Strategy (MSTR) closed the first quarter of 2026 with a $12.54 billion net loss, while revenue rose to $124.3 million. The loss came in at $38.25 per diluted share, a much worse result than Wall Street had penciled in. Four analysts tracked by Yahoo Finance expected an average GAAP loss of $18.98 per share. The...

The White House is considering a plan to review some of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems before they are released to the public. The proposal, first reported by The New York Times on May 4, would introduce federal scrutiny at a critical point in the AI lifecycle, just before deployment. Officials are increasingly concerned...

State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Digital have launched a tokenized liquidity fund aimed at giving institutional investors a way to move idle cash on-chain and earn yield in real time. The State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), announced May 5, is built initially on the Solana blockchain, with plans to expand to...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) rose about 5% in late trading Tuesday after the chip company beat Wall Street’s first-quarter targets and gave a stronger sales forecast for the next quarter. AMD reported $10.25 billion in quarterly revenue, above the $9.89 billion expected by LSEG. Adjusted earnings came in at $1.37 per share, beating the $1.29...

Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management has outlined a $28 trillion total crypto market cap projection in the firm’s Big Ideas 2026 research report.  The report comes as Bitcoin trades at around $81,313 with a $1.62 trillion market capitalization, according to CoinMarketCap data. Ark’s bull case for crypto growth Ark Invest’s forecast is a 10-times increase...

Ethereum (ETH) is holding above $2,300 on Tuesday, up 0.8% on the day and more than 3% over the past week despite persistent bearish signals across key metrics.

Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) crypto division announced its fifth and one of the largest dedicated crypto funds raised this year, with a $2.2 billion venture fund.  The raise is the latest item on a growing list of institutional capital that has flowed into blockchain startups, even during a period that is generally regarded as a relatively...

Austrian and Albanian police arrested 10 people and shut down fraudulent call centers in Tirana.

Four npm packages linked to SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model were hijacked. The hackers added code that steals crypto wallet and other sensitive data.

The Solana Foundation and Google Cloud have launched Pay.sh, a payment gateway designed to let artificial intelligence agents access and pay for application programming interfaces (APIs) using stablecoins. The system introduces a pay-as-you-go model that allows AI agents to autonomously pay for data, compute, and services, using stablecoins on the Solana blockchain. The move reflects...

Ferrari reported better-than-expected first-quarter profits on Tuesday, even as the global electric vehicle market continued to provide mixed signals to automakers. The Italian sports car firm announced adjusted earnings per share of 2.33 euros, or around $2.72, exceeding analyst projections of 2.27 euros. Revenue for the quarter totaled 1.85 billion euros. The figures kept up...

Major financial exchanges and cryptocurrency platforms are collaborating, altering how money flows via prediction markets. The numbers underpinning the shift are difficult to ignore. On April 30, 2026, Intercontinental Exchange, the business that operates the New York Stock Exchange, completed what it described as its finest quarter ever. Adjusted earnings per share increased 37% over...

Stablecoins have evolved into everyday tools in LATAM.

The United States is now asking the U.N. Security Council to take up a Bahrain-backed draft resolution on the Strait of Hormuz, after months of direct unconstitutional military pressure against Iran failed to bring calm to the waterway. The draft would let the council punish Tehran with sanctions and could leave room for force if...

Key takeaways Worldcoin (WLD) is gaining renewed attention as adoption and development activity accelerate. The project is now active in over 100 countries, reaching roughly 25 million users, including about 12 million verified through Orb technology. Recent updates include the open-source release of the GKR prover for machine learning, enabling private on-device AI verification, alongside...

UmexGain has made an important decision to increase the number of specialists on its support team to make its services even more useful and accessible to clients. The company’s new professionals bring years of experience and deep knowledge of financial markets, significantly strengthening the quality of interaction with users.  By expanding the team, the broker...

Jupiter (JUP) edges up above $0.1900 at the time of writing on Tuesday, up from the daily low at $0.1820. The token native to the decentralized exchange (DEX) exhibits growing recovery signals, raising the odds of a short-term breakout above the immediate $0.2000 resistance level.

Polygon has partnered with Hinkal to introduce shielded stablecoin transfers, prioritizing ZK proofs to hide transaction details on a public ledger.

A big number of Japanese corporations are on the hunt for skilled workers to accelerate AI adoption.

Nasdaq rose 1% and hit a fresh all-time intraday high, while the S&P 500 gained 0.7% and the Dow added 150 points. Oil prices fell hard, with WTI down 3% above $102 and Brent off 2% above $111. Bitcoin climbed above $81,000 for the first time since January, gaining as much as 7%.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) warns that only a few companies will be granted stablecoin issuer licenses going forward.

A crypto Ponzi scheme operating as DSJ Exchange and BG Wealth Sharing collapsed after taking more than $150 million from victims.

Tydro, the Aave-powered lending protocol on Ink with $247M in deposits, halted all markets on May 4 after detecting problems with a third-party oracle provider.

Dogwifhat (WIF) is showing signs of extending daily gains, trading near the $0.2000 short-term barrier at the time of writing on Tuesday. The meme coin has sustained recovery for the second consecutive day, building on broader positive market sentiment.

The Himachal Pradesh High Court denied bail to Abhishek Sharma, the mastermind of a crypto scam that stole ~Rs 500 crore from over 80,000 investors in India.

A new CAD stablecoin has officially entered the Canadian financial system following regulatory approval in Alberta. Tetra Trust Company unveiled CADD, a one-to-one Canadian dollar-backed token delivered under a governed financial system. CADD is now live on Base, Ethereum, and Tempo network systems, with plans aiming to extend to Solana. CAD stablecoin brings regulated settlement...

Sharp Slowdown, Mega-Round Drought, and a 12-Month Capital Low $662.5MVC Capital 64VC Deals -74%MoM Capital -23%MoM Deals Published:  May 01, 2026Coverage Period:  April 01 – April 30, 2026Data Source:  CryptoRank MCPReport Version:  v1.0 1. Crypto Fundraising Trend MoM Crypto Fundraising Hits 12-Month Low as April Capital Plunges 74% April 2026 marked the weakest month in...

ChangeNow is making its presence felt at the Consensus Miami 2026, living up to its reputation beyond the exhibition floor. The ChangeNow team joined 2 consecutive panel discussions on May 6, organized by NOWNodes at the Miami Beach Convention Center’s “Meet Ups” zone. The NOWNodes panels aim to provide sharp perspectives on infrastructure resilience, tokenization,...

Anthropic’s co-founder Jack Clark has made a bold prediction that AI systems may be capable of rebuilding themselves from 2028. “I’m not sure society is ready,” he said. In a Substack published Monday, Clark precisely said there is 60% chance that AI becomes capable of recursive self-improvement by the end of 2028. “In other words,...

Ripple (XRP) gains momentum, albeit gradually, trading above $1.40 at the time of writing on Tuesday.