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Cardano's governance system is facing two deadlines that belong in the same conversation. JPG Store, a prominent Cardano NFT marketplace whose product page calls it the #1 Cardano NFT marketplace, began a ‘Restriction Mode' on April 23 and scheduled its ‘Complete Shutdown for May 23′. The shutdown gives users immediate work to do. The shutdown […] The post Should Cardano invest more into Bitcoin while top Cardano marketplaces like JPG Store shut down? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum is trading above $2.3k as April draws to a close, ending the month in a frustratingly familiar position. It is pressing against the same $2.4k resistance zone it has now tested repeatedly since mid-March without a clean resolution. ETH sits at the threshold of what could either be its most significant breakout in months […]

Despite muted prices to start the second quarter, the report said improving onchain metrics and network activity point to a market finding its footing.

Beijing's intervention in Meta's startup acquisition signals tighter scrutiny of foreign investments in China's AI sector.

Bill C-25, the Strong and Free Elections Act, cleared second reading Friday and heads to committee as Conservative lawmakers raise but don’t challenge the proposed ban on bitcoin contributions

The restructured deal with Microsoft removes exclusivity provisions and revenue-sharing arrangements, freeing OpenAI to pursue additional allies.

Research firm 10x says the negative funding rates reflect structural hedging by institutions, not a broad bearish play.

[PRESS RELEASE – Panama City, Panama, April 27th, 2026] Founded by a King’s Counsel and a blockchain strategist, the company introduces a unified financial ecosystem for the over a billion adults left behind by legacy financial systems Fuutura, a blockchain infrastructure company building a compliance-first financial ecosystem for the global market, today announced its official […]

"This PENGU setup looks like a textbook reversal in the making," one analyst argued.

BitMine Immersion Technologies now holds over 5 million ETH, following the leading Ethereum treasury firm's biggest buy since December.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought 3,273 Bitcoin for $255 million between April 20 and 26, bringing total holdings to 818,334 BTC. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, added more Bitcoin last week as BTC traded above $77,000. Strategy acquired 3,273 Bitcoin for $255 million between April 20 and 26, according to an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The purchases were made at an average price of $77,906 per coin, raising Strategy’s cost basis to $75,537. Read more

AAVE, the native token of the Aave DeFi platform, is now available on the Solana blockchain network. The move will give Solana users access to one of the largest lending protocols in decentralized finance without leaving the network. This came less than two days after the Solana Foundation revealed that it would deploy part of […] The post Latest $290M exploit hit DeFi so hard it forced Aave onto Solana as part of rescue efforts appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Bitcoin-buying firm leaned on common shares to grow its holdings after STRC powered its largest purchase in 16 months.

The Ethereum Economic Zone aims to unify fragmented rollups, but its broader goal is to extend interoperability to other blockchains, says Ernst. A proposal to stitch Ethereum’s fragmented liquidity together extends beyond its own ecosystem and may bring other blockchains into the fold. On March 29, Gnosis, a long-time Ethereum builder and blockchain infrastructure company, unveiled that it is developing the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) with Zisk, a zero-knowledge virtual machine project.  The EEZ is aimed at linking layer-2 rollups more tightly to Ethereum layer 1, with Ether remaining as the gas token and settlement layer. It introduces a model where smart contracts can interact across mainnet and EEZ rollups with atomic execution. Read more

A sudden $1.2 billion sell surge on Binance pushed Bitcoin below $78,000, amid derivatives dominance despite no clear news catalyst.

A new Blockchain for Europe report says MiCA has made euro stablecoins safer but less competitive, and urges targeted reforms to reserves and remuneration. A new report released Monday from industry group Blockchain for Europe argues that the European Union’s flagship crypto laws, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework, have produced euro-denominated stablecoins that are ultra-safe but commercially weak, leaving the bloc far behind US dollar-pegged tokens in digital payments and trading. The report cites DeFiLlama data that euro stablecoins account for less than 1% of global stablecoin volume despite the euro’s much larger role in global markets, and argues that MiCA has pushed them onto the “downward-sloping” part of a regulatory "Laffer" curve, where stricter rules reduce the activity they are meant to govern. Drafted by European Central Bank official Ulrich Bindseil and Blockchain for Europe’s Erwin Voloder, the report focuses on MiCA’s rules for euro electronic money tokens, or EMTs, whi...

The anonymous person behind the popular X account, SightBringer, explains his take on the most valuable and least understood asset of the market.

Ripple CTO David Schwartz pushes back on claims he misled XRP holders with a 2017 price post. XRP sits at $1.43 with bearish technicals — here's what the charts say next. The post XRP News: Ripple’s CTO Is Being Accused of a Price Promise He Made in 2017: Did He Actually Say XRP Would Hit $1 Million? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Strategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin in the world, now holds 818,334 BTC, which it said it purchased for nearly $62 billion at an average price of roughly $75,537 per token.

The firm has bought more than 5 million in ETH in just 10 months while most digital asset treasury companies have stopped accumulating.