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...
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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...
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...
DeFi Hacks Shake Institutional Confidence as Risks Outpace Yields
Security exploits are weighing on institutional appetite for decentralized finance (DeFi), even as broader crypto adoption continues through stablecoins and...
Kraken Parent Teams With Franklin Templeton to Bring Managed Funds Onchain
Key TakeawaysPayward and Franklin Templeton partnered on May 12, 2026, to build tokenized yield and equity products onchain.Kraken’s xStocks framework,...
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...
Moody’s Rates Fidelity International’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...
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...
Casper Network Plans Quantum-Safe Keys in 2027 to Protect Tokenized Assets
Key TakeawaysCasper Association launched its Manifest on May 12 to scale the $16 trillion real-world asset market.The roadmap integrates EVM...
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...
Iran Central Bank’s OFAC-Sanctioned Tron Wallets Mapped by Arkham
Blockchain analytics platform Arkham has published what it says is a public, onchain map of crypto wallets attributed to Iran’s...
Elliptic Raises $120 Million in Series D Led by One Peak and Nasdaq
Key TakeawaysElliptic secured $120 million on May 12, 2026, boosting its valuation to $670 million for onchain analytics.Nasdaq Ventures and...
LMAX Group Launches Digital Asset Collateral Solution for Institutions
Global cross-asset marketplace LMAX Group has launched Kiosk, a hosted portal that lets institutional clients deposit digital assets into LMAX...
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...
Mantle Tokenholders Back Aave Credit Facility After rsETH Exploit
Mantle tokenholders backed a proposal authorizing a credit facility of up to 30,000 Ether (ETH), worth about $68 million, for...
Kelp DAO Fallout Pushes Solv, DeFi Protocols Toward Chainlink
Decentralized finance protocols are reevaluating their blockchain oracle providers’ security after the fallout from the $293 million Kelp DAO exploit...
Polygon Reduces Block Production Time to 1.75 Seconds
Blockchain layer-2 (L2) network Polygon reduced its average block time by 250 milliseconds to 1.75 seconds, marking its first block-time...
Samsung SDS To Build KSD Tokenized Securities Platform
Samsung SDS, Samsung’s information technology services subsidiary, will reportedly build a token securities platform for the Korea Securities Depository (KSD),...
Microsoft-backed Space and Time Launches Virtual Vaults for Institutional Lending
Space and Time (SXT), a level-1 data blockchain that secures onchain finance projects, has launched a virtual vault platform that...
Dunamu, Hana Financial Take Blockchain Remittance System Live With POSCO
South Korea's Hana Financial Group, POSCO International and Dunamu, the operator of the crypto exchange Upbit, have signed a trilateral...
