Meta rolls out USDC stablecoin payouts for creators on Solana and Polygon networks, launching first in Colombia and the Philippines. Meta has stepped back into the stablecoin space. The tech giant now offers select creators the option to receive payouts in USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin. According to an update on Meta’s website, the feature is
BTC pushed above $79K, breaking out of a two-month range and printing its highest levels since early February. The move didn’t come out of nowhere. Positioning had been building for weeks with institutional demand building through ETF inflows and large players consistently absorbing supply. As price broke higher fuelled by easing geopolitical tension, short positioning
Another bombshell hit could change Bitcoin price prediction for the mid-term. Forbes investigation is rattling the Bitcoin mining sector and carries serious political weight. Bitcoin itself is trading at the $76,000 level, but the real volatility is in the stock price of American Bitcoin (ABTC), which has quietly shed 92% of its peak value while
World Liberty Financial’s proposal to unlock 62 billion WLFI tokens is already set to pass, with early votes blowing past quorum and delivering near-unanimous support. Under the plan, founders, team members, and partners would burn 10% of their holdings, roughly 4.5 billion WLFI, to begin unlocking the remaining 40.7 billion tokens over a five-year schedule
Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced a series of product updates and strategic moves Wednesday, including the launch of lending proof-of-reserves, a new “volatility-proof” bitcoin-backed loan structure built with Tether, and a $2.1 billion credit facility. He also said he supports a proposal by Tether Investments to merge Strike with Twenty-One Capital and bitcoin miner Elektron
Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement to Nine Blockchains as Multi Chain Payments Gain Momentum Visa has added five new blockchains to its stablecoin settlement pilot, bringing the total supported networks to nine. Newly included chains feature Base, Polygon, Arc, Canton, and Tempo. Existing support already covers Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Stellar. With this expansion, partners can
29 April, 2026 The Bitfinex Change Log is an overview of all performance and UI changes made to the Bitfinex trading platform. For an overview of all previous changes, please refer to blog.bitfinex.com/category/changelogs. Version 1.131 Improvements Updated the error screen display Updated timezone settings to add a dropdown search Updated wire deposit field order Updated
In Ethereum news today, ConsenSys and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin has committed 30,000 ETH to DeFi United, the industry-wide recovery coalition that has now crossed $300M in total contributions. The pledge is not a routine donation; it comes from one of the most recognizable institutional names in the Ethereum ecosystem, deploying capital at a moment
Four of the Magnificent Seven (Mag 7) tech giants are still on track to meet their massive artificial intelligence (AI) spending targets this year, according to their earnings report. The companies that have reported quarterly earnings post-market on Wednesday are Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), Meta (META) and Amazon (AMZ), with a combined market cap of
For CJ Konstantinos, the case for Bitcoin-backed mortgages is personal. In 2019, he paid 100 Bitcoin for a house. That bitcoin is now worth roughly $7.6 million and he says he can’t sell his house for more than $500,000. At the time, it was the kind of transaction most people in traditional finance would have
