Why can Latin American banks no longer ignore cryptocurrencies?

For decades, the channels for sending money across Latin American borders have operated under the same script: processes that take days and corporate commissions that bite into pockets. However, this scenario of financial friction is changing as conventional banks discover that they can no longer ignore the digital asset ecosystem if they want to retain … Read more

Bitwise launches hyperliquid ETF with its own staking

Asset management firm Bitwise launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) today, May 15, 2026. The instrument is called Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF and trades under the symbol BHYP on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). So far in its first trading day, the BHYP has already report capital inflows reaching $750,000. The fund is based on … Read more

Trump reveals investments in bitcoin and cryptocurrency companies

Among the investments made by Trump, Strategy, Coinbase and MARA stand out. The statement includes Melania Trump and the president’s dependent children. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, maintains financial exposure to companies in the bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency sector through the purchase of shares in key companies in the sector. According to … Read more

Bitdeer Triples Bitcoin Mining Revenue, But Reports Losses

Bitdeer recorded an increase of approximately 169% in revenue year-on-year, The company went from a net profit of 105.3 million to a loss of 159.5 million dollars. Bitdeer Technologies Group, a Bitcoin mining company, presented its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2026, which showed strong revenue growth driven by the expansion of … Read more

Kraken migrates its kBTC tokenized bitcoin infrastructure to Chainlink

The current cross-chain provider, LayerZero, is deprecated. Chainlink is the world’s leading decentralized oracle network. Kraken exchange will migrate the cross-network infrastructure of kBTC, its tokenized bitcoin (BTC), to Chainlink CCIP. With this change, you will no longer use LayerZero as an interoperability provider for your assets. wrapped (wrapped). According to reported on May 14, … Read more

With the Clarity Law approved in the Senate Banking Committee, what comes next?

Approval in the Banking Committee is the penultimate stage before it becomes law. There are estimates that Clarity will be enacted before the summer recess, in August. The regulatory path for cryptocurrencies in the United States reached a turning point following the approval of the Clarity Act in the Senate Banking Committee. With a vote … Read more

Community celebrates visit of Coinbase co-founder to Venezuela

On social networks there is a mix of expectation, skepticism and criticism. Venezuela has one of the most active cryptocurrency communities in Latin America. The visit of Fred Ehrsam, co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of Coinbase, to the Bank of Venezuela (BDV) this Wednesday, May 13, is generating a wide debate on … Read more

Aave reactivates rsETH after Kelp DAO hack

Aave reactivated the rsETH markets on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Linea and Mantle this May 14, 2026, once again allowing withdrawals and operations with the token after almost three weeks of freezing caused by the Kelp DAO hack. The measure returns access to users who kept funds or collateral locked in rsETH and comes after Aave, … Read more

Clarity Bill is finally approved by the Banking Committee

After a session that kept the entire financial ecosystem in suspense, the Senate Banking Committee, made up of 13 Republicans and 11 Democrats, voted in favor of the Clarity Bill (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act). The final bipartisan vote was 15-9, with Senators Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks joining Republicans to move the bill forward … Read more

USDC becomes the official liquidity base of the Hyperliquid network

Hyperliquid stops relying on a niche solution to integrate into the Coinbase ecosystem. The user migration process from USDH to USDC promises to be “problem-free.” Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, has announced this May 14, 2026 its official integration with Hyperliquid to make USDC stablecoin its main aligned trading asset (AQA, … Read more