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In brief The Digital Chamber urged the OCC to defend recent national trust bank charter approvals for crypto firms. Sen. Elizabeth Warren argued the approvals may violate banking law by letting crypto firms perform bank-like activities under lighter regulation. The crypto industry countered that Congress effectively authorized such activity through the GENIUS Act. Days after a Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the Treasury Department’s recent spate of bank charter approvals for crypto firms may be illegal, industry leaders are forcefully pushing back on the characterization.On Tuesday, the Digital Chamber, a top crypto industry trade group, implored the Trump Treasury Department to…

HOOD RIVER COUNTY, Ore. – May 26, 2026 – Abundant Mines, a premium bitcoin mining and energy infrastructure company, was named the recipient of The Satos Award for Mining & Energy, receiving the recognition during the first year of the program. The honor was presented at the Abundant Mines booth during the Bitcoin Conference 2026.  The Satos Awards is a bitcoin-only awards program celebrating excellence across the bitcoin ecosystem. Nominations and voting were open to the public and determined entirely by the bitcoin community, making this a direct reflection of sector sentiment.  “Winning a Satos Award in the inaugural year…

Open interest in Shiba Inu climbed 2.1% over the past 24 hours even as spot trading volume fell 18%, sending conflicting signals about where the token is headed next. What The Chart Is Showing SHIB is currently trading around $0.0000056, near its historic lows, after dropping 10% in the past seven days. That decline brought the token back down to a key support zone around $0.0000055 — a level that has cushioned price drops since the coin’s early days in 2021. Despite repeated tests, sellers have not managed to push the price into a sustained breakdown below that area. The…

Bitmine owns more than 4.47% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 89% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains Bitmine uplisted to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) from the NYSE American effective as of April 9, 2026 Bitmine has 4,712,917 staked ETH, representing $10.1 billion at $2,134 per ETH MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR…

Nathan Allman, founder and CEO of Ondo Finance, has died unexpectedly at 35. No cause of death was disclosed. Ondo Finance confirmed the news in a statement posted to X, describing him as a visionary whose intelligence, humility, and drive shaped every part of what the company became Allman graduated from Brown University before joining Goldman Sachs, where he worked on the bank’s digital assets team within its Global Markets division. That role gave him something most crypto founders lacked: a firsthand understanding of why traditional finance moved so slowly. It is with profound sadness that we announce the unexpected…

VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its March–April bimonthly security report, including the strategic deployment of 1,000 BTC to its treasury reserves to strengthen user protection. MEXC’s security infrastructure intercepted and restricted 26,897 accounts tied to coordinated fraud within 60 days, an 18.9% increase from the previous reporting cycle. Threat intelligence engines mapped 6,903 malicious syndicates (up 33.6%), with the heaviest concentrations emerging from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Indonesia, tracking 3,567 and 1,524 threat clusters, respectively. All identified entities were immediately banned across the platform to…

Victoria, Seychelles, May 26th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its March–April bimonthly security report, including the strategic deployment of 1,000 BTC to its treasury reserves to strengthen user protection. Alongside this massive capital injection, the exchange continues to scale its compliance architecture to neutralize evolving market threats. Intercepted 26,897 Accounts Linked to Organized Risk Activities During this 60-day period, MEXC’s security infrastructure intercepted and restricted 26,897 accounts tied to coordinated fraud—an 18.9% increase from the previous reporting cycle. Threat intelligence engines mapped 6,903 malicious syndicates (up 33.6%), with the heaviest concentrations emerging from…

Seoul, South Korea, May 26th, 2026, Chainwire The Scandic Finance Group (SFG) is laying the foundation for a comprehensive ecosystem of real services and digital financial technology with the SNC Scandic Coin (SNC). As a global conglomerate with more than one hundred and fifteen daily newspapers and companies in mobility, technology, security and real estate, the group is creating a common currency whose use goes beyond that of a means of payment. The new coin simultaneously serves as an access key, loyalty programme and store of value for users around the world. From today’s market launch on 26 May 2026, interested parties…

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, May 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —  AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, has officially launched its Points Program, introducing a multi-season incentive system designed to reward genuine ecosystem participation ahead of the protocol’s future token launch. Unlike traditional DeFi farming models that primarily reward raw trading volume, AFX’s points system is built around a different principle: rewarding real contribution. Active traders, liquidity providers, and community participants can now earn points through meaningful participation across the protocol, with all accumulated points eventually redeemable into tokens at TGE. This program will run across three consecutive seasons,…

Author: Henrik Anderson, Senior Blockchain Analyst at btcecosystem The cryptocurrency market is entering another phase of high-volatility expansion—and Solana is once again in the spotlight. From viral “meme coins” to AI-integrated blockchain projects, billions of dollars in speculative liquidity are rapidly flowing back into the market. Retail investors are chasing the next blockbuster token, while social media is flooded with discussions about Solana-based ecosystems, low-market-cap boutique projects, and high-speed decentralized exchanges. However, behind the “meme coin” craze, a larger trend is quietly emerging. Infrastructure is becoming one of the most important sectors in the next cryptocurrency cycle. Market focus is…