While Bitcoin battles geopolitical fear, tokenized Real World Assets surged to $27.6 billion in April 2026 — posting a +4% gain amid a broader crypto downturn. Picture this. The crypto market is in ...

The Lazarus Group drained $285M from Drift Protocol on Solana in 12 minutes. ZachXBT accuses Circle of inaction as $232M moved via CCTP during US business hours. Elliptic and TRM Labs confirm North ...

Charles Schwab, the brokerage giant managing nearly $12 trillion in assets, has confirmed the launch of direct spot trading for Bitcoin and Ether in the first half of 2026. CEO Rick Wurster confirms: ...

There is a precise moment when a technology stops being an experiment and becomes infrastructure. For DeFi, that moment is now. Not because everything is solved. Not because the risks have disappeared ...

Solana Alpenglow replaces Proof-of-History and TowerBFT with Votor and Rotor, cutting finality from 12.8 seconds to 150ms. The biggest protocol upgrade in Solana's history is targeting mainnet by end ...

Japan's Cabinet approved a landmark FIEA amendment on April 10, 2026, reclassifying Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP as financial instruments — on par with stocks and bonds. A 20% flat tax and insider ...

Canary Capital filed an S-1 with the SEC on April 8, 2026 for a spot PEPE ETF — the first filing to package a meme token with no claimed utility into a regulated brokerage product. Here's what it ...

Robinhood Banking hits $1.5 billion in deposits with nearly 100,000 customers. Vlad Tenev accelerates toward a financial Super App as Coinbase faces stablecoin regulatory headwinds under the GENIUS ...

Italy's CONSOB sets April 15, 2026 as the first hard deadline for crypto supervisory fees under MiCA. Miss it and forced collection kicks in — with a full market shutdown looming on June 30. April 15, ...

X, Elon Musk's social network, will automatically lock any account that mentions crypto for the first time. Nikita Bier says it will "eliminate 99% of phishing incentives." Some have been waiting ...

Iran imposed a $1-per-barrel Bitcoin toll on tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz on April 8, 2026 — sending BTC above $72,700. The move marks the first known use of Bitcoin as sovereign payment ...

Jonathan Spalletta, 36, has been charged with stealing $54 million from DeFi exchange Uranium Finance in 2021 by exploiting smart contract vulnerabilities. He faces up to 30 years in federal prison.