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The South Korean exchange is pursuing formal legal remedies to recover 7 BTC after voluntary return requests failed.

Q1 digital asset review: geopolitical conflict and Fed caution led to declines, but institutional flows and regulatory clarity returned in March, building a durable foundation for Q2

Nunchuk releases open-source tools that allow AI agents to interact with Bitcoin wallets while keeping humans in control over spending.

Massive transfer of wealth to younger, crypto-native users and rising payment volumes challenge dominance of Visa and Mastercard

The company holds nearly 4% of ether's (ETH) total supply, but shares have struggled alongside that crypto.

Operation Atlantic, a joint US, UK and Canadian operation, froze more than $12 million tied to crypto approval phishing and identified over 20,000 victims. Authorities in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada have frozen millions of dollars tied to crypto scams in a joint enforcement operation called Operation Atlantic. The operation, focused on phishing attacks, took place in March and was coordinated by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), the US Secret Service, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ontario Securities Commission. Operation Atlantic identified more than 20,000 victims across the US, Canada and the UK, securing and freezing more than $12 million in suspected criminal proceeds, the NCA said Thursday. It also identified “more than $45 million stolen in cryptocurrency fraud schemes,” the agency added. Read more

Onchain data shows WLFI deposited 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins it then sent to Coinbase Prime, pushing a lending pool to 100% utilization and leaving depositors unable to withdraw.

Delo did not specify whether he made the donation in fiat currency or crypto, but he expressed support for a proposed U.K. government moratorium on political donations made in cryptoassets

Ethereum is trading below $2.2k as the second week of Q2 gets underway. The asset is caught between a slowly improving short-term structure and a daily chart that remains firmly in bearish territory. ETH has managed to hold above the critical $1.8k support zone since the February lows, but the recovery has been choppy and […]

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is claiming its aggressive Bitcoin purchases have yielded a nearly $2 billion gain this year despite the top asset's clear price struggles. However, a close look at the enterprise software company's legally binding regulatory filings tells a much redder story: under standard accounting rules, the firm is nursing a multi-billion dollar unrealized […] The post Strategy’s near $2 billion profit on Bitcoin is eclipsed by their losses SEC filing shows appeared first on CryptoSlate.

[PRESS RELEASE – Road Town, British Virgin Islands, April 9th, 2026] Today, USDT0, the unified liquidity network for Tether’s US dollar-pegged stablecoin (USDT), announces XAUt0, the omnichain deployment of Tether Gold (XAUt), is now live on the Conflux Network, expanding access to tokenized gold within one of Asia’s most strategically connected blockchain ecosystems. With this […]

The dream of earning Bitcoin without the noise and heat of a massive mining rig has finally become a reality in 2026. For a long time, the barrier to entry for BTC rewards was restricted to those who could afford industrial hardware and cheap electricity. Bitcoin Everlight is flipping that script by introducing a specialized […]

Bitcoin avoids major volatility after the first of the week's two key US inflation reports, while a trader sees a "new upwards leg" coming for BTC price action. Bitcoin (BTC) circled $71,000 at Thursday’s Wall Street open after US inflation data conformed to expectations. Key points: Bitcoin waits for new catalysts as US PCE inflation data conforms to market expectations. Read more

The company's Nasdaq debut was a turning point toward infrastructure-led growth in the digital economy, said Novogratz.

The integration covers gas costs to lower barriers for retail users. Binance doesn't operate the markets directly, instead providing access to a third-party application.

Hyperliquid data showed a 145 million Fartcoin position unwound across wallets, with the platform redistributing about $849,000 in gains to opposing traders. A trader lost about $3 million after building a large leveraged Fartcoin position on Hyperliquid that unraveled in thin liquidity, triggering the platform’s auto-deleveraging (ADL) mechanism. Hyperliquid data flagged by Lookonchain shows that the trader accumulated about 145 million tokens across multiple wallets before being liquidated. The liquidation redistributed gains to opposing traders, with at least two wallets seeing around $849,000 through ADL.  PeckShield said the unwind produced about $3 million in accounting losses and left Hyperliquid’s HLP vault down roughly $1.5 million over 24 hours, though Hyperliquid had not publicly confirmed those figures by publication. Read more

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The US Justice Department and commodities regulator asked a federal court to block Arizona’s action against Kalshi, arguing federally regulated event contracts fall under CFTC jurisdiction. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) asked a federal court to block Arizona from enforcing state gambling law against Kalshi’s event contracts, arguing that they fall under the CFTC’s exclusive authority over swaps markets. The Wednesday filing argues that event contracts listed on federally regulated platforms such as Kalshi are swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act and therefore fall within the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction. The filing says Arizona’s enforcement effort unlawfully intrudes on the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction over federally regulated event-contract markets. Read more

Anger is growing over prediction market bets on the Iran war that critics say exploit human misery for financial gain.

Aave (AAVE) dropped 3.6% and Stellar (XLM) fell 2.7%, leading the index lower.