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Binance has added Microsoft and Alibaba to its traditional finance (TradFi) trading roster, as the exchange reported a 188% surge in TradFi trading volume. — The listings mark another step in the crypto exchange’s push to bridge digital asset infrastructure with conventional equity markets, according to a report from U.Today. Crypto Rails for Traditional Assets The addition of two of the world’s largest technology companies — Microsoft, valued at over $3 trillion, and Alibaba — signals Binance’s growing ambition to become a one-stop platform for both crypto-native and traditional asset trading. Loading tweet… View Tweet The rollout is part of…

Luffa, a Web3 decentralized social ecosystem and super-connector built to unify secure encrypted messaging, has disclosed its strategic collaboration with Websea, a comprehensive digital asset trading platform that acts as a fourth-generation exchange. The primary purpose of this partnership is to advance AI-Powered crypto trading features into a unified Web3 ecosystem. Excited to announce our partnership with @webseaofficial! 🤝Websea is the Next-Generation Worry-Free Crypto Derivative Exchange. It offers innovative functions such as Principal-protected Copy Trading, Futures Insurance and AI-powered automatic trading system, delivering a… https://t.co/Rqrr1T7J9z — Luffa (@LuffaApp) April 16, 2026 Luffa performs different functions with perfection by merging Web3…

The cryptocurrency market has entered a “sustained crypto winter,” according to CoinGecko, as spot trading volumes on centralized crypto exchanges rapidly fell over the first quarter of 2026. Crypto market capitalization fell by more than 20% during the first quarter as “bearish momentum from late 2025 collided with global geopolitical instability,” CoinGecko said in a report on Thursday. That caused the top 10 centralized exchanges by spot volume to record a 39% decrease in trading volume over the quarter ended in March, dropping to $2.7 trillion from $4.5 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2025. The drop comes as the…

A bitcoin mining pool built to reject both the industrial pay-per-share model and the pure lottery approach has now proved its design works. Twice. Upstart mining pool Parasite Pool mined block 945,601 on Friday morning, its second block since launching in April 2025 and roughly 48 days after the pool’s first block at #938,713 in late February. The block carried 7,398 transactions and 0.002 $BTC in fees, landing with bitcoin trading at $76,213. pic.twitter.com/2AdCi00t2V— Parasite Pool (@Parasite_wtf) April 18, 2026 The pool operates on a hybrid model that has no parallel in mainstream mining. A winning miner that solves a…

TRON is reported to have officially been launched on Binance.US, the first step in its growth in the U.S. market. The trading and deposit/withdrawal services have been listed as $TRX/USD and $TRX/$USDT, and support the whole range. More to the point, this step gives TRON access to a controlled environment, where compliance and legal certainty contribute significantly to the adoption and investor trust. LATEST: TRON launches on Binance US, enabling $TRX/USD and $TRX/$USDT trading plus deposits and withdrawals supported on the TRON network pic.twitter.com/de78UdE68i — crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) April 17, 2026 What this Implies to TRON It is more than a…

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced it has decided to delist three tokens as part of its policy to regularly review certain assets listed on its platform. According to the official announcement, all spot trading pairs for Dego Finance (DEGO), DENT (DENT), and TrueFi (TRU) will be removed from the platform as of April 28, 2026, at 06:00. Binance emphasized that these decisions are made to ensure user security and maintain a high-quality trading environment. The exchange stated that it regularly evaluates whether listed digital assets continue to meet certain standards and takes necessary steps according to changes in market conditions. Criteria…

Crypto exchange Kraken’s parent company has agreed to acquire digital asset derivatives platform Bitnomial for up to $550 million, in a cash-and-stock transaction that values the firm at $20 billion, Payward said in a press release exclusively shared with CoinDesk. Bitnomial, founded over a decade ago, is the first crypto-native platform to secure all three licenses required to operate a full-stack derivatives business domestically. It has approvals to operate a designated contract market, a derivatives clearing organization and a futures commission merchant. The acquisition effectively shortcuts years of regulatory buildout for Payward as it expands its U.S. footprint. “The shape…

The Justice Department and Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network are being pressed by lawmakers over their supervision of Binance amid allegations that it helped route illicit transactions tied to Iran-linked entities. According to Fortune, Senator Richard Blumenthal sent letters to the DOJ and FinCEN seeking answers about two monitors tasked with overseeing Binance’s compliance efforts. The monitors were put in place after Binance’s 2023 settlement with US authorities, which included a $4.3 billion fine and required stronger anti–money laundering controls. The letters follow allegations that nearly $2 billion in crypto flowed through Binance to Iran-linked entities during the period those…

X said its new cashtags pilot has driven an estimated $1 billion in global trading volume since launching on Tuesday night, according to a post Friday morning from head of product Nikita Bier. Based on aggregated data from our trading pilot, X has driven a estimated $1 billion in trading volume globally since launching on Tuesday night. https://t.co/TimRE4U37S — Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) April 17, 2026 The update adds fresh momentum to a product push that Bier unveiled on April 14, when X launched cashtags for iPhone users in the US and Canada. The feature lets users search or post a…

The numbers are in, and they are not pretty for everyday traders who bet on prediction markets. Despite handling tens of billions of dollars in trades, these platforms appear to be leaving the overwhelming majority of users worse off financially. Prediction markets have grown fast. By 2025, platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi were processing $28 billion in trading volume. The idea behind them is simple: people bet on future events, and the odds that form are supposed to reflect what the public genuinely believes will happen. Supporters have called them powerful tools for forecasting. But a closer look at who…