CryptoEconomy

O Banco do Golfo de Cingapura lançou um serviço de emissão e resgate de USDC na rede Solana, permitindo que os clientes liquidem ativos digitais e fiduciários 24/7. Essa expansão, aproveitando a velocidade do Solana, tem como objetivo atrair capital institucional e, eventualmente, incluir usuários de varejo até 2026.

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Jim Esposito said Citadel Securities is closely watching prediction markets and could eventually enter the space as it scales and institutional use grows.
He said the firm sees event contracts as potentially useful hedging tools for geopolitical and political risks, including the US

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Ethereum Foundation said the six-month ETH Rangers Program backed 17 recipients and ended with more than $5.8 million recovered or frozen and 785+ vulnerabilities reported.
The initiative also reached 209,000+ users, engaged 800+ teams, delivered 80+ workshops and resources, and

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Mastercard is exploring the integration of Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin as a direct settlement currency within its global payments network.
Christian Rau, SVP at Mastercard, confirmed a collaboration with Gemini to settle card transactions in RLUSD, with a launch expected in the first half o

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Chiliz launched Fan Token Play, a dynamic tokenomics system where wins burn tokens and losses generate new emissions.
The mechanism operates through smart contracts and includes safeguards such as a stop-loss at 75% supply reduction and an annual inflation cap of between 1% and 5%.

Joshua McCollum entrou com uma ação contra a Circle Internet Group por não ter congelado $230 milhões em USDC roubados do exploit Drift de 1º de abril, representando mais de 100 investidores. O caso agora foca na possível responsabilidade e resposta da Circle.

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Grinex suspended operations after a cyberattack stole more than 1 billion rubles, or about $13.1 million, and the exchange alleged hostile foreign intelligence involvement.
The stolen funds moved as USDT and were converted into TRX and Ether across linked addresses.
The breach carries

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Panelists at Paris Blockchain Week said tokenization can improve issuance and access, but it does not automatically create liquidity for inherently illiquid assets.
Tokenized RWA market grew from $8.8 billion to about $29.9 billion in one year, led by Treasurys and commodities.
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Zerion confirmed that an employee lost approximately $100,000 from internal wallets following a social engineering attack linked to North Korea.
The attacker accessed active sessions, credentials, and private keys from hot wallets used for internal testing, so no user funds were

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Algorand’s March report showed monthly active wallets rising 22.6% to 531,000, with transactions and total wallets also increasing across the network during March.
Builder momentum accelerated, with contracts deployed up 34.4% and new assets created up 53%, even as total value locked

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Brix raised $5.5 million to tokenize assets from emerging markets, backed by Turkish banks and native crypto funds.
Its first product, iTRY, is an asset backed by money market funds denominated in Turkish lira, with its launch scheduled for April 20.
The startup will debut on MegaETH and

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Virginia’s HB 798 updates unclaimed property rules to cover digital assets and bars forced liquidation for at least one year after transfer into state custody.
Crypto in dormant accounts is treated as abandoned after five years of inactivity, and the law takes effect on July 1, 2026.

SolvaPay levantou €2,4 milhões em financiamento pré-seed para desenvolver uma infraestrutura de pagamento para agentes de IA na economia agentic. Ela pretende fornecer uma camada de pagamento neutra para negócios SaaS e API, permitindo transações eficientes entre plataformas.

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EU officials are preparing to reassess MiCA, with Peter Kerstens saying the framework will likely evolve as crypto markets mature beyond the conditions it addressed.
MiCA includes a review clause requiring the European Commission to report on its application by June 30, 2027, with

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ether.fi migrated its non-custodial crypto card to OP Mainnet, the largest single TVL event in the network’s history, reaching $220M.
The full migration took three days with no service interruptions, keeping all 70,000 cards and 300,000 accounts active throughout the process.
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