Crypto ETF flows were mixed on Tuesday, May 26, with bitcoin and ether ETFs losing a combined $368.75 million as both ETFs extended their outflow streaks. Altcoin products softened the blow, led by $20.45 million into HYPE ETFs and $1.55 million into XRP ETFs, while solana ETFs saw no trading activity.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has endorsed a Kohaku wallet feature that automatically assigns users a unique blockchain address for every decentralized application ( dapp) they interact with, calling per- dapp address isolation “a really important place to start” in building meaningful onchain privacy.

Two spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking Hyperliquid’s HYPE token have set a new benchmark for altcoin fund debuts in the U.S., absorbing 1.04% of the token’s total market capitalization in their first 10 trading days, while a single wallet simultaneously withdrew $30.93 million in HYPE from Coinbase Prime.

Sharplink and Forward Industries are set to enter the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes on June 29. The additions could raise institutional visibility for two public companies built around large ethereum and solana treasury strategies.

The native token of the Rain prediction markets protocol (RAIN) surged 44% to an all-time high of $0.01195, pushing its market capitalization to $7.2 billion and placing it in the top 20 digital assets.

U.S. President Donald Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a high-level artificial intelligence (AI) advisory body co-chaired by crypto advocate and former White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks.

A permissionless exchange protocol called Exchange OS has gone live on OKX’s Xlayer network, allowing any developer to deploy spot markets, perpetual futures, and prediction markets on shared infrastructure, with Glassnode serving as the official onchain data provider.

Kenyan Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi dismissed widespread rumors that the Finance Bill 2026 introduces new taxes on cryptocurrency transactions.

A South African economist warns that the National Treasury’s proposed crypto regulations are an unenforceable attempt at state control that will ultimately backfire.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed two gambling-related bills on the final day of his decision window, banning online sweepstakes casinos and creating a new Class E felony for prediction market manipulation. The dual signing makes Tennessee the seventh U.S. state to outlaw sweepstakes casino operations and one of the first to criminalize the manipulation of prediction market contracts.

Binance is entering a Philippine SEC sandbox to test digital-asset services under local oversight. The supervised model pairs domestic compliance approval with Binance’s technology, security, operations, and regulatory experience.

President Donald Trump posted a public statement Tuesday defending the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) exclusive federal authority over prediction markets and warning that the United States must protect its position as the world’s leading crypto destination.

Ripple received Bay Area workplace recognition after 95% of surveyed employees described the crypto solutions company as a great workplace, extending its multiyear presence on Fortune’s regional workplace lists.

Grayscale says Elon Musk’s SpaceX could become the most valuable public company holding bitcoin after its expected IPO, while Strategy would likely remain the largest holder by BTC amount. Its S-1 filing lists 18,712 BTC under digital assets.

A $1.29 billion dark pool block trade in Blackrock’s Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) crossed Nasdaq on Tuesday morning, drawing immediate attention from institutional traders and crypto analysts tracking exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows.