ROAD TOWN, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – April 16, 2026 – Bitfinex (https://www.bitfinex.com/), a premier digital asset trading platform, announced the support for deposits and withdrawals of XAUT0 on Celo. XAUT0 is a tokenised gold token that merges the value of physical gold with blockchain’s accessibility, enabling instant and borderless ownership of the world’s most
Bitget has expanded its Stock Dual Investment lineup from six to more than 20 U.S. stock and ETF-linked tokens, with settlement now set for 11:30 p.m. UTC+8. Summary More than 20 rTokens now support Bitget’s Buy Low and Sell High strategies. Supported assets include tokens linked to Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Coinbase, Strategy and two leveraged
In the first six months of 2026, the crypto industry raised $11.2 billion. Not one dollar of it went to the permissionless, ungoverned experiments that digital assets were supposed to be built on. “There is an irony at the heart of crypto, and it took an $11.2 billion dataset to make it obvious,” said Dubai-based
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. CLARITY Act passage odds have dropped below 20% on Polymarket as XRP volatility drives renewed interest in UE Crypto’s cloud mining and yield services. Summary XRP weakens as CLARITY Act odds fall, while investors
Dartmouth College’s crypto ETF holdings have fallen 15% to about $12.4 million in the second quarter, even though its $9 billion endowment kept the same number of fund shares. Summary Dartmouth’s reported crypto ETF holdings lost about $2.2 million in value during the second quarter. The endowment retained its positions in Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana-linked
Bitcoin is the most important asset in two of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds, according to regulatory filings. Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company disclosed Friday that it held a $490 million stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust — the second-largest single holding across its entire 13F portfolio. And a Thursday filing from the Abu Dhabi
XRP price has steadied near $1 as whale transfers to Binance fell to their lowest level since 2021, although weak demand and bearish chart signals continue to limit a recovery. Summary XRP price traded near $1.00 after losing about 3.2% over the past seven days. Binance whale inflows fell to $61 million on a three-month
Ethereum replaces Poseidon with SHA and BLAKE for future Layer 1 upgrades. Binary-field SNARK advances make traditional hash functions practical again. The roadmap targets leanVM in 2027 with wider deployments planned for 2028. The Ethereum Foundation is changing its long-term cryptography strategy by replacing Poseidon with SHA and BLAKE for Layer 1 development. The shift
Africa Finance Corporation has raised 350 million Swiss francs or about $431 million, through its first digital bond, becoming the first African institution to issue such debt through a regulated exchange and central securities depository. Summary The five-year digital bond carries a coupon rate of 1.4925%. Around 90% of investor demand came from Swiss accounts.
AI agents can now do the work. The problem is paying for it. The Lightning Network gives autonomous software a Bitcoin-native way to settle small obligations at high frequency — fast and cheap enough to sit inside execution, so an agent can pay for data, compute or API access the moment it needs it, without
