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US President Donald Trump made noteworthy remarks about the new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh at a ceremony held at the White House. Trump said Warsh “will be remembered as one of the best Fed chairmen in history.” In his speech, Trump argued that he wanted Warsh to act independently, saying, “Don’t look at me, do your own job.” The US President also maintained that the Fed would make its decisions completely independently and that Warsh would restore the institution’s reputation. Trump, also commenting on the economy, said that economic growth does not necessarily mean inflation. Referring to the rise…

Near Protocol just solved one of blockchain’s most annoying scaling problems: the part where humans have to manually intervene every time the network needs more room. The project announced dynamic resharding, an upgrade arriving in June 2026 that lets the network automatically spin up new shards whenever existing ones get too full. The market’s reaction was immediate. $NEAR’s native token surged roughly 27% to 30% within 24 hours, trading around $2.24 to $2.27 and making it one of the best-performing large-cap tokens in the period. What dynamic resharding actually does Think of shards like lanes on a highway. When traffic…

United States House Representative Nick Begich of Alaska has introduced the American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA), legislation designed to write President Donald Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into permanent statute and insulate the federal government’s Bitcoin holdings from being unwound by a future administration. ARMA seeks to do for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve what the CLARITY and GENIUS Acts are designed to do for the crypto market structure and stablecoins, which is to codify the framework so it survives the next election. Begich, in a statement on X, said the bill would protect digital reserve assets “from the whims of Congress…

South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange, Bithumb, has severed ties with Heleket, a global cryptocurrency payment processor, due to anti-money laundering and terrorism financing risks. The news arrives as Bithumb works to improve its compliance record after South Korean regulators dropped a 36.8 billion won ($24.6 million) fine against the exchange earlier this year for processing tens of thousands of transactions through unregistered foreign platforms. Why did Bithumb cut ties with Heleket? The decision to drop Heleket was not random. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs published research last month assessing “with high confidence” that Heleket and Cryptomus, a Russia-linked payment processor,…

ChimpX, a next-gen AI-centric blockchain company, has collaborated with Aivive, an AI-powered Web3 creative platform. The partnership attempts to boost the future of AI-led creative networks on-chain. As ChimpX revealed in its official announcement on X, the move is set to merge AI-driven creativity with decentralized technologies to unlock unique opportunities to assist blockchain communities and creators. Thus, the joint effort brings together programmable scarcity, on-chain economic models, and AI-powered content creation. PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT 🤝@ChimpxAI × @AIVIVEHQ Aivive is building the first Recursive AI Protocol (RAP) combining AI creation, on-chain economics, and programmable scarcity into one ecosystem.⚡️AI-native creative platform⚡️ Weekly…

Bitcoin may be entering a new period of outperformance against traditional assets as inflation pressures persist and bond markets weaken, according to Risk Dimensions chief investment officer Mark Connors. Connors, who spent years as the global head of portfolio management at Credit Suisse, said bitcoin recently broke out of what had been its longest stretch of underperformance against the S&P 500 in history, a 142-day period that ended in early May. “I think bitcoin’s underperformance versus markets is over,” Connors said in an interview. “It’s in the consolidation phase [that] has shifted into an outperformance phase.” The shift comes as…

A tiny island territory with a population smaller than most college towns is attempting something no nation has pulled off: running its entire economy onchain. Bermuda’s Premier David Burt is working with Circle to turn that vision into reality, with $USDC, Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, serving as the digital plumbing. The effort isn’t theoretical anymore. On May 6, 2026, during Consensus Miami, Burt confirmed that Bermuda is planning a second $USDC airdrop to residents and expanding merchant acceptance across the island. From Davos announcement to boots on the ground Back on January 19, 2026, Bermuda made its onchain economy pitch at…

Getting paid in stablecoins used to be a contractor thing. Deel just changed that. The global payroll and compliance platform has integrated Polygon to enable stablecoin salary payouts for full-time employees in the Eurozone and the United States. That’s a meaningful distinction: contractors have had access to crypto payment rails for a while now, but extending the same option to salaried employees, with all the tax withholding and compliance overhead that entails, is a different beast entirely. From contractors to full-time staff Deel already processes stablecoin payments for over 10,000 contractors spread across 100 countries. The Polygon integration takes that…

Christopher Giancarlo, the former chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) widely known as “Crypto Dad” for his progressive stance on digital assets, has joined Jefferies Financial Group as a senior advisor to its investment banking division, according to a report by Bloomberg. A Bridge Between Traditional Finance and Crypto Giancarlo’s appointment at Jefferies marks a significant move by the Wall Street investment bank to deepen its expertise in cryptocurrency and blockchain-related advisory services. During his tenure at the CFTC from 2014 to 2019, Giancarlo was a pivotal figure in the regulatory approval and oversight of Bitcoin futures…

$BNB Chain has tested a post-quantum cryptography upgrade for BSC, but the trial showed a clear cost: larger data loads and lower throughput. $BNB Chain released its BSC Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Report on May 14. The report said BSC tested post-quantum transaction signatures with ML-DSA-44 and used pqSTARK for consensus vote aggregation. The report said the migration can work with current BSC systems. It remains compatible with existing addresses, RPCs, SDKs, wallets, and transaction flows. That means users and builders would not need to change basic account formats if the design moves into production. $BNB Chain said, “Post-quantum readiness is…