How Mastercard plans to settle card payments with stablecoins
Mastercard is testing stablecoin settlement with SoFiUSD to speed up card transaction clearing and help bridge traditional finance and blockchain.Mastercard...
Month: April 2026
BTC price due ‘new highs:’ Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin saw a green weekly close despite renewed US-Iran war momentum, and a trader forecast that BTC price action would...
BIS warns dollar stablecoins could strain banks and policy
BIS general manager Pablo Hernández de Cos says US dollar stablecoins could pose risks to financial stability and urges stronger...
Polymarket in talks to raise $400M at a $15B valuation: Report
Polymarket’s potential $15 billion valuation would still put it below the $22 billion valuation of competitor platform Kalshi in its...
OKX Launches Simplified ‘Event Contracts’ for Bitcoin and Ether Price Predictions
OKX has launched a simplified trading product that allows eligible users in Asia, Latin America, and the Commonwealth of Independent...
Startale Group Anchors in Abu Dhabi Following Selection for Hub71+ Digital Assets Program
Blockchain infrastructure firm Startale Group is expanding into Abu Dhabi after being selected for the Hub71+ Digital Assets cohort. Key...
Oil Prices Bounce as Middle East Conflict Reignites
Markets reacted swiftly to the reactivation of the hostilities in the Middle East: oil futures for both WTI and Brent...
Coinbase Starts Rolling out AI Agents Modeled After ‘Legendary’ Employees
According to Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the company is currently testing a rollout of AI agents that can...
Saylor teases ‘bigger’ BTC buy days after floating semi-monthly dividends
Strategy’s Michael Saylor posted “Think Even Bigger” on Sunday, coming just a week after it disclosed $1 billion of Bitcoin...
Coinbase is testing AI agents that show up on Slack and email
Brian Armstrong has now predicted that AI agents will not only transact onchain more than humans but will outnumber employees...
Cloud hosting firm Vercel confirms ‘limited’ hack of user info
Vercel has confirmed it was compromised after a member of a hacking forum put the company’s information up for sale...
The quantum gap: Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are taking different paths on security
Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are taking different paths to address future cryptographic risks and long-term blockchain security.Quantum computing has long...
Bitcoin erases weekend gains as US-Iran ceasefire faces pressure
Bitcoin briefly crashed below $74,000 on Sunday as Iran threatened retaliation for a US military seizure of an Iranian cargo...
Aave’s TVL tanks $8B a day after $293M Kelp DAO hack
The Aave token fell nearly 20% to $89.5 in just over 24 hours as users withdrew billions of dollars from...
Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B Open AI Model Built for Agentic Workloads
Nvidia has released Nemotron 3 Super, a 120 billion total parameter open hybrid model designed to cut the compute cost...
