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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Backs Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's CLARITY Act Push
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong backed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's push to pass the CLARITY Act on Friday, April 10, 2026. Armstrong publicly agreed with the urgency around crypto regulation and thanked Bessent for advancing the issue forward with bipartisan support in the Se...
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TAO Tanks 20% as Major Subnet Developer Accuses Bittensor Founder of 'Decentralization Theatre'
Bittensor's TAO token is the worst performer among the top-100 large-caps today, April 10, after a major subnet operator...
MoonPay Partners with WalletConnect and Ingenico for Stablecoin Retail Payments
MoonPay announced a partnership with WalletConnect and Ingenico to bring stablecoin payments to physical retail location...
Optimism Enables Agents, DApps to Request Wallet Execution Permissions on OP Mainnet
Optimism announced that agents and decentralized applications can now request wallet execution permissions on OP Mainnet...
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Securitize Integrates with TRON Network to Expand Tokenized Asset Offerings
Securitize integrated with TRON Network on April 10, enabling tokenized assets issued by Securitize to be deployed on TRON, one of the world's largest blockchains. The partnership ...
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Bitcoin Holds Above $72,000 as Ceasefire Rally Stalls
Bitcoin held above $72,000 on Thursday, consolidating near its highest levels in three weeks as crypto markets digested a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran.BTC w...
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Polygon, Frax and Curve Launch Onchain Forex Liquidity Pools
Polygon Labs, Frax, Curve Finance and DFB Network have launched a suite of foreign exchange liquidity pools on the Polygon blockchain, enabling onchain swaps between fiat-pegged st...
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StarkWare Researcher Publishes Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Scheme
A researcher at StarkWare has published an open-source scheme for making Bitcoin transactions resistant to quantum computing attacks using only the network's existing consensus rul...
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Kamino Introduces Contract-Level Security Controls for Lending Vaults
Kamino, the largest lending protocol on Solana, has rolled out a new security feature called Whitelisted Reserves that enforces allocation controls at the smart contract level acro...
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World Liberty Financial Has Borrowed Millions Against Its Own Token
World Liberty Financial, the DeFi venture affiliated with the Trump family, leveraged its treasury to borrow roughly $75 million in stablecoins from Dolomite, the lending protocol ...
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