On May 23, 2026, Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the lending protocol will pursue a "revenue-led protocol strategy" over the next 12 months, aiming to push DeFi beyond token speculation. Aave currently leads lending metrics with more than $14 billion in TVL and $7.96 million in fees over the past seven days, while Aave V4 has surpassed $100 million in combined deposits and loans.

A New York Times report dated May 24 says Trump appointees at the CFTC placed multiple officials on administrative leave after they raised compliance concerns involving Polymarket, Crypto.com, and a Gemini affiliate. The report also describes the agency dropping at least five crypto-related probes and sharply reducing enforcement actions, while separately suing six states over efforts to restrict prediction markets.

Uniswap governance has published Proposal 96 to expand UNIfication by turning on protocol fee collection and routing those fees into UNI burns on BNB Chain, Polygon and Celo. Voting is scheduled to open on May 24, 2026, using the expedited process. UNI was trading at $3.30, down 92.7% from its May 2021 all-time high of $44.97.

Solana Floor warned on May 22, 2026 that scammers are impersonating Jupiter Exchange's Jupuary program by airdropping fake "$CJUP" tokens to Solana wallets and steering users to a wallet-draining phishing site. Jupiter has not announced any active distribution for May 2026, and users are advised to verify eligibility only through the official jup.ag airdrop checker and avoid interacting with unsolicited tokens.

Bithumb said it has terminated its partnership with Heleket, citing anti-money laundering and terrorism-financing risk concerns. The move comes as the South Korean exchange tries to strengthen compliance after regulators earlier dropped a 36.8 billion won ($24.6 million) penalty tied to transactions routed through unregistered foreign platforms.

A Federal Reserve Board household survey on U.S. economic well-being in 2025 found that about 25% of American workers used generative AI for work in the prior month, and 81% of users said it saves time. Separate figures cited alongside the report indicate roughly 18% of U.S. firms had adopted AI by the end of 2025, while the Fed estimates 78% of the labor force works at AI-adopting firms.

On May 18, three French crypto industry stakeholders warned that France's 2019 tax rules can apply a 31.4% charge when regulated euro stablecoins are moved from wallets to bank accounts, potentially discouraging onshore conversions. They said the friction could drive capital offshore and reduce public revenue by an estimated 1 billion to 3 billion euros a year as AI-agent payments increasingly settle in stablecoins.

Adshares said an attacker involved in its bridge incident returned 256 ETH (about $540,700), roughly 86% of the estimated $628,000 taken. The exploit was linked to bridge mint-validation failures, and analysts warned that recovery windows often trigger phishing “refund” sites and impersonator accounts.

ReYuu Japan (TYO: 9425) and Canada's Universal Digital (CNSX: LFG) have terminated a planned $100 million loan facility tied to ReYuu's digital-asset treasury strategy. The non-binding MOU, signed in October 2025, never progressed to a drawn loan, with no interest rate or finalized financing structure. ReYuu said it is still evaluating its crypto treasury approach while also pursuing initiatives such as AI development with a China-based partner.