Strategy has acquired 1,895 BTC for ~$180.3 million at $95,167 per Bitcoin, and now holds 555,450 BTC, purchased for a total of ~$38.1 billion at ~$68,550 per BTC — Twitter

IOTA has officially launched its Rebase Mainnet upgrade, delivering 50k+ TPS, 10–15 % APY staking rewards, MoveVM for L1 smart contracts, and support for over 150 validators — Twitter

Binance announced the 69th project on its Launchpool: Space and Time (SXT), a Microsoft-backed blockchain for ZK-proven data. Binance will list SXT on May 8 at 1:00 PM UTC — Binance

Ethena’s USDe is now live on HyperliquidX and HyperEVM. Users can bridge USDe to HyperEVM via Stargate, powered by LayerZero — Twitter

Chainlink is launching a community rewards program for eligible node operators and stakers, starting with a 200 million SXT token distribution from the decentralized data platform Space and Time — Twitter

Asset manager VanEck has become the first to file for a BNB ETF in the U.S. — The Block

Tether’s CEO announced an upcoming launch of Tether AI, an open-source AI runtime that runs on any hardware and integrates crypto payments — The Block

eToro is targeting a $4 billion valuation and a $500 million raise in its US IPO. The crypto and equities trading platform plans to offer 10 million shares in the offering — The Block

Humanity Protocol announces the launch of Testnet Beta Phase 2, featuring the HP score, an upgraded dashboard, social credentials, and mobile palm scanning — Twitter

Ethereum developers have activated the Pectra upgrade, the network’s most significant update since the 2022 Merge. It delivers improved UX, enhanced validator operations, and Layer 2 scaling capabilities — Twitter

Vaulta (formerly EOS) announced that EOS tokens will migrate to A at a 1:1 ratio on May 14 — Twitter

Stripe now supports USDC, USDB, and other USD stablecoins for businesses in 101 countries to receive and pay funds, hold balances, and conduct global transfers — Blog

World Liberty Financial has launched a new snapshot vote to airdrop USD1 to all eligible WLFI holders — Twitter

Binance will airdrop 512 SXT tokens to Alpha users with at least 150 Alpha Points within 10 minutes of the Alpha listing. Binance Alpha trading opens on May 8 at 12:00 PM UTC, with spot trading starting one hour later — Twitter

Coinbase to acquire Deribit, the world’s largest Bitcoin and Ether options trading platform, for approximately $2.9 billion — The Wall Street Journal

Arbitrum DAO has approved a 35 million ARB allocation to tokenized U.S. Treasuries from Franklin Templeton, Spiko, and WisdomTree — The Block

98.6% of tokens launched on Pump.fun were classified as rug pulls or pump-and-dump schemes, according to a Solidus Labs report exposing widespread fraud on the Solana blockchain — CoinDesk

Sei Network developers have proposed phasing out native Cosmos functionality to streamline the network’s architecture and focus on building a fully EVM-compatible ecosystem — GitHub

Fueled by Binance incentives and airdrops, Binance Alpha 2.0 hit a record $386 million in trading volume on May 7, with $308 million on the BNB Chain, bringing its cumulative volume to $3 billion — Dune

Gas fees on BNB Chain have been cut by 90%, now just 0.1 Gwei — Twitter

Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky gets 12 years for crypto fraud — Bloomberg