"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.

🌴 Consensus Day 1 recap

Day 1 at Consensus Miami: JPMorgan processed $1T onchain. Oil crashed 6% on Iran peace hopes. And OKX just let you bet on SpaceX before the IPO. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Wednesday, May 6, 2026 · Consensus Miami Consensus Day 1: tokenization, agentic payments, and digital security take the stage in Miami Tokenization, agentic payments and digital security took the stage Tuesday at Consensus as the first day of the Miami event kicked off. Thousands of people descended on the Miami Beach Convention Center, capped off by CFTC Chair Michael Selig defending his agency's oversight of digital assets and prediction markets. Consensys' Joe Lubin told attendees that the global economy is moving to be onchain, a sentiment echoed by panelists representing major banks in another session. "We're moving billions," Citi's Ryan Rugg said of the bank's tokenized deposit system. JPMorgan's Kinexys has processed over $1 trillion, Kara Kennedy said. On the AI front, over half of all internet traffic is now from AI tools, Cloudflare Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen said. She laid out how the internet tooling provider is looking at this issue, including a proposal to give websites more control over how they handle automated traffic. Catch up on all of the coverage here. Wednesday will see CoinDesk host its Global Bitcoin Summit, focusing on the world's first cryptocurrency's past and future. Bermuda Premier David Burt, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Reid Hoffman, Patrick Witt (White House), Frank La Salla (DTCC), Kevin O'Leary, Eric Trump and so many others will take the stage. We'll discuss the industry's relationship with lawmakers in Washington D.C., institutional trading, privacy and other key issues for the industry. Aspiring entrepreneurs will participate in the annual PitchFest, continuing the CoinDesk tradition. For a full agenda, click here. 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. Markets Bitcoin, Nasdaq futures rally as oil crashes 6% on Iran peace deal hopes Reports of progress toward a U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding sent WTI crude futures down roughly 6% to $95.28 a barrel Wednesday morning, triggering a broad risk-on rally. Bitcoin climbed toward $82,000 while Nasdaq futures rose over 1%. The move echoes the April 7 pattern when Trump's two-week ceasefire announcement sent oil down 10% and bitcoin up 5% in a single session. Analysts caution the move may be fragile — Iran has a track record of contradicting peace reports through state media, as it did last month when a false Fars agency missile strike claim briefly whipsawed bitcoin from $80,594 down to $79,000 in minutes before recovering. Read more → Markets OKX joins crypto's pre-IPO frenzy with OpenAI, SpaceX perpetual futures OKX is launching perpetual futures tied to OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic — synthetic price exposure to three of the most anticipated IPOs in history, without conferring any actual equity. The products join a rapidly crowding field: Bitget launched its "IPO Prime" SpaceX token in April, Injective has offered pre-IPO perps since late 2025, and Binance is reportedly preparing its own lineup. With SpaceX targeting a June IPO at a $1.75 trillion valuation, OpenAI eyeing Q4, and Anthropic planning an October debut, crypto exchanges are racing to capture speculative demand before the public listings arrive — and the liquidity they're expected to absorb from the same risk-on pool that's been lifting bitcoin. 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.

Day 1 • The digital asset industry arrives in Miami

🎊 Day 1 Highlights   Tokenization, agentic payments, and digital security took center stage as thousands descended on Day 1 of Consensus Miami.   Consensys' Joe Lubin and a panel of Wall Street executives agreed: the global economy is moving onchain — while Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen revealed that more than half of all internet traffic now originates from AI tools.    Networking was already at record highs, with over 165,000 minutes of meetings requested on the first day and the Bridge Deal Flow zone converting cold contacts into new partnerships.   CFTC Chair Michael Selig closed the day defending his agency's oversight of digital assets and prediction markets, before attendees scattered across Miami for an evening of parties across the city. 📰 Breaking News   Bullish to acquire Equiniti from Siris in $4.2 billion transaction, creating the global transfer agent for tokenized securities (Source: CoinDesk)   OwlTing Group launches self-custody wallet built for AI agents, targeting the emerging multi-trillion-dollar agentic commerce economy   Babylon & GoMining plan integration to activate up to 1,000 BTC through trustless Bitcoin vaults   Kraken eyes IPO as it partners with MoneyGram to bridge crypto-to-cash gap (Source: CoinDesk) 📣 Overheard in Miami   “AI agents will help people pick their next partners instead of regular dating apps”  — Yat Siu, Animoca Brands   “Consensus Miami is the best crypto conference of all time”   — @chilearmy123   “My belief is all value will be digital, and everything that can be tokenized will be tokenized because it’s too attractive not to.”  — Tom Zschach, Swift   “2031 we’ll [stablecoins] hit $3T in market cap”   — Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple   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