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The European Central Bank has supported the European Commission’s plan to bring the supervision of major crypto companies under the EU’s financial markets regulator. The ECB said in an opinion published on Friday that it fully supports bringing oversight of systemically important cross-border capital market companies, such as large trading platforms and crypto companies, under the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The central bank said the proposals “constitute an ambitious step towards deeper integration of capital markets and financial market supervision within the Union.” The opinion is nonbinding, but it will still be a major boost to the plan,…

Phoenix, a crypto analytical platform, has released the list of the top 9 best-performing decentralized exchanges (DEXEs) for the last week. A decentralized exchange (DEX) is a cryptocurrency exchange built on a blockchain that permits users to trade digital assets directly without depending on intermediaries like a central company. Uniswap stands in the leading position with $1.25B volume over the last 24H. It also has a trading volume of $7.72B by the last 7D. This data was collected on April 7, 2026. PancakeSwap decentralized exchange comes runner-up in this race with a 7-day volume of $5.44B. It also holds a…

The countdown for the Osaka/Mendel hard fork has begun. In this light, $BNB Chain developers’ X account issues a notice to node operators on a mandatory update to perform before April 28. The Osaka/Mendel hard fork will launch on the BSC mainnet 16 days from now, on April 28 at 2:30 a.m. UTC. Before the Osaka/Mendel fork (April 28, 02:30 UTC), make sure your node is ready:• Upgrade to BSC v1.7.2• Binary replacement is enough• Clean up old config fieldsMissing this puts your node at risk of falling out of sync.https://t.co/5xwT0kz8Z2 https://t.co/dA9RcDVK1e — $BNB Chain Developers (@BNBChainDevs) April 12, 2026…

$ETH, the native cryptocurrency of smart contract giant, Ethereum, is up roughly 3% during Friday’s U.S. market hours to trade at $2,254. The uptick follows a market-wide relief rally as no major news on geopolitics has emerged that could risk the temporary ceasefire between the U.S., Iran and Israel. In addition, the Ethereum price gained additional traction as networks daily transfers count has hit a new high, projecting an organic demand for the blockchain. $ETH Transfers Hit 1.3M as Price Lags Near $2.1K Ether transfer volume has shot up once more, with its seven-day simple moving average exceeding 1.3 million…

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) says Sam Bankman-Fried asked him for “a couple of billion dollars nonchalantly, as if he were asking for a bologna sandwich” during the phone call that preceded Binance’s attempt to acquire FTX in November 2022, and that he never had any intention of going through with it. “I didn’t have any interest in owning FTX. I also wasn’t that interested in helping SBF,” Zhao writes in his memoir Freedom of Money, released Tuesday. “But we may have to step in to protect the users and the industry.” He signed the non-binding Letter of Intent, he…

Aethir, a decentralized, enterprise-grade GPU cloud infrastructure platform, Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) built for scalability, low-latency computing power, enables the launch of a designer Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent that is mainly used for AI workloads, gaming, and cloud rendering. The basic purpose is to create and execute content tasks using decentralized GPU infrastructure. AI content creation is evolving from tools to autonomous agents.With Aethir Claw, you can launch a Designer AI agent that doesn’t just assist, it executes.Blog visuals, social media visuals, video, and more.All running on decentralized GPU infrastructure. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/jqCJRNh36v — Aethir (@AethirCloud) April 12, 2026 Basically,…

Ethereum price extended gains above $2,250 before it started a downside correction. $ETH is now consolidating above $2,120 and might aim for a fresh increase. Ethereum started a decent upward move above the $2,220 zone. The price is trading above $2,180 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a declining channel forming with resistance at $2,225 on the hourly chart of $ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a fresh increase if it stays above the $2,140 zone. Ethereum Price Holds Uptrend Support Ethereum price remained stable above $2,165 and started a decent upward move, like Bitcoin.…

Coinbase Institutional, the integrated solutions platform for investors and institutions that’s operated by the largest crypto firm in the US, Coinbase has made it known to investors hoping for clarity in the market that there is none to give after giving a neutral outlook for the market. Coinbase Institutional pointed to the changing macro conditions as being responsible for what is making forecasting highly unreliable. According to Coinbase, the conflict in Iran has disrupted expectations for fiscal and monetary stimulus and pushed investors toward cash at a pace not seen since 2020. Coinbase cited Bank of America’s Fund Manager Survey,…

$BTC.TOP founder Jiang Zhuoer says the US‑Iran war is America’s ‘Suez Canal moment’ and reveals a medium‑term Ethereum short opened at $2,242. Jiang Zhuoer, founder of mining outfit $BTC.TOP and one of China’s better‑known early Bitcoin investors, says he has opened a short position in Ethereum at $2,242, arguing that the US‑Iran conflict marks a “Suez Canal moment” for American power and that the current crypto bear market is not yet over. In a post shared on Binance’s Square platform and relayed by Chinese‑language outlets including PANews and WEEX, Jiang wrote that recent price rebounds driven by war headlines are…

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced it will support the network upgrade and hard fork process on the Polygon network. According to a statement from the exchange, certain transactions will be temporarily suspended to protect user experience. Binance announced that it will cease deposit and withdrawal operations for tokens on the Polygon network as of April 8, 2026, at 4:00 PM. This step was taken to prevent potential technical disruptions during the network upgrade. The network update and hard fork are expected to take place around 5:00 PM on the same day, at a block height of 85,268,500. The exchange stated…