Tennessee banned crypto ATMs and criminalized operators under new statewide House Bill 2505.

The Brazilian government officially banned 27 prediction platforms, including Kalshi and Polymarket.

Ben Pasternak, the 26-year-old Australian entrepreneur and crypto fanatic, who was once hailed for having made great strides towards developing a vegetarian meat, is now charged with a felony following an alleged physical altercation he had with his ex-girlfriend inside one of the world’s finest hotels in New York City.  This happened on March 31, […]

The Trump administration has taken New York to court as the fight over prediction markets gets uglier, wider, and a lot more political. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a case Friday in Manhattan federal court, accusing the state of stepping into a market that federal law puts under Washington’s control. The clash centers […]

Sam Altman and OpenAI got a major pre-trial win on Friday after a federal judge cut Elon Musk’s fraud claims from his lawsuit over the company’s structure and mission. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers made the ruling in Oakland, California, just before the fight went to a jury. The trial of course still goes […]

Evan Tangeman, age 22, from Newport Beach, California, was sentenced to seventy months in prison on April 24, 2026. The court of the United States District in Washington, D.C., imposed the sentence. According to reports, Tangeman was involved in laundering millions of dollars obtained from a massive crypto fraud scheme. According to US Attorney Jeanine […]

Industry group NC Blockchain is urging Senator Thom Tillis to push the Clarity Act forward, warning that a ban on stablecoin yield could drive capital abroad.

Trump’s Treasury Department has kept a short-term waiver for Russia oil in place after the EU questioned why Washington was easing pressure on Moscow while the war in Ukraine is still draining lives, money, and fuel routes. European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said he raised the issue on Friday with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, […]

Prediction market traders on Kalshi pushed Kevin Warsh’s chances of becoming Federal Reserve chair sharply higher after the Department of Justice ended its inquiry into Jerome Powell. The new pricing gives Kevin an 86% chance of Senate approval by May 15. Traders also give him more than a 97% chance of confirmation by June 1. […]

Chainlink (LINK) has launched its Data Standard on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, giving developers and financial institutions direct access to blockchain connectivity tools through AWS infrastructure.

A sudden rise in crypto-linked kidnappings in France is colliding with a growing debate over data security. Pavel Durov had claimed that leaks of personal data may be putting digital asset holders at risk. In an X post, he highlighted that there have been 41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in just 3.5 months […]

Euro stablecoins have surged 1,200% under MiCA as regulatory clarity attracts institutional capital into euro-denominated digital assets.

The DeFi Education Fund (DEF) and 35 co-signatories, including a16z crypto, Aptos Labs, Uniswap, Chainlink, Paradigm, Solana Policy Institute, and Phantom, among others, have petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to convert its recent staff guidance on DeFi interfaces into durable notice-and-comment rulemaking.  In another development, Ethereum developer Tom Lehman published a draft proposal, […]

Today, April 24, Giancarlo Lelli, an Italian researcher, was awarded a one-Bitcoin prize after the world’s largest demonstration of the possible quantum attacks elliptic curve keys could face.  This type of attack could not only threaten Bitcoin but also Ethereum, leading to a possible loss of more than $2.5 trillion in digital assets protected by […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) is trying to make the digital euro cheaper and easier to roll out by settling the technical rules early. It signed deals with three European standards bodies, ECPC, nexo standards, and the Berlin Group, so the digital euro can use open payment standards that already exist.  Those agreements cover key […]

Nvidia climbed back above a $5 trillion market value on Friday and finished the session at a new closing record, putting the chipmaker back at the top of the global stock market. The stock surged by as much as 4.2% during the day, and that single rally added over $200 billion to Nvidia’s value. At […]

China is tightening the gate around its technology sector and making it harder for firms to take U.S. money. The new line from Beijing is: If a Chinese tech company wants funding that comes from America, it may now need state approval first. Bloomberg reported Friday that this policy is part of a wider reaction […]

Nakamoto, Inc. (Nasdaq:NAKA) announced it was using a part of its BTC treasury in an active management strategy, trading the implied BTC volatility.

Trump’s team has locked down $344 million in digital coins that US officials say had ties to Iran, pulling a huge pile of stablecoin money into Washington’s latest sanctions fight. The freeze hit two Tether wallets. It came while talks over the war stayed messy, the ceasefire remained fragile, and the global economy kept paying […]

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced on Friday that it sold 10,000 ETH at an average price of $2,387 via an over-the-counter (OTC) transaction. The Foundation noted that Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion was the counterparty to the transaction.

DOJ closed the Powell probe, removing legal uncertainty over the Federal Reserve's leadership stability.

According to April 24, 2026 reports, Alphabet, which is the parent company of Google, plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic. This investment will consist of $10 billion upfront and $30 billion in additional funding if certain performance goals are achieved. Anthropic is part of the multi-cloud ecosystem, including its deal with CoreWeave […]

The Trump administration’s Intel (INTC) stake has grown into a $28 billion paper gain after Intel surged to a fresh all-time high. Back on August 22, 2025, Cryptopolitan reported that the U.S. government had bought a 10% holding in Intel at $20.47 a share, a position worth about $8.9 billion at the time. Now, after […]

Business activity picked up in April, but Americans are paying more for almost everything, and most say things are only getting worse. The U.S. composite PMI is at 52.0 this month, a three-month high that suggests a slight recovery following a sluggish March, according to new data from S&P Global. However, the average price of […]

Chainlink’s data standard is now live on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. This new release makes Oracle infrastructure available to millions of AWS developers and hundreds of thousands of companies. It streamlines the development of institutional-level blockchain solutions. In this regard, Chainlink Platform is identified as a professional service provided directly by Chainlink. This product […]

Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm Nakamoto has launched an actively managed Bitcoin derivatives program, expanding its treasury strategy to include volatility-based income generation and downside risk management.

KuCoin has introduced direct crypto payments via Mastercard's global network for eligible Australian users, enabling everyday crypto purchases.

Two major crypto exchanges launched prediction market features on the same day, letting users wager real money on the outcomes of world events, a move that signals a growing push by centralized platforms into territory long held by decentralized services. Phemex and HTX both went live on April 24, 2026, with products that allow traders […]

Luck.io, the non-custodial casino on Solana, announced the platform’s closure on April 24, 2026. According to the X account, the platform is expected to close as soon as possible. The message urged all users to withdraw their balances from the Smart Vaults without delay.  In addition, the withdrawal process can be initiated either through the […]

China has rejected the U.S. accusation that tech giants from the Asian country are exploiting American AI technology, using the distillation process at an “industrial scale.”  Both countries are setting up for an explosive collision as Chinese authorities reportedly intend to force domestic tech companies to stop accepting U.S. investments without approval.  The accusations of […]