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A coordinated push to enact the CLARITY Act is colliding with a rapidly closing legislative window, prompting warnings from industry advocates that a failure to pass the bill this spring could stall crypto developments until the end of the decade. With the November 2026 midterms looming, the legislative calendar is shrinking, and the complex jurisdictional […] The post CLARITY Act faces a 2 week deadline as Senate gridlock and bank pressure threaten freeze out until 2030 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Nous Research's open-source AI agent is the first with a built-in learning loop—it creates skills from experience, gets better the more you use it, and runs on terminal.

A fake Ledger Live app on the Mac App Store duped more than 50 users, swiping more than $9 million in a new crypto scam.

The bank is moving deeper into crypto with a bitcoin ETF that generates income by selling options on bitcoin-linked funds, following BlackRock’s push into similar yield-focused products.

Rakuten XRP Integration: What It Means for 44M Users The post Rakuten Expands Ripple XRP Utility for 44M Users: Mass Adoption or Incremental Update? appeared first on Cryptonews.

As BTC tests ETF cost basis, the market shows signs of balance. Yet, short-term holder losses remain a major obstacle ahead.

Banks and crypto firms remain divided even as White House data says a yield ban wouldn’t do much for lending.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire reiterated plans for its stablecoin-focused layer-1 blockchain to launch in mainnet “soon.”

Bitcoin rallied to levels not seen since early February after US PPI inflation fell well below market expectations. Bitcoin (BTC) reached monthly highs above $76,000 on Tuesday as US inflation data continued to buoy risk assets. Key points: Bitcoin upside continues as bulls target $76,000 — the highest price since early February. Read more

The announcement comes as an increasing number of companies move into prediction markets, an industry that is estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 2030

Optimism over developments in the Middle East sparked a sharp decline in oil prices and rallies across risk markets.

Bitcoin just hit its highest price in over two months, with Ethereum and other top coins rising faster as crypto bears get liquidated.

A Fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s store is tied to $9.5 million in crypto thefts, as ZachXBT links over 50 victims’ funds to a KuCoin-linked mixer and questions Apple’s liability. Onchain investigator ZachXBT said a fake Ledger Live app listed on Apple’s App Store was tied to about $9.5 million in crypto stolen from more than 50 suspected victims between April 7 and 13. In a Tuesday Telegram post, ZachXBT said the alleged thefts affected users across Bitcoin, Solana, Tron, XRP Ledger and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible networks. He claimed the stolen funds were laundered through over 150 KuCoin deposit addresses allegedly tied to AudiA6, which he described as a centralized mixing service.  ZachXBT said the fake app was removed by Apple on April 13 and identified three seven-figure losses among the largest known cases. He said one victim lost about $1.95 million in Bitcoin (BTC), staked Ether (stETH) and Ether (ETH), another lost $3.23 million in USDt (USDT) on April 9, and a third victim lost about ...

Cantor Fitzgerald says Robinhood and Coinbase are best positioned to dominate the prediction market space by leveraging their massive retail scale and existing trading infrastructure.

Tether launches tether.wallet, a self-custodial app supporting USDT, XAUT, USAT and Bitcoin with cloud-based key backup features. Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, USDt (USDT), has launched a self-custodial wallet called tether.wallet. Tether.wallet supports three Tether-issued assets: USDT, XAUt (XAUT) and the US-focused USAT (USAT), as well as Bitcoin (BTC), the company announced Tuesday. Tether said the wallet allows users to transact without requiring them to hold separate network or gas tokens, with fees paid directly in the asset being transferred. Read more

Iran conflict is already disrupting the hidden plumbing of global trade The market spent the first phase of the Iran conflict watching crude. That was the visible layer. Today, prices have fallen below $90 a barrel for the first time in a while and Bitcoin is soaring alongside. However, a consequential shift is still happening […] The post Oil prices fall but China trade and US inflation data weakens as Iran contagion spreads – in opportunity for Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The downsizing follows a financial hit after Scroll's top protocol migrated to Optimism, draining nearly $160 million in TVL and $13 million in annualized fees.

Kraken Refuses to Pay Extortionists Over Stolen User Data The post Kraken Says It Is Being Extorted Over Stolen Crypto User Data and Refuses to Pay appeared first on Cryptonews.

Foundry Captures 29% of Zcash Hashrate in One Month The post Foundry Captures 29% of Zcash Hashrate Within a Month of Pool Launch appeared first on Cryptonews.

The new product line comes from a partnership between the exchange and Doppler Finance.