Western Union eyes May for its stablecoin USDPT rollout
Western Union CEO Devin McGranahan said the company will focus on expanding adoption and embedding digital assets into its core...
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Crypto Lobby Backs Removal of ‘Reputation Risk’ Debanking
US crypto lobby group Blockchain Association has thrown its support behind the US Federal Reserve’s proposal to codify the removal...
Bitwise enters tokenized funds with planned takeover of Superstate’s $267M USCC fund
Bitwise Asset Management plans to take over investment management of Superstate’s Crypto Carry Fund, marking the crypto asset manager’s first...
Kraken Parent Payward Buys Reap Technologies in $600M Deal
Kraken parent Payward agreed to acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies for up to $600 million, expanding its push into stablecoin...
Bitcoin Rally From February Lows Driven by Regular Strategy Buys
Bitcoin treasury company Strategy and its perpetual preferred stock, STRC, have been the “single biggest factor” in the recent rally...
Bullish to Acquire Equiniti for $4.2B in Tokenization Push
Bullish agreed to acquire transfer agent Equiniti from Siris Capital in a $4.2 billion transaction, giving the crypto exchange a...
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launch Pay.sh payment gateway for AI agents
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud have launched Pay.sh, a new payment gateway that lets AI agents access and pay for...
GameStop Proposes $55B eBay Takeover Deal
GameStop proposed an unsolicited, non-binding $55.5 billion acquisition of eBay in a cash-and-stock deal, as the video game retailer looks...
Twenty One Shares Rise on Tether’s 3-Way Merger Proposal
Shares in the Bitcoin-buying company Twenty One Capital climbed in after-hours trading on Wednesday after its majority shareholder, Tether, proposed...
Crypto Tops X’s Most-Muted List, and AI Slop May Be Why
Crypto has topped the list of most-muted topics on X since the platform rolled out its snooze feature, with spam...
Buffett warns of peak gambling mood as one-day options and prediction markets boom
Speculation in financial markets has never been more intense, Warren Buffett said Saturday, speaking at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting...
SBI to Make Bitbank a Subsidiary in Japan Crypto Consolidation Push
Tokyo-based SBI Holdings has opened talks to acquire shares in cryptocurrency exchange Bitbank and make it a consolidated subsidiary, extending...
OKX Publishes Open-Standard Payment Protocol for Autonomous AI Agents
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX has launched an open payments protocol for artificial intelligence agents, joining a growing push by crypto and...
MoonPay Launches Institutional Unit After Sodot Acquisition
Crypto payments platform MoonPay is launching an institutional unit after acquiring Sodot, an Israeli crypto security infrastructure provider.MoonPay on Wednesday...
Stripe partners with Google to bring AI shopping into Gemini and AI Mode
Stripe announced a partnership with Google that will allow businesses to sell products directly inside AI Mode and the Gemini...
Galaxy Posts $216M Q1 Loss as Helios Expansion Advances
Mike Novogratz’s digital asset company Galaxy Digital posted a $216 million loss in the first quarter of 2026, extending losses...
Michael Saylor’s Strategy adds 3.2K Bitcoin at nearly $78K per BTC
Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought 3,273 Bitcoin for $255 million between April 20 and 26, bringing total holdings to 818,334 BTC....
Saylor Hints at New BTC Buy, Strategy Eyes Semi-Monthly Dividends
Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor has hinted at another large Bitcoin purchase, just a week after the company disclosed that it...
Trump safe after shooting disrupts White House correspondents dinner in Washington
President Donald Trump was unharmed after a shooter opened fire outside the ballroom of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at...
Tron founder Justin Sun Sues World Liberty Over Token Freeze
Update: April 22, 6:40 am UTC: This article has been updated to include more information on Justin Sun and World...
Polymarket Traders Profit $37K From Paris Weather Glitch
Two Polymarket accounts have attracted suspicion after making $37,000 betting correctly on two unusual temperature readings of a weather station...
Blockchain Capital targets $700 million for two new crypto funds
Blockchain Capital is seeking to raise $700 million for two new crypto focused funds, according to a Bloomberg report citing...
