Daily recap — May 14

Lead stories

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee approved the advancement of the CLARITY bill following bipartisan voting. The next step will be a vote by the full Senate.

Negotiations took place in Beijing between Donald Trump’s team and Xi Jinping — the sides discussed tariffs, chips, and the future of global trade.

Moscow Exchange is discussing with brokers how legal crypto trading could operate in Russia — under one proposed model, account funding could happen through transfers from a cold wallet to a client address within a Russian digital depository.

Grok was tricked once again, but this time not through a code vulnerability — instead, attackers used a “gift” NFT containing a hidden command, which the AI bot obediently executed, sending around $174,000 from the wallet.

Global money supply has reached a new record high — $121.9 trillion.

One of the participants in the Ethereum ICO transferred 790 ETH to a new wallet after 11 years of inactivity — in 2015, the coins were purchased for just $245, while their current value is around $1,790,000.

Forward Industries, the largest public holder of Solana, has accumulated nearly 7,000,000 SOL and is currently sitting on an unrealized loss of around $1 billion.

Anthropic is effectively removing unlimited coding access in Claude — starting June 15, separate credits will be introduced for agent-based and automated tasks, charged according to API pricing, potentially increasing token consumption by 10–30x.

Tether reported freezing more than $450,000,000 in crypto assets linked to criminal schemes.

Coinbase is deepening its support for Hyperliquid — the company will custody USDC for the platform and promote it as the primary asset for trading pairs.

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