Saturday May 30, 2026
The Week in Review
Crypto and Blockchain
◾ Pope Leo XIV releases encyclical on AI ethics (Vatican)
◾ ECB warns tighter euro-stablecoin restrictions promote ‘digital dollarisation’ (Reuters)
◾ SEC delays plan to allow crypto versions of US stocks (Bloomberg)
◾ Canada approves WonderFi $WONDF acquisition by Robinhood $HOOD (Newsfile)
◾ New York lawsuit tests whether dormant bitcoin counts as abandoned property (Cryptonews)
◾ SEC approves Paxos as clearing agency (Paxos)
◾ Grayscale delays IPO, cites market conditions (CoinDesk)
◾ Binance denies Iranian IRGC funding flowed through exchange (Richard Teng/X)
◾ DTCC to tokenize custodied assets on Stellar blockchain (DTCC)
Artificial Intelligence
◾ Trump AI executive order postponed over China-race delay concerns (WSJ)
◾ White House approves $9B for US intel agencies to buy advanced AI chips, compute (NYT)
◾ DeepSeek permanently cuts token prices by 75% (TNW)
◾ Musk: SpaceX only agreed to lease Colossus to Anthropic for 6 months (Reuters)
◾ $META weighing own cloud computing business (CNBC)
◾ Apollo $APO and Blackstone $BX working on $36B Anthropic debt financing (Bloomberg)
◾ Robinhood $HOOD to launch AI stock trading (Bloomberg)
◾ $META to offer AI chatbot subscriptions (Bloomberg)
◾ Coinbase $COIN releases AI tool connecting ChatGPT to crypto wallets (Base Blog)
Gaming, Social & Interactive Platforms
◾ Trump backs CFTC’s exclusive authority over prediction markets (Truth Social)
◾ Polymarket launching KYC in beta (X)
◾ YouTube to auto-label AI content (YouTube)
◾ Spotify $SPOT launches narrated publisher articles (Reuters)
Space & Satellites
◾ SpaceX launches Starship V3 on first test flight (Space.com)
◾ Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on pad during static fire test (Spaceflight Now)
◾ EU satellite rules to let non-European firms bid for spectrum (Bloomberg)
◾ NASA sets Moon base timeline: first crewed mission 2029, infrastructure by 2032, sustained human presence to follow (GB News)
◾ USSF awards SpaceX $2.2B military space data network contract (Reuters)
◾ American Airlines $AAL to install Starlink on 500 narrow-body planes (American Airlines)
Finance
◾ SpaceX granted fast-entry into Russell US Equity Indexes and FTSE Global Equity Index Series (Reuters)
◾ SpaceX targets at least $1.8T valuation in IPO (Bloomberg)
◾ Hoth Therapeutics $HOTH rebrands to Rocket One $RKTO (PR Newswire)
◾ Viasat $VSAT Q4’26: Revenue $1.2B +2% y/y | Op loss $0.6M | Net income $58.8M | aEBITDA $369.9M -1% y/y (SEC Filing)
◾ CD Projekt $OTGLY Q1’26: Revenue zł191.1M +6% y/y | Op income zł97.1M +3% y/y | Net income zł106.2M -5% y/y (CD Projekt)
◾ BitFuFu $FUFU Q1’26: Revenue $72.7M -7% y/y | Op loss $37.9M | Net loss $35.0M | aEBITDA loss $34.4M (Globe Newswire)
◾ Bitcoin Treasury $BTCFF Q1’26: Revenue C$27.7K | Net loss C$19.3M (Newsfile)
◾ SOLAI $SLAI Q1’26: Revenue $7.9M +19.7% y/y | Op loss $6.8M | Net loss $6.7M (PR Newswire)
◾ DMG Blockchain $DMGGF Q2’26: Revenue C$7.3M -42% y/y | Op loss C$2.0M | Net loss C$3.5M (Globe Newswire)
◾ Inside Crypto’s Washington Command Center—and Blitz for Legitimacy (TheInformation)
◾ Inside the British Lab Hunting for Dangers Lurking in A.I. (NYTimes)
◾ SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs set to test limits of AI boom (FT)
◾ Dreams of Violets | Official Trailer First Fully AI-Generated Film Accepted to Tribecca Film Festival