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AEON, an AI-focused blockchain settlement infrastructure platform, announced the completion of an $8 million pre-seed funding round led by YZi Labs. The round also included participation from IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, Oak Grove Ventures, and several other investors. The company said the funding will support the development of infrastructure designed for an agentic economy, where AI systems interact and transact independently. AEON is building a settlement layer aimed at allowing AI agents to complete financial actions without direct human involvement. The company focuses on connecting Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interactions with real-world payment systems and merchant settlements. Its…

The crypto industry is turning its attention to June, a month many see as crucial for advancing the proposed crypto market structure legislation known as the Clarity Act. According to Kristin Smith, Solana Policy Institute president, the bill has already cleared a major hurdle by passing through the Senate Banking Committee with bipartisan support. However, she stressed that the most difficult stage is still ahead: building enough support to bring the legislation to the Senate floor and secure final approval. The Road to the President’s Desk Smith outlined several steps that remain before the bill can become law. These include:…

Wallet of Satoshi, a widely used Bitcoin Lightning Network wallet, has announced it will transition its point-of-sale (POS) service for merchants to a self-custody model. The company cited increasing government reporting requirements for custodial crypto services as the primary driver behind the change, a move that will require business operators to manage their own private keys. What the Transition Means for Merchants In a post on X, Wallet of Satoshi explained that support for existing custodial POS addresses will be phased out. Merchants currently using the service will need to generate new self-custody addresses to continue processing Bitcoin Lightning payments.…

$BNB Chain, a blockchain ecosystem for decentralized applications and services, announced the launch of Agent Survival Pack, a new initiative designed to give AI agents the ability to manage and pay their own operating expenses directly on-chain. The project brings together six infrastructure partners that cover two main areas required for AI agents to work: access to language models and financial infrastructure. All payments within the system are settled using $BNB or BEP-20 tokens on the $BNB Smart Chain. Several projects provide AI model access and computing infrastructure. Alt AI offers access to different AI models through a single interface,…

Since falling below $80k, Bitcoin has traded within a descending channel, touching a low of $74k, before a slight rebound. At press time, Bitcoin traded at $75,882, down 1.65% on the daily charts. With the continued decline, $BTC fell below both the EMA and the MA at $77k and $76k, respectively, reflecting strong downward pressure. Bitcoin whale purchased $66 million in $BTC With Bitcoin [$BTC] under intense downward pressure, some whales have taken the opportunity to accumulate at a discount. According to Onchain Lens, a whale purchased 873.29 $BTC worth $66.24 million from OKX. With the latest purchase, the wallet…

Non-dollar stablecoins have grown sharply over the past five years. Despite the headlines, they just have not become any more important. The combined supply of euro, Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, Singapore dollar, and other non-USD stablecoins rose to about $771 million in April 2026 from $261 million in May 2021, according to stablecoin supply data from Artemis. But their market share slipped to 0.24% from 0.26%, leaving dollar-pegged tokens with 99.76% of the stablecoin market. In traditional finance, dollar dominance is a slow bleed. The dollar accounts for 89% of FX trades, 61% of foreign-currency debt issuance, and 57% of…

Latest developments: NUVA is positioning itself as a chain-agnostic marketplace for tokenized financial assets. NUVA launched with nearly $19 billion in tokenized home equity lines of credit ad Treasuries from Figure Technologies, according to CEO Anthony Moro. Moro joined CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie on Public Keys. Moro, a former BNY Mellon executive, said the company believes “every single financial asset in the entire world is going to be tokenized over the next decade.” The Ethereum-based platform is designed to connect issuers and investors seeking yield-bearing tokenized assets. NUVA ‘s partners include Animoca Brands, which Moro said will help distribute products globally…

A forty-year-old Texas bank is stepping onto the national stage to challenge Wall Street’s push to get a grip on the digital asset industry. United Texas Bank (UTB) secured approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to convert from a state-chartered financial institution into a nationally chartered bank on May 15, Scott Beck, the president and CEO of the firm, told CoinDesk on Wednesday. The conversion move, Beck added, is to position his crypto-friendly bank as the primary bridge between the cryptocurrency industry and traditional financial institutions and to provide digital asset services he said the…

Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Grvt will work with Plume to launch three tokenized real-world asset (RWA) yield products, offering users access to fixed-income and structured credit strategies through self-custodial wallets. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the products will be integrated directly into Grvt’s platform and include exposure tied to tokenized institutional-grade assets, including the $2.2 billion in assets iShares AAA CLO Active ETF. The integration adds three investment products, the Base Yield Fund, Balanced Fund and Opportunistic Fund, to Grvt’s trading platform, allowing users to access tokenized yield strategies from the same self-custodial balance they already use for trading, without transferring…

Bitcoin fell below the $73,000 level due to rising geopolitical tensions and macroeconomic pressures. On-chain data analytics platform Spot On Chain stated that there are signs that the market decline is stemming from selling by large investors, often referred to as “smart money.” The platform stated in a post on X that news of the airstrikes between the US and Iran and the sharp rise in oil prices have reduced risk appetite in global markets. These developments, it was noted, triggered widespread selling pressure in the cryptocurrency market. According to the analysis, the decline in Bitcoin severely impacted not only…