The US's top securities settlement infrastructure, DTCC, chose Stellar to tokenize stocks, ETFs and Treasuries — a historic first for public blockchain adoption on Wall Street.
CME Group launched the first regulated Bitcoin volatility futures in the U.S. — ticker BVI. The product lets traders bet on BTC price swings without taking a directional position on the cryptocurrency.
CNN filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity AI, accusing it of scraping 17,000+ news stories to train its products — the first copyright suit by a TV network against an AI company.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon escalated his battle against the CLARITY Act, warning that banks 'will not accept it' if crypto firms can offer stablecoin yields without equivalent banking oversight.
Circle blacklisted a Zama protocol smart contract holding $12.6M in USDC following a US court order. Innocent users unrelated to the case lost access to their funds without prior notice.
Dell reported Q1 FY2027 results: AI server revenue surged 757% year-over-year to $16.1 billion, total revenue hit $43.8 billion — up 88%. The stock jumped 39% in a single day, its best performance ever.
CME Group, NYSE owner ICE, and China's Shanghai Futures Exchange are all building derivative markets for AI computing resources — GPU time and tokens are being treated as commodities.
Starting June 1, 2026, GitHub is replacing Copilot's flat subscription with token-based billing. Developers are alarmed: a single AI-assisted coding session can easily exhaust a full month's credit.
On May 22, 2026, OpenAI confidentially filed its S-1 with the SEC, targeting a valuation above $1 trillion and a September listing. If completed, it would be the largest IPO in US history.
After Nvidia paid $20 billion and absorbed Groq's top engineers, the AI chip startup is raising $650 million and reinventing itself as a cloud provider for AI inference.
Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of NYSE-owner ICE, stated that Hyperliquid is bigger than Nasdaq in derivatives trading volume. ICE has already held multiple meetings with the platform's founders.
SoftBank announced plans to invest up to €75 billion ($87B) in AI data centers across France, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history, with 5 GW of capacity planned by 2031.
US Bitcoin ETFs broke their own record: nine straight trading days of net outflows, with $2.8 billion pulled since May 15. It is the longest redemption streak since the funds launched in 2024.
The CFTC approved the first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures in the US, green-lighting applications from Kalshi and Coinbase. Until now, perpetuals existed only on offshore exchanges.
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, closed a $65 billion round and is approaching a $1 trillion valuation ahead of a possible IPO. It shows how fast money is pouring into artificial intelligence.
US authorities reported seizing nearly $1 billion in digital assets from networks tied to Iran. It is one of the largest crypto seizures on record and a sign of how governments use blockchain in the sanctions fight.
The US regulator allowed blockchain firm Paxos to settle and clear American stocks — for the first time alongside the traditional giant DTCC. It is a step toward running ordinary securities on the blockchain.