Solayer has introduced a Visa-compatible payment card that lets users spend USDC through online, in-store and contactless purchases, with ATM withdrawals available in supported regions. The card can be ordered via the Solayer Pay app; existing users can request it for free, while new users pay a $20 annual activation fee.

A U.S. Army soldier placed a $32,537 wager on Polymarket at 3 a.m. on January 3, 2026, betting Nicolás Maduro would be removed within a month, and the position later paid out $436,000. He was indicted on April 24, 2026 and pleaded not guilty, highlighting that U.S. rules still lack a clear line between lawful information advantages and illegal use of material non-public information in crypto prediction markets.

THORChain said on 15 May it automatically detected abnormal activity and halted signing, pausing churn after one of its Asgard vaults was compromised. The exploit drained roughly $10.7 million to $10.8 million, with the protocol saying early signs indicate user funds were not directly impacted and losses were limited to protocol-owned funds. Separate commentary from Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet suggested the incident may relate to MPC/TSS signing infrastructure, though the root cause has not been confirmed.

CME and ICE are pushing U.S. regulators and lawmakers to apply existing financial rules to Singapore-domiciled, blockchain-based exchange Hyperliquid. They argue that anonymous trading on the platform could distort global oil pricing benchmarks and enable manipulation, and want it to register with the CFTC and add customer ID and surveillance controls.

THORChain halted trading on Friday morning following a cross-chain exploit estimated at over $10 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Base. RUNE fell about 10% within hours to $0.52 as the team also stopped on-chain signing as a precautionary step.

Grove has introduced Basin, a blockchain-based liquidity facility supported by firms including BlackRock and Janus Henderson, aimed at speeding up redemptions for tokenized Treasury funds. The system is designed to offer investors access to as much as $1 billion in stablecoin liquidity per day while traditional settlement continues in the background. BlackRock's $2.2 billion BUIDL and the $1.1 billion Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund (JTRSY) are the first connected products.

On May 14, Slowmist said three compromised node-ipc releases (9.1.6, 9.2.3, and 12.0.1) were found, putting projects across Web3 build pipelines at risk. The affected package averages more than 822,000 weekly npm downloads and includes an obfuscated 80 KB payload that can steal cloud credentials and .env secrets and exfiltrate them via DNS tunneling.

Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) said its treasury and strategic holdings totaled about $340 million as of May 12, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET, including indirect OpenAI exposure, Beast Industries equity, 283,452,700 WLD, 11,068 ETH, and roughly $129 million in cash and stablecoins. The company framed the positions around artificial intelligence, digital identity, and the creator economy, and highlighted recent signals around OpenAI product developments and rising estimates of non-human internet activity.