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According to Decrypt’s report on May 6, the Solana Foundation partnered with Google Cloud to launch the Pay.sh service, allowing AI agents to pay for on-demand API access costs using stablecoins on Solana, without traditional accounts or subscriptions; for each API call, agents only need to pay a fraction of a cent, with no minimum spend requirement.

According to data published by Token Terminal on X on May 6, the total market value of tokenized U.S. Treasuries deployed on Ethereum has risen to about $8 billion, setting a new all-time high, with growth of approximately 100% over the past six months; the same day, Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, said at the Consensus Miami 2026 conference in Miami that global economic tokenization is inevitable.

According to an official announcement posted by AMM infrastructure Ekubo on X on May 6, a security incident occurred in Ekubo’s Swap routing contract on EVM networks. Ekubo confirmed that liquidity providers (LPs) and Starknet were not affected by this incident; the team is investigating the scope of the event and preparing a post-incident analysis report.

According to The Block, on May 5, the decentralized finance lending protocol Kelp DAO announced it would stop using LayerZero as a cross-chain infrastructure provider and instead adopt Chainlink’s cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP). Kelp DAO is “the first major protocol to abandon LayerZero since the LayerZero vulnerability incident occurred.”

Multicoin Capital managing partner Tushar Jain posted on X on May 6, disclosing that Multicoin has continuously accumulated Zcash (ZEC) since February to build a larger position. Since the February low, ZEC has risen by about 177%, once breaking $550; as of the time of publication on May 6, it was $511.71.

SoFi Technologies announced it will begin issuing its stablecoin, SoFiUSD, on the Solana blockchain, citing the network's cost efficiency, settlement speed, and throughput capabilities. Ben Reynolds, SoFi's head of big business banking, said on Tuesday: "We think it is the right chain to use for

According to coverage of the Consensus conference held in Miami Beach, Florida on May 5, Ryan Rugg, Head of Digital Assets for Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citigroup, said in his speech that if tokenized money remains limited to each bank’s isolated systems, it will not be able to fulfill its promise of improving the efficiency of global capital flows. Rugg noted that large corporate clients need systems that enable seamless collaboration across financial institutions, rather than tokens confined within a single bank.

According to Drift Protocol’s official announcement published on X on May 6, Drift Protocol has officially launched a user recovery plan for the April 1 hack: each affected wallet will receive a “Recovery Token,” with each token corresponding to $1 of verified losses, as a proportional claims certificate for the recovery pool.

After Eric Trump announced on social media the new official logo for the renaming of the Donald Trump International Airport in Palm Beach, Florida, three Trump-themed meme coins rose in tandem. According to CoinGecko data, TRUMP rose 3.75%, MAGA rose 3.29%, and TrumpCoin (DJT) rose 1.1%.

Anthropic has agreed to spend US$200 billion on Google Cloud over five years, according to Reuters. The commitment represents more than 40% of Alphabet's disclosed cloud revenue backlog, and Alphabet shares rose about 2% in extended trading following the announcement. Deal Details and Alphabet

OpenAI and Anthropic are separately partnering with private equity firms to acquire services companies that help businesses deploy artificial intelligence, according to Reuters. The moves aim to secure engineers and consultants to roll out their AI models for corporate customers. OpenAI's

State investment agency BPI Danantara purchased less than 1% of GoTo Gojek Tokopedia's shares through regular market trades on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, the company announced on May 5, 2026. GoTo said it will comply with exchange disclosure rules, while shareholding reports for stakes

According to a statement made on May 6 by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the U.S. “Epic Rage Operation” against Iran has officially ended, and the U.S. has achieved the operation’s stated objectives. On the same day, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly announced that the “Freedom Plan,” which is designed to divert vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, will be suspended for a period of time. On that day, Bitcoin rebounded to around $81,000, reaching its highest level since late January 2026.

Medical artificial intelligence scribe startups operating in Southeast Asia are confronting significant regulatory barriers and partnership risks that threaten their market viability, according to a Tech in Asia report. The challenges range from multilingual consultation environments to strict

Samsung Electronics achieved a $1 trillion market capitalization milestone on Wednesday morning, when the South Korean company's stock price rose 11%, making it the second Asian company after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to reach this valuation threshold. The surge is driven

Freshworks, a San Mateo, California-based business software company, announced on May 5 that it will cut 11% of its workforce, or about 500 jobs globally, as it restructures around wider use of AI and automation. Chief executive Dennis Woodside stated that AI now writes more than half of the company

Consensys CEO and founder Joseph Lubin stated that the world's entire economy will be tokenized, tracing the concept back to Ethereum, the blockchain he helped co-found. Lubin's assertion reflects a long-standing vision within the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry regarding the widespread adop

Panelists at Consensus Miami 2026 identified trust in cryptocurrency as the biggest barrier to mainstream adoption, according to speakers at the event. Beyond trust, participants highlighted three key obstacles preventing wider user uptake: complexity, poor user experience, and lack of