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Mapping the Tokenized Active Strategies Sector
RWAs are evolving from simple tokenization into actively managed onchain products. Tokenized active strategies now account for over $1B in distributed value, highlighting growing demand for institutional-grade yield and portfolio management onchain.
Arc unveils ARC tokenomics ahead of its TGE in 2026
10B total supply. 60% to ecosystem. Mainnet launch is expected this summer. Testnet already processed 160M+ transactions with 100+ institutions including BlackRock, Visa, Goldman Sachs, and AWS.
With USDC as native gas token, ~0.5s settlement, and quantum-resistant wallet support built in from day one, Arc is shaping up as one of the most anticipated institutional launches of 2026.
MoonPay Acquires Dawn Labs, Launches AI Trading Agent
MoonPay has acquired Dawn Labs, an applied AI and financial markets research lab, and simultaneously launched Dawn CLI, an AI-native trading tool that converts plain-English strategy descriptions into executable, autonomously running trading code.
This is MoonPay's seventh acquisition in just over a year, following Helio, Iron, Meso, Decent, Sodot, and DFlow; each adding a new layer to what the company is building.
Google Warns AI Is Being Used To Build Zero-Day MFA Bypass Exploits
Google researchers revealed that a cybercrime group used AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability capable of bypassing multi-factor authentication protections in a widely used system administration tool.
According to Google Threat Intelligence Group, the attack was stopped before deployment after researchers alerted the software developer, allowing the flaw to be patched before hackers could exploit users.
The company said it has high confidence AI was involved in creating the exploit. While Google denied the use of Gemini or Anthropic’s Mythos model, the incident comes shortly after Anthropic warned that advanced AI systems could dramatically accelerate cyberattacks and software exploitation.
Treasuries & ETFs Board. Crypto Accumulation and Capital Flows
Weekly snapshot:
• BTC ETFs: +$631.6M
• ETH ETFs: +$70.3M
ETF flows stayed constructive, continuing to channel institutional demand even as direct balance sheet expansion slowed.
Latest treasury moves:
• Strategy bought 535 BTC (~$43.0M)
Corporate accumulation outside Strategy remains subdued, with last week marking a breather after aggressive Q1 and April buying.
Structure remains unchanged: Strategy still dominates treasury activity, while ETFs provide a parallel route for capital deployment.
Biggest RWA Assets by on-chain Market Capitalization
Total RWA market cap has surpassed $26.4B across 165 issuers, with a growth curve that went near-vertical heading into 2026. Zooming in, Syrup USDC's $305M DeFi TVL on just $1.50B market cap shows which assets are actually being put to work.
Digital Asset Seeks $300M Raise at $2B Valuation Led by a16z
Canton Network is a public, permissionless Layer 1 blockchain built with configurable privacy features. Unlike Ethereum or Solana, it offers protocol-level confidentiality guarantees designed specifically for regulated financial institutions.
For a16z crypto, the investment follows the firm closing a $2.2B fifth crypto fund, bringing its total dedicated crypto capital to approximately $10B across five vehicles.
MAJOR UPCOMING EVENTS IN MAY!
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Google Launches AI Health Coach and Rebrands Fitbit App as Google Health
Google has unveiled Google Health Coach, a Gemini-powered service combining fitness coaching, sleep analysis, and wellness guidance, available May 19 under the Google Health Premium subscription at $9.99/month or $99/year.
The coach personalizes guidance through an onboarding flow covering goals, equipment, injuries, and lifestyle. Users can log workouts and meals via text, voice, or photo. Insights draw from fitness metrics, sleep data, nutrition, cycle tracking, and connected U.S. medical records.
Zcash To Ship Quantum-Recoverable Wallets Within A Month
Zcash Open Development Lab CEO Josh Swihart said Zcash will roll out quantum-recoverable wallets within a month. He added the network aims to become fully post-quantum within the next 12–18 months, speaking at Consensus Miami.
The update lands as ZEC is up over 110% in the last 30 days, following Multicoin Capital’s disclosed position and a broader privacy narrative comeback. Swihart argued that transparent ledgers make assets easy targets for seizures, calling Bitcoin “broken” as a private payment system.
Biggest Spot DEXs by Trading Volume in the last 30 Days
The top 12 spot DEXs processed $132B in combined volume, led by Uniswap ($40.3B) and PancakeSwap ($24.5B). But the real story is in the growth numbers: Curve surged +54.7%, Aerodrome +47.7%, while HumidiFi lost -60.9% and Raydium dropped -38.6%.
Alchemy Pay (ACH) Launches Payment-First Layer 1
Alchemy Chain mainnet is now live, a payments-first L1 purpose-built for real-world stablecoin transactions, and the world's first payment blockchain to align with both the EU's MiCA and Hong Kong's HKMA regulatory frameworks.
Testnet surpassed 150K unique addresses and processed over 800K transactions before mainnet launch. ACH is the only gas token; single-token fee model removes friction for end users.
Aptos Foundation and Labs commits $50M for its L1 ecosystem
The funding package is spanning first-party products, protocol infra, research, and a strategic fund for trading and AI partners. Aptos network holds $1.2B in onchain assets; sub-50ms block times and sub-500ms finality are central to the institutional pitch.
Major beneficiaries
– Decibel: Aptos-incubated onchain perps exchange; $1B+ cumulative volume since February mainnet launch
– Shelby: Hot storage protocol for AI agent data markets; targets AI training datasets and agent-to-agent data exchange
AWS Brings USDC Micropayments to AI Agents via Coinbase & Stripe
Amazon Web Services just unveiled Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, letting AI agents pay for APIs, web content, MCP servers, and other agent services on-demand instead of relying on subscriptions or manual checkout. The system supports Coinbase- or Stripe-powered wallets, funded with fiat or stablecoins.
The rails are built around Coinbase’s x402 protocol (based on HTTP 402 “Payment Required”), enabling machine-native micropayments in USDC. AWS says this is designed specifically for autonomous agents that need to “find → pay → continue” without humans in the loop.
Tether Launches QVAC MedPsy, Medical AI Runs Fully On-Device
Tether’s AI Research Group introduced QVAC MedPsy, a medical language model built to run locally on phones, wearables, and low-power devices, without needing the cloud.
Tether says this approach keeps sensitive healthcare data (records, notes, queries) private on-device, avoiding uploads to remote servers where compliance and privacy become harder.
On performance, Tether claims the 1.7B model beats Google’s MedGemma-4B on a set of medical benchmarks, and even tops MedGemma-27B in some “real-world” clinical-style tests.
Virtuals Protocol has launched EconomyOS
EconomyOS is a full-stack identity and financial suite built specifically for autonomous AI agents, giving them their own Visa card, onchain wallet, email identity, and verifiable web identity without borrowing or fragmening from existing human infrastructure.
EconomyOS is designed as the substrate every agent runs on: covering non-custodial wallets, virtual payment cards for real-world checkout, dedicated email identities, wallet-funded compute access, and optional onchain tokenization.
Jupiter (JUP) Launches On-chain Poker Staking Platform
Jupiter Poker is an action-selling platform that allows poker players to tokenize and sell shares of their tournament buy-ins directly to backers, with payouts settled onchain the moment results land.
For pros, the platform offers direct access to a global backer audience with listings live in minutes, replacing informal staking arrangements with transparent on-chain infrastructure.
Expected Mainnets in 2026: Projects to Watch
Multiple projects are targeting mainnet in 2026, from new L1s & L2s to prediction markets & BTC scaling. Check out our full breakdown.
Ondo Brings Tokenized Stocks To Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM
Ondo tokenized stocks can now be bridged from Ethereum and BNB Chain to Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM through the Ondo Bridge powered by LayerZero.
More than 35 tokenized assets are now supported on HyperEVM, while protocols like Felix and Melt have already integrated Ondo’s tokenized stock infrastructure.
Circle has closed a $222M Arc token presale valued at $3 billion
Circle has closed a $222 million strategic raise for its Arc blockchain from Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Apollo Funds, ICE and many other major names. Andreessen Horowitz served as the lead investor in the raise with a $75 million investment.
Arc attracted engagement from 100+ institutions across banking, capital markets, and technology, including Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank and HSBC.
Arc's public testnet has processed more than 166 million total transactions since launch, with daily average volumes of 2.3 million transactions and near-100% uptime; settling in approximately 0.5 seconds.
Jurassic Finance (RAWR) ICO is live on Futardio till May 15th
Sale Valuation - $516K. Hard cap - $200K. Tokens unlock in 20% tranches at each price milestone relative to the ICO price of $0.02. Jurassic is a Solana-based platform that tokenizes museum-grade dinosaur fossils as fractional ownership SPVs.
Futard.io is a new permissionless launchpad on Solana by MetaDAO, and this sale has already raised $9.4M from 652 funders against a $200K goal, a 4,700% oversubscription.
LayerZero removes 1/1 DVN setups and upgrades security
LayerZero has also issued a public apology for its handling of the Kelp DAO's exploit, admitting it had done "a terrible job on comms" and conceding it should not have allowed its DVN to act as the sole verifier for high-value transactions.
Despite the overhaul, the exodus is already underway. Protocols representing approximately $2B in combined TVL, including Kelp DAO ($1.5B), Solv ($600M), and Re ($200M), have announced migrations to Chainlink CCIP.
gTrade Goes Live Inside MegaETH Terminal
gTrade, the on-chain perpetuals DEX offering crypto and RWA markets with up to 1000x leverage, is now live inside MegaETH Terminal — the ecosystem's points program tied to a 2.5% mainnet campaign allocation from ~10B token supply.
At current pre-market pricing of ~$0.17 per MEGA, that allocation implies roughly $40M+ in potential ecosystem incentives, though exact distribution mechanics remain unconfirmed and allocations may be partial or phased.
Coinbase Restores Trading Following Seven-Hour Outage
Coinbase confirmed trading services have resumed following a ~7-hour outage on Friday that left users unable to trade, transfer assets, or access core exchange functions.
The disruption was traced to overheating at an Amazon Web Services data center in Northern Virginia. The platform first flagged the issue at ~9 AM SGT, with activity restored by ~4 PM.
Most Efficient Protocols: Who Has the Best Valuation?
FDV/Revenue Annualized ratio measures how much the market pays for every dollar a protocol earns; the lower the ratio, the more efficiently a protocol is valued. This snapshot compares the most profitable protocols, identifying who offers the best value by fundamentals.
The category leaders: Limitless in Prediction Markets (4.4x), Morpho in Lending (11.6x), edgeX in Perp DEXs (11.7x), Meteora in Spot DEXs (10.5x).Читать полностью…
Arbitrum DAO Approves $71M ETH Release to DeFi United
The Arbitrum DAO voted 100% YES, 16.9M ARB in favor to release 30,766 ETH frozen by its Security Council following the Kelp DAO exploit, directing the funds to DeFi United, the Aave-led recovery coalition assembled to restore rsETH's backing and close bad debt.
However, a US federal court issued a restraining order on April 30, just before the vote concluded, blocking the actual transfer of the ETH pending legal resolution.
Solv Migrates $700M in Tokenized BTC from LayerZero to Chainlink
Solv migrates the infra behind more than $700M in tokenized BTC, covering SolvBTC and xSolvBTC, from LayerZero to Chainlink's CCIP, following a broader internal security review of cross-chain systems.
The migration will be executed in phases to minimize disruption for users holding tokenized positions across affected chains.
Cryptomarket Check-In. Major Events & Headlines
This week’s flow was concentrated around tokenized assets and real-world financial infrastructure. From Treasury settlement on XRPL to Western Union stablecoins on Solana, multiple institutional products moved into production simultaneously, alongside some of the larger capital raises of this cycle.
🔎 Recent Updates & Developments
– Ondo, JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple completed first cross-border tokenized Treasury settlement on XRPL in under 5 seconds
– DTCC will launch tokenized securities platform, enabling onchain trading of equities, ETFs and Treasuries with full legal ownership
– Andreessen Horowitz raised $2.2B crypto fund, doubling down on stablecoins and blockchain financial infrastructure
– Western Union launched USDPT stablecoin on Solana, enabling global settlement across 200+ countries beyond banking hours
– Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launched Pay sh, enabling AI agents to pay for APIs using stablecoins onchain
– Coinbase partnered with Centrifuge to scale tokenization on Base, targeting ETFs, credit funds and structured products
– Securitize launched regulated tokenized equities on Solana, enabling onchain issuance and trading with institutional liquidity
– Kalshi finalized $1B raise at $22B valuation, highlighting rapid growth of prediction markets despite regulatory pressure
Somnia Season 5 Claim Goes Live With 10M SOMI Pool
Somnia opened Season 5 registration and users can now connect their main wallet to check their allocation across quest points, Discord roles, and SomniaYaps.
The total pool is 10M SOMI, split between 9.25M SOMI for quests, 350K SOMI for SomniaYaps, and 400K SOMI for Discord role tiers. Eligible users can claim 20% on Day 1, then 10% weekly for 8 weeks after completing required Odyssey tasks.
Kalshi Finalizes its $1B Raise, Hits $22B Valuation in New Round
Kalshi plans to announce on Thursday that it has raised $1 billion in a new round of funding, led by the investment firm Coatue, that values the start-up at $22 billion. Valuation progression: $2B (Jun 2025) → $5B (Oct 2025) → $11B (Dec 2025) → $22B (Mar 2026).
The raise comes amid mounting legal headwinds, Arizona filed 20 criminal counts for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business, and Nevada moved to ban its operations in the state.