The Bank for International Settlements said on Wednesday that its Project Agora showed tokenization can improve wholesale cross-border payments, and confirmed the initiative will advance into a six-month operational trial using real money. The project uses multi-currency settlement with tokenized central bank reserves and tokenized commercial bank deposits, aiming to reduce delays that can stretch from one to five days or more.

Cardano wallets holding at least 1 million ADA have pushed their combined balance to the highest level since December 2017, as the group kept adding to positions. The cohort now holds 25.11 billion ADA, equal to 64.49% of circulating supply, while ADA was around $0.23 at the time of writing, down nearly 6% over the past week.

DEX activity has cooled sharply, with DEX volume down to $6.047 billion by 28 May after standing near $22 billion in late January 2026. Despite the broader slowdown, Uniswap ($1.428 billion), PancakeSwap ($805.97 million), and Aerodrome ($798.11 million) remained the top venues at press time. The pullback has coincided with week-on-week drops since the October 2025 crash and a crypto market-cap decline of more than 3% over the last 24 hours.

Bit Digital said it purchased about 8,568 ETH for $20 million on May 11, 2026, lifting its ethereum holdings to roughly 158,461.75 ETH. The Nasdaq-listed firm said the transaction aligns with a longer-term plan focused on disciplined ETH accumulation alongside AI infrastructure and potential acquisitions.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, has held several meetings with Hyperliquid as it assesses the onchain perpetual futures market, according to chair and CEO Jeffrey Sprecher. Speaking at a Bernstein conference on Wednesday, he said the talks were part of exploratory work and that ICE is pushing for a “level playing field” for 24/7 onchain derivatives activity.

Bitcoin fell about 5% from $76,000 to a one-month low of $72,589 after renewed U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, after trading around $77,000-$78,000 earlier in the week. Analysts highlighted a key support cluster between $73,000 and $71,300, warning that a break below $71,300 could extend losses toward the February base near $60,000. Others pointed to a potential Head and Shoulders setup with a neckline near $75,000, raising the odds of a move toward the range lows around $63,000.

Solstice Finance (SLX) is rapidly shaking off its post-Token Generation Event (TGE) volatility, staging a powerful 20% price rebound back into the $0.20–$0.23 range. The recovery is backed by explosive growth in platform fundamentals, leading to a milestone where Total Value Locked (TVL) officially crossed the $500 million mark.

The global tech landscape is witnessing one of the most explosive corporate rebirths in semiconductor history. SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), which successfully spun off from Western Digital in February 2025 to isolate its flash memory business from legacy hard disk manufacturing, has transformed into a market leader.