Day 2 • Consensus rallies ecosystems & economies

✌️ Day 2 Highlights   With Consensus now in full swing, the second day brought policy deadlines, new asset classes, and mainstreaming moments.    ICYMI: White House advisor Patrick Witt called for the CLARITY Act to reach the President's desk by July 4. Michael Saylor made his mainstage pitch for yieldcoins. Meanwhile, leaders from Binance, Revolut, and Circle declared crypto is no longer a bet on the future — it's the infrastructure being built right now.    The doors open tomorrow at 8:00 am for the final day, bringing conversations on stablecoins, World Liberty Financial, and the Policy Summit. 📰 Breaking News    Bitcoin rallies above $82K as Michael Saylor considers selling   AI agents becoming more relevant than humans by 2035 has Big Tech 'terrified', says Hoskinson (Source: CoinDesk)   GalaxyOne now accepts USDC deposits with zero swap fees   Nasdaq's president says the SEC’s new crypto stance is letting markets 'build' again (Source: CoinDesk) 📣 Overheard in Miami   "Bitcoin is gonna go to more than a million dollars. We're in the heyday of this industry.”  — Eric Trump, American Bitcoin   "AI is about to break the internet's economic model." — Erik Reppel, x402   “this has been the most fun anyone has ever had at a conference”  — @winternet   "The country that has the best AI wins all the wars."  — Kevin O’Leary, O’Leary Ventures   WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS Share Your Experience Not here IRL or missing a session?  STREAM WITH A VIRTUAL PASS Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk. All rights reserved. CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10011, USA Unsubscribe Manage Preferences

"BlackRock is now a bitcoin company."

DTCC wants a faster blockchain. Crypto's mainstream moment has arrived, say the people running it. And bitcoin's quantum migration needs to start now. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Wednesday, May 6, 2026 · Consensus Miami Wall Street's clearinghouse seeks high-performance blockchains to tokenize corporate actions DTCC CEO Frank La Salla told the Consensus Miami audience Wednesday that the clearinghouse is actively evaluating which blockchains are fast and reliable enough to handle corporate actions — dividend payments, stock splits, and rights offerings — at the scale and speed Wall Street requires. La Salla said DTCC's July pilot will begin with Russell 1000 equities, major ETFs, and U.S. Treasuries on pre-approved chains, but corporate actions are the harder problem: they're time-sensitive, legally complex, and must reach every shareholder simultaneously. The clearinghouse processes the vast majority of U.S. equity trades and custodies more than $114 trillion in securities — making its blockchain evaluation one of the highest-stakes infrastructure decisions in traditional finance. DTCC is not picking a winner yet, but La Salla made clear the bar is high: "Legal finality and investor protections cannot be compromised." Read the full story → Consensus preview sponsored by GoMining Discover GoBTC Pay by GoMining — a simple way to pay for everyday shopping with Bitcoin: on-chain, instant, secure. At Consensus, you can try it yourself and buy coffee and snacks with Bitcoin at the GoBTC Pay outlet. We'll give everyone who wants to test the solution the equivalent of $20 in sats, so your first coffee paid in BTC is on us! Learn more at the GoMining booth or the GoBTC Pay outlet. Business · Consensus Miami Crypto's mainstream moment has arrived, say industry leaders speaking at Consensus Miami Across sessions on Day 2 of Consensus Miami, a theme kept surfacing: the question is no longer if crypto goes mainstream, but how fast. CoinDesk Indices President Dave LaValle declared "the market is the market — it's not crypto and traditional anymore." Galaxy's Mike Harvey predicted offshore equity perpetual futures volumes will exceed crypto perps within two to three years. Robinhood VP Nicola White said 50% of the platform's Q1 new users were first-time investors. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand told the audience the CLARITY Act needs an ethics provision banning senior officials from crypto dealings before she'll vote for it. Anthony Pompliano, taking the Mainstage, offered the day's most quotable line: "BlackRock is now a bitcoin company." Read more → Tech · Consensus Miami Bitcoin's post-quantum migration will be harder than Taproot and needs to start now, Project Eleven CEO says Project Eleven CEO Alex Pruden told the Consensus Miami audience Wednesday that Bitcoin's developer community needs to stop researching and start building — now. The migration to a post-quantum signature scheme will be structurally harder than Taproot, which took roughly five years from proposal to activation in 2021, and the asymmetry between acting early and waiting for certainty about quantum hardware timelines is not in bitcoin's favor. Roughly 6.9 million BTC currently sit in wallets with exposed public keys, including Satoshi's holdings. Google's March research paper put the physical qubit threshold for a practical attack below 500,000 — far lower than previous estimates — and set its own internal migration deadline for 2029. Bitcoin has no foundation to fund the engineering work and no governance process that easily passes major upgrades, making every month of delay structurally significant. 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.