USDT on TRON was used to move up to $1.6B linked to a Ponzi scheme posing as a fake health tech company.

Major banks reject the White House claim that stablecoins pose minimal risk.

Alibaba and China Telecom announced Tuesday they're building a computing facility in southern China that will use chips designed by the e-commerce company.

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) released his autobiography, and one thing stood out to parts of the crypto community; it wasn’t very “crypto.” It had no NFT tie-in, no token-gated access, and no on-chain experiment, but just Amazon. This decision caught the attention of Colin Wu, and he questioned why one of crypto’s biggest figures would choose […]

Cardano (ADA) is under renewed selling pressure, extending Wednesday’s 4% loss below $0.2500 at press time on Thursday. Intense long liquidations in the ADA futures over the last 24 hours suggest waning bullish interest among traders.

Solana (SOL) extends the correction, trading below $82 at the time of writing on Thursday after being rejected from key resistance the previous day.

Enjin Coin (ENJ) price extends its gains, trading above $0.035 on Thursday after a sharp 40% rally on the previous day. The bullish price action is supported by on-chain and derivatives data, with a constructive technical outlook suggesting further gains for ENJ in the coming days.

Ondo (ONDO) is facing downside pressure at press time on Thursday, threatening the $0.2400 support level. The derivatives market is leaning bearish on ONDO, with futures Open Interest dropping amid intense long liquidations.

Pepe (PEPE) price trades in red, below $0.0000036 at the time of writing on Thursday.

The broader cryptocurrency market whipsaws as Iran accuses Israel of ceasefire violations, sliding Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) below $71,000 and $2,200, respectively, at press time on Thursday.

Stablecoins could process up to $1.5 quadrillion annually by 2035, potentially surpassing Visa and Mastercard combined.

The US Department of the Treasury, through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), issued a proposed rule on Wednesday targeting stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act.

XRP keeps quantum risk very low, with only 0.03% of supply exposed, and most accounts are still protected.

Iran is telling ships that under terms passed through mediators, it plans to let only about 12 ships cross the Strait of Hormuz each day during the two week ceasefire agreed with Trump. Pakistani mediators said ships must coordinate with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, before they pass. Cryptopolitan had earlier reported that […]

Nikon has announced it will be providing its tech for a new mission project to the International Space Station to research the effect of microgravity in drug discovery, life science, and potentially elucidate the reason why humans age on Earth.  In a report on Wednesday, Nikon said its live cell observation system, known as Nikon […]

Ethereum (ETH) is trading above $2,200 on Wednesday, continuing its momentum from the US-Iran two-week temporary ceasefire deal.

Polygon Labs is in advanced talks to raise up to $100 million to fund a dedicated stablecoin payments business, according to a report by The Information. This development is coming around the same time the network is making serious advancements in its payments features, the latest being its third mainnet upgrade in four months. For […]

Aave’s token traded into green territory today as two institutional papers reviewed the protocol favorably this month.  On one hand, Zach Pandl, the Head of Research at Grayscale, shared his thoughts about whether Aave could become a household name. On the other hand, the Bank of Canada, in what was its first formal central bank […]

Iran is reportedly planning to mandate crypto payments as transit fees for fully laden Oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz during the proposed two-week ceasefire with the US, according to a Wednesday report by the Financial Times (FT).

Anthropic has on Wednesday launched Claude Mythos Preview, a new cyber AI model, but the public cannot use it. Speaking via a blog post, the company said, “AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities.” The AI company […]

Currenc Group will offer its CURR shares in a tokenized form after a partnership with Securitize.

Geneva, Switzerland — April 8, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), announced today TRON Network’s integration into Hyperlane, a leading permissionless cross-chain messaging protocol. This integration expands TRON’s interoperability by enabling developers to seamlessly build and scale applications across […]

South Korean authorities have implemented a standard rule for all exchanges that restricts users from easily bypassing withdrawal delays, especially in cases where they are linked to fraud.  A loss of 170.5 billion won was recorded between June and September of 2025 due to criminals exploiting the differing exception requirements of various exchange platforms.  South […]

Dogecoin (DOGE) edges lower at the time of writing on Wednesday, extending losses from its daily high of $0.0956.

Tax authorities in France will be going after cryptocurrency investors under a new law that obliges them to declare any wallet holding a few thousand euros’ worth of coins. The upcoming legislation, which has just overcome a parliamentary hurdle in Paris, is expected to increase state surveillance over the digital assets of the French people. […]

Iran wants oil tankers to pay a steep new fee to cross the Strait of Hormuz after last night’s ceasefire announcement, with the bill set at $2 million per fully loaded supertanker. The Iranians are demanding that the $2 million be paid in Bitcoin, and sometimes Chinese yuan, but mostly it’s going to be crypto. […]

The Trump White House, via its Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), has dismissed the fears that community bankers and traditional stakeholders have raised concerning the yield clause in the CLARITY Act. The report described the effect of yield-bearing stablecoins as “quantitatively small” rather than the existential threat that the banking lobby claims.  The Council of […]

The White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), in its “Effects of Stablecoin Yield Prohibition on Bank Lending” report released on Wednesday, states that banning yield on US Dollar (USD)-backed tokens would have little positive impact on bank lending.

Adam Back is back at the center of the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery after New York Times reporter John Carreyrou published a very long investigation that says the clues point to him more than anyone else. John says he first got pulled into this investigation spotting Adam get visibly tense when his name came up as […]

Ripple (XRP) is edging up above $1.38 at the time of writing on Wednesday, buoyed by improving market sentiment after the United States (US) suspended attacks on Iran amid a two-week ceasefire.