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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sanctions on multiple wallets linked to Iran as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to increase economic pressure on the country amid an ongoing ceasefire, according to CNN. The action followed Tether's freeze of $344 million in USDT on Tron,
NASA plans to have astronauts living permanently on the Moon by 2033, according to a briefing by NASA administrator Jared Isaacman to US and international partners on April 26, 2026. The project will cost £24 billion and follows the successful completion of Artemis II's first manned lunar orbit
The Trump Treasury Department is accepting donations from Americans to help reduce the US national debt, which has reached $39 trillion according to the department's official website. This comes as interest payments on federal borrowing have surpassed spending on Medicare and the defense budget.
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Brazil has enacted a sweeping ban on prediction markets and betting platforms, according to local media and government filings. The two leading prediction markets, Polymarket and Kalshi, were confirmed inaccessible to researchers based in the country, with the Banco Central do Brasil publishing a fo
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California resident Evan Tangeman, 22, was sentenced on Friday to 70 months in federal prison for his role laundering proceeds from a multi-state cryptocurrency theft ring that stole around $263 million in digital assets from victims, according to the U.S. Department of Ju
AWS Marketplace is integrating Chainlink's data standards and services, enabling developers and enterprises to combine AWS compute, storage, database, and API infrastructure with smart contract capabilities, according to an announcement on Friday.
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Aave service providers put forth a governance proposal on Friday that would contribute 25,000 ETH worth nearly $58 million from the protocol's DAO to DeFi United, a "coordinated relief effort" to restore backing for rsETH following the Kelp DAO exploit. The proposed contribution would go toward clos
On Friday, the regulatory battle over prediction markets intensified on two fronts: New York Attorney General Letitia James joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 other state attorneys general and the District of Columbia in urging Massachusetts' top court to uphold a preliminary injunction against Kal
Tennessee has become the second U.S. state to outright ban crypto ATMs, with Governor Bill Lee signing House Bill 2505 into law on April 13, 2024, after it passed both chambers unanimously. The ban will take effect July 1, 2024, and makes it a misdemeanor to operate or host the machines anywhere in
A coalition of major DeFi protocols including Aave Labs, Kelp DAO, LayerZero, EtherFi, and Compound filed a Constitutional AIP on the Arbitrum forum Saturday requesting the network's DAO release approximately $71 million in frozen ETH for the rsETH recovery effort known as DeFi United. The Arbitrum
JPMorgan's global head of ETF product, securities services, Ciarán Fitzpatrick, stated that tokenization will drive change across the entire funds industry, according to a post from Friday. Fitzpatrick noted that while experimentation with tokenizing ETFs is ongoing, the bank estimates it will be "a
President Donald Trump said he has an "obligation" to support the crypto industry after hosting top buyers of his $TRUMP meme coin at Mar-a-Lago, according to reports from the event. Trump made the remarks Saturday before returning to Washington, arguing that crypto had become a major industry and t
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued New York on Friday to block state enforcement against CFTC-registered prediction market exchanges, escalating a multi-front legal battle hours after 38 state attorneys general filed a brief in Massachusetts supporting a preliminary injunction agains
An alleged gunman stormed the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday evening, April 26, 2026, triggering a Secret Service response that saw President Trump rushed from the stage and the suspect apprehended. The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen