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Prosecutors say Jeong Sang-ho’s “active deceptive acts” left nearly 2,800 investors frozen out of their funds, as South Korea's crackdown on the crypto industry widens.

The FCA signs off rules to let UK funds keep registers onchain and add a new Direct‑to‑Fund dealing model, aiming to simplify tokenized funds inside the existing regime.

Bitcoin’s 40% rebound against gold signals a potential bottom, echoing past setups that preceded strong BTC/USD rallies.

The US CFTC has sued four states for trying to enforce state-level gambling laws on prediction markets, meanwhile Strategy stacked over 56,000 BTC.

THORWallet has partnered with Swiss-regulated provider Unblock to expand global access to non-custodial Mastercard solutions, advancing self-custodial finance adoption.

OKX published a new open-standard payment protocol for autonomous AI agents in business and commerce, aiming to support more complex financial interactions.

Losses from crypto hacks have topped $630 million in April across more than 25 hacks, with DeFi dominating major incidents and exploits accelerating despite security updates.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US has seized nearly $500 million in Iranian crypto assets, surpassing the previously reported $344 million freeze.

Shinhan Card signed a deal with Solana Foundation to expand stablecoin payment tests and explore non-custodial wallets and DeFi-based services.

A draft vision for Australia’s domestic payments system says stablecoins and tokenized fiat currency could reshape how money moves across future rails.

Crypto has become the most-muted topic on X since the platform launched its snooze feature, with AI-generated spam and InfoFi posting likely driving users to tune it out.

ETH price is retesting a long-term support trend line that previously preceded a 5,200% rally, a fractal setup pointing to a potential move toward $60,000 by 2030.

Bitcoin price action remained weak as the US-Iran war delivered a Fed meeting that was the "most hawkish in years" and oil neared four-year highs.

The latest stablecoin move comes years after Meta first dipped its toes into stablecoins through Libra in 2019, before scrapping the plans in 2022 due to regulatory pushback.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis says the Senate’s version of the CLARITY Act has “made a lot of progress,” and it was time for lawmakers to vote on advancing the bill.

The proposal to unlock more than 62 billion WLFI tokens over four to five years has 99.95% approval but is still facing backlash on X. 

Tether proposed that Elektron founder and CEO Raphael Zagury serve as president of the proposed merged company, while Strike's Jack Mallers would also serve in an executive role.

In another police action, European police arrested 10 people and took down three scam centers, estimated to have stolen over $58 million from victims around the world.

Bitcoin derivatives highlight traders’ nervous view as the Federal Reserve holds interest rates and BTC struggles to trade above its range highs. Are the bears back?

Bitcoin dropped under $75,000 after FOMC minutes showed the US Federal Reserve holding interest rates and expressing slight concerns over inflation and the war in Iran.

RealOpen, the leading platform for buying real estate with crypto, today announced the conclusion of its collaborative "Fast Moves, Fast Payments" Holiday Campaign with TRON

Businesses can now allocate idle cash to a government-backed fund via Stable Sea, as tokenized Treasury products gain traction in corporate finance.

Bitcoin’s sell-off accelerated leading into this week’s FOMC, but charts highlight some positives for BTC and altcoins.

Mexico's first peso-denominated blockchain escrow goes live on SPEI for high-value P2P transactions.

Bitcoin price volatility tends to spike before and after the FOMC, a pattern that is playing out this week. Will institutional investor BTC buying protect the $70,000 support?

U.S. banks are looking to delay landmark stablecoin legislation even as crypto firms like Agora push ahead.

Internet Computer (ICP), up 2.4% from Wednesday, joined Aptos (APT) as a top performer.

The security intelligence research firm said North Korean-state-backed hackers account for 76% of all crypto scam and hack losses in 2026 and have stolen $6 billion since 2017.

The deal includes a 505 MW gas plant and 1,600 acres in Ohio, offering over 1 GW power capacity for future AI and IT buildout.

The firm's MiCA-compliant euro token aims to speed up euro transfers and support regulated onchain finance as the euro stablecoin market doubled since early 2025.

New data shows unusually high win rates in defense bets, building on research that 3% of traders drive prices and under 1% capture most profits.

Your day-ahead look for April 30, 2026

Bitcoin faces profit-taking pressure near $80,000, backed up by a U.S. inflation report that comes as high oil prices and rising bond yields weigh on risk assets.

The exploit used a playbook similar to Drift's $285 million breach earlier this month: a compromised deployer key with no timelock or multisig that drained funds.

Backed by 20VC, Picus Capital and Coinbase Ventures; XO lets users create and profit from their own prediction markets, and plans to rollout a new vault product to democratize market making.

XRP's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked into the FOMO zone on April 29, the same level that has historically marked local tops in the token, per Santiment data.

Open interest in DOGE-tracked futures climbed to 15.36 billion tokens, a sign that traders are adding fresh leverage as the memecoin’s price surges.

Proposal introduces vesting for 40.7 billion insider tokens after 2-year cliff, even as voting power remains concentrated among a handful of large holders

Hawkish dissent within the Federal Reserve, elevated oil prices and rising long-term inflation expectations are pushing bond yields higher.

Crypto sold off across the board with bitcoin down 2.1% and ether off 3.4% as Brent crude surged 7.1% to $126 a barrel on reports President Trump is being briefed on military options for Iran.

HIP-4 could become a dominant prediction-market venue because Hyperliquid users can get economic exposure to platform usage through HYPE, unlike users of Polymarket or Kalshi.

Tether has moved to combine bitcoin treasury, mining, and financial services under one roof.

The four Mag 7 giants reported quarterly results on Wednesday, showing that they are still on track to spend multi-billion on AI. Here is what it means for crypto.

Speaking at Bitcoin Las Vegas 2026, the American Bitcoin co-founder declared the last six months a turning point.

During a press conference following the Fed's interest rate decision, Powell said ongoing scrutiny and political tension forced him to stay, despite his plans to step down.

The Labor Department unveils an online hub to help workers and employers build AI skills amid a quickly changing jobs market.

The AI model analyzes subtle tissue changes on routine CT scans invisible to human specialists, detecting pancreatic cancer up to three years earlier than doctors can.

Thom Tillis, a swing GOP vote on the Senate Banking Committee, says his colleagues should take up a months-delayed vote on the crypto bill.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is now offering stablecoin payouts to content creators in certain countries.

The settlement represents a massive reduction from an initial $4.7 billion judgment against the Celsius founder.

Talkie-1930 is a 13-billion-parameter model that has never heard of the internet, World War II, or modern politics. The results are fascinating, funny, and occasionally unsettling.

Trump officials reportedly drafted guidance to help agencies access Anthropic’s AI, including Claude Mythos, despite Pentagon restrictions.

Wednesday's FOMC meeting was expected to be Jerome Powell’s last as Federal Reserve chair.

The personal gift to the Reform UK leader from billionaire Christopher Harborne comes amid scrutiny over crypto industry political funding.

A California lawsuit could test whether AI companies have a legal duty to report violent threats after a mass shooting in British Columbia.

The country hosts nearly 4,000 crypto ATMs, second only to the U.S.

Crypto payments processor MoonPay is expanding into institutional services with a veteran regulator at the helm.

With four of five CFTC commissioner seats vacant, the decision on whether to lift Polymarket's U.S. ban rests with Chair Michael Selig alone.

Payments giant Visa scales its blockchain settlement infrastructure with five new networks as pilot program shows 50% quarterly growth.

The BlackRock-backed firm was recently selected as by the New York Stock Exchange as a tokenization specialist.

Multiple $3.3 million sell walls sit between $80,400 and $82,000 as oil volatility and rising real rates keep Bitcoin trapped.

Crypto majors rebound ahead of FOMC, despite oil surging, while Polymarket is making a push to enter the U.S.

A wallet dormant since 2015 just moved 10,000 ETH—but analysts say a custody restructuring, not a sell, is the likely explanation.

The judge dismissed the FTX founder’s claims that potential witnesses faced "government threats and retaliation" as "wildly conspiratorial.”

PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane claims a Cursor agent running Claude Opus wiped production data and backups through a single Railway API call.

Federal prosecutors secured a prison term for a Saipan woman who defrauded elderly victims through a fake Bitcoin investment scheme

Red Hat principal engineer and OpenClaw maintainer Sally O'Malley released Tank OS—a tool that sandboxes AI agents in isolated containers, keeping credentials locked and agents from interfering with each other or the host machine.

CFTC Chair Mike Selig has vowed to sue any state that attempts to regulate prediction markets under its own gambling laws.

A Stanford-led study quantified what everyone already suspected—but the findings aren't quite what people expected.

Retail brokerage Robinhood's business has gotten a boost from prediction markets, though its crypto trading revenue fell in Q1.

Ineffable Intelligence is betting that reinforcement learning is the path to superintelligence, rather than AI's large language models.

Special forces member Gannon Ken Van Dyke allegedly used inside knowledge of a Venezuelan military operation to make nearly $400K profit on Polymarket.

Google faces internal backlash as it signs a Pentagon AI deal for classified military work.

Bernstein analysts see IREN’s AI cloud prospects growing substantially in the coming years—and its Bitcoin business disappearing entirely.

Major DeFi protocols outlined technical steps to eliminate bad debt and restore full backing for exploited rsETH tokens.

Datavault AI plans a $150M+ gold tokenization program, signaling expansion in RWA markets beyond treasuries and into commodities.

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The Federal Trade Commission hits Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky with a lifetime ban and $10 million fine.

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The supply retest by the Realized Cap Impulse indicator was a warning sign to BTC bulls.

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A WSJ report linked the DeFi project to AB DAO, a sanctioned entity involved in pig-butchering scams.

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Are community sentiment, Bitcoin Futures, and price action moving in sync?

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BLEND surged over 100% before pulling back. The volatility now poses its first real momentum test.

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Here's what Dogecoin's breakout means for the potential memecoin season.

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WHITE TECH, part of the W Group ecosystem and majority-owned by Volodymyr Nosov, Founder and CEO of WhiteBIT, has received authorization from the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA) to operate as a crypto-asset service provider (CASP) under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. Within the W Group ecosystem, WHITE TECH serves asContinue reading "W Group advances European expansion as White Tech obtains MiCA authorization"

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Market depth is falling alongside the rising sell pressure.

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Regulation access could flip the game altogether.

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A look into the impact of growing network activity on the price of TRON.

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