Morgan Stanley launches ETrade crypto at 0.5% fee
Morgan Stanley has launched E*Trade crypto trading at 0.5%, undercutting Coinbase, Schwab, and Robinhood in a pilot set to reach 8.6 million users. Summary Morgan Stanley launched an E*Trade crypto pilot on May 6, charging 50 basis points per trade…
Putin offers to store Iran’s enriched uranium amid US-Iran tensions
## Market Snapshot Iran’s Enriched Uranium Surrender market is priced at 46.5% YES for the December 31, 2026 deadline, up from 42% 24 hours ago. The June 30, 2026 deadline is at 25% YES, showing a slight increase from 24%…
Bitcoin Reclaimed $80K After Trump Announced Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire
The impact on crypto prices was quite minimal compared to the ceasefire between Iran and the US. US President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform that the two warring parties in Europe, Russia and Ukraine, have agreed…
Amazon lets AI bots pay in USDC via Coinbase x402
Coinbase x402 is now native to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, letting AI agents pay for services in USDC without human input Summary AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments on May 7, with Coinbase x402 and wallet infrastructure embedded to give AI…
Seven major Bitcoin mining pools join Stratum V2 working group
Seven of the biggest names in Bitcoin mining just agreed to sit at the same table. AntPool, Block Inc., F2Pool, Foundry, MARA Foundation, SpiderPool, and DMND have all joined the Stratum V2 working group, a collaborative effort to overhaul the…
Trump-Backed American Bitcoin Posts $82M Loss Despite Record BTC Mining Output
Despite the headline loss, the company emphasized that it continued accumulating Bitcoin rather than selling into weakness. American Bitcoin (ABTC), the Trump family-backed BTC company, released its Q1 2026 financial results earlier in the week, and they showed a…
Banks try to kill the CLARITY Act
The US banking lobby is mounting a last-minute push to stall the CLARITY Act just days before its scheduled Senate Banking Committee markup on May 14. Summary Five major banking groups jointly rejected the Tillis-Alsobrooks stablecoin yield compromise, calling it…
Venezuela transfers 13.5 kilograms of enriched uranium to US with UK support
Venezuela just shipped its entire stockpile of highly enriched uranium to the United States. The 13.5 kilograms of HEU, roughly 30 pounds, traveled overland 100 miles to a Venezuelan port before crossing the Atlantic on a British vessel bound for…
Hacker Drains $5.9M From Ethereum Liquidity Provider TrustedVolumes
Early reports framed the incident as a 1inch exploit, but the protocol clarified that it was not compromised and no user funds were affected. TrustedVolumes, a liquidity provider on the Ethereum blockchain, lost about $5.9 million in funds to…
Stablecoin execs warn on hard part ahead
Executives from MoonPay, Ripple, and Paxos said at Consensus Miami 2026 that stablecoin regulation has accelerated institutional adoption but that major infrastructure and privacy gaps still block mainstream use. Summary MoonPay VP Richard Harrison said the GENIUS Act gave firms…
