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The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust will be the cheapest Bitcoin ETF on the market at an ultra-low 0.14% fee.

AI models have reached a level of coding capability that rivals or exceeds that of most human experts at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, Anthropic said.

Under SEC Chair Paul Atkins, the number of SEC enforcement actions against public companies has decreased by about 30%.

FDIC’s proposed rules providing insurance for corporate deposits of stablecoin issuers will not extend to the stablecoin holders, as it would conflict with the GENIUS Act’s text, the FDIC said.

Iran's Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday accepted a two-week ceasefire with the US, but emphasized this did not mean an end to the war.

The 30-day simple moving average of the global network hashrate has also declined, though an analyst says the slump is due to Bitcoin prices hurting mining profitability rather than conflict.

Changpeng Zhao’s memoir recounts Binance’s rapid rise, regulatory scrutiny and prison sentence, offering a first-person account of crypto’s most turbulent era.

The Bitcoin supply held in long-term investor wallets moved above 4 million BTC, while a network activity index flashed a “bull phase” signal.

The seven House members may have affirmed the commission’s authority over prediction markets, but they questioned its inaction on insider trading.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation.

Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $471 million, but stress on digital asset treasuries, selling from miners, and the war in Iran are keeping BTC stuck below $70,000.

According to the bureau, a large number of minors aged 17 and younger were included in complaints related to crypto or crypto ATMs, resulting in more than $5 million in losses.

Wintermute analysts said Bitcoin’s price stability against the extreme bearish sentiment present in the market is a positive. Will BTC ever flip $70,000 back to support?

Roman Storm, the co-founder of the crypto mixing service, still faces a possible retrial on two charges after a jury failed to reach a verdict in 2025.

Split Capital founder Zaheer Ebtikar is closing his crypto hedge fund after strong returns to join Plasma as chief strategy officer, citing a major industry shift.

Polymarket has become one of decentralized finance’s highest fee-generating protocols, pulling in about $7.1 million in fees in the first week of the second quarter.

Bitcoin and risk-asset price action tried to brush off new US-Iran war rhetoric just hours before the deadline for a deal passed.

CME Group said it will launch Avalanche and Sui futures contracts pending regulatory approval, as it expands its regulated crypto product offering.

Multiple Bitcoin indicators, including a bull-bear sentiment index and realized price metric, point to a possible final BTC shakeout toward $54,000

Lido’s institutional lead argues that more crypto treasury companies will need to incorporate liquid staking to outperform the returns generated by staked Ether ETFs.

An inspection found slow reconciliation cycles and weak trade-halting systems across major crypto exchanges.

XRP’s profitable supply fell to 43% as high capitulation and a bearish chart setup signaled a potential drop toward $1.10 in the coming weeks.

Operation Atlantic is a cross-border law enforcement effort to detect and disrupt crypto scams in real time, targeting approval phishing before funds are fully drained.

Binance said it will roll out a spot trading rule on April 14, restricting executions outside a set range during periods of volatility and thin liquidity.

Crypto ETPs drew $224 million in inflows last week as XRP led gains, while US ETFs lagged and Ether posted outflows amid mixed macro data and policy expectations.

Risk assets rose late Tuesday as oil collapsed after Trump and Iran confirmed the two-week ceasefire.

Iran's government is reportedly reviewing Pakistan's request for a two-week ceasefire positively, according to an Axios report.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. approved a proposed rule to govern the issuers, even as the Senate continues to debate GENIUS Act details.

A deal with an Asia-based blockchain project followed recent links to individuals later sanctioned over alleged ties to a major fraud network

The foundation says it is becoming a leading network for “agentic payments.”

DeFi yields have collapsed below TradFi rates, forcing investors to face higher smart contract risks for lower returns as regulation and exploits mount.

Fraud schemes grew more sophisticated and targeted larger sums than in 2024.

Thorn argues that a recent New York Times op-ed rewrites history through omission, glossing over the collateral damage caused by the previous administration.

The brokerage's research finds that even a tiny crypto allocation can dominate your portfolio's risk, suggesting that the "right" amount to own depends entirely on your stomach for 70% price swings.

The asset manager's research arm argues the technical path to quantum-safe blockchains is clear but reaching consensus on protocol changes, especially what to do with Satoshi's coins, is the real obstacle.

Switzerland accounted for 70% of global crypto ETP inflows last week with XRP products contributing more than half the total.

Aave (AAVE) dropped 8.5% and Avalanche (AVAX) fell 7.6%, leading the index lower from Monday.

Weekend gains for bitcoin have been mostly erased ahead of the president's Tuesday night deadline for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

Former Google quantum hardware leader and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, John Martinis, warns that breaking encryption will be among the earliest uses of quantum computing

For years, the DeFi industry has treated security as a technical problem: something that could be solved with better code. But the Drift incident suggests something far more complex: that the real vulnerabilities may lie outside the codebase altogether.

Despite billions in purchases, MSTR demand is being outweighed by long term holder positioning and broader capital flows.

Your day-ahead look for April 7, 2026

BTC and ETH remain stuck in a two-month range as oil prices and Iran tensions weigh on sentiment, while AI and privacy tokens show surprising relative strength.

The program includes 24/7 threat monitoring for protocols with more than $10 million in deposits and a dedicated incident response network of security firms.

BTC correlation with an ETF tracking software comany stocks broke sharply from near-total alignment to near zero after the conflict started.

Morgan Stanley is joining the Bitcoin ETF party late, but Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says the investment bank isn't showing up empty-handed.

The Fifth Element and Resident Evil star reveals an AI project inspired by the ancient “memory palace” method.

The Solana Foundation will offer tiered security services to DeFi protocols, marking a shift toward institutionalized protection following the Drift exploit.

New evidence from Argentina's federal probe into LIBRA complicates Milei's claim he had no ties to the meme coin.

Bitcoin usually drives investment action around crypto ETFs, but last week, XRP led as overall crypto fund flows flipped positive.

CME Group is adding to its list of crypto derivatives contracts, expanding to include Avalanche and Sui in early May.

The proposed Ethereum ERC-8211 standard would allow complex, multi-step blockchain actions to run in one transaction.

A Reddit post claiming 75% output token savings sparked 400 comments and multiple GitHub repos dedicated to making AI grunt its way to efficiency.

Older Americans bore nearly 40% of all crypto fraud losses in 2025, as investment scams and crypto ATM fraud ran rampant.

Bitcoin rose and fell alongside ceasefire hopes. Strategy and Tom Lee kept buying size. And Polymarket may be building its own financial system.

A Bitcoin whale transferred 300 BTC worth over $20 million to Binance Tuesday, potentially facing a $15 million loss.

Bitcoin ETFs saw their biggest inflow in six weeks as crypto investors positioned ahead of Trump's Iran deadline.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said that the rate of AI adoption "will likely be far faster than prior technological transformations."

Polymarket is overhauling its technical foundations and launching a stablecoin as it aims to improve the user experience and order book.

A new OpenAI blueprint urges economic changes for the AI era as reporting raises questions about Altman’s motivations.

Holders of tokenized shares in Galaxy (GLXY) will soon be able to participate in proxy voting on-chain via Broadridge.

Altcoins like Ethereum and Solana have plunged from all-time highs, but their recent resilience is a compelling sign, according to Grayscale.

A solo miner with computing power equivalent to just 0.00002% of Bitcoin's network successfully mined a block last week.

Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone argued that Bitcoin could fall as the crypto market purges market excesses that coincided with the pandemic-era boom.

Circle’s upcoming Arc blockchain is gearing up for quantum resilience, revealing a multi-step roadmap to prepare for the looming threat.

A panel of appellate judges ruled that Kalshi's sports wagers should be regulated by the CFTC, not state gambling regulators.

Tokenization moves settlement to machine speed, outpacing the tools regulators use today, the International Monetary Fund said.

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added $150 million of ETH last week, boosting its $10.3 billion stash.

The Bitcoin treasury firm reported that the value of its BTC holdings plummeted by $14.4 billion in the first quarter of 2026.

North Korea just pulled off the most sophisticated DeFi heist in years, while Google just moved the quantum timeline up majorly.

The decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app has been used by protestors in countries including Nepal, Madagascar and Iran.

Drift Protocol said the attackers posed as traders, met contributors in person, and spent months infiltrating before draining the platform.

Bitcoin jumped on reports that Pakistan has put together a framework for a U.S.-Iran ceasefire, but analysts remain cautious.

Claude developer Anthropic registered an employee-funded PAC amid a legal battle with the White House and rising election-year scrutiny of AI.

Researchers say internal emotion-like signals shape how large language models make decisions.

Financial giant Charles Schwab is set to launch spot buying of Bitcoin and Ethereum by the end of the quarter, the firm said Friday.

Bitcoin's short-term holders (STH) may play a key role in a potential market turnaround.

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