Travala Launches AI Hotel Booking Protocol With USDC on Base
Singapore-based crypto travel platform Travala has launched a protocol it says lets artificial intelligence agents search, reserve and pay for...
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Russian Ruble Stablecoin Kept Growing Despite Western Sanctions: CertiK
The Russian ruble-backed A7A5 stablecoin continued to grow despite Western sanctions, processing more than $110 billion in cumulative onchain transactions,...
Zcash Fixes Privacy Pool Bug After Explorer Confusion
Zcash developers temporarily suspended Orchard transactions after discovering a critical vulnerability in the privacy-focused blockchain’s latest shielded pool, then restored...
MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin for Remittance Network
MoneyGram launched MGUSD, a US dollar stablecoin on Stellar, as the remittance company deepens its push into blockchain-based cross-border payments.The...
Sui Addresses Three Network Outages With Major Upgrade
The Sui Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the Sui Network, says it has made a “major upgrade” to address issues...
Vietnam Proposes Allowing SMEs to Use Digital Assets as Loan Collateral
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has proposed letting small and medium-sized enterprises use digital assets, virtual assets and intellectual property as...
NYSE Parent ICE Seeks ‘Level Playing Field’ for 24/7 Onchain Perps
Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is urging regulators to allow regulated exchanges to...
Sui Network Goes Down for Second Day in a Row
The Sui layer-1 blockchain experienced another disruption on Friday, causing a “network stall” that temporarily halted block production, before normal...
BIS Project Agorá Shows Tokenized Payments Cut Settlement Risk
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a report Wednesday on Project Agorá, an experimental prototype for cross-border wholesale payment.The...
Binance Denies WSJ Report Alleging $850M in Iran-Linked Crypto Transactions
Binance CEO Richard Teng has pushed back against a new Wall Street Journal investigation claiming the exchange processed $850 million...
Boerse Stuttgart, Societe Generale, flatexDEGIRO Join Forces for EU Blockchain Securities Settlement
Boerse Stuttgart Group’s tokenized securities settlement platform Seturion has partnered with Societe Generale, its crypto subsidiary SG-Forge and online broker...
Bankr Disables Transactions After Hacker Accessed 14 Crypto Wallets
AI-powered crypto trading assistant Bankr said it disabled transactions after identifying an attacker who gained access to at least 14...
Pump.fun Drives Over a Third of Solana’s Q1 Revenue Despite Memecoin Slowdown
Pump.fun remained Solana’s largest revenue generator in the first quarter of 2026, pulling in $124.7 million, more than a third...
SBI, Rakuten, Nomura Preparing to Launch Crypto Investment Trusts in Japan
Japan’s major brokerages are preparing to bring crypto investment trusts to retail investors, with SBI Securities and Rakuten Securities already...
Kraken Switches from LayerZero to Chainlink after Kelp DAO Hack
Crypto exchange Kraken announced Thursday that it had changed its cross-chain provider from LayerZero to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, joining...
Blackrock’s Onchain BUIDL Fund Secures Top AAA-mf Rating From Moody’s
Key TakeawaysBlackrock’s BUIDL fund secured a top AAA-mf rating from Moody’s this week for its $2.58 billion AUM.The AAA-mf rating...
Tezos Developers Test quantum-Resistant Blockchain Privacy System
Developers behind the Tezos ecosystem launched a testnet prototype for private blockchain payments designed to resist future quantum computing attacks,...
Moody’s Rates Fidelity’s Ethereum-Based USD Liquidity Fund at Highest Aaa-mf Level
Key TakeawaysMoody’s assigned an Aaa-mf assessment to Fidelity International’s USD Digital Liquidity Fund on May 13, 2026.The fund, managed by...
DTCC Integrates Chainlink for Tokenized Collateral Platform
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will integrate Chainlink infrastructure into its collateral management platform ahead of a planned...
Canton Network Developer Digital Asset Seeks $300M From A16z Crypto
Key TakeawaysA16z crypto leads a ~$300 million round at Digital Asset Holdings, valuing the company at ~$2 billion, per Bloomberg.Canton...
Hyperliquid, EdgeX, Pump.fun Return $96M to Token Holders in 30 Days
Three of DeFi’s relatively young applications, including Hyperliquid, EdgeX and Pump.fun, have distributed a combined $96.3 million to token holders...
How Iran’s biggest crypto exchange stays off the OFAC blacklist
Iran’s internet formally remained part of global routing, but user activity fell almost to zero. That points to a managed...
