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Saturday, May 9, 2026 14 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: SEC Chair Atkins opens a rulemaking lane for onchain trading and crypto vaults, the LayerZero exodus widens to Solv and Re, AUSTRAC moves from rulemaking to active supervis…

Friday, May 8, 2026 14 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: AWS, Lightning Labs, and Trust Wallet all ship agent-payment infrastructure the same day NIST opens its first AI agent governance comment periods. Plus: Aave overhauls coll…

Thursday, May 7, 2026 13 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: terrorism creditors file a new 'credit fraud, not theft' theory that could let them seize $71M meant for Kelp exploit victims, Uniswap's delegation recall closes today, Dec…

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 15 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: Aave's emergency motion to vacate the $71M ETH freeze advances into federal court as the May 7 Arbitrum vote and a newly elected Security Council converge on the same froze…

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 12 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: Aave moves to vacate the Kelp ETH freeze, Gensler concedes Howey is broken, an AI agent legally incorporated itself as a U.S. LLC, and the Korean exchange alliance warns pr…

Monday, May 4, 2026 12 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: a U.S. court tries to treat Arbitrum DAO as a partnership, Five Eyes issues its first joint guidance on agentic AI, and the OCC's stablecoin yield rules start hitting DeFi …

Sunday, May 3, 2026 12 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: a U.S. law firm tries to lay claim to Arbitrum's frozen $71M before victims can recover it, the CLARITY Act clears its stablecoin-yield deadlock, MiCA decoded for complianc…

Saturday, May 2, 2026 12 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: Sky Protocol's shift from voting to rule-based treasury constraints, a wave of agent payment cards from Stripe/MoonPay/Oobit, and April's record-breaking incident count ref…

Friday, May 1, 2026 14 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: agent-payment standards harden into production infrastructure, three jurisdictions ship operationally meaningful crypto rules in a single day, and a Delaware court reads a …

Thursday, April 30, 2026 12 stories

Today on The Web3 Ops Desk: Kelp recovery hits $303M as DeFi United closes the rsETH gap, the FCA sharpens its cryptoasset perimeter ahead of the September gateway, and the architectural debate over A…