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While AI tokens and memecoins dominate headlines in 2026, two sectors are quietly gaining ground, DePIN and ReFi. Both are still early, but are building real-world use cases. Despite growing...

A Thai court has fined a man 10,000 baht, or about $300, after he entered the enclosure of Moo Deng, the viral pygmy hippo at Khao Kheow Open Zoo. The...

Morgan Stanley has officially entered the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF market with the launch of Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), a move that pushes one of Wall Street’s biggest wealth...

Mounting strain on the U.S.-Iran ceasefire has unsettled global markets. Iran issued a withdrawal warning while strikes continued in Lebanon. These events raised concern over oil flows and triggered volatility...

Iran is moving to charge oil tankers a transit toll through the Strait of Hormuz, with payments reportedly requested in cryptocurrency during the two-week ceasefire with the United States. The...

Bloomberg reports that Standard Chartered (the London-based bank) is considering merging parts of its majority‑owned crypto custodian, Zodia Custody. The plan is to integrate Zodia into Standard Chartered’s corporate and...

A recent investigation by blockchain analyst ZachXBT uncovered a large-scale internal breach tied to North Korean IT workers. The leaked data exposed a network of 390 accounts, chat logs, and...

Bitcoin speculation reignited after Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson suggested Adam Back could be the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Hoskinson referred to a four-year-old interview where he explained the technical and historical...

XRP users face very little risk from quantum computing, according to XRP contributor Vet. Only 0.03% of XRP is in dormant wallets with exposed public keys. Most accounts are active,...

The crypto market surged to an intraday high of $2.45 trillion after President Donald J. Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran. The relief rally triggered over...

SBI Ripple Asia has completed a token issuance platform built on the XRP Ledger, marking a notable step in regulated blockchain adoption across financial services. The development reflects a growing...

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is cracking down on illegal money in the country’s capital and digital asset markets. It now wants any major shareholders to get approval from...

A new investigation by The New York Times has reignited one of the crypto’s longest-running mysteries – who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin? After a year of digging,...

A new report from the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) found that banning yield on stablecoins would have only a marginal effect on traditional bank lending. The report...

On April 8, 2026, South Korean regulators proposed legalizing tokenized real-world assets and stablecoins by leveraging existing capital markets and payment laws. The plan requires full real asset backing through...

Tensions within the crypto market resurfaced this week following renewed public allegations tied to past disputes at OKCoin and fresh scrutiny surrounding compliance developments at Binance. The changes combine historical...

The crypto market has come back to life, crossing the $2.4 trillion mark as fresh capital and improving sentiment push prices higher across the board. Bitcoin is leading the move,...

Four wallets on the prediction market platform Polymarket collected $663,000 in profit after betting that the United States and Iran would reach a ceasefire by April 7. On-chain analytics firm...

U.S. prosecutors from the Southern District of New York told Judge Katherine Polk Failla that a Supreme Court ruling cited by Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has no relevance to...

Markets turned on a dime after Iran signaled a temporary cooling of tensions, announcing a two-week “safe passage” through the Strait of Hormuz. US President Donald Trump said he had...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has approved a new proposed rule to implement key parts of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act). The...

Four leading AI models, Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, were asked where Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP could head in 2026. Their answers range from cautious recovery to explosive rallies.  With...

Americans lost a record $11.37 billion to crypto-related fraud in 2025, according to FBI data, as complaint volumes and losses both moved higher from the previous year. The latest figures...

Digital asset investment products posted $224 million in weekly inflows, according to CoinShares’ latest Volume 280. The recovery stayed modest, and momentum weakened later in the week as stronger retail...

According to Asheesh Birla, CEO of Evernorth and a former Ripple executive, XRP is approaching a pivotal moment similar to the stock markets in the 1990s. In posts on X,...