Month: April 2026

The bitcoin miner issued a $10 million convertible note and closed a $65 million insider-led round while racing to regain compliance with exchange rules....

A new U.S. Labor Department rule could allow 401(k) retirement plans to include alternative investments such as cryptocurrencies, real estate and private market assets, potentially opening the door for assets like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) “Level The Playing Field” In a FOX Business interview on Tuesday,...

Gnosis’ push behind the Ethereum Economic Zone shows DAOs moving from tuning parameters to voting on whether whole chains become Ethereum L2s, tying governance to market structure. The Ethereum Economic Zone did not appear out of thin air at EthCC…...

Aave V4 is live on Ethereum with a hub-and-spoke design that keeps liquidity pooled while routing credit to bespoke RWA and structured credit markets for institutions. Aave (AAVE) has used EthCC 2026 in Cannes as the launchpad for its long‑anticipated…...

EthCC 2026 has shifted decisively from a builders’ retreat to an institutional showcase, as this year’s edition in Cannes hosts the inaugural “Agora” forum curated by market data provider Kaiko for more than 60 expert speakers and roughly 600 TradFi…...

Women’s visibility at Europe’s flagship Ethereum (ETH) conference appears to have taken a step backwards this year, as EthCC 2026 attendees in Cannes reported a marked drop in female participation just as crypto companies accelerate layoffs in marketing, PR and…...

The Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem took aim at one of its biggest structural weaknesses at EthCC 2026, as Gnosis, Zisk and the Ethereum Foundation publicly launched the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), a rollup framework designed to knit together an increasingly fractured…...

In what could be considered a major institutional development, the company behind XRP and RLUSD unveiled two product lines, called Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, within the Ripple Treasury platform. They will allow corporations to manage fiat and cryptocurrencies, such as XRP and stablecoins, side by side in...

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr warned Tuesday that stablecoins present money laundering and financial stability risks, citing a “long and painful history of private money created with insufficient safeguards” as stablecoin issues stall progress on the Clarity Act in Congress. The Reserve Asset Risk Barr focused his concerns on...

A company that built its name on cryptocurrency mining is walking away from the business entirely. Bitfarms announced plans Tuesday to rebrand as Keel Infrastructure and move its legal base from Canada to the US, capping a five-month exit from Bitcoin that management described as a deliberate break from...