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Argentina-based digital wallet company Belo has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by Tether. CoinDesk reported on April 29 that Belo had completed the funding round. The company said the Series A raised a total of $14 million, with p
Polymarket, the global prediction-market platform, has asked regulators for approval to reenter the U.S. market. Bloomberg reported on April 29 that Polymarket recently held talks with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission about lifting restrictio
Canada is moving to ban cryptocurrency automated teller machines nationwide. CoinDesk reported on April 28 that the proposal was included in the Liberal government’s Spring Economic Update released that day. The Canadian government views crypto ATMs
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose above $107 a barrel as international oil prices extended their gains. BlockBeats reported on April 29 that Brent crude on decentralized exchange TradeXYZ climbed past $107 a barrel, up more than 3.6% from a
President Donald Trump urged Iran to sign a nuclear disarmament deal. In a Truth Social post on April 29, Trump wrote that Iran "doesn't even know how to sign a nuclear disarmament deal." He added that the country "can't even get its internal affairs
Pakistan has opened six land routes to Iran. Pakistan opened the crossings on April 28, foreign media outlets including India Today reported. India Today said the move created an alternative trade corridor after more than 3,000 Iran-bound containers
Hong Kong's monetary authority warned investors against stablecoins falsely claiming links to HSBC and HKDAP. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority said in a statement on April 28 that the two stablecoins have no connection to any officially licensed stab
Polymarket has flatly denied recent claims that it was hacked. Cointelegraph reported on April 28 that Polymarket, in a post on its official X account, called the allegation "complete nonsense." The platform said the information posted by the hacker
The Kospi posted a record closing high for a third straight session. The benchmark closed at 6,690.90 on April 29, up 49.88 points, or 0.75%, from the previous session, according to the Korea Exchange. That topped the previous record close of 6,641.0
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold 40 million ASTEROID OG tokens that he had received as a donation, as the memecoin surged more than 120% in a day. Onchain Lens said on April 29 that Buterin sold the tokens for about $114,600 based on the valu
Interview With Pantera Capital Partner Nihal Maunder Launched the First U.S. Blockchain Fund Populous Investment Marks Deeper Push Into Korea "Korea's Security Token Law Is a Milestone for Web3" "We Will Give Portfolio Companies Access to a Global Ne
South Korean Web3 research firm Four Pillars has raised fresh funding from global crypto venture capital firms Pantera Capital and Further Ventures. The company said the investment will serve as a springboard for a broader business expansion. Chief E
South Korean Web3 research firm Four Pillars has raised a Series A round from global crypto venture capital investors including Pantera Capital. Chief Executive Officer Kim Nam-woong said at a press briefing in Seoul's Seocho district on April 27 tha
“Speed is money. Optimum delivers that speed to users.” “Optimum is fundamentally a high-speed network,” Kent Lin, the company’s co-founder and chief operating officer, said in an interview with Bloomingbit on April 24. He said the project can connec
The White House has criticized China over the alleged theft of US artificial intelligence technology, the Financial Times reported on April 23. Citing a recent memo from Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology P
Peter Schiff, chief economist at Euro Pacific Capital and a longtime Bitcoin skeptic, criticized Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock. On X on April 23, Schiff wrote that Stretch was "such an obvious Ponzi scheme." Stretch is a perpetual preferred st
Most of the Ether stolen in the KelpDAO hack, about 76,000 tokens, is estimated to have already been laundered. Cointelegraph reported on April 23 that the KelpDAO hacker had laundered most of the roughly 75,700 Ether stolen last week from April 21 t
BitMine, the world’s largest corporate Ethereum treasury company, has staked an additional $220 million worth of Ether. Lookonchain said on April 23 that BitMine staked 93,600 more ETH, valued at about $218 million at current prices. That brought Bit
Tether, the issuer of the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDT, said it froze $344 million of its tokens at the request of US authorities. The company said April 23 that it blocked $344 million in USDT held in two accounts after identifying them. The move w
President Donald Trump said he had ordered the US military to sink any vessel laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Writing on Truth Social on April 23, Trump said he had instructed the US Navy to "immediately sink and kill" any ship placing mines in
The US Indo-Pacific Command, or INDOPACOM, is operating a Bitcoin node. CoinDesk reported on April 23 that Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of INDOPACOM, told a House Armed Services Committee hearing on April 22 that the US military is "currently ope
U.S. initial jobless claims rose above market expectations last week. The Labor Department said April 23 that initial claims for unemployment benefits totaled 214,000 last week. That was 3,000 higher than economists’ forecast of 211,000 and up 6,000
More than 100 US cryptocurrency companies are urging the Senate to take up the CLARITY Act, a bill that would establish a market-structure framework for digital assets. CoinDesk reported on April 23 that the companies recently sent a letter to Senate
Some shareholders, including U.S. crypto venture capital firm Pantera Capital, have asked UK Bitcoin digital-asset treasury company Satsuma Technology to return capital to shareholders, Bloomberg reported on April 23. The investors recently asked Sat
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission is withholding approval for new digital-asset businesses proposed by the Korea Insurance Training Institute, including token issuance. According to government officials on April 23, the commission has yet t
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has hired a string of key marketing executives from US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase in recent months. CoinDesk reported on April 22 that six senior Coinbase marketing employees moved to OpenAI over the past year. Sev
South Korea’s debt workout agencies will be allowed to review borrowers’ cryptocurrency holdings when assessing their ability to repay debt. The Financial Services Commission said on April 23 that the National Assembly passed an amendment to the Cred
Input Output, the developer behind Cardano's ADA token, has nearly halved the budget it plans to seek from the community for next year from a year earlier. CoinDesk reported on April 22 that the company submitted nine proposals on April 21 totaling $
FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in 2022, sold a stake in AI coding startup Cursor for $200,000 three years ago. That holding is now worth as much as $3 billion. CoinDesk reported on April 22 that the FTX bankruptcy estate sold a 5% st