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Pi Network’s PI (PI) token recovered over the weekend as several altcoins moved higher. PI rose more than 5% in 24 hours and traded above $0.18.
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PI token gained over 5% in 24 hours, trading above $0.18 during weekend recovery move.
Bitcoin briefly touched $78,200 before settling

More than one in three US crypto traders have cut everyday spending due to current market conditions, according to a new CEX.IO survey
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CEX.IO found 36% of US crypto traders reduced daily spending due to current market conditions.
About 37% delayed or cancelled purchases, including

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has been named the 2026 Business Leader of the Year by the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California
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Brad Garlinghouse received Harvard’s 2026 Business Leader of the Year award in San Francisco this week.
Harvard praised Garlinghouse for

Peter Schiff has warned that Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, could face pressure from its latest funding approach
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Peter Schiff warned that Strategy’s preferred shares could increase pressure on its Bitcoin treasury plan.
Schiff said the 11.5% yield may force Strategy to

Evan Tangeman, a 22-year-old California resident, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in a crypto theft group
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Evan Tangeman received 70 months in prison for helping launder stolen crypto funds for criminals.
The group stole about $263 million through social

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.
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DoorDash has begun building stablecoin payment infrastructure on Tempo, the Layer-1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, to pay delivery workers and merchants across more than 40 countries at near-instant settlement speeds and fixed US dollar fees, in one of the largest real-world stablecoin

Ripple released a detailed four-phase roadmap on April 20 to protect the XRP Ledger from future quantum computing attacks, with Phase 2 testing already underway, targeting full post-quantum cryptography implementation no later than 2028, as SoFi separately enabled XRP deposits for retail users the s

The UAE has announced an ambitious two-year roadmap to integrate agentic artificial intelligence into 50% of its government operations
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The UAE has set a two-year timeline to integrate agentic AI across 50% of government services, aiming to lead globally in large-scale AI-driven

Riot Platforms has sent another 500 BTC to an NYDIG deposit address, according to on-chain data cited by Lookonchain. The transfer was worth about $39 million at the time of reporting.
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Riot Platforms transferred 500 BTC worth about $39 million to an NYDIG deposit address.
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Ethereum price fell for the second straight day on Friday as institutional investors took a step back from the asset as they weighed rising geopolitical risks.
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Ethereum price fell for a second straight day, dropping 4% from recent highs as spot ETF flows turned negative after a 10-day

Fold Holdings has rolled out a Bitcoin-based bonus program for employees, expanding its push to bring BTC into everyday workplace compensation.
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Fold has introduced a Bitcoin bonus program that lets companies distribute recurring BTC rewards without handling custody or compliance.

The President Trump administration has announced plans to fight what it called “industrial-scale campaigns” aimed at copying artificial intelligence technology from American companies
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The White House said foreign entities used proxy accounts to target major American AI companies.
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World Liberty Financial co-founder Zach Witkoff has come under renewed scrutiny after body camera footage from a 2022 drug-related arrest resurfaced.
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Body camera footage from Zach Witkoff’s 2022 arrest has resurfaced as World Liberty Financial faces a lawsuit from Justin

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has withdrawn his Rule 33 motion that sought a new trial in his criminal case
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Bankman-Fried withdrew his Rule 33 motion but kept his appeal and reassignment request in court.
He told Judge Kaplan he wrote the letter himself after consulting his parents a

Bitcoin’s move toward post-quantum security has drawn criticism from Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, who questioned the design choice behind the proposed protection model
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Hoskinson said Bitcoin chose SPHINCS+, a quantum-resistant signature scheme with limited flexibility and larger

Firefox developer Mozilla revealed that an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI identified 271 vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser during internal testing, all of which were patched this week.
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Mozilla said Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI identified 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox