Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

ChainCatcher report, according to DL News, the Russian government has published a draft bill on the State Duma website, proposing criminal liability for organizing cryptocurrency circulation without registration or authorization from the Central Bank of Russia, with a maximum penalty of seven years ...

ChainCatcher report, according to Reuters, MARISKS, a Greek maritime risk management company, warned that some shipping companies stranded west of the Strait of Hormuz have received fraudulent messages impersonating Iranian authorities, demanding payment of a “transit permit fee” in Bitcoin or Tethe...

Written by: a16z cryptoCompiled by AididiaoJP, Foresight NewsAI agents are rapidly evolving from auxiliary tools into genuine economic participants, outpacing the growth of other infrastructure.Although agents can now perform tasks and execute transactions, they still lack a standardized way across ...

Key TakeawaysThe clean energy supply chain is fraught with ethical challenges, particularly in cobalt mining.Cobalt mining in the DRC often involves exploitative labor conditions akin to modern-day slavery.Chinese companies dominate the cobalt supply chain, linking them to major tech firms.Lithium-i...

CoinDesk reports that on April 21, the offline event "Decoding Web 4.0: When AI Agents Take Over On-Chain Permissions" concluded in Hong Kong. NOXCAT, a Web3 application integrating MPC wallets, social transfers, and on-chain security, attended the event and revealed its on-chain guarantee contract ...

Written by: Liam 'Akiba' WrightCompiled by Saoirse, Foresight NewsThe theft of $292 million worth of rsETH from KelpDAO occurred at an extremely inopportune time for the DeFi industry. Prior to this, market confidence had already been severely shaken by the Drift Protocol security breach on April 1 ...

According to GMGN market data, the Solana-based meme token MAGA (Make Aliens Great Again) has surpassed a market capitalization of $11 million, peaking at $11.84 million, and is currently trading at approximately $10.96 million, with a 24-hour gain of 445% and a 24-hour trading volume of $2.8 millio...

Original author: Shenchao TechFlowLast week, KelpDAO was hacked, losing nearly $300 million, making it the largest negative security incident in DeFi this year to date.The stolen ETH is now scattered across multiple chains, with approximately 30,765 remaining in an address on the Arbitrum chain, wor...

Ripple outlines a four-phase plan to prepare XRPL for quantum threats, targeting full migration and network upgrade by 2028.Early phases focus on testing quantum-resistant algorithms and hybrid cryptography with partners like Project Eleven.XRPL’s key rotation and seed-based design support gradual m...

Editor’s Note: As the situation in the Middle East gradually eases amid ongoing uncertainty between “negotiation or not,” the U.S. stock market has once again experienced a “TACO-style recovery,” with leading crypto-related stocks seeing gains. Last week, the S&P 500 index briefly reached a new high...

ME News reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, Tencent Cloud has open-sourced the AI Agent sandbox Cube Sandbox, written in Rust under the Apache 2.0 license. A sandbox is an isolated environment for running agent-generated code, preventing accidental file deletion or ...

ME News reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), Jay Jacobs, head of BlackRock’s U.S. equity ETFs, said in an interview with Fox’s “The Claman Countdown” that Bitcoin is a non-sovereign asset that operates under its own rules and is primarily driven by geopolitical and inflationary risks. Jacobs noted that...

CoinDesk reports:Big fish are entering the market.Volatility is working against you here.If you're currently trading Asteroids, you're directly competing with experienced memecoin traders who know how to influence both market sentiment and liquidity simultaneously—not just… reacting to market condit...

GitHub has announced a pause on new subscriptions for Copilot Personal to address the computational pressure caused by AI agent workflows. Product Vice President Joe Binder noted that AI agents require prolonged, high-concurrency computing, far exceeding the original system design expectations. To e...

According to CoinDesk, custody provider Fireblocks will be responsible for the issuance and distribution of the Qivalis consortium’s euro-stablecoin, with the project expected to launch in the second half of 2026 under the supervision of the Dutch Central Bank and in compliance with the European Uni...