Tokyo Offers Subsidies to Businesses That Promote the Digital Yen
Tokyo’s Metropolitan Government has launched a subsidy program offering companies up to 40 million yen – roughly $250,000 – to build real-world use cases around...
Author : Aiden F. Crowell
Ethereum Foundation Veteran Josh Stark Is Stepping Down
Josh Stark, one of the Ethereum Foundation most senior executives, is stepping down after a five-year tenure, a departure that lands at an unusually turbulent...
SEC Gives Some Self-Custody Crypto Apps 5 Years to Sort Out Broker Licensing
The SEC Division of Trading and Markets published a staff statement, telling certain wallet-linked crypto trading apps they can operate without a broker-dealer license –...
Russia Crypto Exchange Grinex Halts Trading After Reported $13M Exploit
Roughly $13 million in user funds vanished from Russia crypto exchange Grinex in April 2026, and by the time the exchange suspended trading, the money...
Tether Backed a $134M SKY Crypto Token Deal: What It Says About Stablecoin Power
Tether just confirmed it backed a $134 million private placement in Stablecoin Development Corporation, a publicly-traded company that exists specifically to give stock market investors...
Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 Open Interest Tops $2B: Why 24/7 Tokenized Equity Trading Is Turning Heads
Hyperliquid HIP-3 market just crossed $2B in open interest, and the number itself is almost beside the point. The detail most headlines are missing is...
Bitwise Launches Avalanche ETF With Staking, What This Could Mean for AVAX Crypto
Bitwise has launched BAVA, an exchange-traded fund holding Avalanche (AVAX crypto) tokens directly and staking a portion of those holdings to generate yield for investors....
Crypto Hedge Fund Boss Joe McCann Detained: What We Know About the Tanzania Murder Investigation
Joe McCann, founder of crypto hedge fund Asymmetric Financial, is being held for questioning by the Tanzania Police Force following the death of his fiancée,...
Bitwise Says Global Conflict Could Expand Bitcoin Market Beyond Gold: Is That Plausible?
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan is arguing that Bitcoin’s addressable market could eventually surpass gold’s, currently sitting around $20 trillion, if geopolitical fragmentation continues accelerating. The...
X Money Adds Live Crypto Cashtags, How This Changes Coin Discovery for Retail
On April 14, 2026, X Money quietly flipped a switch that lets iPhone users in the US and Canada tap a $ticker symbol, say, BTC...