Cryptomonnaies, NFTs & Investissements

US Senator Thom Tillis will publicly share an agreement to end a crypto and banking clash over stablecoin yields, but both sides are resisting the proposal, Politico reports.Bank and crypto lobbyists have both relayed concerns over the latest proposal to end the stalemate on stablecoin yields in the US Senate’s crypto market structure bill, legislation that has been in limbo since the House passed the CLARITY Act in July.Senator Thom Tillis told Politico on Monday that he plans to publicly release a draft agreement this week that aims to end a fight over a provision in the Senate’s crypto policing bill that would ban third parties, such as crypto exchanges, from offering stablecoin yield payments.The draft had already been seen by banking and crypto representatives earlier this month, with Politico reporting that it drew pushback from the banks, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.Read more

The IMF warns that global public debt could reach about 100% of world GDP by 2029.

Virginia signed a law bringing digital assets into unclaimed property rules, requiring in-kind transfer and limiting how quickly the state can sell them.The US state of Virginia has approved changes to its unclaimed property framework, bringing digital assets under state custody rules while limiting how soon those assets can be sold.On Monday, Governor Abigail Spanberger signed House Bill 798 into law. The measure amends the state’s Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, requiring custodians of unclaimed crypto to transfer those assets in-kind, meaning in their original form, rather than liquidating them into cash.The law also imposes a minimum one-year holding period before any sale. “The administrator may subsequently direct such holder of unclaimed digital assets to liquidate the reported but unremitted digital assets not less than one year following the filing of a report,” the bill reads.Read more

Societe Generale-FORGE said MetaMask will add its MiCA-compliant USDCV stablecoin, extending distribution for one of Europe’s bank-backed digital dollars.Societe Generale-FORGE, the digital asset arm of French banking giant Societe Generale, has integrated its Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA)-compliant USD CoinVertible (USDCV) stablecoin into MetaMask, giving the wallet’s millions of users access to a regulated dollar token issued by a major European bank.The company said in a release on Wednesday that under the partnership with Consensys, USDCV, which is backed by cash and cash-equivalent reserves and issued under French electronic money regulations, will be surfaced in MetaMask on mobile and web. The token is redeemable 1:1 in dollars and will be made available for functions including trading, decentralized finance interaction and fiat on-ramping, with Transak serving as the on-ramp provider.The move expands access to one of the few dollar stablecoins issued by a major European bank. It also comes as…

Bitcoin is struggling to break and hold above the key $75,000 resistance level while ether, solana decline.

Pakistan’s central bank has allowed banks to open accounts for licensed virtual asset service providers, ending years of restrictions and marking a shift toward a regulated framework.Pakistan’s central bank has allowed banks to open accounts for licensed virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and their customers, replacing an eight-year-old prohibition on dealing in virtual currencies.In a circular dated April 14, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said regulated entities may open bank accounts for entities licensed by the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA), the statutory body responsible for licensing, regulation and oversight of virtual asset activities in the country.The move follows Pakistan’s passage of the Virtual Assets Act 2026 in March and marks a shift toward a more formal regulatory framework for digital assets after years of restrictions following an outright ban in 2018. Read more

EToro is set to acquire self-custodial wallet provider Zengo, and the trading platform’s CEO predicted a Bitcoin rally above $250,000 after another quarter of crypto market downside.EToro said Wednesday it agreed to acquire self-custodial crypto wallet provider Zengo, deepening the trading platform’s push into onchain products as digital assets remain central to its business.The deal will let eToro add Zengo’s wallet technology and broaden its offering in areas such as tokenized assets, prediction markets, perpetuals and yield products, according to the company. Terms were not disclosed. Bloomberg reported the transaction is worth about $70 million, mostly in cash, citing a person familiar with the matter.CEO Yoni Assia said at Paris Blockchain Week during a fireside chat that the acquisition fits eToro’s effort to attract a more crypto native user base while expanding beyond regulated brokerage products into self-custody infrastructure.Read more

Bitcoin Magazine Presidio Bitcoin Releases Quantum Readiness Paper Presidio Bitcoin releases new report, with plans to regularly update and maintain as a « living document » to keep track of the current state of research on making Bitcoin quantum safe. This post Presidio Bitcoin Releases Quantum Readiness Paper first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Shinobi.

The authors described it as a “private incentive to upgrade” because lost or frozen coins will make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more.Update (April 15, 6:45 am UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from Jameson Lopp.Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp and five co-authors from the Bitcoin quantum security space have proposed freezing quantum-vulnerable coins on the Bitcoin network, including Satoshi’s $74 billion stash, to prevent them from being stolen once quantum computers become available.The move is the second part of a three-stage proposal under BIP-361 called the “Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset,” which was posted as a draft to GitHub on Tuesday.Read more

Bitcoin Magazine Is Bitcoin Still a Sovereign Tool? A new panel has officially been announced for Bitcoin 2026 titled “Is Bitcoin Still A Sovereign Tool?” featuring Matt Odell, Bruce Fenton, Luke Rudkowski, and BTC Sessions. The conversation will bring together these four voices who have spent years examining the intersection of Bitcoin, individual freedom, institutional adoption, and whether Bitcoin is staying true to […] This post Is Bitcoin Still a Sovereign Tool? first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Jenna Montgomery.

Bitcoin rallied to $76,000 on Tuesday as a bullish chart breakout and increasing onchain activity hint at an extended rally to $90,000.Market analysts say Bitcoin (BTC) is showing “renewed bullish momentum” after its 5% rally above $76,000 on Tuesday, with bulls eyeing further gains to $90,000 amid improving network activity.Data from TradingView shows the BTC/USD pair rose over 5% on Tuesday to an intraday high of $76,120, levels last seen on Feb. 6. The surge saw Bitcoin’s price reclaim key support levels, including the $75,000 zone where the 100-day exponential and simple moving averages converge.Read more

A proposal has been updated on Bitcoin’s official repository, calling for freezing of quantum-vulnerable coins.

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan previously estimated that if Bitcoin captures 17% of the store-of-value market over the next decade, it could be worth $1 million a coin.Bitcoin’s addressable market has the potential to surpass the $34 trillion gold market if it is eventually widely used as both a currency and a store of value, according to Bitwise’s chief investment officer Matt Hougan.Hougan said on Tuesday that while Bitcoin (BTC) has been seen as a contender to gold, the war in Iran has shown that Bitcoin can also serve in a “currency-like manner,” referring to Iran’s proposed plan to charge a toll that can be paid in crypto for ships to navigate the Strait of Hormuz. “In a world where countries have weaponized their financial rails, Bitcoin is emerging as an apolitical alternative,” Hougan said. Read more

Bitcoin Magazine Trump Fed Pick Kevin Warsh Reveals Stake in Bitcoin Lightning Startup Flashnet Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, has reported an equity stake in Bitcoin payments startup Flashnet. This post Trump Fed Pick Kevin Warsh Reveals Stake in Bitcoin Lightning Startup Flashnet first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Crypto Valley raised $728 million across 31 deals in 2025, outpacing global blockchain funding growth as a $400 million TON deal lifted totals.Switzerland’s Crypto Valley captured 47% of European blockchain venture funding in 2025, raising $728 million across 31 deals, according to an annual report released Wednesday by venture firm CV VC.Globally, blockchain venture funding rose 30% to $15.5 billion across 986 deals last year, while Crypto Valley’s total climbed 37% from $531 million in 2024, the report said.One deal did much of the heavy lifting. The Open Network (TON) accounted for $400 million of Crypto Valley’s 2025 funding haul, followed by Sygnum Bank at $58 million, stablecoin platform M0 at $40 million, Impossible Cloud Network at $34 million and CratD2C at $30 million, according to the report.Read more

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The exchange said the new product is available across the European Economic Area through its Malta-based MiFID business, with up to 10x leverage and multi-asset collateral.OKX said Wednesday it is rolling out a Europe-specific crypto derivatives product called X-Perps, extending its regulated offering across the European Economic Area (EEA) through its Malta-based MiFID business.The company said the new derivatives product is available to retail and institutional traders across all 30 EEA countries.OKX said the platform is purpose-built in compliance with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), a European Union regulatory framework governing financial instruments such as securities and derivatives.Read more

The ETH/BTC ratio hit its highest since January as Ethereum’s network added 284,000 new users in Q1 and stablecoin supply reached a record $180 billion.

Elastic Security Labs says a multi-step social engineering scam is aimed at those in crypto and finance, using a community plugin feature on a note-taking app to spread malicious device-controlling software.Crypto users have been warned of a new social engineering scam that tricks victims into using community plugins on the note-taking app Obsidian to unknowingly run malware that can take control of their devices.Elastic Security Labs said in a report on Tuesday that it found a novel campaign targeting those in crypto and finance using “elaborate social engineering on LinkedIn and Telegram” to trick victims into allowing malicious, yet seemingly safe, software to run on their devices.Attackers abuse the community plugin ecosystem on Obsidian to “silently execute code when a victim opens a shared cloud vault,” with attacks working on both Windows and macOS devices.Read more

Derivatives funding rates have now remained negative for 46 days, a streak last seen following the FTX crash which marked the bottom of 2022’s crypto winter.

Tat Thang, a partner at the prediction platform Polymarket, suggests X is building a Web3 equivalent of the Chinese WeChat Pay citing its recent moves to scrub crypto bots.Social media platform X has launched its smart cashtag feature on iPhones in the US and Canada, letting users view stock and cryptocurrency data directly from the app as part of Elon Musk’s plan to shift X into a financial platform.The new feature allows users to select a specific asset or smart contract address when posting a ticker. Tapping a tag displays live price charts and related posts. Canadian users will be able to trade stocks and crypto through a deal between X and Wealthsimple, an online brokerage. The trading feature has not yet rolled out in the United States. Read more

Bitcoin Magazine Satochip Announces Bridge Financing as It Prepares U.S. Push for Open-Source Hardware Wallets Satochip’s bridge round will fund local U.S. operations, sales channels, and B2B partnerships as the hardware company attends the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas at the end of April. This post Satochip Announces Bridge Financing as It Prepares U.S. Push for Open-Source Hardware Wallets first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Juan Galt.

Bitcoin Magazine Back-To-Back Billion-Dollar Days: Strategy’s STRC ATM Clears $2.7B In 48 Hours Strategy’s STRC ATM has produced $2.7 billion in volume across just two trading sessions this week, more than all of last week combined. This post Back-To-Back Billion-Dollar Days: Strategy’s STRC ATM Clears $2.7B In 48 Hours first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Nick Ward.

Ripple and Kyobo Life are piloting tokenized government bond settlement as South Korea builds rules for token securities and digital asset payments.Ripple has partnered with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Korea’s largest life insurers, to pilot blockchain-based settlement of government bonds, as Seoul moves to formalize rules for tokenized securities.Ripple Custody, Ripple’s digital asset custody solution, will support the issuance, storage and settlement of tokenized government bonds, the company said in a Wednesday announcement. The companies will also explore tokenized treasury settlement across Korea’s financial system.The project aims to replace traditional bond settlement processes, which often rely on multiple intermediaries and two-day settlement cycles, with onchain execution that enables near real-time settlement. This change could reduce counterparty risk and improve capital efficiency.Read more

Breakout backed by institutional flows and whale buying, with Japan adoption adding a fresh demand narrative.

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Roars Past $76,000 as Short Squeeze Continues Bitcoin price surged past $76,000 on short liquidations, institutional buying, and easing geopolitical tensions, briefly hitting a four-week high before pulling back toward $75,000. This post Bitcoin Price Roars Past $76,000 as Short Squeeze Continues first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Moves Past Halfway Point in Halving Cycle as Supply Tightens Toward 2028 Bitcoin is now just past the midpoint of its current halving cycle ahead of the 2028 supply cut, while miners continue to face shrinking block rewards. This post Bitcoin Moves Past Halfway Point in Halving Cycle as Supply Tightens Toward 2028 first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Fireblocks launched Earn, giving institutions direct access to Aave and Morpho-based stablecoin lending as firms seek yield on idle balances.Enterprise digital asset infrastructure platform Fireblocks said Wednesday it launched Earn, a feature that lets institutional clients route stablecoin balances into onchain lending strategies through Aave and Morpho-powered products.The product launches with a Sentora-curated vault on Morpho and direct access to Aave’s stablecoin lending markets, according to Fireblocks. The company said Earn is available now in Early Access for Fireblocks customers.Fireblocks said the feature is aimed at clients sitting on large idle stablecoin balances between settlement windows and deployment cycles. The company said it processed $6 trillion in stablecoin transfer volume in 2025 across more than 2,400 institutional clients, up 300% from a year earlier. Read more

Rakuten Pay users will also be able to spot trade XRP via the Rakuten Pay app and exchange the Japanese e-commerce giant’s points to purchase Ripple’s token

Firms and protocols are accumulating Strategy’s preferred stock to capture yield and bitcoin-linked exposure.

The team that helps operate the platform, CoW Swap, said that it was working to resolve the issue for the DEX aggregator.

It is the second long-term social-engineering attack this month, after the $280 million exploit of the Drift Protocol.Crypto wallet Zerion revealed that North Korean-affiliated hackers used AI in a long-term social engineering attack to steal about $100,000 from the company’s hot wallets last week. The Zerion team released a post-mortem on Wednesday, where it confirmed that no user funds, Zerion apps or infrastructure were affected and that it had proactively disabled the web app as a precaution. While the amount was relatively small in crypto hacking terms, it is another incident of a crypto worker being targeted for an “AI-enabled social engineering attack linked to a DPRK threat actor,” Zerion said.Read more

Bitcoin Magazine $3.5 Trillion Goldman Sachs Files for Bitcoin Premium Income ETF Goldman Sachs has filed for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, reflecting a broader Wall Street shift toward structured Bitcoin income products. This post $3.5 Trillion Goldman Sachs Files for Bitcoin Premium Income ETF first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

The acquisition ties in the retail trading platform with advanced wallet technology meant to help protect users’ assets.

US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $411.5 million in inflows Tuesday as Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin-linked ETF, lifting 2026 net flows back into positive territory.US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds bounced back to notable daily inflows as Goldman Sachs entered the Bitcoin ETF sector.Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $411.5 million inflows on Tuesday, marking the second-largest daily inflows in April so far, according to SoSoValue data.The fresh inflows pushed total net flows for 2026 into positive territory at roughly $245 million year-to-date, while total assets under management surged above $96.5 billion, the highest since mid-March.Read more

Kraken’s market valuation has dropped from $20 billion to $13.3 billion since the company confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC in November.Crypto exchange Kraken has hinted it is still going ahead with an initial public offering despite reports suggesting the plan was put on hold last month due to market conditions. Kraken filed for a confidential IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in November, but an unconfirmed report in March suggested that the plan may have been frozen. Speaking at the Semafor World Economy 2026 conference on Tuesday, Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi didn’t address the pause but confirmed the company had “confidentially filed” for an IPO when asked by Semafor reporter Rohan Goswami whether “there are plans to take Kraken public soon.”Read more

Bitcoin Magazine Relics of a Revolution, Part III: The Suit, The Songs, The System A conversation with Afroman. This post Relics of a Revolution, Part III: The Suit, The Songs, The System first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Dennis Koch.

The largest corporate ether holder posted a $3.8 billion quarterly loss as its pivot from mining to ETH accumulation continues.

DoubleZero’s private fiber network aims to eliminate latency advantages like Hyperliquid’s Tokyo edge, but exchanges have yet to show an interest.

Apple told Cointelegraph that the fake Ledger Live app was removed and that the developer was terminated from its app store.Apple has confirmed it took down a malicious app that impersonated the Ledger self-custody crypto wallet after an onchain analysis found that more than 50 victims fell for the scam, losing a combined $9.5 million.Apple told Cointelegraph on Tuesday that the fake Ledger Live app was removed and that the developer, “SAS Software Company,” was terminated from the Apple App Store.Apple said the developer used a “bait-and-switch strategy” to trick users into installing a fake Ledger Live app and sharing their seed phrases.Read more

The new initiative aims to address a persistent challenge in crypto development—the high cost of smart contract security audits.

Kevin Warsh’s financial disclosure reveals stakes in DeFi protocols, Ethereum scaling networks, a Bitcoin Lightning startup, and prediction markets — all of which he’s promised to sell.

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.

Bitcoin Magazine Kraken Reportedly Confirms Confidential IPO Filing as Valuation Falls to $13.3B Crypto exchange Kraken has confirmed a confidential IPO filing alongside a $13.3 billion valuation. This post Kraken Reportedly Confirms Confidential IPO Filing as Valuation Falls to $13.3B first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

World Liberty Financial allegedly used illiquid tokens to borrow $75 million, fueling bad debt fears and rattling confidence among traders.World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token risks dipping 20% in April, according to a mix of convincing technical and fundamental indicators.Key takeaways:WLFI is painting a bear flag setup with a 20% downside potential.Read more

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

China’s CSI 300 joins Taiwan and Singapore in erasing war-related declines as US-Iran talk optimism keeps oil below $100; spot ETFs posted $471 million in single-day inflows last week.

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

Arkham data shows 572 BTC moved from Gemini’s hot wallet to Winklevoss custody addresses in two transactions in 17 hours, reversing part of last month’s $128.5 million deposit.

EU officials plan to reassess MiCA as companies test its limits, with industry feedback set to shape potential changes to the bloc’s crypto framework.A European Commission adviser said the European Union’s landmark MiCA crypto regime is likely to evolve as digital asset markets develop beyond the conditions the law was originally designed to address.Speaking at the Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) 2026, Peter Kerstens, an adviser on technological innovation, digital transformation and cybersecurity at the European Commission’s financial services department, said the Commission will review the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and launch a public consultation to assess whether the rules are working for market participants and supporting business development.The remarks suggest EU policymakers are already thinking about how MiCA may need to evolve as the crypto market matures. Kerstens said he could not predict the future, but added that EU financial legislation typically evolves in stages, suggesting it would be…