Brian Armstrong, chief executive of Coinbase, is scheduled to meet with Republican senators on Wednesday ahead of a pivotal Senate Banking Committee vote on the CLARITY Act expected Thursday, according to reports circulating among crypto policy observers and congressional staff. The meetings come during one of the most consequential weeks yet for U.S. cryptocurrency regulation,
Aptos Labs announced plans to launch a native Encrypted Mempool designed to protect user transaction intent from frontrunning, censorship and order-flow leakage, marking one of the most significant infrastructure-level privacy upgrades introduced by a major blockchain network in recent years. The feature remains subject to governance approval. According to Aptos, the encrypted mempool will conceal
The Ethereum Foundation said developers have achieved major milestones for the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade while reorganizing leadership within its Protocol Cluster as the network accelerates work on scalability, MEV reduction and long-term infrastructure modernization. According to the Foundation’s May 2026 Protocol Cluster update, developers advanced testing and interoperability work during a recent engineering event held
Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments has submitted a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to convert its existing Zcash Trust into a spot exchange-traded fund, a move that would create the first publicly traded spot ETF tied to a privacy coin if approved. The proposed fund would provide institutional and retail investors regulated
U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds returned to positive territory on May 11, recording approximately $27.2 million in net inflows after two consecutive sessions of outflows. The reversal came as Bitcoin continued consolidating above the $80,000 level amid renewed institutional activity and improving sentiment tied to pending U.S. crypto legislation. According to flow data from Farside
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX and chief investment officer at Maelstrom, said Bitcoin has likely completed its latest corrective phase at the $60,000 level and could advance toward $126,000 in the next leg of the market cycle. Hayes linked his outlook to expectations of expanding dollar liquidity, slowing quantitative tightening pressures, and
What Did Prosecutors Allege? A federal grand jury has indicted three men over an alleged robbery spree that targeted cryptocurrency holders across several California cities and led to the theft of roughly $6.5 million in digital assets. The defendants, Elijah Armstrong, Nino Chindavanh, and Jayden Rucker, allegedly conspired to kidnap and rob victims in San
Why Are Ord.io and Zap Closing Down? Bitcoin Ordinals explorer Ord.io and its associated trading app Zap will shut down on June 1 after their creators cited financial constraints and weak user traction. Leonidas King, creator of Ord.io, said the projects had reached a dead end financially. “In the end we ran out of money
Why Are Major Mining Pools Joining Stratum V2? Seven major Bitcoin mining pools have joined the Stratum V2 working group to develop an open communication standard between mining pool operators and individual miners. AntPool, Block Inc., F2Pool, Foundry, MARA Foundation, SpiderPool, and DMND have joined the effort, bringing some of the largest players in Bitcoin
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has officially signaled a strategic shift for the network, identifying Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Payments as the essential next standard for the global digital economy. In a research post published on May 10, 2026, Buterin argued that for crypto-payments to achieve mass adoption, they must move beyond “pseudonymity” toward “default privacy,” particularly in