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Sam, United States, April 20th, 2026, Chainwire A new education-first model to accelerate responsible crypto adoption, entrepreneurship, and access to the digital economy. Unicoin Foundation will advance ‘Crypto for Good’ and expand ‘Global Financial Inclusion.’ Unicoin Inc. today announced the official launch of the Unicoin Foundation, a mission-driven organization dedicated to leveraging blockchain technology to create meaningful social impact and expand access to the digital economy. The Foundation’s launch aligns with the evolving market restructuring and regulatory clarity introduced under the leadership of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins, which emphasizes transparency, responsible innovation, and clear governance frameworks…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hata, Malaysia’s only dual-licensed digital asset exchange, today announced the closing of a USD 8 million (approximately RM31.6 million) Series A funding round led by Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, alongside several prominent global family offices. The fundraise marks the beginning of a deep strategic collaboration between the two companies, one that goes beyond capital and signals a shared commitment to growing Malaysia’s digital asset ecosystem responsibly and at scale. “Malaysia is a strategically important market for Bybit, with one of the most digitally engaged populations in Southeast Asia…

Port Vila, Vanuatu, April 21st, 2026, Chainwire Vantage, a multi-asset CFD platform, has introduced an enhanced version of the Vantage App, with upgrades focused on asset visibility, capital movement, and a more integrated all-in-one trading experience. As multi-asset investing becomes more complex, users expect more from trading platforms than execution alone. Beyond spreads, liquidity, and order speed, they increasingly look for clearer asset visibility, smoother capital movement, and a more connected experience across different financial use cases. This is the backdrop for the rise of all-in-one trading apps. It is unfolding at a time when the boundary between traditional market…

New York City, United States, April 21st, 2026, Chainwire The integration embeds Decibel’s fully onchain, decentralized perpetuals exchange directly into Tria, enabling users to trade, earn, and spend from one self-custodial account, without bridges or custodial handoffs. Tria, the self-custodial neofiance app unifying trading, yield, and payments into a single account, today announced a live integration with Decibel, a fully onchain perpetuals decentralized exchange built on Aptos. The integration, facilitated through Decibel’s Builder Code program, brings the decentralized exchange’s central limit order book (CLOB) directly into the Tria app, allowing users to place, match, and settle perpetual trades without leaving…

Eightco treasury composition as of April 20, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity, $25M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $118M cash and equivalents World solves the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deep fakes and agentic agents World and Tools For Humanity (TFH) unveil new features at World Lift Off Event, expanding ‘Proof of Human’ to include Face Auth, Deep Face and Credentials and Concert Kit World announces new implementations of these features with Zoom, Docusign, Tinder, Browserbase, Exa, Okta, and Vercel World also introduces AgentKit, a developer toolkit designed to provide cryptographic proof that…

The allegations point to how aggressive marketing tactics can still draw in retail investors despite repeated warnings. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has publicly called out BlockDAG Network (BDAG) for allegedly stealing more than $300 million from unsuspecting retail investors through scams that promise them unrealistic high gains. The warning was issued in response to a post by YouTube investigator Coffeezilla, who alerted his followers about a promoter that was running a similar scheme. ZachXBT Exposes A Pattern In Crypto Scams In his X post, the detective claimed that the online personality had blocked him after he reached out to ask about…

Hyperbridge has revised losses from its April 13 exploit to roughly $2.5 million. That is about 10 times the original estimate of $237,000. The team disclosed the new figure in a post-incident update on April 16. The revision adds losses from associated incentive pools. It also reflects forensic work across four EVM chains. What the Revised Figure Includes According to initial reports, an attacker minted 1 billion bridged DOT tokens and liquidated the entire amount in a single transaction, generating 108.2 ETH (roughly $237,000). However, the team noted that the figure did not reflect the complete situation. “Following reconciliation of…

A Texas man received a 23-year federal prison sentence for running a crypto scam. The fraud drained nearly 1,000 investors of more than $20 million through a sham asset-backed token. Robert Dunlap, 55, of Houston, sold a digital asset called Meta-1 Coin from 2018 to 2023. Federal prosecutors in the Northern District of Illinois led the case. How the Meta-1 Coin Crypto Scam worked According to the press release, Dunlap built his pitch around fabricated reserves. He told investors that Meta-1 Coin was backed by up to $1 billion in art. The collection supposedly included works attributed to Pablo Picasso,…

Friday has rolled around again, and that means more Bitcoin and Ether options are expiring as spot markets hold on to recent gains.  Around 22,200 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, April 17, with a notional value of roughly $1.66 billion. This event is a little smaller than last week’s expiry, so it is unlikely to have any impact on spot markets. Crypto prices have been climbing slowly this week, with around $150 billion being added to total capitalization since Monday. Bitcoin Options Expiry This week’s batch of Bitcoin options contracts has a put/call ratio of 1, meaning that…

Aleš Michl has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026, where he will deliver a keynote titled “Diversifying Central Bank Reserves With Bitcoin” on April 28 at 10:20 AM PT on the Nakamoto Stage at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. Michl serves as Governor of the Czech National Bank (CNB) — and his presence at the event marks a significant moment as he becomes the first central bank governor to speak at The Bitcoin Conference. In January 2025, Michl proposed allocating up to 5% of the CNB’s €140 billion reserves into Bitcoin, citing its low correlation with…