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OKX and HashKey invest in new Vietnam exchange ahead of crypto licensing push
The partnership will help the exchange meet Vietnam's $380 million capital requirement to enter a government pilot program aimed at licensing local platforms and curbing offshore trading.
Trump's World Liberty Financial uses 5 billion WLFI to borrow $75 million from a platform its adviser co-founded
Onchain data shows WLFI deposited 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins it then sent to Coinbase Prime, pushing a lending pool to 100% utilization and leaving depositors unable to withdraw.
CFTC presses case that sports betting is finance, seeks to block Arizona enforcement
Federal lawsuit argues event contracts are swaps under U.S. law, not state-level gaming law, deepening a split with states that view the products as illegal gambling
Bitcoin gets its first working prototype of quantum-resistant wallet rescue tool
Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun demos a prototype that could prevent millions of wallets from being frozen under a future quantum-defense upgrade
MEXC's new CEO wants to tame a memecoin machine without killing what made it work
A Bitget veteran, Vugar Usi inherits a top-three exchange built on zero fees, 3,000 tokens and a compliance record he himself calls a "missing point" in its growth.
U.S. bank with $1.9 trillion in assets could debut its bitcoin ETF Wednesday
Morgan Stanley's bitcoin ETF could start trading on NYSE on Wednesday under the ticker MSBT.
Attacking bitcoin mining with a quantum computer would require the energy of a star, academics say
One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star. Another replicates every major "quantum factoring breakthrough" using a 1981 home computer and a dog.
Bitcoin ETF inflows hit highest level since February
Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $471 million on April 6, the 6th-largest inflow of 2026, as prediction markets price little near-term Fed movement.
Bitcoin miners face a new rival for cheap power as Anthropic signs multi-gigawatt compute deal
The AI company's partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-generation TPU capacity starting in 2027 adds to a wave of demand reshaping the economics of every industry that competes for cheap electricity, including bitcoin mining.
SEC close to putting out 'reg crypto' for fundraising questions, Chair Atkins says
The Securities and Exchange Commission will address fundraising and startup exemptions in this proposal, Paul Atkins told a crowd Monday.
