Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, a standalone account that lets AI assistants including ChatGPT and Claude execute crypto trades, manage portfolios, and pay for data autonomously under user-defined guardrails. x402 payments integration arrives next week.

The steward of the Cardano blockchain is seeding DeFi liquidity, backing an $80M venture fund and signing enterprise deals — a reversal of its hands-off posture that lands as onchain metrics fall and the network's founder feuds with it over governance.

Binance has activated its tokenized-equity layer, converting live stock positions on its brokerage platform into BNB Chain tokens tradable around the clock. The first five bStocks include Nvidia, Tesla, Circle, Micron, and Sandisk.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong disclosed three platform-scale metrics on Thursday: approximately $1 trillion in annual stablecoin movement, $20 billion in USDC held on platform, and more than 160 million autonomous transactions via the x402 agentic payments protocol in the last year.

Citigroup is making tokenized interests in private companies available to wealth-management and institutional clients on SIX Digital Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reported. The bank has already completed its first transaction and is in talks with additional private firms.

Delaware and New Jersey each advanced bills this week to ban cryptocurrency ATMs statewide, citing over $400 million in annual nationwide fraud losses and a scam pattern that disproportionately targets older residents.

Digital Asset has closed a $355 million funding round led by a16z crypto, with HSBC, Apollo, CME, BNP Paribas, ADIA, ABN Amro, S&P Global, Tradeweb and more than 20 other institutional names joining as investors.

The agreement with developer BHL Group is an early-stage memorandum of understanding, and the Alba Bay community is not slated to break ground until 2027

Binance's direct stock-trading platform drew more than 80% of its first-week volume from emerging markets, with assets under management crossing $400 million within seven days. The 2% share of TradFi-referenced perpetuals volume positions the June 1 launch as a distribution play for underserved retail users.

Kalshi opened more than 150 insider-trading investigations in the first quarter of 2026, blocked over 100 potential insider trades, and referred at least 20 cases to law enforcement. The CFTC-regulated prediction market paired the numbers Tuesday with a new risk-scoring framework, employment-verification requirements for traders on high-risk markets, and expanded whistleblower tools.