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IREN may win the data center game, based on its available energy contracts from the era of Bitcoin mining. The company has a head start in building data centers, where access to reliable energy is turning into a key bottleneck. Iren Limited (Nasdaq:IREN) recently drew attention to $BTC mining stocks and may signal a shift in general sentiment for mining companies. Traditionally, IREN has tracked the price of $BTC and the overall crypto sentiment. As of April 2026, IREN has entered a key pivot stage, when the stock may start to reflect the AI narrative, while depending less on tracking…

ZetaChain has onboarded Kimi K2.6 from Moonshot AI and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.6 Max, moving toward a vision where AI models operate natively across blockchain ecosystems. The platform positions itself as a universal layer where applications can run across chains and models simultaneously while maintaining private, persistent user memory that belongs to the user rather than the platform. . @Kimi_Moonshot K2.6 and @Alibaba_Qwen 3.6 Max are now onboarded on ZetaChain.The model layer is moving fast.The memory layer is just getting started.ZetaChain enables:– Model-agnostic memory– Persistent user context– Private, user-owned data Continuous intelligence… pic.twitter.com/IRZ4xm5jW4 — ZetaChain 🟩 (@ZetaChain) April 21, 2026 The…

Circle has proposed an emergency overhaul of the interest rate parameters on Aave V3 Ethereum Core’s $USDC pool, which has been pinned at 99.87% utilization for four days in the wake of the April 18 KelpDAO exploit. In a governance post published Tuesday, Circle Chief Economist Gordon Liao argued Aave’s current interest rate mechanism is failing to clear the market. The pool holds $1.89 billion in supply against $1.89 billion in borrows, with less than $3 million in available liquidity. Borrow rates are flat at the post-kink ceiling of roughly 14%, and the pool has contracted about $60 million in…

UXLINK, an AI-driven Web3 social platform, has partnered with ANOME Protocol, a popular NFTFi platform. The partnership attempts to combine cutting-edge financial tools for digital assets and social infrastructure to revolutionize the Web3 experience. As per UXLINK’s official X announcement, the move integrates the respective technologies of both entities to improve liquidity, security, and usability in $NFT-based economies. Hence, the development underscores a rising trend of merging decentralized finance (DeFi), GameFi, and SocialFi. 🤝 New Partnership: UXLINK 🤝 @Anome_OfficialWe’re excited to welcome ANOME, a next-gen Web3 platform uniting NFTFi, GameFi, and DeFi, into the UXLINK ecosystem! 💎🎮ANOME is redefining $NFT…

The global financial system continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Institutions now focus heavily on efficiency and connectivity. As a result, cross border payments have become a major priority for regulators and banks worldwide. This shift reflects growing demand for faster and more transparent financial transactions across countries. At the same time, global organizations aim to reduce friction in international transfers. They want systems that communicate seamlessly and operate without delays. Therefore, initiatives like the BIS taskforce signal a major step toward improving financial infrastructure. These developments highlight the importance of collaboration between traditional institutions and emerging technology providers.…

The supply of Ethena’s synthetic dollar stablecoin, $USDe, has experienced a dramatic $800 million contraction within just three days, according to on-chain data from analytics firm CryptoQuant. This rapid liquidity exodus is now exerting significant pressure across interconnected decentralized finance protocols. The event, tracked from March 10 to March 13, 2025, represents one of the most substantial short-term supply reductions for a major stablecoin this year. $USDe Supply Drop Triggers Market Analysis CryptoQuant’s data reveals the $USDe circulating supply fell from approximately $4.2 billion to $3.4 billion. This 19% decline occurred amid broader market volatility. Analysts immediately began scrutinizing blockchain…

Blockchains were built as public networks in the best tradition of open-source technology. But their future is private. And that future is arriving faster than most people realize. This month, Tempo — the Stripe-backed payment blockchain that raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation, with Visa, Mastercard, Paradigm, and UBS among its backers — published a detailed architectural proposal for private enterprise stablecoin transactions. Tempo is not a scrappy privacy-native project. It is arguably the most institutionally credentialed blockchain launch in years, built by people who deeply understand what banks, payment processors, and enterprises actually need. When a network…

Since the KelpDAO incident on April 18, 2026, Aave founder Stani Kulechov has consistently made it clear that the protocol was not hacked or compromised in any way during the attack. Nonetheless, that did not stop Aave from losing nearly $10 billion in the next four days, and Fluid is among those picking up the slack. As Aave was struggling with its pools being completely tapped out, withdrawals being frozen, and lenders stuck with collateral they didn’t want, Fluid launched a WETH Redemption Protocol without warning. The concept of the protocol was surprisingly great: Fluid’s lite vault held wstETH as…

Oracle network Pyth Network has been selected as the resolution data source for Kalshi’s expansion into commodities markets, underscoring the growing focus on reliable pricing infrastructure in event-based trading. Kalshi said on Wednesday that Pyth will supply real-time pricing data for its newly launched commodities hub, which debuted in April. The data will be used to determine how event contracts tied to commodity prices are settled. The move reflects a broader push among prediction market platforms to strengthen backend infrastructure as they expand into more complex asset classes. Accurate, tamper-resistant data feeds are critical for ensuring fair and transparent contract…

To further provide DeFi traders and investors with an advanced user experience, Niza Ecosystem, a Web3 protocol that focuses on DeFi trading, staking, and cross-chain applications, today entered into a strategic partnership with AIW3, a Web3 intelligence platform that offers AI-powered automation to execute trading strategies across decentralized and centralized exchanges. The collaboration enabled Niza to integrate with AIW3’s intelligence technology to enhance trading and various DeFi activities on its decentralized multichain ecosystem. Niza Ecosystem is a Web3 protocol built on Solana and BNBChain, allowing users to participate in different DeFi trading, staking, and multichain applications across various chains supported…