Japan's Cabinet approved a bill reclassifying cryptocurrency as a financial instrument under the FIEA. The maximum tax rate on 105 approved tokens drops from 55% to a flat 20%. Trading on non-public information now carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Pavel Durov announced TON's one of the largest infrastructure upgrade. Whale addresses have accumulated 189,730 TON over three months. The price touched $1.32 and returned to $1.22 within the same candle.
JPMorgan reported Q1 2026 institutional crypto flows dropped to $11 billion. The same quarter, monthly crypto card volume reached $606.7 million, a 300% year-over-year increase and the highest single-month figure ever recorded.
A paper published in April 9 by StarkWare's Chief Product Officer outlines a method to make Bitcoin transactions quantum-safe using existing consensus rules. A single protective transaction costs roughly $200, and it is deployable right now.
S&P Global and Chainalysis released reports one day apart reaching opposite conclusions about the same asset class. Both are right. They are describing different parts of the same picture.
The second-largest crypto treasury company in the world uplisted to the NYSE and quadrupled its share repurchase program. It also bought 71,252 ETH last week at the fastest pace in months.
SIREN leads this week's gainers with a 324% seven-day move - most of it a recovery from a collapse earlier in April, not new price discovery. The other four names posted gains between 5% and 22%.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used a Wall Street Journal op-ed on April 8 to apply direct pressure on the Senate over the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, commonly known as the CLARITY Act, warning that the legislative calendar was tightening ahead of the 2026 midterm election cycle.
Israel announced direct negotiations with Lebanon focused on Hezbollah disarmament. Lebanon's Prime Minister called for demilitarization of Beirut. Bitcoin moved immediately. The Lebanon question was Iran's most visible ceasefire violation accusation.
Ethereum exchange inflows are at historic lows. The taker ratio has been below 1 for most of the past year. Three datasets share one conclusion.
On April 8, 2026, investment firm Canary Capital submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a spot exchange-traded fund tracking the meme token Pepe (PEPE).
On April 9, 2026, Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority published detailed guidance categorizing token issuances into three distinct pathways based on risk profile - giving market participants the operational clarity that has been largely absent across competing financial hubs.
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