Crypto News. May 9, 2026
A U.S. judge approved Aave’s plan to transfer ~$71M in frozen ETH from Arbitrum to an Aave-linked multisig after the rsETH exploit
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BlackRock is launching two money-market funds targeting investors holding cash in stablecoins on Ethereum
Zcash plans quantum-recoverable wallets within a month and full post-quantum status within 12–18 months
Japan’s Progmat is migrating over $2B in tokenized real estate and corporate bonds to Avalanche
MegaETH Foundation completed its first MEGA buyback using USDm stablecoin rewards accrued through end of April, future buybacks will be programmatic and onchain, with USDm supply at $480M
Arkham launched a prediction markets analytics platform
South Korea passed an amendment requiring crypto businesses to register before conducting cross-border transfers, with a 22% capital gains tax on crypto set for January 2027
Switzerland’s Bitcoin reserve referendum campaign is set to lapse after collecting only ~50,000 of the 100,000 signatures needed
ECB President Christine Lagarde warned that even euro-denominated stablecoins could threaten financial stability and monetary policy transmission
SEC Chair Paul Atkins called for new rulemaking to clarify how exchange, clearing agency, and broker definitions apply to onchain systems and DeFi protocols
Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg demanding transparency on Meta’s reported plans to integrate a third-party stablecoin across its 3.5B-user platforms ahead of a 2026 rollout
Boson Protocol proposed x402B, an on-chain escrow extension to the x402 payment standard for high-value and pseudonymous agent payments
Parallel reported that a failed ERC4626 inflation attack on the sUSDp vault on Ethereum was blocked by three independent layers, no funds lost, contracts paused within seconds by Hypernative
Trump announced a 3-day Russia-Ukraine ceasefire from May 9–11, coinciding with Russia’s Victory Day, alongside a 1,000-prisoner swap
Sentio Network testnet is live with a decentralized data layer for running custom blockchain indexers
Privy now lets developers fully sponsor Tron gas so users can send USDT without holding TRX
OP Sepolia’s stake-based transaction ordering experiment enters phase 2 with a blended score across stake size, duration, and priority gas, capped at 3x
Hyperbeat is winding down its Ultra HYPE and Ultra BTC vaults after a reconciliation exposed an 11,500 HYPE shortfall from oracle pricing errors and no NAV reconciliation between September 2025 and March 2026, users take a 0.97% haircut
Kraken’s parent Payward applied for a national OCC trust charter to establish Payward National Trust Company for institutional digital asset custody
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