The AI news out of OpenAI this week has a sharp edge: the company launched a paid Safety Fellowship offering $3,850 weekly stipends to external researchers studying what could go wrong with advanced AI — announced within hours of a…

A fresh bitcoin price read from on-chain data shows that the total supply of BTC last moved between $60,000 and $70,000 has grown by approximately 844,275 coins since January 1 — bringing the total cluster in that range to 1.85…

The crypto custody market reached a new consolidation milestone Wednesday when Bloomberg reported that Standard Chartered is planning to integrate Zodia Custody’s business into its corporate and investment bank division as early as this month, folding its majority-owned crypto custody…

The stablecoin news out of Washington this week goes beyond reserves and redemptions — FinCEN, the Treasury’s financial crimes unit, has proposed rules that would fundamentally reform how stablecoin issuers and all US financial institutions handle anti-money laundering compliance, shifting…

The crypto regulation landscape shifted Tuesday as the FDIC voted to release a 191-page proposed rule implementing the GENIUS Act, setting reserve, redemption, capital, and custody standards for stablecoin issuers — but the most consequential detail for everyday holders is…

The Zcash price surged over 30% in 24 hours after the Grayscale Zcash Trust reportedly accumulated approximately $46 million in shielded ZEC, triggering the sharpest single-day rally the privacy coin has seen in weeks and pushing daily trading volume past…

The bitcoin ETF fee war reached its lowest point ever today as Morgan Stanley’s MSBT launched at 0.14% annually on NYSE Arca, directly undercutting every competing spot bitcoin fund in the US market, from BlackRock’s IBIT at 0.25% to Fidelity’s…

The latest crypto milestone arrived Wednesday when Morgan Stanley officially launched the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust on NYSE Arca under the ticker MSBT, becoming the first major US bank to issue a spot bitcoin ETF directly under its own name,…

XRP price has now rejected the descending trendline resistance at least three times since late March, and the most recent failure on April 6 to 7 arrived on rising volume, a signal analysts associate with bearish continuation rather than consolidation.…

Bitcoin price briefly touched $70,000 on April 7 within a well-formed ascending channel on the 4H chart, as spot ETF inflows logged $471 million on April 6, the strongest single-day institutional demand figure since late February. Bitcoin (BTC) price is…

The latest AI news China Iran artificial intelligence military US bases geopolitics story escalated on April 5 when an ABC News exclusive revealed that the US Defense Intelligence Agency has confirmed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is actively using AI-enhanced…

The latest AI news artificial intelligence US military Iran war 2026 debate has crystallized around one figure: in the first 24 hours of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets in Iran using…

The latest crypto news US CLARITY Act Senate 2026 bitcoin regulation battle has reached a pivotal moment: the bill that would define US crypto law for a generation is deadlocked between four factions in the Senate Banking Committee, and Senator…

The crypto market update oil prices Iran war bitcoin impact news today is being written by an energy market in freefall: US crude surged above $115 per barrel and Brent crossed $111 after Tuesday’s Kharg Island strikes, the IEA’s head…

The crypto market update bitcoin war hedge Strait of Hormuz news today centers on a striking development: Iran’s IRGC has established a formal toll system at the world’s most critical oil chokepoint, demanding payments in stablecoins or Chinese yuan for…

The bitcoin price prediction latest crypto news Iran deadline today tells a familiar story: BTC briefly reclaimed $70,000 on Monday ceasefire hopes before retreating to the $68,000 range on Tuesday as Iran rejected the deal and Trump’s 8 PM ET…

The US politics news today midterm election Georgia Trump test is live: polls opened this morning in the deeply conservative Georgia-14 district that Marjorie Taylor Greene vacated, where Republican Clay Fuller faces Democrat Shawn Harris in a runoff that analysts…

The Iran nuclear plant strike war news escalated to a global safety emergency today as IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi issued a formal warning that strikes near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant are creating “a very real danger” of a severe radiological…

The Iran war response latest news today shows a country mobilizing its civilian population: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian announced that 14 million Iranians have volunteered to fight, adding “I too remain ready to give my life for Iran,” while the…

The 25th amendment Trump Iran war political crisis escalated sharply on Tuesday when former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, conservative commentator Candace Owens, and media personality Alex Jones all publicly called for President Trump’s removal from office after his “a whole…

The Iran US ceasefire deal update news today is contradictory and fast-moving: the New York Times reported that Iran halted ceasefire negotiations entirely after Trump’s “civilization will die” post, while Iran’s own Tehran Times simultaneously insisted that “diplomatic and indirect…

The US Iran war latest news oil prices today tells a sharply escalating story: American forces struck more than 50 military targets on Kharg Island, the hub through which Iran exports 90% of its crude, sending oil surging more than…

The US Iran war news today reached a dangerous new threshold as President Trump posted on Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” just hours before his self-imposed 8 PM ET deadline for Iran to fully reopen the…

CRV price has been grinding lower since late 2025, and the Curve DAO token is now pressing against the lower boundary of a descending channel that has defined its price action for months. The $0.20 level is within reach, and…

Worldcoin price is grinding just above an all-time low, and the WLD token has failed to stage any meaningful recovery despite Nasdaq-listed Eightco disclosing a $326 million position on April 2. The descending channel structure on both the daily and…

AAVE price posted one of its sharpest single-session drops in months on April 6, briefly crashing through $84 before a partial recovery took hold. The chart damage is clear: $100 has gone from support to resistance in a single session,…

The XRP price CLARITY Act connection has never been tighter: with the Senate Banking Committee targeting a late April markup and Senator Bernie Moreno warning that failure to pass by May effectively kills the bill for 2026, the next three…

Charles Schwab will launch Schwab Bitcoin Ethereum trading in Q2 2026, giving its 38.9 million active brokerage clients direct spot access to crypto for the first time through a new service called Schwab Crypto. Charles Schwab Schwab Bitcoin Ethereum trading…

Georgia’s legislature adjourns today, April 6, having sent three AI-related bills to Governor Brian Kemp’s desk, the most notable being a Georgia AI chatbot bill that mandates disclosure, child protections, and crisis response protocols for self-harm. Georgia’s 2026 legislative session…

President Trump’s DHS pay order has directed all Department of Homeland Security employees to be paid using redirected federal funds, but legal and budget experts say the administration may be violating a 150-year-old law that gives Congress sole control over…

House Democrats are convening a virtual caucus call tonight, April 6, to plot their next steps on the DHS shutdown, now 51 days old and the longest partial government shutdown in US history. House Democrats are holding a virtual DHS…

Chinese AI tracking companies with ties to the People’s Liberation Army are marketing detailed intelligence on US military movements during the Iran war, built entirely from publicly available satellite imagery, flight data, and shipping records, according to a Washington Post…

A new investigation published argues that the federal government is rushing into artificial intelligence the same way it rushed into cloud computing a decade ago, and with the same structural vulnerabilities still in place. ProPublica’s Renee Dudley published an investigation…

Algorand’s ALGO token has gained roughly 50% this month, climbing from $0.079 to $0.126, after Google’s Quantum AI team cited the blockchain 32 times in a landmark paper on quantum threats to cryptocurrency. As crypto.news reported, Algorand (ALGO) rallied to…

Circle’s Layer-1 blockchain Arc will launch at mainnet with an opt-in post-quantum signature scheme protecting users’ wallets from day one, as the USDC issuer warns that Q-Day could arrive by 2030 or sooner. Circle’s Layer-1 blockchain Arc will debut at…

China’s Cyberspace Administration has ordered Apple to pull Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat from its China App Store, citing regulations that require apps with “social mobilization” capabilities to pass a government security assessment before launch. Block CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed on X…

More than $273 million in bearish crypto positions were unwound in under 24 hours on April 6, as reports of US-Iran ceasefire talks triggered a sudden and sharp shift in market sentiment. Bears paid a heavy price on Monday. Bloomberg…

Bitcoin climbed above $70,200 on Monday for the first time since March 25, as a report that the US and Iran are negotiating a 45-day ceasefire sent risk assets sharply higher across global markets. Bitcoin (BTC) reclaimed $70,000 on Monday…

Elon Musk’s X is rolling out a security feature that will automatically lock any account that mentions cryptocurrency for the first time — requiring additional verification before posting resumes — a direct response to a wave of account hijacking campaigns…

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act’s compromise language on stablecoin yield has circulated among crypto and banking industry stakeholders in closed-door Capitol Hill sessions, with a Senate Banking Committee markup now targeted for the second half of April — though…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forced Army Chief of Staff General Randy George into immediate retirement on Thursday — the latest in a pattern of senior military dismissals tied to a deepening conflict between Hegseth and uniformed leaders over diversity-linked promotion…

Two U.S. military aircraft were shot down in separate incidents during combat operations over Iran on April 3 — an F-15E Strike Eagle and an A-10 Thunderbolt II — with a search-and-rescue operation still ongoing for one missing crew member…

President Donald Trump submitted a $1.5 trillion defense spending request for fiscal year 2027 on Friday — the largest military budget proposal in U.S. history, a roughly 40% increase over current funding levels, arriving in the fifth week of the…

Naoris Protocol has gone live with its quantum-resistant blockchain mainnet, becoming the first Layer 1 network built entirely on post-quantum cryptography approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology — a milestone arriving as researchers shorten timelines for…

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has publicly accused Circle of failing to freeze stolen USDC as it moved through the company’s own cross-chain infrastructure during the $285 million Drift Protocol exploit on April 1, 2026 — raising pointed questions about when and…

Charles Schwab has confirmed it remains on track to launch direct spot trading for Bitcoin and Ether in the first half of 2026, opening one of the largest pools of investor capital in the world to direct crypto access for…

Elon Musk is requiring banks, law firms, and auditors competing for roles on SpaceX’s upcoming IPO to purchase subscriptions to Grok, his artificial intelligence chatbot — a mandate the New York Times reported Friday that some Wall Street firms have…

SpaceX has submitted a confidential draft registration to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and a raise of up to $75 billion — what would be the largest initial public offering in financial history. The…

XRP is compressing into the apex of a descending wedge at $1.3157 after months of lower highs and lower lows, with the 4H MACD signal line just crossing into positive territory for the first time since February — a sign…

Ethereum is pressing against a double-top resistance zone at $2,163 after two consecutive rejections from the upper boundary of its rising parallel channel, while a marginal bullish MACD crossover on the 4H chart raises the question of whether buyers can…

Bitcoin is holding just above a broken support level at $66,900 as a potential bear flag forms on the 4H chart and the daily MACD hits one of its most negative readings of the current cycle, raising the risk of…

U.S. lawyers are filing AI-generated briefs with fictitious citations at an accelerating pace, court sanctions are setting new records, and the technology is spreading so deeply into legal software that experts say mandatory disclosure rules may already be obsolete. U.S.…

ICE detention deaths are running at a record pace in 2026, and the United States’ largest immigration detention center — a sprawling tent facility on a Texas Army base — has logged three deaths, 49 regulatory violations, and allegations of…

More than 3 million pages of Epstein files have been released, prosecutors have brought no new charges against anyone in his network, and five legal experts have now laid out in precise terms why the evidentiary gap between public scandal…

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division privacy officer has quietly resigned as the DOJ moves to share sensitive voter registration data — including partial Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers — with the Department of Homeland Security, without issuing…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has reversed a 34-year Pentagon policy, signing a memo on April 2 that authorizes off-duty U.S. service members to carry privately owned firearms on military installations — a decision that lands alongside a downed F-15…

The Trump administration submitted a $1.5 trillion defense spending request to Congress on April 3 — the largest military budget proposal in U.S. history — pairing record military outlays with cuts to domestic programs in a fiscal combination that signals…

A U.S. fighter jet identified as an F-15 was shot down over Iran on April 3, with one crew member rescued and President Trump briefed, adding a sharp new layer of escalation to a conflict that has already pushed Bitcoin…

X is preparing to automatically lock any crypto scam account that mentions cryptocurrency for the first time in its posting history, with Head of Product Nikita Bier saying the measure should eliminate 99% of the economic incentive behind the platform’s…

President Trump has fired Pam Bondi and replaced her with Todd Blanche as interim U.S. Attorney General — handing control of the Justice Department to the official who dismantled the DOJ’s crypto enforcement unit in April 2025 and holds up…

Coinbase has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust bank charter — a first for any major U.S. crypto exchange — as community banking groups wasted no time calling the decision…

Bitcoin held above $67,000 on Good Friday as U.S. employers added 178,000 jobs in March — beating forecasts by a wide margin — while traditional markets sat closed for the Easter holiday, leaving crypto as the primary gauge of how…

The Ethereum Foundation has completed its 70,000 ETH staking mission, depositing approximately 45,000 ETH worth around $93 million in a single on-chain session on April 3 The Ethereum (ETH) Foundation has completed its 70,000 ETH staking target, depositing approximately 45,000…