Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

[PRESS RELEASE – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 9th, 2026]Enhanced Labs Inc, a company focused on building DeFi solutions that package sophisticated options and derivatives strategies into very easily-accessible products for users, has successfully closed a $1,000,000 strategic pre-seed funding round...

Stablecoins are rapidly evolving beyond their original role in crypto trading, emerging as a key layer of financial infrastructure, according to new research from S&P Global Market Intelligence.The report highlights a growing shift toward institutional use cases, particularly in cross-border pay...

BlackRock crypto just moved on Ethereum staking fees, and the number is 18%. The world’s largest asset manager has set its commission on gross staking rewards at 18% inside its iShares Staked Ethereum Trust, a fresh product that launched March 12 under the ticker ETHB, layered on top of a 0.25% annu...

Odaily Planet Daily report: The CME Bitcoin futures market continues to weaken, with data showing that the average daily open interest (OI) for the March 2026 contract has fallen below $8 billion, further dropping to approximately $7.2 billion in early April—the lowest level since February 2024—and ...

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to Coinglass data, $101 million in total liquidations occurred across the network in the past hour, with $97.07 million from short positions and $3.54 million from long positions. Additionally, BTC liquidations amounted to $80.39 million, and ETH liquidations r...

ME News reports that, as of April 9 (UTC+8), according to CoinFound’s cryptocurrency-related stock data, Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GLXY) is currently trading at $20.65, up 10.36% from today’s opening price of $18.71. (Source: CoinFound)

According to ChainCatcher, Coinglass data shows that $101 million in total positions were liquidated over the past hour, with $97.07 million from short positions and $3.54 million from long positions. Additionally, BTC liquidations amounted to $80.39 million, and ETH liquidations reached $11.79 mill...

VerilyHK presents itself externally as a legitimate Hong Kong health technology investment platform. The name itself raises suspicions of free-riding: one is Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet subsidiary specializing in precision health with a focus on AI-driven healthcare and medical devices; the ot...

On-chain data shows that World Liberty Financial (WLFI) borrowed $75 million in stablecoins on the Dolomite lending platform, using 5 billion WLFI tokens as collateral, and transferred over $40 million of those funds to Coinbase Prime. This caused the lending pool to reach 100% utilization, preventi...

The cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial (WLFI), co-founded by the Trump family, has engaged in collateralized lending via the DeFi protocol Dolomite, borrowing approximately $31.4 million in stablecoins and transferring a portion of these funds to Coinbase Prime. Corey Caplan, co-founder ...

TL;DR:Coordinated wallets allegedly pushed FARTCOIN up 20% in under four hours, forcing Hyperliquid’s HLP vault to absorb the opposing side in thinning liquidity.PeckShieldAlert said the traders built a $15 million long across four wallets, triggered liquidations, and left HLP down about $1.5 millio...

U.S. Treasury expands cybersecurity coordination with digital asset firms, signaling tighter integration with traditional finance and raising baseline protections as systemic risk exposure grows across crypto markets.Key Takeaways:Treasury introduces an initiative giving U.S. digital asset firms ac...

According to ME News, on April 9 (UTC+8), Maine is advancing landmark legislation that could make it the first U.S. state to suspend data center construction. The state legislature has passed a bill proposing to prohibit the construction of new data centers in Maine until November 2027, while establ...

Huo Xing Finance reports that on April 9, according to CNBC, Maine is set to become the first U.S. state to ban data center construction statewide, a move that could pave the way for similar actions by other states and put a brake on this rapidly growing industry. This week, Maine legislators approv...

ME News reports that on April 9 (UTC+8), Bitcoin wallet Nunchuk released an open-source tool enabling AI agents to interact with Bitcoin wallets. The tool comprises two MIT-licensed repositories: Nunchuk CLI and Nunchuk CLI Agent Skills. Nunchuk CLI is a command-line tool that allows AI agents to ...