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Rivian is developing multiple variants of its lower-cost R2 electric vehicle and expects to begin deliveries around June, according to Reuters. The US electric vehicle maker recently started volume production of the R2, which is central to its growth strategy. Rivian chief executive RJ Scaringe

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on X on May 6 that Xbox will stop developing the AI Copilot on the console side and will gradually shut down the Copilot service on mobile devices. According to IGN, Sharma sent an internal memo to Xbox employees on the same day, saying that the Xbox team is undergoing a major transformation and has appointed new leadership to accelerate execution.

The Tennessee Bankers Association, representing more than 175 commercial banks across the state, has entered into a strategic collaboration with Stablecore to integrate blockchain-powered financial capabilities into traditional banking systems. The partnership is designed to enable regional and comm

Pi Network co-founder Dr. Chengdiao Fan and Nicolas Kokkalis announced at the Consensus 2026 conference held in Miami on May 6 and 7 that Protocol 23 will be activated on May 11, a major upgrade introducing the first full smart contract capabilities for the Pi blockchain.

K Wave Media, a Nasdaq-listed Korean media and entertainment firm, announced it will redirect up to US$485 million from a planned bitcoin treasury strategy into AI infrastructure including data centers, GPU compute, and acquisitions, according to CoinDesk. The move amends a US$500 million

According to coverage of the Consensus Miami 2026 conference held on May 6, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (Toly) said during a fireside discussion that the Solana network’s major upgrade “Alpenglow” is expected to be released this year, with the earliest possible rollout in the next quarter.

On May 6, the United States announced the end of Operation Epic Rage and the suspension of the Hormuz Freedom Plan. Bitcoin rebounded to $81,700, easing market sentiment.

Indian fabless chip startup BigEndian Semiconductors announced on May 6 that it raised US$6 million in a funding round led by IAN Alpha Fund to commercialize its first system-on-chip and expand engineering operations. The round also included investors Vertex

According to Protos’ report on May 5, Bitcoin Core developers publicly disclosed a high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2024-52911, on the official website. The flaw allows miners to crash other users’ nodes remotely by mining specially crafted blocks and execute code under certain conditions. Because upgrading to the latest version is voluntary for full Bitcoin nodes, it is currently estimated that around 43% of nodes are still running vulnerable outdated software.

According to an investigation published by National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States on May 5, a reporter went to the Panama headquarters address registered on Polymarket’s official site—21st floor, Oceania Business Plaza, Panama City—and found no traces of Polymarket or any of its Panama legal entities on site. The office at that address, Garcia de Paredes Law Firm, previously provided legal services to FTX.

According to Decrypt’s report on May 6, the Solana Foundation partnered with Google Cloud to launch the Pay.sh service, allowing AI agents to pay for on-demand API access costs using stablecoins on Solana, without traditional accounts or subscriptions; for each API call, agents only need to pay a fraction of a cent, with no minimum spend requirement.

According to data published by Token Terminal on X on May 6, the total market value of tokenized U.S. Treasuries deployed on Ethereum has risen to about $8 billion, setting a new all-time high, with growth of approximately 100% over the past six months; the same day, Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, said at the Consensus Miami 2026 conference in Miami that global economic tokenization is inevitable.

According to an official announcement posted by AMM infrastructure Ekubo on X on May 6, a security incident occurred in Ekubo’s Swap routing contract on EVM networks. Ekubo confirmed that liquidity providers (LPs) and Starknet were not affected by this incident; the team is investigating the scope of the event and preparing a post-incident analysis report.

According to The Block, on May 5, the decentralized finance lending protocol Kelp DAO announced it would stop using LayerZero as a cross-chain infrastructure provider and instead adopt Chainlink’s cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP). Kelp DAO is “the first major protocol to abandon LayerZero since the LayerZero vulnerability incident occurred.”

Multicoin Capital managing partner Tushar Jain posted on X on May 6, disclosing that Multicoin has continuously accumulated Zcash (ZEC) since February to build a larger position. Since the February low, ZEC has risen by about 177%, once breaking $550; as of the time of publication on May 6, it was $511.71.

SoFi Technologies announced it will begin issuing its stablecoin, SoFiUSD, on the Solana blockchain, citing the network's cost efficiency, settlement speed, and throughput capabilities. Ben Reynolds, SoFi's head of big business banking, said on Tuesday: "We think it is the right chain to use for

According to coverage of the Consensus conference held in Miami Beach, Florida on May 5, Ryan Rugg, Head of Digital Assets for Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citigroup, said in his speech that if tokenized money remains limited to each bank’s isolated systems, it will not be able to fulfill its promise of improving the efficiency of global capital flows. Rugg noted that large corporate clients need systems that enable seamless collaboration across financial institutions, rather than tokens confined within a single bank.

Bitcoin (BTC) continues the rebound trend since the start of the week, with a temporary quote of around $81,240 as of May 6. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking to further implement protective measures for non-custodial software developers. Strategy suggests it may sell Bitcoin to meet its dividend obligations, with a Q1 net loss of $12.54 billion.

According to Drift Protocol’s official announcement published on X on May 6, Drift Protocol has officially launched a user recovery plan for the April 1 hack: each affected wallet will receive a “Recovery Token,” with each token corresponding to $1 of verified losses, as a proportional claims certificate for the recovery pool.