What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Author: Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Since 2018, the editorial team at Crypto Valley Journal has been reporting from Zug - the heart of Switzerland’s Crypto Valley - on Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and regulatory developments in digital assets. Behind the publication’s collective editorial voice is a team of writers with backgrounds in financial markets, law, and technology.
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The US Senate has unanimously passed a prediction market ban for members and staff. The trigger is a series of insider trading scandals.
Robinhood misses Q1 2026: crypto revenue halved to 134 million USD, stock falls 11 percent. Schwab and Coinbase intensify competition.
Canada announces national crypto ATM ban. Roughly 4,000 machines are affected as Ottawa targets fraud and money laundering.
OKX, BlackRock and Standard Chartered launch a joint framework that makes tokenized RWAs usable as margin collateral under G-SIB custody.
Hoskinson calls support of the CLARITY Act by Garlinghouse and the XRP community insanity and accuses Ripple of harming the industry.
Trump would sign the CLARITY Act immediately. But the Senate is blocking it, and a May deadline could push the law back to 2030.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
JPMorgan warns: Recurring DeFi exploits and stagnant ETH-denominated TVL curb institutional engagement in the DeFi sector.
Admiral Paparo confirmed to the US Senate: INDOPACOM operates an active Bitcoin node and is conducting operational tests to protect military networks.
Bitcoin fails again at the 80’000 USD mark, profit-taking weighs on ETH, SOL and XRP despite Strategy purchase and ceasefire.
Finding Satoshi names Hal Finney and Len Sassaman as Bitcoin co-founders according to The Block – contradicting the NYT’s Adam Back thesis.
New York sues Coinbase and Gemini over prediction markets. AG James demands 3.4 billion USD. COIN stock falls 6 percent.
KelpDAO hack: USD 292 million loss in the largest DeFi attack of 2026. Investors pulled more than USD 15 billion from the sector.
Strategy acquires 34,164 Bitcoin for USD 2.54 billion and overtakes BlackRock’s IBIT as the largest institutional Bitcoin holder.
Polymarket targets a $15 billion valuation and is negotiating a $400 million round. ICE has invested $1.6 billion in total.
The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade is the biggest hard fork since the Merge: ePBS and parallel processing boost network throughput.
Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin in late May and rebought 1,550 a week later. What the move reveals about corporate Bitcoin treasury resilience.
