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04/20/2026 08:57 AM Spot bitcoin ETFs log nearly $1 billion in weekly inflows, highest since mid-January
Morgan Stanley's MSBT logged a weekly net inflow of $71 million in the first full trading week since its debut.
04/20/2026 07:16 AM Coinbase tests AI agents that offer high-level feedback to staff
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the AI agents are modeled after former executives Fred Ehrsam and Balaji Srinivasan.
04/20/2026 06:22 AM LayerZero says North Korea’s Lazarus likely behind Kelp DAO exploit; blames single-point setup
The entire total value locked in the DeFi sector fell 7% in the past 24 hours to $86 billion, according to DefiLlama data.
04/20/2026 05:08 AM Polymarket seeks $400 million raise at $15 billion valuation: report
Polymarket had a $9 billion post-money valuation in October after Intercontinental Exchange agreed to invest up to $2 billion.
04/20/2026 03:35 AM The Funding: Why the bar for crypto VC is higher than ever
Venture funding in crypto is no longer as fast or easy as before. I spoke to several top VCs to understand why.
04/20/2026 02:05 AM Singapore-based Cobo launches agentic wallet with guardrails for AI-led onchain execution
Cobo has launched Cobo Agentic Wallet, enabling AI agents to perform onchain tasks and incorporating multi-party computation for safety.
04/19/2026 10:22 PM Web3 hosting backbone Vercel confirms breach as supposed hacker demands $2 million ransom
Many crypto and Web3 projects deploy frontends on Vercel, raising the risk that secrets stored as non-sensitive environment variables may now be exposed.
04/19/2026 07:26 PM EasyDNS accepts responsibility for eth.limo hijack, its first social engineering breach in 28 years
The incident joins a growing list of crypto front-ends compromised at the DNS layer in recent months, where even decentralized protocols are vulnerable.
04/18/2026 09:24 PM RaveDAO team denies role in RAVE token pump as Binance, Bitget open investigations
Onchain investigator ZachXBT alleged a pump-and-dump scheme and has offered a $25,000 bounty for whistleblowers.
04/18/2026 08:18 PM Kelp DAO’s rsETH bridge apparently exploited for roughly $292 million in LayerZero-based attack
Kelp's emergency pauser multisig froze the protocol's core contracts roughly 46 minutes after the successful drain, blocking two follow-up attempts.
04/18/2026 06:03 PM Alcoa nears deal to sell dormant New York smelter site to Bitcoin miner NYDIG: Bloomberg
Oplinger said the transaction should close in the middle part of this year, as the aluminum giant works to offload 10 dormant US smelter sites.
04/17/2026 10:49 PM Judge says Caitlyn Jenner’s JENNER memecoin is not a security in class action lawsuit
A judge ruled that a memecoin launched by media personality Caitlyn Jenner is not a security despite claims in a class action lawsuit.
04/17/2026 10:14 PM Strategy looks to boost preferred stock STRC’s dividend payments to semi-monthly
STRC is a perpetual preferred stock designed to trade near a $100 par value that currently pays a dividend at an annualized rate of 11.5%.
04/17/2026 10:05 PM Rhea Finance post-mortem puts exploit losses at $18.4 million, more than double initial estimates
Using what the team described as a "deliberately constructed swap route," the attacker opened a large number of margin trading positions.
04/17/2026 10:03 PM Crypto Council for Innovation gains Digital Energy Council as its first energy-focused acquisition
CCI is adding the Digital Energy Council to its roster, marking the first member dedicated specifically to digital energy policy.
04/17/2026 07:52 PM Wrapped XRP launches on Solana, enabling broader DeFi access for token holders
The move follows Hex Trust saying in December wXRP would become available on Solana, Optimism, Ethereum, and HyperEVM.
04/17/2026 06:32 PM Congresswoman Biggs discloses six-figure BlackRock bitcoin ETF buy as BTC rebounds
Rep. Sheri Biggs disclosed a purchase of up to $250,000 in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF for the second time in a year.
04/17/2026 06:00 PM World rolls out World ID ‘proof of human’ upgrade with Tinder integration, Zoom feature and ticketing tools
World’s latest World ID upgrade expands its “proof of human” technology to Tinder, a Zoom deepfake-protection feature, and ticketing tools.
04/17/2026 05:52 PM X exec says Cashtags crypto, stock token feature has driven $1 billion in trading volume
The Cashtags feature aligns with Musk's broader ambitions to transform X into a super app.
04/17/2026 04:55 PM Bitcoin retakes $78,000 as Trump declares Hormuz ‘open and ready for business’
The bitcoin move spread to other major cryptocurrencies, lifting the total market cap back above $2.7 trillion.
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