Crypto News Archive - May 2026

Every breaking-news story Cryptomat published in May 2026, ordered newest first.

US Moves to Block Advanced AI Chip Sales to Chinese Entities, Reordering Global Compute Supply

The US blocked advanced AI chip sales to Chinese entities on Saturday, a move that ripples through semiconductor supply and decentralized GPU networks.

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River Reports Criminals Now Prefer Stablecoins Over Bitcoin as Illicit Crypto Use Shifts

River Financial said criminals have moved off Bitcoin and onto stablecoins for illicit activity, a shift likely to deepen regulatory scrutiny of issuers.

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US Moves to Block Advanced AI Chip Sales to Chinese Entities, Reordering Global Compute Supply

River Reports Criminals Now Prefer Stablecoins Over Bitcoin as Illicit Crypto Use Shifts

HongCoin Investors Recover $2M in Locked ETH Nine Years After 2017 ICO Contract Froze Funds

Crypto PACs Move From FTX Fallout to Election Power Player, CryptoSlate Reports

Strategy CEO Floats Potential Bitcoin Sale, Signaling Shift in Corporate Treasury Playbook

Boris Vujčić Replaces Luis de Guindos as ECB Vice President in Frankfurt Handover

ZachXBT Flags RAIN Token's $9B FDV Surge, Cites Supply Concentration and Uni V3 LP Ties

Injective Files Vulcan Mainnet Upgrade Proposal, Targeting Trading Engine and INJ Tokenomics

HYPE Hits $69.97 Record as Buybacks, ETF Flows and CFTC Perp Nod Compress the Float

SoftBank Pledges €75B for Europe's Largest AI Facility in France

BeInCrypto Maps Three Layers of World Cup 2026 Crypto Plays From CHZ to Solana Memes

Shiba Inu Supply Nears 80 Trillion Floor for First Time in Years, Pressuring SHIB Price

Isaac Patka Proposes DeFi Safety Framework Built Around Three Separate Multisigs

Vietnam Finance Ministry Proposes Letting Banks Accept Digital Assets as Loan Collateral

Bitcoin Bullish Chatter Hits 2026 High, Santiment Flags Pullback Risk

Iran Claims Draft Deal Hands It Control Over Strait of Hormuz, Unlocks $12B in Frozen Assets

US Seizes $1 Billion in Iranian Crypto, Treasury's Bessent Says

XRP-XLM Correlation Tightens as Traders Eye Weekly Candle Repeat Above $2

UK Sanctions 18 Crypto Firms Over Alleged Role in Russia's $90B War Finance Network

Visser Tells Pomp Markets Are Pricing a Bull Run as Earnings Outpace Multiples

VanEck Ranks XRPL Above JPMorgan Kinexys and Coinbase Base in Corporate Blockchain Tally

Solstice CEO: Banks Are Quietly Building on Crypto Rails They Once Dismissed

Bittensor Wires Confidential Routing Into OpenRouter, Eyeing 120 Billion Tokens a Day

Bitcoin Holds $73,300 As Analyst Vivek Flags 2018, 2022-Style Buy Zone

Bitcoin Slides Toward $70K Test as Hyperliquid Stablecoin Supply Jumps 8%

Uniswap Slides Toward $3.00 After 4.9M UNI Hit Binance In Two Sessions, CryptoQuant Data Shows

DeXe Token Jumps 13% on Breakout, AMBCrypto Flags $24 as Next Upside Test

Strive Adds 2,624 Bitcoin in Record Week, Funded by Fresh Capital Raise

CryptoCon Says Bitcoin Cycle May Be Hiding or Failing, Warns Dip Buyers Too Eager

Coinkite Ships Coldcard MK5 With Gorilla Glass Display and Reworked NFC for Bitcoin Self-Custody

Lighter Partners With Insilico Terminal to Court Pro Traders After Liquidity Slump

Citadel Securities Posts Record $4.3B Quarterly Trading Revenue As Volatility Spikes

Base Logs 3.1 Million x402 Agent Payments in 30 Days as AI Wallets Go Live

Exponent Finance Ships v2 on Solana, Expands Fixed-Rate Yield Tooling

CFTC Approves First Bitcoin Perpetual Futures on a US Regulated Exchange

Cactus Custody Adds Support for Lido V3 stVaults, Opening Institutional Path to ETH Staking

Bitcoin Drops 5% to $72,589 as US-Iran Strikes Trigger Channel Support Test

From Mockery to Monopoly: How Wall Street Quietly Took Over Crypto

Paxos Wins SEC Clearing Agency Approval, First Blockchain-Native Firm to Clear US Securities

a16z-Linked Wallet Adds $15M HYPE as Token Slips Below $60, Arkham Data Shows

Anthropic Closes $65B Round, Nears $1T Valuation as Tokenized Equity Issue Resurfaces

Trezor Adds Native USDC, USDT Yield Through Morpho in Trezor Suite

Ethereum Slips Into Long-Term Trend Zone Analysts Call Decisive For $3,000 Path

XRP Whale-Retail Spread Hits 88.3%, Lowest Since May 2024, as Price Breaks Below $1.30 Support

Mistral AI Pushes Superintelligence Race To Counter US Tech Giants

Cathie Wood Holds $1.25M Bitcoin Bull Case as BTC Trades at $75,034

SpaceX Plans $75B IPO This Summer, Discloses Bitcoin Treasury Position

Crypto's Fairshake PAC Goes 6-for-6 in Texas Runoffs, Topples 20-Year Incumbent Al Green

Cathie Wood Reaffirms ARK Invest's $750,000 Bitcoin Base Case for 2030

BIS Says Tokenized Central Bank Reserves Speed Up Cross-Border Payments

SUI Defends Breakout Retest as Analysts Split on Wave 4 Recovery vs Fifth-Wave Decline

Musk Could Become a Top-5 Corporate Bitcoin Holder if Tesla and SpaceX Merge, CNBC Says

Robinhood Rolls Out AI Agents That Build Portfolios and Trade for Retail Users

Inside the CLARITY Act: 257 Pages, Six Titles, and Who Gets to Regulate Crypto

Bitwise's BHYP Draws $25.5M in a Day as Hyperliquid's HYPE ETF Race Heats Up

Crypto PAC Fairshake Pours $9M Into Texas Races, Raising State-Capture Alarms

Binance Co-CEO Yi He Lands on Fortune's Most Powerful Women List

Dogecoin Slips Below $0.1020 As Bears Defend Hourly Trend Line

Hyperliquid Opens Real-World Event Markets to Validators Under HIP-4 Upgrade

Hong Kong Moves to License Crypto Advisers and Asset Managers Under 2026 Regime

UK Sanctions Justin Sun's HTX and Crypto Firms Over Alleged Russia Ties

Plume Launches First Regulated Onchain Vault Under Bermuda Digital Asset Licence

xAI Ships Grok CLI Installer for Windows PowerShell, Joining Crowded AI Coding Agent Field

Zcash Tops Monero as Privacy-Coin Leader After Hitting $642 on May 9

Bitcoin Fund Flow Ratio On Binance Hits Level Last Seen At Five Bottoms Since 2018

South Korea to Monitor $37B in Overseas Private Debt Investments After Outflow Spike

JPMorgan Projects Bitcoin and Crypto Inflows Will Top $130B in 2026

Iran Pushes for Release of $6B in Frozen Funds, Sharpening Crypto Sanctions Debate

Hyperliquid Hits $2.5B Open Interest as Tokenized Equities Demand Climbs

Totalis Trading Launches Prediction Market Parlays on Solana

Ledger Bets on Hardware Verification as AI-Powered Crypto Attacks Escalate

NEAR Jumps 15% as Cross-Chain Intents Volume Tops $19B

Hyperliquid Expands HIP-4 With Validator-Governed Outcome Markets, Cutting Oracle Dependence

Bitmain, AntPool Tie Up With BTC Ecosystem to Push Hash Rate Financialization

Dogecoin Whales Scoop 525M DOGE in Four Days as Price Holds Below 200-Day Average

Solstice Launches SLX Token to Anchor Solana Yield Infrastructure Push

Binance BTC Inflows Triple in 10 Days as Spot ETFs Bleed $1.26B Over Six Sessions

Polkadot Referendum 1890 Forces Validators To Lock 10,000 DOT Self-Stake

Nasdaq Wins SEC Nod for Cash-Settled Bitcoin ETF Options, Awaits CFTC Sign-Off

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Lists Eight Fixes the Financial System Still Needs