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According to CoinPost, the Japanese blockchain infrastructure company Japan Blockchain Base has officially decided to issue a trust-based yen stablecoin EJPY, which is planned to be deployed on Japan Open Chain (JOC) and Ethereum, with the goal of launching issuance and circulation on JOC within the fiscal year 2026.The announcement stated that the trust-based framework required for EJPY has made phased progress. The company indicated that EJPY will focus on services for inter-company settlements, digital asset payments, transfers, and various Web3 payment scenarios, and will promote a multi-chain layout centered around JOC. Details regarding the actual issuance time, issuance conditions, cooperating institutions, and applicable blockchains will be announced separately after negotiations and necessary procedures with regulatory authorities and relevant institutions are completed.

According to Decrypt, Kraken's parent company Payward has announced a strategic partnership with asset management giant Franklin Templeton to bring some traditional financial products (including tokenized stocks and yield products) to the blockchain network. The two parties will integrate Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund BENJI into the Kraken platform as collateral and cash management tools for institutional clients.Payward's xStocks framework (which has processed over $30 billion in transaction volume since its launch last year) will collaborate with Franklin Templeton to explore new on-chain actively managed products, making its investment strategies available to institutions and some retail investors in specific jurisdictions. Franklin Templeton has also recently advanced its crypto business division, Franklin Crypto, by acquiring the crypto investment firm 250 Digital.

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.

According to the Arc white paper released by Circle, the Arc mainnet is expected to launch in the summer of 2026, with the testnet having started in October 2025. As of May 5, 2026, it has processed a total of 244.1 million transactions. Arc is positioned as an institutional-focused public Layer 1 blockchain, compatible with EVM, natively integrated with USDC, supporting sub-second deterministic settlement, stablecoin-priced gas fees, and configurable privacy features. Cross-chain transfers are completed through Circle CCTP.The white paper also reveals that the initial supply of the native token ARC is 10 billion, with 60% allocated to ecosystem development, 25% belonging to Circle, and 15% reserved for long-term holdings.

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 Businesswire, the NYSE-listed closed-end fund C1 Fund (CFND) announced its financial report for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2025, indicating that its private investment strategy in digital assets continues to expand, with the portfolio advancing in sync with liquidity events.As of now, its digital asset infrastructure investment portfolio includes Alchemy, Blockchain.com, Chainalysis, Consensys, Figment, Kraken, and Ripple, among others. This year, it has made additional investments exceeding $10.47 million in projects such as BitGo, Fireblocks, and Polymarket (Blockratize Inc.), and has completed additional allocations in holdings like Ripple.

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.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the TRUMP team has transferred $12.09 million worth of tokens (4.915 million TRUMP) to Fireblocks again after a three-month interval.Currently, the address still holds 762 million TRUMP, valued at up to $1.88 billion.

Bitcoin mining company DMG Blockchain has established a new subsidiary, DMG Infrastructure, for future artificial intelligence/high-performance computing (AIHPC) business operations, and plans to drive its data centers towards AI/HPC business transformation.DMG Blockchain also disclosed that it mined a total of 21 BTC in April, down from 23 BTC in March. As of the end of April, it holds 389 BTC, a decrease of 9 BTC from the previous month, with a current hash rate of 1.54 EH/s, down from 1.63 EH/s in March.

Enterprise blockchain infrastructure Antier Solutions announced the completion of a $3 million financing round, led by GVFL. The new funds will be used to support the construction of secure transactions, verifiable workflows, and institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure, expand deployments in the government and financial institutions (BFSI) sector, and grow business in the United States, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific markets.

Former Hong Kong Stock Exchange President Li Xiaojia stated at the second Caixin London Atlantic Dialogue that China can export productivity and financial services to regions such as the Global South to expand the influence of the renminbi. Chinese financial institutions can issue credit loans in these countries through financial technologies such as blockchain.

According to PRNewswire, the Swiss investment firm Multi Investment announced the completion of a financing round of 480 million Swiss francs (approximately 616 million USD). It currently manages assets exceeding 3 billion Swiss francs and aims to further advance its portfolio diversification strategy, focusing on high-growth areas such as fintech, deep tech, blockchain, and Web3.Multi Investment plans to increase its investment in the aforementioned strategic areas before the third quarter of 2026, with multiple transactions currently under evaluation, while also rapidly expanding its influence in related emerging ecosystems.

According to the CatcherPredict channel, the prediction market Predict.fun has launched the prediction event "Which blockchain will Polymarket migrate to in 2026?" with a total transaction volume reaching $1.701 million.Among them, the probability of "new Polymarket chain" migration is currently reported at 67%; the probability of "not migrating in 2026" is currently reported at 26%; the probability for Arbitrum is currently reported at 2%; and the probabilities for Avalanche, Base, MegaETH, Monad, Solana, BNB Chain, and other chains are currently reported at 1%.The settlement source for this event is the official announcement of the migration from Polymarket (press release, Shayne Coplan, or official X account), non-test transactions occurring on the new chain, and the underlying L1 not being Polygon. If the migration is not completed by December 31, 2026, at 23:59 (ET), the resolution will be "not migrating in 2026."

According to The Block, Jack Dorsey's fintech company Block recorded a revaluation loss of $173 million in the first quarter due to fluctuations in Bitcoin prices, resulting in a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $309 million.Block holds 28,355 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Despite this non-cash loss, Block's total gross profit in the first quarter increased by 27% year-on-year to $2.91 billion. Cash App's gross profit grew by 38% to $1.91 billion, but the Bitcoin business declined by 31% year-on-year. Square's Bitcoin business remained largely unchanged, with related revenue of approximately $28 million, offset by roughly equivalent costs, making its impact on gross profit negligible.Adjusted operating profit increased by 56% to $728 million, and adjusted earnings per share grew by 52% to $0.85. Block raised its full-year performance expectations, forecasting a 19% year-on-year increase in gross profit for the full year of 2026 and a 62% increase in adjusted diluted earnings per share.

According to the Nikkei, several major banks and securities companies in Japan plan to issue Japanese government bonds in the form of digital securities and manage them on the blockchain by 2026, enabling 24/7 trading of government bonds.Relevant institutions will introduce yen-denominated stablecoins that can circulate on the blockchain for fund settlement, aiming to reduce settlement costs, accelerate delivery speed, and enhance the efficiency of institutional investors' fund usage. The digital government bond scheme will allow government bonds to circulate outside traditional market trading hours, with relevant infrastructure and system design being jointly promoted by financial institutions.

Zhao Changpeng (CZ) stated at the Consensus Miami 2026 conference that YZi Labs is currently investing 70% of its funds in blockchain, 20% in AI, and 10% in biotechnology. The positioning of BNB should be as the native currency for AI Agents, and all blockchains need to be "AI ready," supporting agent payments and protocols for AI tools like MCP. Cryptocurrency should be the most native way for AI Agents to conduct cross-border payments. Regarding RWA, CZ mentioned that a year ago he believed RWA was overvalued, but he has changed his view; RWA is real and currently undervalued.

According to market news, Chainlink, Apex Group, Bluprynt, and Hacken have collaborated with the Bermuda Monetary Authority to complete an embedded regulatory pilot that integrates compliance requirements directly into digital asset infrastructure for real-time execution, replacing the traditional compliance model based on periodic reporting and manual checks.Non-compliant transactions are blocked before settlement, and compliance metadata is retained in cross-chain transfers. Chainlink provides on-chain policy enforcement and reserve verification infrastructure, assessing transactions through an automated compliance engine and using reserve proof tools to verify off-chain collateral. Bluprynt is responsible for issuer identity verification and compliance certificate issuance. Apex Group acts as an independent administrator providing certified reserve data from third-party custodians. Hacken offers real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and compliance alert systems, generating alerts in milliseconds after transactions are recorded. The Bermuda Monetary Authority plans to expand this model to production deployment and multi-jurisdictional oversight frameworks.

Solana's official tweet stated that Bullish has tokenized its entire cap table by putting 151 million shares on-chain to Solana after completing the acquisition of Equiniti.Bullish CEO Thomas Farley announced this news at the Consensus 2026 conference and demonstrated a real-time wallet-to-wallet share transfer live using the Phantom wallet.

According to BBX data, yesterday Wall Street institutions made a significant breakthrough in retail crypto layout, and today the dual verification point of the earnings season is approaching. The core dynamics are as follows:Morgan Stanley (NYSE: $MS) disclosed via Bloomberg on May 6 that its ETrade platform officially launched a pilot for crypto spot trading, with a fee structure of 50 basis points per transaction amount, lower than Coinbase (retail rates vary by tier and payment method, potentially exceeding 50 basis points), Robinhood (approximately 100 basis points, according to media estimates), and Charles Schwab (75 basis points); initially supporting three major assets: BTC, ETH, and SOL, with liquidity, custody, and settlement services provided by Zerohash; the pilot is currently aimed at a select group of users, with plans to open to all 8.6 million ETrade customers by the end of 2026. Head of Wealth Management Jed Finn characterized this move as "reverse disruption of disruptors," and Morgan Stanley is simultaneously advancing its application for a national trust bank license to achieve self-custody, with plans to launch Ethereum and Solana spot ETFs.Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: $COIN) will release its Q1 2026 earnings report after the market closes today (May 7), with the earnings call scheduled for 2:30 PM (PT); analyst consensus expects Q1 revenue of approximately $1.5 billion (a year-on-year decrease of about -26%), and EPS of about $0.23---$0.36 (a significant decline from $1.94 in the same period last year); the relative resilience of subscription and service revenue (including stablecoins, custody, and staking) will be the core metric of most interest today.Block, Inc. (NYSE: $XYZ) will release its Q1 2026 earnings report after the market closes today (May 7), with an earnings call at 2:00 PM (PT); analyst consensus expects revenue of approximately $6.04 billion to $6.11 billion (a year-on-year increase of +5.79%), and EPS of $0.68 (an increase of about 21% from approximately $0.56 in the same period last year); consensus for Bitcoin ecosystem revenue is expected to be about $2.11 billion (down from $2.30 billion in the same period last year); Evercore ISI maintains an "Outperform" rating with a target price of $96 (implying about 35% upside from the current stock price of $70.92), focusing on the recovery progress of the fundamentals of the two major business lines, Square and Cash App.

According to Blockaid's monitoring, its vulnerability detection system found that the 1inch market maker/parser TrustedVolumes is under attack, involving the Ethereum network. The victim contract is the TrustedVolumes parser, which has so far extracted approximately $5.87 million, including 1,291.16 WETH, 206,282 USDT, 16.939 WBTC, and 1,268,771 USDC.Blockaid stated that the attacker is the same operator as in the 1inch Fusion V1 attack incident in March 2025, but this vulnerability is different, located in the custom RFQ trading agent contract controlled by TrustedVolumes. More details will be announced soon.