Category: Cryptocurrencies

Visa said its settlement pilot for stablecoins now supports nine blockchains and has reached a run rate of $7 billion a year. The company announced on April 29 that it added Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo to a pilot that already used Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Stellar. Visa said the annualized settlement run rate […]

X has given users a new way to turn down the noise in their For You feeds. The first signal from that tool should make the crypto industry uncomfortable. According to X product executive Nikita Bier, crypto ranked as the most-snoozed topic since the platform began rolling out topic snoozing for Premium subscribers. It came […]

This month, Israel and Pakistan supplied a quieter test for crypto than the one playing out in US capital markets. What if the more important 2026 shift is happening where digital assets meet local money and bank accounts? Israeli crypto firm Bits of Gold said Israel’s Capital Market Authority approved the issuance and distribution of […]

Bitcoin is trading near $76,600 after reversing from an earlier intraday push toward $78,000, while crude oil trades near $103 and the S&P 500 fell as the US stock market opened. Before the US cash session, Bitcoin rose even as crude oil kept climbing, suggesting crypto-specific positioning was strong enough to resist the oil-inflation trade […]

Washington is turning stablecoins into regulated payment instruments while trying to keep issuer-paid yield away from holders. That combination changesthe economics of digital dollars and puts the value of user balances up for grabs across the intermediary stack. The GENIUS Act bars permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers from paying holders any […]

Everyone watching Bitcoin this week is watching the Federal Reserve, while the more important tell may be sitting in the Treasury market, where the 10-year yield has compressed into one of its tightest ranges of the year just as a dense macro calendar opens. Bitcoin’s recovery now rests on renewed institutional inflows and the assumption […]

South Korea’s Kbank has signed a strategic partnership with Ripple to test blockchain-based overseas remittances, placing a bank with a central role in Upbit’s KRW account access beside one of crypto’s longest-running payments infrastructure firms. Local reports describe the work as a technical verification, or proof-of-concept, focused on whether Ripple’s infrastructure can improve the speed, […]

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 […]

A Hong Kong-listed company wants to attract more than 10,000 BTC into a regulated asset management strategy, a target worth roughly $760 million at current prices. While the number itself is jaw-dropping, it’s the strategy’s structure that reveals the true scope of this plan. Hong Kong is trying to become a place where large pools […]

Just as investors were trying to steady the 2026 rate outlook, the oil market handed the Federal Reserve a fresh inflation problem. The Fed meets on April 28 and 29. On April 30, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is scheduled to publish the advance estimate for first quarter GDP alongside March personal income […]