Lead Story

CLARITY Act stablecoin fight shifts from yield to who captures digital-dollar economics

Washington is turning stablecoins into regulated payment instruments while trying to keep issuer-paid yield away from holders. That combination changesthe economics of digital dollars and puts the value of user balances up for grabs across the intermediary stack. The GENIUS……
DeFi

KelpDAO Hack Delays but Doesn’t Derail TradFi’s Onchain Plans: Morpho CEO

The $293 million KelpDAO exploit has delayed but not derailed traditional finance institutions’ onchain plans, according to Paul Frambot, co-founder and CEO of Morpho, a…
AI

Developers of Telegram's Crypto Wallet Launch Agentic Wallets

The open-source standard, developed by The Open Platform, lets AI agents manage dedicated on-chain wallets without requiring user sign-off on every transaction Read Full Story…
AI

IREN Price Target Cut as Bernstein Sees Firm Dumping Bitcoin Mining for AI

Bernstein analysts see IREN’s AI cloud prospects growing substantially in the coming years—and its Bitcoin business disappearing entirely. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
DeFi

Ostium Launches Institutional Hedging Layer

The Arbitrum-based RWA perps protocol now routes net directional flow to Jump and prime brokers offchain, retiring the single-pool model that absorbed all trader risk.…
Infrastructure

CFTC Sues Wisconsin in Response to State's Lawsuits Against Prediction Markets

The CFTC filed suit against Wisconsin to establish its exclusive regulatory authority over prediction markets, a sector closely tied to crypto and blockchain-based derivatives. Read…
DeFi

Aave, Compound Unveil Technical Plan to Address Fallout From $290M Kelp DAO Hack

Major DeFi protocols outlined technical steps to eliminate bad debt and restore full backing for exploited rsETH tokens. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Institutional

Block (XYZ) Touts Bitcoin as ‘Everyday Money’ With 800,000 Merchants Now Accepting It

Bitcoin Magazine Block (XYZ) Touts Bitcoin as ‘Everyday Money’ With 800,000 Merchants Now Accepting It Block is accelerating its push to make bitcoin everyday money,…
Regulation

What would Satoshi say? Director of the FBI appears at Bitcoin 2026 – Victory or capture?

Bitcoin 2026 opened at The Venetian on April 27 with the Director of the FBI in the program for a session about code, speech, and…