What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
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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.
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.
Admiral Paparo confirmed to the US Senate: INDOPACOM operates an active Bitcoin node and is conducting operational tests to protect military networks.
Finding Satoshi names Hal Finney and Len Sassaman as Bitcoin co-founders according to The Block – contradicting the NYT’s Adam Back thesis.
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.
Zondacrypto: entire supervisory board resigns, including ex-SEBA CEO Guido Bühler. Hot wallets nearly empty, investigations underway.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Saxony could secure over 6 billion euros from the movie2k trial. A judge in Leipzig proposes a plea deal involving 57’000 BTC.
The Trump family’s crypto project plans to unlock 62 billion WLFI tokens. Those who refuse will have their tokens remain locked.
The EU Parliament’s ECON committee has approved the legal framework for the digital euro and ordered trilogue negotiations to begin.
The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade is the biggest hard fork since the Merge: ePBS and parallel processing boost network throughput.
