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Today β€” 24 April 2026Main stream

Goldman Sachs Is the Biggest Institutional XRP ETF Holder as Total Assets Hit $1.53 Billion

24 April 2026 at 21:23
Ripple’s latest market overview confirms that US spot XRP ETFs have accumulated $1.53 billion in assets under management and 773 million XRP in custody, with Goldman Sachs leading all institutional holders through a $153.8 million position spread across four separate…

Ethereum Bounces Back Above $2,300 After Bitcoin Opens Above $78,000

24 April 2026 at 02:55
Ethereum opened at $2,375.12 on Thursday April 23, 2026, rising 2% from Wednesday’s open as Bitcoin led a broad morning rally past $78,000, though ETH pulled back to $2,316.88 by 7:10 a.m. ET as traders remained cautious over the lack…

Deloitte Gives Chainlink Top Security Certification, Making It the Only Crypto Oracle With SOC 2 Type 2 Status

24 April 2026 at 01:40
Deloitte and Touche LLP has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlink’s CCIP and Data Feeds, making Chainlink the only data and interoperability oracle platform in the blockchain industry to hold SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 2 Type…

Senator Moreno Issues End-of-May Deadline for the CLARITY Act or It Could Be Shelved for Years

24 April 2026 at 01:13
Senator Bernie Moreno declared at a Washington event on April 22 that the CLARITY Act must clear Congress by the end of May, stating plainly that missing that deadline could shelve the legislation indefinitely as midterm election politics consume the…

Pi Network’s Protocol 22 Deadline Is in 4 Days. Nodes That Don’t Upgrade Will Be Cut Off.

24 April 2026 at 01:00
Pi Network has set a hard deadline of April 27 for all Mainnet node operators to upgrade to Protocol 22, warning that any node still running version 21.2 after the cutoff will be automatically disconnected from the network. Pi Network’s…

Galaxy Research Says the CLARITY Act Has Only a 50-50 Chance of Passing in 2026

24 April 2026 at 00:40
Galaxy Digital head of firmwide research Alex Thorn has assessed the CLARITY Act’s chances of being signed into law in 2026 at roughly 50-50, and possibly lower, in a research note being published this week, warning that the bill faces…

Pi Network Launches PiRC1 Token Framework Requiring Real Apps Before Any Token Can Be Issued

24 April 2026 at 00:20
Pi Network has introduced PiRC1, a new token issuance framework launched under Protocol 22 on April 22, that bars projects from issuing tokens unless they can first demonstrate a functioning application with real user demand, a direct attempt to filter…

Over 120 Crypto Companies Send Emergency Letter to the Senate Demanding Action on the CLARITY Act

23 April 2026 at 23:45
More than 120 crypto organizations, led by the Crypto Council for Innovation and the Blockchain Association, sent a joint letter to the Senate Banking Committee on April 23 demanding an immediate markup of the CLARITY Act, warning that continued congressional…

Ripple Signs Its First Korean Insurance Deal to Pilot Near Real-Time Government Bond Settlement

23 April 2026 at 23:35
Ripple has partnered with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Korea’s three largest life insurers with over $92 billion in assets, to pilot Korea’s first blockchain-based tokenized government bond settlement, targeting a compression of the standard two-day settlement cycle to…

Coinbase Is Launching a New Settlement-Price Futures Tool for XRP on May 1

23 April 2026 at 23:20
Coinbase has filed documentation with the CFTC confirming it will activate Trade at Settlement functionality for XRP futures on May 1, 2026, giving institutional traders a regulated mechanism to execute large block orders at the official closing price rather than…

Yesterday β€” 23 April 2026Main stream

Bitcoin Hits an 11-Week High Above $78,000 but Analysts Say the Rally Is a Squeeze, Not a Shift

23 April 2026 at 02:35
Bitcoin climbed above $78,000 on April 22, reaching its highest price in 11 weeks, as a wave of short liquidations and improved macro sentiment following Trump’s ceasefire extension combined to push the asset to a key technical level that had…

April 2026 Is Already the Worst Month for Crypto Hacks Since February 2025, With $606 Million Lost in 18 Days

23 April 2026 at 02:05
Crypto protocols have lost more than $606 million to hacks and exploits in just the first 18 days of April 2026, making it the single worst month for theft in the industry since the $1.4 billion Bybit breach in February…

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Resigns, Becomes Trump’s Third Cabinet Departure

23 April 2026 at 01:50
US Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned from the Trump administration amid an active inspector general investigation into misconduct allegations, making her the third cabinet member to depart during the president’s second term. Lori Chavez-DeRemer stepped down as US Secretary…

American Bitcoin Stock Jumps 12% After Deploying 11,298 New Mining Machines

23 April 2026 at 01:30
Shares of American Bitcoin, the Trump family-linked mining company, surged approximately 12% on April 22 after the firm announced it had completed the deployment of 11,298 new ASIC miners at its Drumheller, Alberta site, expanding its active fleet to roughly…

The $290 Million KelpDAO Hack Linked to North Korea Wiped $13 Billion From DeFi in Two Days

23 April 2026 at 01:15
A $290 million exploit on KelpDAO’s cross-chain bridge on April 18, attributed by LayerZero to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, sent shockwaves through DeFi and erased more than $13 billion in total value locked across protocols within 48 hours. Attackers drained…

North Korea’s Lazarus Group Is Targeting Crypto Executives With Fake Meeting Invites

23 April 2026 at 00:49
North Korea’s Lazarus Group has launched a new macOS malware campaign called Mach-O Man that uses fake online meeting invitations to trick crypto and fintech executives into executing malicious commands on their own devices, according to blockchain security firm CertiK.…

Two CIA Agents Die in Mexico After Returning From a Drug Lab Raid

23 April 2026 at 00:29
Two CIA officers were killed in a car crash in the Mexican state of Chihuahua on April 20 while returning from a counternarcotics operation to destroy a clandestine drug lab, igniting a sovereignty dispute between Washington and Mexico City. Two…

Iran Seizes Ships in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump Extends the Ceasefire

23 April 2026 at 00:00
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seized two container ships in the Strait of Hormuz on April 22, hours after President Trump extended the ceasefire with Tehran indefinitely, while confirming the US naval blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place. Iran’s Islamic…

Trump’s Fed Nominee Says He Won’t Take Rate Orders. One Republican Is Holding Up the Vote.

22 April 2026 at 23:50
Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, told a Senate confirmation hearing on April 21 that he has made no commitments to the White House on interest rates and would act independently, even as Republican Senator Thom…

Virginia Voters Approve New Map That Could Give Democrats Four More House Seats

22 April 2026 at 23:35
Virginia voters have narrowly approved a new congressional map that could shift as many as four House seats from Republican to Democrat, delivering a major boost to the party’s bid to retake the House in the 2026 midterms. Virginia voters…

DOJ Charges the SPLC With Fraud Over Secret Payments to Extremist Informants

22 April 2026 at 23:15
The US Department of Justice has filed fraud charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the civil rights organization made secret payments to extremist informants without proper disclosure. The US Department of Justice announced a federal indictment against the…

OpenAI Is Now Selling Pay-Per-Click Ads Inside ChatGPT

22 April 2026 at 22:59
OpenAI has begun charging advertisers on a cost-per-click basis inside ChatGPT, marking its first direct move into the digital advertising market and putting it in competition with Google and Meta. OpenAI has quietly launched a pay-per-click advertising model inside ChatGPT,…

US Banks Are Fighting the New Stablecoin Rules. The White House Is Not Having It

22 April 2026 at 22:45
Major US banks are lobbying to slow down new stablecoin legislation, but the White House has intervened directly, telling the banking industry to stand down. US banks are mounting resistance to proposed stablecoin legislation moving through Congress, arguing the rules…

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Kraken Filed 56 Million Crypto Tax Forms in 2025 and Wants Congress to Raise the Bar

22 April 2026 at 22:34
Kraken submitted 56 million crypto tax forms for 2025, most reporting gains under $50, and is now calling on Congress to overhaul what it calls an unworkable reporting threshold. Kraken filed 56 million crypto tax forms with the IRS for…

Coinbase Spent $1.07 Million on Washington Lobbying in Q1 2026 Focused on the CLARITY Act and Stablecoin Rules

22 April 2026 at 03:00
Coinbase lobbying activity for Q1 2026 totaled $1.07 million, the company disclosed in a new Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, targeting the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the GENIUS Act stablecoin law, and digital asset tax treatment legislation. Coinbase lobbying in…

Iran Refuses to Negotiate Under Threat as Ceasefire Deadline Arrives and Hormuz Tensions Rise

22 April 2026 at 02:40
Iran war news escalated Tuesday as parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated publicly that Tehran will not accept negotiations under conditions it considers coercive, with the 10-day US-Iran ceasefire set to expire Wednesday and both sides sharpening rhetoric ahead of…

Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues ActBlue Over Gift Card Donations and False Claims to Congress

22 April 2026 at 02:15
US election news from Texas arrived Monday as Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in Tarrant County district court against ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform, alleging it violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by continuing to accept gift…

House Homeland Security Panel Opens Hearing on Crypto Fraud and Digital Extortion by Transnational Criminal Networks

22 April 2026 at 01:59
The most urgent crypto scam news on Capitol Hill arrived Tuesday as the House Homeland Security Committee held a joint subcommittee hearing on how transnational criminal organizations use crypto fraud, online scams, and digital extortion to steal from Americans. Crypto…

Coinbase Launches Agentic.market, a Discovery Layer Where AI Agents Buy and Sell Services With Stablecoins

22 April 2026 at 01:15
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced Monday the launch of Agentic.market, a marketplace platform for Coinbase AI agents that allows autonomous software agents to discover, compare, and purchase services from other agents without API keys, paying in USDC through the x402…

Coinbase Study Finds Privacy Tools Like Railgun Are Mathematically Safe From Quantum Attacks

22 April 2026 at 00:40
study producing major crypto privacy news found that zero-knowledge proof systems including Railgun, PrivacyPools, Aleo, and Aztec are mathematically immune to quantum attacks, because they rely on information-theoretic security rather than encryption, meaning they remain safe even against infinitely powerful…

Coinbase Advisory Board Paper Warns Crypto Cannot Afford to Wait on Quantum Threats

22 April 2026 at 00:15
A 50 page quantum computing crypto risk assessment published Tuesday by Coinbase’s independent advisory board concludes that while today’s blockchains remain secure, a fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of breaking widely used encryption is increasingly plausible and that preparation must begin…

Ripple Reveals a Four Phase Plan to Make the XRP Ledger Safe From Quantum Attacks by 2028

21 April 2026 at 23:55
Ripple announced a structured four phase roadmap for XRP quantum security on Monday, targeting full quantum-resistant cryptography on the XRP Ledger by 2028 in response to Google Quantum AI research showing that current blockchain cryptography could eventually be cracked by…

Warsh Pledges to Sell His Full Crypto and Venture Portfolio Worth at Least $192 Million

21 April 2026 at 23:40
Kevin Warsh crypto holdings disclosed in his 69-page OGE Form 278e financial filing include indirect stakes in more than 20 blockchain and digital asset companies spanning Solana, dYdX, Polymarket, Dapper Labs, and Lightning Network infrastructure, with combined assets alongside his…

GOP Senator Britt Urges a Way Forward to Confirm Warsh Before the May 15 Deadline

21 April 2026 at 23:15
The most significant Fed nomination news from Tuesday’s hearing came not from the nominee but from Republican Senator Katie Britt of Alabama, who signaled the first concrete Republican effort to find an offramp around the Tillis blockade, urging all parties…

Warsh Tells the Senate Trump Never Asked for a Rate Cut Commitment and He Would Have Refused

21 April 2026 at 22:55
The most pointed Kevin Warsh news from Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearing was his direct answer to the central question senators asked: CNBC confirmed that Warsh told the Senate Banking Committee β€œThe president never asked me to predetermine, commit, fix, decide…

Warsh Calls the Fed’s 2021 Inflation Response a Fatal Policy Error at Senate Confirmation Hearing

21 April 2026 at 22:30
In the most consequential Federal Reserve news in years, Trump’s Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh testified before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday that the central bank committed a β€œfatal policy error” on inflation in 2021 and 2022, and that correcting…

Virginia Voters Decide Today on a Redistricting Plan That Could Shift the House Majority

21 April 2026 at 22:02
Virginia redistricting reaches its decisive moment today as voters in a statewide special election choose whether to approve a Democratic-drawn congressional map that would shift the state’s House delegation from six Democratic seats and five Republican seats to a projected…

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