Chainlink (LINK) is trading around $8.92 after falling about 9.7% over the past seven days, while price held a 24-hour band between $8.81 and $9.06. A Mastercard partnership rolling out a fiat-to-crypto routing gateway has renewed attention on adoption, but key levels remain $9.02 resistance and $8.85 support with the broader trend still bearish.

Sui reported a fresh mainnet network stall on May 29, only hours after the chain restarted from a prior outage linked to validator infrastructure. The earlier incident on May 28 lasted 5 hours and 55 minutes and recovery required >2/3 of validator stake to upgrade to a fix for a crash bug introduced in the 1.72 release.

On May 14, the Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act by a 15–9 vote, as the White House pushes for a July 4 signing timeline. With Republicans holding 53 seats and 60 votes needed for cloture, the bill would need seven Democratic or independent votes, while AML language, ethics concerns, and stablecoin reward provisions remain key sticking points.

Over the past seven days, crypto prices moved lower, with Bitcoin sliding from the $77,000–$78,000 area toward roughly $73,000 by Friday amid risk-off positioning. The week also featured heavy US spot Bitcoin ETF redemptions, including more than $1 billion in a single day, while Ethereum hovered near $2,000 as sentiment stayed cautious.

Fireblocks, Robinhood, and MetaMask have introduced the Open Transaction Layer (OTL), a shared standard intended to connect traditional finance and crypto participants. The initiative is designed to let MetaMask's 100 million users interact with tokenized equities and other institutional-grade assets from a self-custodial wallet, using common rails for identity, messaging, and transaction coordination.

Weekly charts captured on May 29, 2026 (10:39–10:42 UTC) show both gold and Bitcoin pulling back from cycle highs, with Parabolic SAR still sitting above price for each asset. Gold is shown at $4,541.89 versus a $5,598.13 peak, while Bitcoin is shown at $73,539 after topping at $126,296. The setup highlights weakening momentum in gold alongside early MACD improvement in Bitcoin, raising questions about whether capital may be rotating.

Paxos said it has received full SEC approval for Paxos Securities Settlement Company to operate as a registered clearing agency, enabling delivery-versus-payment clearing and same-day T+0 settlement for eligible U.S. equities. The firm framed the move as a shift that could put blockchain-based post-trade infrastructure in direct competition with incumbents such as the DTCC after a multi-year regulatory process.

VanEck has introduced what it calls the first U.S. spot BNB ETF, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker VBNB with a 0.39% management fee and BNB held in cold storage. CoinMarketCap flagged the announcement on May 28, as the broader crypto market faced pressure. A 30-day snapshot taken around 11:17 UTC on May 29, 2026 showed BNB closing at $640.13, up 1.8%, with a BTC-relative reading of ₿0.00869.