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Coinbase said Tuesday it had chosen Centrifuge as its preferred tokenization infrastructure and made a strategic investment in the firm. Under the deal, Centrifuge is positioned to serve as the default issuance layer for tokenized assets across Coinbase’s ecosystem, including products on Base. The first wave of institutional assets is expected to launch on Base in the coming weeks, the firms said. Coinbase’s push into tokenized capital markets spans ETFs, credit and structured products. The Centrifuge deal gives Coinbase an infrastructure partner for outside asset managers that want to issue products onchain, though it doesn’t appear to be exclusive. Coinbase…

Recent claims suggesting that $XRP has already been classified as a financial instrument in Japan are inaccurate, according to $XRP community figure Crypto Eri. In a tweet, she addressed what she described as growing misinformation among financial influencers regarding $XRP’s classification in Japan. Key Point $XRP is not yet classified as a financial instrument in Japan, despite rising misinformation online. Japan’s FSA is proposing new rules that could reclassify crypto assets under the FIEA by 2027. The changes aim to tighten oversight as crypto adoption grows and fraud cases increase. Meanwhile, the U.S. SEC has classified $XRP as a digital…

Blockchain.com, a crypto wallet and exchange founded in 2011, announced the launch of SnapMarkets, a platform that lets users wager on whether bitcoin’s price will rise or fall in 30-second windows, on Wednesday. Stakes start at $1 in what the company calls a skill-based version of prediction markets. The launch comes as prediction markets surge, with market leaders Polymarket and Kalshi seeing a combined notional trading volume close to $24 billion in April. The market as a whole saw $29 billion in volume that month, Dune data shows. That includes event markets across categories such as sports, politics and finance.…

Pavel Durov posted a chart this week that is worth looking at twice. According to Chainspect’s May 2026 data, $TON sits at 0.6 seconds to finality, beating Avalanche (1 sec), BNB Smart Chain (1.1 sec), $SUI (1.5 sec), Hedera (2.5 sec), XRP Ledger (4 sec), and Solana (13 sec). Bitcoin and Ethereum do not even appear competitive on this metric, sitting at 1 hour and 13 minutes respectively. Why Now The timing of Durov’s post is not random. In April, $TON deployed its Catchain 2.0 consensus upgrade, cutting block times from roughly 2.5 seconds down to 400 milliseconds and boosting…

Ethereum is trading around $2,350 today with a live market cap near $281 billion and more than $20 billion in 24‑hour volume, sitting far below its $4,955 all‑time high but well above the sub‑$1,000 lows of the last bear market. Ethereum ($ETH) is changing hands near $2,350 on May 7, 2026, with CoinMarketCap putting the live price at about $2,349 per $ETH and a 24-hour decline of roughly 2.5%. That level gives $ETH a market capitalization of about $281.5 billion, securing its position as the second-largest crypto asset behind bitcoin, with a circulating supply just over 120 million $ETH. Data…

A new CAD stablecoin has officially entered the Canadian financial system following regulatory approval in Alberta. Tetra Trust Company unveiled CADD, a one-to-one Canadian dollar-backed token delivered under a governed financial system. CADD is now live on Base, Ethereum, and Tempo network systems, with plans aiming to extend to Solana. CAD stablecoin brings regulated settlement infrastructure The CAD stablecoin allows Canadian dollars to settle on-chain with near-instant finality. This adds to a new branch to Canada’s legacy payment systems, which processes about $424B in daily transactions through a standard system created decades ago. The introduction of ongoing payment networks allows…

The Shiba Inu ecosystem is advancing its blockchain infrastructure as developers begin early testing of a Layer-3 (L3) explorer built on Shibarium. Popular Shibarium-based decentralized exchange WoofSwap is leading this effort under the ShibClaw initiative, signaling a shift toward greater scalability, automation, and improved network performance. Key Points The Shiba Inu ecosystem advances its infrastructure as developers begin testing a new Layer-3 blockchain on Shibarium. The blockchain is being developed under the ShibClaw initiative, signaling a shift toward scalability and automation. With testing live, WoofSwap refrained from providing detailed technical information about the network. The L3 network builds directly on…

Morgan Stanley is expanding its digital assets push by rolling out crypto trading on its E*Trade platform, positioning the offering as a lower-cost option to established retail crypto services. The bank is currently running a pilot that charges the E*Trade users a fee of 50 basis points on transaction value, according to Bloomberg. That’s notably lower cost than other major players, including Coinbase, Robinhood and Charles Schwab, which charge 60 to 95 basis points. Morgan Stanley’s Head of Wealth Management, Jed Finn, said the initiative goes beyond offering cheaper crypto trading and is aimed at “disintermediating the disintermediators,” framing it…

AI agents will become more relevant than humans on the internet within the next decade, a shift already already forcing Google, Facebook and Amazon to react, said Charles Hoskinson. In his keynote at Consensus Miami 2026 on Wednesday, Hoskinson also said that “by 2035, the majority of searches, commerce and activity on the internet will be AI agents instead of people.” He said the change threatens existing business models. “Amazon, Google, Facebook, they’re terrified of the agentic revolution,” Hoskinson said, adding that companies are investing heavily because “all of their business models are going to be disrupted.” AI Agents do…