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The U.S. Treasury Department has added multiple vessels related to Iran to its sanctions list.

UK asset manager Legal & General (L&G) will provide its money market fund on-chain through the Calastone tokenization network, Cointelegraph reported. The move is designed to allow investors to access and transfer fund shares using a digital infrastructure that replaces traditional settlement systems. The fund manages assets worth £50 billion (around $62.5 billion) and invests in high-quality, short-term instruments such as government bonds, bank deposits, and corporate bonds.

Whale Alert reported that 250 million USDC has been minted at the USDC Treasury.

Whale Alert reported that 250 million USDC has been minted at the USDC Treasury.

Bitcoin inflows to exchanges have surged as the asset tests the $76,000 resistance level, according to CryptoQuant. Approximately 11,000 BTC per hour are moving to exchanges, marking the highest rate since December 2025 and surpassing the volume seen just before the correction last March. The analytics firm explained that this movement indicates whales are taking advantage of the price rise to offload their holdings, and that potential selling pressure should be monitored.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a noted cryptocurrency critic, has requested information from Elon Musk regarding X Money. According to Cointelegraph, Warren pointed out that the potential integration of stablecoins and cryptocurrencies into X Money could pose risks to the financial system and U.S. national security. She specifically asked whether the company plans to issue its own stablecoin. Warren also emphasized that stablecoin deposits are not covered by depositor protection and questioned how the platform would fund a proposed high-yield savings offering with a 6% annual interest rate.

The Crypto Basic reported that CryptoQuant's Bitcoin Bullish Score Index (BSI) has risen to 40, signaling that the market has officially entered a recovery phase. The BSI had fallen from a high of 80 in October 2025 to 10 in early March 2026 before its recent rebound. Analysts warn that Bitcoin must hold the $72,000 support level, as a failure to do so risks erasing all recent gains.

Delysium co-founder Wu Shenkun deposited 131,750 RAVE, worth $1.7 million, to Bitget approximately 30 minutes ago, EmberCN reported. Wu received the tokens in an airdrop two months ago, at which point they were valued at just $46,000.

An address linked to the recent hack of Solana's Drift Protocol has minted a North Korean propaganda-themed NFT to the public wallet of Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, according to on-chain analyst ZachXBT. The address, dprk.arc, operating on Circle's Layer 1 chain Arc, sent the NFT to Allaire's jerallaire.arc address. On the blockchain, anyone can send a newly created NFT to a public address, effectively assigning ownership without the recipient's consent. The dprk.arc address was previously identified as having received approximately $80 million in USDC via a bridge from the Drift Protocol attacker's wallet.

A Bitcoin reserve address linked to Tether withdrew 951 BTC, worth approximately $70.47 million, from Bitfinex about 15 minutes ago, EmberCN reported. The transaction is believed to represent Tether's purchases for the first quarter. Since 2023, the wallet has been used to buy BTC with 15% of the company's profits. The address now holds 77,141 BTC, making it the fifth-largest Bitcoin wallet globally. This brings Tether's average purchase price for its BTC to $51,312, with an estimated unrealized profit of $2.175 billion.

Qatar's finance minister has warned that severe economic damage could occur within one to two months if passage through the Strait of Hormuz is restricted due to a war with Iran, noting that the current surge in energy prices is just the tip of the iceberg. He cautioned that damage to Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure and restrictions on its exports of gas, helium, and fertilizers could lead to a global energy and food shortage, with recovery potentially taking years.

Entities suspected of manipulating the price of the memecoin Binance Life now hold 22.7% of its total supply after a recent accumulation spree, EmberCN reported. Over the past three days, large-scale buying from these entities has driven the price of Binance Life up 112%, from $0.17 to $0.36. About 30 minutes ago, these entities withdrew 30 million Binance Life tokens, worth $11.4 million, from Binance to three on-chain wallets. The addresses now hold a total of 227 million Binance Life tokens on-chain, valued at $81.55 million.

The United States and Iran are reportedly considering a two-week extension of the current ceasefire, according to officials.

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has begun seeking industry feedback on its virtual asset regulatory framework, which is set to take full effect in October 2027, Cointelegraph reported. The guidance outlines clear requirements for key market services, including stablecoin issuance, exchange operations, asset custody, and staking. The FCA plans to accept feedback until June 2026 and will begin processing new license applications in September of that year. As existing firms registered for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) will also need separate authorization under the new Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA), businesses operating in the UK are expected to face a significant regulatory overhaul.

Mythos, a high-performance vulnerability detection AI developed by Anthropic, could fundamentally shake the cryptocurrency security ecosystem, CryptoSlate reported. The AI demonstrated its capabilities by instantly identifying a 27-year-old bug in the Linux kernel that had eluded human security experts for months. Security experts are warning that DeFi and cross-chain bridges, which operate on open-source code, could be left defenseless against indiscriminate, automated attacks by such an AI. Concerns are growing that billions of dollars in assets could be stolen before humans can even recognize a bug, due to the immediate and irreversible nature of cryptocurrency transactions.

A high-level Pakistani political and security delegation, led by Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir, arrived in Tehran on April 15. The delegation is set to deliver the latest message from the U.S. to Iran and meet with Iranian officials to discuss matters related to a second round of Iran-U.S. negotiations scheduled to be held in Islamabad.

Bitcoin miner Canaan mined 89 BTC in March, according to a PR Newswire press release. The company now holds 1,808 BTC and 3,952 ETH.

A Pakistani delegation has visited Iran to deliver a message from the United States and plans to hold a second round of negotiations, according to Iranian state media.

According to monitoring by ai_9684xtpa, Justin Sun deposited 300 million JST to the HTX exchange about an hour ago. The deposit is valued at approximately $22.8 million (31 billion won). JST is the governance token for JustLend DAO, a Tron-based lending platform.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened higher today. - S&P 500: +0.16% - Nasdaq: +0.19% - Dow Jones: +0.31%

A new proposal, BIP-361, has been introduced to the Bitcoin network to address the threat of quantum computing, Unfolded reported. The proposal calls for the gradual phasing out of the existing ECDSA and Schnorr signature methods. ECDSA is the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm that underpins both Bitcoin and Ethereum. The plan would initially restrict new transactions to vulnerable addresses, followed by a grace period of several years before invalidating the assets held within them. The transition is scheduled to begin around 2029.

Bitwise Asset Management's spot Avalanche exchange-traded product (ETP), the Bitwise Avalanche ETP (BAVA), will list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today.

The share of Bitcoin held by ETFs and crypto investment firms (DAT) reached an all-time high in March, approaching 12% of the total circulating supply, Unfolded reported.

BNB Chain announced it has burned a total of 1.56 million BNB, worth approximately $1.0021 billion, as part of its 35th scheduled burn for the first quarter.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has unveiled a governance proposal to restructure its locked token model and burn a portion of the supply. According to the proposal, the 45,238,585,647 WLFI allocated to the team, advisors, and partners will be subject to a two-year cliff followed by a three-year linear vesting period upon an opt-in signature. During this process, 10% of these tokens will be burned, potentially removing up to 4,523,858,565 WLFI from circulation permanently. The initial supply of 17,043,666,558 WLFI will be converted to a structure with a two-year cliff and a two-year linear vesting period, with the full amount maintained and no tokens burned.