held during Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2025. The convening gathered about 40 senior decision-makers from global financial institutions, regulators, and infrastructure firms to assess interse…
Bitcoin slid below $76,000 amid rising geopolitical tensions involving Iran and a split vote at the Federal Reserve that highlighted upside inflation risks. The cryptocurrency traded near $75,700 after dipping to $75,337.4, while oil surged above $125 per barrel and several major altcoins posted losses.
Dfns, an institutional wallet infrastructure provider, and Zama, a developer of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology, announced a strategic integration that brings native confidentiality to public blockchains. The collaboration embeds Zama’s FHE protocol into the Dfns wallet stack and introduces support for the ERC-7984 confidential token …
<p>Bullish has purchased 250 Bitcoin, approximately $19.2 million, in Mezo, the developer of Mezo Prime - an institutional-focused platform that isolates depositor Bitcoin in separate vaults and enables yield generation, fee-sharing and borrowing against a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin. A portion of Bullish’s corporate Bitcoin holdings will be routed t…
Symbiotic and Midas unveiled an RFQ-based Instant Liquidity product for tokenized real-world assets (RWA). Built on Symbiotic Core V2 and embedded within Midas' Open Liquidity Architecture, the solution enables atomic T+0 settlement for redemptions without requiring pre-funded inventory or idle capital. The product targets a broad set of Midas asse…
BitMart has begun a 30-day Trade-to-Feed trading competition tied to the newly listed cause coin $EAT (End Hunger), distributing up to $4.4 million USDT in trader rewards from April 28 through May 28, 2026. The campaign runs three concurrent tracks - a volume leaderboard, a power drop of 75,500 tickets, and up to 15 random lucky drops - and channel…
Standard Chartered has launched a framework allowing institutional and VIP clients on OKX Middle East to use BlackRock’s tokenised short-term U.S. Treasury fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund, as collateral for trading. The arrangement names Standard Chartered as the custodian for off-exchange collateral and is desc…
