Kraken’s $550M Bitnomial Deal Secures CFTC Derivatives Stack Payward, Kraken’s parent, signed a definitive agreement on April 17, 2026, to acquire Bitnomial for up to $550…
AI Agents Handle 20% of DeFi Activity AI agents now account for approximately 20% of decentralized finance activity, focusing on routine trading tasks while humans dominate…
Polymarket Hormuz Normalization Odds Hit 73% Polymarket odds for Hormuz normalization reached 73% for traffic normalizing by end of May, tied to reports of $760M in…
Worldcoin Drops 13% Amid Iris-Scan Expansion to Zoom, Tinder Worldcoin’s WLD token dropped 13.4% to around $0.28 on Friday, April 17, even as the broader crypto…
Solana and Chainlink ETFs Post Monthly-Best Inflows Spot Solana and Chainlink ETFs recorded their largest daily inflows in a month on April 16, with Solana pulling…
Russia Criminalizes Unregistered Crypto Services Russia’s lower house of parliament received a draft bill on April 18, 2026, to criminalize unregistered cryptocurrency services, imposing fines and…
Grinex Suspends Operations After $13.7M Hack Grinex, a sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange, suspended operations following a $13.7 million hack, coinciding with Chainalysis reporting on shadow crypto economy…
Counterfeit Ledger Devices With Hidden Chip Expose Supply Chain Vulnerability A Brazilian security researcher has exposed a large-scale scam operation distributing counterfeit Ledger Nano S Plus…
Quantum Bitcoin Theft Risk in 9 Minutes Google Quantum AI’s March 30, 2026, paper modeled a scenario where a quantum computer derives a Bitcoin private key…
