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After years of research, engineering, and community collaboration, Panther Protocol Foundation announced that Panther Protocol is now live on Polygon.

Germany may overhaul its crypto tax rules from 2027, potentially curbing the country’s hallmark one-year tax-free holding rule as it tightens enforcement and seeks extra revenue.

The Snapshot vote would move the recovery effort toward a binding onchain Arbitrum governance proposal.

Kraken parent Payward agreed to buy Hong Kong-based Reap for up to $600 million, adding card issuance and stablecoin payment capabilities to its new B2B platform.

Polygon delivered its first block time reduction upgrade since genesis, as the network seeks to position for more high-frequency applications such as private stablecoin payments.

XRP is retesting a key multi-year support zone that has historically preceded major rebounds, with analysts predicting a rally toward $12 if the level holds.

South Korea’s Finance Ministry has reportedly confirmed for the first time that a 22% tax on crypto gains will proceed as scheduled in January 2027.

Core Scientific mined 279 BTC in the quarter, down 45% from a year earlier, while its colocation business became its top revenue source.

VanEck’s Matthew Sigel says Bitcoin may reach $1 million in five years, comparing adoption trends to the video game industry’s shift to mainstream use.

A slowdown in profit-taking and reclaiming $88,000 as support are prerequisites for BTC to confirm cycle bottom.

Marlon Ferro, aka “GothFerrari,” broke into victims’ homes to steal hardware wallets when his co-conspirators couldn’t hack them remotely.

A new Bitcoin Bollinger Bands breakout attempt on the daily chart drew mixed reactions as the metric's creator, John Bollinger, revealed a fresh BTC position.

Changelly uncovers the main stablecoin trends for 2026, and hosts a podcast with Stablerail on stablecoin infrastructure every business must build on May 15, 2026.

1inch said its protocols, infrastructure and user funds were not affected by the exploit targeting independent resolver TrustedVolumes.

BNY is partnering with Finstreet and ADI Foundation to offer regulated Bitcoin and Ethereum custody to UAE clients from the Abu Dhabi Global Market.

Luffa, the global leader in intelligent ecosystem platforms, today officially announced a major brand upgrade, repositioning itself as the AI × Web3 Super Connector.

Bithumb’s tie-up with SSI Digital positions it for Vietnam’s strict crypto exchange pilot as competition for scarce licenses heats up and scrutiny mounts at home.

Near One says blockchains may need new ownership verification systems if quantum attacks compromise wallet keys and expose private assets.

Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez said mounting legal debt and fading pardon hopes could force him to serve his full prison sentence.

Donald Trump’s sons’ company, American Bitcoin, missed analyst revenue estimates and posted narrower losses as it ramped up its mining capacity.

The integration allows AI agents built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to make USDC micropayments and access services autonomously using Coinbase’s x402 protocol.

Bitwise plans to take over Superstate’s tokenized crypto carry fund as demand for actively managed onchain investment products continues to grow.

The system enables near-instant conversion between UAE dirham and US dollar stablecoins within the country’s regulated payment token regime.

Galaxy Digital’s Thaddeus Pinakiewicz noted that Aave is now only 10% short of recovering from the bad debt that hit its lending protocol after the Kelp DAO hack.

DeFi and its underlying technology have already proved themselves at scale, said eToro CEO Yoni Assia.

World Liberty Financial co-founder Donald Trump Jr. and co-founder and CEO Zach Witkoff pushed back on recent online rumors as the crypto firm battles Justin Sun in court.

Amazon said AI agents for now will be allowed to buy APIs, web content and other online services, but that future versions would enable hotel bookings, travel reservations and payments to merchants.

Tokenization and AI agentic finance are the main narratives driving the next bull cycle in crypto, Lee said at Consensus 2026.

Since the Genius Act passed, Anchorage has won every single large stablecoin issuance mandate across the landscape, according to the firm’s CEO Nathan McCauley.

Panelists are split on the four-year cycle's relevance, with year-end price targets varying widely from potentially not reaching a new high to possible targets of $150k or $250k.

XRP pulled back even as Ripple and JPMorgan completed a cross-border tokenized Treasury settlement on XRPL, with price now testing whether the recent breakout structure can hold.

Beneath the stalled market, advisors and long-term investors are quietly building durable crypto allocations and are becoming more comfortable investing in this asset class.

The combined migrations by Solv and Kelp shift nearly $1 billion in assets to Chainlink's CCIP, reflecting an industry "flight to quality."

Institutional trading volume surged 800% over the past six months on the platform, while annualized trading activity reached $178 billion despite growing regulatory scrutiny.

The lending giant is expanding its asset listing criteria beyond financial risk to include cybersecurity and architecture, and wants the rest of DeFi to follow.

A related MVRV indicator hit overheated levels last seen before bitcoin's late-2024 push to $100,000.

The Ethereum co-founder, who has spent months campaigning against toxic MEV with proposals for encrypted mempools, just had one of his own swaps front-run and back-run by the network's most notorious sandwich bot.

It's day three of Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday. Stay tuned for updates throughout the day.

Near Protocol (NEAR), down 1% from Wednesday, was also an underperformer.

The crypto asset manager will take over Superstate’s $267 million USCC fund as tokenized investment products gain traction with institutions.

Kraken owner Payward will acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies as the crypto exchange expands its stablecoin and payments infrastructure business in Asia.

The company launched the SoFiUSD stablecoin for enterprise payments in December and partnered with Mastercard for settlement capabilities.

Bitcoin-backed “digital credit” is scaling fast, with executives pointing to a $3 trillion long-term opportunity.

Your day-ahead look for May 7, 2026

The Nasdaq-listed fund offers exposure to Canton Coin, native token of the privacy-focused institutional blockchain network.

Bitcoin briefly fell below $80,000 on Thursday as analysts say profit taking has increased among crypto traders.

Shares in Eric Trump's mining firm American Bitcoin have fallen more than 9% after reporting a quarterly loss of nearly $82 million.

The new Amazon Web Services system lets AI agents use the USDC stablecoin to pay for APIs, data, and online services.

QVAC MedPsy squeezes clinical AI onto a smartphone, beating Google's MedGemma-27B on real-world scenarios while using three times fewer compute resources.

Kalshi has another billion dollars to play with as the U.S. prediction market leader continues to grow at a rapid pace.

Google's new Multi-Token Prediction drafters can make Gemma 4 run up to 3x faster on your own hardware—no cloud required, and no quality lost.

A Unitree Robotics humanoid joins the Jogye Order, South Korea's largest Buddhist sect.

The deal marks Kraken's largest acquisition as it pushes into Asian cross-border payments through stablecoin infrastructure.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs hit $108.76 billion in net assets as five weeks of inflows and fading put skew signal institutional demand is back.

Senate Banking Committee markup is planned for this month, leaving four working Senate weeks in June for floor passage, said Patrick Witt.

Morgan Stanley just launched crypto trading on ETrade, while the White House wants the Clarity Act signed by July 4.

The liquidity resolver used by multiple DeFi protocols was hit, with DEX aggregator 1inch claiming no impact on its systems.

‘GothFerrari’ was sentenced for his part in a criminal enterprise that stole crypto through social engineering and physical break-ins.

Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano model to eligible devices, re-downloads it if deleted, and the AI Mode button users actually see doesn't even use it.

Researchers at EPFL built a framework that lets chemists describe what they want in plain language—and have AI sift through thousands of synthesis routes to find the right one.

By the time Bitcoin and other networks are ready to defend themselves, it may already be too late, according to a new analysis.

Elon Musk’s combined company of SpaceX and xAI will help boost Anthropic with a deal to provide compute for Claude AI models.

Now-shuttered crypto exchange Bittrex settled with the SEC back in 2023 after being accused of offering illegally unregistered securities.

Sandisk stock is up over 3,000% in one year. It's not a meme. It's NAND flash—and AI can't get enough of it.

Major financial institutions use XRP Ledger to demonstrate blockchain's ability to settle tokenized Treasuries across borders in seconds.

Crypto exchange OKX will offer synthetic exposure to private AI and tech company valuations through derivatives contracts.

The evolutionary biologist says extended exchanges with Anthropic’s chatbot felt less like software and more like interacting with another mind.

The wild world of space simulation game Eve Online will soon become an AI research destination for Google DeepMind thanks to a new deal.

The 21Shares exchange-traded note gives U.K. investors exposure to preferred shares of top Bitcoin treasury firm, Strategy.

Farage insisted that the gift from Christopher Harborne was for his personal security and had been reviewed “from every legal angle.”

Anthropic released 10 ready-to-run templates targeting some of finance's most time-consuming tasks—from building pitchbooks to closing the books at month-end.

Hut 8’s second hyperscale AI campus lease deal covers the first phase of a sprawling Nueces County complex that was originally meant to fuel Bitcoin mining.

Tech giant Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle claims it misled consumers about its AI system's capabilities.

Oil is down 14% and broader markets are soaring. Coinbase is cutting 14% of its workforce. And is Michael Saylor going to finally sell some Bitcoin?

Bitcoin's jumped as WTI crude fell 10%, on reports that the U.S. has prepared a on-page memorandum of understanding to end the war in Iran.

MultiCoin Capital disclosed a significant ZEC position, citing wealth seizure risks as a catalyst for private assets.

The largest corporate Bitcoin holder is reconsidering its “never sell” stance, with analysts weighing the ripple effects.

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Coinbase and AWS have integrated USDC payments into AI systems, allowing agents to transact independently through micropayments.

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Payward is acquiring Reap for up to $600M as it expands into stablecoin payments and global financial infrastructure.

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