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A new documentary asserts that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto was actually two people: the late Hal Finney and Len Sassaman.

Sullivan & Cromwell said internal safeguards were bypassed in the Prince Group case, resulting in fabricated and inaccurate legal citations.

The lack of a de minimis exemption for crypto payments and staking rewards taxed at receipt creates a huge reporting burden, the data shows.

Justin Sun Sues World Liberty Financial Over WLFI Freeze The post Justin Sun Sues World Liberty Financial Over WLFI Crypto Token Freeze appeared first on Cryptonews.

Onramp Launches Bitcoin Finance Platform for BTC Services The post Onramp Launches New Bitcoin Finance Platform for BTC-Native Services appeared first on Cryptonews.

DPRK-linked crypto theft topped $578M in April after the Kelp DAO exploit, as attacks continue to expand across protocols, companies and end users. Kelp DAO suffered a $292 million hack on Saturday, overtaking Drift as the largest crypto exploit of the year so far. North Korea-linked hackers are suspected to be behind the attack. Kelp DAO said Monday that the exploit stemmed from a failure of cross-chain messaging protocol LayerZero’s infrastructure. LayerZero said the breach was enabled by Kelp DAO’s use of a single verifier configuration to approve cross-chain messages. LayerZero said that “preliminary indicators” attributed the exploit to TraderTraitor, a subgroup of North Korea’s state-backed hacking unit known as Lazarus Group.  Read more

SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the SEC is “on the cusp” of an innovation exemption to enable compliant onchain trading of tokenized securities. US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said the agency is nearing the release of an exemption that would allow market participants to trade tokenized securities onchain within a compliant framework.  Speaking at the Economic Club of Washington on Tuesday, Atkins said the SEC is close to introducing what he described as an exemption aimed at enabling limited activity in tokenized markets while the agency develops longer-term rules. “We are on the cusp of releasing what I call an ‘innovation exemption,’ which will provide market participants with a cabined framework to begin facilitating the trading of tokenized securities onchain in a compliant fashion as the Commission works toward long-term rules of the road,” he said.  Read more

Pudgy Penguins' PENGU token is posting double-digit gains while memecoins start popping up in every crypto feed. What's next? The post Penguins Can Fly: PENGU Crypto Notes Huge Gain as Utility Memecoin Heats Up appeared first on Cryptonews.

North Korea's Lazarus Group has a new attack vector that allows it to exploit an apparently routine business call as a gateway into a target's systems.

XRP trades at $1.42 as SoFi adds deposits for 13.7M users and XRP Ledger RWA activity surges 875%. Can XRP break $1.57 and target $2.80? Full technical analysis inside. The post SoFi Just Added Ripple XRP for 13.7 Million Banking Customers: Is Mainstream Adoption Finally Catching Up to the Price? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin is ripping past $78K. Kevin Warsh faced off against the Senate. And Kalshi and Polymarket are now both coming for perpetual futures.

Bitcoin’s technical indicators predicted a significant move ahead for BTC, but the price must first break resistance at $80,000. Bitcoin (BTC) could see further upside volatility as several technical indicators suggested the BTC price was due for a “powerful“ upward move. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s Bollinger Bands indicator now sees the potential for a massive price breakout. Read more

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What you need to know for April 22, 2026

Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings tonight with EPS projected at $0.30. Here's what the AI roadmap update means for markets — and where early-stage crypto infrastructure plays fit into the rotation. The post Tesla Reports Earnings After the Bell: Will Elon Musk’s AI Roadmap Trigger a Crypto Rally Before Midnight? appeared first on Cryptonews.

An attempt to bridge 19.6 WBTC away was intercepted and blocked by the protocol, thereby removing the assets from the attacker's control.

WOJAK surged 187% on massive volume. Analysts break down support levels, bull/bear scenarios, and whether the breakout holds — plus what early-stage traders are watching next. The post WOJAK Crypto Meme Coin Pumps 87% as MAXI Targets $5M: Analyst Calls Most Obvious Trade of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Coinbase legal chief Paul Grewal says the company removed New York’s prediction markets lawsuit to federal court, setting up a sharper fight over CFTC authority and state gambling laws. Coinbase’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, said Wednesday that the company had removed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ prediction markets lawsuit from state court to federal court, arguing that the case turns on disputed questions of federal law over how event contracts are regulated. The move escalates a legal fight that could help define whether prediction markets fall under federal commodities regulation and the scope of the US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) or state gambling laws, with broader implications for the oversight of platforms like Coinbase and Gemini. “We have removed this action to federal court,” wrote Grewal in a Wednesday X post, adding that New York’s claims raise “disputed and substantial questions of federal law” and are subject to “complete preemption.” Read more

The crypto market outlook improved as altcoins rallied amid Bitcoin's $78,000 retest, but experts remain cautious.

NIST finalized its first three post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024 and told organizations to begin migrating immediately, with a 2035 deadline to deprecate quantum-vulnerable public-key algorithms from its guidelines. Coinbase's advisory board reached the same conclusion in a recent report, arguing that blockchains, wallet providers, exchanges, and custodians should prepare before urgency arrives, and […] The post Is your favorite cryptocurrency quantum ready? The new trend among crypto developers appeared first on CryptoSlate.