The first two weeks of May delivered a $1 billion Kalshi Series F, Circle's $222 million Arc presale, a $600 million Kraken-Reap deal, Elliptic's $120 million Series D, a fresh OCC bank charter for Augustus, and GVFL's first institutional check into Indian blockchain firm Antier Solutions.
Humanity Protocol ($H) trades 64% below its ATH — but a Mastercard partnership, $50M in institutional backing, and a 2026 governance launch could reshape the decentralized identity narrative. Here's our full $H price prediction from 2026 to 2031.
93% of GameFi projects are dead, token values have collapsed 95% from 2022 peaks, and studio funding fell 93% by 2025 — Caladan's report confirms Web3 gaming burned $15 billion chasing speculators while gamers never arrived.
New interpretability research shows internal emotion-like signals causally push the model toward blackmail, reward hacking, and sycophancy — sometimes without any visible trace.
The first two weeks of May delivered a $1 billion Kalshi Series F, Circle's $222 million Arc presale, a $600 million Kraken-Reap deal, Elliptic's $120 million Series D, a fresh OCC bank charter for Augustus, and GVFL's first institutional check into Indian blockchain firm Antier Solutions.
Antier’s first institutional capital after over a decade of bootstrapped growth. It comes at a time when blockchain is increasingly being evaluated as a foundational layer for digital trust, verification, and financial infrastructure, particularly across public sector and BFSI use cases.
Dogecoin trades near $0.10 with a Nasdaq ETF live. Shiba Inu rolls out Layer-3 privacy. PENGU expands into Walmart and NASCAR. The CLARITY Act markup is set for May 14. Here are 10 meme coins to watch in 2026, ranked by market cap, with verifiable catalysts and honest risk flags.
LayerZero issued a public apology on Friday for the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, admitting its single-verifier setup should never have secured high-value cross-chain transactions. The reversal follows three weeks of blame-shifting and comes as Kelp migrates rsETH to Chainlink's CCIP.
OxPay Financial's subsidiary Oxygen7 received a full Financial Services Licence from Bhutan's Gelephu Financial Services Office on April 29, 2026, clearing the way for a regulated crypto payments and stablecoin remittance platform targeting GMC's tourism and B2B sectors.
