Babylon Labs and Gomining have announced plans to integrate their infrastructure, allowing bitcoin holders to lock their BTC into the former’s trustless vaults and earn native mining rewards from Gomining’s operations, all without wrapping, bridging, or surrendering custody of their coins.

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Following a $300 million exploit on April 18, 2026, KelpDAO has publicly challenged LayerZero Labs’ account of the incident, alleging that the bridge provider is deflecting blame for its own infrastructure failures.

The two international crude benchmarks recovered after falling hard in the early morning when President Trump reiterated that his Administration was nearing a peace agreement with Iran. The catalyst? The alleged establishment of the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” to oversee Hormuz’s transit.

A trader deposited roughly 500,000 USDC into the decentralized perpetuals platform Hyperliquid early Wednesday and leveraged it 40 times, opening a $20.32 million bitcoin short with a liquidation threshold sitting at $82,236, just over 1% above bitcoin’s current trading level.

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Privacy trading infrastructure Gh0st has officially launched on BNB Chain, deploying a multi-wallet orchestration system that severs the onchain link between a user’s primary address and their actual trade execution.

On Wednesday morning, bitcoin roared past $82,000, marking a 7% since the beginning of the month and pushing its market capitalization to $1.64 trillion.

Gomining, one of the world’s top-10 bitcoin miners with five million users, has unveiled GoBTC at Consensus Miami 2026, an open payment protocol delivering instant authorization and onchain bitcoin settlement within 12 hours, at a 0.2% merchant fee.

Zcash soared more than 40% on May 6, hitting a $600 peak and briefly propelling its market capitalization to $10 billion.

Binance has rolled out a new safety feature called ‘Withdraw Protection,’ letting users freeze outgoing transfers from their accounts for up to seven days, a direct response to a global surge in violent physical attacks targeting crypto holders.

Michael Saylor has signaled that Strategy, the world’s largest corporate bitcoin holder, may sell a portion of its BTC to meet preferred stock dividend obligations, a significant departure from the firm’s founding promise to never liquidate its cryptocurrency reserves.

Zano is set to open native ZANO to EVM networks, TON, and Solana through a non-custodial bridging mechanism tied to its upcoming Hard Fork 6, slated for Q2 2026.

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.