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Chairman Tom Lee said Ethereum’s recent price decline below $2,200 was “an attractive opportunity” as Bitmine added another 111,942 ETH, worth over $235 million as of Tuesday.With 5.39 million tokens, Bitmine is 89% complete with its plan to own 5% of Ethereum’s total supply.

Crypto investment products shed $1.47 billion last week, a second consecutive negative week and the third-largest weekly outflow of 2026 as Iran-linked risk-off deepened and spread across “virtually every region,” according to CoinShares.Bitcoin products accounted for $1.32 billion of those redemptions, the single worst week this year so far, compressing year-to-date BTC fund flows to $2.6 billion from $3.9 billion in seven days.

Coinbase has given $24.5m to Fairshake, while Armstrong added $1m personally.Fairshake has raised $85m so far, with major backing from a16z, Ripple and others.The PAC aims to shape U.S. crypto rules as Congress battles over regulation and market structure.

BMNR reports holding 5.39 million Ethereum (ETH) at an average entry of $2,134, plus $444 million in cash, for combined crypto, cash and “moonshot” assets of $12.3 billion.The company says it has staked roughly 4.71 million ETH—worth about $10.1 billion at recent prices—with expected annual staking income of $276 million at a 2.75% annualized yield.One listed corporate treasury now controls a low-single-digit slice of Ethereum’s supply and an even larger share of its active validator set, raising uncomfortable questions about network governance and consensus capture.

Markets bounced back on Trump's “largely negotiated” U.S.-Iran deal, but further airstrikes underscore the fragile geopolitical position.

Hyperliquid ETFs posted an 8-day inflow streak as the network’s native token HYPE hit a new all-time high Sunday.

Bitcoin funds recorded $1.315 billion in outflows, marking the largest weekly Bitcoin exit of 2026.Digital asset products lost $1.47 billion last week, extending two-week outflows to $2.54 billion.XRP, Near, Solana, Sui, and multi-asset products still attracted selective inflows despite weak sentiment.

Kelp DAO has completed the final operational step in its rsETH recovery plan after April’s $293 million exploit linked to Lazarus Group.Aave’s lending markets are still recovering after attackers used stolen rsETH as collateral to borrow wrapped Ether and leave nearly $190 million in bad debt.

Strategy bought no Bitcoin last week as Michael Saylor’s firm focused on bonds instead.BitMine also added no Ethereum after slowing purchases near its major ETH treasury target.Four public firms still bought 612 Bitcoin despite weaker stablecoin liquidity and DEX volumes.

Bubblemaps estimates the trader is down $128 million overall despite earlier nine figure winsThe whale reportedly made about $100 million shorting BTC in the October 10, 2025 flash crashSubsequent outsized ETH longs on Hyperliquid led to more than $200 million in realized lossesA linked wallet has now rotated into Hyperliquid again, buying $10 million of HYPE and shorting $38 million of ZEC

A third-party Gnosis Safe module carrying the Squid name drained approximately $3.2 million from 86 Safes across Ethereum and Base.Squid said it neither built nor deployed the contract and that its core protocol was unaffected.

Wadoozie, a narrative-driven Ethereum ERC-20 token with ticker $WADZ, launches on Uniswap on May 27 with no presale, no whitelist, and zero buy and sell tax.75% of the total supply is locked in a DAO-governed liquidity pool at launch, with the team’s 3% fully locked for 12 months and the contract renounced.The project distributes 576 Signal Fragments across all 48 contiguous US states, redeemable for $WADZ tokens in four prize tiers, tied to a physical touring schedule.

Bitcoin is holding below $78,000 on Monday after two consecutive weeks of billion-dollar spot ETF outflows, a weekend rattled by geopolitical tension, and a setback for tokenized stocks.Analysts said the institutional bid has not disappeared — XRP, Solana, and HYPE ETFs all pulled inflows in the same week bitcoin and ether products bled, pointing to rotation rather than exit.

The Ethereum-buying firm owns 3.8% of the digital asset’s supply.

RWA.xyz and recent market reports put tokenized RWA TVL (ex stablecoins) around $31 billion to $34 billion as of May 2026Ethereum hosts roughly 60 percent of RWA value, led by BlackRock’s BUIDL fund and Ondo Finance productsTokenized Treasuries sit near $15 billion in AUM, while commodities, private credit and tokenized stocks are the fastest growing segments

Brad Levy, CEO of ThetaRay, says compliance teams routinely lose visibility at blockchain bridges, the point where assets move between different chains.ThetaRay’s AI flagged a UK retail customer declared as a packer who received over £134,000 from 40 counterparties before executing regular crypto purchases.Levy says any bank with a fiat-to-crypto blind spot will face regulators treating it as a governance failure within the next 12 months.