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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, May 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a sovereign Layer 1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives trading, has officially commenced the operation of its L1 Mainnet, signaling a definitive end to the era of trade execution compromised by general-purpose blockchain congestion. Engineered for the world’s most demanding participants, AFX introduces the Sovereign Trading Layer—a dedicated financial environment where the non-custodial transparency of a Perp DEX meets the uncompromising speed and depth traditionally reserved for institutional-grade centralized entities. At launch, the protocol supports a high-liquidity suite of perpetual markets across both digital and traditional macro assets, featuring BTC, ETH, Gold…

Key takeaways Ripple (XRP) tests support at $1.43 amid selling pressure from the $1.50 supply zone.  Institutional ETF inflows rebound to $1.37B, while futures open interest rises to $3.09B, signaling cautious optimism.  Ripple (XRP) is grinding lower on Friday, testing key support at $1.43 after being capped by strong selling from the $1.50 supply range since Monday.  Despite the US Senate Banking Committee advancing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (Clarity Act) on Thursday, overall market sentiment remains constrained amid a cautious recovery outlook. XRP addresses in profit tick up The proportion of XRP addresses with unrealized profit…

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley wants AI-displaced tech workers to consider crypto. He argues that the industry’s messy problems create the kind of opportunity ambitious engineers should chase. The pitch arrived inside a broader Silicon Valley conversation about AI-driven job anxiety. Investors and founders are describing a workforce reshaped by automation, widening wealth divides, and questions about future careers. Horsley Frames Crypto as the Pre-Mainstream OpenAI Bet Horsley told tech employees their pragmatism is what crypto needs. He pointed to problems around financial freedom, access, and cutting out middle men. He compared the move to joining OpenAI before mainstream adoption was…

THORChain has confirmed a $10 million exploit and launched a recovery portal, giving affected users a self-custodial path to revoke malicious token approvals and submit refund claims backed by a treasury-provisioned refund pool of equal size.In a Saturday post on X, THORChain Foundation introduced the recovery portal, saying that “affected users are now able to check what they will be paid as compensation following the exploit.”The portal, citing a PeckShield post-mortem, claims that the attack was detected at 02:14 UTC on May 11, when node operators flagged anomalous outbound transactions. Trading and outbound signing were paused within eight minutes. In…

The belief that the bear market bottom is in assumes “major invalidation of long-standing principles in bitcoin market cycles,” said one analyst. After dumping to $60,000 during the early February crash, bitcoin rebounded swiftly and jumped to almost $83,000 a week ago, posting a massive 38% increase. This caused many analysts to speculate whether the bear market had ended. However, the price action in the past few days has been contradictory, and BTC slipped to a two-week low of $78,000 yesterday. Analysts are not so convinced now that the bottom is in, and here are some of their warning shots.…

Felix Pinkston May 16, 2026 16:52 Coinbase’s Agentic.Market launches, enabling 480K AI agents to transact autonomously via x402 micropayments. Next step: verifiability. Agentic.Market, the blockchain-powered marketplace for autonomous AI agents, officially launched on April 20, 2026, marking a transformative step for the so-called ‘agent economy.’ Built on Coinbase’s x402 micropayments protocol and Base blockchain, the platform already boasts 480,000 active agents, $50 million in cumulative transaction volume, and over 100,000 listed services, according to launch data. What sets Agentic.Market apart is its ability to let AI agents discover, purchase, and consume services autonomously, without human intervention or API keys. This…

In an interview with CoinDesk, the lead engineer at Firedancer gives an update on how the new client, also known as a software, is fairing in the Solana ecosystem.

New York, USA, May 15th, 2026, Chainwire E Estate Group Inc. announced that it will host E-Estate 1 Year Live: Washington DC Summit on June 13, 2026, bringing together company leadership, agents, buyers, strategic partners, and guests interested in the future of blockchain-based real estate ownership. The summit will take place at The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. and will mark one year since the launch of the E-Estate platform. The event is designed as a milestone gathering for the E-Estate ecosystem and a broader discussion on how real estate tokenization is moving from early adoption into structured infrastructure. The…

Victoria, Seychelles, May 15th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the successful conclusion of its inaugural USD1 event series on May 13. The event attracted more than 161,773 participants, while new users generated a cumulative Futures trading volume of $2.4 billion, highlighting strong market demand for the USD1 ecosystem. Event Recap Since launching in April, MEXC has rolled out a comprehensive USD1 event ecosystem spanning trading, yield opportunities, and user incentives. The event drew strong market attention from the outset. In early April, MEXC became one of the first exchanges to launch the USD1 Launchpool,…

Eightco treasury composition as of May 12, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $129M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $340 million World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes New independent data shows OpenAI’s coming social network will land in a category already 15–43% non-human, reinforcing demand for Worldcoin’s Proof of Human network New data shows that bot, AI-generated, and inauthentic activity now ranges from 15% to 75% of activity across eight core internet domains, including 75% of Polymarket trading volume, 53% of…