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Make CryptoSlate preferred on Just as investors were trying to steady the 2026 rate outlook, the oil market handed the Federal Reserve a fresh inflation problem.The Fed meets on April 28 and 29. On April 30, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is scheduled to publish the advance estimate for first quarter GDP alongside March personal income and outlays, the release that includes the Fed’s preferred PCE inflation gauge.Any one of those events can jolt markets on its own. But packed into three days, they become a stress test for the easing narrative that carried risk assets into spring.Bitcoin…

Jessie A Ellis Apr 25, 2026 14:09 CFTC challenges New York’s bid to apply gambling laws to prediction markets, escalating federal vs. state regulatory tensions. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against New York, seeking to block the state from applying gambling laws to federally regulated prediction markets. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, underscores a growing battle over jurisdiction between federal authorities and state regulators. In its complaint, the CFTC argued that federal law, specifically the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), grants it exclusive oversight of prediction…

The European Central Bank (ECB) signed agreements with three European standard-setting bodies to build the digital euro on open, non-proprietary infrastructure, directly challenging the dominance of Visa and Mastercard across the eurozone. The deals with the European Card Payment Cooperation (ECPC), nexo standards, and the Berlin Group give the digital euro a free, shared technical foundation that any European payment provider can adopt without paying global card scheme fees. Three standards, three layers of payments CPACE, developed by ECPC, will handle contactless tap-to-pay transactions over near-field communication. Nexo standards connect merchant systems to the back-ends of payment service providers and…

The modern financial system was never designed for machines. It was built around the constraints of human life: geography, sleep cycles, paperwork, and physical presence. But as AI agents begin to act as economic participants, that human-centric design is starting to look less like a feature, and more like a bottleneck, said the co-founder of crypto firm Alchemy.“You can argue that crypto was built for AI agents, not humans,” said Alchemy CEO and co-founder Nikil Viswanathan.The mismatch is everywhere. Banks have operating hours because humans do. Payments are tied to countries because people live in them. Credit cards assume physical…

A California man received a 70-month federal prison sentence Friday for laundering millions of dollars from a $263 million crypto theft, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced. Evan Tangeman, 22, of Newport Beach, admitted moving at least $3.5 million for a multi-state crew that drained more than 4,100 Bitcoin (BTC) from a single victim and funded an extravagant spending spree. Evan Tangeman, 22, of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for laundering millions of dollars generated by an elaborate social engineering scheme orchestrated by a multi-state criminal enterprise that stole more than $263 million in cryptocurrency… pic.twitter.com/LwV1Usb0jY— U.S. Attorney DC (@USAO_DC) April 24, 2026…

BridgeTower Capital has officially deployed Chainlink’s full infrastructure stack to tokenize securities tied to the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, an $11 billion US natural resource initiative, in what the companies describe as live production infrastructure rather than a pilot. Summary BridgeTower Capital is using Chainlink’s complete stack, including CCIP, Proof of Reserve, NAVLink, and CRE, to tokenize $11 billion in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project. The deployment is live production infrastructure, not a pilot, making it one of the largest single-asset tokenization builds ever brought to institutional scale. BridgeTower plans to expand the same platform to…

The Solana ecosystem has become the primary battleground for on-chain trading in 2026. With transaction speeds under 400 milliseconds and fees measured in fractions of a cent, Solana offers the infrastructure that high-frequency memecoin trading demands. But speed alone does not make a successful trader. The tools you use — specifically, the trading bot you choose — can be the difference between catching a 10x launch and watching it pump without you. Over a dozen Solana trading bots now compete for market share, each with different strengths, fee structures, and risk profiles. Choosing the wrong one costs money through higher…

TAIPEI, April 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HOYA BIT, a Taiwan-based cryptocurrency exchange, recently announced that it has become the world’s first crypto exchange to achieve BSI ISO 14068-1 carbon neutrality certification. Bryn Sutton, Vice President of BSI, and Aiman Ali, Global Head of Sustainability, traveled to Taiwan to present the certification in person, reflecting BSI’s high regard for HOYA BIT. By integrating carbon governance, information transparency, and third-party auditing into its core operations, HOYA BIT has established a reliable framework for the digital asset industry. BSI is the world’s first national standards body, and its certifications are recognized by global…

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, April 23rd, 2026, Chainwire At the Prediction Conference in Las Vegas, SafeBets [SafeBets.world Inc.] unveiled a first-of-its-kind prediction platform where users can earn substantial financial rewards. The company’s arrival comes as the prediction market sector reaches a historic inflection point. Industry volume has grown 127-fold in three years, from $0.5 billion in 2022 to $63.5 billion in 2025, with research firm Eilers & Krejcik further projecting the sector to reach $1 trillion in annual trading volume by 2030. SafeBets is built to capture a significant share of that market through a model that no existing…

New York, United States of America, April 23rd, 2026, Chainwire Threshold Network today announced Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts (VBA), a new framework for institutional Bitcoin deployment built on the same signer infrastructure that has operated with Bitcoin for six years, processed over $5 billion in cumulative volume, and sustained zero losses. Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts are a Bitcoin Script and PSBT-based account framework for institutional Bitcoin deployment. They define preauthorized spending paths, signer combinations, timelocks, and recovery routes at account setup, allowing allocators to use Bitcoin-backed onchain strategies while preserving segregated custody workflows and verifiable settlement paths. Your Bitcoin, Your Custody BTC…