France Backs Euro Stablecoin Push as Qivalis Targets H2 2026 Launch
Finance Minister Roland Lescure calls euro stablecoin volume "not satisfactory" and endorses a 12-bank consortium building a MiCA-compliant alternative to dollar dominance.
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Finance Minister Roland Lescure calls euro stablecoin volume "not satisfactory" and endorses a 12-bank consortium building a MiCA-compliant alternative to dollar dominance.
Hours after Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on April 7, 2026, newly created anonymous wallets had already made hundreds of thousands of dollars on prediction markets — and blockchain analysts were already asking who knew first.
The April 25 luncheon at Mar-a-Lago for TRUMP token holders promises the president's attendance. Problem: Trump also said he'd be at the White House Correspondents' Dinner that same day in Washington.
Investors allege Circle let $230 million in stolen USDC cross from Solana to Ethereum without intervention. The lawsuit lands as Tether steps in with a $127.5 million recovery package.
The six-month ETH Rangers program recovered $5.8 million and flagged 785 vulnerabilities. Investigators say DPRK workers used fake identities and normal hiring channels to embed inside Web3 teams.
The Web3 music token erased $5.7 billion in market cap within 48 hours. RaveDAO's six-part denial on X accelerated the sell-off rather than stabilizing it. The team confirmed it may liquidate unlocked tokens for operations.
A US District Court granted the CFTC a temporary restraining order halting Arizona's criminal proceedings against federally regulated prediction market platforms. The order follows the CFTC's simultaneous litigation against Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois — a coordinated assertion of exclusive federal jurisdiction over event-based derivatives.
Strategy added 34,164 BTC in its third-largest purchase ever. Bitmine bought 101,627 ETH in its biggest week since December. Together, they deployed $2.8 billion in a single week while most treasury firms stayed on the sidelines.
Strategy added 34,164 BTC in a single week, pushing its stack to 815,061 coins. Only Satoshi Nakamoto holds more.
Agentic.market lets autonomous AI agents discover and pay for services in stablecoins with zero API keys. 480,000 agents are already transacting across the underlying x402 network.
North Korean group UNC4736 stole $270 million from Drift Protocol on April 1, converting part of it into USDC via Circle's own bridge. Circle's formal response clarifies when and why it can freeze assets — and calls for legislative action.
Project Eleven gave 1 BTC for a 15-bit quantum key recovery. Bitcoin developers redid the same job in 20 lines of pure random Python. Now even Project Eleven says it was not Q-Day.
Friday gave the prediction market fight its sharpest day yet. Letitia James signed a bipartisan amicus brief in the morning. Hours later, the CFTC named her in a federal lawsuit. New York is now the fourth state the agency has sued in three weeks.
WLFI token hits an all-time low of $0.07 after collateral lending controversy. Justin Sun accuses Trump-affiliated DeFi platform of rigged governance and opaque token lockups.
A forged message bypassed the Polkadot token contract's admin controls on Ethereum, allowing unlimited minting. Hyperbridge paused operations after the attack — notable because the protocol markets itself as a "full node security" bridge.