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As expected, the Fed decided to keep interest rates unchanged. Now all eyes will be on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference, scheduled for 9:30 PM (UTC+3, 2:30 PM ET). The meeting took place amid weak February employment data and sharp fluctuations in oil markets due to escalating tensions between the US and Iran. Market expectations were largely focused on the Fed keeping its policy interest rate unchanged. However, more than the decision itself, the economic projections and forward-looking guidance that the Fed will release will be decisive for investors. The Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions have a wide-ranging…

Former Biden economic advisers Ryan Cummings and Jared Bernstein would have you believe the decline in bitcoin’s price from its 2025 peak somehow vindicates their administration’s approach to cryptocurrency. A masterclass in selective memory, their February 26 New York Times opinion pieceomits the most consequential fact about Biden-era crypto policy: it was not a reasoned regulatory framework. The authors credit the Biden administration with “increasingly aggressive regulatory efforts to curb scams and fraud.” This framing is extraordinary, given what happened on their watch. FTX grew to enormous scale during the Biden administration. Sam Bankman-Fried was a top Democratic donor and…

Getting listed on a major crypto exchange used to feel like a big moment. But new data shows that for most tokens, it’s only the beginning of a tough journey. A recent industry report reveals that only about 32% of newly listed tokens actually rise in price shortly after launch on major exchanges. That means most tokens fail to deliver gains even in their early days. Early Gains Fade Quickly Among the top exchanges, South Korea’s Upbit stands out, with about 67% of its newly listed tokens still in profit after 30 days. However, it lists fewer tokens compared to…

Filecoin, a blockchain-based storage ecosystem, has collaborated with Lighthouse, a perpetual decentralized storage platform. In this respect, Filecoin has introduced the one-time payment model for perpetual storage on-chain. As Filecoin disclosed in its official social media announcement, this integration removes the requirement for repeated monthly charges commonly used in conventional cloud storage mechanisms. Hence, the move targets to benefit consumers tackling AI datasets, mission-critical records, and archives. With @LighthouseWeb3, you pay once for permanent storage on Filecoin: provider selection, deal aggregation, and renewals handled automatically. For AI datasets, archives, and critical records, that’s a fundamentally different cost structure than monthly…

The crypto market sell-off since October hasn’t deterred institutional investors, with a new survey showing most plan to increase exposure to digital assets in the coming year. According to a January survey of 351 institutional investors conducted by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon, 73% of respondents said they plan to increase their allocations of digital assets in 2026, while 74% expect crypto prices to rise over the next 12 months. Two-thirds of respondents said exchange-traded products (ETPs) and other regulated vehicles have become their preferred way to gain exposure, reflecting growing familiarity with these instruments and a broader shift toward regulated access…

A crypto whale has opened a massive short position on oil, totaling around $74.66 million. This is not a routine trade—it reflects strong conviction that oil prices could move lower in the near term. This is insane!Whale 0x9D32 is heavily shorting #oil, with total positions reaching $74.66M.• 39,900 xyz:CL($37.95M)• 39,000 xyz:BRENTOIL($36.71M)Liquidation prices:• xyz:CL: $141.23• xyz:BRENTOIL: $141.6https://t.co/d2VesjL03D pic.twitter.com/BayA96zwvV — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) April 10, 2026 The position is split across two major contracts: crude oil and Brent oil, each accounting for roughly half of the exposure. By targeting both benchmarks, the trader is effectively betting on a broader decline in global oil…

9 April 2026 – The QVAC team at Tether today announced the launch of QVAC SDK, a fully open-source cross-platform Software Development Kit designed to become a universal Artificial Intelligence building block, in a world where, soon, 10 billion humans will share this planet with 10 billion autonomous machines and a trillion AI agents. We call it the “Stable Intelligence Era”.At Tether, we are building the foundational layer for the next era of compute. We see AI as a new element of the periodic table – a raw material that can be embedded into the very fabric of the universe.…

SBI Holdings’ digital asset arm, SBI VC Trade, said it will launch a $USDC lending service in Japan on Thursday, allowing retail users to lend stablecoins to the platform under fixed-term agreements in exchange for returns. On Wednesday, the company said users will be able to lend Circle’s $USDC ($USDC) stablecoin to the platform and receive interest payments, with a maximum application of 5,000 $USDC per offering. The product is structured as a loan to SBI VC Trade rather than a deposit, meaning users take direct counterparty risk. SBI said it may also re-lend the borrowed $USDC as part of…

U.S. prosecutors have pushed back against a key legal argument raised by Roman Storm, intensifying the legal battle over whether developers of decentralized tools can be held criminally liable. In a letter filed on 7 April, the U.S. Department of Justice told the court that a recent Supreme Court ruling cited by Storm’s defense is not relevant to the charges in the case, which include money laundering, sanctions violations, and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. The response follows a filing by Storm’s legal team on 2 April. It sought to use the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox Communications v.…

“I am happy to bet $1 billion USD,” Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) told OKX founder Star Xu, “that: I am officially divorced.” That escalated quickly. With one of the largest peer-to-peer bets ever publicly offered, the Binance-OKX feud went nuclear this week. As if the bet wasn’t interesting enough on its face, according to Xu’s responses, gambling isn’t legal for United Arab Emirates residents, yet polygamy is. For context, CZ worked at Xu’s crypto exchange, OKCoin, but left under contested circumstances before creating Binance. The two exchanges have been fierce competitors ever since, with periodic public spats over listings…