- Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov signed amendments that provide its digital som legal status.
- Issued by FINRA, the license will allow the company to broaden fixed income prime brokerage services for institutional clients.
- A Kraken spokesperson said the firm is “making the difficult decision to eliminate certain roles and consolidate teams where redundancies exist, while continuing to hire in key areas of the business.”
- The venture capital firm's ZRO acquisition follows previous investments in the protocol.
- North American institutional interest grows as SOL reclaims DEX dominance over Ethereum with 16% weekly gain.
- Former Galaxy, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan executive Richard Kim faces securities and wire fraud charges after allegedly gambling away "nearly all" of his investors' funds.
- Beyond just stacking bitcoin and waiting for price appreciation, BTC-on-BTC yield provides opportunities to grow bitcoin holdings.
- The VanEck Onchain Economy ETF (NODE) is expected to start trading on May 14th with a management fee of 0.69%.
- Near Protocol (NEAR) joined Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as a top performer, rising 3.7% from Wednesday.
- A year after its launch, the Ethereum restaking protocol is rolling out the critical accountability measure meant to address lingering security concerns.
- The Stellar blockchain has made new partnerships with Paxos, Ondo, Etherfuse and SG Forge.
- The Converge chain is set to have fast blocktimes, let users pay gas fees in Ethena's tokens and support both permissionless and permissioned apps, the teams said.
- Major exchanges Binance and Bybit have already integrated the SDK, which routes staked BTC into Lombard’s DeFi Vault.
- XRP's recent price movement suggests a possible re-test of lows around $1.6, despite its strong order book depth.
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- Galaxy Digital CEO warns U.S. market is starting to behave like an emerging economy amid rising rates and soaring debt.
- The funding round takes Auradine's total backing to $300 million.
- Bitcoin, rather than behaving as a digital gold, has solidified as a proxy for risk, validating FX market participants who track it as a gauge of speculative sentiment.
- Safe-haven asset charts its own course amid market turbulence.
- Quantum computers can rapidly break the cryptographic algorithms that secure blockchain networks.