ICE CEO Jeff Sprecher said he has met several times over the past month with the Hyperliquid team to discuss possible business collaboration, and described the DEX as "bigger than Nasdaq." The remarks follow reported meetings by ICE and CME executives with CFTC officials in Washington raising concerns about Hyperliquid's offshore structure and its 24/7 oil perpetuals, which were said to average more than $1 billion in daily volume.

Paxos said Thursday that its unit Paxos Securities Settlement Company (PSSC) was registered by the U.S. SEC as a clearing agency under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The firm said the registration lets PSSC provide clearing and settlement services for eligible securities trades and described itself as the first blockchain-native company to receive the license.

On May 27, Stake DAO said its Arbitrum deployment was hit by an infinite-mint exploit that inflated vsdCRV supply by 5.4 trillion units, with some reports estimating about $91,000 drained from affected pools. The team disabled the vsdCRV bridge and said Ethereum mainnet backing funds were secured, while the Arbitrum asdCRV Llamalend market will be permanently sunset.

DxSale suffered a $7.3 million drain affecting 1,400 BNBChain LPs after attackers targeted legacy liquidity pools locked in 2021. Investigators say 2,958 BNB ($1.87 million) was funneled to two main wallets and later routed to multiple Binance deposit addresses, while other findings have fueled allegations of insider-level access.

Sui's blockchain experienced a major disruption on May 28 when block production stopped, leaving transactions unable to process for about 6 hours and 44 minutes. The last pre-outage block was recorded around 21:48 UTC+8, and on May 29 at 04:32 UTC+8 Sui said a patch had been adopted by over two-thirds of stake, allowing consensus and normal block generation to resume.

Sui’s mainnet stopped producing blocks for 5 hours and 55 minutes on May 29 after a bug introduced in the Sui 1.72 release triggered a network stall. During the interruption, DeFi activity effectively froze and SUI fell about 6.6% to $0.90 before recovering after service resumed. The core team said patches were deployed and that a full incident review will be shared in the coming days.

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.

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.