Chairman Mike Selig told a FINRA audience that the agency has signed a data-sharing deal with MLB and is now talking to every pro league about insider trading on prediction markets. The NFL, historically resistant, is finally at the table.
The FSC's emergency inspection found three of South Korea's five major platforms reconciling balances only once every 24 hours. The trigger: Bithumb crediting 620,000 BTC — roughly $56 billion — to 249 users instead of 620,000 Korean won. Regulators have now mandated five-minute reconciliation cycles, automatic kill switches, monthly external audits, and daily public disclosure of results. The deadline is May 2026.
One of the world's largest Bitcoin ATM operators filed an SEC Form 8-K on April 8, 2026, disclosing that an unauthorized party accessed its corporate IT systems and drained 50.903 BTC from settlement accounts. Customer platforms and user data were not affected.
XRP moved sharply from $1.33 to $1.35 on elevated volume, but consolidation without follow-through raises questions about durability. ETF inflows of $3.32 million were too small to shift price direction at this scale, and $1.36-$1.40 remains a meaningful resistance ceiling.
The Ethereum treasury company began trading on the NYSE under ticker BMNR on Thursday, moving up from NYSE American. Simultaneously, its board unanimously raised the share repurchase program from $1 billion to $4 billion — despite the stock trading down more than 64% over the past six months.
Meta-1 Coin was marketed for five years as a token backed by $44 billion in gold and $1 billion in art. Prosecutors say none of it existed.
On April 6, 2026, Anthropic announced a partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU compute capacity starting in 2027 — its largest infrastructure commitment ever. Revenue run rate: $30 billion, up from $9 billion at end-2025. Bitcoin miners lose roughly $19,000 per coin produced. AI hosting offers 80–90% operating margins. The industry's biggest business model shift in history is already underway.
The filing asks SEC staff to confirm that recording securities entitlements on Ethereum Mainnet will not trigger enforcement action. If SEC staff approve, it would be the first formal confirmation that public blockchain infrastructure can operate within the U.S. securities recordkeeping system.
Ether breaks through descending trendline resistance against Bitcoin for the first time since August 2025. SEC DeFi guidance, rising active addresses, and $16.37 billion in open interest set the stage for a potential squeeze.
The venture capitalist who shaped the Trump administration's crypto agenda hit his 130-day legal limit and moves to a broader advisory role. He leaves behind a stalled market structure bill, an unbuilt Bitcoin reserve, and a crypto industry asking who fills the gap.
Governor Kay Ivey signed the DUNA Act on April 1, 2026, giving decentralized autonomous organizations full legal personality in Alabama. Over $24.5 billion in DAO treasury assets have operated without this protection. That is changing.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirmed on April 6, 2026 that 'Regulation Crypto Assets' is at OIRA — the White House's regulatory review office — awaiting sign-off before public comment opens. The proposal creates three safe-harbor pathways, reclassifies most crypto assets as non-securities, and introduces the first structured fundraising framework for blockchain startups under U.S. federal law.
