Zcash (ZEC) pulled back below $550 on Friday morning after topping $570 on May 14, dipping to around $530 with intraday lows near $532. Derivatives activity stayed heavy, with spot volume near $256 million and futures volume above $2.7 billion. The setup remains constructive if $500 holds, while a break lower could put $450 and then $370 in focus.

U.S. Treasury yields rose Friday morning after a volatile week of inflation readings as markets assessed policy under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. The 30-year yield increased 8.6 basis points to just under 5.1%, while the 10-year moved to 4.55% and the 2-year reached 4.06%. Inflation and energy-price pressures, along with fiscal and global bond-market moves, were also in focus.

THORChain was hit by a multi-chain exploit on May 15, 2026, with security alerts estimating losses at about $10 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base. RUNE slid to $0.5146, down 11.32% over 24 hours, while tracking data showed the stolen assets concentrated in two main wallets.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko said the Alpenglow consensus upgrade going live on a community test cluster supports the view that Solana's base architecture is working as intended. The overhaul replaces Proof of History and TowerBFT with Votor and Rotor, aiming to cut finality from roughly 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds and to make delay-based MEV strategies more costly for validators. The upgrade is described as targeting mainnet as soon as Q2 2026 after previously clearing the validator set with more than 98% support in September 2025.

Binance removed Automata (ATA), Harvest Finance (FARM), Enzyme (MLN), Phoenix (PHB), and Syscoin (SYS) earlier this week, followed by double-digit declines in several of the tokens. XRP briefly touched $1.55 on May 14 before easing to $1.47, up 6% on the week, while ADA rose 2% to $0.26 as analysts highlighted $0.25 support and floated higher price targets.

THORChain halted trading on Friday morning following a cross-chain exploit estimated at over $10 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Base. RUNE fell about 10% within hours to $0.52 as the team also stopped on-chain signing as a precautionary step.

Grove has introduced Basin, a blockchain-based liquidity facility supported by firms including BlackRock and Janus Henderson, aimed at speeding up redemptions for tokenized Treasury funds. The system is designed to offer investors access to as much as $1 billion in stablecoin liquidity per day while traditional settlement continues in the background. BlackRock's $2.2 billion BUIDL and the $1.1 billion Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund (JTRSY) are the first connected products.

Quarterly 13F filings show Jane Street cut its Bitcoin ETF holdings by 71% in Q1 2025, while JPMorgan Chase reported a 174% increase. The disclosures are quarter-end snapshots as of March 31 and do not reflect intra-quarter trading. The split underscores that institutional positioning in Bitcoin ETFs remains uneven rather than unified.