Heidi Cuthbert

Tether has tightened its hold on the stablecoin market after USDT added more than $5 billion in supply over the past month.

Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) reported a significant turnaround in operating profitability for the first quarter of 2026, leveraging steady retail transactions and a cleaner operational cost profile to move past heavy restructuring expenses from the prior year.

ZKH Group (NYSE:ZKH) reported broad top-line expansion and significant structural improvements in profitability for the first quarter of 2026, driven by a steady influx of enterprise buyers using its digital procurement network.

Youdao (NYSE:DAO) reported a modest revenue increase for the first quarter of 2026, navigating a mixed operational landscape where surging digital advertising and steady learning services balanced out a severe contraction in its hardware division.

Syndicate Labs announced it is shutting down after five years of building infrastructure for customisable Ethereum rollups and sequencers, citing a sharp contraction in the layer-2 market.

Bank of England will publish draft rules for systemic stablecoins next month as the UK pushes to finalise a broader digital asset regulatory framework by the end of 2026.

Comet Ridge (ASX:COI) has renegotiated the terms of its acquisition of a 42.86% interest in the Mahalo Gas Project from Santos (ASX:STO).

Takeovers Panel cleared IFM Investors' $7B hostile bid for Atlas Arteria (ASX:ALX), declining an intervention.

Dexus Convenience Retail REIT (ASX:DXC) exchanged contracts for the divestment of three regional property assets, fetching a combined sale price of $8 million.

The Federal Reserve proposed a new framework for limited payment accounts that could give crypto firms and non-bank financial companies restricted access to central bank payment infrastructure without full master-account privileges.