Crypto Bridge LayerZero Connects to Solana Blockchain Crypto holders on Solana will be able to move their assets to Arbitrum, Ethereum, Polygon and the 70 other chains it links to – and vice versa.

Coinbase, Circle, Kraken Join Crypto’s New ‘Neighborhood Watch’ for Cyberthreats Consensys, the Solana Foundation and Fireblocks are also among the baker’s dozen founding members of Crypto ISAC.

PayPal Makes Retail Stablecoin Play with PYUSD on Solana PYUSD has around 8,600 holders on the Ethereum blockchain and a market cap of a tick under $400,000

Crypto Wallet Firm Fordefi Expands in Indonesia Powering Pintu Web3 Self-Custodial Wallet The move is part of Fordefi’s plan to extend its wallet service mostly used by institutional investors to retail-facing trading platforms.

Gemini Announces Full Recovery of Earn Users’ Digital Assets In-kind recovery of Gemini users’ funds means they’ll get 232% of the value of their assets back.

Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, Ocean Protocol Set Date for Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Merger The three AI platforms will complete the merger on June 13, and the FET token will be renamed ASI two days before.

Bitcoin, Ether Prices Ease as SHIB Drives Gains in Meme Tokens A rally in meme tokens such as dogecoin and shiba inu is primarily driven by Asian traders in response to bullish sentiment around ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs), one trader said.

Riot Platforms Is Best Suited to Consolidate Bitcoin Mining Sector: Bernstein The company has the financial capacity to consolidate the bitcoin mining space, the report said.

First Mover Americas: BTC Consolidates Around $68K as IBIT Overtakes GBTC The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 29, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Ripple Donates Another $25M to Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Ripple has added another $25 million to the coffers of Fairshake, a federal crypto super political action committee (PAC) that’s spending big this election year to support crypto-friendly Congressional candidates.

BlackRock Takes the Crown for the Largest Spot Bitcoin ETF From Grayscale Inflows to IBIT have picked up recently after a dismal few weeks at the end of April. BlackRock now holds the ETF in two of its major funds.

Leveraged Ether ETF to Start Trading June 4, Sponsor Volatility Shares Says Volatility Shares’ 2x Ether Strategy ETF (ETHU) will become the first leveraged crypto ETF available in the United States after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) let it go effective, the company posted on their website, adding that trading will begin on June 4.

Binance Executive Jailed in Nigeria is Suspected of Having Malaria, Family Says Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s compliance head, who remains jailed in Nigeria, is suspected of having Malaria, a family spokesperson told CoinDesk.

Consensus 2024: A Guide to Everything You Don’t Want to Miss 600 speakers. 300 sessions. Pitchfest. Hackathon. Karate. Hundreds of side events. There’s a lot going at this year’s festival. Here are some highlights from across the stages and beyond.

Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Prison Salame’s lawyers initially asked for 18 months.

Medical Device Maker Semler Scientific Stock Rises 25% After $40M Bitcoin Investment The company announced its Bitcoin treasury strategy Tuesday morning.

Riot Plans Hostile Takeover of Bitfarms; Proposes $2.30 Per Share Bitfarms’ shares were up nearly 6% at $2.13 as of 14:00 UTC following Riot’s announcement.

The Future of AI Is Decentralized With AI, centralization doesn’t work on any level: technical, philosophical, ethical, or market, says Alex Goh, founder and chairman of EMC.

Crypto Lending Firm Maple Finance Unveils Syrup Yield Platform and Rewards Token

Ethereum-Based Domain Protocol ENS Seeks Own L2, Possibly With ZkSync ENS’s proposal, dubbed “ENSv2,” will completely overhaul the network’s registry system, and transform it into a layer 2, an auxiliary network that provides cheaper transaction fees that is settled on Ethereum.