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Law firm Gerstein Harrow LLP filed a new motion on Thursday in a miscellaneous enforcement lawsuit, asking the court to compel stablecoin company Tether to hand over more than $344 million in frozen USDt linked to Iranian entities. The motion claims that the plaintiffs are owed more than $532 million in compensatory damages and more than $1.8 billion in punitive damages from acts of “terrorism committed or sponsored by Iran,” stretching back more than 25 years. The latest filing is part of a broader lawsuit against North Korea (DPRK) and Iran, attempting to claim and redistribute digital assets as compensation…

Stables has partnered with T-0 Network to strengthen $USDT settlement corridors across Asia. Key Takeaways: Stables partnered with T-0 Network on May 12, 2026, to scale institutional $USDT settlements across Asia. Infrastructure gaps persist in Asia, where 60% of global stablecoin flows face fragmented banking access. Stables targets the $300B market, routing $USDT until local coins mature alongside Mansa and eStable. Navigating Regulatory Moats Stables, a stablecoin infrastructure platform, announced a strategic partnership with t-0 Network to enhance settlement capabilities for its $USDT corridors across Asia. The collaboration establishes T-0 Network as a dedicated settlement partner, providing the liquidity necessary…

Metaplanet’s March 25 program in Yokohama felt more like a company attempting to define a new moment rather than holding a simple investor relations exercise. On paper, the Japan Bitcoin Future Forum was a half-day conference built around themes like “Japan’s Bitcoin Moment,” corporate treasury strategy, regulation, and Japan’s economic future. Metaplanet Addresses Investors as Digital Asset Treasury Company’s $BTC per Share Reaches New High The event was held at Yokohama’s Pia Arena MM, a modern venue with great scale, and Metaplanet described the event as part of a broader effort to move the conversation from a single company case…

FOCIL, Verkle Trees and account‑abstraction upgrades have moved to Hegotá, turning it into a late‑2026 “cleanup and hardening” fork while leadership changes in Ethereum’s Protocol Cluster steer the longer Strawmap roadmap. The Ethereum Foundation has published a new protocol update confirming that the Glamsterdam development network is now online and that work on the Hegotá scalability roadmap is advancing in parallel. In a blog post summarizing an interoperability meeting held in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, core developers outlined how execution-layer changes like enshrined proposer-builder separation (ePBS), gas repricing via EIP‑8037 and censorship-resistance features such as FOCIL are being staged across the…

Current Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell will continue to stay on the central bank’s board as Governor after his term ends in May. Speaking at a press conference following the central bank’s decision to hold interest rates steady at 3.5%-3.75% on Wednesday, Powell voiced concerns about the legal action against the central bank, saying it is causing him to stay, even though he plans to keep a “low profile.” “I worry that these attacks are battering the institution and putting at risk the thing that really matters to the public, which is the ability to conduct monetary policy without taking…

Ripple’s CTO Emeritus, David Schwartz, has publicly shared the first email he received that had a mention of the word “$XRP.” David Schwartz, Ripple’s former Chief Technology Officer and now CTO Emeritus, recently shared an early moment from $XRP’s history. Specifically, he revealed the first email he ever received that mentioned $XRP, which dates back to February 2013, a time when the technology was still in its early stages. Key Points David Schwartz revealed that the first $XRP-related email he received came in February 2013, during the earliest phase of the $XRP Ledger after its mid-2012 launch. Vinnie Falco requested…

The CLARITY Act’s bipartisan 15–9 Senate Banking vote moves a bill that could finally split SEC–CFTC jurisdiction and give crypto its first bespoke market‑structure law, a16z argues. According to a16z, the CLARITY Act is designed to build a bespoke legal framework for blockchain networks and digital assets, rather than force them into structures “built for companies, not protocols.” The bill would define when a token is treated as a security, when it migrates into a commodity‑style regime, and how to split jurisdiction between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), ending years of turf…

Monad (MON) has announced its support for Rain, a stablecoin-focused startup that is launching a card usable at any Visa-affiliated merchant. The initiative allows users to spend Monad-based stablecoins directly for payments, with the card accepted in more than 150 countries globally. How Rain’s Card Works Rain’s card is issued through partnerships with licensed financial institutions and is linked to a digital wallet that supports stablecoins on the Monad network. When a user makes a purchase, the stablecoin is converted to fiat currency in real-time, enabling seamless transactions at Visa merchants without requiring users to pre-convert their crypto. The system…

Ethereum ($ETH) is moving towards a point that it has never faced before. The second-largest crypto is yet to print three consecutive quarters in the red in its entire history. However, that streak is now under pressure as Ether seems to be losing momentum. CoinGlass data shows that Ether posted a negative quarter 4 in 2025. Q1 2026 followed the same path, and now Q2 is underway. Traders are watching closely to see whether $ETH can avoid a historic third straight quarterly decline. Till now, it has been running up by more than 11% this fiscal quarter. Back in 2022,…

While the heyday of Cathie Wood’s investment management is, for the time being, firmly in the past, the popular ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) has been having a respectable run in the last 12 months and unveiled its latest series of bets as recently as April 28. ARKK ETF one-year price chart. Source: Google Specifically, ARKK revealed on Tuesday that it invested a total of nearly $42 million in four stocks: Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), Coreweave (NASDAQ: CRWV), Intellia Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NTLA), and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (NASDAQ: KTOS). The purchases of NTLA and KTOS shares ranged between $6 and $6.9…