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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BOE) jointly launched a public consultation on Monday, seeking industry input on the regulation, infrastructure, and market practices of tokenized wholesale financial markets in the UK. This consultation is part of the UK's digital finance market strategy, focusing on tokenized securities and post-trade infrastructure, covering areas such as prudential regulation, tokenized collateral, and settlement tools. Regulators stated that there are significant opportunities in the post-trade processes and collateral management areas for tokenization. The consultation targets banks, investment firms, asset management institutions, central securities depositories (CSD), central counterparty clearing houses (CCP), trading platforms, fintech companies, and others. The current scope mainly involves tokenized bonds, stocks, and fund shares, with potential future expansion. Market participants can submit feedback by July 3. The FCA and the Bank of England plan to publish a feedback document in the summer of 2026 and launch a roadmap for the development of the digital wholesale market within the year.Meanwhile, UK regulators are advancing the "digital securities sandbox" program, with 16 companies having passed the first phase of review and currently testing the issuance, trading, and settlement of tokenized securities. Additionally, the Bank of England has separately released a consultation document on extending the operating hours of the RTGS and CHAPS systems, planning to gradually move towards a near 7×24 hour operating model, with the goal of launching synchronized settlement services by 2028 to support tokenized assets as collateral for central bank operations and central counterparty use.

B.AI has officially integrated into the Solana ecosystem, with a comprehensive upgrade to its multi-chain login and payment capabilities. Users can now log in with one click through MetaMask and Phantom wallets, and complete top-ups or subscriptions using SOL, USDT, USDC, and WBTC on the Solana network. So far, B.AI has covered eight major public chains: TRON, BNB Chain, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana, building a more open and free multi-chain AI economic ecosystem. The platform offers exclusive limited-time benefits for new users: upon first login, users can receive 500,000 points, and top-ups enjoy a 1:1 bonus, with a maximum of $100 worth of additional points rewards for a single user. In the future, B.AI will provide lower entry barriers and a richer selection of assets to help you seamlessly enter the new world of the smart economy.

Musk stated that he hopes to advance SpaceX's initial public offering (IPO) "soon." SpaceX may achieve complete rapid reusability of rockets this year, which is crucial for the survival of life beyond Earth.

According to Axios, American Republicans are increasingly dissatisfied with the flow of political donations in the cryptocurrency industry, demanding that the pro-crypto super PAC Fairshake, which holds about $165 million in funds, clarify its stance and focus on supporting Republican candidates in the 2026 midterm elections.Republicans pointed out that, against the backdrop of significant progress in promoting pro-crypto legislation such as the CLARITY Act, Fairshake has yet to announce specific election investment plans, which is disappointing. The points of contention include:Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown: Fairshake spent over $40 million in 2024 to defeat incumbent Senator Brown, but Brown's attitude towards the cryptocurrency industry has noticeably softened in recent years.New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas: His Stand With Crypto rating rose from "F" to "A" within 8 months, and Republicans initially expected Fairshake to focus on his campaign.In response, Fairshake supporters stated that it is still too early to speak out and emphasized that the PAC is bipartisan in nature, aiming to "reward supporters and punish critics," rather than unconditionally supporting a particular party. Some pro-crypto Republicans (such as the Winklevoss brothers) have established separate independent groups specifically to support Republican candidates.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security published an article titled "Beware of Online Fraud Targeting Minors," which reveals a new type of online fraud chain characterized by "game diversion + impersonating public security and judicial authorities + virtual currency money laundering." Criminals post advertisements through games and social platforms to guide minors to add friends, and use intimidation and other means to extract funds from parents' accounts. The stolen money is split and withdrawn through black and gray industry platforms to purchase virtual currencies, which are not restricted by geography and can silently flow back to overseas fraud dens, completing the "physical isolation" of cross-border funds. The Criminal Investigation Bureau reminds that public security and judicial authorities will never handle cases online, will never intimidate for deductions, and will never ask for passwords or verification codes.

American AI chip company Cerebras Systems officially landed on Nasdaq, becoming the largest IPO globally since 2026, raising approximately $5.55 billion, with a peak increase of 108% during trading, and a closing market value of $67 billion on its first day.The company focuses on wafer-scale giant AI chip architecture and is seen as a significant competitor challenging Nvidia's GPU dominance, having received support for computing power orders from several AI companies, including OpenAI. Notably, the investor list includes 1789 Capital, which is involved with Donald Trump Jr. This institution has participated in two rounds of financing for Cerebras since 2025 and has continued to increase its investment in subsequent financing rounds.Cerebras completed multiple rounds of financing before its IPO, with its valuation rising to $23 billion at one point, attracting participation from several institutions and industry capital, including Benchmark, Fidelity, and AMD, forming a diverse shareholder structure covering Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Analysts point out that this IPO not only marks an important milestone in the AI chip sector but also further amplifies the trend of capital concentration in the AI infrastructure field, while the involvement of politically connected investment institutions adds more market and public attention to the deal.

According to CNBC, SpaceX plans to publicly release its IPO prospectus as early as next week, aiming to start a global roadshow on June 8 to formally introduce the deal to investors. The company secretly submitted its IPO application in April this year. This IPO is expected to become the largest in history. In February this year, SpaceX completed a merger with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, resulting in a post-merger entity valuation of $1.25 trillion. Reports indicate that the company's target fundraising scale for the IPO is about $70 billion to $75 billion, more than double the record set by Saudi Aramco in 2019. The expected valuation for the SpaceX IPO has risen from $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion. According to regulations, the prospectus must be made public at least 15 calendar days before the roadshow begins, but SpaceX and its advisors hope to disclose it earlier to give investors more time to digest the financial data. Due to the unprecedented scale of this stock sale, SpaceX's advisory team is seeking special sales channels, particularly targeting retail investors outside the U.S. who prefer long-term holdings, including engaging with brokers in countries such as the UK, Japan, and Canada to secure allocation shares for their clients. As a result of this news, satellite and space concept stocks like Redwire, AST SpaceMobile, and Rocket Lab surged by 22.08%, 10.96%, and 6.77% respectively on the 14th.

James Comer, the chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee and a Republican lawmaker, has written to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, requesting information regarding potential conflicts of interest related to personal investments and OpenAI. The investigation focuses on Altman's extensive personal investment network. Since Altman does not hold equity in OpenAI, his estimated net worth of approximately $3.5 billion primarily comes from his personal investment portfolio, which includes companies like Helion, Stripe, and Reddit.According to a previous report by The Wall Street Journal, Altman had pushed for OpenAI to invest $500 million in the fusion company Helion, while Altman himself has invested at least $375 million in the company. Comer stated that this has raised concerns about whether Altman is using OpenAI to enhance the valuation of his personally held companies. Additionally, attorneys general from states such as Florida, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, West Virginia, and Louisiana have also written to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, requesting an investigation into whether Altman has engaged in "self-dealing" and serious conflicts of interest.Meanwhile, Altman is set to testify in court on Tuesday and Wednesday in the case where Musk is suing OpenAI. Musk accuses Altman and OpenAI co-founders of violating the original "non-profit" commitment by shifting OpenAI to a profit-making operation. Although the conflict of interest investigation and Musk's lawsuit are independent events, Altman's personal investment issues have been raised multiple times during the trial. OpenAI board chairman Bret Taylor defended Altman in court, stating that he has been "open and transparent" regarding personal investment matters.

According to CoinDesk, Denis Beau, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, has publicly called for a joint effort from the European public and private sectors to promote the development of euro tokenized currency in response to the dominance of the US dollar stablecoin. This move stands in stark contrast to the position of European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, who is cautious about private stablecoins, believing that USDT, USDC, and others pose financial stability risks, and favors a central bank-led digital euro plan expected to be implemented by 2029.Beau proposed a "triple objective" for Europe: to adapt central bank currency services, to promote the issuance of pan-European tokenized private currency by regulated institutions, and to strengthen the MiCA regulatory framework. His stance is highly aligned with the Qivalis consortium, which consists of 12 major European banks including ING, BBVA, and BNP Paribas, and plans to launch a private digital euro within this year. Beau also revealed that the euro system will launch its first tokenized wholesale central bank currency service by the end of the year.

The regulated securitization trading platform tZERO announced the integration of its tokenized issuance platform into the Aptos network, enabling issuers to directly issue real-world asset (RWA) tokens on this high-performance public chain, further broadening the on-chain path for institutional-grade assets.Aptos is positioned as the underlying network for institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure and is continuously attracting traditional finance and compliant tokenization platforms. Currently, tokenized funds from institutions such as BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are already operating on-chain.With the integration of tZERO, the compliant asset issuance and trading infrastructure on Aptos has been further improved, covering the full chain capabilities from issuance, circulation to settlement.

Former Goliath Ventures CEO Christopher Delgado recently publicly apologized to investors after being charged by U.S. prosecutors for operating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme involving approximately $328 million. Delgado stated that he had betrayed the trust of investors and claimed he had voluntarily returned to the U.S. to face charges of fraud and money laundering.Prosecutors allege that between January 2023 and January 2026, he promised investors fixed monthly returns under the guise of "cryptocurrency liquidity pool investments," while actually using subsequent funds to pay returns to earlier investors. U.S. prosecutors also accused him of using some of the funds to purchase Florida properties worth a total of $14.5 million, as well as for hosting lavish events and trips. Delgado is currently out on bail, and if convicted on all charges, he could face up to 30 years in federal prison.

Aptos announced that after the governance vote passes, it will become the first Layer 1 public chain to provide a native encrypted mempool. This feature achieves complete confidentiality of transaction intentions, does not affect transaction speed, and aligns the trust assumptions with the network itself, aiming to protect users from frontrunning at the protocol level.

According to Cointelegraph citing Punchbowl, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong will have lunch with Senate Republicans on Wednesday to discuss the voting on the CLARITY Act. The vote on the bill will take place on Thursday.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on May 11, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by publicly listed companies worldwide (excluding mining companies) for the week was $45.08 million, a decrease of 83.5% compared to two weeks ago.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced an investment of $43 million (a decrease of 83.1% compared to two weeks ago) to purchase 535 Bitcoins at a price of $80,340, bringing its total holdings to 818,869 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase any Bitcoin last week.In addition, four other companies purchased Bitcoin last week. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced on May 7 that it had increased its holdings by 1,103 Bitcoins, with the specific expenditure not disclosed, bringing its total holdings to 16,949 Bitcoins; fintech company Block announced on May 7 that it had increased its holdings by 149 Bitcoins, with the specific purchase amount not disclosed, bringing its total holdings to 9,032 Bitcoins; Bitcoin company American Bitcoin announced on May 6 that it had purchased approximately 1,600 Bitcoins, with the specific amount not disclosed, bringing its total holdings to approximately 7,021 Bitcoins; and the UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on May 5 that it had invested $2.08 million to purchase 27 Bitcoins at a price of $77,087, bringing its total holdings to 2,805 Bitcoins.Capital B announced the completion of a €15.2 million financing round, with participants including global institutional investors and strategic investors Adam Back and TOBAM, aimed at accelerating Bitcoin purchases.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the publicly listed companies included in the statistics (excluding mining companies) is 1,088,090 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.3% compared to two weeks ago, with a current market value of approximately $88.32 billion, accounting for 5.4% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

According to an exclusive report by CNBC, Circle Internet Group raised $222 million through the presale of its native token from the new blockchain Arc, achieving a fully diluted network valuation of $3 billion. Andreessen Horowitz led the investment with $75 million, with participation from over a dozen institutions including BlackRock, Apollo Funds, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Standard Chartered Ventures, ARK Invest, and Bullish.Arc is a public blockchain designed for institutional finance. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that the company is transforming from a stablecoin issuer into a broader internet platform company, entering the operating system and application business. In terms of token distribution, Circle holds 25% of the initial supply of 10 billion tokens, 60% is allocated to network builders and participants, and 15% is reserved for long-term use. Circle also released a set of tools to help developers build AI agents, supporting transactions and payments using USDC. This is the first publicly traded company to conduct a token presale, and Allaire stated that all companies will achieve tokenization in the future.

The People's Court of Gulou District, Fuzhou City recently concluded a dispute arising from investment in virtual currency. Chen transferred 480,000 yuan to Liu for foreign exchange wealth management, and Liu converted the funds into USDT and invested on an overseas platform. After the platform closed, Chen filed a lawsuit in court seeking a refund.The court reviewed the case and found that the transaction model formed a closed loop of receiving RMB, exchanging for USDT, cross-border transfer, and buying and selling foreign exchange, which constitutes a disguised foreign exchange transaction and is suspected of economic crime. The court ruled to dismiss Chen's lawsuit and transferred the relevant materials to the public security authorities for handling, with the Fuzhou Intermediate Court upholding the original ruling. The court reminded that investing in virtual currency violates relevant civil laws of public order and good morals, and any losses arising from this shall be borne by the investor.

Alchemy Pay today announced the official launch of the Alchemy Chain mainnet, which focuses on stablecoin payments and aims to build a global compliant stablecoin payment network.Alchemy Chain is positioned as the world's first payment public chain that connects the dual compliance frameworks of Europe's MiCA and Hong Kong's HKMA, and will natively issue its own stablecoin, facilitating enterprise-level settlement networks across the EU, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the United States.Alchemy Chain launched its testnet in March this year, and since its launch, the number of test addresses has exceeded 160,000.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov stated in a personal channel that TON leads in the final confirmation time of blocks among L1 chains. Data shows that TON's final confirmation time is about 0.6 seconds, faster than mainstream L1s like Avalanche (about 1 second) and BNB Chain (about 1.1 seconds), while Ethereum takes 13 minutes and Bitcoin about 1 hour.

According to PRNewswire, the crypto-friendly investment app Public announced the acquisition of the AI investment service platform Treasury App, with the specific acquisition amount not yet disclosed.This transaction aims to strengthen the AI-driven brokerage business layout, focusing on promoting an upgrade of the investment experience centered around AI. Currently, Public supports trading in stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrencies such as BTC, ETH, and SOL.