Just 4% of surveyed Americans said a political candidate’s stance on cryptocurrency policy would significantly influence how they vote, according to a poll released by POLITICO and conducted by polling firm Public First.
Vietnam could launch the first official activity within its regulated crypto asset market as early as the third quarter of 2026, according to Deputy Finance Minister Nguyen Duc Chi.
Metaplanet reported first-quarter operating income of 2.27 billion yen ($14.38 million) as revenue from Bitcoin options and derivatives more than tripled from a year earlier.
Nigel Farage is reportedly facing a parliamentary standards inquiry over whether he failed to declare a £5 million ($6.7 million) gift received from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne before entering the UK Parliament in 2024.
Paybis received both a MiCA crypto-asset service provider licence and a PSD2 payment institution licence from Latvijas Banka as the company expands regulated crypto infrastructure services across the European Union.
Fidelity International launched a tokenised liquidity fund on blockchain infrastructure linked to Chainlink and Sygnum Bank as institutional tokenised finance activity continued expanding.
Former Celsius Network chief revenue officer Roni Cohen-Pavon agreed to forfeit more than $1 million to US authorities ahead of his sentencing hearing tied to fraud and market manipulation charges.
Societe Generale said its digital assets subsidiary Societe Generale-FORGE will deploy its EURCV and USDCV stablecoins on the Canton Network to support tokenised collateral and repo financing activity.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said his biggest regret was failing to completely block US users from the exchange during Binance’s early years.
Gulf International Bank increased its holdings in Strategy by 53% as institutional investors continued expanding exposure to Bitcoin-linked equities.
Bitcoin traded just below $80,000 as investors closely watched US President Donald Trump’s visit to China, with markets treating the summit as a key test for the sustainability of the cryptocurrency’s latest rally.
Keith Gill’s verified X account was apparently hacked on May 11, with attackers using the Roaring Kitty profile to promote and dump a Solana meme coin that briefly surged to a market value of about $12 million.
