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PayPal has reorganized its business into three divisions, with a dedicated unit for crypto services and its PYUSD stablecoin. The restructuring also brought significant leadership changes.
Tether Investments has proposed a three-way merger of Twenty-One Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy to build a leading public bitcoin company combining treasury reserves, mining operations, and financial services.
Meta has begun paying content creators in USDC via Polygon and Solana wallets. Meanwhile, Visa added five new blockchain networks to its pilot stablecoin project.
May 2026 brings a packed crypto calendar, including Bitcoin Pizza Day on May 22, Western Union's USDPT stablecoin launch on Solana, and CME's move to around-the-clock crypto derivatives trading.
Robinhood reported a sharp decline in cryptocurrency revenue to $134 million in Q1 2026, while Galaxy Digital recorded a $216 million net loss amid a 21% crypto market cap decline.
BitOK founder Dmitry Machikhin and Blockchain Life founder Sergey Khitrov participated in Alfa-Bank's major business forum, where a dedicated session on digital currencies and tokenization took place.
The DeFi United initiative has accumulated over 132,704 ETH ($302M) to recover from the Kelp protocol hack, fully covering the $290M in damages.
Crypto exchange Bitget has unveiled the Blockchain4Youth Learning Hub, a four-week educational program with certification, career placement support, and partnerships with Bondex and leading global universities.
Crypto exchange OKX has rolled out a Mastercard that enables stablecoin payments with automatic fiat conversion at checkout. Cardholders can earn up to 5% cashback and 10% APY on their OKX Pay balance.
Non-custodial wallet Bitget Wallet has integrated prediction platform Polymarket, giving users mobile access to prediction market trading with built-in AI analytics tools.
Crypto exchange BYDFi received the "Best Crypto Exchange User Interface" award at the Blockchain Life Awards 2026 ceremony held during the Moscow-based forum.
British investment firm Reabold Resources has confirmed plans to mine Bitcoin using a small gas power plant at its West Newton site in Yorkshire, drawing criticism from environmentalists and raising questions about profitability.
Aluminum giant Alcoa is negotiating the sale of its shuttered Massena East smelting plant to crypto mining firm NYDIG. The deal is expected to close by mid-2026.
BinanceBusinessTRON founder Justin Sun is expected to visit Kyrgyzstan on April 18 for talks with government officials on blockchain infrastructure development and stablecoin scalability.
Mining pool ViaBTC and crypto exchange CoinEx participated in Blockchain Forum 2026 in Moscow, addressing mining regulation, energy allocation, and the company's expansion strategy in Russia.
Starknet developer StarkWare announced workforce reductions and a major restructuring into two divisions as network revenue plummeted from $6M to $48K per month.
Binance's TradFi derivatives hit $7.6B peak daily gold volume and $6.4B in silver within 90 days of launch, growing 5,000x from an initial $1.5M turnover.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou published an extensive investigation claiming British cryptographer Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto. Back has denied the allegations.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao released his memoir Freedom of Money, detailing the FTX collapse, a 2019 job offer to Gary Gensler, and igniting a public dispute with OKX's Star Xu.
CircleBusinessPrediction market platform Polymarket is rolling out its biggest infrastructure update ever, including a rebuilt trading engine, upgraded smart contracts, and a new collateral token called Polymarket USD to replace USDC.e.
BinanceBusinessStrategy purchased 4,871 BTC at an average price of $67,718, bringing total holdings to 766,970 BTC. Michael Saylor and Peter Schiff publicly debated Bitcoin's long-term performance.
SolanaBusinessSolana Foundation has launched Solana Agent Skills, a modular toolkit enabling AI agents to interact with the Solana blockchain. The catalog includes over 60 community-built skills.
A Bank of Canada study found that Aave V3 recorded zero bad debts over a two-year period, but the protocol's liquidation mechanisms shifted significant financial risks onto borrowers.
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