Vitalik Buterin published a detailed post this week laying out his attempt to run a fully private, self-sovereign AI system from his own hardware. Part technical guide, part warning - he argues that the companies processing your thoughts, messages, and financial decisions are consolidating power in ways that are difficult to reverse. His conclusions map directly onto what Ethereum is building in 2026.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency handed Coinbase a conditional approval for a national bank trust charter, a move that puts the country's largest crypto exchange on a path toward operating under a unified federal regulatory framework for the first time in its history.
China's central bank moved decisively on April 2, 2026, authorizing 12 additional commercial banks to operate within the digital yuan ecosystem - a step that more than doubles the number of institutions handling the e-CNY and signals that Beijing is no longer treating its central bank digital currency as an experiment.
IMF's note on tokenized finance warns that stablecoins resemble money market funds, not central bank money. The data suggests the stakes of getting this wrong have never been higher.
Whale inflows to exchanges have collapsed to near zero while $592M in XRP was withdrawn in two days. The price is falling. The on-chain structure is not.
Initial claims fell to their lowest 4-week average since 2024. Historically strong claims data is often interpreted as bearish for Bitcoin, But the environment this number lands in makes the read more complicated than usual.
Ethereum dropped to $2,038 after Trump ruled out de-escalation with Iran, triggering $968 million in forced selling on Binance alone.
eToro is now trading crypto in New York after a three-year BitLicense wait — and the federal rules to match are almost ready.
Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed investment firm that has spent the past year rebranding itself as Asia's answer to MicroStrategy, announced on April 2 that it purchased an additional 5,075 Bitcoin during the first quarter of 2026.
Alabama is now the second U.S. state to formally recognize DAOs under law, after Governor Kay Ivey signed Senate Bill 277 on April 1, 2026.
Bitcoin price overnight, slicing through its 50-day moving average with RSI hitting 35 as Donald Trump vowed to hit Iran "extremely hard".
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has institutionalized a toll system at the world's most critical energy chokepoint, requiring payments in yuan or crypto. Analysts say it may be the largest real- world stablecoin use case ever recorded.
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