This week overview (May 25 - May 29, 2026): Kraken expands its ecosystem with Kraken Prop, offering up to $200,000 in funded capital. VanEck launches the first U.S. spot BNB ETF (VBNB), giving regulated exchange-traded exposure to BNB. Circle strengthens its payments infrastructure by integrating Nium into the Circle Payments Network. Anthropic raises $65 billion in a Series H round at a $965 billion valuation.

This week overview (May 18 - May 22, 2026): Tether and Gnosis co-led a $4.4 million seed round into Sorted Wallet. MoonPay acquired cross-chain infrastructure platform Decent.xyz in an eight-figure deal and launched MoonPay Trade. Blackstone and Google announced a new AI infrastructure joint venture backed by a $5 billion commitment. Hyperliquid’s HYPE token surged above $60 after spot HYPE ETFs from Bitwise and 21Shares.

This week overview: Franklin Templeton is expanding its crypto footprint with the acquisition of 250 Digital, Venture capital hit an all-time high in Q1 2026, with $300 billion deployed, 80% of it into AI frontier labs, Google warned that quantum computers could break existing encryption by 2029.