Markets
New police raids on people trading crypto for cash raises a hard question about financial freedom
UK authorities have carried out their first coordinated operation against suspected illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, sending a clear and simple message to the market: once…
Markets
Kalshi, Polymarket among 27 prediction platforms banned in Brazil
Brazil has blocked 27 prediction market platforms, including Kalshi and Polymarket, as new rules classify many contracts as gambling. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →
Infrastructure
Clock is ticking for bitcoin to prevent quantum threat as it could drain 6.9 million BTC including Satoshi’s
Can a network without formal governance coordinate the biggest cryptographic migration in its history? Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
DeFi
Latest “quantum computer breaks the math behind Bitcoin” headlines massively exaggerate risk
On Apr. 24, Project Eleven awarded its Q-Day Prize to Giancarlo Lelli, a researcher who used publicly accessible quantum hardware to derive a 15-bit elliptic…
Markets
XRP may rise 30% as traders withdraw 35M tokens from exchanges in a day
Recent XRP outflow spikes have often come before short-term price rallies, signaling a potential move higher in May if the pattern repeats. Read Full Story…
Payments
US authorities freeze $344M in crypto linked to Iran
The announced crypto freeze came just one day after Tether said it had frozen $344 million of its USDt stablecoin in response to a request…
Markets
U.S. CFTC adds New York to string of states its suing to stop prediction market pushback
The federal regulator has been suing states that seek to curtail prediction markets activity and claim it should be deemed state-regulated gaming. Read Full Story…
Infrastructure
Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announces BTC hard fork called eCash
The hard fork will introduce a new, competing layer-1 blockchain and seven layer-2 scaling networks, according to Sztorc’s announcement. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →