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Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said at an IIF event that the effective functioning of stablecoins depends on users’ confidence in full redemption mechanisms, calling for the development of international standards. The United States has meanwhile released the GENIUS Act, requiring stablecoin issuers to meet compliance requirements. In South Korea, Circle’s CEO said there are no plans to launch a won-pegged stablecoin, and that the company is currently watching local legislative debates.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) submitted a proposal to its governance forum on April 15 (Wednesday), seeking to lock up WLFI tokens held by early investors for two years, followed by releasing them in batches over the following two years. For holders who do not accept new unlocking plans, the tokens will “continue to be locked indefinitely,” which has prompted criticism from major investors such as Justin Sun.

OpenAI policy, research, and science teams released a report on April 15 arguing for expanding AI applications in the life sciences, and shared it exclusively with Axios in advance before the official public release. The report lays out three core policy demands: granting access permissions to open medical and scientific data, designating advanced AI as a “national-level research resource,” and increasing investment in physical infrastructure such as compute power, laboratories, and energy.

Bitcoin reached US$76,000 on April 15, 2026, its highest level since early February, before retreating to US$74,800 as selling activity increased, according to on-chain data from CryptoQuant. Hourly exchange inflows surged to approximately 11,000 BTC, the highest since December 2025, while average d

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a podcast interview with Dwarkesh Patel on April 15 (Wednesday) that the type of training compute required for Anthropic AI model Claude Mythos is “very well available in China,” and that China’s existing data center infrastructure can support training models at a similar scale.

Sentinel Action Fund issued a statement on Wednesday, announcing that it will team up with its sister advocacy organization, Right Vote, to invest a total of $8 million in support of Ohio Republican Jon Husted’s campaign for U.S. senator. According to filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the main donors include Solana Institute and Multicoin Capital.

Story Protocol announced via the X social platform on April 16 that the first version of its confidential data rails (CDR) protocol has officially gone live on the Story testnet (Aeneid). On the same day, it confirmed that Story will serve as the exclusive blockchain infrastructure provider for the Korea Exchange for the next three years, providing technical and ecosystem support for the tokenized real-world assets (RWA) market in South Korea.

On April 16, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea announced that the “pilot project to use blockchain digital currency to execute treasury funds” has been selected as the regulatory sandbox program hosted by the National Affairs Coordination Office for 2026. According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s notice, the pilot program allows government agencies to use blockchain “deposit tokens” to execute part of their commercial promotion expenses, replacing the current government procurement card. The plan is to prioritize launching in Sejong City in the fourth quarter of 2026, and expand the scope afterward based on an assessment of the results.

According to Bloomberg on April 16, OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Google have begun collaborating through the industry nonprofit Frontier Model Forum, sharing information to detect and stop adversarial AI model distillation activities that violate the terms of service. OpenAI confirmed to Bloomberg that it has participated in the information-sharing effort related to adversarial distillation.

Although Franklin Templeton is a traditional financial institution, Reed says, the company is indeed building on the blockchain with the spirit of a crypto-native company. He added that the crypto industry is still in its early stages, but the pace of change is accelerating.

According to on-chain data platform Hyperbot, well-known Hyperliquid trader Huang Licheng (Maji Big Brother) significantly increased his Bitcoin and HYPE long positions on April 16. As of the latest data, his total open position size on the Hyperliquid platform exceeds $56.5 million, with unrealized gains on his portfolio of approximately $1.9 million.

Ilya Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, presented a thesis on April 16, 2026, at the Buidl Asia 2026 conference in Seoul that digital assets will expand beyond their current role as investment vehicles to become core transaction infrastructure in an artificial intelligence-driven economy,

Rakuten Wallet has introduced XRP for trading and payments in Japan, allowing 44 million Rakuten Pay users to convert loyalty points into XRP, effectively integrating it into a major consumer commerce network. This move enhances everyday spending and expands XRP's reach in the market.

The Seoul Administrative Court's 5th Division, presiding over Judge Lee Jung-won, ruled on March 9 in favor of Dunamu, overturning the Financial Intelligence Unit's (FIU) 3-month business suspension order, according to the court's judgment. The FIU announced plans to appeal the ruling, stating

Asset manager and financial giant Goldman Sachs filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday, for a new actively managed fund called the Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Premium Income ETF. Key Takeaways: Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF on

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) tightened its monetary policy stance on April 14 for the first time since 2022, supporting a stronger Singapore dollar amid elevated oil and gas prices from the Iran conflict. Singapore stocks have outperformed regional peers, declining only 0.5 per cent sin