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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.

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.

Facet co-founder Tom Lehman pitched EIP-8182 for inclusion in Ethereum’s Hegota upgrade to enable native private ETH and ERC-20 transfers without fragmented anonymity sets.The proposal uses a UTXO-based design with no admin key, proxy, or pause mechanism, and supports transfers to any existing Ethereum address or ENS name with no privacy-specific format required.

New CPI market uses HIP 4 outcome contracts settled on BLS May 2026 CPI YoY releaseContracts trade as bounded probabilities in USDC, with early volume around $3,000 and open interest near $5,000Outcome markets sit alongside perpetuals under a unified margin system, blending crypto speed with tradfi macro events

Buterin revealed that 90% of his net worth is tied up in Ethereum.

Vitalik Buterin published a roughly 1,500-word post on X Sunday addressing the recent wave of departures and criticism around the Ethereum Foundation.Buterin said the EF is choosing “longevity over breadth,” selling less ETH and focusing exclusively on Ethereum’s “CROPS” properties of censorship/capture resistance, open source, privacy, and security.He stressed the post reflected only his personal view, not a board position, and said his own power within the organization “will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want.”

Bitcoin touched its lowest price in a month overnight following an awful week for ETFs, which shed over $1.25 billion this week.

A Manhattan federal judge on Friday modified a restraining notice that had barred Arbitrum DAO from moving 30,766 ETH (~$71 million) frozen after the April 18 Kelp DAO exploit.The judge cleared the way for an onchain governance vote to transfer the funds to a wallet controlled by Aave LLC.The order explicitly shields anyone who initiates, votes on, or participates in the transfer from being held in violation of the freeze.Aave agreed to be bound by the restraining notice as though it had been served directly, meaning the terrorism creditors’ claims on the funds survive the transfer.The court left the underlying dispute between exploit victims and North Korea terrorism judgment holders unresolved.

LayerZero published a blog post Friday apologizing for poor communication in the three weeks since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.LayerZero conceded it should not have allowed its DVN to act as a sole verifier for high-value transactions.The protocol attributed the attack to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, which it says compromised internal RPC nodes and DDoS’d external ones to forge a cross-chain message.LayerZero also disclosed a previously unreported incident from roughly three and a half years ago in which a multisig signer used their production hardware wallet to execute a personal trade.The company announced a series of security changes, including ending support for the 1/1 DVN configuration.

Morgan Stanley launched an E*Trade crypto pilot on May 6, charging 50 basis points per trade for Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana via infrastructure partner Zerohash.The 0.5% fee undercuts Charles Schwab at 75bps, Fidelity at 1%, and Coinbase retail fees that can exceed 0.5% depending on tier and payment method.All 8.6 million E*Trade clients are set to gain access later in 2026, alongside a proprietary digital wallet expected in the second half of the year.

Kalshi raised $1bn in a Series F round led by Coatue at a $22bn valuation, doubling the $11bn it achieved just five months ago.Institutional trading volume on the platform surged 800% in six months, while annualized trading volume tripled from $52bn to $178bn.Kalshi accounts for over 90% of US prediction market activity and reports $1.5bn in annualized revenue with two million monthly users.