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Ripple altcoin XRP continues to trade at steady low prices. The blockchain’s accomplishments continue to outperform.  This steady activity and milestone completions create bullish hype for XRP price. The crypto community is once again in low spirits as

Tether introduces modular hash board systems, enabling flexible upgrades and separating compute, power, and cooling for efficiency gains. Collaboration with Canaan and ACME delivers customized mining hardware optimized for immersion cooling and industrial-scale deployments. New

On April 29, Meta announced that it is rolling out USDC stablecoin payments for creators in Colombia and the Philippines, with Stripe providing infrastructure support. This marks its first return to the crypto payments space since the failure of its Libra project four years ago.

iFOREX has announced its listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker IFRX, with a market valuation of around £43.3 million. The listing adds a public market layer to the broker's business built around proprietary trading platforms and retail client services, while

The SWEAT protocol successfully contained a multi-million dollar exploit on Wednesday at approximately 13:36 UTC, with the team confirming that all external account balances have been fully restored and operations have returned to normal, according to a post-hack debrief shared by the SWEAT team on

Regulated B2B sportsbook supplier Kambi reported Q1 2026 EBITDA up 63.5% on the year. CEO Werner Bercher repeated his assertion that the entire 2026 FIFA World Cup will be priced and risk-managed by its AI trading system, with a new data point supporting his statement – Q1 bet automation is

PENGU surged 33% weekly, driven by NFT momentum and strong trading volume. Token unlock increased liquidity, triggering volatility and potential selling pressure. Technical breakout shows strength, but resistance and upcoming unlock may shift direction. Pudgy Penguins has captured strong

U.S. Army Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke pleaded not guilty Tuesday to five federal charges over a series of Polymarket bets that turned $33,000 into more than $404,000, in what prosecutors describe as the first insider-trading case ever filed against a prediction-markets trader. Key

PENGU surged 33% weekly, driven by NFT momentum and strong trading volume. Token unlock increased liquidity, triggering volatility and potential selling pressure. Technical breakout shows strength, but resistance and upcoming unlock may shift direction. Pudgy Penguins has captured strong

According to a report by Fox Business on April 30, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on the Kudlow show that the United States has seized nearly $500 million worth of Iranian cryptocurrency assets as part of the “economic rage action.” Bessent said the move is intended to freeze bank accounts, confiscate assets, and pressure foreign governments to cut ties with Iran.

On-chain data tracking firm Arkham Intelligence’s latest data shows that on April 29, Bhutan transferred about 100 BTC worth nearly $8 million. Arkham Intelligence data indicates that Bhutan’s total Bitcoin sales from 2026 to date have exceeded $200 million; it currently still holds more than 3,400 BTC, with cumulative profits of over $750 million.

According to SoSoValue data, on April 29 in U.S. Eastern Time, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $138 million in total funds, marking a net outflow for the third consecutive trading day; on the same day, U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $87.7256 million in total funds, with Fidelity (FETH) and BlackRock (ETHA) as the main sources of outflows.

PayPal officially announced a strategic reorganization on April 30, simplifying its business structure into three main core segments: checkout solutions and PayPal, consumer finance services and Venmo, and payment services and crypto; within this, the payment services and crypto segment was established separately, integrating Braintree, SMB processing, value-added services, and crypto business (including the stablecoin PYUSD).

Ant International said its payments network links more than 150 million merchants with over 2 billion consumer accounts worldwide, supporting more than 300 payment methods across 220 markets. The company handles more than 20 million transactions per day on average and is expanding across Asia,

A U.S. court sentenced Maximilien de Hoop Cartier to eight years in prison for helping launder more than $470 million through an unlicensed crypto exchange. Prosecutors said the network used U.S. banks, shell companies, and crypto accounts to move criminal proceeds overseas. Key Takeaways:

The Bank of England has expressed concern about plans to reduce capital requirements for professional trading firms, citing potential increases in financial risk, according to reports from April 30. This position creates a disagreement with the UK Financial Conduct Authority, which proposed the capi

According to the Los Angeles Times, on April 30, Evan Tangeman, a 22-year-old man from Newport Beach, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the District of Washington, to 70 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release; Tangeman pleaded guilty in December 2025, admitting to laundering $3.5 million for a crypto scam group.

Crypto exchange OKX introduced its Agent Payments Protocol (APP) on Wednesday, an open standard designed to enable AI agents to conduct full business cycles including payments, negotiations, and dispute resolution. The protocol follows similar offerings from competitors including x402, incubated by

April Blockchain Upgrades: Live Forks and Planning Phases In April 2026, blockchain protocols took divergent paths—some delivering live mainnet changes, others refining future architectures. Polygon's Giugliano hard fork activated on April 8, Polkadot executed Runtime v2.1 through governance in la

According to a notice released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on April 30, an international joint operation led by Dubai Police with the joint participation of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and China’s Ministry of Public Security dismantled at least 9 cryptocurrency fraud hubs last week, resulting in 276 arrests in total, including 1 additional person arrested by the Royal Thai Police. The DOJ announcement on the same day also stated that 6 defendants have been charged in the U.S. District Court in San Diego with federal fraud and money laundering crimes.