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Circle Internet Group agreed to sell 740 million ARC tokens for $222 million in a private placement led by a16z Crypto, valuing the Arc blockchain network at $3 billion on a fully diluted basis.The New York Stock Exchange-listed issuer of the USDC stablecoin disclosed the token presale Monday alongside its first-quarter 2026 results, which showed higher revenue and reserve income but lower net income.The round was led by a16z Crypto and backed by a consortium including BlackRock, Apollo Funds, ARK Invest, Bullish, General Catalyst, Haun Ventures, Intercontinental Exchange, IDG Capital, Janus Henderson Investors, Marshall Wace, SBI Group and Standard Chartered…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on The CLARITY Act is heading back to the Senate Banking Committee on May 14 after months of stalled negotiations, putting a small group of Democrats at the center of the crypto industry’s push for a federal market-structure law.The markup comes after the bill was slowed by disputes over stablecoin rewards, anti-money laundering safeguards and ethics provisions.Those fights have turned a committee vote that Republicans may be able to win on numbers into a broader test of whether the measure can attract enough Democratic support to remain viable on the Senate floor.Republicans hold 13 of the committee’s…

Bitmine owns more than 4.31% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 86% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Crypto Spring has commenced and like past cycles, investor sentiment and conviction are muted and bearish even as crypto prices strengthen As reflected in this edition of Tom Lee’s Chairman’s Message 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…

Ripple’s Prime President said that such dependable access to financing and balance sheet strength are ‘critical to institutional participants.’ The company behind XRP and RLUSD has announced its latest push toward increasing its presence in institutional crypto finance, which comes with a $200 million boost. Ripple said it has officially secured a substantial debt facility from funds managed by Neuberger Berman, signaling growing confidence from traditional finance giants in its expanding ecosystem. Neuberger Private Markets, a division of Neuberger, has been an active and successful private markets investor for nearly 40 years, as it invests across strategies, asset classes, and…

Bitcoin price has been pinned between $77,899 and $80,339 for weeks. Retail sees a dead chart. But historically, this kind of BTC consolidation is exactly when altcoin start moving and starts its season. The mechanism is called crypto capital rotation. The total crypto market is one pool of money. When Bitcoin surges, everyone piles in first. When it stalls, that same capital starts hunting better returns down the risk curve, Ethereum first, then mid-caps, then smaller altcoins. The signal that rotation is starting is Bitcoin Dominance. When it peaks and starts falling while overall market cap holds or grows, money…

London, United Kingdom, May 8th, 2026, Chainwire GoBTC Pay is a protocol that lets consumers make native and instant payments on Bitcoin’s base layer.  GoMining launches its own mining pool to prioritize GoBTC Pay transaction confirmation, targeting a 12-hour final on-chain settlement by the end of 2026. The launch marks a strategic expansion for GoMining, a platform with 5 million users. GoBTC Pay extends this ecosystem into everyday payments. GoMining launches GoBTC Pay a Bitcoin payment protocol that delivers on what the 2008 whitepaper promised: peer-to-peer electronic payments. GoBTC Pay enables free and instant Bitcoin payments on the core Bitcoin…

The cryptocurrency market has shown mixed performance lately. Total capitalization sits near $2.65 trillion after a roughly 1% slide over the past 24 hours, while Bitcoin holds around $80,000. The meme coin sector has also come under pressure, with SKYAI falling 31% since Wednesday after an earlier surge that pushed it to fresh highs – and that move has contributed to a broader softening in the total meme coin market cap, which has fallen by almost 5.5% over the last day. Many established tokens have pulled back alongside the correction, yet the sector continues to draw the attention of traders…

We were watching BTC. ZEC Was running.Honestly — we’ve been heads-down on macro events and Bitcoin.Tariff drama. Fed uncertainty. BTC trying to break $84K. It’s been a lot.But here’s the thing about Bitcoin runs. Every time BTC goes up, there are altcoins quietly outperforming it by 2x, 3x, sometimes 5x. You just have to be watching the right ones.This time, the coin is Zcash (ZEC).ZEC has always been on our watchlist. It’s one of those coins with a real story — not just vibes. But even for us, this pump caught us off guard with its speed and size.So here’s…

Stablecoins have moved from crypto niche to an institutional priority, but the next phase of adoption will depend on infrastructure, privacy and real-world usability, executives from MoonPay, Ripple and Paxos said at Consensus Miami 2026.Richard Harrison, MoonPay’s vice president of banking and payment partnerships, said traditional finance firms are entering stablecoins faster because regulation has made the market easier to navigate.“What GENIUS brought us was clarity,” Harrison said. “It was like a permission slip for companies to enter into stablecoins.”Harrison said stablecoins are also a natural evolution of payments, where speed and convenience have long been limited by legacy rails.…

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2142.44, up 0.1% (+2.73) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday.Seventeen of 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: NEAR (+6.3%) and ICP (+5.8%).Laggards: BNB (-0.4%) and CRO (-0.1%).The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.