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The privacy coin extended its multi-month rally on Tuesday with $46.7 million in shorts liquidated, after Multicoin Capital disclosed a significant ZEC position.

The bank is rolling out crypto trading on E*Trade with lower fees than Coinbase, Robinhood and Schwab, according to Bloomberg.

Compass Point took a more cautious stance, reiterating a Neutral rating and $36 target, saying much of the expected growth is already priced in, though it acknowledged potential upside.

The day ahead in crypto: May 6, 2026

Executives from Ondo, Robinhood and Babylon Labs said at Consensus Miami 2026 that banks and traditional finance firms are embracing crypto infrastructure, though institutional adoption remains constrained.

The purchase marks a shift from Multicoin’s 2019 view, as ZEC has surged over 1,500% in the last year.

BTC climbed above $82,000 as a weaker dollar lifted crypto markets, while privacy coins and AI-linked tokens led an altcoin rally.

Bitcoin climbed toward $82,000 alongside a more than 1% rise in Nasdaq futures amid reports of progress toward a U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding.

Crypto exchanges are increasingly competing to offer retail traders exposure to Silicon Valley’s most valuable private firms, despite the products conferring neither equity ownership nor shareholder rights.

At Consensus Miami 2026, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu argued that stablecoin adoption by firms like Western Union validates Solana’s role as financial infrastructure for both human and machine economies.

Bitcoin’s three-month rally shows a clear internal structure than most traders might expect, with performance clustering around specific trading windows across global sessions.

The license allows the firm to offer tokenized financial instruments to EU banks as well as secondary trading for tokenized bonds, fund shares, equities, and structured products.

Michael Saylor proposes using bitcoin sales to support dividends, as Strategy reported a $12.54 billion Q1 loss.

Speakers point to complexity, poor user experience and lack of transparency as key obstacles for mainstream users.

The Consensys CEO and founder said tokenization can be traced by to Ethereum, the blockchain he helped co-found.

Execs from PayPal, Robinhood, Public.com and 248 Ventures said the way to move retail into crypto and AI is to slow down, show your work, and put users back in control.

Senior leaders from Mastercard, the Crypto Council for Innovation and Clerisy said the right people in the right rooms can reshape internal decisions, citing examples from stablecoin-linked cards and financial access to staking-policy framing in Washington.

The company’s Chief Strategy Officer said that more than half of internet traffic is now non-human, but that the x402 Foundation is building the rails for a "golden age of content."

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the exchange is “80% ready” to go public, as a new partnership with MoneyGram aims to expand access to digital assets by solving last-mile cash conversion.

Angus Fletcher, State Street’s head of digital assets said the young crypto industry needs to find solutions now before trillions in RWAs come on-chain.

Stablecoins are quietly powering real-world money flows as other crypto experiments than speculative trading have failed to scale, Romero said at Consensus 2026.

Tokenized money efforts face limits as corporate clients demand real-time payments that work seamlessly across banks, Citi’s Ryan Rugg said at Consensus in Miami.

The trading app's senior vice president said tokenization, 24-hour trading, and regulatory shifts are driving broader investor access beyond domestic markets.

As traditional finance deepens its footprint, issuers say ETFs are reshaping access, liquidity, and the global structure of digital asset investing.