Author: James Wilson
Defend American Jobs, a crypto-backed PAC linked to Fairshake, has spent more than $500,000 to support a Republican incumbent in Indiana ahead of the state’s primary. Summary Defend American Jobs spent about $514,000 on media to support Representative James Baird in Indiana’s 4th District, according to an FEC filing. Stand With Crypto has rated Baird as strongly supportive of digital assets after his votes on the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act. According to a filing submitted Saturday to the US Federal Election Commission, the PAC allocated about $514,000 for media backing Representative James Baird in Indiana’s 4th Congressional District,…
Brad Garlinghouse has warned that recent Senate progress on the CLARITY Act still leaves a narrow window for the bill to move forward. Summary Brad Garlinghouse said the CLARITY Act could lose momentum if the Senate does not act within the next two weeks. Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks reached a stablecoin yield compromise that removes a key hurdle in the bill’s progress. According to Brad Garlinghouse, the next two weeks will determine whether the digital asset market structure bill can advance, as delays risk pushing the issue into the political cycle ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. …
The Bullish acquisition of Equiniti, announced today, values the transfer agent at $4.2 billion Summary Bullish will acquire Equiniti, a transfer agent serving 3,000 major companies and 20 million shareholders, for $4.2 billion. The deal positions Bullish as the global infrastructure provider for tokenized securities at institutional scale. Equiniti’s existing shareholder registry network gives Bullish immediate reach into the ownership data that tokenized securities require. The Bullish acquisition of Equiniti, announced on May 5, positions the crypto exchange as a core piece of infrastructure for tokenized securities markets. Equiniti currently serves as a transfer agent for 3,000 major companies and…
Crypto asset ETPs just notched a fifth straight week of inflows, lifting five-week net flows above $4B and pushing AUM near $155B despite sharp midweek outflows. Summary CoinShares’ latest weekly report shows global crypto asset ETPs recorded $117.8 million in net inflows last week, marking a fifth consecutive positive week and pushing cumulative five-week inflows above $4 billion. Total assets under management now stand near $155 billion, but flows were highly volatile: $619 million in net outflows from Monday to Thursday flipped to a $117.8 million weekly inflow thanks to a single $737 million surge on Friday. Bitcoin products led…
Wall Street executives warned at Consensus 2026 that legacy markets built for slower trading are breaking under 24/7 crypto pressure. Summary Top executives at Consensus 2026 in Miami warned that traditional financial infrastructure was designed for human-paced, scheduled trading. Round-the-clock, machine-driven crypto activity is creating growing friction with settlement systems built for fixed market hours. The pressure is accelerating institutional demand for tokenized settlement, real-time clearing, and upgraded market infrastructure. Wall Street executives gathering at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 5 warned that traditional financial infrastructure was not built to absorb round-the-clock, machine-driven trading. As crypto markets operate continuously…
A Fairshake poll finds 45% of Americans call crypto too risky as industry PACs deploy over $100 million into midterms. Summary A Public First poll conducted for Politico found 45% of Americans say investing in cryptocurrency is not worth the risk. The same poll found 44% say AI is developing too fast, and two-thirds want Congress to impose strict oversight on artificial intelligence. Pro-crypto PAC Fairshake and pro-AI PAC Leading the Future have together deployed over $100 million in 2026 midterm races. A Politico poll conducted by Public First in April 2026 found that 45% of Americans say investing in…
Anthropic venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs will deliver enterprise AI tools to private equity-backed companies. Summary Anthropic is finalising a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman and Friedman to serve private-equity-backed companies. The platform will deliver AI tools across finance, operations, customer service, and enterprise software to PE portfolio companies. The announcement arrived on the same day OpenAI launched a rival enterprise AI joint venture valued at $10 billion. Anthropic is close to finalising a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman and Friedman, targeting private-equity-backed companies as its primary deployment market.…
GoMining’s GoBTC protocol promises instant authorization and on-chain Bitcoin settlement with a 0.2% merchant fee, positioning miner-run rails as a low-cost challenger to Visa and Mastercard. Summary Bitcoin mining company GoMining plans to launch GoBTC, a Bitcoin-native payments protocol built on top of its own block production, at the Consensus conference. GoBTC will offer instant authorization and settlement on the Bitcoin mainnet within a few hours, charging merchants a 0.2% fee — far below the roughly 1.5%–3.5% average for Visa and Mastercard. The company pitches the protocol as a direct challenge to incumbent card networks, using block space and mining…
K Wave Media reversed its $485 million Bitcoin treasury plan today, redirecting funds to AI data centres and GPUs Summary K Wave Media scrapped its $500 million Bitcoin treasury strategy and redirected approximately $485 million to AI data centres and GPU infrastructure. Shares fell 24% on the announcement, which also came with a company rebrand to Talivar Technologies, pending shareholder approval. CEO Ted Kim called the reversal “a defining inflection point,” making K Wave one of the most abrupt corporate Bitcoin strategy pivots on record. K Wave Media scrapped its Bitcoin treasury strategy on May 5 and redirected the capital…
Pi Network co-founders took the Consensus 2026 stage in Miami, six days before Protocol 23 activates on May 11 Summary Dr. Chengdiao Fan spoke at Consensus 2026 on May 6 on aligning Web3, AI, and blockchain for utility at the Convergence Stage. Nicolas Kokkalis joined a May 7 panel on proving human identity online without exposing personal data. Both sessions are timed to build momentum ahead of Pi Network’s Protocol 23 launch, which activates on May 11. Pi Network co-founders Dr. Chengdiao Fan and Nicolas Kokkalis both appeared at Consensus 2026 in Miami this week, speaking to over 20,000 attendees…