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Shinhan Card has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Solana Foundation to collaborate on stablecoin payment technology and expand the Web3 payment ecosystem, JoongAng Economy News reported on April 30. This partnership marks a significant step toward integrating blockchain-based financial services into mainstream commerce. Shinhan Card and Solana Foundation MOU: A Strategic Alliance Building on a proof of concept (PoC) completed last year, the two parties will conduct a more advanced PoC this year. They will jointly research commercialization possibilities in various fields. The partnership uses the Solana testnet to implement payment scenarios between customers and merchants.…

$BNB Chain has surpassed 150,000 on-chain AI agent deployments as of April 2026, a 43,750% increase since January, while Binance simultaneously launched its Agentic Wallet, a keyless wallet allowing AI bots to trade and transfer tokens on behalf of its 250 million users without accessing their primary accounts. $BNB Chain became the leading blockchain for autonomous AI agent deployments by April 2026, with Bitget News confirming over 150,000 on-chain agents operating across the network, a 43,750% increase since January 2026. The same period saw Binance launch its Agentic Wallet, a keyless wallet infrastructure designed to let AI bots execute trades…

According to recent analysis from Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity Investments, exchange-traded product (ETPs) flows clearly show that investors who abandoned Bitcoin in late 2025 are returning to the cryptocurrency. Market data indicated a massive change in sentiment when Bitcoin peaked back in October. Investors pulled out of digital assets and jumped on the “gold bandwagon.” However, that trend is now flipping. “Now that gold has lost its mojo while Bitcoin is finding its footing, the flows have reversed,” Timmer noted, pointing to the recent divergence in the two assets’ momentum. “To me, this is a good…

Payment transaction volumes among artificial intelligence agents are more than 90% lower than reports suggest, but crypto giants are pouring billions into building the infrastructure around it. AI agents are starting to buy things, but “the numbers are inconsistent,” Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) partner Noah Levine wrote in an X post on Wednesday. He said a Bloomberg article on Saturday reported that AI agents made $24 million in payments over a 30-day period, citing data from x402.org. Levine said that data from Allium Labs shows there have been roughly $3 million in AI agent transactions over the same period. Filtering out…

Midnight is now in focus after a Cardano whale exchanged $ADA tokens for the $NIGHT tokens following the side chain’s mainnet launch. Midnight enthusiast Plutus identified this transaction in a Monday tweet, raising mixed reactions among the Cardano community. Notably, this on-chain move saw a whale swap 940,000 $ADA tokens for millions of $NIGHT. Key Points A Cardano whale swapped 940,000 $ADA (worth $225,600 at the current market price) for 4.14 million $NIGHT tokens on March 29. Following the transaction, the wallet now holds 4.43 million $NIGHT. The transaction is already causing mixed reactions in the Cardano community, with some…

Last year, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced its new platform, Binance Alpha, to introduce early-stage altcoin projects. Binance, which has added many altcoins for listing, has announced a delisting for its Binance Alpha platform. Accordingly, Binance Alpha announced that it has implemented a comprehensive altcoin review mechanism. At this point, Binance Alpha announced that it had delisted 23 altcoins following a comprehensive review that included factors such as liquidity and trading volume. These altcoins were listed as follows: “REX, XO, TANSSI, DARKSTAR, YALA, RCADE, RDAC, SKATE, OVL, SLAY, Ghibli (SOL), Ghibli (BSC), PHY, VLR, SVSA, WBAI, EDGEN, FAIR3,…

The Birb Nest has declared a new collaboration with the RocketX Exchange, which is a major move towards privacy and efficiency in decentralized finance. The partnership presents a hybrid model that integrates any centralised and decentralised exchange features where users are non-custodial. 🚨 PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨We’re welcoming @RocketXexchange as our brand partner – a hybrid CEX + DEX aggregator covering 200+ chains and 20,000+ tokens through a single non-custodial interface.A core part of their stack is Privacy Swaps: a way to swap, bridge, transfer… pic.twitter.com/0mxPdqchqP — THE ₿IRB NEST (@TheBirbNest) April 28, 2026 It is known that RocketX uses its aggregation…

Bitcoin, once promoted by some investors as a hedge against geopolitical turmoil, is behaving like a liquidity-sensitive risk asset at a time when energy prices are climbing, and macro stress is spreading. This comes as the conflict between the United States and Iran deepens, with shock rippling through oil, the dollar, and broader financial conditions before landing in a crypto market that is already showing signs of fatigue. That has reopened discussion of a far steeper downside path than the market had been willing to entertain only weeks ago. Why this matters: This marks a shift in Bitcoin’s behavior under…

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, just minted $1 billion worth of $USDT on the Tron network. This is the first time the company has issued such a large amount in over a month, and it pushes the total circulating supply to about $183 billion, which is over $100 billion more than its closest competitor, USDC. According to its official transparency page, over $96 billion of the total supply sits on Ethereum, while Tron is a close second with $86 billion. Tether minted another 1B $USDT on #Tron 6 hours ago. The circulating supply of $USDT on #Tron has reached…

SINGAPORE, March 2025 – In a decisive move underscoring long-term conviction, OpenEden (EDEN) has announced a significant extension to its token lock-up schedule. The blockchain-based real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform is prolonging the vesting period for team and advisor token allocations by an additional nine months. Consequently, these tokens will remain inaccessible until January 2027, a decision that immediately strengthens investor confidence and project stability. OpenEden’s Strategic Token Lock-Up Extension OpenEden’s announcement represents a proactive governance decision within the volatile cryptocurrency sector. The extension directly impacts a substantial portion of the EDEN token supply previously earmarked for core contributors. This…