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As readers of this newsletter may be aware, Congress has spent the past few months debating market structure legislation, but crypto policy discussions encompass so many more issues than just the one: taxes, decentralized finance regulations, the midterm election, states and so much more. CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference next month is going to examine each of these issues in depth. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. This newsletter has noted in the past how significant policy changes around digital assets have become.…

Kalshi launched a new Commodities Hub on Tuesday, expanding its event contracts platform deeper into macro markets as volatility across oil, metals, and agriculture drives demand for faster ways to hedge and speculate. The new section broadens Kalshi’s commodities lineup beyond existing contracts tied to WTI crude, Brent crude, gold, and silver, adding markets linked to natural gas, coffee, copper, sugar, corn, soybeans, wheat, nickel, diesel, and lithium. The company said the hub is meant to give users a simpler alternative to futures by letting them trade binary style event contracts on price direction and threshold outcomes. Kalshi is pitching…

Pharos Network, the Layer-1 blockchain focused on delivering institutional-grade assets, has been strengthened by the addition of $USDC. The asset has become the network’s core stablecoin and is poised to become the backbone of the app economy now taking shape on Pharos. The integration of $USDC into blockchain networks adds credibility and – just as importantly – liquidity. Both of which will prove invaluable in Pharos’ quest to establish itself as a leading network for real finance or “RealFi.” Founded by former Ant Group leadership, Pharos is characterized by its high throughput of up to 30,000 TPS – but speed…

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Chicago-based crypto exchange Bitnomial has launched monthly futures contracts tied to Injective, marking the first US-regulated derivatives product for the Web3 financial ecosystem’s native token. According to Wednesday’s announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the contracts settle in $INJ ($INJ) with monthly expiries, allowing traders to gain price exposure without holding the underlying asset, and can be margined in crypto or US dollars through Bitnomial’s clearinghouse. The listing also starts a six-month track record that could support a spot exchange-traded fund under US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) listing rules. In July, Canary Capital filed for a staked $INJ ETF, with Cboe…

Circle’s new $USDC Bridge aims to turn cross‑chain transfers into a near‑invisible backend plumbing layer for on‑chain dollars, replacing fragmented bridges with a single bank‑style ledger experience operated end‑to‑end by Circle itself. Circle has rolled out a native $USDC Bridge that lets users burn $USDC on a source chain and mint it natively on a destination chain, with all routing and gas management handled by Circle. In its materials on the Cross‑Chain Transfer Protocol, Circle says the system is designed to “enable $USDC to flow natively 1:1 between blockchains—unifying liquidity and simplifying user experience,” explicitly eliminating third‑party bridge liquidity pools…

Ethereum is trading around $2,460 as it holds near its highest levels since the February breakdown, with the broader crypto market continuing to recover. $ETH is now pressing against one of the most technically significant zones of the entire correction. How the price behaves over the next several sessions will go a long way toward determining whether this rally has genuine legs or simply represents another failed attempt at trend reversal. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart $ETH has broken slightly above the long-term descending channel’s upper boundary on the daily chart and is now testing the 100-day MA near…

In a landmark announcement that underscores the evolving landscape of global finance, Binance CEO Richard Teng revealed the cryptocurrency exchange’s gold trading volume has now eclipsed that of several major national commodity exchanges. This development, shared via social media platform X, signals a significant shift in where and how institutional and retail investors access precious metal markets. Teng provided specific comparative data, noting Binance’s peak gold trading volume reached approximately twice that of the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) and India’s Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), and around four times the volume of Japan’s Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM). Binance Gold…

Driven by a shared commitment to advance AI-powered Web3 applications to users (including on-chain projects, developers, and customers), Allor Network, a self-improving decentralized AI network, today entered into a strategic partnership with Band Protocol, a decentralized data oracle platform. The collaboration, announced today, disclosed that Allor integrated its decentralized AI network with Band’s decentralized data oracle platform to advance the effectiveness of its intelligence platform, aiming to enhance the way decentralized AI applications serve Web3 user needs. Allor Network is a decentralized AI network that coordinates a global community of machine learning models, functioning as a collective intelligence that overpowers…

4AI and AquaFlux have partnered to put decentralized AI agents to work optimizing real-world asset yield. 4AI handles the agent marketplace on BSC. AquaFlux handles the RWA protocol and the tri-token structure that lets the yield vary by risk tier. Together, they’re making agents active participants in yield decisions rather than background infrastructure. We’re partnering with @AquaFluxPro to unlock the next layer of onchain intelligence by combining decentralized AI agents with structured RWA yield.🔸 Decentralized AI marketplace enabling anyone to build and deploy intelligent agents🔸 Tri-token (P/C/S) model bringing flexible… pic.twitter.com/0jZaYCXZCY — 4AI 🔶 BNB (@4aibsc) April 18, 2026 What…