In Bitcoin news today, Starknet launched strkBTC on May 12, 2026, a wrapped, BTC-backed asset that runs on Starknet’s Bitcoin Layer 2 network and uses zero-knowledge cryptography to shield your balances and transaction history from public view. The real question isn’t whether Bitcoin privacy is a good idea. The question is whether this approach actually
OpenAI’s Siri alliance frays over money and control. Summary OpenAI is reportedly considering legal action against Apple over how ChatGPT has been integrated and monetized inside Siri on iPhones and other Apple devices. People familiar with the deal say OpenAI is disappointed that the integration has not produced the prominence or paid subscription conversions it
Visa’s WeFi pilot lets self‑custodied stablecoins fund everyday card payments across Europe, Asia and Latin America. Summary Visa is partnering with DeFi‑native platform WeFi to pilot stablecoin‑based payments and “on‑chain banking” services across selected markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The collaboration aims to make self‑custodied stablecoin balances spendable anywhere Visa is accepted, with
The chairman of droppRWA has secured $12.5 billion in mandates to tokenized real estate and his plans are to go beyond properties to bring trillions of dollars onchain. Source link
State Street is wiring its Luxembourg fund stack so tokenized fund units run on the same custody, NAV and TA rails as traditional funds, turning RWAs from brochure‑ware into production infrastructure. Summary By end‑2026, State Street will let clients issue and service “digitally native” fund structures from Luxembourg via its Digital Asset Platform, alongside conventional
Today DMND and RootstockLabs announce a new feature rollout intending to further the decentralization of Bitcoin mining. The new feature uses Stratum V2 to enable miners at the pool engaging in their own block template construction to also handle the selection and inclusion of merge-mined block commitments from the Rootstock (RSK) sidechain as well. Merge-mining
Dogecoin price continued stabilizing above a key support zone this week after forming a bullish rounded bottom pattern on the daily chart, while rising derivatives activity and growing institutional optimism strengthened the case for a larger recovery rally. Summary Dogecoin price has formed a bullish rounded bottom pattern on the daily chart, with neckline resistance
Eightco treasury composition as of May 12, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $129M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $340 million World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes New independent data shows OpenAI’s coming social network will
BNB price continued climbing this week as bulls attempted to confirm a breakout above a key neckline resistance zone, with a bullish double bottom structure on the daily chart signaling the potential for a larger upside move toward the $750 region. Summary BNB price climbed toward the key $680–$690 neckline resistance as a bullish double
North American listed miners are responding to challenging post-halving economics by pivoting toward AI infrastructure — but not uniformly, and not without risk. The shift is splitting the sector into different kinds of companies. Bitcoin, meanwhile, looks likely to absorb the change largely as designed. One of the biggest stories of 2026 so far has
