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Venus, the leading lending protocol on the $BNB Chain, is excited to announce the strategic launch of Venus Trade on $BNB Chain, a decentralized, high-performance blockchain ecosystem built for Web3 applications, decentralized finance (DeFi), and digital assets. The purpose is to enable users to express the view that one asset will outperform another, all within a single, unified position, rather than managing the complex array of lending and borrowing positions. We’re powering a new way to trade on @BNBCHAIN 🥞Venus Trade, @VenusProtocol’s new relative performance trading, is now live, and executing through PancakeSwap liquidity. https://t.co/VKh23RoRKi pic.twitter.com/xdjSU4BMQO — PancakeSwap (@PancakeSwap) May…

Grayscale Investments, a crypto asset management company, announced changes to its DeFi Fund, a decentralized finance-focused investment fund, as part of a rebalancing process for the first quarter of 2026. The company removed the Aerodrome Finance (AERO) token from the fund and replaced it with the Ethena ($ENA) token. According to data shared by Grayscale, as of May 1st, Uniswap holds the largest share in the DeFi Fund with 35.22%. It is followed by Aave with 21.36% and Ondo with 19.83%. The newly added Ethereum’s weight in the fund is stated as 13.59%. The remaining portion of the fund consisted…

Crypto advocate and $XRP enthusiast Bill Morgan highlights a drop in $RLUSD supply that had obviously gone under the radar. Morgan mentioned in a tweet that it seems to have passed largely unnoticed that a large volume of $RLUSD has been burnt over the last two weeks. Morgan highlighted a decrease in $RLUSD’s total supply from almost 1.6 billion to 1.43 billion within the said time frame. Ripple USD ($RLUSD) stablecoin’s total supply is now at 1.43 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. Morgan highlighted the drop in supply from $1.6 billion to $1.43 billion as possibly the biggest in a…

US voters ranked crypto last among election priorities in an April poll of 1,000 registered Americans. Public Opinion Strategies conducted the poll in late April on behalf of CoinDesk, surveying 1,000 randomly selected registered US voters with a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.53%. Respondents were evenly split between Republican and Democratic identifiers at 41% each. As crypto.news reported, TD Cowen had already warned that the 2026 midterm cycle could push the CLARITY Act “off the congressional calendar until 2027,” framing voter indifference as a direct threat to industry legislative goals. The sentiment numbers were broadly negative outside the…

Crypto asset management company Grayscale announced that it has completed its fund rebalancing process for the first quarter of 2026. The company updated both its DeFi Fund and Smart Contract Fund portfolios in accordance with CoinDesk index methodologies. Grayscale announced a significant change to its DeFi Fund. Aerodrome Finance (AERO) was removed from the fund’s portfolio, and the proceeds were used to purchase Ethereum ($ENA). As of May 1, 2026, the Grayscale DeFi Fund portfolio allocation is as follows: Uniswap ($UNI) – 35.22% Aave (AAVE) – 21.36% Ondo (ONDO) – 19.83% Ethereum ($ENA) – 13.59% Curve (CRV) – 5.27% Lido…

$FET price rebounds toward key resistance as AI token rotation, exchange outflows, and progress on the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance roadmap drive renewed demand for the ASI-linked token. Summary Artificial Superintelligence Alliance’s $FET price trades around $0.23–$0.25 after rising roughly 3–5% in the last 24 hours, reversing part of its recent weekly drawdown. The token’s market cap sits between about $520 million and $650 million, with 24-hour trading volumes ranging from $150 million to over $260 million, underscoring active speculative and directional interest in AI-linked assets. An evolving roadmap toward the ASI merger, new AI agent tools, and a dedicated ASI:Chain…

ZeroStack CEO Daniel Reis-Faria says the CLARITY Act stablecoin deal reduces investor uncertainty but has not resolved institutional hesitation yet. The stablecoin deal was finalised on May 1 by Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks, drawing a clear line: crypto platforms cannot pay interest on stablecoins in any way that functions like a bank deposit. Activity-based rewards tied to payments and platform use are still permitted. As crypto.news reported, the Senate Banking Committee is now targeting a markup during the week of May 11, with a Senate floor vote targeted before the May 21 Memorial Day recess. “With lawmakers getting…

Bitcoin Layer 2 project Citrea has announced the launch of its ctUSD Pre-Deposit Vault, backed by over $50 million in liquidity commitments from institutional asset managers including Galaxy Digital. The vault is scheduled to open for deposits at 3:00 p.m. UTC on May 7, with an initial deposit cap set at $15 million. How the Vault Works The liquidity provided by Galaxy Digital and other partners will be supplied outside the vault in the form of Citrea’s native assets, cBTC and ctUSD. These funds will be deployed across decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols including lending markets Morpho and Zentra Finance, as…

Stablecoin infrastructure platform OpenTrade closed a $17 million funding round Wednesday led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Crypto, AlbionVC and CMCC Global, bringing its total funding to more than $30 million. The London-based company said the funding will be used to expand its permissioned and permissionless infrastructure and support plans to grow its asset management and trading teams. The raise follows earlier backing from a16z Crypto and comes as OpenTrade expands its offerings for fintechs, exchanges, wallets and institutional clients seeking stablecoin-based yield products. The firm provides support and infrastructure that enables fintechs, exchanges and…

Summary Anonymous crypto commentator @DeepDishEnjoyer, known online as “peepeepoopoo,” went viral on March 24 after calling out degens for minting meme coins based on their persona and using them to scam each other, in a post that racked up 50,500 views, 582 likes, and 19 retweets. The account, a self-described bearish macro voice with 40,100 followers and a Substack based in Boston, Massachusetts, previously created a joke token called $THATSIT — explicitly telling everyone it was worth $0 — only to watch it pump to a $2.6 million market cap after Chinese traders mistook it for an artificial intelligence coin.…