After four months of stalemate, the Tillis-Alsobrooks compromise text dropped Thursday night. The Senate has until May 21 to do something with it, or the bill goes back on the shelf until 2030.
The sector added $1.08 billion in a single week. Tether lost $271 million of it. USDS gained $503 million. The pecking order is shifting.
Payward just paid $600 million for a Hong Kong payments company that makes money moving stablecoins across borders. The firm was already profitable on $60 million in total funding.
Push notifications said BTC hit a 52-week low. Charts showed candles at two cents. XRP and Solana displayed the same crash. No major exchange recorded a single matching trade.
The decentralized AI compute protocol raised $78 million from a16z, Galaxy, and CoinFund. Only 13% of tokens are circulating. Binance gave it a Seed Tag.
A pre-signed transaction feature designed for convenience became the entry point for the largest DeFi hack of 2026. Elliptic has flagged North Korean state actors. Circle faces fresh scrutiny.
He turned $7,600 into $25 million on PEPE. He built an $87 million account on Hyperliquid. He opened a perpetual futures position with $1.25 billion in notional exposure — on roughly $31 million of actual margin. On April 6, 2026, his account had $914 in it. This is the full story of how that happened — and what it reveals about leverage trading in crypto.
AWS built payment rails for bots with Coinbase and Stripe. The system settles in 200 milliseconds on Base using USDC. Warner Bros. Discovery is already testing it.
Binance cut 12 spot pairs. Bybit removed 7 tokens entirely. Coinbase pulled DAI, TIME, and a dozen futures pairs. The cleanup happened while Consensus Miami was running.
The company behind USDC sold 740 million tokens at $0.30 each. BlackRock, a16z, Apollo, and ICE all bought in. The question is what Circle needs a blockchain for when it already runs a $77 billion stablecoin.
While regulators blocked Polymarket in India, Indonesia, and Spain this week, Hyperliquid quietly shipped HIP-4 outcome contracts for real-world events. Users can now bet on CPI prints and Fed decisions from the same account they use for crypto perps. No external oracle. No UMA. Validators settle everything.
MiCA has turned boardroom approvals into live infrastructure searches across Europe's largest financial institutions. USDC volume in the EU jumped 109% in six months as corporate treasury demand replaces speculative interest.
The ~$11 million conversion, executed in sub-$1 million tranches to minimize market impact, is the first TWAP sale since October 2025. It reflects a treasury strategy that increasingly relies on staking yield and targeted OTC deals rather than routine open-market ETH sales.
The Trump-linked DeFi platform deposited 5 billion WLFI tokens on Dolomite and borrowed $75 million in stablecoins against them. The move triggered a new price low and raised liquidation risk concerns among DeFi analysts — while World Liberty insists the positions are well above liquidation thresholds.
Investors allege Circle let $230 million in stolen USDC cross from Solana to Ethereum without intervention. The lawsuit lands as Tether steps in with a $127.5 million recovery package.
Tether's USDT dominates with $185 billion in market cap but faces ongoing transparency questions. Circle's USDC is smaller at $78 billion but audited monthly by Deloitte, MiCA-compliant, and now leads in transaction volume. Here is what the data says about which one to trust with long-term holdings.
