Ripple Opens Korean Market Access as RLUSD Debuts on Coinone Platform The expansion of RLUSD reflects Ripple’s continued push to broaden stablecoin access across regulated global markets. Ripple shared on April 1 that its dollar-pegged stablecoin is now available on Coinone, one of South Korea’s largest exchanges, enabling Korean traders to access the asset directly…
Oil Hits $111 a Barrel as Trump Speech Crushes April 1 De-escalation Rally Trump delivered the speech on Wednesday evening, warning Iran would be brought “back to the Stone Ages” within two to three weeks. The address erased gains built in the prior session on reports of possible de-escalation and a potential reopening of the…
Market Volatility and Liquidations For the second straight day, President Donald Trump’s shifting rhetoric on the U.S.-Iran conflict served as a primary market catalyst, this time dismantling bitcoin’s gains and dragging the asset below the $66,000 threshold. While his commentary 24 hours earlier sparked a bullish surge past $69,000, his more aggressive stance on Wednesday…
Circle Expands Beyond Stablecoins With cirBTC Wrapped Bitcoin Product The company, best known as the issuer of USDC, posted the announcement on its official X account alongside a dedicated product page. The move marks Circle’s first significant expansion beyond stablecoins into tokenized bitcoin infrastructure. Each cirBTC token will be fully collateralized by native bitcoin held…
U.S. Government Sues Illinois Over Prediction Market Rules, Seeks Permanent Injunction The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, names Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, and the Illinois Gaming Board as defendants. Federal officials describe it as the first direct federal preemption lawsuit ever brought by the…
SoFi Launches Big Business Banking With 24/7 Fiat and Crypto Settlement for U.S. Enterprises SoFi Technologies (Nasdaq: SOFI) made the announcement on Thursday, positioning the product as direct competition to the legacy banking model that shuts down at 5 p.m. on Fridays. The offering targets institutions and enterprise clients that need to operate across both…
Metaplanet Overtakes MARA Holdings in Bitcoin Race With Q1 2026 Purchase The Tokyo-based company Metaplanet (TSE: 3350 / OTCQX: MTPLF) disclosed the Q1 acquisition on April 2, 2026, confirming the purchase was completed by March 31. The company spent roughly $398 million on the quarter’s buys, acquiring bitcoin at a weighted average price of approximately…
Naoris Protocol announced the official launch of its Mainnet on April 1, 2026, introducing a post-quantum Layer 1 blockchain designed to withstand emerging quantum computing threats. This deployment establishes a production-ready environment where decentralized Proof of Security (dPoSec) consensus and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) approved cryptography protect transactions from future decryption. The…
Streamer Announces Marathon Recovery Session After Exhausting Stake Pay, Denying Adin Ross Loan Request Mid-Stream Returning from a three-month streaming hiatus and marking his comeback with another one of his trademark high-stakes gambling streams on Stake, the Curaçao-licensed crypto casino platform where he holds a paid streaming deal, the 35-year-old American streamer experienced a $10…
Bridging the Gap With Human Speech Human API, the Delphi Ventures–backed platform enabling artificial intelligence (AI) agents to coordinate directly with humans, has unveiled its new mobile app for iOS and Android. The app democratizes access to the emerging agentic economy, allowing contributors worldwide to complete AI-assigned tasks and receive payments seamlessly. The app’s initial…
