Bitmine added 101,901 ETH last week, bringing total ETH holdings to 5.08M (~4.21% of supply), with 3.7M ETH staked generating ~$264M annualized

DeFi United raised over 100,000 ETH to restore rsETH backing after the April 18 LayerZero bridge exploit, with finalization expected this week

Protocol devs hangout scheduled on Google Hangouts to coordinate on KelpDAO/LayerZero exploit fallout, including responses from Lido, Aave, Arbitrum, and DeFi United recovery efforts

Lido’s 2,500 ETH contribution to the rsETH recovery passed main voting and entered the objection phase, final vote ends April 28

ObolClaw v0.8.0 launched with agentic commerce, letting AI agents discover, pay, and sell services on-chain via x402 in USDC on Mainnet and Base

Privy launched wallet actions, high-level APIs for transfers, swaps via Uniswap, and yield via Morpho vaults

Zerion integrated LI.FI for cross-chain swaps and bridging across 60+ chains

Monolith launched as a permissionless stablecoin factory, with invUSD backed by INV as the first stablecoin

Ethereum active validator count fell from ~976k to ~919k since February, with 0x02 stake share rising from 16% to 25% as consolidation toward the 128k target accelerates

ethsync[.]wtf launched as a real-time visualizer for Ethereum Sync Committees, covering BLS aggregation, RANDAO selection, and light client verification​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Lido Earn, Mellow, and the Ethereum Foundation agreed to bilaterally swap ~21,269 aWETH to wstETH

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China blocked Meta’s $2B acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus on national security grounds and ordered a full unwind

Meta partnered with Overview Energy for up to 1 GW of space solar and Noon Energy for up to 1 GW/100 GWh of long-duration storage to power its AI data centers

Google is working on a Printable Stickers feature for its Mixboard experiment, letting users convert images into stickers and order physical copies​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Teneo Protocol relaunched its website featuring CLI for building agents, Teneo Beacon for earning fragments across devices, and Expedition Hub for quests and referrals

Gemini launched Agentic Trading, letting users connect Claude and ChatGPT to trading accounts via the MCP standard, billed as the first agentic trading tool on a regulated US exchange

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI heading to trial, with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman set to be questioned under oath over the conversion of OpenAI from non-profit to for-profit

Microsoft’s license to OpenAI tech is now non-exclusive and Microsoft will no longer pay revenue to OpenAI, freeing OpenAI to sell to Google, Amazon, Meta ahead of its IPO

Fraction AI launched Index, letting users turn plain-English trading ideas into live perps trading agents

Google DeepMind announced a partnership with the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT, including a new AI Campus in Seoul

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.5 under MIT license, with both Pro and base variants supporting a 1M-token context window; MiMo-V2.5-Pro ranked No.1 among open-source models on GDPVal-AA and ClawEval

Xiaomi launched MiMo Orbit, making 100T tokens (up to a 1-month Max Plan worth 1.6B credits) available free to AI builders globally via application

Venice raised programmatic VVV buy-and-burns to $2 per Pro, $5 per Pro+, and $10 per Max subscription (up from $1 across the board)

Cognition partnered with Mercedes-Benz to deploy Devin and Windsurf across its global engineering teams; in pilot, Devin cut COBOL modernization from 8 months to 8 days on 200,000+ lines of code

Hundreds of Google AI researchers signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse making the company’s AI systems available for classified US defense workloads

Perplexity launched Sonar 2 on web

OpenClaw 2026.4.25 shipped with 13 TTS providers, persisted plugin registry metadata, expanded OTEL coverage for model calls and tool loops, and browser/install fixes​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

OpenAI released gpt-realtime-1.5, enabling voice-controlled interactive applications​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Google Wallet is rolling out digital IDs in India via Aadhaar Verifiable Credentials, plus passport-based ID passes in Singapore, Taiwan, and Brazil

Google signed a classified AI deal with the Pentagon allowing use of its models for lawful government purposes, excluding domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons

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Curve founder Michael Egorov proposed a market-based bad debt recovery model for DeFi lending, using the CRV-long LlamaLend market as a pilot

Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc proposed a fork called eCash that would redistribute Satoshi’s ~1.1M BTC by flagging inactive wallets

South Korea’s KBank partnered with Ripple to test onchain cross-border remittances to the UAE and Thailand

Robinhood said some customers received phishing emails via abuse of its account creation flow, with no breach of systems or funds

Ohio State Teachers Pension Fund disclosed owning 93,750 shares of MSTR

TRON and HTX jointly supplied $20M USDT to AAVE Core V3 Market in support of bringing AAVE to TRON

Tether launched MDK, an open-source full-stack development framework for Bitcoin mining operators

Strategy bought 3,273 BTC for $255M at ~$77,906 avg, bringing total holdings to 818,334 BTC

Circle Ventures is buying AAVE tokens to back the Aave ecosystem

US oil prices rose toward $97 per barrel as US–Iran peace talks stalled and supply disruptions continued

Strive Asset Management added 789 BTC for $61.43M, bringing holdings to 14,557 BTC and making it the 9th-largest public BTC treasury

Canada to launch its first-ever sovereign wealth fund, the Canada Strong Fund, with an initial C$25B for domestic projects

Aven launched a Bitcoin Visa card offering BTC-backed credit lines up to $1M at 7.99% APR with 2% cash back, with collateral custodied by BitGo

ZetaChain’s GatewayEVM contract was exploited, impacting only internal team wallets; cross-chain transactions are paused while investigation continues

MARA CEO Fred Thiel announced the launch of MARA Foundation, focused on Bitcoin’s long-term health, quantum-proofing, and securing the network’s long-term security budget

Rep. Nick Begich plans to revive the Bitcoin strategic reserve bill, rebranded as the American Reserves Modernization Act (ARMA), to codify Trump’s executive order

Initia investors, founders, and team voluntarily delayed their vesting cliff by 1 year to April 2027

Polymarket announced $1M in liquidity rewards for CLOBv2 migration day, $500K for the first 2 hours and $500K for the rest of the day, with rebates/fees enabled on all eligible markets post-migration

Mercury received conditional OCC approval to establish Mercury Bank, N.A.

Japan’s Bitbank launched a Visa credit card with EPOS that settles bills directly from BTC holdings and pays 0.5% crypto cashback in BTC, ETH, or Aster

Roman Storm’s defense team pushed back after DOJ Acting AG Todd Blanche suggested Tornado Cash cases could be elevated, arguing DOJ cannot claim policy change while still pursuing prosecution

Solana introduced Falcon, a post-quantum digital signature scheme, with initial implementations from Anza and Firedancer

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Anthropic is building Bugcrawl, a Claude Code feature that scans repos for bugs using 10 parallel agents

DeepSeek cut input cache hit prices across its entire API to 1/10 of the original

Google working on Usage Limits section and new Images tab for Gemini, hinting at desktop app expansion with more agentic features

Kite opened public early access to Kite Passport, an identity and payment layer for AI agents

Gemini iOS app rolled out new voice dictation with wave animation, auto-triggering read aloud when dictation is used to prompt

Google is building Website generation feature for Pomelli marketing agent, plus a new Catalog feature for SMBs to bulk upload items and generate marketing assets

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Solana Foundation is lending USDT into Aave for the first time and will bring AAVE to Solana this weekend as part of DeFi United

Polish exchange Zondacrypto’s CEO Przemysław Kral fled to Israel as ~4,500 BTC sit inaccessible, with losses possibly exceeding $100M

BIS warned crypto exchanges are turning into shadow banks, offering bank-like yield and lending with no deposit insurance

Scallop was drained for 150K SUI via a deprecated November 2023 rewards contract; the team will cover 100% of the loss

Vietnam to launch its first regulated crypto market in Q2 2026 via a 5-year pilot; CAEX is raising 10T dong ($380M), backed by OKX Ventures and HashKey Capital

Litecoin patched a zero-day bug that disrupted mining pools and triggered a 13-block reorg

Wanchain added Ripple’s RLUSD on its bridge, enabling transfers between XRPL, Ethereum, Wanchain, and Cardano

UK government to introduce a major financial services reform bill in the King’s Speech on May 13, per FT

TRON plans to launch a quantum-resistant network on testnet in Q2 and mainnet in Q3

SUN completed its 50th buyback and burn of 18.83M tokens, bringing cumulative burns to 670M​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Stargate Finance went live on Injective, bringing native wETH and 80+ chain connectivity

Aave, Ether[.]fi, KelpDAO, LayerZero, and Compound proposed the Arbitrum DAO release ETH frozen from the April 18 rsETH incident to fund the DeFi United recovery

US government is now accepting public donations to help pay down its $39T national debt

OKX rolled out X-Perps with advanced charting with up to 10x leverage

Subway moved its global treasury onto Ripple, cutting bank accounts from 450 to 350 and automating 90% of payments

Polkadot crossed 750M on-chain transactions across 250K+ devices in 175+ countries

Western Union to launch its Solana-based stablecoin USDPT next month, alongside its Digital Asset Network connecting crypto wallets to its retail infrastructure and a USD Stable Card for global consumers later this year

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Anthropic’s Project Deal ran a marketplace where Claude agents negotiated 186 deals totaling over $4,000 across 69 employees, with Opus models securing substantially better deals than Haiku

GPT-5.5 went live on Perplexity for Max subscribers and became the default orchestration model in Computer for Pro and Max

OpenAI launched a Bio Bug Bounty for GPT-5.5 offering $25K for the first universal jailbreak clearing its 5-question bio safety challenge

Meta partnered with AWS to deploy tens of millions of Graviton cores for next-gen agentic AI infrastructure

CoinMarketCap launched CMC AI on Telegram, offering live prices, token analysis, and market trends with customizable modes​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Kled launched ufdp[.]ai, a free captcha service that pays users in KLED to validate AI training data, with each question routed to a cluster of 50+ people for consensus

Fluent mainnet went live, introducing Prints, a native primitive that turns onchain and offchain activity into reputation apps can integrate

Zcash enabled on THORChain, with native ZEC swaps rolling out in the coming weeks as nodes add support and Bifrost scanning goes live

Kelp and Aave coordinated rsETH recovery update: of the initial 163,200 ETH shortfall, Kelp recovered 40,300 rsETH (~43,000 ETH) and Arbitrum Security Council secured 30,700 ETH, leaving a ~89,500 ETH gap; Mantle, EtherFi, Lido, Ethena, and Golem committed 43,500 ETH

Octopus Network’s Ethereum bridge went live with all 1B OCT now circulating; ~37% will be destroyed ahead of Mainnet Beta

Wisconsin DOJ sued Kalshi, Robinhood, Coinbase, Polymarket, and Crypto[.]com, alleging their sports event contracts violate the state’s commercial gambling ban and seeking injunctions against all five

KuCoin launched direct crypto payments via Mastercard in Australia, allowing users to spend USDC across Mastercard’s global merchant network with real-time conversion at point of sale

ECB signed agreements with ECPC, nexo standards, and the Berlin Group to build digital euro payments on existing European standards

Billions Foundation launched as an independent non-profit to steward the Billions Network protocols and BILL ecosystem

CoinMarketCap launched CMC AI on Telegram, offering live prices, token analysis, and market trends with customizable modes​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Coinbase to list Fluent (BLEND) spot trading on April 24, 2026

Fluent published its rollup bridge spec detailing TEE-based preconfirmation and dual finalization (delay-based vs proof-gated)

Circle launched Unified Balance Kit, a TypeScript SDK giving devs a unified USDC balance across chains via Circle Gateway, with crosschain access under 500ms

Binance Kazakhstan and Alatau City Bank demoed a live crypto payment flow to Kazakhstan’s President, letting users pay in digital assets and settle instantly in local currency

Meta partnered with AWS to deploy tens of millions of Graviton cores for next-gen agentic AI infrastructure

South Africa’s Treasury proposed draft rules requiring crypto holders to declare assets above a threshold and hand over private keys on demand, with up to 5 years prison for non-compliance

WLFI onboarded MovaLab as one of its first supernode operators to expand USD1 use cases across AI and payments

GOP officials called Commerce Sec Lutnick after crypto super PAC Fellowship PAC, seeded by Cantor Fitzgerald, signaled a $1.75M spend backing Ken Paxton in Texas; the ad buy was never placed

AWS Marketplace integrated Chainlink’s Data Feeds, Data Streams, and Proof of Reserve

Aave DAO proposed contributing 25,000 ETH from treasury to the DeFi United rsETH recovery effort following the April 18 Kelp bridge incident, which had an initial shortfall of ~163,183 ETH

Spark reported Q1 2026 results: $31.5M gross returns, $6.91M net returns, $3.46M net surplus, and $986K in SPK buybacks; distribution overtook SLL as the top revenue driver for the first time

Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a public quantum computer, winning Project Eleven’s 1 BTC Q-Day Prize in the largest quantum attack on ECC to date​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Nakamoto launched an actively managed BTC derivatives program with Kraken and Bitwise

Fluent published its rollup bridge spec detailing TEE-based preconfirmation and dual finalization (delay-based vs proof-gated)

Tennessee banned crypto ATMs statewide, making it a misdemeanor to operate or host one starting July 1

US Treasury froze $344M in crypto tied to Iran as the Trump admin ratchets up pressure on Tehran

Ethereum Foundation swapped ~21,269 aWETH to wstETH with Lido and Mellow as part of ongoing deleveraging work

Brazil banned Kalshi, Polymarket and 28 other betting platforms, citing investor protection and derivatives compliance concerns

Alibaba’s Qwen AI app can now book China Eastern Airlines flights via natural language, its first agentic integration with a major commercial partner

Meta to lay off 8,000 employees, about 10% of workforce, on May 20 as it pushes efficiency and ramps up AI investment

NVIDIA and OpenAI partnership using GB200 NVL72 delivers 35x reduction in token costs; GPT-5.5 trained and served on the same systems

Anthropic launched Memory for Claude Managed Agents in public beta, with memories stored as files that devs can export and manage via API

Trust Wallet launched API Gateway MCP, giving AI agents one endpoint for token research, market data, risk signals, and swap routing across 100+ chains​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, free for verified US physicians, NPs, PAs, and pharmacists

Anthropic released Claude Code v2.1.116+ fixing three quality issues from the past month and reset usage limits for all subscribers

Succinct launched ZCAM, an iPhone camera app that cryptographically signs photos and videos at capture using Apple’s Secure Enclave and C2PA manifests

Microsoft’s venture arm M12 backed the public rollout of Dreamspace, an AI app builder for Coinbase’s Base, with data layer secured by Microsoft-backed Space and Time

Anthropic accused of installing a native messaging bridge into multiple browsers during Claude Desktop installation without clear user disclosure

Manus opened applications for its Summer 2026 Fellow Program​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

OpenAI and Microsoft expanded partnership, with OpenAI giving Microsoft access to its most cyber-capable models via its Trusted Access for Cyber program

Minara launched closed beta of Strategy Studio, a natural-language quant trading platform for backtesting and deploying strategies

NanoClaw v2 launched in partnership with Vercel, adding agent-to-agent communication, human-in-the-loop approvals, and support for 15 messaging platforms

Tencent unveiled a major upgrade to its foundational AI model

Canva launched Canva AI 2.0 with direct connectors to Zoom, Slack and email, background scheduling, and editable layered design outputs

DeepSeek released and open-sourced DeepSeek-V4, with V4-Pro at 1.6T total/49B active params and V4-Flash at 284B total/13B active params, now default 1M context across all services

xAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, topping the Tau Voice Bench

Aave founder Stani Kulechov personally committing 5,000 ETH to the DeFi United effort to restore rsETH backing

Lido proposes allocating up to 2,500 stETH (~$5.8M) to help close the rsETH backing shortfall from the April 18 Kelp LayerZero exploit

Bitmine staked ~$320M in ETH over the past 24 hours, pushing its staked total to 3.5M ETH ($8.1B), or ~70.1% of its holdings

MegaETH set TGE for April 30, 2026

Lido paused EarnETH deposits and withdrawals after the Kelp rsETH hack, with $3M first-loss protection from Lido DAO treasury to cover any losses; rsETH has ~9% of EarnETH TVL

EtherFi completed a protocol-wide security hardening pass on the weETH bridge, pinning LayerZero message libraries, raising DVN threshold to 4/4, and tightening rate limits

Ethereum Security QF Round went live on Giveth with a 500 ETH (~$1M+) match from TheDAO Security Fund backing ~100 Ethereum and L2 security projects

Safe Q1 2026 report: $6.8B in stablecoins secured (~2% of global supply), 61.1M smart accounts deployed, 2.21M net new accounts in Q1, and 50.9M transactions in March

Tom Lehman proposed EIP-8182 to make private transfers a native part of Ethereum via a system contract and ZK proof-verification precompile

op-geth deprecation set for May 31, with all OP Stack chain operators needing to migrate to op-reth validator nodes

ZKsync Lite to be fully deprecated May 4, with block production halting and final state frozen; funds remain claimable on L1 post-shutdown

ENS released a local lightweight gateway stack letting users resolve ENS domains and dWebsite content without third-party gateways​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Fluid Lite limited instant withdrawals due to DeFi-wide liquidity constraints, with no user losses expected

Bitwarden contained a malicious npm package briefly distributed via Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 tied to the Checkmarx supply chain incident; no vault data compromised

Sweden’s H100 Group signed a binding deal to raise its BTC holdings to ~3,500 BTC from 1,051 BTC

Anatoly Yakovenko deployed an immutable binary of Percolator with 5 SOL in the insurance vault and burned admin keys, offering jobs or angel investment to anyone who can exploit it

Taiwan’s 16 major banks are teaming up to build a domestic financial AI model to cut reliance on global platforms

RealGo raised $3.5M from Animoca Brands, Cogitent Ventures, X21 Digital, Notch VC and Becker Ventures to build Meme 3.0 infrastructure

US Indo-Pacific Command confirmed the US military is running a Bitcoin node to test cybersecurity applications, not for mining

WBTC is upgrading its cross-chain DVN configurations following the rsETH incident, with completion expected by April 26

OKX integrated BitGo off-exchange settlement for US institutional clients, letting them trade while assets stay in BitGo custody

Bittensor introduced Conviction, locked-stake vesting mechanism to curb rugpulls and verify long-term owner commitment

NanoClaw v2 launched in partnership with Vercel, adding agent-to-agent communication, human-in-the-loop approvals, and support for 15 messaging platforms

Hyberbridge’s Token Gateway exploiter voluntarily returned 5.44 ETH and ~180k CERE, the first return since the no-questions-asked window opened following the April 13 exploit that caused $2M+ in losses​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Binance’s MEXC launched 0-Fee Festival with zero fees on all BTC and ETH spot pairs plus hundreds of spot/futures pairs including gold, silver, oil and US stocks

US Treasury bought back $15B of its own debt, one of the largest buyback operations on record

Tether backed freezing $344M in USDT across two Tron addresses in coordination with OFAC and US law enforcement

Bridgetower adopted Chainlink to tokenize $11B+ in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, integrating CCIP, Proof of Reserve, NAVLink, and CRE

Pharos opened airdrop registration for PROS, with optional lockups of 30, 60, or 90 days for up to 1.20x rewards; claiming opens April 28

Pantera Capital urging LSE-listed Satsuma Technology to sell its remaining $50M in BTC and return proceeds to shareholders; Pantera holds ~7% stake

MoonPay launched Virtual Accounts in New York State for fiat-to-stablecoin infrastructure

MoonPay launched Virtual Accounts in New York State for fiat-to-stablecoin infrastructure, and integrated Virtual Accounts into crypto neobank XPlace for US and EU users

Tencent Hunyuan released Hy3-Preview, a 295B MoE model with 21B active params and controllable reasoning effort, free on OpenRouter

Belarus to allow crypto banks to operate with 26 cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, TON and SOL, supporting 11 services including deposits, loans, staking, and token issuance

Turtle confirmed TURTLE is its sole economic instrument, with no equity layer, structured as a Swiss Verein; treasury holds over $8M

Octra nearing completion of Ethereum-side bridge flow for wOCT to OCT on Octra mainnet

ArbitrumDAO Security Council Member Election ends May 3, with vote decay now in effect on unused voting power

MetaMask USD (mUSD) now secured by Predicate, which launched Predicate Asset Compliance for automated onchain compliance controls on stablecoins and RWAs

Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh said AI will cut costs, lift productivity, and could spark a major US economic boom

ZEC listed on Robinhood Crypto, including New York

US sanctioned Cambodian Senator Kok An and 28 affiliates over crypto scam compounds, alongside seizure of 500+ fraudulent web domains used for crypto investment fraud

Rain partnered with Payy Network to add privacy-preserving settlement to its $3B stablecoin card program

KAST added support for Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Chinese, and Arabic

Miden shipped Guardian, a non-custodial coordination layer for institutional privacy where users retain keys while providers enforce policy and compliance

USD.AI’s CHIP token went live on Solana via Sunrise DeFi

US crude oil and petroleum product exports hit a record 12.9M barrels per day following Strait of Hormuz disruptions

Trust Wallet launched API Gateway MCP, giving AI agents one endpoint for token research, market data, risk signals, and swap routing across 100+ chains​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Fold launched Fold Business, a BTC bonus platform for employers with built-in vesting, already live with Steak n Shake and Simple Mining

TON to cut transaction fees 6x to ~$0.0005 per tx next week, with most transactions going feeless shortly after

Loopscale launched Loops 2.0 with a new execution engine, PRISM settlement layer for RWAs and bridged assets, and expanded asset coverage​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Coinbase added Pharos (PROS) to its listing roadmap

OKX became the first international exchange to support Tempo at launch, enabling USDT0 deposits, withdrawals, and self-custody from day one

DOJ arrested US Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke for using classified intel to bet on Polymarket ahead of Maduro’s capture, netting ~$409,881 across 13 bets

Morgan Stanley launched the Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio, a government money market fund for stablecoin issuers to park reserves under the proposed GENIUS Act

Trump vows to investigate federal workers placing bets on prediction markets over insider trading concerns

Tencent and Alibaba reportedly in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B valuation, up from $10B a week earlier

Alibaba’s Qwen released Qwen3.6-27B, an open-source dense model under Apache 2.0 that outperforms Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks

Robinhood Ventures Fund I invested $75M in OpenAI common stock on April 17

Florida launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s role in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University that killed two people

OpenAI hired former Airbnb exec Emmanuel Marill as its first Managing Director for Europe

OpenAI in talks to commit up to $1.5B to a $10B private equity joint venture deploying AI across PE-owned businesses, per FT

BlackRock rolled out RockAI, a no-code platform for building custom AI agents, to in-house developers

OpenClaw shipped 2026.4.21 with npm update repair for bundled plugins, Docker E2E coverage, and OpenAI Image 2 support​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Gensyn launched Delphi, an a16z-backed AI-settled information markets platform where creators earn 1.5% of market volume

Teneo Protocol rolled out Access Keys for Session Key wallets, enabling CLI use without exposing the private key

Vista Equity partnered with Google Cloud to deploy AI across its 90+ portfolio software firms

China’s chip exports hit a record $234B, up 43% YoY with Q1 up 77%, driven by AI demand

AngelList launched USVC, an SEC-registered retail VC fund with $500 minimum and no accreditation, holding stakes in xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Vercel, Crusoe, and Legora

Gemini Embedding 2 went GA, adding multimodal support across text, image, video, audio and documents in 100+ languages

CoinMarketCap launched an MCP server giving AI agents live quotes and on-chain data across 48M+ cryptos

Perplexity published research on its SFT + RL post-training pipeline, claiming Qwen-based models match or beat GPT on factuality at lower cost

Google unveiled 8th-gen TPUs: TPU 8t for training with ~3x compute per pod vs Ironwood, and TPU 8i connecting 1,152 chips per pod for inference

Reppo, a decentralized prediction-market protocol for AI training data curation, to list on Kraken April 23

Google launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with access to 200+ models via Model Garden, alongside Gemini 3.1 Pro, 3.1 Flash Image, Lyria 3 and Gemma 4

Google introduced the Agentic Data Cloud, evolving Dataplex into a Knowledge Catalog, with Vodafone, American Express and Virgin Voyages as early customers

OpenAI launched workspace agents in ChatGPT, available in research preview for Business, Enterprise, Edu and Teachers plans

Teneo Protocol launched Natural Language Requests in its Agent Console, letting users describe tasks instead of issuing direct agent commands

Odyssey launched Odyssey-2 Max, its most powerful world model, advancing SOTA in physical accuracy

SoftBank seeking $10B margin loan backed by its OpenAI shares to fund AI push

Anthropic says in a new court filing it has no way to control or shut down its AI models once deployed by the Pentagon

Circle’s Chief Economist Gordon Liao proposed raising USDC interest rate slope on Aave v3 Ethereum Core from 10% to 40%, targeting 50%, to attract liquidity after the KelpDAO exploit drove the pool to 100% utilization

Shutter Network introduced the Perpetual Endowment Network (PEN), a governance funding model using a permanent principal base to generate yield for continuous DAO runway

growthepie rolled out upgraded app pages with screenshots, new overview tab, token metrics, success rate data, and multi-app comparison

KelpDAO hacker swapped nearly all 75,700 ETH ($175M) into BTC via THORChain in ~1.5 days, generating $800M in volume and $910K in fees for THORChain

Ethereum Foundation launched the Road to Devcon 8 Academic Program, funding regional meetups, workshops, and hackathons ahead of Devcon 8 in Mumbai (Nov 3–6, 2026)

Fluid extended its aWETH Redemption Protocol to Arbitrum and Base, after processing $400M+ in redemptions on Ethereum mainnet

Besu 26.4.0 released with eth/70, block access list exchange, IPv6 DiscV5 & RLPx, and new txpool RPCs; Clique and Holesky removed

Catalysis launched on Ethereum with Covered Vaults, debuting a Gauntlet-curated WETH Prime vault on Morpho

CertiK flagged Lazarus Group’s new macOS malware campaign Mach-O Man targeting fintech and crypto execs via fake Zoom/Teams meeting invites

Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama to meet top banks this week to discuss threat posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model Mythos

Russia passed crypto regulation bill allowing businesses to use crypto for cross-border and foreign trade settlements, with BTC and ETH first in line

SEC Chair Paul Atkins said most digital assets may fall outside securities rules under a new taxonomy; SEC also weighing exemption for tokenized securities trading onchain

Bitmine staked another 61,232 ETH ($142M) with Coinbase Prime, bringing total staked to 3.39M ETH ($7.88B), 68% of its portfolio

Bipartisan US bill would give nonbank payment firms direct access to Federal Reserve payment rails

SoFi added XRP deposits, becoming the first US nationally chartered bank to support XRP alongside BTC, ETH, and SOL

NeoCognition launched as an agent lab for specialized intelligence, backed by $40M seed funding

Aptos governance proposal for Confidential APT is live, bringing opt-in encrypted balances and transaction amounts at the protocol level

UK investors regain tax-free access to crypto ETNs via Innovative Finance ISA route after Stratiphy secured IFISA manager approval for 21Shares products

Uzbekistan creates state-backed crypto mining zone with tax breaks, requiring foreign sale proceeds to be repatriated through domestic banks

Mastercard joins Blockchain Security Standards Council as charter member

Bybit warned of a malware campaign using SEO poisoning to redirect macOS users searching for Claude Code to fake install pages that steal wallet credentials​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Upshift tapped Securitize Fund Services for third-party reporting, auditing, and performance transparency on its onchain vaults, a first for native onchain vaults

UK FCA carried out its first crackdown on illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, raiding 8 London sites with HMRC and organized crime units

Russia passed first reading of bill regulating digital currency via licensed intermediaries, opening the door to penalties for unlicensed activity

MoneyGram extended its partnership with Stellar Development Foundation, launching its in-app stablecoin balance in El Salvador after Colombia, with more Latin America markets to follow

Coinbase listed tGBP, its first GBP-backed stablecoin, available globally from April 22

Input Output submitted nine Cardano treasury proposals for 2026 totaling just under 50% of last year’s request, with voting open through May 24 and Leios mainnet targeted by end of 2026

OCC proposed rule implementing the GENIUS Act to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, with comments open until May 1

Circle partnered with OSL Group to expand USDC access across trading and payments, supporting 1:1 USD/USDC conversions and settlement in Hong Kong and beyond

Decibel added Silver (XAG) perps on Aptos, following last week’s Gold (XAU) launch

Fracti Fi partnered with Avalanche to build settlement infrastructure for tokenized deposits and institutional cash management onchain

Kalshi tapped Pyth as resolution oracle for its new Commodities Hub covering oil, gold, lithium and soybeans

Injective, Microsoft and Web3Labs launched the Injective Nova Program at HK Web3 Festival to incubate Chinese Web3 devs with Azure credits and grants

Binance US cut spot fees to 0% maker and 0.02% taker across all pairs with no volume requirements

Crypto market structure bill Clarity nears breakthrough on stablecoin rewards, but Tillis says Senate Banking Committee markup unlikely in April as illicit finance and ethics issues remain

Reppo, a decentralized prediction-market protocol for AI training data curation, to list on Kraken April 23

Arcium published Pre-TGE report, confirming $ARX token launch is imminent with ecosystem teams having raised over $7.5M

CoinMarketCap launched an MCP server giving AI agents live quotes and on-chain data across 48M+ cryptos

AngelList launched USVC, an SEC-registered retail VC fund with $500 minimum and no accreditation, holding stakes in xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Vercel, Crusoe, and Legora

Jupiter launched Prediction Bot on Telegram with Clans feature, partnering with Polymarket for initial market liquidity

Kraken submitted 56M crypto tax forms to the IRS, many for transactions under $10, calling out the lack of a de minimis exemption

Eric Trump’s American Bitcoin shares rose 12% after energizing ~11,298 miners at Drumheller, bringing fleet to ~89,242 miners and 28.1 EH/s

Infinite launched bank accounts with ACH, wire and stablecoin transfers powered by Peter Thiel-backed Erebor Bank

Kalshi fined and 5-year banned three congressional candidates (Mark Moran, Matt Klein, Ezekiel Enriquez) for betting on their own races

Believe founder Ben Pasternak arrested on strangulation and assault charges from a March 31 incident, pleaded not guilty, amid ongoing class-action rug pull lawsuit

NY Governor Hochul signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction markets, following a similar order from Illinois Governor Pritzker

Sam Bankman-Fried withdrew his Rule 33 motion for a new trial, saying he won’t get a fair hearing from Judge Kaplan

Meta to install tracking software on US employee computers to collect workflow data for AI training, per internal memo​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Google launched Deep Research and Deep Research Max in Gemini API, powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro with MCP support and native visualizations

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.0 with 2K resolution, sharper editing, and multilingual text rendering, rolled out to all ChatGPT and Codex users

OpenAI previewed Agent Studio (codename Hermes) for building and hosting always-on agents in ChatGPT

OpenAI’s Codex hit 4M active users, less than two weeks after hitting 3M

Hugging Face released ml-intern, an open-source ML research agent, with $1k in GPU and Anthropic credits for early users

Somnia launched Agentic L1 with Somnia Agents running onchain as part of consensus

Tencent Cloud open-sourced Cube Sandbox, a RustVMM/KVM-based runtime for AI agents with sub-60ms cold start and E2B SDK compatibility

0G Foundation partnered with Alibaba Cloud to give AI agents on-chain access to Qwen models via tokenized mechanism

Shipper launched publicly, letting users spin up AI coworkers powered by Claude Code Opus 4.7 with 100+ skills and connectors

Sui’s Volo Protocol was exploited for ~$3.5M in WBTC, XAUm, and USDC; team froze ~$500K and blocked a bridge attempt of 19.6 WBTC, with $28M TVL in other vaults unaffected​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Starknet rolled out Shinobi upgrade, bringing protocol-level privacy with in-protocol proof verification

Bank of Korea’s new governor Shin Hyun-song vowed to push CBDC and deposit tokens via Project Hangang, omitting stablecoins from his inauguration speech

KelpDAO exploiter began moving $1.5M of stolen funds from Ethereum to Bitcoin via THORChain, plus $78K via Umbra, following the $290M exploit

Revolut in talks for $150B–$200B valuation ahead of potential stock market listing, not before 2028

12 European banks tapped Fireblocks to power a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin, targeting H2 2026 launch

HashKey Group partnered with CAEX to build a fully licensed crypto exchange for the Vietnamese market

SUI and USDC-Sui went live on RedotPay

Nasdaq, Boerse Stuttgart and other firms urged the EU to fast-track its DLT pilot regime, warning Europe risks falling behind the US in tokenized assets

0G Foundation partnered with Alibaba Cloud to give AI agents on-chain access to Qwen models via tokenized mechanism

Securitize named former IMF representative Sunil Sabharwal to its board as it pursues a public listing via Cantor Equity Partners II merger

Strategy generated 6.2% BTC Yield and 47,079 BTC Gain in the first three weeks of April, worth ~$3.6B

UK Treasury unveiled plan to consolidate stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and traditional payments into a single regulatory framework, with £1M funding for the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology

Coinbase listed Opengradient (OPG) with spot trading going live April 21

Somnia launched Agentic L1 with Somnia Agents running onchain as part of consensus

DoorDash, Stripe, Coastal, and ARQ moved payment flows into production on Tempo, which also launched a Stablecoin Advisory practice

Privacy Boost by Sunnyside Labs went live on OP Mainnet, a ZK+TEE hybrid confidential computing module for OP Stack chains

LayerZero bridging for weETH and eETH resumed on EtherFi with DVNs increased from 2 to 4 and stricter rate limits

Alchemy went live on Injective, giving its developers RPC access to the chain

USDAI launched $CHIP, the governance and utility token of its GPU-backed lending protocol, with $225M in executed loans and $665M in pipeline

Reps Young Kim and Liccardo introduced bipartisan PACE Act creating a national payments license giving fintechs and crypto firms direct access to Federal Reserve payment rails

Ramp added USDT support across Ethereum, Solana, and Plasma with $0 USD/USDT on/off ramps across its entire product suite

Trump extended the Iran ceasefire pending unified proposal from Tehran; US military directed to maintain

blockade

MARISKS warned scammers impersonating Iranian authorities are demanding BTC or USDT clearance fees from ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz, with ~20,000 seafarers stuck and one vessel hit by gunfire on April 18 possibly targeted​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Polymarket integrated with Bitget Wallet, opening access to its 90M+ users

Polymarket introduced perpetuals trading, 24/7 long/short on its markets

Base Engineering announced Azul, its first independent network upgrade, now live on testnet with mainnet set for May 13 — activating multiproofs toward Stage 2 decentralization

Core Scientific plans $3.3B senior secured notes offering due 2031 to repay credit facility loans as it pivots toward AI colocation

New York AG Letitia James sued Coinbase and Gemini over prediction markets, seeking $2.2B from Coinbase and $1.2B from Gemini for alleged illegal gambling

Coinbase published its first Independent Advisory Board position paper on quantum computing and blockchain, assembling researchers from Stanford, UT Austin, and the Ethereum Foundation to assess risks and migration plans for major chains​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, a new open-source SOTA on HLE with tools (54.0), SWE-Bench Pro (58.6), and SWE-bench Multilingual (76.7), rolling out Instant, Thinking, Agent, and Agent Swarm variants on Kimi Chat and APIs​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Democratic House candidate Alex Bores rolling out an AI dividend plan to share AI wealth amid job displacement concerns

Birdeye Data adds x402 support for pay-per-request API access on Solana and Base at $0.003 USDC per call

Meta launches LevelUp, a free 4-week training program with CBRE to prepare fiber technicians for US data center construction sites

xAI released Grok 4.20

Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, an early preview of its next flagship model

Secret Network partners with Antseed to bring TEE-based confidential AI inference to its open inference marketplace

AVAX One announces expansion into AI/HPC data center infrastructure

Scala Data Centers, backed by DigitalBridge, pitching a city-sized data center project to foreign tech companies in Brazil​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Cursor in talks to raise $2B at a valuation over $50B, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz with Nvidia and Thrive Capital participating

Humanoid Network beta launching soon, letting anyone contribute data and earn

Alibaba Cloud’s MSE AI Registry entered public beta, offering full lifecycle Prompt management and a secure Skill registry

Alibaba Cloud SASE released an integrated AI Agent workplace security solution with a lightweight client covering the full agent lifecycle

Recursive Superintelligence raised $500M at $4B pre-money valuation, led by GV with Nvidia following

Shipper launched as an AI agent that designs, codes, monetizes and launches web/mobile apps, websites and Chrome extensions

PIEVERSE launched one-click LINE integration with Purr-Fect Claw via OpenClaw or Hermes Agent

OpenAI launched Chronicle in Codex, a memory feature that builds context from on-device screen captures, rolling out to Pro users on macOS excluding EU, UK, and Switzerland

launched Agentic.Market, a discovery and storefront layer for x402 services, with the ecosystem at 165M+ transactions and ~$50M in volume

Amazon to invest an additional $5B in Anthropic with up to $20B more to come, securing Anthropic up to 5 gigawatts of compute

Aave service providers published a report on the rsETH incident, with the attacker depositing 89,567 of 116,500 exploited rsETH on Aave and the DAO coordinating bad debt coverage from its $181M treasury

Vitalik said Ethereum is not built to compete with high-frequency trading platforms or be the fastest chain, but to be the secure, decentralized, reliable chain

Bitmine added 101,627 ETH last week, bringing total holdings to 4.98M ETH (~4.12% of supply)

Aave unfroze WETH reserves on Ethereum Core V3 following the rsETH incident, with LTV kept at 0; WETH reserves on Ethereum Prime, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, and Linea remain frozen​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Arbitrum Security Council froze and seized 30,766 ETH ($71M) on Arbitrum One tied to the KelpDAO exploiter, moving funds to an intermediary wallet that can only be moved via governance vote

Coinbase launched crypto-backed USDC loans in the UK against BTC, ETH, and cbETH collateral, powered by Morpho

Coinbase to launch Based (BASED1) perpetual futures on April 20

Binance CEO Yi He said Binance has no plans for large-scale layoffs, speaking at Hong Kong Web3 Festival

BBC report found unusual trading spikes minutes before Trump’s market-moving announcements, including a surge of oil short bets 47 minutes before his March 9 CBS interview that triggered a 25% oil drop​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Tether backed UAE tokenization firm KAIO in an $8M round, as KAIO tokenizes funds from BlackRock, Brevan Howard and Hamilton Lane for on-chain distribution

Poland’s parliament failed again to override presidential veto on crypto bill, leaving it the only EU country without a national MiCA framework

Russia introduced bill to criminalize unlicensed crypto services with penalties up to 7 years in prison

PancakeSwap launched as a mini-app on Base App, offering swap, liquidity, farming, CAKE.PAD and AI features

OpenAssets partners with Chainlink to power issuance and distribution of institutional tokenized assets, leveraging CRE, CCIP, DTA, NAVLink, and Price Feeds

US government begins refunding up to $166B in tariffs after Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariff policy unlawful, with 330,000+ importers across 53M shipments eligible

Coinbase and Bybit reportedly working together on tokenization, custody, and global distribution of US stocks

PIEVERSE launched one-click LINE integration with Purr-Fect Claw via OpenClaw or Hermes Agent

Injective opening the Injective Lounge on May 5 during Consensus 2026 at Hotel Greystone in Miami Beach

Upbit to list PIEVERSE on KRW, BTC, and USDT markets on April 20 at 16:00 KST

Mizuho, Nomura, JSCC and Digital Asset to launch PoC on Canton Network for JGB collateral management, selected under Japan FSA’s Payment Innovation Project

Zaut partnered with Dappit as its official security partner, bringing autonomous pentesting to web apps built on the platform

Glider running a $1,000 giveaway for users who deposit, buy, sell, or copy a portfolio with Arbitrum assets, closing Sunday midnight ET

Safe Research proposed ERC-7955, a permissionless CREATE2 factory using EIP-7702 to replace the key-controlled Safe Singleton Factory

SBI Remit partnered with Tottori Bank to use Ripple’s ledger for remittance and salary deposits for foreign workers in Japan, bringing total partnerships to 26

GraniteShares targeting April 23 launch for first 3x leveraged long and short XRP ETFs

Former Goldman Sachs MD Javier Rodriguez-Alarcon joins DRW from crypto firm XBTO

Canton Network pilots Japanese government bonds as digital collateral in a JPX Group PoC

Hanwha Investment & Securities signed MOU with Digital Asset to explore collaboration on the Canton Network

Exolix partners with Coinomi Wallet to enable in-wallet cross-chain swaps with no account required

Proof of Human integrates SPACE ID so users can verify wallets by onchain name instead of address

AVAX One announces expansion into AI/HPC data center infrastructure

Pharos unveiled $PROS tokenomics with team + investor allocations (40%) fully locked for 12 months then vesting over 36 months, no TGE unlock

Exponent’s Flares Season 2 goes live with loyalty multiplier tiers based on S1 TVL retention, and integrates Loopscale for up to 5x Flares

Birdeye Data adds x402 support for pay-per-request API access on Solana and Base at $0.003 USDC per call

Pharos published full fund flow and security transparency report for its Stake before the Stake campaign, disclosing multi-sig vault addresses, Circle native USDC burn/mint mechanism, and $50M treasury subsidy backing the 14% APY

Coinbase launched Agentic.Market, a discovery and storefront layer for x402 services, with the ecosystem at 165M+ transactions and ~$50M in volume

Lovable confirmed chat messages on public projects were accidentally made accessible in February during a backend permissions update, now reverted, with no data breach

BitGo partnered with Yuma Group to offer institutional staking and trading of Bittensor Subnet Tokens

Yuma launched Oro on Bittensor, billed as the biggest agent competition in the world​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Tether disclosed a 1.95M share stake in Bitmain-linked Antalpha, representing ~8.2% of outstanding equity post-IPO

Grayscale amended its HYPE ETF filing, dropping Coinbase and naming Anchorage Digital Bank as custodian

Ripple unveiled a roadmap to make the XRP Ledger quantum-ready by 2028

Supra unveiled SupraOS, a self-hosted blockchain-enforced AI agent management platform, with alpha launching April 20 limited to 100 seats

Vultisig SDK launched to let AI agents move capital via MPC without handing over seed phrases

Coinbase testing AI agents in Slack and email modeled after Fred Ehrsam and Balaji Srinivasan

Drafted launched a free tool that turns any drawn shape into generated house plans with 3D models​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hermes Agent hit 100,000 stars on GitHub

Kelp DAO’s rsETH LayerZero bridge exploited for ~$292M; attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, deposited on Aave V3 to borrow ~$236M WETH, leaving ~$280M bad debt

EtherFi paused LayerZero bridging for weETH and eETH, and paused Teller contracts for Liquid (ETH, BTC, USD), sETHFI, and eBTC while investigating rsETH incident

Aave froze rsETH markets on V3 and V4, and Aave multisig guardian froze WETH on lending markets as precaution

Vitalik warned of DNS attack on ethlimo and urged users to avoid the site until resolved

RaveDAO denied involvement in recent RAVE price action, said team will liquidate portions of unlocked tokens based on TRS to fund operations

Vercel disclosed a security incident involving unauthorized access to internal systems affecting a limited subset of customers, traced to a compromised third-party AI tool’s Google Workspace OAuth app​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Coinbase testing AI agents in Slack and email modeled after Fred Ehrsam and Balaji Srinivasan

Russia’s Sberbank preparing to offer crypto trading services once regulation and organized exchange trading are introduced

Curve paused LayerZero infrastructure, halting CRV bridging from BNB, Sonic, Avalanche, Fantom, Etherlink, Kava, and crvUSD fast bridge

Polkadot launched an official Documentation MCP server compatible with Claude and Codex, plus structured LLM files for RAG pipelines

Telegram Login SDK now supports native iOS and Android apps, offering free phone number verification for devs

Vultisig SDK launched to let AI agents move capital via MPC without handing over seed phrases

Chainlink added 12 new integrations across 8 services and 4 chains, including GMX, MidasRWA, and SIX Group

RAVE crashed 95% in a day, wiping $6.3B in market cap amid alleged insider manipulation; Binance and Bitget opened investigations

OKX Events & Options rolled out 15-min price predictions, daily above/below markets, and single/multi-leg options in select jurisdictions

Phantom added direct bank withdrawals for US users

Charles Schwab and Citadel Securities are both weighing entry into prediction markets, excluding sports

Eitherway launched Telegram bot for one-shot deployment of Web2/Web3 products to GitHub, Vercel, or Netlify​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Elemental relaunched as V2 with fresh contracts, new multisigs, isolated vault design, and a first USDT vault deploying to Kamino and Loopscale

Fluid launched aWETH Redemption Protocol with Lido, ether[.]fi, 0x, 1inch, and KyberNetwork, letting ETH lenders on Aave exit into wstETH or weETH amid 100% utilization, capped at $1B

DAC Chain L1 testnet went live with QE rewards, badges, referrals, and Quantum Crates ahead of mainnet

Polymarket in talks to raise $400M at $15B valuation, with total round potentially reaching $1B including additional strategic investors beyond ICE

Aave TVL dropped $8.45B over two days to $17.947B; total DeFi TVL fell $13.21B to $86.286B