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Wall Street’s biggest financial groups are expanding digital-asset hiring, signalling that blockchain, tokenisation and crypto-linked trading are moving deeper into mainstream finance after years of caution. BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have advertised a fresh batch of roles tied to digital assets, blockchain engineering, tokenised products, risk controls and wealth-management infrastructure. The openings span senior product posts, software engineering, fraud-risk oversight, programme management and operations strategy, showing that crypto hiring is no longer confined to small innovation labs or speculative

NEAR Protocol rallied sharply on Thursday as traders returned to artificial intelligence-linked digital assets, lifting one of the main layer-1 tokens tied to blockchain-based AI infrastructure and cross-chain automation. The token rose more than 13 per cent over 24 hours, trading near $1.47 after reaching an intraday high of about $1.54. The move placed NEAR among the stronger large-cap altcoins during a session marked by renewed appetite for infrastructure tokens rather than purely speculative meme assets. Bitcoin traded around $80,700, giving

Tether is positioning USDT as a core payments and liquidity layer for the Bitcoin economy, with chief executive Paolo Ardoino framing the stablecoin issuer’s strategy as a long-term infrastructure project rather than a conventional crypto trading business. Ardoino has likened the company’s approach to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, arguing that durable systems must be built before periods of financial stress expose weaknesses in existing institutions. The comparison reflects Tether’s wider effort to present USDT not merely as a dollar-pegged token for

Ethereum Foundation has sold another 10,000 ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies through an over-the-counter transaction, extending a series of treasury sales that has drawn scrutiny from the crypto market as staking withdrawals climb and institutional ETH accumulation intensifies. The latest deal was priced at an average of $2,292.15 per ETH, raising about $22.9 million for the non-profit organisation behind Ethereum’s core development ecosystem. It followed a 10,000 ETH sale one week earlier at about $2,387 per token, taking the two back-to-back

  TON has moved to the front of the Layer-1 speed debate after a fresh comparison of blockchain finalisation times placed The Open Network ahead of major rivals on the time required for transactions to become irreversible. The assessment, conducted in April 2026, compared leading Layer-1 networks by finalisation time and put TON’s block finalisation at about 0.6 seconds, with total transaction finality under one second when shardchain confirmation is included. That figure gives TON a narrow technical edge over Avalanche, BNB

Bullish has agreed to acquire Equiniti from Siris Capital in a $4.2 billion transaction that marks one of the largest moves yet by a crypto exchange into mainstream capital markets infrastructure. The deal gives Bullish control of a regulated transfer agent serving nearly 3,000 issuer clients, 15,000 corporate clients and more than 20 million shareholders. Equiniti processes about $500 billion in annual payments, making it a significant back-office platform for public companies, shareholder communications, dividend administration and ownership records. The transaction is

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson’s claim that he has been kept outside crypto’s most powerful policy and industry circles has sharpened a wider argument over influence, visibility and technical delivery in the digital-asset sector. Hoskinson, who co-founded Ethereum before building Cardano through Input Output Global, said in an interview that he had been excluded from key conversations despite Cardano’s sustained engineering output. His remarks landed as development metrics showed Cardano ahead of several larger-profile networks in cumulative code activity, adding weight to

Tether is sharpening its claim that USDT has become core financial plumbing for the Bitcoin economy, as chief executive Paolo Ardoino frames the world’s largest stablecoin as a long-duration infrastructure project rather than a trading token built for crypto cycles. Ardoino has compared Tether’s approach to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation universe, using the analogy to stress resilience, preparation and systems designed to outlast political and financial disruption. The message lands at a pivotal moment for the company: USDT’s circulation is near $190

  Chainlink has drawn fresh attention from digital-asset investors after a string of institutional tie-ups strengthened its claim to be a core infrastructure layer between traditional finance and blockchain-based markets. The latest push centres on the integration of market data from SIX Swiss Exchange and BME Exchange, bringing equities with a combined value of more than €2 trillion on-chain through Chainlink’s DataLink service. The move gives decentralised applications, tokenised finance platforms and smart contracts access to regulated Swiss and Spanish equity data

Crypto exploit losses have crossed $770 million in the first four months of 2026, intensifying concern that decentralised finance is entering a harsher phase of cyber risk as attackers combine old weaknesses with faster automation, sharper social engineering and increasingly advanced reconnaissance tools. The scale of the damage has been driven by two major breaches. Drift Protocol, a Solana-based decentralised exchange, lost about $285 million after an April 1 attack that forced it to suspend services. KelpDAO, an Ethereum restaking protocol,

XRP has failed to convert its strongest exchange-traded fund inflows of 2026 into a meaningful price rally, leaving traders questioning whether institutional demand is strong enough to absorb persistent selling pressure across the token’s spot market. The token has slipped from about $1.51 to the $1.37-$1.40 range over the past two weeks, even as US-listed spot XRP ETFs drew about $81.6 million in net inflows in April through April 24. That made April the best month for XRP ETF demand this

POL remained under selling pressure over the past 24 hours as traders struggled to rebuild momentum despite Polygon Labs’ deeper push into stablecoin payments, leaving the token below key intraday recovery levels and close to the lower end of its short-term trading range. The Polygon ecosystem token traded near $0.09 on 26 April, with market capitalisation hovering below $1bn and daily sentiment still cautious after failed rebounds around the $0.096 to $0.10 zone. The token’s weakness has contrasted with a broader

Shiba Inu edged higher as traders responded to a fresh increase in token-burning activity, lifting SHIB by about 1.11 per cent over 24 hours while trading volume rose 18.05 per cent. Market attention centred on a 24.51 per cent rise in the burn rate, with roughly 22.89 million SHIB sent to inaccessible wallets during the same 24-hour window. The move reinforced a familiar argument among holders: removing tokens from circulation can support scarcity if demand remains steady or improves. Yet the

Bitwarden’s command-line interface package was briefly poisoned through npm after attackers abused a GitHub Actions workflow in its software release pipeline, turning a trusted password-management tool into a potential route for stealing developer credentials, cloud secrets and CI/CD tokens. The affected package was @bitwarden/cli version 2026.4.0, distributed through npm between 5:57pm and 7:30pm Eastern Time on 22 April 2026. The compromise did not affect Bitwarden’s core vault service, stored user vault data, browser extensions, mobile applications, desktop clients or other distribution

Strategy has stepped up its bitcoin buying spree with a $2.54 billion acquisition of 34,164 tokens, marking one of the largest purchases in the company’s history and pushing its total holdings to 815,061 bitcoin. The purchase, made between April 13 and April 19, was funded through sales of perpetual preferred stock known as STRC and the company’s common stock, extending a capital-raising model that has turned the former software group into the world’s most aggressive listed corporate buyer of bitcoin.

Reabold Resources has moved to calm a political and environmental backlash after signalling that gas from its West Newton project in East Yorkshire could be used in an initial Bitcoin-mining trial, while insisting the wider field remains focused on domestic energy supply and future data-centre development. The London-listed company said the idea under review is a small-scale power generation facility using early gas flows from the site after planned well work, rather than an outright pivot away from supplying industry

Tether has led an $8 million strategic funding round in Abu Dhabi-based tokenisation firm KAIO, backing a business that says it wants to move institutional funds onto blockchain rails and widen access to products that have traditionally sat behind high minimum investment thresholds. The deal places one of the digital-asset sector’s most influential companies behind a UAE platform seeking to turn regulated fund interests into on-chain instruments. KAIO is based in Abu Dhabi and operates in a market where policymakers

Coinbase and Bybit are discussing a partnership focused on tokenisation, custody and distribution of U. S. stocks, a move that would tie one of the largest listed crypto exchanges to one of the sector’s biggest offshore trading venues as competition intensifies around blockchain-based versions of traditional assets. The talks, as reported, do not involve a stake purchase or any comparable transaction tied to Bybit’s route into the United States. Stocks on-chain alliance takes shape The reported discussions point to a more

Bitcoin clawed back above $76,000 at the start of the week, holding firmer than much of the wider digital-asset market even as decentralised finance absorbed the shock of a major exploit tied to KelpDAO that has drained close to $300 million and triggered a sharp retreat in capital across lending and restaking platforms. Market pricing on 21 April showed bitcoin near $75,745 after touching an intraday high above $76,500, keeping it within sight of the levels that had revived bullish

Asteroid, a little-known meme coin tied to a Shiba Inu character called “Asteroid”, surged after a social media chain involving broadcaster Glenn Beck and Elon Musk drew intense attention to the story of Liv Perrotto, a 15-year-old from Pennsylvania whose design had been linked to SpaceX symbolism. Crypto trackers and market sites showed the token posting a violent jump before giving back part of the move, underlining how quickly celebrity attention can reprice thinly traded digital assets. ][1]) Trading data indicated

Bitcoin held above $74,000 through the latest stretch of trading, finding support from a softer-than-feared U. S. inflation reading while still facing a macro backdrop that remains far from comfortable for risk assets. The token’s ability to stay near that level has drawn attention because it came as March consumer prices in the United States rose 3.3% from a year earlier, a pace that was below some market expectations but still well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. That combination

  Hackers exploited a cross-chain bridge tied to liquid restaking protocol Kelp DAO on Saturday, draining about $290 million in rsETH and sending shockwaves through decentralised finance markets as the losses spread into lending platforms and renewed questions over the security of multichain infrastructure. Bloomberg reported the theft at nearly $300 million, while market and on-chain reports put the value at roughly $292 million to $294 million. The exploit centred on Kelp DAO’s LayerZero-powered bridge for rsETH, a token used across multiple

Polkadot’s token regained some ground after Hyperbridge sharply raised the estimated damage from its April 13 Token Gateway exploit to about $2.5 million, a revision that deepened scrutiny of cross-chain infrastructure even as the network behind DOT moved to contain concern by stressing that native DOT was not compromised. Hyperbridge said the breach was confined to bridged DOT and related pools on Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain and Arbitrum, while Polkadot-linked channels indicated the main network and unbridged holdings were unaffected.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are once again at the centre of aggressive year-end forecasts, but the gap between analyst optimism and market reality remains wide, with Bitcoin trading near $75,699 and Ether around $2,343 on April 19 while investors weigh ETF demand, treasury buying and network upgrades against a far shakier macro backdrop. The strongest bullish call on Bitcoin in current circulation comes from Bernstein, which has reaffirmed a $150,000 year-end target on the view that institutional ownership is becoming more