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Binance Is Suing a Newspaper in the One Place It Probably Shouldn’t

New York has some of the most robust press protection laws in the country. These give defendants like the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) the right to challenge a lawsuit early and get it thrown out before

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Mysterious Crypto PAC Receives Massive Contributions From US Commerce Secretary’s Old Firm

The Fellowship political action committee (PAC), crypto’s newest lobbying player, recently unveiled in its first fundraising disclosure that it received $10 million dollars in contributions from Canto

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Justin Sun Offers to Negotiate With KelpDAO Hacker After $292 Million Exploit

Tron founder Justin Sun publicly called on the KelpDAO bridge hacker to negotiate a return of the stolen funds, warning that a $292 million loss could bring down both Aave and KelpDAO.Sun’s appeal fol

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AI Absorbs $242 Billion in Q1 Venture Funding, Exceeding All of 2025 Combined

Artificial intelligence captured roughly $242 billion in venture capital funding during Q1 2026, accounting for 80% of all global startup investment in the quarter.The figures mark a record quarter as

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The President Who Pushed Bitcoin the Hardest Is Now the Most Popular Leader on Earth

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele sits atop a global leader approval chart with a 94% rating, far outpacing every other head of state on the list.The ranking measures approval for 26 world leaders. B

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KelpDAO’s $300 million exploit appears to be concentrated on Layer 2 routes

KelpDAO’s $300 million exploit now looks more like a Layer 2 failure than a direct break on the Ethereum mainnet, as fears of DeFi contagion from interactions across chains rise in the community. Sources who have been granted anonymity reached out to Cryptopolitan and said they had “confidence that Core L1 ETH is not impacted” […]

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How 2026 is the year of AI agent crisis?

Nearly every major company in America has rushed to put artificial intelligence agents to work over the past year, but the technology is delivering far less than promised while creating serious new problems inside organizations, according to new research and industry experts. Almost all business leaders, 97 percent, say their companies put AI agents into […]

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BitGo, Polygon Among Industry Giants Pushing Rate Limits After The Largest DeFi Exploit of 2026

A wave of protocol-level security responses followed the $292 million KelpDAO rsETH exploit on April 19, with BitGo, Polygon, and Katana moving swiftly to isolate potential contagion.The attack draine

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For the first time in 30 years, Nvidia won't release a new GeForce GPU generation

Nvidia has released new gaming processors every single year since the 1990s. That streak ends now. 2026 marks the first year without a fresh GeForce lineup since the company’s founding. “The gaming segment is no longer the driving force of the company. There was one point when it clearly was,” said Stacy Rasgon of Bernstein […]

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Bitcoin Dips Below $75,000 as Strait of Hormuz Sees Zero Oil Tankers for First Time in History

Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $75,000 on April 19 as the Strait of Hormuz shut down entirely and Iran rejected a second round of negotiations with the United States.The developments mark a sharp escalat

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Strategy Raises $1.76B War Chest As Saylor Signals Bigger Bitcoin Buy

Michael Saylor’s company has already lined up the money. Now the question is how much Bitcoin it plans to buy with it. Related Reading: Alibaba AI Model Puts XRP Price Between $7 And $42 By

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Is the CLARITY Act a surveillance bill in disguise?

The cryptocurrency sector has been clamoring for regulatory clarity, but concerns about the contents of the CLARITY Act have risen.  Galaxy Digital’s (NASDAQ: GLXY) research head, Alex Thorn, highlighted sanctions data and surveillance concerns, warning that the CLARITY Act may not be all good news as the community is hoping.  Is the CLARITY Act a […]

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Zeller’s warning tweet sparks over $6B in withdrawals from Aave

The DeFi community is divided in how they perceived Marc Zeller’s message when eh wrote, “If you have WETH on Aave V3 Core, withdraw now, ask questions later” on X on Saturday, April 18.  The two options: a genuine alarm or an act of sabotage. However, a few hours later, more than $6.6 billion had […]

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Ethereum Flips Key Resistance, ETF Demand Returns, Analysts Eye Next Leg Higher

Ethereum is flashing a combination of technical and on-chain signals that analysts say could be the beginning of a meaningful recovery. For the first time in months, the structure of Ethereum’s

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Vercel Security Breach Raises Concerns for Crypto Projects

Vercel disclosed a security incident involving unauthorized access to its internal systems, affecting a limited number of customers.The web hosting platform published a security bulletin on April 19,

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Bitcoin Miner Pain Reaches Critical Threshold — Impact On Price

According to data from a recent on-chain evaluation, the Bitcoin mining sector is once again flashing warning signals, as a key industry health metric now hovers above historically critical levels.

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Asteroid Shiba Gains 920% After Musk Names SpaceX Mascot, But One Trader Misses Big

A trader sold 7.43 billion Asteroid Shiba (ASTEROID) tokens for $405 just one day before the meme coin rallied over 920%, turning that same position into a $2.6 million windfall.On-chain data from Loo

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This Pattern Suggests Ethereum Is In Accumulation Phase — What’s Next?

The price of Ethereum has somewhat slowed down over the weekend after a breakdown of negotiations between the United States and Iran. However, the latest on-chain data suggests that this moment of

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Alibaba AI Model Puts XRP Price Between $7 And $42 By Year-End

An artificial intelligence model developed by Alibaba has projected that XRP could surpass $7 this year, with an upper estimate reaching as high as $42 — a range that would push the

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Rishi Sunak Warns Europe Faces Deeper Iran War Fallout Than the US

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned that the United States will recover from the 2026 Iran war far faster than the United Kingdom and Europe, calling America “the indispensable nation.”Sunak a

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NC Bankers Push For Stablecoin Yield Ban on the CLARITY Act

The North Carolina Bankers Association urged member banks to call Sen. Thom Tillis’s office this week. The trade group wants a total ban on stablecoin yield payments in the CLARITY Act.Leadership circ

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Ethereum-Funded Project Exposes 100 North Korean IT Workers in Crypto

The Ethereum Foundation-funded Ketman Project has identified approximately 100 suspected North Korean IT workers operating across 53 crypto projects, according to an ETH Rangers Program recap publishe

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ZRO endures 18% drop in fallout of $300M Kelp DAO exploit

Security experts on Saturday flagged nearly $300 million leaving Ethereum-based Kelp DAO on Saturday. Cryptopolitan reported that Kelp DAO said it had “identified suspicious cross-chain activity involving rsETH” and paused rsETH contracts while it worked with security experts. ZRO dropped fast, sliding 18% from $2 to $1.4. At the same time, a whale running a […]

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Bitget CEO Draws GameStop Parallel As RaveDAO (RAVE) Falls Nearly 100%

RaveDAO (RAVE) lost over 95% of its value in a single day, erasing $6.3 billion from its market cap after allegations of insider manipulation sent the token into freefall.The collapse followed a parab

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XRP DeFi push to Cardano sparks value debate by Hoskinson

Hoskinson says Midnight’s mechanisms and tokenomics differ from those of XRP.

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Bitcoin Shows Classic ‘Wall Of Worry’ Rally As Retail Lags Behind

A recent on-chain analysis suggests that Bitcoin is once again showing divergence across its investor cohorts, specifically between institutional players and retail investors. According to this

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Whales Dump Over $6 Million in AAVE as KelpDAO Exploit Triggers 20% Aave Price Drop

Aave (AAVE) fell over 20% on April 19 after the KelpDAO rsETH exploit triggered a wave of whale selling and a record spike in ETH utilization across the lending protocol.The token dropped from roughly

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Bitcoin Breaks $78,000 Amid U.S.-Iran Conflict, Can It Return to $100,000 in 2026?

TradingKey - On April 17, catalyzed by the announcement of a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, the temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and substantive progress in the U.S. crypto asset reg

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SuperTrend Flips Bullish On XRP Daily Chart — But Key $1.55 Resistance Awaits

The XRP market has recorded a major positive development, as the SuperTrend flashed its first buy signal on the daily chart in over three months. This event indicates the altcoin’s short-term

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Big Tech’s AI debt binge is colliding with a $3.6 trillion refinancing wall

Big Tech’s AI debt binge is colliding with a $3.6 trillion refinancing wall across the US and global system as old cheap money turns into expensive refinancing pressure. The tech sector is sitting on more than $330 billion in high-yield, leveraged loan, and business development company-linked software and technology debt that must mature through 2028. […]

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