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According to CoinDesk, Bermuda Prime Minister David Burt announced at the Consensus Miami 2026 conference on May 6 that the Bermuda government plans to again air-drop USDC stablecoins to attendees during the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum scheduled for May 11 to 14, while also introducing more local merchants that accept digital payments.

In a talk at the Consensus 2026 conference held in Miami on May 7, legendary trader Arthur Hayes said Bitcoin’s core driver is the expansion of fiat liquidity rather than regulatory policy, and the current Bitcoin target price is close to $125k. Hayes said Bitcoin has fallen 25% over the past 18 months, while Trump signed multiple crypto bills during the same period, arguing that regulatory clarification does not directly affect the coin’s price.

CoinTelegraph reported on May 7 that Bitwise Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Matt Hougan said Tuesday that the stablecoin payment pilots recently launched by DoorDash and Meta are likely to be a “killer app” for stablecoins, and if major tech companies continue adopting them, the global stablecoin market could reach $4 trillion by 2030 at best.

White House digital-assets adviser Patrick Witt cited a recent exploit involving assets held by the U.S. Marshals as evidence that federal crypto holdings require enhanced safeguarding measures, according to the statement. Federal Crypto Security Focus Witt's comments underscore growing

Anthropic is shifting its Claude chatbot strategy from enterprise-focused clients to the consumer market, according to Mike Krieger, co-lead of the company's labs team. The AI startup is leveraging recent consumer market progress to increase the software's appeal to general users, with internal

SpaceX has adopted corporate governance policies that will significantly limit shareholder protections when the rocket maker goes public later this year, giving founder Elon Musk virtually unchecked executive authority, according to excerpts of SpaceX's IPO registration statement reviewed by

Samsung Electronics announced on May 6 that it will cease selling home appliances in mainland China, according to the South China Morning Post. The exit covers TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, dryers, vacuum cleaners, and air purifiers, as the company shifts strategic focus to

Reid Hoffman, Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder, stated that autonomous agents will need crypto-based trust systems to transact across the open internet, suggesting this development may enable a comeback for NFTs. Hoffman's statement connects the emergence of autonomous agents to the

JPMorgan, Ripple, Mastercard, and Ondo Finance have completed a pilot transaction transferring tokenized U.S. Treasurys across borders using both the XRP Ledger blockchain and traditional banking infrastructure. Ripple announced the pilot on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, stating that the transa

Senior figures from CoinShares, Calamos, ProShares, and Flow Traders identified persistent infrastructure challenges in the spot Bitcoin ETF market, according to panelists. While spot Bitcoin ETFs have improved market access, the panel flagged three priority issues requiring resolution: custody

Corgi, a US-based business insurance startup, announced on May 6 that it raised $160 million in Series B funding led by TCV at a $1.3 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch. The round also included Kindred Ventures, Leblon Capital, and First Order Fund. This brings Corgi's total funding to $268

Gillibrand Demands Ethics Provision for Crypto Legislation Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand stated on Wednesday at the Consensus Miami conference that cryptocurrency market structure legislation will not advance without an ethics provision. "It is essential — and I want everyone in this room to take this t

According to an X post by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on May 6, the EIP-8250 proposal has been officially put forward. Its core mechanism is a “keyed nonce” system, aiming to enable large-scale parallel private transactions on Ethereum. According to the EIP-8250 proposal document, the system is designed to support up to 500 billion privacy-related records within eight years.

According to a quarterly survey report released by asset management research firm CoinShares in May, among 26 institutional investors managing approximately $1.3 trillion in assets, 63% said their main motivation for allocating to cryptocurrencies was diversifying investments and meeting client needs, up significantly from 36% two years ago; the rationale for speculative allocation fell sharply from its highest share two years ago to 15%.

According to NBC News on May 7, U.S. Representative James Baird secured re-election by winning more than 60% of the vote in the May 6 Republican primary for Indiana’s 4th congressional district. Based on filings with the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC), a political action committee (PAC) associated with Fairshake spent $514k on advertising for Baird in the primary.

According to a16z (Andreessen Horowitz)‘s announcement on May 5, the venture capital firm officially launched its fifth crypto-dedicated fund, “Crypto Fund 5,” with a fundraising size of $2.2 billion. In the same period, a16z announced it will lead investments in AI integration company Tessera Labs, the AI recruiting platform Ethos, and the AI creation platform Glif.

According to an official statement released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on May 7, 20-year-old California man Marlon Ferro was sentenced by a federal court to 78 months in prison for his involvement in a nationwide crypto asset social engineering scam, along with 3 years of supervised release and $2.5 million in restitution. The DOJ statement said the criminal group stole more than $250 million worth of crypto assets from multiple victims.

According to Decrypt reports and related court documents, the now-closed crypto exchange Bittrex filed a motion to dismiss this week in the U.S. Federal Court in Seattle, seeking to overturn its 2023 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and requesting that the SEC refund the $24 million civil penalty it has already paid.

Blockchain security company Blockaid posted on X at 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time on May 6 in the US, disclosing that the decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch’s liquidity provider and market maker TrustedVolumes is facing a sustained attack; as of the time Blockaid’s statement was released, losses have already reached about $5.87 million.