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U.S. regulators are accelerating crypto oversight by using interpretive rules, signaling a faster policy rollout strategy that prioritizes immediate clarity over traditional rulemaking processes. Key Takeaways: Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlights fast-track crypto rules, boosting momentum across markets. SEC and CFTC move quickly with interpretive approach, reducing friction for digital asset expansion. Crypto framework signals lower barriers for issuers, supporting broader adoption and scalability. Regulators Accelerate Crypto Oversight Using Interpretive Rules A Government Accountability Office (GAO) review clarifies how U.S. regulators are advancing crypto policy while avoiding a judgment on the rule itself. The GAO, a congressional watchdog, issued its…

Jupiter, the largest decentralized exchange aggregator by trading volume, today announced a new developer tool, the Express Verification API by Jupiter VRFD. The verification API allows launchpads, DEXs, and AI agents to integrate verification into their token creation flows, so that tokens can be verified programmatically. The three-step API flow involves a developer creating and signing a Solana transaction burning 1,000 $JUP, then submitting the verification request alongside any token metadata updates in a single call. As Jupiter’s documentation explains, verification and metadata updates are reviewed independently, meaning a metadata change can go through even if a verification request is…

NeoLine has shipped v5.8.1 of its Chrome extension wallet with full support for NEP-21, the unified dAPI standard that Neo co-founder Erik Zhang finalized last week. The update makes NeoLine the first wallet in the Neo ecosystem to implement the standard’s IDapiProvider interface, a common set of methods that allows decentralized applications to communicate with wallet providers through a single, consistent integration. NEP-21 addresses a longstanding fragmentation problem on Neo N3. Without a shared interface, dApp developers had to write separate integration logic for each wallet, and users encountered inconsistent behavior depending on which wallet they connected. The standard defines…

Although Ethereum has continued to trade sideways amid the broader crypto market downturn, its network is flashing positive signals instead, showing increased strength and usage. On Friday, April 10, data from crypto analytics platform CryptoQuant shows that network activity on Ethereum has surged to a new all-time high, signaling growing network usage despite price instability. Ethereum’s total transfer count surpasses 1.3 million Notably, the source provided a chart revealing that Ethereum’s seven-day Simple Moving Average for total transfer count has surpassed 1.3 million transactions as of April 10. Source: CryptoQuant This rapid increase has seen the metric cross its previous…

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,…