Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

A major shift in U.S. market structure could reshape how retail traders access financial markets, with potential spillover effects for the crypto market.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a proposal from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to eliminate the long-standing $25...

Boundless, a zero-knowledge (ZK) proving network originally launched by RISC Zero, has integrated with the XRP Ledger (XRPL), bringing native ZK proof verification to the Layer 1 blockchain for the first time.The integration is designed to enable institutions to build financial applications on XRPL ...

Payments-focused blockchain Tempo has added Visa, Stripe and Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered as its first external validators, the network announced on Tuesday.The trio collectively process trillions of dollars in payments each year across nearly every country. Their validator nodes are responsi...

A recent report published by cryptocurrency analytics company CryptoQuant indicates that the “quiet accumulation” process continues in XRP, and a strong foundation has formed at the current price levels.The company’s analysis, based on on-chain data, argued that approximately $1.37 constitutes a hea...

BlockBeats news, on April 15, Chicago Fed President Goolsbee said on Tuesday that if a war in Iran leads to persistently high oil prices, slowing the decline of inflation toward the Fed’s 2% target, the Fed may not cut rates until 2027.Goolsbee, while attending the Semafor World Economic Conference,...

TL;DRRakuten is integrating XRP into its Rakuten Pay app, allowing 44 million users to spend the asset across more than 5 million merchants in Japan. Users can also trade XRP directly within the app and convert Rakuten Points into the token, linking crypto with one of the country’s largest loyalty e...

BlockBeats report, on April 15, according to the U.S. CBS, the White House stated that 103 empty tankers are en route to U.S. ports to load American crude oil. The White House claimed that, with record-breaking energy production, the United States is providing a vital global lifeline to the world’s ...

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed Tuesday that the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, speaking at Semafor's World Economy conference in Washington, D.C.The news comes alongside a $200 million investment from Deutsche Börse, Germany's largest stock exchange ope...

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed Monday that the U.S. crypto exchange has a confidential IPO filing with the SEC, reaffirming the company’s path toward a public offering despite a reported pause earlier this year.Key Takeaways:Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed the exchange’s confidential SEC I...

A major infrastructure shift is underway for Solana as its ecosystem tackles a long-standing bottleneck. The Solana Foundation has partnered with Triton One to redesign how onchain data gets accessed. This initiative targets the network’s read layer, which has remained largely unchanged since launch...

Goldman Sachs has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF that aims to deliver current income while shielding investors from Bitcoin’s full volatility. The preliminary prospectus, dated April 14, outlines a vehicle that would invest primarily in ...

Cryptocurrency research firm Presidio Bitcoin has published a comprehensive technical report examining the potential impact of quantum computers on the Bitcoin network.The report states that while Bitcoin is not under a direct threat in the short term, the time to take necessary precautions is “limi...

Silver is up roughly 3% today and now trades just above $80 per ounce. That is the highest level in a month. The metal has quietly broken out of a consolidation phase that kept it trapped between $72 and $78 for several weeks. Most traders focused on gold’s rollercoaster and Bitcoin’s pu...

Things to know: Kevin Warsh, the nominee for Federal Reserve Chair, disclosed numerous cryptocurrency investments in financial filings submitted to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The size of these investments is unclear and may represent only a small portion of his substantial net worth....

On 14 April 2026, Kevin Warsh filed a 69-page financial disclosure at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The filing documents substantial crypto holdings. In March 2026, President Donald Trump had nominated him to succeed Jerome Powell at the helm of the US central bank.The document reports an es...