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Crypto exchange OKX rolled out its Agent Payments Protocol (APP) on Wednesday, an open standard designed to support AI agents conducting full business cycles beyond simple payments. According to OKX, the protocol enables AI bots to "pay for services and pay each other" while handling quoting,

XRP Las Vegas 2026, officially listed on Ripple's events page, will take place April 30–May 1, 2026 in Las Vegas. The event is positioned as the largest dedicated gathering for the XRP ecosystem, bringing together Ripple leadership, institutional participants, and policy voices around

A $59 million RLUSD settlement was completed on the XRP Ledger on April 29 at a total transaction fee of $0.000188, cited by on-chain researcher Ripple Bull Winkle as live proof that Ripple's payment network is already handling large-scale cross-border settlements in production. Summary

Lobbying firms with close ties to the White House are securing high-value contracts from foreign clients, according to lobbying disclosures filed last week. Some of the foreign clients were facing federal charges at the time of engagement. Retainer fees for these contracts exceeded half a million

On-chain data from Santiment shows 970,430 LINK tokens left centralized exchanges on April 27 in a single day, the largest LINK outflow since December 2, 2025, worth approximately $8.95 million, as exchange reserves continued a 25-day decline from 141.5 million to 130.9 million. Summary

DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence company, has added image and video recognition capabilities to its main chatbot through a new "image recognition mode" feature, bringing it in line with other major AI chatbots. The launch coincided with a significant milestone in China's chip

OpenAI is facing a lawsuit alleging the company failed to warn police after ChatGPT was linked to a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, according to reporting by _Decrypt_. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Northern California by an unnamed 12-year-old minor

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against crypto executive Donald Basile and his companies GIBF GP Inc. and Monsoon Blockchain Corporation for allegedly conducting a $16 million fraudulent securities offering. According to the SEC, Basile offered investors Simple

Bitcoin has been pressing toward $80,000 and struggling to break through, with a cluster of call options accumulated at the $80,000 level on Deribit, the largest crypto options exchange, working as a hidden force against further price appreciation. Call options are contracts that pay out if Bitcoin

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D3, the core contributor to Doma Protocol, introduced Domain Asset Vehicles (DAVs) on April 29, 2026, a mechanism designed to convert institutional domain portfolios into single tokenized assets. The structure enables shared onchain ownership of premium domain portfolios, allowing investors

Coinbase Research has formally maintained a neutral outlook on the global cryptocurrency markets for the second quarter of 2026, according to a comprehensive monthly report released in early April. The firm cited rapid, unpredictable shifts in the current trading regime and overwhelming

The United Arab Emirates announced its departure from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and OPEC+ on April 29, 2026, effective May 1, 2026, citing shifting national energy priorities but prompting analysts to also point to regional frustration over responses to Iranian att

Personal finance app Plum announced it reached operational profitability in January 2026, marking its first positive EBITDA milestone as the platform expands its user base and revenue streams. The company attributed the result to growth across subscriptions, asset-based income, and transaction reven

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan has denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial, filing an order Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that rejects claims of new evidence showing the now-bankrupt FTX exchange was solvent. The judge dismissed Bankman-Fried's

Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin USDT, led a $14 million Series A funding round for Argentine crypto platform Belo, according to a statement. The investment marks Tether's deeper push into Latin America, with co-investors including Titan Fund, The Venture City, Mindset

MoonPay has acquired Sodot, a crypto key-management infrastructure firm, and launched MoonPay Institutional, a new business unit aimed at serving banks, asset managers, trading firms, and exchanges entering digital assets, according to a Wednesday announcement. ## New Institutional Leadership Moon

Bybit has selected software from FRS InvestPro to support its obligations under the PRIIPs (Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products) regulation as crypto platforms expand their presence in regulated European markets. The agreement will see Bybit deploy the Invest|Pro platform to

KuCoin EU, a MiCAR-licensed digital asset platform based in Vienna, announced on April 29, 2026, the expansion of its anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance structure through new senior appointments, including the designation of a dedicated Anti-Money Laundering Officer (AMLO) and additional