ExchangesRegulationKraken Acquires Bitnomial to Expand US Crypto DerivativesKraken announced the acquisition of Bitnomial, a US-regulated cryptocurrency derivatives platform, to strengthen its dom...May 4, 2026, 11:03 AMKrakenBitnomial
RegulationXRP Treasury Evernorth Adds OpenAI CFO Robert Kaiden to BoardEvernorth Holdings, an XRP-focused treasury company, named Robert Kaiden, CFO of the OpenAI Foundation, as a board nomin...May 4, 2026, 09:02 AMEvernorth HoldingsArmada Acquisition Corp. II
RegulationCFTC Receives 1,500+ Comments on Prediction Market Event Contract RulesThe CFTC's comment period on its March proposal for prediction market event contracts closed Thursday with over 1,500 pu...May 4, 2026, 06:01 AMCFTCPrediction Markets
AdoptionRegulationNYSE Files Rule Change to Enable Tokenized Stock Trading Under DTC PilotThe New York Stock Exchange filed a rule change with the SEC on Tuesday to permit tokenized equities and ETFs through th...May 4, 2026, 06:01 AMNYSEDTC
RegulationStablecoinsCoinbase: Senate Deal on Stablecoin Rewards May Advance CLARITY ActCoinbase said Tuesday that a Senate compromise on stablecoin rewards language could unblock the CLARITY Act's path to co...May 4, 2026, 04:13 AMCoinbaseCLARITY Act
StablecoinsRegulationBlackRock Urges OCC to Lift Tokenized Reserve Restrictions as BUIDL Gains TractionBlackRock called on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to remove caps on tokenized reserves and expand the ra...May 3, 2026, 10:03 AMBlackRockOCC
RegulationA16z Backs CFTC Against State Prediction Market BansAndreessen Horowitz has sided with the CFTC in opposing state-level bans on prediction markets, as platforms like Kalshi...May 3, 2026, 08:02 AMAndreessen HorowitzCFTC
RegulationSenate Unanimously Bans Members and Staff From Trading on Prediction MarketsThe US Senate voted unanimously to prohibit senators and their staff from trading on political prediction market platfor...May 3, 2026, 03:28 AMUS SenatePolymarket
AdoptionRegulationRakuten Enables XRP Conversion for Loyalty Points Ahead of Japan Tax ReformRakuten has begun allowing customers to convert loyalty points into XRP as Japanese policymakers review a proposal to cu...May 2, 2026, 02:03 AMRakutenXRP
