Despite every single month of downward revisions in the jobs data released every month, the Trump administration has decided to continue printing numbers that fall apart once revisions, industry breakdowns, and labor force numbers are added up. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report said the economy added 178,000 jobs in March 2026, with 186,000 […]

Japan is heading into a harder patch, but the IMF still says the Bank of Japan should keep raising interest rates. In a statement released from Washington on Friday after its policy consultation with Japan, the fund said the war in the Middle East has created “significant new risks” for the country’s economic outlook. Even […]

The Russian government is preparing to exempt cryptocurrency trading and custodial services from value-added tax (VAT) as part of a major push to regulate coin operations in the country. The necessary legislation has been drafted already. It also determines the taxation of profits generated by entities engaged in these activities and of the personal income […]

The IMF says central banks may have to rethink their role as tokenization infrastructure further develops.

Crypto faces pressure as Warsh hearing adds uncertainty and Fed rate cut expectations fall.

Big tech companies are running into serious problems as they rush to build the massive computer facilities needed for artificial intelligence, with projects getting canceled, workers losing jobs, and some firms even proposing to move operations into space. OpenAI’s plan to build a major facility in Britain has ground to a halt months after the […]

As Bitcoin enters a new era of institutional adoption, Michael Saylor is raising concerns about internal risks

Elon Musk’s X is now locking user accounts the second they post about cryptocurrency for the first time. Users have to verify their identity before they can post again. The company says it’s going after hackers who break into accounts and use them to push fake investment schemes. Nikita Bier runs product development at X. […]

Iran on Saturday opened a new front in this war by putting U.S. tech operations in the region under direct threat. Missile and drone attacks kept moving across the Middle East, and the United Arab Emirates said it intercepted dozens of incoming threats in the past 24 hours. In Dubai, debris from one interception hit […]

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov urged “Russian brothers and sisters” to return to “digital resistance” in the face of Moscow’s attempts to block the popular messenger. Durov’s call comes amid mounting reports of outages in the past weeks coming from many corners of the huge country, which has intensified efforts to cut access to the platform. […]

The Ethereum Foundation has now staked about 69,500 ETH after its latest deposits.

Charles Schwab is looking to launch BTC after the cryptocurrency experienced its worst quarter since 2018. 

Charles Hoskinson praises a new Midnight ad and highlights the need for privacy in blockchain.

China is opening the month with strength across trade, chips, and money markets. Chinese companies tied to cross-border transactions saw their stocks surge after the commerce ministry said the yuan is being used to pay tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. That news sent traders straight into names linked to moving money across […]

The European Union must be prepared for a long-lasting energy crisis, according to the official responsible for the sector at the executive body in Brussels. While the EU is assessing “all possibilities” to deal with it, including fuel rationing, its leadership does not intend to give up plans to abandon Russian gas. Fuel prices won’t […]

China has been sparing no effort in dealing with users involved in illegal Bitcoin mining activities. It recently hit two men in the Heilongjiang Province with heavy prison sentences, a few weeks after a prominent industrial operator was hit with millions in liability.  Amid all that drama, BTC mining difficulty has stayed around all-time high […]

The Cambodian National Assembly has unanimously passed an anti-cybercrime law that introduces life sentences for scam ringleaders, with especially harsh sentences for those whose operations involve violence and result in the loss of lives.  In an attempt to crack down on cybercrime, Cambodian authorities recently extradited fugitive tycoon Chen Zhi and his key associate, Li […]

A group of American lawmakers from both parties has put forward a new bill that would sharply limit China’s ability to get hold of the equipment it needs to make advanced computer chips. The legislation, called the MATCH Act, was introduced late Thursday. It aims to keep the United States ahead in the artificial intelligence […]

With a 23.8% decline to close at $66,619 on March 31, Bitcoin finished the first three months of 2026 with its biggest quarterly loss since 2018. The primary cause can be summed up in one word: outflows. The decline marked a clear departure from the bullish streak that had characterized most of the preceding year. […]

South Korea’s FSS has asked Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, to correct its disclosure regarding its merger with Naver Financial, claiming that important details were omitted.  Meanwhile, Korea Investment & Securities has positioned itself as a potential buyer of Coinone, following its rival Mirae Asset Group’s acquisition of Korbit.  Why did the FSS issue a […]

The Cosmos ecosystem’s struggles appear set to be compounded, as the non-custodial Leap Wallet announced it would stop operating from May 28. The shutdown news arrives as the NFT platform Intergaze revealed it would wind down and remove its rollup from Initia’s ecosystem, moving on from the fading NFT sector, which has failed to sustain […]

ZachXBT criticized Circle for being too slow in intercepting USDC from the Drift Protocol hack. The exploiter even used the native Circle bridge, CCTP.

The US economy added 178,000 jobs last month, a solid number that gave the White House something to cheer about. But the March employment figures tell only part of the story, coming before the full weight of soaring energy costs from the Iran conflict hits American workers and businesses. The jobless rate fell slightly to […]

Big tech companies are backing a new group that aims to set standards for how AI systems handle payments, both in crypto and in traditional currencies. The Linux Foundation announced Thursday it’s launching the x402 Foundation to oversee the x402 protocol. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services have already signed on. Coinbase helped develop the […]

Ripple (XRP) is trading close to $1.30 at press time on Friday, extending the 2% loss from Thursday.

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Russian residents will be required to report their offshore crypto wallets to the federal tax authority under new legislation regulating digital assets, now filed with the parliament in Moscow. Domestic wallets will be known to the state anyway, as Russia intends to channel all cryptocurrency flows through local intermediaries licensed as elements of a sovereign […]

The Middle East war has become a key driver of global market sentiment, leading to alternating risk-on and risk-off phases amid recurring cycles of de-escalation and escalation during the conflict.