Pi Networkโs token climbed more than 5% on April 29 ahead of Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 5 to 7, where both co-founders Dr. Chengdiao Fan and Nicolas Kokkalis are confirmed speakers, marking the projectโs most prominent mainstream industryโฆ
A $59 million RLUSD settlement was completed on the XRP Ledger on April 29 at a total transaction fee of $0.000188, cited by on-chain researcher Ripple Bull Winkle as live proof that Rippleโs payment network is already handling large-scale cross-borderโฆ
On-chain data from Santiment shows 970,430 LINK tokens left centralized exchanges on April 27 in a single day, the largest LINK outflow since December 2, 2025, worth approximately $8.95 million, as exchange reserves continued a 25-day decline from 141.5 millionโฆ
Senator Cynthia Lummis told the Bitcoin 2026 conference that the Lummis CLARITY Act warning centers not just on the 2030 timeline but on a structural argument: the current simultaneous alignment between the House, Senate, and White House on crypto legislationโฆ
NYSE Arca submitted a proposed amendment to Rule 8.201-E to the SEC on April 27, naming XRP alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana as eligible assets for commodity-based trust shares, in a legally reviewed filing that requires trusts to hold atโฆ
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta all report Q1 2026 AI earnings after the close on April 29, with crypto traders tracking whether their combined $600 billion in planned 2026 AI capital expenditure is translating into commensurate revenue and cloud growth.โฆ
The Federal Reserve held Fed rates unchanged at 3.50 to 3.75% on April 29, the third consecutive pause of 2026, as Bitcoin and crypto markets focused entirely on Chair Jerome Powellโs 2:30 PM press conference, which marked his final FOMCโฆ
The Bitcoin 2026 Conference drew more than 40,000 attendees to The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas from April 27 to 29, but the institutional-heavy speaker lineup sparked a sharp backlash from early adopters who accused the event of abandoning itsโฆ
President Trump told hundreds of top $TRUMP memecoin holders at a private April 25 event at Mar-a-Lago that the White House will not allow banks to block the CLARITY Act, pledging to sign the bill immediately and framing crypto marketโฆ
Opening arguments began April 28 in the Musk OpenAI civil trial in Oakland, with Muskโs lead attorney Steven Molo telling jurors that without Elon Muskโs $38 million in early funding and recruiting of top AI scientists, OpenAI would not exist,โฆ
BNB price held above $625 on April 28 as the broader crypto market declined, with Bitcoin down 1.6% and Ethereum at a week low, making BNB one of the few large-cap assets to hold its ground during a day drivenโฆ
Ethereum price opened at $2,303.33 on April 28, its lowest morning level in over a week, as renewed concerns over stalled Iran ceasefire negotiations pushed Brent crude back above $104 a barrel and weighed on all major crypto assets headingโฆ
Travelex Bank, the first foreign exchange bank approved by Brazilโs Central Bank, is expanding its use of Ripple Payments for instant cross-border settlement, as the US Faster Payments Council separately names Ripple among the key innovators driving G20 domestic paymentsโฆ
US-listed XRP ETF products pulled in $81.63 million in April 2026, their strongest monthly inflow figure of the year, fully reversing Marchโs $31.16 million loss and pushing cumulative net inflows to $1.29 billion. XRP ETF products recorded $81.63 million inโฆ
Bitcoin is pressing the upper boundary of a two-month ascending channel near $77,500, with the 4H MACD histogram turning negative at the trendline and the FOMC meeting on April 28 and 29 serving as the next major catalyst. This articleโฆ
Ryan Lee, Chief Analyst at Bitget Research, says Bitcoin and Ethereum are supported by steady institutional ETF demand and lower leverage, with BTC expected to break $80,000 to $85,000 short term and ETH targeting $2,800 to $3,000. Bitget Research Chiefโฆ
dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO) has launched Stablecoin Full, a stablecoin payments solution that enables merchants to collect, convert, and pay out funds in stablecoins across more than 44 emerging markets through a single API. dLocal stablecoin payments went live on Aprilโฆ
April 27 is the hard deadline for all Pi Network Mainnet node operators to upgrade to Protocol 22.1, with nodes still running v21.2 after todayโs cutoff automatically disconnected from the Mainnet, and Protocol 23 now moved one week earlier toโฆ
The CFTC filed a lawsuit against New York on April 24 in the Southern District of New York, seeking a permanent injunction to stop the state from enforcing its gambling laws against federally registered prediction market exchanges. CFTC New Yorkโฆ
The US Senate Banking Committee allowed April to close without scheduling a CLARITY Act markup, confirming the bill has missed its target window and pushing the legislative path entirely into May with fewer than four working weeks before the Memorialโฆ
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a criminal investigation into OpenAI on April 21, alleging that ChatGPT advised the accused Florida State University shooter on what gun to use, what ammunition to load, and what time to arrive on campusโฆ
More than 120 crypto organizations including Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and Andreessen Horowitz sent a joint letter to the Senate Banking Committee on April 23 demanding an immediate CLARITY Act markup, as the billโs end-of-May deadline tightens and prediction market oddsโฆ
Senator Thom Tillis lifted his blockade of Kevin Warshโs Federal Reserve nomination on April 27 after the Department of Justice dropped its criminal investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell, clearing the path for a Senate Banking Committee vote onโฆ
Bitmine crossed 5 million Ethereum tokens on April 27 after buying 101,901 ETH for approximately $236 million, making it the first company in history to hold more than 5 million ETH and the worldโs largest corporate Ethereum treasury by aโฆ
Jury selection opened on April 27 in federal court in Oakland, California, in the civil trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over the companyโs transformation from a nonprofit research lab into a for-profit enterprise worth approximatelyโฆ
South Koreaโs KBank signed a strategic partnership with Ripple on April 27 to test blockchain-based cross-border remittances, marking Rippleโs second Korean institutional deal this month and its first with a major Korean digital bank. Ripple KBank partnership was confirmed onโฆ
Strategy acquired 3,273 Bitcoin for approximately $255 million on April 27, its fourth purchase in April 2026, lifting total holdings to 818,334 BTC worth roughly $63.7 billion. Strategy acquired 3,273 Bitcoin for approximately $255 million on April 27, according toโฆ
BridgeTower Capital has officially deployed Chainlinkโs 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.โฆ
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 filedโฆ
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 mandatoryโฆ
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 ofโฆ
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 depositsโฆ
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 startโฆ
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 issuersโ outstanding tokens, positioning the Wall Street giant to capture reserve management business aheadโฆ
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, warningโฆ
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on April 24 that the US government has sanctioned multiple crypto wallets linked to Iranโs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under a campaign called Operation Economic Fury, with Tether executing the freeze of $344 million inโฆ
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 Elizabethโฆ
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 Cantonโs architecture eliminates bridge risk rather than simplyโฆ
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, Viceโฆ
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 administrationโs handling of advancedโฆ
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 Democratsโ fifth consecutive failure to advanceโฆ
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 accountsโฆ
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model on April 24, explicitly optimized for Huaweiโs Ascend chip platform, on the same day the White House accused China of running industrial-scale campaigns to copy and steal American frontierโฆ
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, its newest frontier model and the companyโs 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-5.5โฆ
BridgeTower Capital has officially adopted Chainlinkโs 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 theโฆ
Pi Network co-founder Nicolas Kokkalis will take the stage at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 7, joining a panel titled โHow to Prove Youโre Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself)โ at the Convergence Stage, as Pi positionsโฆ
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 Tillisโs office personally to demandโฆ
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 BlackRockโs IBIT responsibleโฆ
Rippleโs 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 separateโฆ
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 3xโฆ
Ethereum opened at $2,375.12 on Thursday April 23, 2026, rising 2% from Wednesdayโs 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 lackโฆ
Deloitte and Touche LLP has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlinkโs 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 Typeโฆ
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 theโฆ
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 Networkโsโฆ
Galaxy Digital head of firmwide research Alex Thorn has assessed the CLARITY Actโs 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 facesโฆ
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 filterโฆ
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 congressionalโฆ
Ripple has partnered with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Koreaโs three largest life insurers with over $92 billion in assets, to pilot Koreaโs first blockchain-based tokenized government bond settlement, targeting a compression of the standard two-day settlement cycle toโฆ
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 thanโฆ
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 Marchโs $31.16 million loss,โฆ
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 Trumpโs ceasefire extension combined to push the asset to a key technical level that hadโฆ
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 Februaryโฆ
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 presidentโs second term. Lori Chavez-DeRemer stepped down as US Secretaryโฆ
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 roughlyโฆ
A $290 million exploit on KelpDAOโs cross-chain bridge on April 18, attributed by LayerZero to North Koreaโs Lazarus Group, sent shockwaves through DeFi and erased more than $13 billion in total value locked across protocols within 48 hours. Attackers drainedโฆ
North Koreaโs 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.โฆ
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. Twoโฆ
Iranโs 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. Iranโs Islamicโฆ
Kevin Warsh, Donald Trumpโs 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 Thomโฆ
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 partyโs bid to retake the House in the 2026 midterms. Virginia votersโฆ
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 theโฆ
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,โฆ
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 rulesโฆ
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 forโฆ
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 inโฆ
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 ofโฆ
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 giftโฆ
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. Cryptoโฆ
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 x402โฆ
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 powerfulโฆ
A 50 page quantum computing crypto risk assessment published Tuesday by Coinbaseโs independent advisory board concludes that while todayโs blockchains remain secure, a fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of breaking widely used encryption is increasingly plausible and that preparation must beginโฆ
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 byโฆ
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 hisโฆ
The most significant Fed nomination news from Tuesdayโs 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 partiesโฆ
The most pointed Kevin Warsh news from Tuesdayโs Senate confirmation hearing was his direct answer to the central question senators asked: CNBC confirmed that Warsh told the Senate Banking Committee โThe president never asked me to predetermine, commit, fix, decideโฆ
In the most consequential Federal Reserve news in years, Trumpโs Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh testified before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday that the central bank committed a โfatal policy errorโ on inflation in 2021 and 2022, and that correctingโฆ
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 stateโs House delegation from six Democratic seats and five Republican seats to a projectedโฆ
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