Crypto News. April 28, 2026
EU adopted its 20th Russia sanctions package, banning transactions with Russian crypto service providers and prohibiting the digital rouble and RUBx stablecoin
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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