Software stocks broke from bitcoin — what's next?

BTC fell 10% while IGV gained 12%. $2.97B in record ETF outflows. Wall Street hit new highs on the AI trade. Cardano’s Summit is cancelled. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ SPONSORED BY Monday, June 1, 2026   Software stocks broke from bitcoin — and the divergence may be a signal. IGV rallied 36% since April 10 while BTC fell 10% over the same stretch. The 20-day correlation between the two has dropped to 0.58, its lowest since before the major rallies of late 2023 and mid-2024. Each time it got this low before, bitcoin significantly outperformed in the months that followed. Meanwhile, spot BTC ETFs just logged a record 10-session, $2.97 billion outflow streak — the longest on record — even as Wall Street ripped to new highs on the Nvidia and SoftBank AI trade. Read today’s full report → Market snapshot As of 8am EST Asset Price 24h BTC $72,527 −1.80% ETH $1,996 −2.10% SOL $81.89 −1.40% XRP $1.32 −1.60% Prices approximate. Visit coindesk.com/price for live data. A message from CME Group The cryptocurrency market never sleeps, and neither should your ability to manage your exposure and capture opportunities. With institutional and active trader interest in digital assets continuing to grow, having access to reliable, continuous trading is more critical than ever. Building on this momentum, our comprehensive suite of Cryptocurrency futures and options contracts — available in both larger and Micro sizes — allow you to trade around the clock across major digital assets. What are the key advantages of 24/7 trading? Continuous performance: Trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Proven liquidity: Join a marketplace that handled over $3T in notional volume in 2025. Regulated marketplace: Benefit from the same transparency and oversight you trust — soon available every hour and every day. Don’t just watch the market — trade its potential. Find out more CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. L1.co Disclosure: This material is for informational purposes only, and the content contained herein should not be considered investment advice or a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to sell or buy any asset, strategy, or product. Investing in digital assets involves a high degree of risk, including the loss of principal. What matters today Markets   Story 1 of 3 Software stocks broke from bitcoin. This divergence has historically preceded a major BTC outperformance. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) has surged 36% since April 10, reclaiming its 200-day moving average — a return to long-term uptrend driven by AI tailwinds washing away the “SaaS apocalypse” narrative that hit MSFT, ORCL, and PLTR earlier this year. Bitcoin moved in nearly the opposite direction over the same period, falling roughly 10% since May 14 while IGV gained 12% — one of the largest disconnects between the two assets in recent years. But here’s the signal: bitcoin’s 20-day rolling correlation with IGV has dropped to 0.58, its lowest reading since late 2023 and mid-2024. In both prior instances, bitcoin significantly outperformed software stocks in the months that followed the low-correlation episode. Read more → Markets   Story 2 of 3 Record $2.97B in BTC ETF outflows over 10 sessions. Wall Street hit new highs on the AI trade. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs logged their tenth consecutive day of outflows on Friday — the longest streak on record, surpassing the previous eight-session run from early 2025 — with $2.97 billion drained between May 15 and May 29 per SoSoValue. The single largest day was May 27, with $733 million exiting in 24 hours, the biggest single-day outflow since January. Total net assets across U.S. BTC ETFs fell from $104.29 billion on May 15 to $94.17 billion by Friday. ETH ETFs are running an even longer 14-session outflow streak, draining roughly $2.6 billion. All of this happened while Wall Street ripped: the MSCI All Country World Index set a record, Asian equities advanced 1.1% to an all-time high, Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.6% on Nvidia’s laptop-market push, and SoftBank surged 11% on its OpenAI and Arm holdings. Oil complicated the picture, with Brent back above $93 on stalled Hormuz reopening efforts. Read more → Governance   Story 3 of 3 Cardano’s governance vote cancelled the 2026 Summit. Smaller TOKEN2049 plan approved. The Cardano Foundation’s treasury proposal for the 2026 Cardano Summit in Singapore failed to clear the required two-thirds supermajority, finishing at 65.21% approval — 1.46 percentage points short. The ask had already been trimmed by 22% to 7.8 million ADA (~$1.83M) from an original 14.07 million ADA, with milestone-gated payments and an oversight committee added. Even public endorsements from Charles Hoskinson and Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard couldn’t swing enough DReps. A separate EMURGO proposal for a Cardano pavilion at TOKEN2049 Singapore — requesting 3.3 million ADA (~$793K) — passed separately. The outcome is the second major Cardano governance rejection this year, following a 32.9 million ADA research proposal that also failed, and marks one of the most visible tests of the Voltaire-era governance framework. Read more → CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. L1.co Disclosure: This material is for informational purposes only, and the content contained herein should not be considered investment advice or a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to sell or buy any asset, strategy, or product. Investing in digital assets involves a high degree of risk, including the loss of principal. Crypto Daybook Americas: A newsletter from CoinDesk Were you forwarded this newsletter? Sign up here.  Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.  CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA Unsubscribe Manage preferences

Is bitcoin losing the AI capital race?

Bitcoin slips to 13th largest asset as SK Hynix hits $1 trillion. Robinhood just let AI trade on your behalf. And the CLARITY Act needs tax reform to actually matter. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Bitcoin remains under pressure as Korea's SK Hynix joins Micron in $1 trillion club Bitcoin slipped to 13th place among the world's largest assets Wednesday, trading near $75,000 as the AI chip rally continued to pull capital elsewhere. SK Hynix surged 9.3% in Seoul to cross $1 trillion in market cap — joining Samsung and Micron, which hit the threshold Tuesday after UBS tripled its price target to $1,625. Micron is up another 8% in U.S. premarket. Mizuho called memory "the backbone of AI" and sees demand outpacing supply through 2027. Meanwhile, bitcoin is down 11% year-to-date and nearly 30% over the past year, with TSMC and Broadcom now valued at roughly $2 trillion each — both above bitcoin. Swissblock's Risk Index has moved into high-risk territory: spot ETFs have absorbed a net 4,500 BTC all year, May has flipped to net outflows, and a single unknown investor dumped $1.29 billion of BlackRock's IBIT in one dark-pool trade Tuesday — the largest block trade of its kind on record. Tom Lee's $76,000 support level, which he says must hold by month-end to confirm a new bull market, is under active test. Read the full story → Markets Robinhood is letting AI trade for you so you don't have to keep checking the markets Robinhood launched Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card Wednesday, letting users connect third-party AI agents to a dedicated trading account — separate from their main portfolio — to execute stock orders autonomously. Agents can rebalance portfolios, analyze sector exposure, monitor themes, and place trades within user-defined limits. A paired virtual credit card lets agents make purchases automatically, like snagging concert tickets before sellout or buying when prices hit a threshold. The beta supports equities only; crypto, options, futures, and prediction markets are planned next. The launch uses Robinhood's MCP server — the same protocol Coinbase's Base deployed Tuesday — and arrives as Visa, Google, and Stripe are all racing to build agentic payment infrastructure. Robinhood VP Abhishek Fatehpuria: "I think our audience right now is the early adopters of agents." Read more → Op-Ed The CLARITY Act won't lead to adoption without crypto tax reform Koinly CEO Robin Singh argues that regulatory clarity is necessary but not sufficient — the U.S. crypto tax framework is still too broken for mainstream adoption to follow. Form 1099-DA, which any crypto broker must now issue, creates serious reporting gaps: it doesn't cover wallet-to-wallet transfers, DeFi activity, or cost-basis reconciliation across chains, leaving users to manually reconstruct complex transaction histories to avoid audit risk. Singh's case: the CLARITY Act may define what crypto is, who regulates it, and how platforms operate — but until everyday users can transact without triggering a taxable event on every coffee they buy with stablecoins, the law is solving the supply-side problem while leaving the demand-side problem intact. Tax reform bills like the PARITY Act are moving slowly. The gap between regulatory clarity and actual usability remains wide. Read more → Know someone who should be reading this? Share this newsletter See all of CoinDesk’s newsletters    CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York,NY,10011,USA, Unsubscribe Manage Preferences   Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.

Can ChatGPT now manage your crypto wallet?

Coinbase's Base just gave ChatGPT a crypto wallet. Bitcoin sits out the Iran peace rally. And the crypto community mourns the loss of Nathan Allman. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Tuesday, May 26, 2026 Coinbase's Base launches AI tool for ChatGPT to manage crypto wallets and DeFi apps Coinbase's Base has launched a Payments Model Context Protocol server — a tool that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT interact directly with crypto wallets and DeFi applications on behalf of users. The integration allows AI agents to check balances, send tokens, interact with DeFi protocols, and manage onchain assets through natural language commands without the user needing to navigate a wallet interface manually. It builds on Base's x402 payment protocol, which now has roughly 69,000 active AI agents and 167 million transactions settled. The MCP server currently integrates with Claude, Gemini, Codex, and Cherry Studio; ChatGPT support is planned but blocked by a technical incompatibility with OpenAI's current streaming transport. The launch advances Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong's prediction that AI agents will become the dominant users of crypto infrastructure — transacting autonomously at a scale no human user population could match. Read the full story → Markets Bitcoin on sidelines as markets surge on Iran peace hopes Trump's weekend announcement of an imminent Middle East peace agreement sent oil prices and bond yields sharply lower Monday, lifting equities and chip stocks — but not bitcoin. BTC is trading at $76,800, down nearly 1% on the day, as traders route capital into AI-related plays and await the SpaceX and OpenAI mega-IPOs rather than rotating into crypto. Micron surged 17% after UBS raised its price target to $1,625. The divergence is notable: Iran peace hopes have historically been a tailwind for bitcoin as a risk asset, but this rally has crypto watching from the sidelines as the Polymarket contract for a U.S.-Iran deal by May 31 sits at 62% odds. Spot crypto volumes fell 14% to $1.05 trillion in April — the lowest since November 2023 — and total exchange volume has declined for four straight months. Read more → Markets Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman passes away Ondo Finance announced Monday the unexpected passing of its founder and CEO Nathan Allman. No cause of death was disclosed, and the company said Allman's family has requested privacy. A Brown University and Stanford MBA graduate, Allman built Ondo from a 2021 founding into one of the most consequential platforms in tokenized real-world assets — growing to $3.79 billion in TVL across 13 blockchains, with flagship products including USDY, a yield-bearing stablecoin, and OUSG, a tokenized U.S. Treasury fund. Before Ondo, he worked on Goldman Sachs's digital assets team. Ian De Bode, Ondo's longtime president who has overseen strategy, product, and daily operations, has assumed the role of CEO. "We will continue building what Nate started," the company wrote. "That is the most meaningful way we know to honor him." Tributes from across the crypto community, including Aave's Stani Kulechov and Compound's Robert Leshner, reflected the esteem in which Allman was held as a builder at the serious intersection of Wall Street and Web3. Read more → Know someone who should be reading this? Share this newsletter See all of CoinDesk’s newsletters    CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York,NY,10011,USA, Unsubscribe Manage Preferences   Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.