A New York filing asks the court to treat Satoshi Nakamoto's dormant wallets as lost property under state law, valuing each address at under $10.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin-lost-property-lawsuit-may-2026/

CryptoQuant says BTC whale balances are shrinking at the fastest pace of 2026 while dolphin growth has stalled, conditions last seen in the 2022 bear market.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-whale-balances-fastest-contraction-2022-bear-mirror-may-2026/

Central banks now hold 26.6% of global reserves in gold, the highest share since 1993. The shift reshapes the Bitcoin-as-reserve-asset debate.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/central-bank-gold-reserves-32-year-high-may-2026/

Michael Saylor said Strategy may sell Bitcoin to cover STRC preferred dividends at 11.5%. The signal reverses years of pure accumulation rhetoric.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/saylor-sell-bitcoin-fund-strc-115-yield-may-2026/

Sui experienced its second network stall in five months on May 28, raising fresh questions about validator coordination and chain reliability.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sui-network-second-outage-five-months-may-2026/

Hyperliquid's SpaceX pre-IPO market saw a 45% intraday drop, the latest reminder that synthetic private-company exposure on-chain carries its own risk profile.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hyperliquid-spacex-pre-ipo-flash-crash-45-percent-may-2026/

Coinbase's Base L2 activated the Azul hardfork on mainnet May 29, 2026. The upgrade focuses on transaction speed and protocol security on the OP Stack chain.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/base-azul-mainnet-upgrade-live-may-2026/

Paxos becomes the first blockchain-native registered clearing agency in the US, a regulatory milestone for tokenized settlement and TradFi convergence.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sec-paxos-first-blockchain-native-clearing-agency-may-2026/

Wallets holding 100K+ ETH now control 17.41M tokens, a 9-week high reached as ETH trades near $2,002 after a 6% weekly drop.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ethereum-whales-17-4m-eth-accumulation-9-week-high-may-2026/

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce publicly defended crypto privacy tools, warning fellow regulators not to treat privacy-enhancing technologies as inherently suspicious.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sec-peirce-defends-crypto-privacy-tools-may-2026/