Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

When a blockchain leans into a stablecoin strategy, it typically signals a more forward-looking shift.The idea is pretty straightforward. Payments are a trillion-dollar global market, and Layer-1 chains are clearly aiming to position themselves in the middle of it. Stablecoins are becoming the core ...

Goldman Sachs quietly exited its XRP ETF positions in Q1 2026 — but the market barely blinked. What happened - Goldman, which only entered the XRP ETF space in late 2025, had amassed roughly $154 million in XRP-linked ETF exposure by the end of Q4 2025. That stake, spread across Bitwise, Grayscale,...

Polymarket has quietly put a senior local hire in place as it prepares a long-term push into Japan, Bloomberg reports — a sign the prediction-market platform is getting serious about winning formal regulatory approval in one of Asia’s most tightly regulated gambling and financial markets. Key move:...

Blockchain sleuths at Arkham Intelligence flagged a big bitcoin shuffle on Thursday: addresses tied to Trump Media & Technology Group (ticker: DJT) moved more than 2,650 BTC — roughly $204 million — to Crypto.com in two transfers around 8:00 p.m. ET. Arkham’s data doesn’t reveal the reason for ...

Polymarket confirms internal wallet compromise after up to $700K drained Polymarket disclosed on Friday that an internal “top‑up” wallet used for rewards payouts was drained after its private key was compromised — but stressed that user funds and market outcomes were not affected. What happened - ...

Odaily Planet Daily reports: The U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a new bipartisan bill, the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026 (ARMA), which proposes to include Bitcoin held by the U.S. government in its strategic reserves and requires a minimum lock-up period of 20 years.Unlike...

Odaily Planet Daily report: Cross-chain infrastructure platform Squid has completed a $6 million strategic funding round led by North Island Ventures, with participation from Ripple, Dialectic, Borderless, and others.Squid was initially incubated within the Axelar ecosystem and later evolved into an...

Kevin Warsh was sworn in as the 17th Chairman of the Federal Reserve on May 22, 2026, in a White House ceremony where Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the oath. The event caps a months-long nomination process that began in January and culminated in a Senate confirmation along party...

Ripple participated in Squid’s $6 million funding round as the cross-chain platform looks to expand its consumer product offering and simplify asset movement across blockchain ecosystems.The round was led by North Island Ventures and included participation from Dialectic, Borderless, Scenius Capital...

ChainCatcher report: Cross-chain infrastructure platform Squid has completed a $6 million strategic funding round led by North Island Ventures, with participation from Ripple, Dialectic, Borderless, and others. Squid was initially incubated within the Axelar ecosystem before evolving into an indepen...

Stocks and bond yields are supposed to move together. When the economy is humming, companies earn more and the government can afford to pay higher interest rates. That relationship has broken down so thoroughly that the correlation between the S&P 500 and the 10-year Treasury yield has hit -0.70...

The White House rolled out the pomp and circumstance for Kevin Warsh on Thursday, hosting a swearing-in ceremony for the new Federal Reserve chair in the East Room. It was the first time a president held such a ceremony at the White House since Alan Greenspan’s back in 1987.Supreme Court Justice Cla...

Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Federal Reserve Chair on May 22, 2026. Within hours, the bond market had already placed its bet on what comes next: higher rates, not lower ones.Interest-rate swaps now indicate more than 50% odds of a 25 basis point rate hike by December 2026. The probability of at least...

If you’ve ever swapped a token on a DEX aggregator and received noticeably less than the quoted amount, you’ve likely been on the wrong end of overquoting. KyberSwap just shipped a feature designed to make that experience a lot less common.The protocol launched Smart Settlement on May 14, a new exec...

BitGo and Galaxy Digital are continuing their courtroom battle over the collapse of a $1.2 billion acquisition agreement that was once expected to become the largest merger in the crypto industry.During proceedings this week in Delaware Chancery Court, BitGo argued that Galaxy backed out of the tran...