Crypto News. April 30, 2026
Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz, with the US preparing a short and powerful wave of strikes; oil pumped above $107/barrel
Fed held rates unchanged for the 3rd straight meeting with the upper bound at 3.75%, drew 4 dissents — the most since 1992 — and toughened its inflation language from somewhat elevated to is elevated
Jerome Powell to remain at the Fed as a Board governor after stepping down as Chair
Senate Banking Committee voted 13-11 to advance Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Fed Chair to the full Senate
Pump.fun launched Charity Coins via donate.gg integration, routing creator fees to 10,000+ verified charities
Circle launched Nanopayments on mainnet via Circle Gateway, enabling gas-free USDC transfers down to $0.000001 across 11 chains
OKX published the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), an open standard for agent commerce with launch partners including Ethereum Foundation, Solana, Uniswap, AWS, and Paxos
Bullish expanded its partnership with Ripple Prime, giving institutional clients direct access to BTC options markets with RLUSD
Ripple and OKX partnered to make RLUSD available across 280+ spot pairs and as institutional margin collateral for derivatives
Sweat Foundation accounts drained for ~13.71B SWEAT (~65% of supply, ~$3.46M), routed via Ref Finance and Wormhole
MoonPay acquired Israeli crypto security startup Sodot in a $100M all-stock deal and launched MoonPay Institutional
Visa added Polygon to its global stablecoin settlement program
Galaxy Digital reported a $216M net loss in Q1 2026
Hong Kong Monetary Authority warned tokens using HKDAP and HSBC tickers are not issued or linked to licensed stablecoin issuers
Aftermath Finance paused its protocol after Blockaid flagged a perp clearing house exploit on Sui that drained ~$1.1M USDC across 11 transactions
Blockworks raised a Series A extension at a $192M valuation, co-led by ParaFi and Reciprocal Ventures
Squads raised $18M led by Solana Ventures to build Altitude, a stablecoin-native financial OS for businesses, bringing total funding to $42.9M
Securitize and Computershare partnered to let US-listed companies issue equity securities in tokenized form alongside traditional shares
Tether stakeholder Christopher Harborne reportedly gave Nigel Farage a previously undisclosed £5M personal gift for security costs, on top of £12M in Reform UK donations
Stable Sea tapped WisdomTree to let SMBs sweep idle stablecoin balances into the WTGXX tokenized Treasury fund
Roundhill filed for six prediction market ETFs covering 2028 presidential and 2026 midterm outcomes, with first launches possibly next week
Stripe Link added Pix in Brazil and stablecoins, with UPI in India previewed for US businesses
Legend raised $3.5M seed led by Electric Capital with Amber Group and GSR after driving $80M+ volume in 3 weeks of alpha on Hyperliquid
MoneyGram rolled out tap-to-pay, pay-by-link, and next-gen terminals across retail locations, all built on Stripe
Privy launched Digital Asset Accounts at Stripe Sessions, with Ramp using it to power Ramp Stablecoin Accounts
Ripple opens new Middle East and Africa regional HQ at the DIFC in Dubai, with RLUSD recognized as an approved crypto token in the DIFC
Bybit removed from Securities Commission Malaysia’s investor alert list after regulatory engagement
Ripple partners with Kbank, Korea’s first internet-only bank, to deploy institutional digital asset wallet infrastructure via Ripple Custody
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