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The debate over the CLARITY Act intensified this week after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded to recent remarks from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Dimon has sharply criticized both the legislation and the crypto industry. Speaking in an interview with Politico, Armstrong pushed back against Dimon’s comments and argued. That the proposed legislation would benefit traditional banks and crypto companies. Coinbase CEO Fires Back at Dimon Over CLARITY ActCoinbase (@coinbase) CEO Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) pushed back on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s criticism of the CLARITY Act, per Politico.Armstrong said the bill would be good for banks and crypto firms alike, adding……

Fortune has released its highly anticipated ‘Crypto 100’ list for 2026, offering a comprehensive snapshot of the most influential players across the digital asset ecosystem. The annual ranking, which categorizes companies and protocols into ten distinct segments, highlights the growing convergence of traditional finance, fintech, and decentralized technologies. Key Rankings Across Categories The 2026 list places Coinbase at the top of centralized exchanges, edging out Binance, which secured second place. This shift reflects Coinbase’s continued regulatory compliance efforts and expansion into institutional services, while Binance faces ongoing scrutiny in multiple jurisdictions. In the Traditional Finance (TradFi) category, Franklin Templeton claimed…

Bitcoin whale activity is seeing a resurgence that could prove net positive for an asset that has failed to convincingly clear the $82,000 level for weeks. However, buying volume across the broader market remains thin, tempering the immediate outlook. Whales are investors who control large amounts of liquidity and whose actions can materially shift the supply-demand dynamics of an asset. Their counterpart in the market is retail investors, who typically operate as short-term holders with a lower conviction threshold and a greater tendency to sell during volatility. Whale-to-retail ratio hits a 9-month high The Bitcoin [BTC] whale-to-retail ratio has recorded…

MIAMI – Coinbax won the $20,000 grand prize at Consensus Miami’s PitchFest after pitching a system designed to help banks and financial firms manage compliance for stablecoin payments. The company, founded by former Jack Henry executive Peter Glyman, builds programmable escrow infrastructure that adds controls to wallet-to-wallet crypto transactions. The software is meant to reduce the risks financial institutions face when moving funds onchain. “Banks want to use stablecoins for payments, but they need to get their compliance people comfortable with the idea of moving money onchain,” Glyman said during his presentation. He described a future where “wallet addresses [are]…

Infrastructure and Adoption: Ripple Custody is consolidating in Europe with key integrations such as that of the Italian banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo in April 2026. Market Context: While Las Vegas celebrates the $XRP ecosystem conference, London points out that actual execution has displaced regulatory speculation. Asset Data: The $XRP token is currently trading around $1.38, maintaining a market capitalization of over $85 billion. Ripple’s Managing Director for the UK and Europe, Cassie Craddock, recently stated that $XRP adoption in Europe has moved from pilot projects to real and scalable operational production. Digital asset adoption has moved from pilot to production.…

An address linked to the collapsed FTX exchange and its trading arm Alameda Research has unstaked 200,241 Solana ($SOL), valued at approximately $12.99 million, according to on-chain analytics platform Onchain Lens. The transaction, recorded roughly 32 minutes before the report, is the latest in a series of movements from wallets associated with the bankrupt crypto empire. Pattern of Asset Disposal Data from blockchain trackers indicates that the recently unstaked $SOL is likely to be split across multiple intermediary addresses before being deposited on major exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance. This pattern has been observed in previous movements from FTX/Alameda-linked…

Bitcoin has traded in a tight range around $80,000 to $82,000 as of mid-May 2026. After reclaiming the $80,000 level early in the month, the price has consolidated following a recovery from lower levels seen earlier in 2026. Technical analysis shows a narrowing pattern that could lead to a breakout or pullback, while experts who spoke in the past 30 days point to potential upside toward $85,000 soon and above $100,000 by year-end under base-case scenarios. What Does Bitcoin’s Recent Price Action Reveal? Bitcoin climbed from roughly $78,000 in late April to peaks near $82,500 in early May before settling…

The market for real world assets (RWAs) is really taking off now that big investors are getting involved. CoinGecko latest report shows that tokenized real world assets are worth $19.3 billion at the end of the first quarter of 2026. It is one of the most impressive growth stages for blockchain financial products, marking a significant surge. INSIGHT: RWAs have more than tripled in market cap since 2025 — hitting $19.3B by the end of Q1 2026.While only 6.4% compared to the size of stablecoins, RWAs growth outpaced stablecoins over the last year, climbing up from 2.7% at the beginning…

What is LayerZero? LayerZero is cross-chain messaging infrastructure. It lets applications send data, tokens, and instructions between blockchains without forcing users to rebuild the same position on every network. The official $ZRO post describes LayerZero as an omnichain interoperability protocol built around censorship-resistant messages and permissionless development through immutable Endpoints. Before $ZRO launched, LayerZero said the protocol had processed more than 130 million messages, handled over $50 billion in volume, and supported more than 70 blockchains. This is not a small testnet farm. LayerZero Labs raised $120 million in a Series B round at a $3 billion valuation, with backers…

Greece’s Finance Ministry is drafting a bill that would impose a 15% capital gains tax on cryptocurrency profits. The information was reportedly shared with Reuters by some government officials. If the bill is passed, it would bring digital assets into the country’s formal tax code for the first time. It is expected to reach parliament in the coming months. A tax-free threshold and carve-outs for individual miners The planned regime includes a 500-euro ($580) exemption on gains, meaning residents would owe nothing on their first profits up to that amount, according to one of the officials. Individual cryptocurrency miners would…