Anthropic announced on Friday that Claude no longer engages in blackmail during its core safety assessment for AI agents.

The latest rounds of disclosures made across the week have revealed that publicly traded miners are selling mined BTC to fund operations.

Zhang Rongxuan, a former captain in Singapore's Naval Diving Unit, has been sentenced to over six years in prison for stealing crypto from a known associate.

The Haidian District People's Court handed down prison sentences and fines to suspects accused of selling citizens' data.

LayerZero Labs released an open letter explaining its failures in communication and operations following the KelpDAO hack by the Lazarus Group. The cyberattack did not affect LayerZero Labs’ protocol but did affect its internal systems, leading the firm to acknowledge mistakes in previous operations.  LayerZero Labs released its apology letter on May 8, 2026.  LayerZero...

The FBI, along with UAE officials, has run an extensive international law enforcement operation targeting fraud schemes involving crypto that targeted US citizens, causing losses totaling millions of dollars.  According to reports, this crackdown led to 276 arrests, shut down 9 scam centers, and rescued thousands of trafficked individuals who were coerced into forced labor. ...

The largest stock market in Russia, the Moscow Exchange, is going to launch futures contracts for more major cryptocurrencies in May. The new products, based on recently announced indices for Solana (SOL), Ripple’s XRP and Tron (TRX), will expand the platform’s crypto derivative offerings. Well over 60,000 clients of the exchange have already traded such...

Key Takeaways: The dYdX exchange captured significant attention last year. The platform aimed to migrate its existing dYdX tokens from Ethereum to this new mainnet. However, in the fall of 2024, the platform disclosed that it was reducing its workforce by 35%. As dYdX’s on-chain activities surge, questions arise, such as: “Does dYdX have the...

US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins outlined a more forward-looking regulatory approach to blockchain-based finance on Friday, signaling the agency’s intention to develop clearer rules tailored to the rapidly evolving structure of on-chain markets.

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Venezuela's electricity demand hit 15,579 megawatts on May 7, 2026, amid a heat wave and what the government calls continued economic growth.

Arthur Hayes told the Consensus Miami 2026 crowd that most altcoins are not built to survive, and 99% of what he called “shitcoins” could crash to zero, but it is not a death sentence for crypto. Arthur said that’s because its simply a cycle of market life, and compared it to all the massive crashes...

Key takeaways: Cosmos (ATOM) is a blockchain ecosystem that facilitates interoperability among independent blockchains. Co-founded by Jae Kwon and Ethan Buchman in 2014, Cosmos aims to create a decentralized network of blockchains that can communicate and transact seamlessly. Its main components include the Cosmos Hub, the central chain, and multiple “zones” that operate under their...

More cryptocurrency firms are moving closer to the heart of the U.S. banking system, with a growing number of applications for federal trust bank charters. ​ More than a dozen crypto and fintech companies have either applied for or secured conditional national trust bank charters from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...

Key takeaways: Pendle (PENDLE) is innovating in the DeFi space by enabling future yield trading. This unique approach helps users maximize returns through advanced smart contracts and seamless integration with other DeFi platforms. Pendle’s recent progress, such as smart contract updates and strategic partnerships, marks its growth and commitment to innovation. Will these developments increase...

Coinbase said Friday that users experienced an extended outage across its platform after service failures within Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted critical trading infrastructure in the US East region.

What was once a niche corner of the internet has landed in one of America’s most famous buildings. The bets being placed there now range from disease outbreaks to the return of Jesus Christ. Kalshi, which bills itself as the world’s largest prediction market, has signed a multi-year deal with Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.,...

TeraWulf’s transition from bitcoin miner to AI infrastructure operator crossed an important milestone in the first quarter of 2026, as revenue from its high-performance computing (HPC) hosting business surpassed income generated from mining cryptocurrency for the first time. The company reported $21 million in HPC lease revenue during the quarter, compared with roughly $13 million...

The SSE Commodity Index dropped to about 7,468 points on May 8, 2026. Compared to last year, this was over 5% less. To deal with falling prices, Shanghai is launching new initiatives. The city has introduced a blockchain platform for bulk commodity trading, aiming to boost growth and modernize trade across the Yangtze River Delta....

MegaETH Foundation shared on X on May 7 that it had completed its first token buyback, using all net rewards accrued from the USDm stablecoin issuer through the end of April. The foundation behind high-performance Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain MegaETH stated that the supply of USDm, its synthetic stablecoin that it created in partnership with...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may be preparing for its biggest crypto policy shift in years after Chairman Paul Atkins called for formal rulemaking aimed at decentralized finance platforms and blockchain-based trading systems. Speaking Friday at the Special Competitive Studies Project AI+ Expo in Washington, Atkins said existing securities rules were written for traditional...

Apple and Intel have reached a preliminary chip-making agreement after more than a year of talks. Intel could make chips for some Apple devices, but the exact products are still not clear. The Trump administration’s Intel stake helped push the talks forward and is now worth $56.5 billion. Intel stock jumped 14%, while the S&P...

Key Takeaways: Polygon, an Ethereum side chain and layer two scaling solution, has experienced substantial uptake by enterprises and industries in the last year. Consequently, numerous analysts eagerly anticipate the future valuation of its native cryptocurrency, POL. This raises the question: Can POL’s price reach $1?  This forecast for Polygon’s price examines factors such as...

Ondo (ONDO) is extending its rally above $0.4000 at the time of writing on Friday, underpinned by growing interest in the token, following news of the network launching the first-ever tokenized Treasury bill settlement.

Thai company OBON Corp has been named as a key intermediary in an alleged $2.5B scheme to divert restricted Nvidia AI servers through Thailand into China.

Bybit has expanded its perpetual contracts offerings this week, adding 7 new TradiFi assets, including USDT-quoted perpetual contracts with 10x leverage. The new Bybit TradiFi perpetual contracts listings include Oracle (ORCL), Nvidia (NVDA), Circle (CRCL), Invesco (QQQ), and iShares (EWJ & EWY). Bybit now allows traders to build portfolios including AI-infrastructure and digital assets giants,...

Polymarket will cease operating its leading prediction market on the Polygon network before 2026 ends, according to traders placing bets on Predict.fun.

LayerZero, a cross-chain messaging platform, is facing new accusations of operations security (OPSEC) failures. According to reports, its production multisig signing keys traded McPepes memecoin on Uniswap.  Per the allegations, which were made public on May 8, 2026, faults were directed to key management techniques used by blockchain infrastructure companies. What happened with LayerZero’s 2-of-5...

The AI crypto trading bot market in 2026 is no longer driven by hype alone. What started as a niche category dominated by grid bots and copy-trading tools has evolved into a much larger shift inside digital asset markets: automation is becoming infrastructure. That shift is accelerating. The continued expansion of spot Bitcoin ETFs, rising...

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung is beefing up its staff to expand its robotics and AI businesses, ahead of its 2030 mission of transitioning its production lines to AI-driven. Samsung Electronics quietly began recruiting talent in-house last month for its robotics division Future Robotics Task Force, with applications expected to close Friday. The company is...