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BinanceMarketThe Dogecoin community marked its annual DOGE Day on April 20. In 2026, the celebration comes against the backdrop of a spot ETF trading on Nasdaq and US regulators recognizing DOGE as a digital commodity.
Adobe Analytics reports that AI-driven visits to US online retail sites jumped 393% in Q1 2026. Meanwhile, Coinbase has begun testing internal AI agents modeled after former executives.
ENS gateway eth.limo regained control of its domain after a social engineering attack on registrar easyDNS, while cloud platform Vercel disclosed a security breach through a compromised AI tool.
BinanceMarketAave's TVL plunged from $26.3B to $17.7B in two days after hackers exploited Kelp DAO's cross-chain bridge, stealing $293M in rsETH and creating $195M in bad debt across lending protocols.
A new Nomura and Laser Digital survey of 518 institutional professionals reveals that two-thirds already use crypto for diversification, with optimism rising from 25% to 31% over two years.
Bitcoin surged to $78,000 amid geopolitical developments, hackers drained hundreds of millions from Hyperbridge and Kelp, while Russia approved criminal liability for unlicensed crypto exchange operations.
Aluminum giant Alcoa is negotiating the sale of its shuttered Massena East smelting plant to crypto mining firm NYDIG. The deal is expected to close by mid-2026.
BinanceSecurityLiquid restaking protocol Kelp suffered a $293M exploit through a vulnerability in its rsETH cross-chain bridge on LayerZero. AAVE dropped nearly 20% amid bad debt concerns.
CircleProtocolsCircle has released USDC Bridge, a cross-chain transfer tool built on CCTP that uses a burn-and-mint mechanism to move USDC natively between blockchains, eliminating the need for wrapped tokens.
Bitcoin mining difficulty fell 2.43% to 135.59 T on April 17, while hashrate remains below 1 ZH/s. Miners face mounting pressure as revenue plunges and transaction fees approach historic lows.
AnthropicAIAnthropic has unveiled Claude Design, an experimental product powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that generates interfaces, presentations, and marketing materials from text prompts.
World has announced its biggest protocol upgrade to date, introducing account-based architecture, an open-source SDK, and integrations with Tinder, Zoom, Docusign, and other major platforms.
The Ketman research project, funded through the ETH Rangers program, identified over 100 DPRK IT operatives embedded in Web3 organizations under fabricated identities over six months.
KrakenSecurityWeekly cybersecurity roundup: Kraken faces extortion after employee compromise, FBI recovers deleted Signal chats via iOS push notifications, $8.3M in hacker crypto assets seized in Ukraine, and new trojans target crypto users.
BinanceMarketBitcoin rallied to $78,000 after Iran's foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil crashed 10%, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit all-time highs.
AnthropicAIAnthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with 10% gains in agentic coding and tripled image resolution. OpenAI responded the same day with a major Codex update featuring computer use on macOS and a new reasoning model GPT-Rosalind for drug discovery.
AnthropicAIGoogle is negotiating with the U.S. Department of Defense to integrate its Gemini AI model into Pentagon systems across all security clearance levels, from unclassified to top secret. The company proposes restrictions on surveillance and autonomous weapons.
BinanceBusinessTRON founder Justin Sun is expected to visit Kyrgyzstan on April 18 for talks with government officials on blockchain infrastructure development and stablecoin scalability.
Gulf Edge, the digital arm of Thai energy conglomerate Gulf Development, has partnered with Kore.ai to accelerate AI adoption across Thailand's major economic sectors.
Cryptographer Adam Back told the Blockchain Paris Week audience that Satoshi Nakamoto might have simply lost his private keys due to unreliable early wallet backup systems, casting doubt on the widely cited billion-dollar fortune.
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