Self-custody wallets just got serious about derivatives, and the timing tells you everything about where regulation is heading. Blockchain.com integrated Hyperliquid to bring perpetual futures trading directly into its DeFi wallet, covering 190+ crypto markets with no custodial handoff.
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Banks spent years building blockchain strategies, and one month of exploits might have just set them back to the whiteboard. April saw $606M in crypto exploits, with the Kelp DAO hack alone taking $293M
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Revolut just tripled its valuation target in five months, and the gap between what crypto banks can do and what traditional banks are allowed to do has never been wider.
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Kalshi, the prediction market that beat the CFTC in court, is launching perpetual futures to compete directly with Binance and Hyperliquid. Kalshi plans to launch crypto perpetual futures on April 27, moving beyond election and event-based prediction markets into continuous crypto trading products
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Optimism just made private transactions on Ethereum usable for businesses that can't afford to broadcast every trade to the world.
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The $300 million hack isn't the story. The laundering operation happening in real time is. Hackers stole $300 million in crypto and are actively moving funds while exchanges and blockchain analysts try to freeze assets.
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A $292 million bridge hack just erased $8 billion in deposits from DeFi's biggest lending protocol, and the industry is asking if its entire security model is a bad joke.
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OpenAI just deputized the world's largest consulting firms to sell AI coding agents into every Fortune 500 company that still thinks "digital transformation" means moving spreadsheets to the cloud.
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The world's best AI can solve physics problems that stump MIT grads but chokes on reading the total from a scanned invoice, and that gap reveals everything wrong about how we're building the agent economy.
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The VIX just fell 45% in three weeks, and Bitcoin is doing something it hasn't done in months: holding ground while fear evaporates. The VIX dropped 45% over three weeks, signaling a sharp decline in stock market volatility and improving risk appetite across traditional markets
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Japan's institutional money, quiet for years while crypto boiled over, just signaled it's ready to enter the room. Roughly 80% of Japanese institutional investors plan to allocate up to 5% of their portfolios to digital assets by 2029, according to a Nomura survey
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AI search adoption is running 400% ahead of AI search trust, and that gap is about to become every platform's core product problem.
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A $293M exploit just exposed the scaffolding holding DeFi together, and the cracks are spreading faster than the patch jobs. KelpDAO suffered a $293M exploit that exposed $290M in unbacked assets, triggering AAVE to freeze rsETH markets
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Twelve European banks just decided the dollar's reign over crypto rails needs competition. The Qivalis consortium, backed by BBVA, BNP Paribas, ING, UniCredit and eight other major European banks, is launching a euro-denominated stablecoin with Fireblocks handling custody infrastructure
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The moment an AI agent improvised a solution its creator never programmed is the moment chatbots became something else entirely.
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A $292 million exploit just proved that DeFi's composability is also its kill switch—and one wallet got out with $274 million before everyone else could. A KelpDAO bridge exploit drained $292M in rsETH, creating $200M in bad debt on AAVE's wETH pool when the token went to zero
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Arbitrum just proved that decentralized finance has a centralized override button, and it works. Arbitrum's Security Council froze 30,766 ETH (worth roughly $71-100 million depending on price) tied to the KelpDAO exploit, moving it to a wallet only governance can unlock
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The DOJ just blinked on media M&A, and AI is the reason why. A senior DOJ official said antitrust enforcement in media needs "cautious humility" as AI and streaming reshape the industry
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The largest DeFi lending protocol just modeled up to $230M in bad debt after a bridge exploit, and ETH depositors can't withdraw. Aave disclosed $124M to $230M in potential bad debt from the Kelp DAO exploit, marking the protocol's first official damage assessment
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Bitmine just bought 101,627 ETH in a week and now controls more than 4% of all ether in existence. Bitmine acquired 101,627 ETH last week for over $230 million, its largest purchase since December 2025 and biggest weekly haul of 2026
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