Four years after its ban, China's Bitcoin mining has stealthily rebounded, capturing about 14% of global hashrate and reclaiming the No. 3 spot. Cheap power, policy softening, and rising BTC prices are driving the resurgence, with Canaan's domestic sales surging past 50%.
Ripple CTO David Schwartz commented on the $280M+ KelpDAO exploit, warning that DeFi bridge security mechanisms are often sacrificed in real deployments as teams prioritize convenience and speed over critical safeguards, raising concerns about cross-chain infrastructure resilience.
Broadridge extends governance platform for tokenized equities; Galaxy first US public company to use onchain proxy voting for May 2026 annual meeting, recorded on Avalanche L1.
Anchorage Digital Bank has officially onshored Ethena Labs' USDtb, marking the debut of the first stablecoin under direct OCC oversight and setting a new compliance standard for digital dollars.
NFT marketplace Rarible announces integration with Flow blockchain, enabling users to mint, list, and trade Flow-based NFTs with gas fees as low as $0.0001 per transaction. The move expands Rarible's multi-chain reach and leverages Flow's popular projects like NBA Top Shot.
Asentum has launched its public testnet, a Layer1 blockchain built from scratch with post-quantum cryptography (ML-DSA-65), native JavaScript smart contracts, consumer-grade hardware validators, and on-chain governance. The native token ASE has a fixed supply of 1 billion and a public sale is now live.
Gomining, a top-10 Bitcoin miner with 5 million users, unveiled GoBTC at Consensus Miami 2026. The open payment protocol offers instant authorization and 12-hour on-chain settlement at a flat 0.2% merchant fee, significantly lower than traditional card processing. Any wallet provider can integrate, backed by a dedicated mining pool.
Brazil’s securities regulator has suspended Hashbrasil’s mining-related investment solicitations, alleging an unregistered public offering of securities-like contracts tied to Bitcoin mining.
