Crypto’s Next 2 Billion Users Won’t Come From Trading Alone, Binance Explains

Key Takeaways: Binance said crypto adoption is expanding through payments, yield products, AI, and tokenized assets. Stablecoin supply topped $320 billion, while monthly on-chain volume reached $7.2 trillion. Integration could push crypto users toward 2 billion by 2030, according to Binance. Binance Sees Crypto Growth Beyond Trading Crypto’s next major adoption wave is moving beyond…

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Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

Amazon and Meta are among the big companies set to lobby India’s payments body over the dominance of Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay in the country’s fast-growing instant payments network. Executives representing platforms including Amazon Pay, WhatsApp, CRED, MobiKwik, and Flipkart’s Super.money are scheduled to meet the National Payments Corporation of India on Thursday, TechCrunch…

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Bitcoin’s August Hard Fork May Dwarf Every Previous Split Combined — Here’s Why

Key Takeaways: Bitcoin’s August 2026 eCash hard fork will distribute 1:1 tokens to holders, including Strategy’s 818,334 BTC worth billions. Spot bitcoin ETFs holding over 1 million BTC are bound by prospectus language to handle forked assets in a specific manner. Paul Sztorc’s Drivechain-powered eCash chain faces its first institutional stress test, with custodians, boards,…

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Bitcoin Developers Are Not DOJ Targets, Blanche Says

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel told the Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas on April 27 that Bitcoin developers who write code without knowingly helping third parties commit crimes will not be investigated or charged, marking the clearest public statement on developer liability from the nation’s top law enforcement officials…

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Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse

Emergency first-responder leaders told federal regulators in a private meeting last month that they were frustrated with the performance of autonomous vehicles on their streets—that city firefighters, police officers, EMTs, and paramedics are forced to spend time during emergencies resolving issues with frozen or stuck cars. One fire official called them “a safety issue for…

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