Bitfinex traders added size into Bitcoin's five-day drop, pushing aggregate long positions to their highest level since late 2023.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitfinex-longs-2-5-year-high-btc-slide-may-2026/

AllUnity, the BaFin-licensed DWS-Galaxy-Flow Traders venture behind EURAU, plans a Swedish krona stablecoin and an AI agentic payments stack.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/allunity-swedish-krona-stablecoin-agentic-ai-payments-may-2026/

Stablecoin circulating supply crossed $323 billion for the first time, even as BTC sits flat at $77K and the Fear & Greed index reads Neutral at 40.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/stablecoin-supply-323b-all-time-high-may-2026/

Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to the OCC arguing nine national trust bank charter approvals for crypto firms breach the National Bank Act.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/warren-occ-national-trust-bank-charters-crypto-may-2026/

Value investor Duan Yongping, the founder behind BBK and Vivo, has opened his first equity position in USDC issuer Circle, signaling deeper traditional capital interest in stablecoin rails.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/duan-yongping-opens-circle-position-may-2026/

The CFTC asked a federal court to stop Minnesota from enforcing a new state law that bans prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket from operating.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cftc-sues-minnesota-prediction-markets-ban-may-2026/

Polymarket and Nasdaq Private Market launch contracts tied to private unicorn valuations and IPO timing, opening a $5 trillion pool to retail traders.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/polymarket-nasdaq-private-company-prediction-markets-may-2026/

Trump Media's Truth Social has withdrawn its spot Bitcoin ETF application from the SEC, removing one of the brand-name issuers from the pending queue.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/truth-social-withdraws-bitcoin-etf-filing-may-2026/

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories. CZ told developers to rotate API keys in code, including private repos.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/github-internal-repos-breach-cz-api-key-warning-may-2026/

Senator Cynthia Lummis outlined the procedural next steps for the CLARITY Act, including a plan to combine Senate Banking and Agriculture committee texts.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/lummis-clarity-act-senate-committee-combine-may-2026/