May 2026

Societe Generale plans to bring SG-FORGE's EUR CoinVertible and USD CoinVertible to Canton Network as part of a push into collateral, repo financing, and settlement. The May 13 move puts the French bank's stablecoin effort closer to the operating layer of

Bitcoin touched $77,711 intraday before recovering to near $78,225, spending a second consecutive session under macro stress as US Treasury yields held near multi-month highs. The 10-year yield reached 4.599%, while the 30-year climbed 11.8 basis points to 5.131%, its highest

CME Group plans to make its cryptocurrency futures and options trade around the clock beginning May 29, a product line that posted $3 trillion in notional volume in 2025 and is running 46% above that pace year-to-date. ICE's New York Stock

The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act by a 15-9 vote, and the National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) says the vote's most enduring effect may be the signal that Washington is building a defined regulatory framework for

Kraken is moving its wrapped Bitcoin (kBTC) to Chainlink CCIP as bridge-security fears continue spreading across DeFi, turning the bridge-security debate into a decision about wrapped-Bitcoin infrastructure. In a recent announcement, the exchange said it is deprecating its existing cross-chain provider

Bitcoin’s latest retreat below $80,000 shows how quickly the bond market has reclaimed control of crypto trading, even after lawmakers advanced one of the industry’s most closely watched regulatory bills. Data from CryptoSlate showed that the top asset was trading at

Strategy agreed on May 15 to repurchase roughly $1.5 billion principal of its 2029 convertible notes for an estimated $1.38 billion in cash. The firm told investors in its Form 8-K that it may fund the repurchase with available cash reserves,

A new global financial crisis is not confirmed, but the path toward one is now visible enough to map. The sequence starts with debt and oil before it reaches credit. Long-end sovereign yields and Brent crude are already close enough to

US-listed Bitcoin ETF flows have suffered their most severe weekly capital flight since the end of January, with investors pulling exactly $1 billion from the products. The primary catalyst for the sudden institutional risk aversion appears to be the shifting US economic