In Cardano news today, the Charles Hoskinson-led network’s top NFT marketplace, JPG Store, entered ‘Restriction Mode’ on April 23 and is scheduled to shut down completely on May 23, the same week Cardano voters are deciding whether to funnel $12M into a Bitcoin DeFi infrastructure project. The timing is uncomfortable in a way that goes
Over Foundation has shut down all Over Protocol infrastructure, abandoning OverWallet, nodes and explorers, and leaving block production to any validators stubborn enough to keep running. Summary Over Foundation says “insurmountable financial constraints” forced it to permanently cease operations, killing OverWallet, OverNode, OverFlex, RPC endpoints, block explorers, and public APIs with immediate effect. The Layer
Robinhood (HOOD) missed its first-quarter earnings and revenue estimates after reporting a sharp decline in crypto trading revenue, even as growth in other parts of its business pushed overall revenue higher. The popular trading platform reported first-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $0.38, missing Wall Street’s $0.39 estimate, according to FactSet data. While the company
President Trump told hundreds of top $TRUMP memecoin holders at a private April 25 event at Mar-a-Lago that the White House will not allow banks to block the CLARITY Act, pledging to sign the bill immediately and framing crypto market structure legislation as a national priority. Summary Trump delivered a direct warning to bankers at
Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Strategy, took the Nakamoto Stage at Bitcoin 2026 on Tuesday to argue that a nine-month-old preferred stock instrument has become the fastest-growing credit product in the world — and that its expansion is only getting started. The keynote, framed around what Saylor calls digital credit, was a structured
The Bitcoin 2026 Conference drew more than 40,000 attendees to The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas from April 27 to 29, but the institutional-heavy speaker lineup sparked a sharp backlash from early adopters who accused the event of abandoning its cypherpunk origins for corporate suits and regulators. Summary Speakers included Strategy’s Michael Saylor, BlackRock’s Robert
Eightco treasury composition as of April 27, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $25M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $121M cash and equivalents World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes and agentic agents Tinder, Zoom, Docusign, Vercel, Browserbase, and Exa to integrate Proof
Stablecoin transfer volume fell 19.18% to $831B in 30 days, yet market cap and holders rose as USDT, USDC, and DAI added billions while Ethena’s USDe saw $1.1B outflows. Summary Stablecoin transfer volume dropped 19.18% to 831 billion dollars over the past 30 days, but total market cap rose 2.06% to 305.29 billion and holders
Opening arguments began April 28 in the Musk OpenAI civil trial in Oakland, with Musk’s lead attorney Steven Molo telling jurors that without Elon Musk’s $38 million in early funding and recruiting of top AI scientists, OpenAI would not exist, while Musk seeks up to $134 billion in wrongful gains to be funneled back to
Bitbank and EPOS Card launch Japan’s first crypto-linked credit card, offering 0.5% crypto cashback on everyday purchases via Visa. Japan’s cryptocurrency sector just hit a new milestone. Bitbank Co., Ltd. has teamed up with EPOS Card Co., Ltd. to launch the “EPOS CRYPTO Card for bitbank.” The card went live on April 27, 2026. It
