May 15, 2026

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Putin offers to store Iran’s enriched uranium amid US-Iran tensions

## Market Snapshot Iran’s Enriched Uranium Surrender market is priced at 46.5% YES for the December 31, 2026 deadline, up from 42% 24 hours ago. The June 30, 2026 deadline is at 25% YES, showing a slight increase from 24% a day earlier. ## Key Takeaways – Putin’s statement appears to suggest increased likelihood of

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What Does ETH Need to Surge Past $3,000 Again as Whales Are Abandoning Ship?

Whales have reduced their ETH holdings by over 21% since the October peak. Ethereum’s native coin finally managed to break its all-time high during the 2025 rally, but only mildly compared to other assets, such as BTC. Its subsequent behavior has been quite painful, as it now trades over 53% away from its peak

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Amazon lets AI bots pay in USDC via Coinbase x402

Coinbase x402 is now native to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, letting AI agents pay for services in USDC without human input Summary AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments on May 7, with Coinbase x402 and wallet infrastructure embedded to give AI agents autonomous USDC payment capability. Agents settle transactions on Base in roughly 200 milliseconds at

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Seven major Bitcoin mining pools join Stratum V2 working group

Seven of the biggest names in Bitcoin mining just agreed to sit at the same table. AntPool, Block Inc., F2Pool, Foundry, MARA Foundation, SpiderPool, and DMND have all joined the Stratum V2 working group, a collaborative effort to overhaul the communication protocol that mining pools use to coordinate with individual miners. What Stratum V2 actually

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Trump-Backed American Bitcoin Posts $82M Loss Despite Record BTC Mining Output

Despite the headline loss, the company emphasized that it continued accumulating Bitcoin rather than selling into weakness. American Bitcoin (ABTC), the Trump family-backed BTC company, released its Q1 2026 financial results earlier in the week, and they showed a nearly $82 million net loss for the period. This was despite the firm mining a

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Connecticut passes sweeping AI regulation law SB5

Connecticut SB5 passed both chambers on May 1 and heads to the governor, making it one of the most comprehensive state AI laws in the US. Summary Connecticut SB5 passed 131-17 in the House and 32-4 in the Senate on May 1, with Governor Lamont confirming he will sign the bill. The law covers AI

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Parker files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy amid shutdown reports

Parker, the corporate credit card and banking startup that emerged from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on May 7, 2026. The company is widely reported to have shut down entirely. Chapter 7 is the nuclear option of bankruptcy filings. Unlike Chapter 11, which lets companies restructure and attempt a comeback,

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Banks try to kill the CLARITY Act

The US banking lobby is mounting a last-minute push to stall the CLARITY Act just days before its scheduled Senate Banking Committee markup on May 14. Summary Five major banking groups jointly rejected the Tillis-Alsobrooks stablecoin yield compromise, calling it insufficient days before the May 14 markup. Senators Lummis and Tillis publicly defended the deal,

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Kazakhstan plans $1.9B data center amid power shortages

Kazakhstan just signed an agreement to build out a $1.9B data center complex, betting that its geographic position and energy resources can turn it into a serious player in the global compute race. There’s one problem: the country doesn’t currently have enough electricity to power what it already has. The deal, signed between Kazakhstan’s Ministry

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Hacker Drains $5.9M From Ethereum Liquidity Provider TrustedVolumes

Early reports framed the incident as a 1inch exploit, but the protocol clarified that it was not compromised and no user funds were affected. TrustedVolumes, a liquidity provider on the Ethereum blockchain, lost about $5.9 million in funds to a hacker on Thursday. The attacker was able to exploit a vulnerability within the custom

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