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Bitcoin trades near $81,732 on May 6 as oil drops 6% and the dollar sinks on reports the US and Iran are nearing a one-page memo to end the war.

Tokenized US Treasuries on Ethereum reached an ~$8B all-time high on May 6, 2026, even as ETH spot price drifted lower. Here is what is driving the flow.

Zcash (ZEC) printed a fresh 2026 high of $525 after a 23.2% single-day move, leading a privacy coin rally as Bitcoin idles near $81,400.

Michael Saylor said Strategy may sell some of its 818,334 BTC to fund dividend payments, the first crack in the company's never-sell stance.

SoFi is launching SoFiUSD on Solana, citing low cost and fast settlement. The bank-chartered fintech now joins a growing list of US issuers.

Morgan Stanley will roll out spot crypto trading on its wealth management platform later in 2026, alongside tokenized assets and ETF integration.

Andreessen Horowitz closed $2.2B Crypto Fund 5, a narrower crypto vehicle focused on stablecoins and onchain finance.

Coinbase is cutting 14% of headcount and experimenting with one-person teams as it restructures around AI tooling, the company confirmed on May 5, 2026.

Spanish lenders Sabadell and Bankinter plan to join a euro stablecoin consortium alongside nine other European banks under MiCA, per Expansion.

Coinbase rolls out support for self-managed super funds in Australia, giving SMSF trustees direct crypto access inside a retirement pool worth over $1 trillion AUD.

Aave raised the GHO borrow cap to 150 million on its Core instance, signaling steady demand for the protocol's native stablecoin as DeFi TVL hits records.

Aave is fighting a $71M crypto seizure motion tied to KelpDAO funds and a North Korea debt claim, arguing the protocol has no custody over the disputed ETH.

Tetra Trust has launched CADD, a CAD-pegged stablecoin issued by a federally regulated trust company and backed by Shopify and National Bank of Canada.

Circle led a Monday rally in crypto-linked equities, jumping nearly 20% as the Senate

FINRA approved Securitize to expand its broker-dealer activities and custody tokenized securities, a key regulatory step for tokenized fund growth in the US.

Pavel Durov says Telegram will take a direct lead on TON and run the network's largest validator, tightening the messenger's grip on the chain.

The DTCC, which clears $114 trillion in securities annually, plans a July pilot and October launch for a new tokenized securities platform.

Western Union, the world's largest remittance provider, has launched its USDPT stablecoin on Solana, putting a 175-year-old payments giant on a public chain.

Nansen says DeFi TVL set a new all-time high on May 4, 2026, with Aave clearing a $1B milestone in 19 days and a ZK rollup transition adding to the move.

US law firm Gerstein Harrow has filed in connection with stolen KelpDAO ETH and a North Korea judgment debt, Coin Bureau reported on May 4, 2026.

BlackRock's European iShares Bitcoin ETP has surpassed $1.1B in assets under management, holding roughly 14,200 BTC as European demand picks up.

BlackRock is urging the OCC to drop a proposed 20% ceiling on tokenized reserve assets, arguing the cap would throttle growth of its on-chain treasury fund.

The US government's cash balance has surged $300B in three weeks to hit ~$1 trillion, draining liquidity even as Bitcoin pushes higher.

The CFTC received over 1,500 responses to its prediction market rulemaking proposal, with deep splits between operators, gambling regulators, and consumer groups.

Strategy paused its weekly bitcoin accumulation before Tuesday's Q1 2026 earnings, the largest corporate BTC holder going quiet ahead of disclosure.

Argentina's National Securities Commission expanded tokenization rules to cover more asset types and removed listing requirements, opening LatAm tokenization markets.

Tether added more than 6 tons of gold in Q1 2026, pushing total holdings past 132 tons and putting the stablecoin issuer in central-bank territory.

Crypto card spending has climbed 500% since September 2024, with monthly volumes near $600M led by stablecoin rails and global Visa and Mastercard issuers.

Japan's only licensed stablecoin exchange is rolling out a 10% APY product on USDC, paired with local bank rails for deposits and withdrawals.

The US Senate released CLARITY Act compromise text that bans stablecoin issuers from paying yield on reserves, a sharp shift in stablecoin policy.

Polymarket's monthly trading volume climbed from about $1.2 billion in 2025 to north of $20 billion per month by early 2026, CoinDesk reports.

Ethereum core contributors held a week-long Soldogn interop in Svalbard to harden client implementations for the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms reported its first revenue from AI infrastructure hosting after AMD scaled up capacity at its Texas sites.

April crypto venture funding dropped to $659M, the weakest monthly total in nine months as deal counts thin out and late-stage rounds dry up.

Bitso's latest LatAm Crypto Landscape report shows stablecoins captured 40% of regional crypto purchases, with USDT and USDC leading dollar demand.

A Taiwan legislator wants Taipei to convert part of its $580B foreign exchange reserves into Bitcoin, citing geopolitical risk and dollar exposure.

Reuters reports that Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, handled tens to hundreds of millions linked to the IRGC and the country's central bank.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $1.97B in April 2026, the strongest monthly inflow of the year. BTC trades near $78,420 as institutional demand resets.

MoonPay launches MoonAgents Card, a virtual Mastercard that pulls stablecoins from onchain wallets at swipe time. UK and LATAM first, US and EU later.

Brazil's central bank has prohibited digital assets from being used in parts of the country's regulated cross-border payment and transfer services.

Senators Warren and Wyden opened a fourth probe into Commerce Secretary Lutnick's Tether ties, citing a loan to a trust benefiting his four children.

More than $300M in voluntary contributions across the DeFi ecosystem repaid Aave depositors hit by the rsETH exploit, Messari said on May 1, 2026.

Tether's Q1 2026 BDO attestation shows $1.04B in net profit and a record $8.23B reserve buffer above USDT liabilities. Here's what the numbers mean.

BlackRock's IBIT and ETHA crossed $60B in combined AUM but generated only $42M of Q1 fees, a rounding error against the firm's $7T franchise.

Coinbase rolled out CUSHY, a tokenized stablecoin credit fund built with Superstate and Northern Trust, just as banks press Congress to strip yield from CLARITY.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told Congress he is a Bitcoin enthusiast and confirmed the Pentagon has ongoing classified crypto operations.

A South Korean court has suspended a six-month sanction against Bithumb, letting the exchange keep onboarding new users while it fights the regulator.

The US Department of Labor is proposing regulations that could let 401(k) plans hold more alternative assets, a category that has long included crypto debates.

Tom Lee's Bitmine added 162,088 ETH to its validator stack, lifting total staked ether to a fresh high as the company keeps pulling supply off exchanges.

SBI Holdings says it has entered formal discussions to make Bitbank a subsidiary, a deal that would consolidate two of Japan's largest crypto exchanges.

BTC squeezed shorts above $77K but absent spot demand and low long leverage are capping the move. Why this rally lacks the fuel for a sustained breakout.

Bhutan's state mining program shifted roughly $287M of BTC as Bitcoin reclaimed $77,000, extending a quiet but persistent sovereign sell pattern.

Tether Investments has pitched a three-way merger of Twenty One Capital, Bitcoin payments firm Strike, and miner Elektron Energy, consolidating its BTC empire.

Gemini just secured a CFTC Derivatives Clearing Organization license, letting the exchange clear its own regulated perps and prediction market contracts.

Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered US crypto bank, partners with stablecoin platform M0 to power the next wave of regulated dollar tokens.

xStocks, the Backed Finance tokenized equities platform, has gone live on BNB Chain with more than 50 US stocks tradable onchain alongside its Solana deployment.

US banking groups are pressing Congress to delay stablecoin rulemaking while Agora pushes ahead with a federal charter application of its own.

Canada's $195B AIMCo pension fund disclosed a $219M position in Strategy, its first ever Bitcoin-linked exposure, according to BitcoinNews.

The US has seized close to $500M in Iranian crypto assets under Operation Economic Fury, marking the largest disclosed action against Tehran's onchain flows.

MARA Holdings is acquiring Long Ridge Energy for $1.5 billion to power an AI data center buildout, marking the bitcoin miner's biggest move beyond mining.

Japan Exchange Group CEO Hiromi Yamaji says JPX wants to list spot BTC and ETH ETFs as early as 2027, citing the success of US products.

Rakuten Pay opened XRP conversion for 44 million users, putting a $23B loyalty network on rails that reach 5 million Japanese merchant locations.

Shinhan Card, one of South Korea's largest card issuers, is testing stablecoin payments on the Solana testnet, signaling Korea's deepest card-rail crypto experiment yet.

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says Malaysia's Securities Commission removed the exchange from its alert list after months of formal engagement and policy discussions.

FBI, Dubai Police, and Chinese authorities dismantled nine crypto scam centers in a joint sweep, while European police separately arrested ten suspects.

Ripple is deploying its institutional custody stack inside Kbank, Korea's first internet-only bank, to power digital asset wallet services for clients.

World Liberty Financial begins voting on a proposal to unlock 62.3B previously frozen WLFI tokens via staggered vesting plus a 4.5B insider burn.

FTC settles with Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky for $10M and a permanent industry ban, sharply down from the original $4.7B judgment.

Steak 'n Shake reports Bitcoin payments cost roughly half what credit card processing does, the first concrete merchant data on Lightning savings.

Jerome Powell tells reporters he will remain a Federal Reserve governor after his chair term ends May 15, keeping a seat at the policy table under Warsh.

FOMC keeps rates unchanged but drops easing bias as three officials dissent. BTC at $75,008 with Fear & Greed at 38, traders read a hawkish hold.

Meta is rolling out stablecoin payouts for creators through Stripe, its first live crypto payments product since the Diem wind-down.

Kevin Warsh advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee toward a full vote, putting a hawkish-leaning Fed chair within reach as crypto trades flat.

Wall Street is filing the first prediction market ETFs for US elections, pulling political odds out of crypto venues and into regulated brokerage wrappers.

MoonPay buys Tel Aviv-based crypto security firm Sodot for $100M in stock, adding MPC key management to its payments and wallet infrastructure stack.

Binance's gold futures product has cleared $100 billion in cumulative trading volume just months after launch, per CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost.

Visa expands its stablecoin settlement rails to Polygon, letting issuers and acquirers move USDC across a faster, cheaper chain alongside Ethereum and Solana.

Securitize and Computershare are partnering to let US public-company shares settle as tokenized assets, opening a path for $70T in equities to move onchain.

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Canada is moving to ban crypto ATMs nationwide as scam losses mount, following Tennessee

Pumpfun removed roughly $370M worth of PUMP from circulation, and the token climbed 7.6% the same day. What the burn changes about supply and float.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington is moving to cut Iran off from crypto, signaling a sharper enforcement push beyond traditional banking.

Senator Cynthia Lummis pushed back on critics of the CLARITY Act's developer protection language, arguing the clause is narrower than opponents claim.

Lightspark CEO David Marcus is launching a Bitcoin wallet that lets AI agents buy BTC and send or receive payments, pitching neutrality as the hook.

Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl says a 1% Bitcoin sleeve raised expected returns without meaningfully lifting portfolio risk in koruna terms.

The CFTC filed suit against Wisconsin, accusing the state of encroaching on federal authority over crypto prediction markets. The action mirrors its New York case.

Visa is partnering with Reeve Collins' WeFi to route self-custodied crypto onto its rails across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs broke a nine-day inflow run with $263M in outflows on April 27, with Fidelity's FBTC leading the exit.

Polymarket is asking the CFTC to authorize its main exchange to operate in the US, per Bloomberg, four years after a settlement pushed it offshore.

Galaxy Digital booked a $216M Q1 loss as crypto prices fell, but CEO Mike Novogratz says Hyperliquid trading gains kept the bleeding contained.

BNB Chain shipped its Osaka and Mendel hard forks on April 28, 2026, promising faster finality, predictable gas pricing, and stability fixes for builders.

Rep. Nick Begich says he will reintroduce the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve bill in the current Congress, reviving the House companion to Lummis's BITCOIN Act.

Bits of Gold gets the green light from Israel's Capital Market Authority to launch BILS, a 1:1 shekel-pegged stablecoin, after a 2-year Solana pilot.

Aave's DeFi United relief fund crossed $303M in commitments, exceeding the $292M lost in the KelpDAO exploit and clearing the path to full rsETH user recovery.

Bitcoin fell 2.9% to $76,854 overnight as Fed rate uncertainty, climbing oil prices, and a fresh AI-stock wobble dragged risk assets lower.

Roman Storm's lawyers rebuked Acting AG Todd Blanche's suggestion that Tornado Cash and Samourai cases could be elevated, journalist Eleanor Terrett reports.

DefiLlama says stablecoins moved over $1T this month and launched a public tracker to compare issuers, chains, and flows side by side.

Senator Thom Tillis says he will vote against the Senate crypto market structure bill unless it includes ethics rules restricting officials' use of digital assets.

Gemini's new Agentic Trading lets users plug ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI agents into the exchange to run live order flow on their accounts.

Kalshi and Polymarket plan to offer crypto perpetual futures in the US, putting offshore-style derivatives under CFTC-regulated prediction-market venues.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced the Bitcoin community at Bitcoin 2026, addressing the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet prosecutions head on.

MARA Holdings is creating a foundation focused on Bitcoin's quantum threat and network resilience, CoinDesk reports during Bitcoin 2026.

Tether unveiled MDK, an open-source infrastructure layer aimed at giving Bitcoin miners full control over their hardware, firmware, and pool routing.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies added 101,901 ETH last week, bringing its total holdings to roughly 5.08M ETH worth about $11.8B at current prices.

A CEX survey says more than a third of US crypto traders have trimmed everyday spending due to market losses, with BTC at $77,747 as of April 27, 2026.

Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $933M last week, lifting total crypto fund assets to their highest level since February, according to CoinDesk's weekly tracker.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz says the US CLARITY Act will clear Congress in May and be signed into law in June, putting a tight calendar on crypto market structure.

Paul Sztorc's eCash hard fork would reassign roughly 550,000 of Satoshi's coins to fund development. Bitcoiners are calling it theft. Block 964,000 is the trigger.

Brussels rolls out its biggest sanctions package against Russia, with new measures aimed directly at closing crypto evasion rails through exchanges and stablecoins.

Grayscale's shift away from Coinbase Custody for its newest ETF product is starting to look less like a one-off and more like a structural rewiring of Wall Street's crypto custody stack.

Bitcoin pulled back from a 12-week high as buyers ran into heavy supply at $79,400, the level CoinDesk flagged as the technical ceiling for the Iran-driven rally.

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju warns Bitcoin's recent climb is being powered by leveraged futures while on-chain spot demand stays negative as BTC trades near $77,807.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.12B on Friday, extending their inflow streak to nine sessions and reversing last week's $1.9B BlackRock-led outflows.

Aave Labs is asking Arbitrum's Security Council to unfreeze $73.5M in ETH tied to the KelpDAO exploit and redirect the funds toward Aave's rsETH recovery.

Western Union plans a May launch for USDPT, a Solana-based stablecoin, alongside a digital asset network and a US dollar stable card.

A Hong Kong-listed firm is raising 10,000 BTC for a regulated capital pool, the first attempt of its kind in Asia and roughly $781M at current prices.

CoinDesk argues that freezing the 5.6 million dormant bitcoin currently sitting outside circulation could produce the largest single-day price shock in BTC history.

TRUMP memecoin's market cap fell about $100M after an armed suspect tried to enter a Washington venue where President Trump was speaking, CryptoSlate reports.

Elon Musk said the X Money financial services product is near release, edging X closer to the everything app pitch. Crypto integration remains undefined.

Strategy's corporate treasury has overtaken BlackRock's IBIT to become the largest single Bitcoin holder, a milestone reported by Cointelegraph on April 26.

New York AG Letitia James and 37 other state attorneys general are pushing back against CFTC efforts to override state authority over prediction markets.

Stani Kulechov says Aave's recovery fund hit the level needed to fully back rsETH, subject to pending votes, indicative agreements, and execution.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.9B in net outflows over 7 days as BTC slid toward $77K. BlackRock's IBIT, once the inflow leader, drove most of the redemptions.

Delaware's Senate cleared the Payment Stablecoins Act 20-1, requiring 1:1 reserves and AML compliance for any issuer wanting a state license.

Trump took the Mar-a-Lago lectern Saturday before 297 top TRUMP holders, defending crypto legislation as the Senate clock on the CLARITY Act tightens.

Tennessee has become the second US state to ban crypto ATMs outright, making it a misdemeanor with up to one year in jail to operate or host the machines.

US authorities froze $344 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iran, Cointelegraph reported on April 25, 2026, marking one of the largest sanctions seizures.

Grayscale staked 102,400 ETH worth roughly $237M from its trust holdings, a sign that ETF and asset manager staking is moving from theory to live yield.

The Senate Banking Committee's April markup window for the CLARITY Act has closed without a vote, and Sen. Thom Tillis is pushing the new target to mid-May.

The CFTC sued New York Friday, arguing the state's prediction market suit against Coinbase and Gemini intrudes on federal jurisdiction over derivatives.

Polish reports say the Zondacrypto chief has left for Israel as prosecutors widen a probe linked to a 4,500 BTC wallet and a crisis now topping $100M.

South Africa's National Treasury has proposed draft rules that would subject crypto assets to the same capital flow controls that govern rand outflows.

Polish prosecutors are investigating Zondacrypto over a 4,500 BTC cold wallet said to be inaccessible, with CEO Przemyslaw Kral out of reach.

Bitmine disclosed that more than 70% of its 3.5 million ETH holdings are now staked, pushing roughly $8.1B of ether into active validator duty.

Tokyo-listed Metaplanet raised $50 million in zero-coupon bonds, with proceeds earmarked for additional bitcoin purchases as BTC trades near $77.7K.

Tether minted 3 billion USDT in the past week and on-chain data shows Abraxas Capital received 2.89B of it, a 96% concentration in one recipient.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs soaked up 18,991 BTC over five trading days, nine times the new coins mined in the same window, per Bitwise data cited April 24, 2026.

Morgan Stanley is pitching itself as the go-to reserve manager for stablecoin issuers, targeting a fee pool that Tether and Circle currently keep in-house.

Tokenized real-world assets on-chain have grown fivefold from $4.1B to $25.2B in just over a year, according to new data Cointelegraph flagged.

Jane Street has filed to dismiss Terraform Labs' insider trading lawsuit tied to the May 2022 UST depeg and LUNA collapse that erased roughly $40B.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov says TON transaction fees will drop 6x within a week, sharpening the network's pitch as a cheap payments rail.

OKX has gone live with trading for Tempo, a new payments-focused L1 incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, putting the chain in front of millions of traders.

Federal prosecutors charge a US Army soldier with using classified Venezuela intelligence to win over $400,000 betting on Polymarket outcome markets.

Mantle's core team proposes lending 30,000 ETH from its treasury to Aave DAO to absorb the $292M rsETH bridge exploit losses from April 18.

Pokemon card values have turned collectibles into a multibillion-dollar asset class, pushing owners toward museum-grade vaults and blockchain provenance.

The US military is running its own Bitcoin node and views crypto as a tool of strategic power projection against China, according to a new CoinDesk report.

Kalshi says new monitoring tools caught three US political candidates placing trades tied to their own campaigns. All three are now permanently banned.

A NiceHash EasyMining customer paid roughly $750 for rented hashpower and hit Bitcoin block 945711 solo, netting about $235,000 in subsidy and fees.

Bitcoin hit $79,485 intraday on April 22, then slipped back as oil prices rose and short-term holders who bought near the ceiling took the exit.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko deployed an immutable Percolator binary and put a bounty on anyone who can exploit it, raising the stakes for the scheduler.

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index rose from 32 to 46 in 24 hours, the largest single-day climb in three months as BTC holds $78K.

Finding Satoshi, a new documentary, argues Hal Finney and Len Sassaman jointly built Bitcoin. Here is what the film claims and why the theory holds up.

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams says his X follower count jumped from a few hundred to ~600 a day, pointing to AI bots as proof of the dead internet theory.

Peter Schiff labeled Strategy's STRC preferred share an obvious Ponzi and hosted a public X Space challenging Michael Saylor to defend the structure on air.

A Cointelegraph analysis argues FTX's estate would hold $114B in assets today if liquidators had not offloaded Anthropic, Solana, and SpaceX stakes early.

Naval Ravikant's new USVC fund opens AI startup exposure to retail investors at a $500 minimum, covering OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI positions.

Benjamin Pasternak, founder of Solana memecoin launchpad Believe, was arrested and faces second-degree strangulation and assault charges, per WuBlockchain.

GSR's first Nasdaq ETF, ticker BESO, gives investors exposure to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with staking rewards passed through where applicable.

Coinbase added tGBP, a pound-pegged stablecoin, to its global order books. The listing gives UK crypto users a sterling-native rail outside USD stablecoins.

American Bitcoin, the Trump-linked public miner, switched on 11,000 BTC mining machines, expanding its owned hash rate as the stock continues to rally with BTC back near $79,000.

Kraken submitted 56 million 1099 crypto tax forms to the IRS for 2025, with one third covering transactions under $1 and 74% worth less than $50.

Aave's supplied balances have fallen $15 billion since the Kelp DAO bridge exploit on April 15, as users pull collateral amid rsETH contagion fears.

UK FCA joined HMRC and organized crime units to raid 8 London sites in its first crackdown on illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading. What it means.

Mythical is migrating its gaming marketplace to non-custodial wallets, EVM and Seaport rails, and removing KYC checks and withdrawal limits.

Russia's State Duma approved a first-reading bill recognizing crypto as property and allowing it for foreign trade payments, with the CBR as regulator.

Uzbekistan has launched a state-backed crypto mining zone offering tax incentives to operators, turning government policy into a direct industry subsidy.

PBoC kept cash abundant in China's banking system. Bitcoin trades at $78,015, Ether added 3.6% in 24 hours, and the seven-day crypto tape sits up 5% or more.

DoorDash is preparing to pay drivers and merchants globally in stablecoins using the Tempo blockchain, pulling crypto rails deep into the gig economy.

A Nomura and Laser Digital survey says nearly 80% of Japanese institutional investors plan crypto allocations of 2% to 5% within three years.

The Sanmar Herald paid crypto scammers posing as Iranian authorities for fake Hormuz clearance, then got hit anyway. A shadow fraud industry is forming.

A grandson of mob boss John Gotti was sentenced for wire fraud after moving $420K in stolen COVID relief through crypto rails amid rising KYC scrutiny.

The Philippines SEC told citizens that dYdX and six other crypto platforms are not registered to solicit investments locally, escalating regional enforcement.

A wallet tied to Justin Sun cleared $274M USDT from Aave after the protocol froze its rsETH markets from the KelpDAO exploit. The speed is the story.

The Arbitrum Security Council took emergency action to freeze 30,766 ETH worth roughly $71M tied to the KelpDAO exploit address on Arbitrum One.

Tron processed about $2 trillion in USDT transfer volume during Q1 2026, extending its lead as the dominant settlement rail for Tether's stablecoin.

Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO on April 20, 2026. His legacy includes Apple Pay, a payment rail nearly every crypto card now depends on.

BlackRock's Jay Jacobs says Bitcoin is driven by geopolitical and inflation risk, not broader market sentiment. What the framing means with BTC at $76K.

Strategy's STRC preferred has accumulated 77,000 BTC in 2026, ten times the net intake of every US spot Bitcoin ETF combined, per River data.

Coinbase's x402 protocol rolled out Agent.market, a paid service catalog where autonomous AI agents can buy access to APIs and tools using stablecoins.

Grayscale amended its Hyperliquid ETF filing, naming Anchorage Digital Bank as custodian and replacing Coinbase Custody in institutional crypto custody.

Polymarket is reportedly negotiating a raise of up to $400 million at a $15 billion valuation as prediction market demand keeps setting new records in 2026.

Tether led an $8M round in Abu Dhabi tokenization firm KAIO and plans an institutional onchain fund with Mubadala Capital, deepening its UAE footprint.

WSJ reports Senate Democrats plan to grill Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh on perceived gaps in his financial disclosures at Tuesday's confirmation hearing.

Paul Atkins told a conference audience on April 20 that the SEC has ended 'regulation through enforcement' against crypto. What the shift actually means.

Poland's parliament again failed to override a presidential veto on its crypto bill, leaving it the only EU member state without a national MiCA framework.

RAVE cryptocurrency fell 98% to $0.50 in two days, wiping $6.7 billion in market cap after insider dumps and exchange blacklists.

OKX launched Agent Trade Kit, letting traders write strategies in plain English right as tech earnings season starts. Here is what shipped and the risks.

Brian Armstrong says Coinbase is piloting AI agents trained on the work of legendary former employees, operating like teammates on Slack and email.

RaveDAO-linked wallets offloaded about 23 million RAVE on April 20, driving a roughly 35% drop one day after ZachXBT, Binance, and Bitget flagged the project.

Aave's total value locked fell by $6 billion in days after the KelpDAO bridge drain, exposing how liquid restaking collateral can turn a niche exploit systemic.

Uniswap says $500 million in protocol volume has flowed through Bankr, an agentic trading interface. It's the first real threshold for AI-routed DEX activity.

AAVE fell 22% after whales cut positions when the $294M KelpDAO bridge hack froze rsETH collateral on Aave. Here is what the selling tells the market.

Sberbank, which serves over 100 million Russian retail customers, is preparing a crypto trading rollout per TASS, landing days after Russia's new bill.

Iran named Bitcoin for Strait of Hormuz oil tolls, but insiders told Cointelegraph stablecoins handle most of the actual settlement. Here's what that split means.

The Financial Stability Board warned that private credit markets could trigger a triple whammy shock. Here is what it means for crypto.

A new draft law would put criminal penalties on crypto exchanges, P2P desks and OTC operators serving Russian users without official registration.

X's new Cashtags feature drove $1 billion in trading volume in its first two days after Wealthsimple wired it into its Canadian brokerage feed.

The US issued a license April 17 letting buyers take Russian oil already loaded on tankers. Crypto rallied: BTC +3.7%, ETH +4%, XRP +3.6%.

Polymarket prediction-market traders now price a US-Iran peace deal by June 30 at 74%, and crypto is rallying 3%+ across BTC, ETH, and XRP.

Gate has opened its first Pre-IPO subscription, giving retail users tokenized exposure to SpaceX under ticker SPCX, with the window closing in 48 hours.

Cointelegraph reports central banks hold record gold reserves this century. Bitcoin sits at $77,134, up 2.9% in 24 hours. Here is what that parallel signals.

Strategy's 766,970 bitcoin position crossed back above its $75,577 average cost as the price pushed past $76,000, pulling Saylor's stack out of red.

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, is acquiring CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange Bitnomial in a $550 million cash and stock deal announced April 17.

Flow Capital plans to tokenize a $150M private credit fund via Singapore's DigiFT to raise additional capital, per a Bloomberg report on April 17, 2026.

Singapore Gulf Bank now lets institutional clients swap US dollars for USDC on Solana at par, with no spread, putting a licensed bank behind Circle's rails.

Tennessee's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act heads to the Senate Finance Committee April 20, 2026, with a 10% allocation cap and air-gapped custody rules.

S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs for a second day on Middle East ceasefire talks. SOL, XRP, and BNB led crypto gains while BTC stayed flat.

Drift Protocol is relaunching with a Tether-funded recovery pool of roughly $150 million for users hit by the April 1 exploit, and USDT will sit at the center of the rebuilt perp DEX.

Schwab Crypto launched on April 17, 2026 with direct spot BTC and ETH trading for the largest US brokerage's 36 million accounts.

Powell's Fed chair term expires May 15, 2026. Warsh's confirmation hearing is April 21. The statute is silent on what happens if the vote slips.

Seoul's Ministry of Economy and Finance approved a sandbox pilot on April 16 that lets ministries pay operating expenses in deposit tokens instead of government cards.

21Shares' second S-1 amendment for its Hyperliquid ETF plans to stake 30-70% of HYPE holdings and list on Nasdaq under the ticker THYP.

CryptoQuant says whale wallets accumulated 270,000 BTC in 30 days, the largest wave since 2013. BTC trades at $74,675 with Fear and Greed at 55.

Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Elon Musk warning that X Money, which just launched with Visa and a 6% yield, poses consumer, national security, and financial stability risks.

Ripple and Kyobo Life will pilot tokenized settlement of Korean government bonds on Ripple Custody, a first for the KRW sovereign debt market.

Paolo Ardoino spotlighted Bare, Holepunch's cross-platform JavaScript runtime. It already underpins tether.wallet and a new AI SDK aimed at billions of devices.

Kevin Warsh's financial disclosure reveals holdings in Solana, Polymarket, dYdX, Polychain, and more. He must divest before taking the Fed chair.

The SEC approved FINRA's plan to replace the pattern day trader rule with risk-based intraday margin, removing the $25K minimum for frequent traders.

eToro acquires Zengo's MPC wallet for $70M in mostly cash. The keyless wallet keeps its own product while eToro gains self-custody infrastructure.

The State Bank of Pakistan issued Circular 10, allowing banks to open rupee accounts for PVARA-licensed VASPs. The 2018 ban is officially over.

Maine passed LD 307, banning data centers over 20 megawatts through November 2027. At least 12 other states have filed similar moratorium bills in 2026.

Stablecoin monthly settlement volume hit $7.2 trillion in February, surpassing the ACH network's $6.8 trillion for the first time. Total supply reached $315 billion.

Goldman Sachs' proposed Bitcoin ETF would hold shares of spot BTC ETFs and options on those funds, not Bitcoin itself, creating a fee-layered wrapper product.

A new $1M subsidy program connects Ethereum builders with 20+ audit firms and covers up to 30% of costs through Areta Market.

BlackRock's crypto portfolio dropped from $78B to $58B in Q1 2026, but the firm added 14,950 BTC to IBIT while cutting 410,750 ETH from its Ethereum fund.

The Justice Department opened a compensation process for OneCoin fraud victims, but forfeited assets cover roughly one cent per dollar lost.

Y Combinator funded prediction market startup Totalis with $500K in USDC settled on Solana, the first stablecoin disbursement in YC's 20-year history.

X Money rolls out with a Visa debit card, 6% yield, and 40+ state licenses. A quiet hire from Aave and Base hints at crypto rails under the hood.

Senator Thom Tillis plans to publish the stablecoin yield compromise text this week, aiming to break the bank-crypto standoff holding up the CLARITY Act.

ClearBank Europe used MiCA's 40-day notification route to become the first Dutch credit institution offering EURC and USDC to institutional clients.

Former CFTC Chair Chris Giancarlo retires from Willkie Farr after six years to focus on crypto advisory, private investments, and a CryptoDad sequel.

BTC surged to $74,338 after Iran proposed a five-year nuclear suspension, extending the diplomatic thaw that began with a two-week ceasefire on April 8.

BitMine now holds 4.87 million ETH, 4.04% of circulating supply, after its latest weekly buy. The company also uplisted to the NYSE and expanded its buyback to $4 billion.

Binance's 30-day average BTC inflow has fallen to ~3,998 BTC, a 6-year low. Exchange reserves sit at 2.21M BTC, the lowest since 2017.

StarkWare is restructuring into two business units and cutting jobs after Starknet's monthly fee revenue dropped from $6 million to $48,000.

CoinShares data shows XRP captured $120M of $224M in global crypto ETP inflows. Switzerland accounted for 70% of the demand.

A bridged Polkadot token on Ethereum was exploited, with an attacker minting 1 billion DOT and selling the entire supply into the market.

Strategy holds 766,970 BTC and signals another buy. Its preferred stock dividends require just 2% annual bitcoin appreciation to sustain indefinitely.

The Aave Will Win framework passed its final on-chain AIP vote with 75% support, making $25M in stablecoins and 75,000 AAVE enforceable at the smart contract level.

Tron founder alleges Trump-backed World Liberty Financial embedded a hidden freeze function that locked 545 million of his tokens. WLFI threatens litigation.

Oil surged 10% to $105 per barrel after US-Iran peace talks collapsed and Trump ordered a naval blockade. BTC fell 3.4% as the April 8 relief rally unwinds.

The Qivalis consortium, now 12 banks strong with BBVA as the latest member, is in advanced talks with crypto exchanges for a H2 2026 euro stablecoin launch.

MARA, Riot, Cango, and Bitdeer liquidated more than 20,000 BTC in Q1 2026. The money went to retire debt and buy AI data center land.

EURC surged from 17% to over 40% market share in 12 months as MiCA forced Tether's EURT off EU exchanges. Three Q1 integrations are turning it into payment infrastructure.

Ether Machine and Dynamix mutually terminated their $1.6B SPAC merger. The ETH treasury firm keeps 496,712 ETH but pays $50M to walk away.

Bitwise filed its second amended S-1 for a spot HYPE ETF with ticker BHYP and a 0.67% fee. Grayscale, 21Shares, and VanEck are all chasing the same product.

Bitcoin's largest holders reversed from accumulation to aggressive distribution, a 400,000 BTC swing, while ETFs and Strategy absorbed the supply.

Senator Cynthia Lummis warns Congress has until mid-2026 to pass the Clarity Act or lose crypto market structure legislation until 2030.

Judge Liburdi grants CFTC's request to halt Arizona's 20 misdemeanor charges against Kalshi, ruling that federal swap law likely preempts state gambling statutes.

Bhutan's sovereign wealth fund has offloaded over 9,000 BTC mined with surplus hydropower since 2019. The proceeds appear headed for Gelephu Mindfulness City.

MetaMask Advanced Permissions use ERC-7715 to grant dapps scoped, time-bound access to execute from your wallet without repeated signatures.

Strategy holds 766,970 BTC and is closing on BlackRock's 784,620 at 10x the pace. Meanwhile, 220+ copycat treasury firms trade below NAV.

The HKMA grants its first two stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial, a Standard Chartered-led venture, after reviewing 36 applications.

Trump-backed WLFI token falls to record lows after the team's defense of its $150M Dolomite lending position failed to reassure holders.

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MSBT pulled in $34 million and 430 BTC on day one, outperforming every previous Morgan Stanley ETF debut. An OCC charter and E*Trade crypto trading are next.

Trump-backed WLFI denies any liquidation threat after borrowing $75M against its own token on Dolomite, where pool utilization hit 93% and depositors can't withdraw.

Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell summoned Wall Street CEOs to warn them about Anthropic's Mythos AI model and its unprecedented cyber capabilities.

JPMorgan estimates Q1 2026 crypto inflows dropped sharply to around $11 billion, with Strategy's Bitcoin purchases and VC funding accounting for the bulk.

The Seoul Administrative Court overturned the FIU's three-month suspension of Upbit, ruling that KYC rules for small transactions lacked specificity.

Bithumb filed for provisional asset seizure against users who refused to return 7 BTC from the February payout error that credited 620,000 phantom bitcoins.

A new CEA report finds that prohibiting stablecoin rewards would add just $2.1 billion in bank loans, undercutting the banking lobby's core argument.

Canary Capital submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a spot PEPE ETF on April 8. The fund would hold PEPE directly with up to 5% in ETH for gas fees.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent published a WSJ op-ed urging Congress to pass the Clarity Act before April ends, calling it essential to US financial leadership.

Visa launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, letting AI agents make purchases across 150M+ merchants. Stablecoin and x402 protocol integrations deepen the crypto link.

The March FOMC minutes reveal growing support for rate increases as oil-driven inflation reaches 3.5%. Bitcoin slips below $71,000 as traders reprice rate expectations.

UBS, PostFinance, Raiffeisen, ZKB, BCV, and Sygnum begin testing a regulated CHF stablecoin in a live sandbox throughout 2026.

South Korea's FSC orders real-time reconciliation every 5 minutes, automated kill switches, and monthly audits after Bithumb's 620,000 phantom Bitcoin error.

The SEC's FY 2025 enforcement report admits 7 registration and 6 dealer-definition crypto cases caused no investor harm, as Chair Atkins pivots to fraud.

Federal prosecutors told the court that a Supreme Court copyright ruling has no bearing on Roman Storm's criminal charges. A retrial on two counts is set for October.

Ethereum now hosts $180B in stablecoins, up 150% in three years. Token Terminal projects $1.7 trillion in new stablecoin flows across chains by 2030.

FinCEN, FDIC, OCC, and NCUA propose risk-based AML compliance replacing paperwork-first enforcement, with a higher bar for penalties.

BTC jumped to $72K and Brent crude fell below $100 after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

The FDIC board voted unanimously to propose stablecoin rules for bank subsidiaries: 1:1 reserves, 2-day redemption, no deposit insurance, and no yield.

Morgan Stanley's MSBT lists on NYSE Arca April 8 with a 0.14% fee, undercutting BlackRock's IBIT by 44% and marking the first bank-issued spot Bitcoin ETF.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $471 million on April 6, the largest daily inflow since February, as boomer-heavy allocators bought while crypto natives sold.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirms Reg Crypto, a proposal covering fundraising and startup exemptions, is near publication with an innovation exemption to follow.

Eighty-six crypto projects closed or began winding down in Q1 2026 as capital consolidates into Bitcoin ETFs and stablecoins. Here is who died and why.

Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone calls $10K Bitcoin's equilibrium price, citing mean reversion and the end of cheap liquidity.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs added $471M and Ethereum ETFs added $120M on April 6, with all ten ETH funds in positive territory for the first time in weeks.

Polymarket launches Polymarket USD and CTF Exchange V2, replacing bridged USDC.e with native collateral and a rebuilt trading engine.

MetaMask researcher Taylor Monahan says DPRK operatives infiltrated 40+ DeFi platforms since DeFi summer, using fake identities and third-party intermediaries.

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that New Jersey cannot regulate Kalshi's prediction markets, the first circuit court to side with CFTC preemption.

Circle's $3.25B weekly USDC issuance on Solana is the largest of 2026, pushing total supply past $15B as post-Drift liquidity demand surges.

Block launches Bitcoin Day on April 6, offering up to $80 in BTC rewards for buying, spending at Square merchants, and withdrawing to Bitkey.

Rwanda's central bank warned that P2P crypto trading with the Rwandan franc is illegal after Bybit launched RWF support on its platform.

A 3-to-1 short squeeze wiped $274M in crypto positions as Bitcoin jumped to $69,350 on reports of a 45-day US-Iran ceasefire framework.

China's Cyberspace Administration ordered Apple to remove Bitchat, Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth mesh messaging app with Bitcoin relay capabilities.

Iran's IRGC now demands stablecoin or yuan payments for safe passage through Hormuz. A single tanker transit can cost $2 million.

2.89 million ETH sits in a 50-day entry queue while Ethereum's exit queue stays near zero. What the one-sided demand means for supply and yield.

A new DOL proposed rule creates a six-factor safe harbor for fiduciaries who want to add crypto and alternative assets to $10.1 trillion in 401(k) plans.

Drift Protocol says the April 1 exploit was carried out by UNC4736, a North Korean state-backed group that spent six months building trust before draining $270M.

Tokenized real-world assets reach a $22.8B all-time high led by Tether Gold, even as Bitcoin trades at $67K and the Fear and Greed index reads 30.

Crypto markets processed $20T in Q1 2026 volume per Coinglass, with roughly 90% in derivatives. Binance dominated. Spot markets shrank to a two-year low.

Schwab confirms H1 2026 launch for spot BTC and ETH trading through its bank unit, putting $11.9 trillion in client assets one click from crypto.

Centralized exchange spot volume dropped to $986B in March 2026, the weakest month since early 2024. Fear & Greed sits at 29 as retail pulls back.

Cambodia's National Assembly unanimously passed its first law targeting crypto-linked scam compounds, with penalties up to life imprisonment and an April 2026 eradication deadline.

The Trump administration filed federal lawsuits against Illinois, Arizona, and Connecticut, arguing prediction markets are derivatives, not gambling.

Telegram's built-in wallet now offers perpetual futures trading across 50+ markets with up to 50x leverage, powered by Lighter DEX, reaching 150M users.

The $285M Drift Protocol exploit is spreading across Solana DeFi. At least 20 protocols report exposure, with Prime Numbers Fi citing losses above $10M.

The IMF's new 23-page note argues tokenization reconfigures financial architecture, not just speeds it up. With $27.5B in tokenized RWAs, the risks are real.

Todd Blanche, who dismantled the DOJ crypto enforcement team while holding crypto assets, is now interim Attorney General after Trump fired Pam Bondi.

Tether is pushing to finalize its fundraising at a $500B valuation after scaling back from $20B, with a KPMG audit and USAT launch backing its case.

Riot Platforms, Empery Digital, Genius Group, and Bhutan are all reducing their Bitcoin holdings. The corporate accumulation thesis is facing its first real stress test.

The Drift Protocol attacker has converted nearly all $285M in stolen funds into 130,262 ETH, creating one of the largest concentrated positions on Ethereum.

Treasury's 87-page proposal sets a $10 billion threshold separating state and federal stablecoin oversight, with a 60-day comment window now open.

Japan's Metaplanet bought 5,075 BTC in a single purchase, pushing its total to 40,177 BTC and overtaking Marathon Digital for the #3 spot globally.

Ripple launches Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, letting CFOs manage XRP and RLUSD alongside fiat in a single system built on GTreasury.

Drift Protocol reveals the $280M Solana exploit relied on durable nonce pre-signed transactions and targeted social engineering, not a smart contract bug.

On-chain equity transfers reached $2.87B in March 2026, an 80% monthly surge driven by NYSE, Nasdaq, and Kraken partnerships pushing tokenized stocks mainstream.

A single trader lost $17.17M on Hyperliquid's BRENTOIL-USDC contract after Trump's Iran speech spiked crude prices, the second time in 30 days oil produced the largest individual liquidation on a crypto venue.

Arizona's SB 1042 and SB 1649 are heading for final House votes, allowing 10% of public funds in crypto and a seized-asset reserve. Governor Hobbs vetoed all three prior attempts.

European crypto asset manager CoinShares begins trading on Nasdaq under ticker CSHR after a $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill Capital.

Australia's Digital Assets Framework Act clears both houses, requiring crypto exchanges and custody providers to obtain financial services licenses within six months.

Three crypto executives extradited from Singapore appeared in Oakland federal court as Operation Token Mirrors expands to four firms and 10 defendants.

Brent crude oil surged 60% in March 2026, the largest monthly gain since the futures contract launched in 1988. What the energy shock means for crypto in Q2.

Better Money Company raised $10M from a16z crypto to build a stablecoin clearinghouse. USDT excluded under the Genius Act. Paxos, Bridge, and MoonPay onboard.

Moody's assigns a Ba2 rating to New Hampshire's $100M Bitcoin-backed municipal bond, the first rated crypto-collateralized bond in US public finance history.

Phantom wallet now has a virtual Visa debit card for US users. Fund with CASH stablecoin at 1:1 USD, spend anywhere Visa is accepted, and withdraw via ACH.

DOJ charges Jonathan Spalletta for the 2021 Uranium Finance exploit on BNB Chain. He laundered $50M through Tornado Cash and bought rare collectibles.

A federal court permanently bars KuCoin operator Peken Global from serving US users, capping a $297M DOJ settlement and adding a $500K CFTC penalty.

New Google research finds fewer than 500,000 qubits could compromise Bitcoin. Taproot's exposed public keys widen the attack surface to 6.9 million BTC.

Blumenthal and Warren demand SEC records after enforcement director Margaret Ryan resigned and fraud charges against Justin Sun were settled for $10 million.

Nasdaq scraps the 10% float minimum and adds a Fast Entry rule letting mega-cap IPOs join the Nasdaq 100 in 15 trading days, effective May 1, 2026.

Gold fell 15% in March 2026, its worst monthly decline since October 2008. GLD saw record outflows while Bitcoin ETFs attracted $380M in a single day.

Ripple Prime expands its Hyperliquid integration to HIP-3 commodity perpetuals, giving institutions onchain access to gold, silver, and crude oil futures.

Ramp, the $32B corporate expense platform, goes live with stablecoin accounts on Coinbase's Base L2, letting businesses hold, earn, and pay in USDC.

The Mined in America Act would create a voluntary mining certification program, phase out foreign adversary hardware, and codify Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

Bernstein maintains outperform ratings on Coinbase, Robinhood, and Figure after a 60% drawdown from 2025 highs, with a $150K year-end Bitcoin target.

Aave V4 launches on Ethereum mainnet with a hub-and-spoke architecture, consolidating $27B in TVL after 345 days of audits and 900+ security researchers.

The Ethereum Foundation staked another 20,470 ETH worth $42M, bringing its total past 45,000 ETH and crossing the midpoint of its 70,000 ETH staking plan.

Digital asset investment products saw $414M in net outflows last week, breaking a $2.2B inflow streak as inflation fears and rate hike expectations mount.

Strategy paused BTC purchases last week after acquiring 90,831 bitcoin in 13 consecutive weeks, ending the longest corporate accumulation run on record.

The Ethereum Foundation deployed $46.2M in ETH across 11 deposits, accelerating its 70,000 ETH staking plan after selling 5,000 ETH to BitMine in an OTC deal.

Morgan Stanley's MSBT spot Bitcoin ETF will charge 0.14% annually, undercutting BlackRock's IBIT by 11 basis points and Grayscale's Mini by 1 basis point.

Decentralized exchanges have now processed over $12.5 trillion in cumulative trading volume, driven by perp DEX growth and rising DEX-to-CEX market share.

The Digital Asset PARITY Act would close Bitcoin's wash-sale loophole and exempt regulated stablecoins from capital gains tax on small transactions.

Bitfinex BTC longs reached 79,343 BTC, the highest since November 2023. Historically, peak longs on Bitfinex have preceded major price drops.

Bitcoin has fallen 26% in Q1 2026, its worst first quarter in eight years, with five consecutive red months and $6.18 billion drained from spot ETFs.

South Korea saw $60B in crypto flow to foreign exchanges and private wallets in H2 2025. Exchange profits dropped 38% as regulators tighten oversight.

BNB Chain crossed $3.15 billion in RWA TVL after adding $1 billion in Q1 2026. Circle USYC overtook BlackRock BUIDL as the top tokenized treasury product.

US spot Ethereum ETFs have now seen 8 consecutive days of net outflows, draining over 400 million dollars as ETH struggles to hold the 2,000 dollar level.

Binance's OTC desk processed roughly a quarter of 2025's entire volume in just January and February 2026, signaling accelerating institutional demand.

Bhutan has offloaded $152M in BTC in 2026, shrinking its hydroelectric-mined holdings from 13,000 to 4,453 BTC. The Gelephu Mindfulness City pledge looks unfulfillable.

Elizabeth Warren wrote to Commerce Secretary Lutnick demanding documents on Bitmain's national security investigation tied to Trump-backed American Bitcoin.

The top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee wants to know why the Kansas City Fed approved Kraken's limited purpose account before finishing its own rulemaking.

Intercontinental Exchange invests an additional $600M in Polymarket, bringing its total stake to $1.6 billion and cementing TradFi's largest prediction market bet.

BTC hit a two-week low as $300M in long positions were liquidated. Oil above $100, Nasdaq down 10% from highs, and crypto Fear at 23.

A new ECB staff paper argues that many DeFi DAOs fail the decentralization test required to stay outside the EU's MiCA regulation.

Senator Warren sent an 11-question letter to Beast Industries over its Step acquisition, crypto trademarks, and plans to offer DeFi services to 7 million teen users.

GameStop pledged 4,709 BTC to Coinbase as collateral for covered-call options, booking a $131.6M loss. SEC filing reveals the full strategy.

Sacks hit the 130-day limit for special government employees and moves to co-chair PCAST. No replacement named, and the GENIUS Act is still unsigned.

Coinbase partners with Better to offer Fannie Mae-backed mortgages using Bitcoin and USDC as down payment collateral, no taxable sale required.

Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 45,000 BTC in 30 days while other corporate buyers retreated 99% from peak. The concentration risk is real.

Judge Gilliam certified a class of investors alleging Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang concealed over $1B in crypto mining GPU revenue between 2017 and 2018.

A federal court tossed a non-custodial developer's bid for legal clarity on money transmitter laws, leaving the industry without an answer.

The bipartisan PREDICT Act would bar Congress, the president, and senior officials from political prediction market trading, with 10% fines and profit clawbacks.

The UK government banned cryptocurrency donations to political parties and capped overseas elector donations at 100,000 pounds annually, citing regulatory gaps.

Coinbase informed Senate offices it has significant concerns about the CLARITY Act yield language, threatening to derail the crypto market structure bill again.

Monument Bank plans to tokenize up to £250M in retail deposits on the Midnight network, keeping full FSCS protection and interest payments intact.

Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau and Europol accessed 500 BTC worth $34 million from a convicted cannabis grower's stash after seven years of trying.

Gold has fallen for 10 straight days, the longest run in over a century. Meanwhile, one bitcoin now buys nearly 16 ounces of gold, up 30% from recent lows.

A Thane magistrate court ruled there is no prima facie case against CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal in the Rs 71 lakh impersonation fraud.

Deribit's largest quarterly options expiry wipes 40% of open interest Friday. Max pain sits at $75,000, roughly 6% above spot. Here is what that means.

Ripple partners with Unloq in the MAS BLOOM initiative to pilot automated cross-border trade finance using RLUSD on the XRP Ledger.

Tether engages an unnamed Big Four accounting firm for its first full independent audit, covering reserves, liabilities, and controls. Circle stock drops 20%.

Kentucky HB 380 passed the House 85-0 with a buried amendment requiring hardware wallet providers to help reset seed phrases. Critics say it outlaws self-custody.

Invesco assumes investment management of Superstate's USTB fund, joining BlackRock and Franklin Templeton in the tokenized Treasury race now worth 12 billion dollars.

Foundry USA mined seven consecutive blocks and orphaned two from AntPool and ViaBTC in a rare chain split at block 941,881.

The SEC submitted a proposed interpretation framework to the White House that would clarify which digital assets qualify as securities under federal law.

EDXM International, backed by Citadel Securities, launches a blockchain-based Korean won derivative targeting Asia's FX market as Korea opens won trading 24/7.

Rival prediction market CEOs Shayne Coplan and Tarek Mansour are both investing in 5c(c) Capital, a new $35M fund targeting prediction market infrastructure.

Strategy registers $21B in new MSTR common stock, $21B in STRC preferred, and $2.1B in STRK preferred, nearly doubling its capital-raising firepower.

Trump orders a five-day pause on Iran strikes, crashing oil 10% and triggering a $260M+ short squeeze across crypto markets.

The Nasdaq hit its lowest level since September as 10-year Treasury yields surged to 4.41%. Bitcoin crashed to $60K weeks earlier, and equities are now following.

Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman tell CNN the FTX prosecution was political. Creditors counter that recoveries are based on 2022 dollar values, not real crypto terms.

Gold has lost over 22% from its January all-time high, erasing $1.5 trillion in a single session. Bitcoin is down to $67,846 with fear at 24.

NYSE Arca and NYSE American scrap position limits on 11 crypto ETF options and open FLEX trading, effective immediately after the SEC waived the 30-day wait.

Fidelity's general counsel asks the SEC to let broker-dealers trade crypto on alternative trading systems and issue DLT guidance for tokenized securities.

Lloyds just completed the UK's first public blockchain deposit transaction. The ECB has a roadmap. Banks are coming for stablecoin territory.

Google searches for 'Help With Mortgage' have hit an all-time high, surpassing the 2008 financial crisis. Crypto markets reflect the stress with ETH down 4.2% and Fear at 26.

CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal have been arrested by Thane Police on criminal breach of trust charges tied to an Rs 71 lakh fraud case.

CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal were questioned by Mumbai police after an FIR was filed over an Rs 71 lakh impersonation fraud scheme.

Average Bitcoin production cost hits $88,000 while BTC trades near $69,000. Network difficulty drops 7.8% as miners bleed cash and pivot to AI.

Resolv Labs USR stablecoin exploit on March 22, 2026. 50 million USR minted with 100K USDC, triggering a 74% depeg. Official response pending.

Grayscale submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a HYPE ETF on Nasdaq under ticker GHYP. Coinbase is the custodian. Bitwise and 21Shares filed earlier.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $253M in two days as the broader equity sell-off hit $64B in 3 months, the largest SPY/QQQ outflow on record. One analyst sees BTC at $55K.

A class-action lawsuit alleges Gemini concealed plans to pivot to prediction markets, exit three regions, and cut 25% of staff before its September 2025 IPO.

Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive flipped CleanSpark and Tesla to become a top 10 corporate BTC holder, but Q4 brought a $393.6 million net loss.

Morgan Stanley's amended S-1 reveals MSBT will trade on NYSE Arca with Coinbase, Fidelity, and BNY Mellon as custodians and a fee waiver on the first $5B.

Coinbase Asset Management puts a tokenized share class of its Bitcoin Yield Fund on Base, using ERC-3643 for on-chain identity and compliance.

Bitcoin is down 35% while global money supply grew 12%, creating a $66,000 valuation gap. CF Benchmarks says energy costs and tight rates are the bottleneck.

Gemini's workforce is down to 445 after cumulative 30% cuts in 2026. The exchange exited UK, EU, and Australia while pivoting to prediction markets.

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial releases AgentPay SDK, enabling AI agents to hold, move, and transact with USD1 across EVM chains.

South Korea's opposition party introduced a bill to permanently abolish the planned 22% crypto gains tax, arguing it is unfair when stock gains face no income tax.

Institutional Bitcoin demand hit its highest level since October 2025 as buyers absorbed 81,200 BTC last month, six times the amount miners produced.

The Federal Reserve held rates at 3.5-3.75% and raised its inflation forecast. Bitcoin dropped 4.6% to $70,711, but traders see a bullish bounce forming.

The SEC approved Nasdaq's rule change to trade tokenized versions of Russell 1000 stocks and S&P 500 ETFs on the same order book as traditional securities.

Fold reports 8% revenue growth and 2,000 new customers in Q4, while CEO Will Reeves argues Bitcoin rewards will replace traditional airline loyalty programs.

FTX Recovery Trust announces its fourth distribution of $2.2 billion on March 31, 2026, bringing cumulative payouts above $8 billion and three creditor classes to full recovery.

Ripple-backed Evernorth files its S-4 with the SEC to merge with Armada Acquisition Corp II and list on Nasdaq under ticker XRPN with 388 million XRP.

Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott says a stablecoin yield compromise draft is coming this week, but Coinbase already walked and midterms are closing in.

Mastercard is acquiring stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8B. Visa is scaling stablecoin cards to 100+ countries. The card networks are buying what crypto tried to replace.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins proposed Regulation Crypto Assets at the DC Blockchain Summit, outlining a startup exemption and investment contract safe harbor.

The SEC and CFTC issued a joint interpretation classifying 17 crypto assets as digital commodities alongside BTC and ETH, ending years of regulatory ambiguity.

Five firms including three bank affiliates qualify for Vietnam's first crypto exchange licenses under a $400M capital requirement as Hanoi moves to ban overseas trading.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs have logged six straight days of net inflows totaling $963M, led by BlackRock IBIT and Fidelity, as BTC climbs 12.5% from its March low.

T. Rowe Price amends its SEC filing for an actively managed crypto ETF covering 15 digital assets, with Anchorage Digital custody and potential staking.

The SEC proposes amending Rule 15c2-11 to cover only equity securities. Commissioner Peirce asks whether crypto assets qualify, opening a comment period.

OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer postpones the SEA token launch originally set for March 30, citing challenging market conditions even as ETH surges.

Bitcoin crosses $75,000 with ETH up 9% in 24 hours, but short-term holders just sent the largest exchange inflow since January 15. Who blinks first?

Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 22,337 BTC at $70,194 average, funded by preferred and common stock sales. Total holdings: 761,068 BTC worth $57.6 billion.

Australia's Senate committee endorses the Digital Assets Framework Bill, requiring crypto exchanges and custody providers to obtain financial services licenses.

Crypto lender BlockFills filed Chapter 11 in Delaware with up to $500M in liabilities after a $75M loan loss, frozen withdrawals, and a commingling lawsuit.

Japan's largest corporate Bitcoin holder raised $531M in new capital to keep buying BTC, despite holding 35,102 coins at a 32% loss. Here is what the math looks like.

Bitcoin reclaims $73,800 and Ethereum surges 14% in a week as $300M in short positions get wiped out. Fear and Greed climbs from 8 to 41.

The SEC dismissed its civil fraud case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji with prejudice, adding to a growing list of crypto enforcement retreats.

Wu Blockchain reports Coinbase is negotiating a minority equity stake in Bybit, giving the offshore exchange a path into the US market.

Aave Shield will auto-block swaps with over 25% price impact. The post mortem pins the $50M loss on illiquid markets, but CoW Swap says multiple systems failed.

The Ethereum Foundation sold 5,000 ETH for $10.2M to BitMine in its second corporate OTC deal, as BitMine keeps buying despite $7.8B in unrealized losses.

Ethereum's circulating supply has crossed 121 million ETH, reversing the deflationary thesis that followed the Merge. Blob fees and low activity are the culprits.

Jacob and Co partnered with GoMining on a $40,000 luxury watch that grants 1,000 terahashes of Bitcoin mining power. Only 100 exist.

Artemis data shows crypto lending deposits dropped from $125B to $79B, but Aave hit 155K monthly users and $1T in cumulative loans. Price erosion, not flight.

US forces struck military targets on Kharg Island, Iran's main crude export hub. Oil topped $100. Bitcoin held $71,000. Here is what the market is pricing in.

USDC reaches $81.1B all-time high supply while processing 70% of stablecoin volume in February. AI agents settled 140M transactions in USDC this year.

Iranian drone debris struck the DIFC Innovation Hub, Token2049 is postponed to 2027, and crypto traders are leaving Dubai as the war reshapes the industry's favorite hub.

KRAKacquisition Corp is actively searching for crypto-native acquisition targets valued between 2 and 10 billion dollars, with stablecoins and DeFi in focus.

A federal appeals court ends Custodia's five-year fight for a Fed master account, just days after Kraken became the first crypto firm to get one.

TRUMP meme coin rallied 50% to $4.29 with $1.14B in volume after announcing a Mar-a-Lago gala luncheon for the top 297 token holders on April 25.

US Q4 GDP grew just 0.7% annualized vs the 1.4% estimate. Bitcoin climbed to $72,853 as markets price in faster Fed rate cuts.

Hong Kong is granting its first stablecoin licenses to HSBC, Standard Chartered, and OSL as early as March 24, chosen from 36 applicants under the Stablecoins Ordinance.

Tether aims to complete its first full audit by the end of 2026, per Bloomberg. After a decade of attestations, 189 billion in USDT reserves faces real scrutiny.

Alibaba leads MetaComp's $35M raise as the MAS-licensed stablecoin platform hits $10B in volume and plans StableX Network expansion across Asia and beyond.

South Korea's National Tax Service is developing an AI platform to track 8 billion annual crypto transactions ahead of its delayed 22% crypto gains tax in January 2027.

The SEC Investor Advisory Committee voted to recommend tokenized securities regulations with mandatory disclosures, audits, and best-execution requirements.

A crypto whale lost nearly $50 million swapping USDT for AAVE through CoW Swap after ignoring slippage warnings. Aave is refunding $600K in fees.

BlackRock's ETHB begins trading on Nasdaq, staking 70-95% of its ETH holdings and passing 82% of yield to shareholders. Here is what it means.

A class action accuses JPMorgan Chase of processing $253M in suspicious Goliath Ventures transfers while ignoring KYC and AML red flags for three years.

Stephen Gregory, former Currency.com and Gemini executive, takes over Binance.US with plans to expand staking, DeFi access, and tokenized assets.

Revolut exits its PRA mobilisation phase with 13 million UK customers, FSCS deposit protection up to 120,000 pounds, and crypto trading walled off in a separate entity.

SEC and CFTC formalize coordination on crypto oversight through a landmark MOU, launching a Joint Harmonization Initiative across six priority areas.

Mastercard launched a Crypto Partner Program for 85 plus crypto firms, payment providers, and banks focused on practical on-chain payments use cases.

Wells Fargo's WFUSD trademark covers crypto exchange, wallets, and blockchain settlement. JPMorgan, BofA, and Citi are in on the consortium play.

The Justice Department is probing Binance over $1.7B in alleged Iran-linked transfers, fired whistleblowers, and ties to Trump-affiliated crypto ventures.

A stale parameter in Aave's CAPO risk oracle undervalued wstETH by 2.85%, triggering $27M in forced liquidations across 34 accounts. Full compensation is planned.

The x402 AI micropayment protocol backed by Coinbase and a16z processes $28K daily against a $7B ecosystem valuation, with half the activity artificial.

Ripple plans to acquire BC Payments Australia and its AFSL license, expanding its regulated footprint to 75+ markets as Asia-Pacific payments volume doubles.

Ghana's SEC launches a 12-month crypto sandbox with 11 companies covering exchanges, gold tokenization, and payment systems under the VASP Act 2025.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes says he will not buy BTC until central banks start printing money, despite Bitcoin trading near $70,000 with the Fear index at 26.

Vanguard reports hardship withdrawals hit a record 6% in 2025, tripling the pre-pandemic rate. What this says about financial stress, crypto sentiment, and stablecoins.

21Shares TDOT ETF gives US investors physically-backed DOT exposure with staking yield on Nasdaq, days before Polkadot caps supply at 2.1 billion tokens.

Hyperliquid's HIP-3 permissionless market set a record $1.2B in open interest, with oil and equity futures accounting for most of the top 30 contracts.

13F filings reveal $540M in institutional Solana ETF purchases in Q4, led by Goldman Sachs, Electric Capital, and investment advisors holding over $270M.

Broadridge integrates Crypto.com into its NYFIX network, giving 2,200 institutional participants FIX-based crypto order routing for the first time in Asia.

The Bank Policy Institute, backed by JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, is weighing a lawsuit against the OCC over national trust bank charters granted to crypto firms.

The DOJ wants to retry Roman Storm on money laundering and sanctions charges after last year's hung jury, proposing an early October 2026 retrial date.

Oil plunges to below $90 as Trump signals the Iran conflict is winding down. Asian markets rebound, Bitcoin rises 3.4%, and the Strait of Hormuz remains the wildcard.

Artemis bridge data shows Ethereum attracted $2.1B in net capital flows YTD in 2026, even as ETF outflows hit $2.76B and exchange reserves drop to record lows.

Arthur Hayes published a detailed financial model projecting Hyperliquid's HYPE token to $150 by August 2026, backed by $1.4B revenue and 97% buybacks.

BitMine's $9B Ethereum treasury is $7.8B underwater, but Chairman Tom Lee says the mini crypto winter is nearly over and increased weekly purchases to a 2026 high.

Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 17,994 BTC for $1.28 billion at $70,946 per coin, below the firm's $75,862 average, as unrealized losses hit $6 billion.

KAST closes an $80M Series A led by QED Investors and Left Lane Capital, with DST Global and Peak XV joining. $5B annualized volume, 1M+ users, KAST Business next.

South Korea's FIU has preliminarily notified Bithumb of a six-month partial business suspension for AML and KYC violations, restricting new user crypto transfers.

Three G7 nations back a coordinated oil reserve release through the IEA. Brent crude falls from $118 to $103 and Bitcoin bounces above $67,300.

Aave monthly active users reached an all-time high of 155,000 in February 2026 as collapsing basis trade yields push capital toward DeFi lending protocols.

The Treasury proposes a crypto hold law giving exchanges legal cover to temporarily freeze suspicious assets during investigations, no warrant required.

Brent crude surges 18% to $110 on the Sunday futures open. Bitcoin breaks below $66,000 as $120M in crypto positions are liquidated within 60 minutes.

Justin Sun settled SEC fraud charges for $10M, then poured $75M into Trump

Alibaba researchers discovered their ROME AI agent diverted GPU capacity to mine cryptocurrency and opened an unauthorized SSH tunnel during reinforcement learning.

February NFP showed 92,000 jobs lost, 161,000 revised away from prior months, and unemployment hit 4.4%. Bitcoin trades at $67,000 as rate cut bets climb.

Tokenized RWAs exceed $25 billion after nearly 4x growth in 12 months. Six asset classes crossed $1 billion each as BlackRock and Fidelity expand offerings.

On-chain data shows whale wallets offloaded two-thirds of their BTC as retail piled in below 70000. Fear and Greed hit 12, and 43% of supply is underwater.

Circle's USDC captured 70% of stablecoin transfer volume in February, processing $1.26 trillion while Tether handled $514 billion despite having 2.4x the market cap.

Florida's Senate unanimously passed SB 314, creating a stablecoin licensing framework with 100% reserve requirements and a $10 billion federal handoff threshold.

The White House National Cyber Strategy names crypto and blockchain as technologies to protect, while flagging mixers, privacy coins, and quantum threats.

The 20 millionth Bitcoin will be mined this week, a supply milestone that leaves only 4.76% of all BTC left to enter circulation before the final coin in 2140.

Judge Vargas rules Binance had only an arms-length relationship to 64 attacks. The same day, Binance calls $1.7B Iran allegations demonstrably false.

Pakistan's president signs the Virtual Assets Act 2026, establishing PVARA to license crypto exchanges. Binance and HTX already hold preliminary NOCs.

Kazakhstan's central bank begins deploying $350M into crypto assets in April-May 2026 through hedge funds and seized BTC, building toward a $1B national reserve.

Strike receives NYDFS BitLicense and money transmitter license, bringing Bitcoin buying, paycheck conversion, and self-custody withdrawals to New York.

Dubai's VARA issued cease-and-desist orders to four KuCoin entities for operating without approval, two weeks after Austria froze KuCoin EU's new business.

PEI Licensing, the company behind Original Penguin apparel since 1956, sues Pudgy Penguins in Florida federal court over clothing trademarks.

ICE takes a strategic stake in OKX, secures a board seat, and will bring NYSE-listed tokenized equities and crypto futures to 120 million exchange users by late 2026.

PsiQuantum's million-qubit quantum computer is rising in Chicago with $1 billion in funding. Here is what it means for Bitcoin's ECDSA cryptography.

Three US banking regulators confirm tokenized securities get identical capital treatment, while DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear release an interoperability framework.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirms John Daghita was arrested by French elite forces on Saint Martin for allegedly stealing $46M in seized crypto from the US Marshals Service.

Robinhood's Platinum Card charges $695/year but delivers 5% on dining and flights, 10% on hotels, Priority Pass lounges, and $3,000+ in credits.

Andreessen Horowitz targets a $2B fifth crypto fund closing mid-2026, halving its prior fund size as Paradigm and Multicoin pivot to AI and robotics.

Visa, ANZ, ChinaAMC, and Fidelity International completed a cross-border settlement pilot using Chainlink CCIP under Hong Kong

Western Union taps Crossmint to connect USDPT, its Solana-based stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, to 360,000+ cash pickup locations worldwide.

X Money launches its external beta with a metal Visa debit card, 6% APY on deposits held by Cross River Bank, and cashback rewards. US only, 18+ required.

Gate launches its new card: dual-track tier progression (spend or VIP), up to 5% cashback in BTC/ETH/USDT/GT, $500K daily limits, and $1.5M monthly caps.

Kraken secures a Federal Reserve master account, becoming the first crypto firm on the same payment rails as thousands of US banks. Here is what it means.

Bitcoin rebounds past $71,000 on $1.45B in ETF inflows over five days while gold drops 4.4% from its $5,400 peak, flipping the crisis-asset playbook.

Ethereum's validator entry queue holds 3.4 million ETH, up 276% since January, as institutional investors lock supply for staking yield instead of selling.

KOSPI triggers circuit breaker for the first time since 2024 as Iran war fears and a semiconductor slump erase $270 billion. Samsung crashes 10 percent.

Paraguay's state utility ANDE signs MoU with Morphware to redeploy seized Bitcoin miners at hydroelectric substations in the country's first government-led mining operation.

A Bitcoin Policy Institute study of 36 AI models across 9,072 experiments finds 91% reject fiat, with smarter models showing stronger Bitcoin preference.

Trump accuses banks of threatening the GENIUS Act and holding the CLARITY Act hostage over stablecoin yield, warning crypto could flee to China.

SWIFT partners with BNY Mellon and 30+ banks to design a blockchain-based ledger for real-time cross-border payments and tokenized assets across 200+ countries.

Visa expands its stablecoin card partnership with Bridge from 18 countries to over 100, letting wallets like Phantom and MetaMask issue branded Visa debit cards.

Judge Polk Failla rules Uniswap is not liable for scam tokens on its protocol. The Risley v. Universal Navigation ruling sets DeFi liability precedent.

BOJ Governor Ueda announces a sandbox for settling central bank reserves on blockchain, alongside Project Agora's seven-bank tokenized payment network.

Deloitte completed the first reserve attestation for Tether's US-regulated USAT stablecoin, marking a Big Four breakthrough after years of accounting firm struggles.

The Solflare Privacy Aggregator Layer routes transfers through Houdini Swap to break on-chain links. How Private Send works, fees, and what it means for Solana.

Core Scientific dumped nearly all its BTC to fund AI data centers, missed Q4 revenue by 31%, and told investors mining is winding down.

The Senate's 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act bans the Fed from issuing a retail CBDC until 2031, with an 84-6 bipartisan vote and White House endorsement.

NEAR's Confidential Intents routes trades through a TEE-secured private shard to block front-running and sandwich attacks. The token rallied 40% in a week.

Nasdaq MRX filed with the SEC to list binary prediction market contracts on the Nasdaq-100 priced at 1 cent to $1, challenging CFTC dominance over event markets.

Buterin outlines a multi-stage plan to decentralize Ethereum block building after Glamsterdam, using expanded inclusion lists and transaction encryption.

Bitcoin ETFs lost $6.39 billion and ether ETFs shed $2.76 billion over four consecutive months, totaling $9 billion in outflows since the October crash.

X now prohibits crypto from organic paid partnerships while expanding crypto ads to new markets. The split creates a two-track system for crypto marketing.

SpaceX holds 8,285 BTC in Coinbase Prime custody worth $545M, down $235M in three months. A confidential IPO filing could come in March.

PAXG and XAUt process virtually 100% of gold price discovery when CME futures close, with $178B in 2025 volume and a $4.4B market cap.

EIP-8141 targets the Hegotia fork in late 2026, bringing native account abstraction, quantum-resistant signatures, and gas sponsorship to Ethereum.

Eleven Senate Democrats ask AG Bondi and Treasury Secretary Bessent to investigate whether Binance violated its 2023 settlement by routing $1.7B to Iran-linked entities.

Suspected insiders netted $1.2M on Polymarket's Iran strike contract as six senators push the CFTC to ban prediction markets tied to death, war, and violence.

Bitcoin surged from $62K to $67K after Israeli officials claimed Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei was killed in US-Israel strikes. Iran denies it. $500M liquidated.

The OCC's proposed GENIUS Act rulemaking creates a rebuttable presumption against stablecoin yield pass-throughs, putting Coinbase's USDC rewards program directly at risk.

Trump confirmed US strikes on Iran alongside Israel in a joint operation targeting Tehran and nuclear sites. Bitcoin fell to $63,000 with $209M in liquidations.

Israel launched a preventive strike on Iran, triggering $100M in crypto liquidations within 15 minutes as Bitcoin and altcoins sold off sharply on geopolitical risk.

Tether reveals $4.2 billion in frozen USDT tied to crime, with $3.5 billion seized since 2023 alone. A $61 million DOJ pig butchering case tipped the total.

Morgan Stanley Digital Trust, National Association filed for an OCC charter on Feb 18, joining Ripple, BitGo, and Fidelity in the race for regulated crypto banking.

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Paradigm is raising $1.5B for AI, robotics, and frontier tech while keeping its $12.7B crypto book. Here is what the pivot means for the industry.

MARA Holdings swings from $528M profit to $1.71B loss in Q4 as FASB fair value rules force a $1.5B BTC write-down, but Starwood AI deal sends shares surging.

SBI Holdings and Startale Group debut JPYSC, the first trust bank-backed yen stablecoin issued by Shinsei Trust and Banking, targeting Q2 2026 under Type III rules.

WLFI proposes 180-day staking lock for governance, introduces $1M Node and $5M Super Node tiers, and redirects arbitrage profits to large stakers.

Morgan Stanley confirms plans for native Bitcoin custody, trading, yield, and lending. E-Trade spot crypto launches H1 2026 via Zerohash for 5 million users.

The bipartisan Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act of 2026 would narrow Section 1960 to protect non-custodial software developers from criminal charges.

On-chain investigator ZachXBT reveals Axiom employees allegedly used internal dashboards to look up private wallet data and trade on privileged information since early 2025.

ABTC lost $153 million in its first full year as a public company. New FASB mark-to-market rules turned a 23 percent BTC price drop into a $227 million write-down.

Indiana's HB 1042 cleared both chambers 59-33, banning crypto-specific taxes, protecting self-custody, and requiring state pensions to offer digital asset options by 2027.

Gate obtains a PSD2 payment institution license from Malta's MFSA, unlocking EU-wide stablecoin payments under MiCA just before the March 2 EBA enforcement date.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $507 million in net inflows on Feb 25, breaking a five-week outflow streak that drained $3.8 billion. BlackRock IBIT led the reversal.

The Ethereum Foundation published a Strawmap plotting seven hard forks through 2029 targeting 10,000 TPS, 2-second slots, native privacy, and post-quantum cryptography.

Vitalik backs Ethereum's Strawmap roadmap targeting 2-second slots, sub-16-second finality, 10,000 TPS, and quantum resistance across seven forks through 2029.

Aave hits $1 trillion in DeFi lending volume with $27.2 billion locked. The protocol is pushing for bank and fintech integrations through Aave Horizon.

Senate Democrats hold closed-door crypto market structure talks as the White House March 1 deadline on stablecoin yield looms. Banks want rewards banned.

The OCC issued a proposed rulemaking to implement the GENIUS Act, opening the door for national banks to issue payment stablecoins under federal oversight.

Circle beat Q4 estimates with $770M revenue and $75.3B USDC circulation, yet distribution costs surged 74% and T-bill rate exposure clouds the 2026 outlook.

A three-month mining capitulation, one of the longest since 2011, is nearing its end as the hash ribbon indicator signals a potential BTC price bottom.

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations demands Binance hand over compliance records tied to $1.7B in alleged sanctions evasion through IRGC-linked wallets.

Strategy tops Goldman Sachs short interest rankings with 14% of float shorted. Steve Eisman joins the bet as $3.2B in MSTR short profits fuel a crowded trade.

Mastercard posted a Director-level role for crypto on-ramping, stablecoins, and DeFi. The job listing reveals how deeply the card network plans to integrate blockchain.

Vitalik Buterin has liquidated 11,422 ETH worth $23.3M through his Kanro entity to fund open-source projects, while ETH trades at a 20-day low near $1,844.

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking its ETH treasury for the first time, deploying 2,016 ETH with plans to stake 70,000 ETH at 2.8% yield.

Bitwise buys staking infrastructure provider Chorus One, adding $2.2B in staked assets and 30+ PoS networks as staked Ethereum ETFs loom on the SEC docket.

The tokenized US Treasury market has crossed $10 billion in total value, with Circle's USYC overtaking BlackRock's BUIDL by a razor-thin margin.

RedotPay is working with JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Jefferies on a potential New York listing after raising $194 million across three rounds in 2025.

Binance compliance investigators traced $1.7B to IRGC-linked entities via Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale. Then they were fired. The DOJ monitor report lands Feb 25.

Terraform bankruptcy admin Todd Snyder accuses Jane Street of insider trading via a former intern's back channel, citing a $40B collapse timeline.

BitMine Immersion holds 4.42 million ETH, 3.66% of total supply, after spending $16.4B. Unrealized losses top $8B as the Fundstrat-chaired firm buys another $98M.

Austria's FMA froze KuCoin EU's new customer intake after the exchange lost all four AML and sanctions officers just 87 days into its MiCA authorization.

Gemini's stock has fallen from $28 to $5.87 since its September IPO as the exchange cuts 25% of staff, exits UK/EU/Australia, and pivots to prediction markets.

Court filings reveal JPMorgan closed 50+ Trump accounts in February 2021. The $5 billion lawsuit and alleged blacklist tie directly to the Trump family's crypto pivot.

Strategy is about to complete its 100th Bitcoin purchase with 717,131 BTC at a $76,027 average. MSTR stock is down 72% from its peak as Saylor doubles down.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs have bled $3.8 billion over five consecutive weeks, with BlackRock IBIT accounting for $2.13 billion. The last time this happened, BTC fell to $75K.

Bitcoin drops 5% to $64,700 as whale exchange ratio hits 0.64, the highest since 2015. $100B wiped from crypto in one day with recent buyers still locking in $480M daily losses.

Lobstar Wilde, an autonomous AI agent built by an OpenAI developer, accidentally transferred its entire memecoin holdings to an X user who sold for $40K.

DWF Labs data shows 80%+ of 2025 token launches trade below listing price while crypto IPO funding hits $14.6B and M&A reaches a five-year high of $42.5B.

Vitalik Buterin outlined a DAO governance model built around personal AI agents, public discussion systems, prediction markets, and privacy-preserving computation.

XRP logged a $1.93B weekly realized loss spike, the largest since November 2022. Santiment data shows the last time this happened, XRP rallied 114% in 8 months.

US Google searches for 'Bitcoin to zero' hit 100 on Google Trends as BTC slides 50% from ATH. Fear & Greed at 5. Is this a bottom signal or something different?

A sharp yen move can trigger liquidations across leveraged global risk books, and Bitcoin often gets sold with everything else. Here is the mechanism behind the carry-trade shock.

Bitdeer's BTC treasury has dropped to zero after months of accelerating sales. The $300M convertible note raise and AI pivot signal a new era for mining.

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic identifies ABCeX, Rapira, Exmo, Bitpapa, and Aifory Pro as the exchanges enabling Russia to bypass Western sanctions.

Iran's rial freefall in 2026 echoes Lebanon's banking meltdown. Citizens are moving billions into Bitcoin and stablecoins as sanctions and inflation crush savings.

MARA Holdings wins French regulatory approval to acquire 64% of EDF subsidiary Exaion for $168M, with strict sovereignty conditions including a mandatory local co-investor.

Trump raises his global tariff from 10% to the 15% legal cap under Section 122, just 24 hours after signing the original order. Bitcoin holds near $68K.