AI trading adoption grows in 2026 as BsStrategy offers simplified access to automated crypto strategies. As the crypto asset market continues to grow, more users are looking for smarter, more efficient, and lower-barrier ways to trade. Traditional manual trading often…

Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy on-chain surveillance targeting insider trading and manipulation as volumes hit $7B monthly and regulation intensifies. The European Central Bank maintained interest rates unchanged at its April 30 meeting, but ECB President Christine Lagarde’s press conference remarks…

Gemini’s Olympus unit won CFTC clearing license enabling in-house derivatives infrastructure for futures, options, perpetuals, and prediction markets. Gemini announced April 30 that its affiliate Gemini Olympus received a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) license from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, positioning the exchange…

Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy on-chain surveillance targeting insider trading and manipulation as volumes hit $7B monthly and regulation intensifies. Polymarket has partnered with Chainalysis to deploy what it calls “a first-of-its-kind on-chain solution to monitor trading activity and…

Nexo extends its 0% APR, no‑liquidation Zero-interest Credit to Solana and XRP, targeting holders who want dollar liquidity without selling their crypto. Coinbase’s new on-chain credit push Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM) has introduced CUSHY, a new on-chain digital credit strategy…

WhiteBIT Coin surged nearly 8% on Wednesday, emerging as one of the top-performing crypto assets as fresh momentum followed a major partnership announcement. The token jumped after WhiteBIT confirmed an expanded five-year collaboration with FC Barcelona, strengthening its presence in…

Hack on Bitcoin DeFi protocol Alex Lab has reportedly spilled into traditional finance, with ChainCatcher saying customers of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, or SPD Bank, were among those affected in the latest incident. A recent security incident at Bitcoin DeFi protocol Alex…

Utility-focused crypto gains traction in 2026 as BlockchainFX emerges among top ecosystem-driven assets. The digital asset landscape of 2026 has moved decisively past the era of pure speculation. While the early 2020s were defined by meme cycles and experimental protocols,…

Rising U.S.-Iran tensions are increasing crypto market volatility, with XRP gaining attention and investors exploring diversified strategies and yield platforms like XRP Power. Recently, escalating geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran have significantly increased volatility in the cryptocurrency market.…

Nexo extends its 0% APR, no‑liquidation Zero-interest Credit to Solana and XRP, targeting holders who want dollar liquidity without selling their crypto. Nexo is expanding its Zero-interest Credit product to include Solana’s SOL and Ripple’s XRP as collateral, becoming the…

Oman has moved to formalise its artificial intelligence strategy with a Royal Decree from Haitham bin Tarik creating a dedicated economic zone for AI in the capital governorate of Muscat. State media said the new district will be called the…

BingX marks eight years with its INFIN8 campaign, tying AI tools, TradFi access and gamified rewards into a more intelligent, user-driven trading ecosystem. Eight years in crypto is not a small marker. In an industry shaped by sharp market cycles,…

Coinbase will disable DAI trading on May 4 and convert remaining balances to USDS at a 1:1 rate, with some EEA users excluded.

Solana price is showing signs of weakness after failing to sustain momentum above the $90 level, with price action now tilting bearish as a rounded top pattern takes shape on lower timeframes. According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) has…

MegaETH launched MEGA trading after meeting its first KPI, with Binance, KuCoin and Bitget listing the token.

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, is starting to show measurable gains from its AI investments, while Meta Platforms Inc. is still working to convince investors that its heavy spending will pay off. The updates came within minutes of…

Bitcoin nears $76K, but Binance funding rates stay flat and taker buy volume falls, raising doubts over rally strength.

Wasabi Protocol lost over $5M in a multi-chain exploit after a compromised admin key was used to upgrade contracts and drain funds.

The U.S. seized nearly $500M in Iranian crypto assets, above the $344M USDT freeze earlier reported by Tether.

Ethereum price fell 5% to nearly $2,200 on Thursday, as the asset remains in a downtrend for the fourth straight day. Now, a confirmed breakdown below a key ascending trendline positions it for more downside in the coming sessions. According…

Australia’s payments draft says A2A systems may need stablecoin and tokenized fiat interoperability as digital money adoption grows.

Crypto became X’s most-muted topic after its snooze feature launch, as AI spam and InfoFi posts pushed users away.

Prosecutors in South Korea have requested a 20-year prison sentence for Jeong Sang-ho, CEO of Delio, over alleged large-scale crypto embezzlement. According to Yonhap News Agency, the request was made during closing arguments at the Seoul Southern District Court on…

DOGEBALL presale gains momentum in 2026, surpassing $235K with growing investor participation. Early-stage crypto opportunities often define the biggest gains, and the best memecoin presale in 2026 is where serious investors are focusing right now. DOGEBALL crypto presale 2026 is…

KAST hired former SEC advisor Stephanie Allen to lead policy communications after raising $80M and expanding stablecoin services.

Bybit has been removed from Malaysia’s Investor Alert List, just as the exchange has reinforced its local strategy through a fresh investment in a regulated exchange.  According to Ben Zhou, the exchange achieved this outcome after “constructive engagement and alignment…

Ethereum longs are building on Binance as ETH trades near $2,256 and faces key resistance around $2,400.

Bitcoin faces selling pressure as Binance’s whale ratio hits an ATH, while BTC trades below the $79,300 short-term holder level.

The crypto market fell 2.6% to $2.60 trillion on Thursday as concerns over a prolonged blockade at the Strait of Hormuz and the Federal Reserve’s hawkish stance on rate cuts weighed on investor sentiment. Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped 3.5% to…

XRP funding rates on Binance hit their highest level since February as whales bought 1.15B tokens during the latest price pullback.

Ripple has expanded its presence in the UAE by opening a new Middle East and Africa headquarters in Dubai, increasing its capacity to grow its regional operations. According to Ripple, the office is based in the Dubai International Financial Centre…

Meteora reported a $1.5M OTC scam loss during MET buybacks, while Q1 cash flow reached $18.3M and treasury closed at $32.8M.

Shinhan Card has entered a partnership with the Solana Foundation to develop and test stablecoin-based payment systems on blockchain infrastructure. According to a press release from Shinhan Card, the company has begun an advanced proof-of-concept this year to simulate real-world…

South Korea-based crypto venture firm Hashed has secured regulatory approval to operate from Abu Dhabi Global Market, expanding its presence into the Middle East’s regulated financial zone. According to a company announcement, Hashed’s group entity, Hashed Global Management Limited, has…

XRP sentiment rose after Rakuten Wallet enabled points conversion, spot trading and payments across millions of merchants in Japan.

Crypto exchange OKX has launched an open protocol designed to let AI agents carry out full business transactions, extending machine payments into end-to-end commercial activity. According to OKX, the Agent Payments Protocol enables AI systems to handle not only payments…

Meta has begun offering select creators the option to receive payouts in USDC, expanding its payments model into blockchain-based transfers. According to a support page published by Meta Platforms, eligible creators can receive USDC directly into crypto wallets operating on…

An FBI-led global enforcement effort targeting crypto pig butchering schemes has led to the arrest of 276 suspects and the disruption of nine crypto scam centers tied to investment fraud operations. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the operation…

Stable Sea added WisdomTree’s WTGXX fund, giving firms access to tokenized Treasury yield for idle cash management.

Twenty One Capital rose after hours as Tether backed proposed mergers with Strike and Elektron to expand its Bitcoin-focused platform.

Bitcoin is pulling back from the upper boundary of its ascending channel on Powell’s final FOMC day, with a daily MACD bearish crossover now confirmed and price retreating toward key SMA support. This article breaks down what the daily chart…

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel told the Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas on April 27 that Bitcoin developers who write code without knowingly helping third parties commit crimes will not be investigated or charged,…

BNB Chain has surpassed 150,000 on-chain AI agent deployments as of April 2026, a 43,750% increase since January, while Binance simultaneously launched its Agentic Wallet, a keyless wallet allowing AI bots to trade and transfer tokens on behalf of its…

Pi Network’s 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 project’s most prominent mainstream industry…

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 Ripple’s payment network is already handling large-scale cross-border…

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 million…

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis is trying to haul the long‑stalled CLARITY Act into a Senate Banking markup that would simultaneously settle Washington’s stablecoin‑yield fight and advance Cynthia Lummis‑backed protections for non‑custodial crypto developers. U.S. Senator Thom Tillis is pushing to…

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 legislation…

WHITE TECH secures MiCA authorization in Croatia to operate as a regulated crypto-asset service provider. WHITE TECH, part of the W Group ecosystem and majority-owned by Volodymyr Nosov, Founder and CEO of WhiteBIT, has received authorization from the Croatian Financial…

Fence netted $20 million from Galaxy Digital to tokenize a $6 trillion asset‑backed finance market that still runs on manual, legacy rails. Fence has secured a $20 million investment led by Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital to bring blockchain infrastructure to…

Ripple Prime will route clients into Bullish’s regulated BTC options while Ripple and OKX push RLUSD into compliant markets, extending Ripple’s $1.25b prime‑broker bet. Ripple has expanded its institutional derivatives push, announcing that Ripple Prime will connect directly to Bullish’s…

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 at…

Traders are cutting risk ahead of the Fed’s April decision as Middle East tensions, a blocked Strait of Hormuz and fragile crypto sentiment keep markets on edge. Traders are trimming exposure to risk assets ahead of the Federal Reserve’s latest…

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.…

Nomura‑backed RWA protocol KAIO is rolling out its KAIO governance token and foundation as it tries to turn a $100 million on‑chain beachhead into a claim on a projected $30 trillion tokenization wave. RWA tokenization protocol KAIO, incubated by Nomura…

Vitalik Buterin is programmatically dumping unsolicited memecoins again, turning airdropped “spam” into ETH while leaving thinly traded meme markets on edge. On‑chain analytics from Arkham Intelligence indicate that an address attributed to Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin (0xAb5…) has entered a new phase…

Remittix builds investor confidence as token sales reach 77.98% ahead of its upcoming market launch. Investor confidence in a crypto project is rarely built on promises alone. It is built on evidence. For Remittix, that evidence has been accumulating steadily.…

AI finance platform Rogo raises 160M USD led by Kleiner Perkins to scale its agentic workflow OS for banks and asset managers, as AI agents sweep regulated finance. AI financial workflow platform Rogo has closed a 160 million dollar Series D round…

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 Powell’s 2:30 PM press conference, which marked his final FOMC…

Hong Kong regulators have warned investors about counterfeit stablecoins circulating under the names of newly approved issuers, even as the city prepares for its first regulated launches. Scammers have begun promoting fake tokens linked to HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial, the…

Crypto payments firm MoonPay is stepping further into institutional services after acquiring Sodot, a startup focused on digital asset security. The company said Wednesday that it will use Sodot’s key management technology as the backbone of a newly formed division…

CertiK’s Skynet report shows AML enforcement and security standards have replaced securities angst as crypto’s main risk axis, with Basel and DORA baking rules into code. CertiK’s latest Skynet State of Digital Asset Regulations Report makes one thing brutally clear: the experimental…

Robinhood shares fell sharply on Wednesday after the trading platform reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter results, with a slowdown in crypto activity dragging on both revenue and profit. The stock dropped around 11% following the release, as market volatility tied to digital…

Mezo Prime launches with Anchorage and Bullish to route institutional Bitcoin into segregated, qualified‑custody vaults that earn onchain yield and mint BTC‑backed MUSD. Bitcoin‑native finance protocol Mezo has launched Mezo Prime, a new institutional product designed to give corporate treasuries and professional…

Solana multisig leader Squads raises $18M to scale its Altitude stablecoin accounts for enterprises, reinforcing Solana’s role as plumbing for onchain dollar treasuries. Solana‑based multi‑signature protocol Squads has raised 18 million dollars in a new strategic equity round led by…

Ethereum Foundation’s Q1 2026 grants pour into ZK research, core clients, validator security, and public-goods infra, signaling long-term conviction in cryptography-first scaling. The Ethereum Foundation has released its latest Q1 2026 allocation report, highlighting fresh grants and ecosystem support across cryptography,…

Bitcoin price fell back towards the $77,000 level after facing rejection at the $78K mark as investors remained cautious ahead of the FOMC decision today. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin (BTC) price faced rejection at around $80,000 on Monday,…

Andre Cronje blasts modern DeFi as UI-wrapped CeFi, backing circuit breakers after April’s $600M exploit wave and warning that true decentralization means no safety nets. DeFi pioneer Andre Cronje sparked industry debate, arguing that most modern DeFi protocols have drifted from their…

Retail traders adopt AI trading bots in 2026 for faster execution, discipline, and market monitoring. Automated trading is no longer only for professional quants or hedge funds. In 2026, more retail traders are using AI trading bots to reduce screen…

Blockworks secures a $192M valuation as it pivots from news to data infrastructure, riding a VC shift toward bigger, late-stage crypto deals. Crypto data and research platform Blockworks completed a Series A extension financing round, reaching a post-money valuation of $192 million,…

IBM and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have launched the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, expanding their long-standing collaboration to focus on next-generation computing technologies. According to reports, the new lab builds on the foundation of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, established…

XRP price has formed a decisive symmetrical triangle pattern on charts as bulls and bears battle for dominance. Will it stage a bullish breakout from its current range as it continues to grow into a leading RWA powerhouse? After hitting…

ZetaChain has acknowledged that a vulnerability behind its recent exploit had already been reported through its bug bounty program, but was treated as expected behavior. According to ZetaChain’s post-mortem published Wednesday, the incident has triggered an internal review of how…

A U.S. federal judge has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial, closing off his latest attempt to challenge his fraud conviction tied to the collapse of FTX. According to a ruling issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Lewis…

Pi Network price rallied for the fourth straight day as Pi Network revealed progress towards the project’s technical roadmap ahead of Consensus 2026. According to data from crypto.news, Pi Network (PI) price rallied nearly 7% to a 5-week high of…

South Korea’s Hana Financial Group, POSCO International, and Dunamu have signed a trilateral agreement to deploy a blockchain-based remittance system, with real trade transactions set to begin through POSCO International. According to a Wednesday announcement from the companies, the agreement…

TRUMP price predictions gain attention as BlockchainFX rises among top early-stage crypto investment picks. Can a sharp price prediction today shape smarter crypto decisions tomorrow? Market timing often decides outcomes, and strong data-backed price prediction helps cut through chaos. OFFICIAL…

Polymarket has sought to reopen its main prediction markets platform to U.S. users as it is reportedly engaging regulators to remove a long-standing access ban. According to Bloomberg, the company has been in discussions with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission…

Celsius founder Alexander Mashinsky has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that bars him from promoting asset-related products and ties a $10 million payment to a much larger suspended judgment. According to the Federal Trade Commission, the…

SHRMiner gains traction as investors turn to regulated cloud mining for XRP ecosystem exposure in 2026. This week, the cryptocurrency market once again took center stage, with XRP becoming the most-watched asset. Influenced by recent remarks from Trump and an…

OpenAI is expanding access to its generative AI models by bringing them onto Amazon Web Services, a move that follows closely on the heels of a revised agreement with Microsoft that loosens earlier exclusivity around cloud usage. According to reports,…

T. Rowe Price has advanced its entry into the crypto ETF market with a further amendment to its actively managed digital asset fund filing, bringing a potential launch closer. According to a preliminary prospectus dated April 27, 2026, the Baltimore-based…

Tether has introduced a Bitcoin faucet inside its self-custody wallet, offering small BTC payouts through the Lightning Network to bring new users into its ecosystem. According to Paolo Ardoino, who announced the feature at Bitcoin 2026 in Lugano, the faucet…

Canada has moved to tighten oversight of cryptocurrency use by proposing a nationwide ban on crypto ATMs while advancing legislation to block digital asset donations in federal elections. According to CBC News, the federal government has outlined plans in its…

A class action lawsuit has accused Believe founder Ben Pasternak of extracting $54 million in fees through token migrations tied to Launchcoin while leaving investors with losses. According to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern…

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis has said work is underway to strengthen developer safeguards in the CLARITY Act while preserving enforcement against illicit crypto activity. According to a post shared by Cynthia Lummis on X, the update focuses on protecting non-custodial…

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Wisconsin, escalating its legal push to block state action against federally regulated prediction market platforms. According to a statement from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the lawsuit responds directly to Wisconsin’s recent…

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 its…

Stablecoin transfer volume fell 19.18% to $831B in 30 days, yet market cap and holders rose as USDT, USDC, and DAI added billions while Ethena’s USDe saw $1.1B outflows. Stablecoin transfer volume declined 19.18% to $831 billion over the past…

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 market…

Over Foundation has shut down all Over Protocol infrastructure, abandoning OverWallet, nodes and explorers, and leaving block production to any validators stubborn enough to keep running. The Over Foundation announced it will permanently cease operations of Over Protocol, a Layer…

Opening arguments began April 28 in the Musk OpenAI civil trial in Oakland, with Musk’s lead attorney Steven Molo telling jurors that without Elon Musk’s $38 million in early funding and recruiting of top AI scientists, OpenAI would not exist,…

Top‑100 crypto traded mixed today as Humanity Protocol jumped 14.5%, MemeCore slid 9.3% on 90% insider‑supply fears, and total market cap dipped 1.39% to $2.65T. The top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization recorded divergent price action during today’s trading session,…

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 driven…

A Matrixport‑linked whale has opened a fresh 30,000 ETH long at 15x, lifting total leveraged exposure to 58,000 ETH (~$132M) after banking over $59M on prior longs. A cryptocurrency whale associated with Matrixport opened a fresh 30,000 ETH long position…

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 heading…

Travelex Bank, the first foreign exchange bank approved by Brazil’s 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 payments…

US-listed XRP ETF products pulled in $81.63 million in April 2026, their strongest monthly inflow figure of the year, fully reversing March’s $31.16 million loss and pushing cumulative net inflows to $1.29 billion. XRP ETF products recorded $81.63 million in…

DOGEBALL nears final presale phase after raising over $230k from more than 830 participating investors. A rare window is closing fast for investors searching for the best crypto presale to buy in 2026, and DOGEBALL (DOGEBALL) is already proving why…

Sharplink now stakes nearly 900k ETH as institutional validators, ETFs, and JPMorgan’s tokenized funds turn Ethereum’s 30% staking era into a yield-bearing settlement layer. Ethereum treasury firm Sharplink (NASDAQ: SBET) announced it received 459 ETH in staking rewards this week, bringing cumulative…

Bitcoin’s drop from the $80k zone shows classic Fed‑week caution, with strong support near $75.5k, mixed on‑chain signals, and traders waiting on the FOMC decision. Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $76,000 after encountering strong resistance around the $80,000 level, a key…

Iran expected to submit revised peace proposal, compressing war premium in oil markets and lifting BTC and ETH—but crypto remains hostage to headline volatility. According to CNN, sources say Iran is expected to submit a revised peace proposal soon, following…

Perle jumps 63.9% as BlockchainFX nears $15 million softcap with strong presale momentum building. AI data tokens are having a moment, and Perle (PRL) just pumped 63.9% in 24 hours to prove it. But while traders chase green candles on…

CertiK’s 2026 report argues that the age of arguing whether a token is or isn’t a security is no longer the core battlefield; the real threat now is AML. CertiK’s 2026 report argues that the age of arguing whether a…

Visa partners with WeFi to enable direct stablecoin spending from self-custody wallets on Visa’s network, bypassing exchanges and pressuring banks’ FX roles. Visa’s new partnership with WeFi is designed to make stablecoin balances in self‑custody wallets spendable anywhere Visa is…

Startale Group is integrating Sunnyside Labs’ Privacy Boost directly into its Sony-backed Soneium super app, giving users fast, self-custodial shielding and zk-powered private payments without sacrificing auditability or everyday UX. Startale Group has named Privacy Boost as the official privacy…

Pi Network price rallied over 15% in the past week, outperforming a largely flat crypto market as a wave of network upgrades and event-driven catalysts boosted demand for the token. According to data from crypto.news, Pi Network (PI) climbed from…

Polymarket’s CLOB v2 upgrade ships new exchange contracts, pUSD collateral, and $1M in liquidity rewards to deepen books and court professional market makers. Polymarket’s CLOB v2 upgrade went live on April 28 at around 11:00 UTC, after a brief maintenance…

Tether’s open-source MDK unifies Bitcoin mining control in a JS and React stack, aiming for AI-ready, vendor-agnostic automation from home rigs to gigawatt farms. MDK turns mining stack into programmable software layer Tether has released its Mining Development Kit as…

The CFTC is turning to artificial intelligence and a new Innovation Task Force to police explosive crypto and prediction markets as its workforce shrinks and jurisdictional battles over event contracts intensify. Galaxy Digital (Nasdaq: GLXY) swung to a Q1 2026…

CFTC turns to AI tools and a new Innovation Task Force to police booming crypto and prediction markets as staff shrinks and CLARITY Act hangs over federal turf wars. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is turning to artificial intelligence…

XRP gains institutional attention as ETF inflows and market demand reshape crypto investment strategies. Amidst Wall Street’s continued increase in crypto asset allocation, Bitcoin ETF inflows have surpassed $21 billion, signifying an unprecedented influx of mainstream capital into this market. …

Private companies are gradually moving past the early stages of experimenting with artificial intelligence, with many larger firms now beginning to report measurable returns from their investments. According to a new survey by Deloitte, nearly two-thirds (64%) of private companies…

Solana price has been consolidating within the $75-$100 range since early February this year. Now, a confirmed breakout from a descending parallel channel puts the asset in a position to challenge higher resistance levels after months of sideways movement. After…

Chainlink saw 970,430 LINK leave exchanges as demand rose, while BridgeTower deployed its stack for tokenized securities tied to DOM X.

Google has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide its artificial intelligence models for use on classified systems. According to The Information, citing a person familiar with the matter, the Pentagon can deploy Google’s AI…

Ondo partners with Broadridge to let tokenized stock and ETF holders submit voting preferences and access governance documents.

FBI says Xu Zewei was extradited over alleged COVID research hacks as Kash Patel files a $250 million defamation lawsuit.

XRP price fell 5% from last week’s high, driven down by declining network activity and cooling retail interest. It has now formed a bearish pennant pattern that positions the token for more pain in the coming sessions. According to data…

OKX adds BlackRock’s BUIDL fund as collateral, letting institutions use tokenized Treasurys for trading margin via Standard Chartered.

BTC cloud mining gains momentum in 2026 as AJC Mining expands access to remote mining contracts. As the cryptocurrency market continues to develop in 2026, institutionalization, compliance, and diversification of trading tools are driving increased industry attention. Leading platforms such…

Core Scientific plans a 1.5GW AI data center in Texas, repurposing 300MW of Bitcoin mining capacity for high-density computing.

The crypto market fell 1.3% to $2.64 trillion on Tuesday as concerns over stalled U.S.-Iran peace negotiations and rising oil prices eroded investor appetite for risk assets. Bitcoin (BTC) price crashed 2.2% from Monday’s high of $78,225 to $76,480 earlier…

Peter Brandt says Bitcoin’s $250K target looks unlikely in 2026 as BTC trades inside a rising channel with mixed market signals.

The White House has signaled that a new step toward operationalizing the U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve has been prepared, with an announcement expected within weeks. Speaking at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, Patrick Witt said officials have been…

ZachXBT alleges Worldcoin used predatory token tactics as WLD price falls, while Elon Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit moves toward trial in court now.

Is Bitcoin safe from quantum computers? We break down the real threat timeline, BIP-360 defenses, and how Ethereum, XRP, and other blockchains are preparing for Q-Day.

Anthropic’s pre-IPO valuation tops $1T on Jupiter as Forge shows similar pricing and Hiive values the Claude maker near $851B.

U.S. President Donald Trump has softened his stance on prediction markets days after voicing concern over their rapid rise. Speaking to reporters in Florida on Saturday, Trump acknowledged that some experienced participants support these platforms, even as he maintained a…

U.S. crypto lobbying group Blockchain Association has urged the Federal Reserve to formalise the removal of “reputation risk” from bank supervision rules, warning that the concept has been used to restrict access to financial services. In a comment letter submitted…

DeFi United plans to restore rsETH after Kelp DAO’s $292M exploit using ETH tranches, Aave liquidations, and governance approvals.

Block has introduced an on-chain proof-of-reserves system covering its corporate Bitcoin holdings and key consumer products, expanding its push for transparency in digital asset custody. According to Block, users can independently verify its Bitcoin reserves through cryptographic signatures published on-chain,…

ZetaChain pauses cross-chain transactions after a GatewayEVM attack, saying user funds were safe while DefiLlama reported $300K lost.

Saipan woman Sze Man Yu Inos gets 71 months in prison for bitcoin fraud targeting seniors, with $769,355 in restitution ordered.

Bitbank launches EPOS Crypto Card in Japan, letting users settle bills with bitcoin from exchange balances and earn 0.5% crypto cashback.

Senator Thom Tillis has threatened to oppose the Senate’s crypto market structure bill unless ethics restrictions on White House crypto activity are added. According to Politico, Tillis said he would withdraw support for the legislation if it leaves the Senate…

Canada has advanced a bill to block cryptocurrency donations in federal elections, pushing tighter controls on how political funding is handled. According to Canada’s House of Commons, Bill C-25, known as the Strong and Free Elections Act, cleared its second…

Solana clients Anza and Firedancer test Falcon, a post-quantum signature tool aimed at protecting validators from future quantum risks.

Israel approves BILS, a shekel-pegged stablecoin by Bits of Gold, after a two-year Solana pilot with local reserve accounts.

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 article…

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 Chief…

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 April…

Stablecoins have “quietly become core financial plumbing” and pushed on‑chain finance past a “point of no return,” according to a new a16z crypto framework that recasts programmable dollars as the base layer for a multi‑chain, banking‑as‑a‑service stack and a coming…

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 today’s cutoff automatically disconnected from the Mainnet, and Protocol 23 now moved one week earlier to…

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 York…

Ethereum has slipped back below $2,300, leaving traders to decide whether a fragile band between roughly $2,100 support and $2,350–$2,400 resistance is a simple shakeout or the prelude to a deeper retrace before any long‑promised run toward $4,000. Ethereum (ETH)…

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 Memorial…

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 campus…

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 bill’s end-of-May deadline tightens and prediction market odds…

Senator Thom Tillis lifted his blockade of Kevin Warsh’s 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 on…

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 world’s largest corporate Ethereum treasury by a…

Strive Asset Management has raced from zero to 14,557 BTC in months, becoming the 9th‑largest public Bitcoin treasury and turning its balance sheet into a levered bet on BTC. Strive Asset Management has added another 789 BTC to its balance…

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 company’s transformation from a nonprofit research lab into a for-profit enterprise worth approximately…

South Korea’s KBank signed a strategic partnership with Ripple on April 27 to test blockchain-based cross-border remittances, marking Ripple’s second Korean institutional deal this month and its first with a major Korean digital bank. Ripple KBank partnership was confirmed on…

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 to…

Canada’s new C$25B Canada Strong Fund aims to back “nation‑building” projects, but crypto circles instantly seized on one question: will Ottawa ever buy Bitcoin? Canada’s new government is launching the Canada Strong Fund, a national sovereign wealth fund seeded with…

Cloud mining grows in 2026 as investors seek low-cost access to Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Litecoin mining. As we enter 2026, cloud mining remains a highly prominent method of participation within the cryptocurrency market — particularly appealing to users who wish…

Coinbase says stablecoins settled $33T in 2025, eclipsing Visa’s $16.7T and turning on‑chain dollars into the internet’s real‑time, low‑fee payment backbone. Coinbase’s official account ignited a fresh round of payments‑wars discourse on X with a comparison thread claiming that “$33T…

Solana lends USDT to Aave and onboards AAVE after the KelpDAO exploit, as SOL chops in the mid‑$80s and markets ask if “DeFi United” can reignite the trend. Over the last 3–12 hours, SOL has traded roughly in the mid‑80s,…

Circle Ventures snaps up AAVE days after a $293M KelpDAO exploit, shoring up Aave’s bad‑debt shock while Washington weighs a landmark US stablecoin bill. Aave governance is bracing for another high‑stakes vote as a proposal to pause $AAVE buybacks until…

Circle Ventures snaps up AAVE days after a $293M KelpDAO exploit, shoring up Aave’s bad‑debt shock while Washington weighs a landmark US stablecoin bill. Circle Ventures’ decision to accumulate $AAVE tokens sparked immediate debate on Crypto X after CoinDesk described…

Trump’s second Mar‑a‑Lago TRUMP memecoin gala goes ahead as the token crashes, turning “exclusive” on‑chain access into a cut‑rate lesson in political token risk. The second annual Trump memecoin conference at Mar-a-Lago proceeded on April 25 even as the president’s…

Tether has launched an open-source Mining Development Kit that collapses Bitcoin mining’s fragmented hardware dashboards into a single JavaScript and React-based stack. Tether pushes deeper into mining software stack Stablecoin issuer Tether has launched a new open-source Mining Development Kit…

The Block taps ex‑Azuki COO Steve Chung as CEO and takes another $10M from Foresight Ventures, doubling down on an institutional data, research, and AI‑driven media pivot. The Block’s decision to install former Azuki COO Steve Chung as CEO, backed…

Onchain IP turns static, illiquid rights into transparent, tradable assets, letting games like My Pet Hooligan convert fans from passive consumers into real economic stakeholders The entertainment industry has long treated intellectual property like the paranoid owner of a rare…

Pi Network price rallied over 6% in the past week as anticipation for its upcoming mainnet upgrades spurred demand for the token. According to data from crypto.news, Pi Network (PI) price rallied from a weekly low of $0.166 to $0.186…

Consensys and Joseph Lubin pledge up to 30K ETH to DeFi United’s rsETH rescue stack, shoring up Aave and DeFi after Kelp DAO’s $293M exploit left deep collateral holes. Ethereum infrastructure firm Consensys and its founder Joseph Lubin have joined…

WhiteBIT and FC Barcelona sign five-year deal to advance fan engagement and digital finance innovation. WhiteBIT, the largest European cryptocurrency exchange by traffic, and FC Barcelona have entered a landmark five-year agreement through 2030, bringing together two global leaders to…

Whale pulls 72K HYPE off Gate.io, expanding a $168M stash as spot buyers face off against crowded leveraged shorts around the key $40 support zone. A crypto whale controlling the address 0xEe0A18B394ecE1D7bE81Be15d6cEc3Ac7707b71C has withdrawn 72,264 HYPE from centralized exchange Gate.io,…

SwapSpace’s CBDO, Vasily Shilov, highlights market trends and industry direction following EthCC and Paris Blockchain Week insights. In April, the SwapSpace team attended two major crypto events: EthCC and Paris Blockchain Week. The company’s CBDO, Vasily Shilov, shared some insights…

Banking Circle has rolled out institutional stablecoin settlement services after securing regulatory approval in Luxembourg. According to a Monday announcement from the Luxembourg-based bank, the expansion follows its April 15 registration as a Crypto Asset Service Provider with the country’s…

Hyperliquid rose over 10% this week, reclaiming the $40 support level amid a surge in commodities futures trading on the platform. According to data from crypto.news, Hyperliquid (HYPE) price rose from a $39 low on Wednesday last week to an…

AI cloud mining gains traction in 2026 as SHRMiner expands access to low-cost Bitcoin earning for beginners. Exploring passive income through cryptocurrency mining without investment has become one of the fastest ways to grow your assets in 2026. As Bitcoin…

China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, forcing the U.S. tech company to abandon a deal that had already been completed months earlier. According to China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the cancellation order was issued…

LILPEPE nears presale completion after raising over $28 million as investor interest continues to grow. The LILPEPE coin is close to wrapping up its presale with a total amount of funds collected surpassing the mark of $28 million. Although the…

Bitcoin Cash holds steady as BlockchainFX gains investor attention heading into the final week of April 2026. Ten thousand dollars is sitting in a wallet right now, and the clock is ticking on where it should go. Bitcoin Cash is…

Google DeepMind has entered into a partnership with South Korea to provide the technical backbone for the country’s K-Moonshot initiative, an ambitious national programme designed to solve the most complex scientific challenges of the century using AI. According to recent…

Adam Back disputed claims of a first quantum crypto hack, saying the 15-bit ECC test did not show a real threat to Bitcoin.

XRP price outlook stays in focus as BlockchainFX gains attention in the multi-asset crypto investment market. Can XRP (XRP) price prediction news still matter when crypto market data changes by the hour? Today, the total crypto market cap sits near…

Ripple’s former CTO David Schwartz has warned that a targeted phishing campaign has begun exploiting Robinhood users through seemingly legitimate emails ahead of the firm’s earnings report. According to Schwartz, the attack involves emails that appear to originate from Robinhood’s…

Digital asset funds recorded $1.2B in weekly inflows, led by Bitcoin, Ethereum and record demand for blockchain equities.

BNB bulls defended the $600 support on Monday as investors booked profits following its rebound to $640. Now, with a major hard fork set to be implemented tomorrow, will the token reclaim its local highs or fall victim to a…

Litecoin price forecasts remain in focus as BlockchainFX gains momentum in the 2026 crypto presale market. Can Litecoin (LTC) price prediction news still turn heads in 2026 when newer utility tokens are stealing the spotlight? Litecoin (LTC) remains one of…

XRP Healthcare launched XRPHAI on MEXC, with deposits open and health-based rewards through the XRPH AI App starting April 28.

XRP nears $2 as BlockchainFX presale surpasses $14.37 million amid rising investor interest.. Spot buyers are stacking XRP like nothing is wrong, shorts are piling in like something is very wrong, and somewhere between that tug of war, a presale…

Luxor committed $100M to buy MicroBT WhatsMiner rigs as MicroBT signed a term sheet to invest in the mining firm.

SUI, JUP and SIGN lead this week’s token unlocks as over $650M in crypto supply prepares to enter the market.

OpenAI has reportedly partnered with chipmakers and a manufacturing firm to develop an AI-focused smartphone, with mass production targeted for 2028. According to a recent post from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the company is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to co-develop…

Justin Sun says TRON plans a quantum-resistant testnet in Q2 2026, followed by a mainnet rollout in Q3.

XRP price has been consolidating over the past week, holding the $1.40 support despite market volatility. But now a potential bearish MACD crossover threatens a breakdown below the major support level. According to data from crypto.news, XRP (XRP) price rallied…

Ethereum open interest has dropped sharply across Gate.io and Binance, while analysts say lower leverage may support cleaner ETH price action.

South Korea’s internet-only lender KBank has entered into a strategic partnership with Ripple to test blockchain-based cross-border remittances. According to multiple local media reports, the collaboration focuses on a proof-of-concept designed to measure improvements in transaction speed, cost efficiency, and…

Bitcoin rejected $80K after $1.35B in sell pressure, while analysts said negative funding may support a later squeeze.

France has charged 88 people over alleged crypto wrench attacks as prosecutors investigate 12 cases and organized networks.

Cross-border B2B stablecoin payments have been projected to reach $5 trillion by 2035, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report published on April 27 has estimated that the total cross-border B2B stablecoin transaction value will climb from…

Bitcoin neared $80K before falling sharply as US-Iran deal reports sparked volatility and about $275M in crypto liquidations.

Coachella has partnered with Google DeepMind to test new AI tools that reshape how live music performances are created and experienced. According to a recent report, the festival used its 2026 edition to build and trial three experimental systems powered…

David Schwartz says his 2017 XRP comments explained liquidity and market depth, not a guaranteed price prediction.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis has lifted his opposition to Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Federal Reserve chair after a federal investigation into Jerome Powell concluded. According to a statement shared by Tillis on X, the U.S. Department of Justice has wrapped…

Bitcoin faces a busy week as traders watch the Fed decision, GDP data, PCE inflation, tech earnings and geopolitical risks.

New research says XRP still follows Wall Street signals, with stocks, bonds and sovereign risk measures shaping crypto price direction.

A study says only 3.14% of Polymarket accounts drive price discovery, while unskilled traders absorb the platform’s losses.

Western Union plans to launch USDPT in May, linking stablecoin settlement with its digital asset network and planned global Stable Card.

Michael Saylor hinted at another Strategy Bitcoin buy, but slower MSTR funding suggests the next BTC purchase may be modest.

A White House-linked official warned that delaying the CLARITY Act could benefit China as US crypto rules remain stalled.

Spot XRP ETFs hit $1.29B in cumulative inflows, but XRP stayed near $1.43 as exchange outflows raised rally hopes.

Pi Network’s PI token rose over 5% as Bitcoin held near $78K and the crypto market value moved back toward $2.7T.

Pi Network will sponsor Consensus 2026 as its founders discuss AI, identity, Web3, and upcoming Protocol 23 upgrades.

Mobile cloud mining grows in 2026 as users seek easier Bitcoin mining access through Android and iOS apps. The mobile cloud mining market is still growing, as more people want to try Bitcoin mining without buying hardware or setting up…

CEX.IO survey finds 36% of US crypto traders cut daily spending as market losses strain budgets and delay major purchases.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse won Harvard’s 2026 Business Leader of the Year award after Ripple’s legal and global expansion.

Peter Schiff warned Strategy could face pressure from 11.5% preferred shares, raising concerns over Bitcoin sales and MSTR risk.

Ethereum Foundation unstaked 17,035 ETH worth $40M after nearing its 70K ETH staking target, raising market questions.

JPMorgan says tokenization could change ETFs and funds, but strong use cases may still be years away as firms test settlement benefits.

Aave, Kelp and LayerZero asked Arbitrum DAO to release $71M in frozen ETH for rsETH recovery after the Kelp exploit.

Mike Novogratz says the US CLARITY Act could move in May, while industry doubts remain over delays and stablecoin yield disputes.

The CFTC sued New York to block state gambling laws from applying to federally regulated prediction market platforms.

A California man was sentenced to 70 months for laundering funds tied to a $263M crypto scam group that targeted users.

Litecoin reversed 13 blocks after an MWEB zero-day bug caused invalid transactions and double-spend attempts on swap protocols.

BridgeTower Capital has officially deployed Chainlink’s 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.…

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 filed…

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 mandatory…

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 of…

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 deposits…

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 start…

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 issuers’ outstanding tokens, positioning the Wall Street giant to capture reserve management business ahead…

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, warning…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on April 24 that the US government has sanctioned multiple crypto wallets linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under a campaign called Operation Economic Fury, with Tether executing the freeze of $344 million in…

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 Elizabeth…

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 Canton’s architecture eliminates bridge risk rather than simply…

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, Vice…

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 administration’s handling of advanced…

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 Democrats’ fifth consecutive failure to advance…

U.S. Treasury and Tether froze $344M in USDT tied to Iran’s IRGC, spotlighting how Tehran’s $7.8B crypto ecosystem leans on stablecoins to dodge sanctions and move oil money. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has confirmed that the United States has…

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 accounts…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model on April 24, explicitly optimized for Huawei’s Ascend chip platform, on the same day the White House accused China of running industrial-scale campaigns to copy and steal American frontier…

Google‑parent Alphabet will commit $10 billion in cash to Anthropic now and up to $30 billion more over time, in a package that Bloomberg reports could reach $40 billion in total if the AI lab hits aggressive performance and usage…

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, its newest frontier model and the company’s 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-5.5…

BridgeTower Capital has officially adopted Chainlink’s 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 the…

Pi Network co-founder Nicolas Kokkalis will take the stage at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 7, joining a panel titled “How to Prove You’re Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself)” at the Convergence Stage, as Pi positions…

DeFi heavyweights urge the SEC to turn its temporary “non‑custodial UI” safe harbor into binding broker rules that shield neutral infrastructure from creeping regulation. Humanity Foundation has effectively put more than 100 investors on the clock. By April 26 at…

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 Tillis’s office personally to demand…

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 BlackRock’s IBIT responsible…

Nakamoto Inc. is running an actively managed options program with Bitwise and Kraken, writing covered calls and buying puts on part of its Bitcoin stack to turn volatility into income and partial downside hedges. Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) has announced…

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…

EIP‑8182 would add a shared shielded pool and ZK precompile to make private ETH and ERC‑20 transfers a native Ethereum feature, aligned with its 2026 privacy roadmap. Ethereum (ETH) is finally putting protocol‑level privacy on the table. Tom Lehman has…

AWS Marketplace now offers Chainlink’s oracle stack as a native service, letting banks and fintechs wire tokenization, stablecoins, and RWA apps into existing cloud workflows. According to a report from The Block, AWS Marketplace has integrated multiple Chainlink data services,…

DeFi heavyweights urge the SEC to turn its temporary “non‑custodial UI” safe harbor into binding broker rules that shield neutral infrastructure from creeping regulation. A broad coalition of DeFi builders and investors is pressing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…

Little Pepe gains investor attention as presale nears final stages with over $28 million already raised. With time, the cryptocurrency industry is becoming more sophisticated, and therefore, there have been changes in the kinds of coins that traders seek to…

Robin Markets raised $475k to launch a staking product that turns Polymarket positions into yield, a targeted crypto VC bet in a funding cycle otherwise dominated by AI. Robin Markets has closed a $475,000 angel financing round led by Fabric…

Polymarket catapulted Waller’s Fed chair odds from 27% to 85% after reports the DOJ will drop its criminal probe into Jerome Powell, clearing a key Senate roadblock. Prediction markets have dramatically repriced the odds that Christopher Waller will become the…

Senator Bernie Moreno’s end‑of‑May ultimatum has turned the CLARITY Act into Congress’s last credible chance this cycle to set U.S. crypto market‑structure rules before politics and bank lobbying slam the window shut. At a Washington event on April 22, Senator…

Hyperliquid whales now hold $3.66B in nearly balanced perp positions, turning the on‑chain DEX into a real‑time gauge of institutional crypto sentiment. Whale traders on Hyperliquid, one of the fastest‑growing on‑chain derivatives exchanges, are currently running $3.66 billion worth of…

$178M in crypto liquidations over 24 hours show a choppy, leverage‑heavy market where both long and short traders are getting whipsawed out of positions. Crypto traders absorbed a fresh wave of forced deleveraging over the past day, with data from…

South Africa’s 2026 capital flow draft recasts crypto as “capital,” tightening FX controls with declarations, approvals and sanctions as Africa’s biggest market matures. South Africa’s National Treasury has released its Draft Capital Flow Management Regulations for 2026, a sweeping overhaul…

Coinbase is rolling out a BLEND–USD spot pair for Fluent’s newly launched token, joining KuCoin and MEXC in a coordinated listing that could turn the tiny‑cap altcoin into a high‑beta volatility play. Coinbase is preparing to launch spot trading for…

Zcash price rallied nearly 12% on Friday, continuing its recent uptrend as buying interest picked up again after a brief pullback earlier this week. According to data from crypto.news, Zcash (ZEC) rose to an intraday high close to $360 before…

Dogecoin price prediction targets $0.50, but slow gains push investors toward Varntix for stable 20–24% returns and flexible income options. Dogecoin is up on its daily and weekly scale, showing signs of recovery after early-year losses. Dogecoin price prediction models…

ECB teams with ECPC, nexo and Berlin Group to reuse open payment standards, cutting digital euro integration costs and clearing the path to a 2027 pilot, 2029 launch. The European Central Bank (ECB) has signed agreements with three European standards…

The UAE has announced an ambitious two-year roadmap to integrate agentic artificial intelligence into 50% of its government operations.  According to a report from local news outlets, the UAE aims to shift half of all public sectors, services, and day-to-day…

Solana is trading within an ascending channel, with $90 capping its upside over the past week and acting as a key breakout level. According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) dropped from its Wednesday high of $89 to $85 on…

PI remains weak as 3M tokens move to exchanges, unlocks approach, and Pi Network prepares for its Protocol 22 deadline.

GOP leaders reportedly contacted Howard Lutnick after a crypto PAC filing showed a planned $1.75M Texas spend for Ken Paxton.

China’s DeepSeek is making waves again by claiming its new V4 models are now just months away from catching up to industry leaders like OpenAI and Google. Roughly a year after its previous release, the Hangzhou-based startup introduced the DeepSeek…

Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz rejected claims that XRP is part of a secret US government plan, calling them conspiracy theories.

XRP price trends draw investor focus as SHR Miner expands cloud mining access in the digital asset market. With the price movements of Bitcoin and Ethereum influencing the overall market, XRP trend prediction continues to attract investor attention, and SHR…

Riot Platforms sent 500 BTC to NYDIG as major Bitcoin miners keep selling reserves after the latest halving.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $2B in net inflows over eight days, led by BlackRock’s IBIT as BTC traded near $78,000.

Ethereum price fell for the second straight day on Friday as institutional investors took a step back from the asset as they weighed rising geopolitical risks. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price fell 4% from the Wednesday high…

Wisconsin has escalated its challenge against prediction market platforms, widening a legal fight already taking shape across several U.S. states over how these products should be classified. Fresh complaints filed in Dane County name Crypto.com and its derivatives arm, Polymarket,…

Space and Time launches Dreamspace, a Microsoft-backed AI app builder for creating on-chain apps without coding.

Fold Holdings has rolled out a Bitcoin-based bonus program for employees, expanding its push to bring BTC into everyday workplace compensation. Fold said the new offering, launched under its enterprise arm Fold Business, allows companies to distribute recurring bonuses in…

Crypto prices stayed muted with major assets, including Bitcoin, experiencing slight declines on Friday as hopes of peace between the U.S. and Iran began to fade. Bitcoin (BTC) price traded sideways between $77,000 and $79,000 over the past 24 hours…

Metaplanet issues $50M in zero-interest bonds to fund more Bitcoin purchases after raising its holdings to 40,177 BTC.

Mantle proposes lending up to 30,000 ETH to Aave DAO to address rsETH bad debt from the $292M Kelp exploit.

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Cambodian senator Kok An and a network of 28 entities over alleged ties to a large-scale crypto scam and trafficking-linked operation. The U.S. Department of the Treasury said Thursday that its Office of Foreign Assets…

U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed plans to attend a private gala for top holders of his TRUMP memecoin at Mar-a-Lago, following earlier uncertainty around his participation. According to Reuters, the White House said Trump will deliver a keynote address…

Kelp DAO’s $292M exploit sparked debate over layered DeFi risk after rsETH stress triggered withdrawals and market pauses.

U.S. authorities have frozen more than $701 million in cryptocurrency tied to investment scams targeting Americans as part of an ongoing crackdown. The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday that the funds were restrained through coordination with crypto exchanges and…

Morgan Stanley has introduced a new portfolio designed to hold stablecoin reserves within its money market fund structure. According to Morgan Stanley, the “Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio” allows issuers to place backing assets into its Institutional Liquidity Funds trust while earning…

White House says China-linked firms used proxy accounts and jailbreaks to copy US AI models through unauthorized distillation.

DOJ charged a US soldier accused of using secret intelligence to make over $400K from Polymarket bets on Maduro’s capture.

Decentralized finance protocols have pledged more than $101 million in Ether to stabilize rsETH after the $293 million Kelp DAO exploit disrupted lending markets. According to Aave, the coordinated response, described as the “DeFi United” relief effort, has gathered commitments…

Succinct launches ZCAM, an iPhone app that uses cryptography to verify real photos and videos at capture.

Jane Street has asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of insider trading linked to the TerraUSD collapse. In a filing before the Southern District of New York, and shared with crypto.news, the trading firm and several…

Lido Labs proposes using up to 2,500 stETH to reduce Kelp’s rsETH shortfall after a $292M exploit hit DeFi venues.

FTX estate sold its 5% Cursor stake for $200K in 2023, missing about $3B after Cursor’s $60B SpaceX-linked valuation.

OKX integrates BitGo off-exchange settlement for US institutions, allowing trades while assets remain in cold custody.

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 3x…

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 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 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 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 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 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…

JPMorgan says repeated DeFi hacks, a $20B TVL drop after Kelp’s rsETH exploit, and flat ETH‑denominated TVL are souring institutional appetite for onchain lending and yield. JPMorgan analysts told The Block that “frequent security incidents in DeFi and the stagnation…

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 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 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…

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 March’s $31.16 million loss,…

US spot ETFs absorbed 4,349 BTC, 35,736 ETH and 1,311 SOL in a day, signaling that despite choppy prices, regulated wrappers remain the preferred route into crypto exposure. US-listed spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs saw net inflows of 4,349 BTC today,…

Bitcoin’s path to $100k hinges on Kevin Warsh’s Fed bid and the CLARITY Act’s shrinking window, as Washington rewires crypto market structure. Bitcoin (BTC) at $100,000 is back on the table if its recent rally holds, but the outcome hinges…

Coinbase has rebuilt its anti‑fraud stack by tightly integrating machine learning models with a high‑speed rules engine, slashing response times to new scam patterns from days to hours just as TRM Labs warns crypto fraud is now a tens‑of‑billions‑per‑year, AI‑supercharged…

XRP is grinding in the mid‑$1.40s, trapped between stubborn resistance and strong support as fresh “digital commodity” clarity, ETF rails and April seasonality fight flat flows. XRP (XRP) is still down roughly 60% from its 2018 all‑time high near $3.65,…

Reppo landed a $20m strategic commitment from Bolts Capital to scale its prediction market protocol and “Datanets,” aiming to turn staked human judgment into high‑quality AI training data. Decentralized prediction market network Reppo has secured a $20,000,000 strategic investment commitment…

As AI-powered crypto trading expands, investors are comparing platforms based on automation quality, risk controls, transparency, and the capital required to get started effectively. Those who have spent time searching for the best AI crypto trading bot already know the…

Iranian media have dismissed reports that Tehran is currently collecting transit tolls for the Strait of Hormuz in cryptocurrency, underscoring the confusion surrounding a wartime payment regime that has rattled global shipping and crypto markets. Tehran moves to quash ‘crypto…

Spanish police shuttered a decade‑old manga piracy hub, arrested three people in Almería, and seized €400K in crypto cold wallets hidden inside a wall‑mounted thermometer. Spain’s National Police have shut down a decade‑old online manga piracy operation they describe as…

Passive income from crypto mining without investment has become one of the fastest-growing search trends in 2026. As Bitcoin continues to attract global attention, more users are looking for ways to participate in mining without purchasing expensive hardware or managing…

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn says Strategy now holds more Bitcoin than BlackRock’s IBIT and, if its pace holds, could match Satoshi’s estimated 1.1m BTC stash within two years. Galaxy Digital head of research Alex Thorn has flagged that Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings…

Lido says only about 9% of EarnETH’s TVL is tied to hacked rsETH, roughly $70M has been recovered, and a $3M DAO first‑loss buffer stands between users and any final hit. Lido has outlined the fallout from the KelpDAO rsETH…

The BIS says big crypto exchanges now function as lightly regulated “shadow banks,” turning user deposits into unsecured loans and amplifying leverage that helped trigger a $19B 2025 wipeout. Cryptocurrency exchanges are rapidly evolving into “shadow banks” that offer lending…

ALCUM’s xCUP token doesn’t park copper in a warehouse; it tokenizes a 30‑day, hedged recycling cycle so USDC allocators earn audited industrial margin, not spot‑price roulette. In any exclusive interview with crypto.news, Vytautas Mackonis, founder of Swiss-based copper protocol ALCUM,…

Zcash price rose around 3% on Thursday, holding above the $330 level after breaking out of a descending channel pattern. According to data from crypto.news, Zcash (ZEC) was trading right around that $330 mark at the time of writing. This…

Circle economist Gordon Liao wants Aave v3’s USDC borrow cap pushed toward 50% and optimal utilization cut, betting sky‑high yields will unclog a rsETH‑driven liquidity crunch. Circle’s chief economist Gordon Liao has filed an Aave v3 governance proposal to sharply…

Roughly 93% of GameFi projects are now effectively dead, as tokens plunge 95%, user counts flatline, VCs pivot to AI and RWAs, and even Animoca trims pure gaming bets. Roughly 93% of GameFi projects have failed, with token prices collapsing…

Spark’s SPK jumped 73% after an Upbit KRW listing, 500M+ tokens staked, and F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun’s public regret over selling 83.7M SPK stoked fresh speculative flow. Spark’s native token SPK (SPK) surged as much as 73% in the past…

Tether froze over $344M in USDT tied to sanctions evasion and pig-butchering scams, underscoring stablecoins’ role as both crime rails and regulatory choke points. Tether has frozen more than $344 million in USDT in collaboration with the U.S. Treasury’s Office…

Firelight and Sentora wire native, capital-backed cover into XRP DeFi vaults on Flare, turning FXRP staking into institutional-grade exploit and oracle protection. Firelight Protocol has partnered with Sentora to embed a capital-backed protection layer directly into Sentora’s institutional DeFi vault…