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The Ethereum Foundation, the main organization behind the Ethereum ecosystem, has taken a controversial step as the price of $ETH has risen. In an official statement, the foundation announced that it will convert, or sell, 5,000 Ethereum ($ETH) holdings into stablecoins. According to the announcement, this transformation will be carried out using the TWAP (Time-Weighted Average Price) feature of the CoWSwap platform, developed by CoW DAO, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. This method minimizes the impact of large-volume transactions on the market, enabling sales with a more balanced average price. Related News Old Whales Are Selling Bitcoin in Large Quantities:…

Following the Fed’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged, Chairman Jerome Powell’s statements and updated projections led to differing interpretations in the markets. Analysts focused particularly on the impact of oil prices on monetary policy, expectations of interest rate cuts, and Powell’s messages regarding his term in office. Chris Grisanti, Chief Market Strategist at MAI Capital Management, disagreed with the view that rising oil prices would force the Fed to adopt a more hawkish stance. Grisanti argued that the Fed’s statements showed it remained cautious and prudent, and that the negative impact of oil price volatility on economic activity was…

Some past enforcement actions against cryptocurrency companies lacked clear investor benefit and misinterpreted federal securities laws, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday. Since the 2022 fiscal year, the SEC brought 95 actions and $2.3 billion in penalties for “book-and-record violations,” it said in a statement about its enforcement results for 2025. “Together with seven crypto firm registration-related and six ‘definition of a dealer’ cases, these cases identified no direct investor harm from those violations, produced no investor benefit or protection.” It also reflected a “bias for volume of cases brought versus matters of investor protection,” a…

SentismAI, an AI-driven growth and marketing platform, has collaborated with Ads3, an AI-powered advertising entity. The partnership attempts to incorporate cutting-edge>dApps, blockchain-based games, and crypto projects. We are pleased to announce a new partnership with @ads3_ai, a leading AI-powered ad intelligence platform in Web3. 🤝Ads3 integrates on-chain and off-chain data to deliver precision-targeted advertising, flexible performance-based pricing models, and>pic.twitter.com/9ro4lwz2dp — Sentism.AI (@Sentism_ai) April 9, 2026 SentismAI and Ads3 Partner to Redefine Web3 Marketing with Precision Campaigns In partnership with Ads3, SentismAI is integrating off-chain and on-chain data for the provision of precisely targeted ad campaigns in the Web3 landscape. This…

Cross-chain DEX aggregator Velora has become the latest protocol to see its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) vs. Labs structure come under pressure. Today, April 10, Velora, formerly known as ParaSwap, passed PIP-77: Governance Evolution & Operational Alignment, a proposal to wind down its DAO and consolidate operations under Laita Labs, the development company that built the protocol. The proposal passed with 65.8% of voters for and 16.78% against the shift. 17.41% of voters abstained. The proposal transfers the roughly $415,000 remaining in the DAO treasury to Laita Labs to settle outstanding infrastructure costs. It also discontinues the DAO’s 20% protocol…

Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has suspended its initial public offering (IPO) plans due to deteriorating market conditions. According to sources close to the matter, the company has temporarily halted its IPO process, which aimed for a multi-billion dollar valuation, due to weakness in the cryptocurrency markets. Payward had filed a confidential application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in November. However, the market pullback following Bitcoin’s record highs put pressure on valuations, while falling trading volumes weakened investor appetite. These developments led the company to postpone its IPO process. It is stated that the…

While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Gary Gensler preferred regulation through enforcement, the new SEC administration is adopting a more lenient approach towards cryptocurrencies. At this point, the new SEC under the Trump administration prefers to regulate cryptocurrencies through legal means rather than through sanctions. In its announcement regarding enforcement results for 2025, the SEC stated that it has initiated 95 cases and imposed $2.3 billion in fines for violations since fiscal year 2022. However, the SEC has acknowledged the flaws and failures in some of its past enforcement actions against crypto companies, and that these actions…

Coinbase has announced an upgrade for the x402 protocol, enabling usage-based pricing for agentic AI compute requests, which replaces the former flat fee model. In a post on X on Thursday, Coinbase Developer Platform announced the “Upto” scheme has gone live, adding it will help open up “variable-cost services” for agentic AI such as large language model inference, compute and data queries. “Until now, x402 only supported exact, fixed-price payments. That works great for deterministic APIs. But it blocked an entire category of services where the cost depends on usage, such as token count, compute time, or query complexity,” Coinbase…

Blockchain infrastructure company Biconomy has unveiled ERC-8211, an execution standard for on-chain AI agents, co-developed with the Ethereum Foundation, per an X post on April 7. The development falls under the EF’s Improve UX initiative. The new standard — referred to as “smart batching” — lets AI agents carry out complex, multi-step DeFi strategies without pre-encoding every parameter at signing time. The specification was published on April 6 alongside an open-source reference implementation and a live demo. The proposal lists four authors, primarily current and former Biconomy engineers: Mislav Javor, Filip Dujmušić, Filipp Makarov, and Venkatesh Rajendran. According to Biconomy’s…

Crypto exchange and custodian Gemini’s stock dropped more than 16% after Citigroup analysts downgraded the company Wednesday morning, suggesting that it’ll be years before the firm is profitable. The company, which trades on the Nasdaq under the GEMI symbol, saw its rating fall from Neutral to Sell, and Citi lowered its price target from $13 to $5.50, according to a note published Wednesday morning. At the time of writing, GEMI was changing hands for $5.95 per share after having dropped more than 16% since markets opened. Gemini was founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and went live the…