Spot Bitcoin ETFs Near $1B Weekly Inflows Amid Hormuz Tensions US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $996 million in net inflows for the week ending April 17,…
Worldcoin 13% Drop Amid Iris-Scan Expansion to Zoom, DocuSign Worldcoin’s WLD token dropped 13% to around $0.28 on Friday, April 18, 2026, as its parent company…
Circle USDC Bridge Debut and Stablecoin Liquidity Split Circle launched the USDC Bridge for native cross-chain transfers, addressing fragmentation in stablecoin liquidity that mirrors FX-style behavior…
Bitcoin Miners’ AI Pivot Risks Network Security as Hash Rate Declines Public Bitcoin miners are systematically redirecting industrial-scale power and infrastructure toward artificial intelligence data centers,…
Joseph Lubin Warns of AI Centralization Risks as OpenAI Advances Model Development Joseph Lubin, Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys CEO, has issued a pointed warning about the…
Iran’s BTC Strategic Asset View but USDt Dominates Oil Toll Payments Iran’s government has designated Bitcoin as a payment option for oil tolls through the Strait…
Coinbase Ventures 2026 Crypto Trends: Funding Dip and Key Focus Areas Coinbase Ventures outlined its 2026 investment priorities in a recent blog post, highlighting nine areas…
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drop with AI Competition Bitcoin’s mining difficulty recently dropped sharply due to miners pivoting resources to AI infrastructure amid profitability pressures.[1][5] This shift…
Wrapped XRP Launches on Solana, Boosting DeFi Access Wrapped XRP (wXRP) launched on Solana on Friday, April 17, 2026, enabling XRP holders to access Solana’s DeFi…
