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Mexico's first peso-denominated blockchain escrow goes live on SPEI for high-value P2P transactions. Mexico's first peso-denominated blockchain escrow goes live on SPEI for high-value P2P transactions. Mexico City, April 29, 2026 — Kustodia, a programmable escrow platform for Latin America's high-value economy, today announced the public launch of its smart contract escrow service in Mexico. Buyers and sellers can now protect any transaction — from used vehicles to real estate deposits to B2B contracts — using SPEI, Mexico's instant payment rail. Funds are held in audited smart contracts until both parties confirm delivery, with no human intermediary involved. Payment fraud stripped $44.3 billion from the global economy in 2024, according to Juniper Research. Latin America has the world's highest fraud rate, with 20 percent of merchant revenue lost annually. In Mexico, every dollar of fraud costs $4.08 in total economic damage — representing approximately $600 million USD in annual losses, according to data f...

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? Bitcoin (BTC) fell from its local high at $79,500 as traders repositioned ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday. Historical data shows that since the start of 2025, BTC has corrected seven out of 10 times after an interest rate cut. Bitcoin’s reaction to interest rate cut decisions in 2025 and 2026 shows a clear pattern. The price often moved higher in the days before the meeting, followed by negative returns afterward, as illustrated in the chart. Read more

Is $XRP about to light the God candle? Garlinghouse locks in as XRP takes over Las Vegas. The post XRP Price Prediction: Garlinghouse Locks In as Ripple Raises the Standard in Las Vegas appeared first on Cryptonews.

KuCoin EU hires a new AML chief and deputies in Vienna weeks after Austria’s regulator banned the MiCA‑licensed exchange from taking on new business over compliance gaps. Update (April 29, 17:15 UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from KuCoin EU's AML officer Carmen Kleinhans and managing director Sabina Liu. KuCoin EU has appointed a new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) chief and expanded its compliance team in Vienna, weeks after Austrian regulators barred the exchange from taking on new business under Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) regime. The MiCA-licensed entity named Carmen Kleinhans as its Anti-Money Laundering Officer, alongside two deputy AML officers drawn from former Austrian regulators and bank compliance chiefs. According to a Wednesday release, the team will oversee AML, Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) and sanctions controls, as well as enterprise-wide risk management and regulatory engagement. Kleinhans told Cointelegraph that the focus is on embedding cont...

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

BTC had dropped by nearly four grand in the days leading to the FOMC meeting.

JPMorgan’s new crypto head Oliver Harris has previously warned that tokenizing assets isn't a magic fix for liquidity, but believes the technology is finally ready to "rip out" and replace the financial industry's legacy back end.

[PRESS RELEASE – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 29th, 2026] As data-driven investing grows, Investor10 expands to the U.S. with tools for market analysis, rankings, and portfolio tracking. Investor10, one of Brazil’s leading platforms for investment analysis and portfolio tracking, announced its expansion into the United States with the launch of Investor10.com, introducing a suite […]

Wall Street is moving in. Washington has changed sides. And Consensus 2026 is where crypto’s biggest inflection point gets decided.

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

Senator Thom Tillis was at the center of the legislative negotiations over stablecoin yield that have delayed the market structure bill, but he said it's time to go.

Realmint officially launches today, opening doors for retail investors to access RWAs through a smarter, data-driven platform. April 29, 2026 – Realmint officially launches today, opening doors for retail investors to access RWAs through a smarter, data-driven platform. Backed by Injective Foundation and Cointelegraph Accelerator, the platform combines scoring, aggregation, and one-click access to tokenized assets. The market for tokenized real-world assets is growing fast, but for most users, understanding what they're actually buying is still far from simple. The barrier isn't access, it's understanding. Assets are distributed across multiple chains and platforms, forcing users to manually navigate different ecosystems before even comparing options. Two tokens can represent the same asset, such as gold, while having completely different structures, levels of transparency, and risk profiles. One might be backed by audited reserves with clear redemption terms; another might offer little more than a whitepaper...

The U.S. Federal Reserve's next meeting in June is likely to be led by Kevin Warsh after he cleared a Senate Banking Committee vote on Wednesday.

Coinbase survey results and onchain data suggest that Bitcoin is undervalued and at the tail end of its bear market phase. More than 70% of crypto investors believe that Bitcoin (BTC) is undervalued, according to a recent Global Investor Survey conducted by Coinbase and Glassnode. The survey found that 82% of institutions and 70% of non-institutions classify the market as a late bear cycle markdown phase, while onchain indicators suggest BTC is entering a “value-accumulation zone.”  Coinbase Institutional Research surveyed 91 global investors between March 16 and April 7, including 29 institutions and 62 non-institutions. The responses show a sharp shift in perceptions for the current BTC market. Read more

The Conservative and Labour parties argued Nigel Farage broke Commons rules by not declaring the £5 million, but Reform UK said it was an exempt, personal, unconditional gift.

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

Visa broadens its crypto pilot to nine blockchains as stablecoin volumes grow, highlighting early traction for onchain settlement in global payments. Global payments giant Visa has expanded its stablecoin settlement pilot to include Polygon and four other blockchain networks, signaling continued experimentation with crypto-based payment infrastructure. The pilot, launched by Visa in 2023, allows partners to settle transactions using stablecoins rather than traditional banking rails. Newly supported networks include Polygon, Base, the Canton Network, Arc and Tempo. They join existing supported chains such as Ethereum, Solana, Stellar and Avalanche. The expansion comes as the program has reached an annualized settlement run rate of roughly $7 billion, growing about 50% quarter over quarter, according to Visa. Despite that growth, volume remains small compared to the company’s core payments business. Read more

The 10 largest AI stocks now make up about 41% of the S&P 500, according to a BofA Global Research chart circulated online. That puts the AI basket at the same concentration level that tech and telecom reached around the dot-com peak. The BofA chart put the Nifty Fifty at 40% in the 1970s and […] The post Concentration of AI stocks inside S&P 500 hits dot-com bubble peak – and Bitcoin miners are now exposed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse calls XRP the company's North Star as the token trades at $1.39, down 2% in 24 hours. Analysts target $1.45 near-term and $3.83 by 2028. Full technical breakdown inside. The post Ripple CEO Just Said “All Roads Lead Back to XRP”: Is Garlinghouse Seeing Something the Market Is Missing? appeared first on Cryptonews.