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The crypto platform missed earnings and revenue estimates as falling digital asset prices weighed on trading activity and investor sentiment.

Zhao positioned BNB Chain as the optimal payments rail for automated transactions between AI agents, noting that current U.S. policies are improving for crypto.

Jesse Spiro, Head of Government Affairs at Tether.io, said at Consensus Miami 2026 that the midterms will be a key test for whether crypto’s recent policy gains in Washington can survive politically.

At the current pace of purchases, Lee said his Ethereum treasury giant would reach its 5% ether accumulation goal in six weeks, then shift its focus to staking and share buybacks.

DeFi and its underlying technology has already proved itself at scale, said eToro co-founder and CEO, Yoni Assia.

World Liberty Financial co-founder Donald Trump Jr. and co-founder and CEO Zach Witkoff pushed back on recent online rumors as the crypto firm battles Justin Sun in court.

Amazon said AI agents for now will be allowed to buy APIs, web content and other online services, but that future versions would enable hotel bookings, travel reservations and payments to merchants.

Tokenization and AI agentic finance are the main narratives driving the next bull cycle in crypto, Lee said at Consensus 2026.

Since the Genius Act passed, Anchorage has won every single large stablecoin issuance mandate across the landscape, according to the firm’s CEO Nathan McCauley.

Panelists are split on the four-year cycle's relevance, with year-end price targets varying widely from potentially not reaching a new high to possible targets of $150k or $250k.

XRP pulled back even as Ripple and JPMorgan completed a cross-border tokenized Treasury settlement on XRPL, with price now testing whether the recent breakout structure can hold.

The combined migrations by Solv and Kelp shift nearly $1 billion in assets to Chainlink's CCIP, reflecting an industry "flight to quality."

The firm said institutional trading volume surged 800% over six months on the platform, while annualized trading hit $178 billion despite growing regulatory scrutiny.

The lending giant is expanding its asset listing criteria beyond financial risk to include cybersecurity and architecture, and wants the rest of DeFi to follow.

A related MVRV indicator hit overheated levels last seen before bitcoin's late-2024 push to $100,000.

The Ethereum co-founder, who has spent months campaigning against toxic MEV with proposals for encrypted mempools, just had one of his own swaps front-run and back-run by the network's most notorious sandwich bot.

It's day three of Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday. Stay tuned for updates throughout the day.

The crypto asset manager will take over Superstate’s $267 million USCC fund as tokenized investment products gain traction with institutions.

Kraken owner Payward will acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies as the crypto exchange expands its stablecoin and payments infrastructure business in Asia.

The company launched the SoFiUSD stablecoin for enterprise payments in December and partnered with Mastercard for settlement capabilities.

Digital credit has grown to about $10 billion in under a year, with bitcoin treasury firms arguing it could expand into a multi-trillion-dollar market tied to global credit demand.

The day ahead in crypto: May 7, 2026

Researcher and market analyst Ben Cowen says the purge of millions of altcoins is already underway and is necessary for a sustainable bitcoin bull market to be in place.

Altcoins outperformed bitcoin and ether on Thursday as traders rotated into higher-risk assets amid improving market sentiment.