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btcmanager.com Ethereum Foundation Q1 2026 grants double down on ZK, cryptography, and core protocol infrastructure

Ethereum Foundation’s Q1 2026 grants pour into ZK research, core clients, validator security, and public-goods infra, signaling long-term conviction in cryptography-first scaling. The Ethereum Foundation has released its latest Q1 2026 allocation report, highlighting fresh grants and ecosystem support across cryptography,…

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forklog.media Mycelium, not hierarchy

One morning many of us woke to find the world collapsing—or at least to learn that it was. Coping with pain, bereavement and horror, it turns out, is not only about antidepressants. For some, the true rescuers were fungi. No, this is not about microdosing fly agaric or swallowing capsules of ground reishi, lion’s mane, stinkhorns and the like. This essay is about how foraging, observing and studying fungi can alter our understanding of the world, stretch our frames of thought, offer new meanings, and help people keep thinking about the future and survive amid constant disruption and fragility.  Life amid the ruins For some, the metaphor “the world is collapsing” points to a very concrete political event—war; for others, it became real during the pandemic. For people with a hyper‑conservative lens, the reassessment of moral and ethical norms, the shift of values towards broader acceptance of the “other” that does not fit their idea of the traditional, is also a destruction of the familiar world. None of this cancels the global environmental crisis, sundry economic challenges and what we call technological progress, or the local man‑made disasters that crop up and, in a Europeanised consciousness, evoke apocalyptic tropes. Anthropocentrism makes people feel guilty about what is happening, and the psyche seeks relief by looking for someone or something to cast as the source of “all evil”. Patriarchy? Capitalism? The collective West, the passionate East, the Global South? Big Brother? Yes, all of them are to blame. But all of them are, in part, us. The circle is closed. The thought that fungi might foster the capacity to come to terms despite seemingly savage and tragic contradictions was prompted by watching mushroom‑foraging communities on social media. When Russia’s war against Ukraine entered its hot phase, hatred (justified though it may be) seeped into the comments under posts. The commonest curse was to wish that someone—whose place of residence or language marked him as an enemy—would eat poisonous mushrooms. Yet a year on, in mushroom groups, whether set up by people in Ukraine, Russia or elsewhere, courteous exchanges were again visible, including when a Russian‑language post drew replies in Ukrainian, and vice versa. As human ties frayed everywhere, mushroom lovers kept sharing finds and knowledge. Their drive to study these organisms and their passion for gathering proved—perhaps narrowly and situationally, but still—more important than politics, nationality and enmity, and so became a unifying force. Why do fungi “do” what neither culture nor science managed? The timing may seem odd, but the point here is to try to step away from an anthropocentric—and thus humanistic—view of the world. A caveat is in order: fungi, of course, do nothing and teach us nothing; that is merely personification, typical of a mind still prone to anthropomorphism. It is more accurate to ask what humanity can learn about the world—and change in its own thinking—by studying fungal life. Progress is an idea from the past In The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing advances the idea of accepting instability as normal, exploring the phenomenon of matsutake foraging across the world. She notes the paradox of our time: a lack of confidence in tomorrow, even among those who pin their hopes on capitalism. “Living in troubled times requires much more than attacking those who plunged us into this turmoil (although, I think, that too is useful; I do not object). One might look around and notice this strange new world and strain the imagination to grasp its contours. And here fungi come to our aid. The drive of matsutake to push through even on scorched ground lets us explore the ruins that have become home to us all,” says the researcher, drawing on a historical fact. After the bombing of Hiroshima, the first thing to sprout on charred, contaminated ground was this very mushroom. This is not about the trite “triumph of life over death”—shedding such metaphors is useful—but about reassembling an ecosystem under the constant damage wrought by capitalism and the state. In Japan, matsutake became the basis for a new niche in the economy: supply chains and human coalitions emerged that had not existed before. Today, on the transnational market, the mushroom passes through a ramified network of intermediaries—pickers, buyers, shippers, wholesalers, retailers and restaurateurs—and it is these ties that created a new economy atop degraded forests. It runs on informal communications, often on trust. It is also a product that resists the standard practices of capitalist alienation. Matsutake cannot be brought under control; it is not cultivated; its appearance is unpredictable in ways humans cannot measure. Foragers live with permanent uncertainty: they do not know if there will be food tomorrow, whether money will cover rent, whether middlemen will leave early, whether soils will dry up, whether access to the forest will be banned. In this sense, foraging for matsutake is not only survival under capitalism but a way to reassemble life amid the ruins of economy and landscape where stable jobs and social guarantees scarcely exist. In Tsing’s view the economy has become precarious the world over—a state of fragility and exposure. We should admit we are not in control; we do not even control ourselves. Old philosophical approaches have aged; the modern world shows that there is no goal in life, only life itself in its uncertainty. Humanity is neither the crown of nature nor king of the hill; our species is just one among many that can make worlds. Fungi have far more experience of that. World‑building was never humanity’s prerogative; only now have scientists begun to pay attention. So the very notion of progress loses its purchase. If we discard the simplifying, constraining narrative of linear advancement as a march forward, we can notice other temporalities beyond the merely human. Studying the entangled ties of fungal life reveals how organisms, inanimate things and landscapes enlist and are enlisted in joint activity to form intricate systems. Such curiosity enables the making of new categories, and of economic, political theories and cosmologies that account for the diversity of assemblages and worlds. Mycelium, in this sense, ceases to be a metaphor and becomes a model of thought. Its existence relies on distribution, exchange, plasticity, and the capacity to withstand damage, to grow on scorched ground, to transform and co‑ordinate crucial elements of temporary stability in concert with other organisms—both kin and those of different kinds. Artificial intelligence is no threat—but neither is it a crutch While people are afraid, they not only seek culprits and try to put life on pause; they also tend to spin conspiracies and see menace in anything new—or old but other. Does that deliver real protection or stability? No. Are you afraid AI will take your job, enslave humanity, press the nuclear button? Fear often disguises itself as concern for safety but in practice merely reproduces helplessness. The fearful person does not want to understand reality; he wants to neutralise its image at once. Hence he sees conspiracy where there is complexity, and a threat where there is otherness. AI is frightening precisely here: not only as a possible tool of substitution, manipulation or military escalation, but as a reminder that old forms of control can no longer cope with a world now too connected, too fast and not very transparent. If watching fungi lets us think order differently—not as a stable system but as a temporary coincidence of heterogeneous ties—then we can also look differently at technologies usually cast as pinnacles of human progress. Architectures built on decentralisation, be it blockchain or learning systems of artificial intelligence, turn out less a breakthrough than a belated attempt to catch up with a reality long existing beyond human models of governance. Decentralised digital systems and the development of AI‑based models are attempts to build assemblages in a technical medium. Our brains simply cannot process vast volumes of data at machine speed. In such conditions, artificial intelligence becomes a tool for pattern recognition in environments too complex for human attention. Yet we should avoid the opposite mistake of “appointing” digital agents as human “helpers”, “prostheses” or “crutches”. AI agents are better conceived as dependent yet autonomous entities with which humans interact. It is undeniable that AI affects our thinking. Many people already compose sentences after the fashion of language‑model outputs—and that is only the beginning of our co‑labour. Assemblages of humans with language models and AI can expand collective thinking. LLM can help to frame ideas faster, reconcile disagreements and work through large troves of information. In distributed interactions among many agents, shared norms and rules can emerge spontaneously—a kind of digital sociality. For people, this opens new forms of co‑operation, especially where time, expertise or linguistic access are scarce. Now let us summon the inner sceptic‑conservative to list the risks—and at once pose clarifying questions to gauge how serious they are. Risk 1: AI will start structuring social reality itself, subtly imposing models of speech, evaluation and behaviour. Why is that frightening? Television or a school textbook also imposes all of the above—and yet we muddle through. Risk 2: If AI’s autonomy grows while human control remains weak, who is responsible for a decision taken by a hybrid “human‑model‑infrastructure” loop? In such cases it is better to assess the quality of the decision than to ask in advance “who will be to blame”. Suppose you know who decided to start a war where there was none before. Does that knowledge bring relief? Risk 3: AI may entrench biases and misconceptions. Yes. But no more than other technologies have done—and still do. Risk 4: Won’t an assemblage with non‑human intelligence mean a loss of subjectivity? No. We will explain why below. Risk 5: What about a loss of agency? Yes, that can happen. But how frightening is it? Let us look more closely. Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, argues for a humbler, more precise anthropology in which humans are not central but one participant in a vast web of relations—and goes further by questioning the value of individuality as such. Drawing on mycological research, Sheldrake contends that life runs on exchange, symbiosis, decay and redistribution, not on autonomy. His thinking helps us abandon the idea that there is a hard line between “living” and “non‑living”, “self” and “non‑self”, “organism” and “environment”. Life is better seen as a flow through which matter, energy, information and influence constantly pass. Subjectivity does not vanish—but it is nothing without interactions and interdependencies. When agency slips from human control, the shift is not only technical but philosophical: freedom ceases to mean autonomy, and responsibility ceases to be a property of an isolated subject. It becomes distributed across the assemblage in which the human may still be a participant but is no longer master of the world. The question then is not who replaced the human, but what form of life arises where action no longer belongs to one. People cling to their agency as an unquestionable value because we were reared on the illusion that there is no future without progress and that humans are responsible for the world they must bequeath. The outworn ideas of Enlightenment and modernism still loom large, with their hierarchies in which one species proclaimed itself the navel of the earth. Within that paradigm, harmful narratives of the “if not us, then who” variety will keep surfacing—to the detriment of humanity and everything else. “Progress is built into the common understandings of what it means to be human. Even under the mask of other concepts—‘agency’, ‘consciousness’, ‘intention’—we shore up the thought that humans differ from the rest of the living world because they look ahead, whereas other species live for the day and so depend on us. So long as we imagine that progress makes the human, non‑humans cannot escape these speculative frames either,” notes Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Perhaps we should drop human arrogance and admit that AI already outperforms us in many functions. Or that a slime mould without a brain—or anything like a central nervous system—can solve a problem faster and better than you. That is no reason to sulk or to oppose them. An assemblage of intelligences: human, slime mould, computer Sheldrake recounts a working human–plasmodium collaboration: a researcher who often could not find the exit from IKEA built a maze matching the store’s plan and let his slime moulds “search” for the quickest way out. They succeeded.  “See—they are smarter than me,” the researcher laughed. Such a conclusion is neither mere metaphor nor irony—unless one insists on measuring other beings’ intelligence by a human yardstick. The book also mentions a Japanese experiment using a map of Greater Tokyo: in a Petri dish a slime mould was offered a set of points mimicking urban hubs, and within a day it laid out paths that almost replicated the capital’s railway network. In similar trials slime moulds reproduced America’s highway grid and the ancient Roman roads of Central Europe. For designing real infrastructure, a slime mould is the dream contractor, swiftly finding and showing efficient, economical routes. Developers use the natural abilities of the single‑celled myxomycete Physarum polycephalum to control robots and as a biological processor. Biocomputers built on slime moulds have several potential advantages over silicon systems: for example, they can solve computational and adaptive tasks with far lower energy use than digital processors. For now, such assemblages of humans, unicellular organisms and machines live in labs and prototypes rather than mass products, but they have existed for some time. And cybernetics, as founded by Norbert Wiener, has from the start studied control and communication in machines and living organisms. If we abandon the picture of the world as a system striving for stability and equilibrium, and instead look through the logic of assemblages—temporary, brittle and centreless gatherings described by Sheldrake and Tsing—then fungi cease to be merely objects of observation or a soothing metaphor. They become a way to grasp how existence might be arranged: not as a whole, but as a process of constant reassembly and maintenance of ties. Fungi really do expand our minds In Sheldrake’s book is the idea that everyone needs others to live. The way lichens exist, he suggests, can force us to reconsider our views of “individuals”. Once upon a time, scientists took lichens to be a single organism; now we know their survival rests on complex relations among several organisms—two or more. The researcher of matsutake’s economy concurs. “Mycelium is a perfect conduit. It has never allowed itself to be stuffed into the ‘iron cage’ of self‑reproduction. Like bacteria, some mycelia are busy exchanging genes in non‑reproductive contacts; many also do not allow their genetic material to be defined as belonging to a single ‘individual’ or ‘species’, let alone a ‘population’. When researchers studied the mycelia of what they had considered a biological species—the costly Tibetan cordyceps—they found a mishmash of many species. Examining the strands of honey fungus (Armillaria), they discovered a genetic mosaic that does not allow an individual to be identified,” writes Tsing. Entertain the thought that individuals do not exist. The survival of human bodies depends on other organisms. Gut microbiota, skin bacteria, our need for bodily contact with other people and animals, our dietary inclinations—all point to multi‑species dependence. Are you sure the decision you made was not the product of a mood created by complex interactions among microorganisms and their influence on your biochemistry? Are you truly autonomous? Modern research is literally demolishing traditional views. The study of the life sciences anchored in heteronormative understandings of both sexual and social relations is receding—not as a cultural fad. David Griffiths, in the essay “Queer Theory for Lichens”, argues that studying lichens deconstructs such assumptions, breaks their bounds and calls the binary, heteronormative scientific tradition into question. Ecology is mutable and is best understood as a complex series of relations that dissolve borders. There is no norm—and that is the norm. The stranger, the more variegated, the more complex survive; and we cannot live without others, who are themselves in constant flux. For that lesson we can be grateful to lichens and fungi. Toby Spribille, an expert on fungal symbiosis at the University of Alberta, says there are limits to how humans study complex relations in nature: “A human binary view prevents us from asking non‑binary questions. Our constraints regarding sexuality prevent us from asking questions about sexuality and so on. We ask questions from within our cultural context. And this leads to extraordinary difficulty working with questions about complex symbioses like lichens, because we think of ourselves as autonomous individuals, which makes the path to understanding harder.” Where humans are used to erecting borders—in various senses—between self and other, living and non‑living, norm and deviation, fungal assemblages reveal the permeability of those borders in the name of co‑existence, without erasing difference and while preserving the particularities of every component. In this sense, “fungal philosophy” does not offer a new identity or a more inclusive model of the subject. It questions the very idea of the subject as an autonomous bearer of will, responsibility and value. That touches the foundations of systems that need clear borders—economy, politics, law. If the individual cannot be unambiguously singled out, it becomes harder to count, control and extract value. But that does not mean liberation. Life does not become more just or harmonious; we simply start to notice its complexity—through overlaps, dependencies and partial alignments of interest. We are unlikely to step fully outside capitalism, the state and hierarchies now, but we can already look at them from the side and refuse to accept their frames as the only possible ones.

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news.bitcoin.com KuCoin EU Strengthens Compliance Leadership With Appointment of Experienced AMLO and Expansion of AML Team

This sponsored press release was provided by KuCoin and was not written by Bitcoin.com News. Bitcoin.com News does not necessarily endorse the statements made within this announcement. PRESS RELEASE. VIENNA, Austria April, 2026 – KuCoin EU, the MiCAR-licensed digital asset platform headquartered in Vienna, today announced a significant strengthening of its anti-money laundering (AML) and […]

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forklog.media Standard Chartered Maintains DeFi Forecast Despite Kelp Hack

The $292 million hack of the Kelp protocol dealt a significant blow to the decentralized finance sector, yet it was not deemed fatal. This conclusion was reached by analysts at Standard Chartered, reports The Block. The incident occurred on April 18. The perpetrator stole rsETH tokens and used them as collateral in the largest lending protocol, Aave. This allowed the hacker to withdraw real assets, triggering panic and a mass exodus of funds from the system. According to the bank, amid concerns, users withdrew $17 billion in deposits from Aave (38% of the total volume). The number of active loans decreased by $5.5 billion. Jeffrey Kendrick, head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered, described the event as a test of "antifragility." He noted that a coalition led by Aave founder Stani Kulechov allocated over $300 million to restore operations. The initiative was supported by Arbitrum, ConsenSys, Mantle, and Lido. Bank experts believe the crisis exposed systemic issues in DeFi: mismatch of asset types and liabilities within credit markets; risks of using complex collateral; vulnerability of cross-chain bridges. Analysts emphasized that the situation will accelerate the transition to the fourth version of the Aave protocol and the creation of the "Ethereum Economic Zone". These updates are expected to reduce reliance on bridges, which are frequent targets for hackers. Despite the incident, Standard Chartered maintained its forecast for the tokenized assets market. The bank expects its capitalization to grow from $30.19 billion in 2025 to $2 trillion by the end of 2028. Source: Rwa.xyz. According to Kendrick, the KelpDAO hack will only hasten the maturation of DeFi infrastructure. Earlier, Andrew Moss from Jefferies believed that a series of hacks in the DeFi sector could dampen Wall Street's interest in blockchain technologies.

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blockmanity.com Record-Shattering Hedera Africa Hackathon 2025: 13,000 Developers Chase $1M in World’s Largest Web3 Event

What Makes the the Biggest Web3 Event Ever? Imagine over 13,000 developers from around the world building the future of blockchain in one massive event. That’s exactly what happened at the . This event set a new record as the […] The post Record-Shattering Hedera Africa Hackathon 2025: 13,000 Developers Chase $1M in World’s Largest Web3 Event appeared first on Blockmanity.

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news.bitcoin.com Strategy’s STRC Becomes World’s Largest Preferred Stock in Under One Year, Saylor Says

Michael Saylor told a packed crowd at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas that Strategy’s STRC instrument has grown to $8.5 billion in nine months, becoming what he called the largest and most liquid preferred stock in the world. Key Takeaways: Strategy’s Michael Saylor unveiled STRC at Bitcoin 2026, a digital credit instrument that reached $8.5 […]

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cryptobriefing.com Craig Newmark: Venture capital pressures lead to ‘enshittification’ of web design, the importance of building networks for impact, and why authenticity is crucial for online trust | Conversations with Tyler

Financial pressures are degrading web design quality, sparking a need for community-driven digital solutions. The post Craig Newmark: Venture capital pressures lead to ‘enshittification’ of web design, the importance of building networks for impact, and why authenticity is crucial for online trust | Conversations with Tyler appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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cryptobriefing.com Rory Johnston: AI optimism drives equity markets, geopolitical instability threatens oil supply, and the logistics of Canadian oil trade impact pricing | Bankless

AI optimism boosts equity markets while potential Middle East crises threaten global oil supply stability. The post Rory Johnston: AI optimism drives equity markets, geopolitical instability threatens oil supply, and the logistics of Canadian oil trade impact pricing | Bankless appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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forklog.media Bitcoin Spot Volumes Drop to Lowest Since 2023

Spot trading volumes of the leading cryptocurrency on major exchanges have fallen to levels seen in September-October 2023, marking the end of the previous bear phase. This was highlighted by an analyst known as Darkfost. 📉 $BTC Spot volumes hit lowest levels since end of Bear market.The collapse in Bitcoin spot trading volumes continued throughout the month of April.💥 Spot volumes have now returned to levels comparable to September 2023, marking the end of the previous bear market.This… pic.twitter.com/p9npEyD5DG— Darkfost (@Darkfost_Coc) April 29, 2026 According to him, the decline in activity persisted throughout April, indicating a significant reduction in investor participation. Binance was most affected, with volumes dropping by approximately $25 billion since March. On Gate, the figure halved by $13 billion, and on OKX, it fell by about $6 billion. Darkfost linked the downward trend to the macroeconomic backdrop, particularly the events surrounding the conflict in the Middle East. "Concerns about persistent inflation have intensified. In such conditions, the Fed is unlikely to have enough room to accelerate policy easing at today's FOMC meeting," he noted. Against this backdrop, many investors are hesitant to open long-term spot positions in Bitcoin: medium-term prospects remain uncertain, added Darkfost. Experts at Glassnode provided similar statistics. They noted that such periods are often accompanied by reduced market depth and increased price sensitivity to capital flows. Bitcoin spot volumes across major exchanges have fallen to their lowest levels since October 2023.Such low volume environments often coincide with reduced market depth and heightened sensitivity to flow shifts📊 https://t.co/XLo1nlsykP pic.twitter.com/Pn6xfZs4gx— glassnode (@glassnode) April 29, 2026 Weak Interest The cooling of investor interest was also pointed out by Alphractal founder Joao Wedson. According to his data, the number of Google searches for cryptocurrencies has hit a three-year low. Google searches for cryptocurrencies are at their lowest level in the last 3 years.That explains the current sentiment.This is a fragile moment, where the strong survive and the weak complain.Alphractal is a unique platform where you can explore everything from on-chain to… pic.twitter.com/QYDIuGKkO1— Joao Wedson (@joao_wedson) April 28, 2026 The expert believes that the current phase reflects the sector's vulnerable state—market participants need patience and resilience. The cryptocurrency fear and greed index further hints at investor uncertainty. As of April 29, it stands at 26 points, indicating a "fear" zone. Source: Alternative.me. Previously, amid Bitcoin's rise above $77,000, the index reached 46—the highest level since January. At the time of writing, the leading cryptocurrency is trading around $77,100. Over the past day, the asset's price has increased by 1.7%. Hourly chart BTC/USDT on Binance. Source: TradingView. Earlier, on April 28, the exchange Coinbase and analytics platform Glassnode released a joint report on the rise of optimism in the crypto market.

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forklog.media Apirone Restored Litecoin Operations Within 24 Hours After Network Reorg

Crypto payment processor Apirone resumed Litecoin (LTC) operations within a day of the April 25 network incident. User funds remained safe, according to the press release. The Litecoin network experienced a 13-block reorganization triggered by an attempted exploit of the MimbleWimble Extension Block (MWEB) protocol. An attacker submitted a block with malformed MWEB data at height 3,095,931. Upgraded nodes rejected the invalid block but encountered a bug that prevented them from continuing normal mining. Meanwhile, nodes running outdated software kept extending the invalid chain. Mining pools coordinated to overtake the bad chain and restore consensus on the valid one. The Litecoin development team released version 0.21.5.4 on the same day to fix the issue. How Apirone responded The Apirone team identified the problem and confirmed it was a network-wide event. The service posted updates across multiple channels explaining the issue, potential consequences, and recovery steps. "We updated nodes to the latest Litecoin Core version, synced with the valid chain, re-verified all incoming and historical transactions, and restored correct balance displays," the Apirone team said. During the disruption, outgoing transactions were temporarily unavailable as the network could not process them. The network kept logging incoming operations. Full LTC processing resumed within 24 hours. New notification system Following the incident, Apirone announced an upgrade to its notification infrastructure. Upcoming releases will support alerts via Email, Telegram, and Discord across several event categories: payments, receipts, security, callback errors, and technical notifications. The system is designed to keep users informed about transaction statuses, network incidents, and maintenance windows in real time. Earlier, ForkLog reported that Apirone sponsored a yacht racing team in Spain.

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blockonomi.com 8 AI Trading Bot Apps for Mobile Users in 2026 to Automate Trading Anywhere

Markets no longer wait for traders to sit in front of a desktop screen. Crypto moves through the night, forex reacts to global headlines before many users wake up, and stock traders often miss key setups because they are commuting, working, or away from their main trading terminal. That is exactly why mobile-first automation is [...] The post 8 AI Trading Bot Apps for Mobile Users in 2026 to Automate Trading Anywhere appeared first on Blockonomi.

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forklog.media Anthropic Integrates Claude with Blender, Adobe Photoshop, and Premiere

Startup Anthropic released a set of connectors enabling Claude to work directly with popular design and 3D tools: Blender, Adobe, Autodesk, Ableton, SketchUp, and others. “Claude cannot replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working—faster and more ambitious idea generation, an extensive skill set, and the opportunity for creative people to tackle large-scale projects,” the company blog states. Available options include: Ableton—relies on Claude's responses as outlined in the official documentation for Live and Push products; Adobe—bring ideas to life as images, videos, and designs using over 50 tools in Creative Cloud applications, including Photoshop and Express; Affinity by Canva—automates repetitive tasks in professional creative processes; Autodesk Fusion—enables designers and engineers with a Fusion subscription to create and edit 3D models through dialogue with Claude; Blender—provides an interface for API in Python; Resolume Arena and Resolume Wire—allow visual effects artists to manage Arena, Avenue, and Wire; SketchUp—“turns a conversation with Claude into a starting point for 3D modeling”; Splice—enables music producers to search their sample catalog directly from the Claude application. Blender developers have created an MCP connector, officially available for Claude. It allows 3D artists to analyze and adjust entire scenes or create custom scripts for batch applying changes to objects in a scene. Anthropic has joined the Blender Development Fund as a patron to support the project in further developing the Python API. Use Cases The company provided several examples of using Claude for creative work: learning to use tools—Claude acts as a personal tutor for complex software: explaining modifier stacks, synthesis methods, or unfamiliar functions; expanding capabilities through code—AI writes scripts, plugins, and generative systems for software; integrating tools into a single pipeline—Claude converts formats, restructures data, and synchronizes resources within a project; automating routine tasks—batch processing of resources, project structure setup, application of procedural changes. Anthropic collaborates with students and educators to implement educational programs. They will gain access to Claude and the new connectors. In April, Anthropic introduced an experimental product, Claude Design—a tool for AI-based design generation.

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cryptopotato.com Ethereum Price Prediction: ETH Breaks Key Downtrend—Is $2.8K Next?

Ethereum is trading at $2,340 as April closes out, having quietly done what it failed to accomplish for the better part of six months: break out of the descending channel that has defined its entire corrective structure since October 2025. The breakout is fresh, unconfirmed on higher timeframes, and happening right below the $2.4k resistance […]

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cryptobriefing.com SoFi posts record $1.1B revenue in Q1 as everything app strategy gains traction

SoFi's strategic expansion into digital assets and comprehensive financial services could significantly reshape the fintech landscape, enhancing user engagement and market competitiveness. The post SoFi posts record $1.1B revenue in Q1 as everything app strategy gains traction appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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blockmanity.com Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement to 9 Blockchains as Volume Surges to $7 Billion

In a major move for the crypto world, Visa is now supporting 9 blockchains in its global stablecoin settlement pilot. This expansion comes as the program’s volume has skyrocketed to an annualized $7 billion, showing huge growth in blockchain-based payments. […] The post Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement to 9 Blockchains as Volume Surges to $7 Billion appeared first on Blockmanity.

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bitcoinist.com Litecoin’s MWEB Bug Let An Attacker Create 85,034 LTC

Litecoin developers have disclosed that a critical validation flaw in the network’s Mimblewimble Extension Block implementation allowed an attacker to create an inflated pegout of 85,034.47285734 LTC in March 2026, before a coordinated emergency response recovered the funds and neutralized the accounting imbalance. The incident, detailed in a postmortem published by Litecoin developer David Burkett […]

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news.bitcoin.com Pump.fun Burns $370 Million in PUMP Tokens and Locks 50% of Revenue Into Buybacks

Pump.fun burned approximately $370 million worth of PUMP tokens on April 29, reducing circulating supply by 36%, and committed 50% of all net platform revenue to an irreversible smart contract that will continue buying back and burning PUMP for the next 12 months. Key Takeaways: Pump.fun burned roughly $370 million in PUMP tokens on Wednesday, […]

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forklog.media ZetaChain Discloses Details of $334,000 Cross-Chain Attack

The L1 network ZetaChain has released a post-mortem of the hacking attack that occurred on April 27. The team stated that the breach was due to a vulnerability in the cross-chain messaging mechanism.  On Apr 27, ZetaChain experienced a targeted exploit involving deliberate preparation, including Tornado Cash funding and wallet address spoofing. Cross-chain ZETA transfers were not affected.No user funds were affected — all impacted wallets were ZetaChain-controlled.A…— ZetaChain 🟩 (@ZetaChain) April 29, 2026 The GatewayEVM contract was targeted, serving as a single point of failure in interactions between external networks and applications within the ecosystem.  Users were not affected: the exploit impacted only three internal developer wallets. The total damage amounted to $333,868 (mainly in USDC and USDT). The attacker withdrew funds through nine transactions in Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BSC.  Stolen assets. Source: ZetaChain.  ZetaChain explained the breach as a combination of three factors: the network's architecture allowed any user to make arbitrary calls with minimal restrictions; GatewayEVM on the receiving side processed a wide range of commands, including transferFrom — allowing asset transfers on behalf of another address with approval; old unlimited permissions were not automatically revoked: users who had previously deposited tokens via GatewayEVM.deposit() granted the contract unlimited rights to withdraw funds.  Developers believe the hacker prepared the attack in advance: he funded the wallet through the crypto mixer Tornado Cash three days before the incident. The attacker used the "address poisoning" method. After the theft, he converted the assets to ETH.  The ZetaChain team released a patch on the mainnet and fixed the vulnerability. Users were advised to revoke all old ERC-20 permissions.  Syndicate and Aftermath Breach On April 28, the Ethereum infrastructure project Syndicate was breached. The team recorded "unusual movements" of native SYND tokens — presumably due to the compromise of the Commons cross-chain bridge.  We are investigating unusual movements in SYND tokens that may indicate a possible security issue.We recommend avoiding provisioning any liquidity until this is resolved.— Syndicate (@syndicateio) April 29, 2026 "We are monitoring the attack and engaging with cybersecurity firms. We are also considering options for compensating losses. Syndicate has sufficient tokens to assist affected users," the developers wrote.  The attack was confirmed by CertiK specialists, who estimated the damage at $330,000. #CertiKInsight 🚨We have seen an exploit involving @syndicateio through a compromise of the Commons bridge.This address acquired ~18.5M SYND and sold them for ~$330 K, which has been bridged to Ethereum.https://t.co/2KictJaGPVStay Vigilant!https://t.co/kmbcBFl3AM pic.twitter.com/EvfZFz2R6x— CertiK Alert (@CertiKAlert) April 29, 2026 The attacker acquired approximately 18.5 million SYND, sold them, and transferred the assets to Ethereum.  Following the incident, the coin's price fell by more than 36% — to $0.02, according to CoinGecko.  Meanwhile, CertiK reported a breach of the Aftermath Finance exchange in the Sui ecosystem. According to experts, the cybercriminal withdrew about $900,000 in USDC.  #CertiKInsight 🚨 We have seen an exploit involving @AftermathFi. ~$900K USDC drained so far https://t.co/kC1BEonomPStill under investigation.Stay vigilant!— CertiK Alert (@CertiKAlert) April 29, 2026 The project team stated that all trading platform products remain secure. According to the developers, the perpetual futures protocol was targeted.  Back in late April, hackers attacked the DeFi project Scallop and withdrew about 150,000 SUI from the sSUI reward pool. 

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forklog.media Robinhood Reports Sharp Decline in Cryptocurrency Revenue

In the first quarter of 2026, Robinhood's revenue from cryptocurrency operations dropped by 47% to $134 million. Trading volume nearly halved to $24 billion, marking a 48% decrease from the previous year. The decline has been ongoing since the end of 2025. In February, the company had already reported a 38% drop in crypto revenues for the fourth quarter. The exchange Bitstamp, acquired by Robinhood, recorded a trading volume of $42 billion. The platform did not disclose the dynamics of this indicator. Despite the downturn in crypto assets, the company's overall revenue from operations increased by 7% to $623 million. The main driver was event contracts, with income from them rising by 320%. Options grew by 8%, and stocks by 46%. Robinhood's CFO Shiv Verma noted that clients are actively using new tools: prediction markets, futures, and index options. Robinhood's net profit for the quarter was $346 million—3% higher than the previous year. Galaxy's Loss Cryptocurrency company Galaxy Digital ended the first quarter of 2026 with a net loss of $216 million. The primary reason was the decline in digital asset prices, which impacted the balance sheet. Galaxy Digital's head, Mike Novogratz, described this period as a "transitional year" for the industry. According to him, the sector is transforming from a speculative platform into a technology being integrated into various industries. During the past quarter, the market capitalization of the crypto market fell by approximately 21%. This led to unrealized losses on the company's investments. However, Galaxy's trading volumes remained stable. Novogratz noted that the business began to show "decoupling" from asset prices. Key metrics and directions: GLXY shares are trading around $25.3; gross profit from the digital asset segment was $49 million (compared to $51 million in the previous quarter); the company launched its first production facility at the Helios data center (Texas) under an agreement with CoreWeave. Management is betting on data center infrastructure to hedge market volatility. It is expected that once fully deployed, this segment will generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The launch of the Texas facility was called "the most significant risk-reduction event" in the company's history by Galaxy. Data center revenues are expected to start growing in the second quarter. In the long term, Galaxy plans to focus on institutional demand: custodial services, trading, and tokenization. Novogratz is confident that financial markets need a "complete overhaul" based on blockchain. In April, Galaxy Research head Alex Thorn stated that the mining of the first cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly centralized, while the field of artificial intelligence is moving in the opposite direction.

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blockmanity.com Crypto Daily Roundup: BTC Holds $77K as Fed Rate Call and Big Tech Earnings Heat Up

Crypto Daily Roundup: as Fed Rate Call and Big Tech Earnings Heat Up Bitcoin is showing real strength right now. It sits steady just under $77,000 during Asian trading hours. This comes even as global markets feel the heat from […] The post Crypto Daily Roundup: BTC Holds $77K as Fed Rate Call and Big Tech Earnings Heat Up appeared first on Blockmanity.

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news.bitcoin.com Canadian Government Moves to Ban 4,000 Crypto ATMs

Canada has announced plans to ban cryptocurrency ATMs, identifying them as a primary tool for money laundering and fraud. Key Takeaways: The Liberal Party’s April 28 update plans a ban on crypto ATMs to stop scammers and illicit cash moves. Canada leads the world per capita with 4,000 machines, while over 39,000 remain active globally. […]

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themerkle.com Pumpfun Burns $370M In Tokens As $PUMP Surges And New Buyback Strategy Aims To Restore Market Confidence

The price of PUMP token saw a big surge after the parent platform Pump implemented a major supply reduction. fun, the token surged around 7.6% in just a day. This followed an announcement that nearly $370 million in PUMP tokens—around 36% of its circulating supply—had been permanently burned. This is one of the largest token burns we’ve seen in recent months, and it quickly caught up with traders. Token burns are when assets are burned (through an irreversible transaction to a dead wallet) and help reduce the overall supply in circulation while also enhancing value possibly driven by scarcity. In The post Pumpfun Burns $370M In Tokens As $PUMP Surges And New Buyback Strategy Aims To Restore Market Confidence appeared first on The Merkle News.

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blockonomi.com Tether Froze Your USDT: What’s Happening and What to Do

A USDT wallet freeze is an unpleasant situation, but not a dead end. Every freeze has a specific reason behind it — a law enforcement request, a court order, a sanctions list, or the issuer’s own initiative. Each of these scenarios has a clear course of action. The key is not to panic and not [...] The post Tether Froze Your USDT: What’s Happening and What to Do appeared first on Blockonomi.

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blockonomi.com 20+ Best Bitcoin & Crypto Casinos & Gambling Sites Thailand: Our Top Picks Ranked

Thailand is quickly becoming one of the most exciting markets for crypto casino players in Southeast Asia. Even though the gambling landscape here is complex, thousands of Thai players are discovering the freedom and speed that crypto casinos offer. We spent weeks researching and playing at dozens of crypto casinos to find the ones that [...] The post 20+ Best Bitcoin & Crypto Casinos & Gambling Sites Thailand: Our Top Picks Ranked appeared first on Blockonomi.

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blockonomi.com 21+ Best Bitcoin & Crypto Casinos & Gambling Sites Uruguay: Our Top Picks Ranked

Uruguay is quickly becoming one of the most crypto-friendly countries in South America. If you’re looking for the best crypto casinos that accept players from Uruguay, you’ve come to the right place. We put together this guide to help Uruguayan players find safe and reliable crypto gambling sites. Our team spent weeks testing different platforms [...] The post 21+ Best Bitcoin & Crypto Casinos & Gambling Sites Uruguay: Our Top Picks Ranked appeared first on Blockonomi.

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news.bitcoin.com Kyberswap Exploiter Moves 2,900 ETH to Tornado Cash Two Years After $65M Heist

Andean Medjedovic, the Canadian national charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for stealing $65 million across two decentralized finance ( Defi) exploits, moved 2,900 ETH worth $6.8 million to Tornado Cash on Wednesday. Key Takeaways: Andean Medjedovic moved 2,900 ETH worth $6.8 million to Tornado Cash on April 29, 2026. The DOJ charged Medjedovic […]

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