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Cointelegraph.com - 10:32 Apr 29, 2026
Polymarket is reportedly in talks with the CFTC to restore US access after its 2022 settlement, following a limited US rollout in December 2025 focused on sports contracts. Polymarket is seeking regulatory approval to reopen its main prediction markets platform to US users, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. According to Bloomberg, Polymarket has been engaging with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to lift the prohibition on US-based customers. The move would mark a broader US return for the company, which re-entered the market in a limited form last year through its regulated QCEX-based setup but still keeps Americans off its main international exchange. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:10 Apr 29, 2026
The FTC order ties Mashinsky’s $10 million payment to a mostly suspended $4.72 billion judgment that can be revived over asset disclosures. Celsius founder Alexander Mashinsky agreed to a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlement that permanently bars him from promoting asset-related products and requires a $10 million payment tied to a broader, mostly suspended $4.72 billion judgment. The stipulated order, entered by Judge Denise Cote in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, said Mashinsky is “permanently restrained and enjoined” from advertising, marketing, promoting, offering or distributing any product or service that can be used to “deposit, exchange, invest, or withdraw assets.” The order entered a $4.72 billion monetary judgment in favor of the FTC against Mashinsky, but most of it was suspended. Mashinsky must now pay $10 million to the FTC. However, the order said this obligation can also be satisfied if he pays at least $10 million to the US Department of Justice under the forfeiture ord... -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:49 Apr 29, 2026
Ottawa says Bitcoin ATMs have become a key tool for scammers, as regulators move to tighten oversight of high-risk parts of the crypto sector. The Canadian government has proposed banning Bitcoin and other crypto ATMs, arguing the machines have become a primary on-ramp for fraudsters and money launderers rather than a convenient access point for everyday users. The government's Spring Economic Update 2026, published on April 28, says crypto ATMs are a “primary method for scammers to defraud victims and for criminals to place their cash proceeds of crime,” and explicitly states that the government “proposes to ban crypto ATMs.” The proposal states that Canadians will still be able to buy virtual currencies from brick-and-mortar money services businesses, but the standalone kiosks that have proliferated in malls, gas stations and corner stores would be phased out. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:19 Apr 29, 2026
Bitcoin fell after each new Federal Reserve chair began work, data showed, while Kevin Warsh gave mixed signals over policy for risk assets. Bitcoin (BTC) may face “a few months” of downside as the new US Federal Reserve chair takes over next month. Key points: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:10 Apr 29, 2026
The apparent hacker claimed to have breached other prediction markets and planned to release the data in the next few days. Prediction markets platform Polymarket has denied recent reports that its customer data was breached after a hacker on the dark web posted what the person claimed was a trove of private user details. Cybersecurity company Vecert Analyzer and several other X accounts that track dark web activity shared screenshots from DarkForums on Tuesday showing a hacker using the pseudonym “xorcat” claiming to have breached Polymarket. In the post, xorcat said they had stolen over 300,000 records, including 10,000 unique user profiles with full names, profile images, proxy wallets and base addresses. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:00 Apr 29, 2026
The proposed legislation would allow regulated funds to issue blockchain-based shares with full legal recognition and investor protections. Gibraltar has introduced legislation that would legally recognize tokenized fund shares and allow certain regulated funds to issue shares on distributed ledger systems, granting investors the same rights as traditional shareholdings. The Protected Cell Companies (Amendment) Bill 2026 states that “the holder of a share token is a shareholder with the same rights and obligations as any other holder of cell shares,” referring to shares linked to specific asset pools within a protected cell company. Protected cell companies, typically insurance or financial entities, have a core organization that is linked to several independent cells, each with its own balance sheet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:00 Apr 29, 2026
The move allows institutions to trade Bitcoin options through a prime brokerage layer using existing accounts. Crypto exchange Bullish has expanded its integration with Ripple Prime to give institutional clients direct access to Bitcoin options trading, adding to existing spot, perpetual and futures connectivity through the platform’s prime brokerage network. The integration connects Ripple Prime users to Bullish’s regulated Bitcoin (BTC) options markets, allowing trades to be funded through existing sub-accounts without additional onboarding, with stablecoins such as Ripple USD (RLUSD) supported as collateral. RLUSD is a US dollar-pegged stablecoin designed for payments, settlement and use as collateral in digital asset markets. It has a market capitalization of about $1.57 billion, according to DeFiLlama data. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:57 Apr 29, 2026
Aptos said its new privacy coin could be used to enable businesses to transact onchain without competitors tracking treasury moves and trading strategies. Aptos Labs founding engineer Sherry Xiao said Aptos’ newly introduced privacy coin could fix a long-standing trade-off between protecting user privacy and preserving transparency for compliance. “Confidential APT” launched on the Aptos mainnet on Friday after a governance proposal to integrate the privacy feature passed in a near-unanimous vote. It uses zero-knowledge proofs to conceal token balances and transfer amounts while still enabling transactions to be verified. Source: Aptos Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:27 Apr 29, 2026
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Wisconsin in the agency’s fifth lawsuit against a US state to assert jurisdiction over prediction markets. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday sued the state of Wisconsin in the agency’s latest effort to assert jurisdiction over prediction markets after the state sued multiple platforms. The CFTC said in a statement that it filed the lawsuit against Wisconsin “in response to the state’s lawsuits against Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood, and Coinbase, five CFTC-regulated prediction markets.” “States cannot circumvent the clear directive of Congress,” CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said. “Our message to Wisconsin is the same as to New York, Arizona, and others: if you interfere with the operation of federal law in regulating financial markets, we will sue you.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 04:22 Apr 29, 2026
Robinhood’s Q1 earnings per share and revenue figures missed industry expectations, sending the company’s shares down nearly 10%. Online trading platform Robinhood fell 9.4% in after-hours trading after its Q1 revenue missed analyst estimates, while crypto revenue and trading volume fell nearly 50% from a year ago. Robinhood’s crypto transaction revenue fell 47% year-on-year from $252 million to $134 million, while crypto trading volume fell 48% to $24 billion over the same period, according to the company’s Q1 earnings report on Tuesday. Robinhood’s transaction-based crypto revenue fell for the third consecutive quarter in Q1. Source: Robinhood Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:41 Apr 29, 2026
A federal judge slammed Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial as seemingly “a plan to rescue his reputation,” denying the former FTX boss’s request. A Manhattan federal judge has denied FTX CEO and co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s motion for a new trial, rejecting his claim that there is new evidence. Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw Bankman-Fried’s trial in 2023 and sentenced him to 25 years in prison in early 2024, wrote in an order on Tuesday that Bankman-Fried’s claim of new evidence and witnesses was baseless. “This motion appears to be one part of a plan to rescue his reputation that Bankman-Fried hatched and even committed to writing after FTX declared bankruptcy but before he was indicted,” Judge Kaplan wrote. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:47 Apr 28, 2026
Bitcoin’s dip below $76,000 was driven by an AI sector sell-off and investors’ worries about slowed progress in the CLARITY Act negotiations. Key takeaways: Bitcoin (BTC) retreated below $76,000 on Tuesday, erasing gains from the prior week. This movement followed a 1% decline in the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index after OpenAI reported a shortfall in its revenue and user growth targets. While the AI industry may be a factor in Bitcoin’s decline, crypto market regulations and macroeconomic indicators are also contributing. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:56 Apr 28, 2026
Bitcoin price followed weakening US spot market demand as the Coinbase Premium Index turned negative for the first time in three weeks. Bitcoin’s (BTC) Coinbase Premium Index has turned negative at -0.008 for the first time in three weeks, signaling a sharp reduction in US spot market demand and aligning with BTC's current price drop. The signal held across hourly readings through the next 48 hours, showing consistent selling pressure from US-based buyers. The shift comes as the net weekly average of BTC realized losses climbed to $829 million, suggesting reduced investor conviction. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:42 Apr 28, 2026
A new system targets the mismatch between fast DeFi liquidations and slow asset redemptions, a key barrier to the use of tokenized assets in lending markets. RedStone, a decentralized oracle provider, has launched a new settlement layer for decentralized finance, aiming to make tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) usable as collateral in lending protocols. The system, called RedStone Settle, is designed to address a long-standing structural issue in DeFi. While lending platforms such as Aave rely on near-instant liquidations to manage risk, RWAs, including tokenized funds and bonds, typically have redemption periods ranging from 60 to 180 days. This mismatch has largely prevented RWAs from being used as collateral. According to RedStone, the new layer introduces an onchain auction mechanism that is triggered during liquidation events. Liquidity providers can step in to purchase positions immediately, supplying protocols with liquidity while assuming the delayed redemption risk tied to the underlying assets. Rea... -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:14 Apr 28, 2026
Canaan secures a new Tether order for modular mining hardware as the stablecoin issuer expands into integrated, data center-style Bitcoin infrastructure. Canaan (CAN) has secured an additional order from Tether for custom Bitcoin mining hardware, extending their collaboration beyond an earlier research and development effort that tested new system designs for large-scale mining. Under the new order, Canaan will supply high-density hash board modules designed for immersion-cooled systems, with usage planned at a Tether-linked facility in South America, the crypto mining tech maker announced on Tuesday. Canaan is supplying these systems to deepen its role as a custom hardware provider for large-scale operators such as Tether. The agreement follows a 2025 R&D partnership with ACME Swisstech, which resulted in a proof-of-concept platform to improve efficiency and scalability in mining operations. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:07 Apr 28, 2026
Bitcoin price downside returned to send BTC to one-week lows thanks to renewed concerns over global oil supplies focused on the Strait of Hormuz blockade. Bitcoin (BTC) headed to weekly lows after Tuesday’s Wall Street open as oil-supply woes panicked global markets. Key points: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:45 Apr 28, 2026
The 30-day Trade-to-Feed competition marks BitMart's 8th anniversary and the exchange's strategic listing of EAT, the first cause coin. The 30-day Trade-to-Feed competition marks BitMart's 8th anniversary and the exchange's strategic listing of EAT, the first cause coin. New York, United States, April 28, 2026, Chainwire – BitMart, the global digital asset exchange serving millions of users worldwide, today launched the Trade-to-Feed competition, a 30-day trading competition paying out up to $4.4 million USDT in trader rewards. The campaign marks BitMart's eighth anniversary and the exchange's listing of EAT (WYDE: End Hunger), the first cause coin to list on a major centralized exchange. Cause coins are an emerging asset class engineered so that fees from trading activity flow to charitable grant-making infrastructure alongside trader rewards. By making EAT the inaugural cause coin listing and pairing it with the largest competition in BitMart's history, the exchange is positioning itself ahead of a category... -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:37 Apr 28, 2026
Bitcoin failed to break $80,000 resistance amid weak onchain fundamentals, but rising spot CVD could support a recovery. Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $76,000 on Tuesday after failing to break $80,000 as uncertainties surrounding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and macroeconomic conditions unnerved the market. Meanwhile, technicals and onchain data sent mixed signals on BTC’s ability to sustain the recovery. Key takeaways Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:06 Apr 28, 2026
Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital posted a $216 million first-quarter loss as weaker crypto prices hit asset values, while Helios data center revenue nears. Mike Novogratz’s digital asset company Galaxy Digital posted a $216 million loss in the first quarter of 2026, extending losses from the prior year. Galaxy Digital (GLXY) reported first-quarter earnings Tuesday of a loss of $0.49 per diluted share, compared with a loss of $0.86 in Q1 2025. The earnings came in ahead of expectations, according to MarketBeat analysts, who had expected a loss of $0.59 per share. Gross revenue for the quarter ended March 31 was $10.2 billion, compared with $10.2 billion in Q4 2025 and $12.9 billion in the same period a year earlier. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:50 Apr 28, 2026
US Anti-Money Laundering fines hit $900 million in the first half of 2025 as enforcement shifted from securities cases, while Basel rules and mandatory audits reshape crypto compliance, according to CertiK. Anti-Money Laundering enforcement has overtaken securities violations as the leading regulatory threat facing crypto companies, according to CertiK, with the United States Department of Justice and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network imposing $900 million in AML-related fines during the first half of 2025. The shift marks a sharp break from the US Securities and Exchange Commission-led enforcement cycle that defined earlier years of crypto regulation. SEC crypto-specific penalties collapsed 97% in penalty value year over year, dropping from $4.9 billion in 2024 to $142 million in 2025, according to a Tuesday report by blockchain security auditor CertiK. Transaction monitoring and licensing failures are now drawing penalties that rival or exceed many earlier crypto securities cases. The DOJ's February 2025...
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