US Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked Elon Musk for information on X Money, a payments feature that is expected to be integrated into the X social media platform in the near future. Warren, who is a longtime critic of Musk and the cryptocurrency industry, wrote in a letter on Tuesday that X Money’s potential stablecoin …
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Bitcoin (BTC) circled $74,000 at Wednesday’s Wall Street open as US stocks edged higher on news that the US and Iran may be open to another round of ceasefire negotiations. Key points: Bitcoin consolidates as analysts warn that stocks may be too optimistic over geopolitical relief. The S&P 500 approaches new all-time highs despite questions …
Sponsored Content Sandwich attacks cost Ethereum users an estimated $60 million per year. Transactions broadcast to the public mempool are publicly visible before inclusion, which gives MEV bots the ability to affect the order of transactions and insert their own for profit. This problem has persisted on some level in spite of years of discussion …
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An international law enforcement initiative involving the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), US Secret Service, Ontario Provincial Police and Ontario Securities Commission is disrupting crypto schemes worldwide. In a statement, the blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs says it served as a private sector partner in the phishing crackdown, with “Operation Atlantic” freezing more than $12 …
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform World Liberty Financial on Wednesday posted a governance proposal that would place 62.28 billion locked WLFI tokens under new multiyear vesting schedules and introduce a potential burn for founder, team, adviser and partner allocations. Under the proposal, early supporters’ locked tokens would face a two-year cliff followed by a two-year linear …
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Only 4% of Danish citizens own cryptocurrencies, a figure that has remained unchanged since 2023 despite the global growth of the sector across Europe and other jurisdictions, according to a new staff paper from the country’s central bank published Wednesday. The Danmarks Nationalbank staff paper, based on a survey conducted by Epinion, revealed that among …
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Veteran trader Peter Brandt has pushed back on one of Bitcoin’s most aggressive long-term price targets. “2030, we don’t go to a million,” Brandt tells Cointelegraph on the Chain Reaction show. Despite strong calls from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood for Bitcoin to reach $1 million within the next four …
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Update April 15, 2026, 2:00 p.m. UTC: This article has been updated to include a comment from a Fireblocks spokesperson. Enterprise digital asset infrastructure platform Fireblocks said Wednesday it launched Earn, a feature that lets institutional clients route stablecoin balances into onchain lending strategies through Aave and Morpho-powered products. The product launches with a Sentora-curated …
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April 15th, 2026 – Kingstown, St. Vincent, the Grenadines Bitunix, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, announced that it has obtained ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, a widely recognized international standard for information security management given by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The certification confirms that Bitunix exchange has established formal systems to manage and protect sensitive data, …
A widely followed crypto analyst says that Bitcoin (BTC) could be printing a massive bullish reversal pattern. The pseudonymous trader Cheds tells his 372,300 followers on X that Bitcoin may be forming a rare head-and-shoulders pattern that marks the end of a correction. “BTC bullish hopium – compound fulcrum bottom forming on daily.” Source: Cheds/X …
April 15th, 2026 – New York, New York Community-first NFT ecosystem built on Solana signals a new era for dynamic digital ownership – with a historic NFT launch on the horizon. Kokopi Koalas (KOKOP) officially launched on March 9, 2026, as a 100% fair-launch token on pump.fun. Within hours, it graduated and secured verified listings …
Virginia signed a law bringing digital assets into unclaimed property rules, requiring in-kind transfer and limiting how quickly the state can sell them. The US state of Virginia has approved changes to its unclaimed property framework, bringing digital assets under state custody rules while limiting how soon those assets can be sold. On Monday, Governor …
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Pakistan’s central bank has allowed banks to open accounts for licensed virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and their customers, replacing an eight-year-old prohibition on dealing in virtual currencies. In a circular dated April 14, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said regulated entities may open bank accounts for entities licensed by the Pakistan Virtual Assets …
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A European Commission adviser said the European Union’s landmark MiCA crypto regime is likely to evolve as digital asset markets develop beyond the conditions the law was originally designed to address. Speaking at the Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) 2026, Peter Kerstens, an adviser on technological innovation, digital transformation and cybersecurity at the European Commission’s financial …
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OKX said Wednesday it is rolling out a Europe-specific crypto derivatives product called X-Perps, extending its regulated offering across the European Economic Area (EEA) through its Malta-based MiFID business. The company said the new derivatives product is available to retail and institutional traders across all 30 EEA countries. OKX said the platform is purpose-built in …
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