Kraken Switches from LayerZero to Chainlink after Kelp DAO Hack
Crypto exchange Kraken announced Thursday that it had changed its cross-chain provider from LayerZero to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, joining...
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Moody’s Rates Fidelity’s Ethereum-Based USD Liquidity Fund at Highest Aaa-mf Level
Key TakeawaysMoody’s assigned an Aaa-mf assessment to Fidelity International’s USD Digital Liquidity Fund on May 13, 2026.The fund, managed by...
JPMorgan Files Tokenized Money Market For Stablecoin Issuers
JPMorgan has filed to launch a tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, allowing stablecoin issuers to hold reserves backing their...
Canton Network Developer Digital Asset Seeks $300M From A16z Crypto
Key TakeawaysA16z crypto leads a ~$300 million round at Digital Asset Holdings, valuing the company at ~$2 billion, per Bloomberg.Canton...
Whitehat Returns $190K to Renegade After Hacking Them
The team behind the Renegade.fi protocol said a whitehat hacker returned about $190,000 after exploiting one of its Arbitrum-based decentralized...
How Iran’s biggest crypto exchange stays off the OFAC blacklist
Iran’s internet formally remained part of global routing, but user activity fell almost to zero. That points to a managed...
Kelp DAO Fallout Pushes Solv, DeFi Protocols Toward Chainlink
Decentralized finance protocols are reevaluating their blockchain oracle providers’ security after the fallout from the $293 million Kelp DAO exploit...
Polygon Reduces Block Production Time to 1.75 Seconds
Blockchain layer-2 (L2) network Polygon reduced its average block time by 250 milliseconds to 1.75 seconds, marking its first block-time...
Quantum Also Adds Proof-of-Ownership Headaches
Blockchain protocols preparing for the quantum computing threat should also consider how to quickly verify ownership on the blockchain if...
Microsoft-backed Space and Time Launches Virtual Vaults for Institutional Lending
Space and Time (SXT), a level-1 data blockchain that secures onchain finance projects, has launched a virtual vault platform that...
Polygon Launches Wallet Privacy Feature to Hide Senders, Receivers and Amounts Onchain
Ethereum scaling solution Polygon has launched private stablecoin payments in an effort to attract more businesses and institutions to the...
Riot Posts $167M in Q1 Revenue as Data Center Arm Pulls in $33M
Riot Platforms posted $167.2 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2026, with its newly launched data center business...
DeFi’s Lose-Lose Problem on Freezing Stolen Funds
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are stepping in to freeze stolen funds while centralized issuers face criticism for holding back.A recent...
Carrot’s TVL Collapses 93% in a Month Following Drift Hack
Solana-based decentralized finance yield protocol Carrot said Thursday that it is shutting down permanently, becoming one of the first DeFi...
Startale Group Embeds Privacy Increase, Enables Sub-500ms Shielded Asset Transfers
Key Takeaways: Startale Group chooses Sunnyside Labs to bring native privacy to its consumer-facing app. Privacy Boost delivers 1,800+ transactions...
Aptos Says New Privacy Coin Balances Security, Transparency
Aptos Labs founding engineer Sherry Xiao said Aptos’ newly introduced privacy coin could fix a long-standing trade-off between protecting user...
Solana Readies Quantum Defense With 3-Step Roadmap and Falcon Implementation
Key Takeaways: Anza and Firedancer independently selected the Falcon post-quantum signature scheme for Solana, with code on Github. Blueshift’s Solana...
DeFi Platform Volo Hit by $3.5M Vault Assault, Begins Recovery Efforts
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Volo has disclosed a security breach that resulted in the loss of approximately $3.5 million in...
0G Foundation and Alibaba Cloud Partner to Bring Qwen LLMs Onchain
Key Takeaways: 0G Foundation and Alibaba Cloud launched onchain access to Qwen LLMs for AI agents on April 21, 2026....
Coinbase Expands Crypto-Backed USDC Loans to UK Users
Crypto exchange Coinbase has rolled out crypto-backed USDC loans for users in the United Kingdom, allowing users to borrow USDC...
Circle Launches USDC Bridge For Native Cross-Chain Transfers
Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched USDC Bridge, a new user interface built on top of the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP)...
Flow Capital to Tokenize $150M Private Credit Fund on Blockchain: Report
Flow Capital Partners is planning to tokenize its private credit fund through Singapore-based DigiFT, Bloomberg reported Friday, as the Hong...
