Myanmar proposes life in prison for crypto scam
Myanmar’s military published a draft bill on May 14 proposing life in prison for crypto scam operators. Summary Myanmar’s Anti-Online Scam Bill proposes life imprisonment for operating digital currency scam centers. The bill allows the death penalty for individuals using…
Bitwise Set to Launch Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETF
The launch comes only days after another HYPE ETF, 21Shares’ THYP, started trading, racking up $1.8M on its debut. Asset manager Bitwise is set to launch an exchange-traded fund tracking Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token. The ETF will start trading…
Revolut wins FCA approval for private wealth push
Revolut secured FCA approval on May 14 to offer private wealth services and leveraged products in the UK. Summary The FCA granted Revolut Trading a Variation of Permissions enabling managed investments and principal dealing for the first time. Revolut plans…
ZachXBT’s Explosive Claims Send LAB Tumbling Over 30% in One Day
LAB allegedly used private OTC discounts, influencer deals, and coordinated exchange activity to support price growth, ZachXBT claimed in investigations. Crypto investigator ZachXBT has accused the team behind LAB of using opaque OTC deals, insider-controlled supply, coordinated market-making activity,…
Crypto Correlations Hit Record Highs as BTC-SOL Reaches 0.99
Ethereum emerged as the most connected asset, showing strong alignment with Cardano, Solana, and Dogecoin. Analytics platform DefiLlama has reported an elevated degree of price synchronization among leading cryptocurrencies. Over the past week, several major trading pairs showed correlation…
Bitcoin Pulls In $706M as Traders Abandon Short Positions in Massive Sentiment Shift
While Bitcoin dominated headlines, Solana and XRP investment products also recorded sharp increases in activity. Digital asset investment products posted inflows of $857.9 million, and extended six straight weeks of positive flows – the highest weekly figure since April…
Solana and Google Cloud Team Up for Stablecoin-Powered AI Agent Payments
Developers can link a Solana wallet to AI tools like Claude Code or Gemini and have an agent accessing paid APIs within one minute. The Solana Foundation has partnered with Google Cloud to launch Pay.sh, a platform that allows…
Wall Street Giant Morgan Stanley Enters Crypto Race With Pricing Edge: Report
Morgan Stanley is bringing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading to E*Trade clients soon. One of the world’s largest wealth management firms, Morgan Stanley, is all set to introduce cryptocurrency trading on its E*Trade platform, which it acquired for $13…
XRP Ledger Activity Jumps as Price Tests $1.55, Large Wallets Set Record
Key Takeaways XRP Ledger activity rose sharply as price strength drew renewed wallet participation. Santiment recorded 48,453 active wallets, the network’s strongest reading since March. Sustained wallet growth could support XRP if participation remains elevated after the rally. XRP Ledger…
Myanmar proposes life in prison for crypto scam
Myanmar’s military published a draft bill on May 14 proposing life in prison for crypto scam operators. Summary Myanmar’s Anti-Online Scam Bill proposes life imprisonment for operating digital currency scam centers. The bill allows the death penalty for individuals using…
New Fed Chair Confirmed | Crypto Catch Up | May 10 – 16, 2026
The global financial landscape reached a historic crossroads this week with the confirmation of a new Fed Chair, while the crypto industry navigates a “marketing winter” and the rise of tokenized real-world assets. Here are the crypto news you may…
Bitwise Set to Launch Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETF
The launch comes only days after another HYPE ETF, 21Shares’ THYP, started trading, racking up $1.8M on its debut. Asset manager Bitwise is set to launch an exchange-traded fund tracking Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token. The ETF will start trading…
Revolut wins FCA approval for private wealth push
Revolut secured FCA approval on May 14 to offer private wealth services and leveraged products in the UK. Summary The FCA granted Revolut Trading a Variation of Permissions enabling managed investments and principal dealing for the first time. Revolut plans…
Tokenized Assets Could Reach $1.6T by 2030, Binance Research – Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways Binance Research framed tokenization as a bridge between traditional finance and blockchain systems. Tokenized penetration across fixed income, equities, real estate, private credit, and commodities remains around 0.01%. Regulatory progress could shape whether tokenized markets move beyond early…
ZachXBT’s Explosive Claims Send LAB Tumbling Over 30% in One Day
LAB allegedly used private OTC discounts, influencer deals, and coordinated exchange activity to support price growth, ZachXBT claimed in investigations. Crypto investigator ZachXBT has accused the team behind LAB of using opaque OTC deals, insider-controlled supply, coordinated market-making activity,…
Bitcoin falls below $79k as bond yields surge
Bitcoin fell to $78,600 on May 15 as bond yields surged to a 12 month high, rattling risk markets. Summary Bitcoin fell to $78,600, down roughly 4% from Thursday’s $82,000 high, as bond yields hit their highest since May 2025….
Antseed Unveils 20-Provider AI Marketplace as USDC Payments Bypass Aggregators
Key Takeaways On May 15, Antseed launched a P2P marketplace to remove centralized middlemen from the AI ecosystem. The network features 20 providers like Venice.ai, offering instant USDC payouts with 0% platform markups. Antseed’s account-free design allows next-gen AI agents…
Lombard migrates $1B in Bitcoin-backed assets to Chainlink CCIP after $292M exploit shakes LayerZero confidence
Lombard Finance, one of the largest Bitcoin-native liquid staking platforms in DeFi, is moving more than $1B in Bitcoin-backed assets off LayerZero’s bridge infrastructure and onto Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The protocol plans to fully deprecate LayerZero from its cross-chain…