Japan’s cabinet has approved a bill to amend the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act to classify crypto as “financial products” to protect investors.

The cryptocurrency market has largely taken a breather on Friday after the United States (US) and Iran agreed to a ceasefire, which lifted sentiment and triggered a broader price recovery.

The March CPI report drops today at 8:30 AM Eastern Time (ET) and the number markets are bracing for is 3.7% year-over-year, up from 2.4% in February. A 130 basis-point jump would mean that this would mark the biggest monthly rise in years caused almost entirely by the conflict in Iran and the resultant oil […]

Cryptocurrency exchange in Russia will be carried out only through non-cash transactions, according to a high-ranking executive of its monetary authority. This will strengthen controls over financial flows involving digital assets, the official emphasized while clarifying various aspects of the upcoming regulations. Russians will not be allowed to sell crypto for paper rubles Cashing out […]

Bittensor (TAO) trades below $300 under extreme selling pressure, losing over 13% at press time on Friday. The exit of the Covenant AI subnet, citing concerns about centralized governance, fuels Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) surrounding Bittensor.

Bitcoin (BTC) is up by 4% so far this week, trading above $72,000 on Friday. This price rise followed the US-Iran ceasefire announcement earlier this week. Institutional demand also supports the Crypto King price as spot Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) recorded positive flows through Thursday.

]Bittensor's TAO crashed by up to 27%, following the decision of Covenant AI to leave the project.

The U.S. Treasury is bringing crypto firms into its cybersecurity network as digital asset hacks rise.

Supposed rivals Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pulled the heads of the biggest U.S. banks into an urgent meeting in Washington over concerns inside government circles over what Anthropic’s newest AI system could mean for cyber risk. According to claims from Bloomberg, the meeting allegedly happened on Tuesday at Treasury […]

For years, stablecoins were seen as the backbone for traders, useful but pretty much largely invisible. A way to move in and out of volatile assets without touching fiat. A liquidity bridge, not a destination. That perception is now, well, outdated.  Stablecoins are slowly becoming one of crypto’s most practical and scalable contributions to modern […]

Securitize names former SEC official Brett Redfearn as President and Board member.

Dogecoin (DOGE) trades above $0.090 at press time on Friday, facing downside pressure from its 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) and resulting in a descending triangle pattern.

Cardano (ADA) price slips below $0.26 on Friday after being rejected from the key resistance zone earlier this week. Mixed signals from the derivatives market, coupled with weakening momentum indicators, suggest fading bullish momentum, leaving ADA exposed to a potential short-term pullback.

Solana (SOL) holds above $80 at press time on Friday, facing pressure from the descending trendline and reduced institutional interest so far this week. Amid the possibility of its largest weekly institutional outflow, the SOL leverage market remains mixed due to broader market volatility.

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) show signs of strength as they hold above key support levels on Friday, after gaining over 4.5%, 4% and 1.5% so far this week. BTC is testing the upper boundary of its consolidation range, while ETH and XRP continue to find support at critical zones.

Bitcoin (BTC) hovers above $72,000 at press time on Friday, extending its recovery as Israel agrees to direct talks with Lebanon. Meanwhile, privacy coins Dash (DASH) and Zcash (ZEC) are leading gains over the last 24 hours.

StarkWare Chief Product Officer Avihu Levy on Thursday introduced a method for executing quantum-resistant Bitcoin (BTC) transactions without requiring any changes to the network's core protocol.

The CEO of OKX is pushing back against CZ's story, bringing back the old arguments from the OKCoin days. 

Circle shares dropped nearly 10% after a Wall Street downgrade signaled rising caution.

ClearBank has secured MiCAR approval to start offering USDC and EURC services across Europe, opening a new line of business in regulated digital assets. ClearBank Europe said it is now the first Dutch credit institution to complete a notification under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and get confirmation from the Dutch Authority for the […]

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) main board today, Thursday, April 9, formally completing its graduation from the NYSE American. The uplisting, effective at the opening bell today, coincided with a market-moving declaration by Bitmine’s own chairman, who is also Fundstrat’s co-founder, Thomas Lee, that the […]

The CFTC (consolidated plaintiff) has moved to defend Kalshi (plaintiff) as the state of Arizona (consolidated defendant) threatens prediction market operations.

Ethereum (ETH) treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) has uplisted its common stock to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, after ceasing trading on the NYSE American on Wednesday.

The Operation Atlantic joint law enforcement effort involving authorities from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada has frozen $12 million and identified over 20,000 victims of approval phishing scams, according to coordinated press releases today.  Binance also reported that it provided on-the-ground support for this phase of Operation Atlantic, helping to identify scam […]

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has urged Congress to pass the CLARITY bill, warning that the long-term success of the GENIUS Act depends on establishing broader regulatory certainty for the digital asset market.

Reports that a leading crypto exchange in Poland and the region may be facing insolvency have reignited a political dispute in Warsaw over who is to blame for the deficit of oversight in the digital-asset space. The Polish cryptocurrency market, arguably Eastern Europe’s largest, is yet to be regulated in accordance with the European Union’s […]

Oil perpetual futures pushed to new volume records in the past day. HIP-3 activity is partly due to whales attempting to benefit from the April 14 rollover of the front-month futures.

A Seoul court ruled in favor of Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, canceling a three-month partial business suspension imposed by financial authorities, halting a streak of example-setting actions against domestic operators.  Bithumb is also in court, attempting to recover the last of the Bitcoin it mistakenly paid out to customers during a February promotional event […]

The Avalanche Foundation came under fire when on-chain data analyst and researcher, Emperor Osmo, called out a steady flow of about $180 million that flowed from the foundation into Coinbase over six months, implying that the team behind the AVAX token has contributed to its recent downtrend.  Emperor Osmo, with former ties to the Osmosis […]

Zcash (ZEC), the privacy-oriented token, is trading lower at $312 at the time of writing on Thursday, weighed down by deteriorating sentiment across the crypto market due to an uneasy ceasefire between the United States (US) and Iran.