BridgeTower Capital has officially deployed Chainlinkβs full infrastructure stack to tokenize securities tied to the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, an $11 billion US natural resource initiative, in what the companies describe as live production infrastructure rather than a pilot.β¦
Coinbase has filed with the CFTC to activate Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, placing XRP alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and crude oil as an asset institutional traders can execute at the official settlement price. Coinbase filedβ¦
Pi Network has confirmed it is an official sponsor of Consensus 2026 in Miami, with co-founders Nicolas Kokkalis and Chengdiao Fan each presenting at the event on May 7 and May 6 respectively, as the network simultaneously faces a mandatoryβ¦
DoorDash has begun building stablecoin payment infrastructure on Tempo, the Layer-1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, to pay delivery workers and merchants across more than 40 countries at near-instant settlement speeds and fixed US dollar fees, in one ofβ¦
Ripple released a detailed four-phase roadmap on April 20 to protect the XRP Ledger from future quantum computing attacks, with Phase 2 testing already underway, targeting full post-quantum cryptography implementation no later than 2028, as SoFi separately enabled XRP depositsβ¦
BNB Chain has officially become the leading blockchain network for autonomous AI agents, with more than 150,000 on-chain deployments as of April 20, a 43,750% increase from the fewer than 400 agents that existed across all blockchains at the startβ¦
Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched the Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio on April 23, a government money market fund exclusively designed to hold the cash reserves backing stablecoin issuersβ outstanding tokens, positioning the Wall Street giant to capture reserve management business aheadβ¦
A coalition of 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, warningβ¦
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on April 24 that the US government has sanctioned multiple crypto wallets linked to Iranβs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under a campaign called Operation Economic Fury, with Tether executing the freeze of $344 million inβ¦
President Trump delivered a keynote address on April 25 at a Mar-a-Lago gala restricted to the top 297 holders of his Official TRUMP memecoin, with a private VIP reception and champagne toast reserved for the top 29, as Senators Elizabethβ¦
As HSBC, Lloyds, and JPMorgan all commit to tokenized deposits on the Canton Network, Digital Asset Chief Product Officer Bernhard Elsner explains why the instrument is structurally distinct from stablecoins and how Cantonβs architecture eliminates bridge risk rather than simplyβ¦
President Trump announced on April 23 that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks after a second round of high-level White House talks involving the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Viceβ¦
The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced two bipartisan bills on April 23 that would give Congress direct oversight authority over US AI chip exports to China and other adversaries, in a direct challenge to the Trump administrationβs handling of advancedβ¦
The Senate voted 46 to 51 on April 22 to defeat a war powers resolution that would have directed the president to withdraw US armed forces from hostilities against Iran without congressional authorization, marking Democratsβ fifth consecutive failure to advanceβ¦
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director Michael Kratsios circulated a memo on April 23 accusing Chinese entities of conducting deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil and steal US frontier AI systems, using tens of thousands of proxy accountsβ¦
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model on April 24, explicitly optimized for Huaweiβs Ascend chip platform, on the same day the White House accused China of running industrial-scale campaigns to copy and steal American frontierβ¦
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, its newest frontier model and the companyβs most capable agentic system to date, designed to accept a messy multi-part task and plan, execute, and complete it without requiring step-by-step human guidance. OpenAI released GPT-5.5β¦
BridgeTower Capital has officially adopted Chainlinkβs full infrastructure stack to tokenize $11 billion in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, making it one of the largest live production tokenized asset deployments ever announced and positioning Chainlink as theβ¦
Pi Network co-founder Nicolas Kokkalis will take the stage at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 7, joining a panel titled βHow to Prove Youβre Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself)β at the Convergence Stage, as Pi positionsβ¦
US banking groups have escalated their campaign against the CLARITY Act by calling Senate offices directly, with the North Carolina Bankers Association confirmed on April 18 to be urging member banks to phone Senator Thom Tillisβs office personally to demandβ¦
US spot Bitcoin ETFs have logged eight consecutive days of net inflows totaling $2.1 billion through April 23, the longest inflow streak since the nine-day October 2025 run that carried Bitcoin to its $126,000 all-time high, with BlackRockβs IBIT responsibleβ¦
Rippleβs 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 separateβ¦
GraniteShares has delayed the launch of its 3x Long and 3x Short XRP Daily ETFs from April 23 to May 7, marking the fifth postponement in three weeks and raising fresh questions about whether the SEC will ultimately clear 3xβ¦
Ethereum opened at $2,375.12 on Thursday April 23, 2026, rising 2% from Wednesdayβs 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 lackβ¦
Deloitte and Touche LLP has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlinkβs 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 Typeβ¦
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 theβ¦
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 Networkβsβ¦
Galaxy Digital head of firmwide research Alex Thorn has assessed the CLARITY Actβs 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 facesβ¦
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 filterβ¦
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 congressionalβ¦
Ripple has partnered with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Koreaβs three largest life insurers with over $92 billion in assets, to pilot Koreaβs first blockchain-based tokenized government bond settlement, targeting a compression of the standard two-day settlement cycle toβ¦
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 thanβ¦
XRP spot ETFs have not recorded a single day of outflows since April 9, pulling in $71.31 million so far in April and putting the month on track to be the strongest of 2026, fully erasing Marchβs $31.16 million loss,β¦
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 Trumpβs ceasefire extension combined to push the asset to a key technical level that hadβ¦
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 Februaryβ¦
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 presidentβs second term. Lori Chavez-DeRemer stepped down as US Secretaryβ¦
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 roughlyβ¦
A $290 million exploit on KelpDAOβs cross-chain bridge on April 18, attributed by LayerZero to North Koreaβs Lazarus Group, sent shockwaves through DeFi and erased more than $13 billion in total value locked across protocols within 48 hours. Attackers drainedβ¦
North Koreaβs 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.β¦
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. Twoβ¦
Iranβs 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. Iranβs Islamicβ¦
Kevin Warsh, Donald Trumpβs 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 Thomβ¦
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 partyβs bid to retake the House in the 2026 midterms. Virginia votersβ¦
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 theβ¦
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,β¦
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 rulesβ¦
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 forβ¦
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 inβ¦
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 ofβ¦
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 giftβ¦
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. Cryptoβ¦
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 x402β¦
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 powerfulβ¦
A 50 page quantum computing crypto risk assessment published Tuesday by Coinbaseβs independent advisory board concludes that while todayβs blockchains remain secure, a fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of breaking widely used encryption is increasingly plausible and that preparation must beginβ¦
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 byβ¦
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 hisβ¦
The most significant Fed nomination news from Tuesdayβs 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 partiesβ¦
The most pointed Kevin Warsh news from Tuesdayβs Senate confirmation hearing was his direct answer to the central question senators asked: CNBC confirmed that Warsh told the Senate Banking Committee βThe president never asked me to predetermine, commit, fix, decideβ¦
In the most consequential Federal Reserve news in years, Trumpβs Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh testified before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday that the central bank committed a βfatal policy errorβ on inflation in 2021 and 2022, and that correctingβ¦
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 stateβs House delegation from six Democratic seats and five Republican seats to a projectedβ¦
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