Pi Network co-founder Nicolas Kokkalis will take the stage at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 7, joining a panel titled “How to Prove You’re Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself)” at the Convergence Stage, as Pi positions its KYC-verified user base as a direct answer to one of the most urgent problems

BridgeTower Capital has officially adopted Chainlink’s full infrastructure stack to tokenize $11 billion in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, making it one of the largest live production tokenized asset deployments ever announced and positioning Chainlink as the core operational layer for a pipeline BridgeTower says exceeds $25 billion in natural resources, energy,

Summary Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, starting with a $10 billion cash injection at a $350 billion valuation and a further $30 billion contingent on performance. The deal is aimed at locking Anthropic deeper into Google Cloud and TPU infrastructure, as the two companies race rivals like OpenAI and xAI

President Trump delivered a keynote address on April 25 at a Mar-a-Lago gala restricted to the top 297 holders of his Official TRUMP memecoin, with a private VIP reception and champagne toast reserved for the top 29, as Senators Elizabeth Warren, Adam Schiff, and Richard Blumenthal formally called the event an improper sale of presidential

A coalition of more than 120 crypto organizations led by the Crypto Council for Innovation and the Blockchain Association sent a joint letter to the Senate Banking Committee on April 23 demanding an immediate markup of the CLARITY Act, warning that further delay risks pushing investment, jobs, and technological development offshore while ceding global regulatory

Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched the Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio on April 23, a government money market fund exclusively designed to hold the cash reserves backing stablecoin issuers’ outstanding tokens, positioning the Wall Street giant to capture reserve management business ahead of the GENIUS Act’s expected passage. Summary Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched the Stablecoin Reserves

BNB Chain has officially become the leading blockchain network for autonomous AI agents, with more than 150,000 on-chain deployments as of April 20, a 43,750% increase from the fewer than 400 agents that existed across all blockchains at the start of 2026, with one in every three AI agents currently operating on any blockchain now

DoorDash has begun building stablecoin payment infrastructure on Tempo, the Layer-1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, to pay delivery workers and merchants across more than 40 countries at near-instant settlement speeds and fixed US dollar fees, in one of the largest real-world stablecoin payment deployments by a publicly traded US company to date. Summary

Pi Network has confirmed it is an official sponsor of Consensus 2026 in Miami, with co-founders Nicolas Kokkalis and Chengdiao Fan each presenting at the event on May 7 and May 6 respectively, as the network simultaneously faces a mandatory April 27 deadline for all node operators to upgrade to Protocol 22. Summary Pi Network

Coinbase has filed with the CFTC to activate Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, placing XRP alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and crude oil as an asset institutional traders can execute at the official settlement price. Summary Coinbase will launch Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, covering both nano XRP