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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, May 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a sovereign Layer 1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives trading, has officially commenced the operation of its L1 Mainnet, signaling a definitive end to the era of trade execution compromised by general-purpose blockchain congestion. Engineered for the world’s most demanding participants, AFX introduces the Sovereign Trading Layer—a dedicated financial environment where the non-custodial transparency of a Perp DEX meets the uncompromising speed and depth traditionally reserved for institutional-grade centralized entities. At launch, the protocol supports a high-liquidity suite of perpetual markets across both digital and traditional macro assets, featuring BTC, ETH, Gold…

Digital asset adoption is moving into a more practical phase. The question is no longer which exchange has the loudest retail brand. It is which platform can give brokers, fintechs, institutions, and traders the infrastructure to connect with digital asset markets at scale. KuCoin is nominated for Leader in Digital Asset Adoption and Best Trading Infrastructure at the BeInCrypto Institutional 100 Awards 2026. Adoption MetricLast Verified DataRegistered users40M+Active footprint200+ countries and regionsBroker and fintech partners1,000+Regulatory footprintAUSTRAC registration, MiCAR-CASP via KuCoin EUPayment productsKuCoin Pay, KuCard KuCoin Institutional Infrastructure Snapshot The nomination reflects KuCoin’s shift from a retail trading venue to a…

Recently, Yuga Labs has become keen on making collections and art linked to its NFT projects easily accessible to collectors. The latest step in this direction is the launch of a peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace for collectibles tied to the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection. According to a tweet announcing the launch, the BAYC P2P marketplace will allow participants to directly buy and sell apparel, collectibles, art, and weird one-offs from the NFT club. While buyers do not need to hold a BAYC or Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) to buy from the marketplace, their purchases must be made in ApeCoin…

Daily analysis of crypto markets and the forces shaping them, from the Nexo research desk.Bitcoin holds gains as Senate Banking advances Clarity ActBitcoin remains close to $81,000 in the early hours of Friday, holding most of the rally that followed Thursday’s bipartisan 15-9 Senate Banking Committee vote to advance the Clarity Act. The bill now heads to the full Senate, where it still needs to reconcile with the version the House passed last summer before reaching the President’s desk. Across the board, crypto is capped by a darkening macro setup for risk assets, U.S. Treasury yields are pushing higher, the…

In brief Drake referenced imprisoned FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on a new song, appearing to call for his release. The lyric appeared on one of three albums Drake released Friday, which critics largely panned. Though Bankman-Fried and his family have pushed for a pardon, President Trump has downplayed the possibility. After years in exile following a brutal rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, Drake is back, and he has a message: free Sam Bankman-Fried.The rapper released three albums simultaneously on Friday, featuring 43 new songs. One of those tracks, “Dust,” from the album Iceman, includes an apparent appeal to pardon FTX’s…

Sentiment around Bitcoin’s near-term price direction has picked up as momentum builds behind the US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the crypto industry with greater regulatory clarity, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment.“Bitcoin has seen a major spike of euphoria across social media following news that the Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act in a 15–9 bipartisan vote,” Santiment said in an X post on Friday.“This brings BTC and crypto one step closer to being ultimately passed,” Santiment said.Crypto analysts are staying optimisticBitcoin often sees increased optimism around major industry and macro catalysts, and the US CLARITY Act…

The US Dollar Index (DXY) is breaking out toward 101 after forming a double bottom on the daily chart. Historically, that move would have weighed on Bitcoin (BTC) price. But 2026 correlation data tells a different story. Bitcoin trades near $80,605, up 0.97% over 24 hours and 8.71% over the past 30 days. The question now is whether dollar strength still drives BTC price, or if Bitcoin moves on its own fundamentals. The Long-Term Inverse Correlation Still Carries Weight For more than a decade, the DXY and Bitcoin have generally moved in opposite directions. Data from Bitcoin Counterflow dates back…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto On-chain investigator ZachXBT has escalated his accusations against LAB, alleging that insiders likely control more than 95% of the token’s supply after a rally that pushed its fully diluted valuation to roughly $6 billion. The claims center on opaque private loans, OTC deals, changing vesting terms, market-maker coordination and what he described as a retail-facing market structure where key supply information is visible to insiders but not ordinary traders. The latest thread is not ZachXBT’s first warning on LAB. On May 7, he publicly accused LAB…

New York, USA, May 15th, 2026, Chainwire E Estate Group Inc. announced that it will host E-Estate 1 Year Live: Washington DC Summit on June 13, 2026, bringing together company leadership, agents, buyers, strategic partners, and guests interested in the future of blockchain-based real estate ownership. The summit will take place at The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. and will mark one year since the launch of the E-Estate platform. The event is designed as a milestone gathering for the E-Estate ecosystem and a broader discussion on how real estate tokenization is moving from early adoption into structured infrastructure. The…

Eightco treasury composition as of May 12, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $129M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $340 million World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes New independent data shows OpenAI’s coming social network will land in a category already 15–43% non-human, reinforcing demand for Worldcoin’s Proof of Human network New data shows that bot, AI-generated, and inauthentic activity now ranges from 15% to 75% of activity across eight core internet domains, including 75% of Polymarket trading volume, 53% of…