eToro Acquires Zengo for $70M Amid Prediction Markets Focus eToro announced on April 15, 2026, an agreement to acquire Zengo, a self-custodial crypto wallet provider, in a deal valued at approximately $70 million.[1][4][5] The move expands eToro’s digital asset capabilities, with explicit mentions…
Binance Large Wallet Accumulation Amid BTC $74K Recovery Bitcoin has reclaimed the $74,000 level, with on-chain data showing large wallets holding over 100 BTC increasing their balances during this multi-week recovery.[1] This accumulation pattern emerges as BTC gains over 3.5% in 24 hours…
Bessent Fed Wait Signal and War-Driven Inflation on BTC Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged the Federal Reserve to adopt a “wait and see” approach on rate cuts amid war-driven inflation from the Iran conflict, a stance that aligns with recent Fed communications and…
Kraken Extortion Attempt Amid Deutsche Börse $200M Stake Deal Deutsche Börse agreed to acquire a $200 million stake in Kraken’s parent company Payward Inc., valuing the crypto exchange at $13.3 billion, as Kraken disclosed an extortion attempt linked to limited insider data access…
UK Farage BTC Probe Demand After $2.7M Stack Disclosure Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper has formally requested the Financial Conduct Authority investigate Nigel Farage’s ties to Stack BTC following the firm’s disclosure of a 37 Bitcoin purchase worth about $2.7 million.[1][3] The…
Web3 Hacks Reach $482M in Q1 2026 Web3 projects suffered $482 million in losses from hacks and scams during Q1 2026, according to Hacken data, marking a shift toward more frequent mid-sized incidents rather than isolated mega-breaches.[1][2][3] Overview Total Losses: Web3 hacks and…
JPMorgan CFO Flags Stablecoin Regulatory Arbitrage Risk Amid Q1 Earnings Beat JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum warned during the bank’s first-quarter earnings call that stablecoins risk becoming tools for regulatory arbitrage if they operate without the same oversight and consumer protections…
Stablecoin Yield Draft and JPMorgan CFO Arbitrage Warning JPMorgan CFO Jeremy Barnum warned on April 14, 2026, during the bank’s Q1 earnings call that stablecoins risk becoming regulatory arbitrage tools if rules don’t match bank standards.[1][2][7] Senator Tillis’s stablecoin yield draft nears closure…
Starknet Layoffs Amid Revenue Collapse and Restructuring StarkWare, the company behind the Ethereum Layer-2 network Starknet, announced layoffs and a split into two business units on April 13, 2026, following a revenue drop from nearly $6 million per month in late 2023 to…
