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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Friday that the federal government is sanctioning multiple wallets linked to Iran as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to increase economic pressure on the country amid an ongoing ceasefire, according to CNN. The action follows Tether's

CATL unveiled its 'super swap integrated' network solution at its super technology day, combining battery swap and ultra-fast charging infrastructure to address profitability challenges across the energy replenishment sector. According to Yang Jun, General Manager of CATL's battery swap division, th

U.S. President Trump stated on April 23 that Americans should expect higher gasoline prices in the "short term" due to the Iran situation, according to CCTV News. The statement coincided with multiple U.S. airlines reporting significant financial pressure from Middle East conflict-driven jet fuel pr

Euro stablecoins have surged 1,200% under MiCA as regulatory clarity attracts institutional capital into euro-denominated digital assets, with controlled reserve management requiring 100% fiat-backing for EU stablecoin issuers boosting investor confidence by nearly 50%. The striking growth is

AWS Marketplace is integrating Chainlink's data standards and services, enabling developers and enterprises to combine AWS compute, storage, database, and API infrastructure with smart contract capabilities, according to an announcement on Friday. Three Chainlink Services Now Available AWS

JPMorgan Signals Tokenization as Industry-Wide Catalyst Ciarán Fitzpatrick, JPMorgan's global head of ETF product, securities services, stated in a Friday post that tokenization will drive fundamental change across the entire funds industry, not just exchange-traded funds. "We believe tokenization

Singapore Exchange's foreign exchange arm has partnered with Rand Merchant Bank to integrate African currency liquidity into its electronic trading platform, creating a direct link between regional markets and global participants. Under the arrangement, RMB will feed its pricing and liquidity

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 Warsh an 86% chance of Senate approval by May 15, up from approximately 30% before the DOJ dec

Fluent, an Ethereum-based Layer 2 network, activated its mainnet and native BLEND token on Friday, bringing online a "blended execution" environment designed to allow applications written for different virtual machines to operate inside the same chain state. The network launched with $50 million in

OptimX Markets has partnered with FactSet to integrate its bilateral liquidity network directly into the Portware execution management system, giving institutional traders access to broker-driven liquidity without leaving their existing execution workflow, according to the partnership

Shiba Inu is showing resilience despite a sharp increase in tokens moving to exchanges. Data indicates that 31.74 billion SHIB entered trading platforms within 24 hours, raising concerns about potential selling pressure. At the time of writing, SHIB trades at $0.000006229, marking a gain of 0.61% ov

Arthur Hayes Predicts Ethereum's Market Decline Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, claimed in a recent interview that Ethereum (ETH) will fall out of the top three cryptocurrencies by market capitalization by 2030. According to Hayes, AI-focused altcoins could replace Ethereum in this

Decentralized perpetuals exchange Lighter has launched Multi-Asset Margin today, enabling traders to post non-USDC assets as collateral for perpetual trading, according to Lighter's documentation. ETH is the first supported collateral asset. Users deposit a supported asset into their margin

Mantle, a Bybit-backed Ethereum Layer 2 network, proposed a loan of up to 30,000 ETH to Aave DAO to help the protocol absorb bad debt from the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit. On Thursday, the Mantle Core Contributor Team published proposal MIP-34, which detailed a strategic credit facility for Aave D

DeepSeek released preview versions of DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash on April 24, 2026, both open-weight models with one million token context windows and pricing significantly below comparable Western alternatives. The V4-Pro model costs $1.74 per million input tokens and $3.48 per million o

Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli derived a 15-bit elliptic curve key using a publicly accessible quantum computer, marking what Project Eleven called the "largest quantum attack" on elliptic curve cryptography to date, according to the startup. Project Eleven awarded Lelli a 1 BTC bounty,

Japanese businesses are forming strategic partnerships with major technology companies to close the country's artificial intelligence gap. Station Ai, Japan's largest startup hub, teamed up with SoftBank (TYO: 9984) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) to launch the "AI Boost Program" in September 2025,

California EV Market Share Surge Masks Delivery Decline Tesla's California electric vehicle market share soared to 56% in the first quarter of 2026, according to the California New Car Dealers Association's Q1 report published on April 22. This represented an 11.8% increase compared to the same qu

Iran's central bank announced that the first transit fee collected from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz was paid in "cash foreign currency," contradicting earlier reports that the toll would be collected in cryptocurrency. The payment was deposited directly into bank accounts in foreign c