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…

Ripple Prime Earns Investment Grade Rating Amid Rapid Growth Ripple announced on April 2 that Ripple Prime has received investment-grade credit ratings, highlighting the platform’s expanding prime brokerage operations and financial strength. The digital asset and financial infrastructure firm shared on social media platform X that the ratings reflect growth, execution, and increasing institutional demand…

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…

PRESS RELEASE. Washington, D.C., April 2, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public policy, research and education surrounding emerging technologies, today announced the successful conclusion of its participation in the 6th Penn Blockchain Conference as a Platinum Sponsor, held on March 27–28 at the Penn…

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…

PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, April 1, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications ( dApps), participated in the Penn Blockchain Conference 2026 and supported the event’s hackathon, held between March 27–28 at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. Organized by the University…

OpenAI $122B Raise: Investors, Valuation, and Plans for the Capital The round built on a $110 billion commitment announced Feb. 27, 2026, which carried a $730 billion pre-money valuation. The round remained open after that initial close, and CFO Sarah Friar confirmed on CNBC on March 24 that an additional $10 billion to $12 billion…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is extracting tolls from commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, requiring operators to pay using stablecoins or Chinese yuan. According to a Bloomberg report, the IRGC has established an illicit toll system for the critical maritime chokepoint, granting safe passage and naval escorts to ships from deemed friendly…