On May 4, decentralized finance protocol Aave filed an emergency motion to lift a restraining notice that has frozen $71 million in recovered ethereum.

Bullish agreed to buy Equiniti for $4.2 billion, aiming to connect digital assets with shareholder recordkeeping. The deal would create a global transfer agent for tokenized securities and includes $1.85 billion of assumed debt.

Bitcoin’s upside remains tied to macro stability as BTC trades near $81,000. Wintermute said strengthening on-chain data and ETF inflows have not yet confirmed an independent breakout.

Coinbase will cut about 700 employees as it restructures around weaker crypto market conditions and artificial intelligence-driven productivity gains. The company said the 14% workforce reduction is meant to manage expenses, streamline operations, and position Coinbase for the AI era.

Kraken and Moneygram are linking crypto balances to cash withdrawals through a global pickup network. The partnership supports local-currency payouts across hundreds of fiat currencies and more than 100 countries.

Online gambling operator Stake officially launched in Mexico on Monday, going live through stake.mx under a permit-based structure overseen by SEGOB, the Ministry of the Interior. The company is operating as an agent under a license agreement with intermediary firm Uno Capali, a structure commonly used in Mexico, where new federal gambling permits are rarely issued, and operators sublicense from existing permit holders.

Strategy reported a $12.54 billion net loss in the first quarter of 2026 as bitcoin valuation losses overwhelmed revenue growth and active financing. The quarter showed how its bitcoin treasury model can scale quickly while exposing investors to sharp earnings volatility.

Bitcoin surged past the $81,000 milestone for the first time in months, reaching an intraday peak of $81,714. Despite brief periods of volatility, the cryptocurrency maintained strong support above $81,500, marking a 7% weekly gain.

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Bitcoin and ether are recovering on fundamentally different supply and demand structures in 2026, according to a new Cryptoquant analysis. The divergence is now a key signal for whether a broader altcoin rally will follow.

U.S. bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $532 million in net inflows on May 4, marking the third consecutive day of positive flows, while U.S. ether spot ETFs added $61.29 million on the same day.

Circle shares surged nearly 20% on May 4, closing at $119.53, after U.S. Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks reached a bipartisan compromise on the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin rewards language.

A newly created Hyperliquid wallet deployed $1.31 million into a 6x leveraged long on toncoin (TON) on Tuesday, setting a liquidation floor at $1.4213 and drawing immediate attention from onchain tracking firms.

A trader closed a 700 bitcoin short position on Tuesday at a $1.94 million loss, erasing all $1.71 million in profits from 11 consecutive winning trades in a single position gone wrong.

Russia’s Moscow Exchange (Moex) will begin publishing four new cryptocurrency indexes for solana ( SOL), XRP, tron ( TRX), and BNB starting May 13, expanding its regulated crypto benchmark suite beyond bitcoin and ether for the first time.