The Ethereum Foundation sold 10,000 ETH to Nasdaq-listed Bitmine Immersion Technologies on April 24, 2026, in a private over-the-counter transaction valued at approximately $23.87 million. The deal, priced at roughly $2,387 per ETH, is the second such sale between the two parties this year and brings their combined OTC total to around $34.2 million.
Read full article →Europe's top securities regulator is warning that artificial intelligence is giving attackers new tools to hit financial infrastructure faster than regulators can respond, even as a June deadline for crypto licensing compliance approaches with significant gaps in authorization across the bloc.
Wisconsin's attorney general filed five separate lawsuits on April 24, 2026, targeting major prediction market platforms and crypto exchanges, alleging they operate illegal sports betting operations in the state without a license. The outcome could reshape how these globally accessible platforms manage user access in markets from Lagos to Lahore.
Republican leaders pressed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick this week to intervene after a crypto-linked super PAC with direct ties to his former firm spent $1.75 million backing Ken Paxton in the May 26 Texas Republican Senate primary, a move that put the industry on a collision course with the party it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars cultivating. According to Axios reporting from April 24, senior GOP officials phoned Lutnick after Fellowship PAC disclosed the pro-Paxton spend in a Federal Election Commission filing.
US-listed spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $2.10 billion in net inflows over eight consecutive trading days through April 23, the longest sustained buying streak since a nine-day run in October 2025, as Bitcoin's price climbed roughly 12 percent from $68,000 to $77,000 over the same period. Thursday alone brought in $223.21 million across all US spot bitcoin ETF products.
The European Central Bank signed technical partnership agreements with three European standards bodies on Friday, formalizing the infrastructure blueprint for a digital euro that could reach circulation as early as 2029. That timeline depends on EU co-legislators passing a digital euro regulation in 2026.
Mantle's Core Contributor Team published an early-stage governance proposal on April 24 to lend up to 30,000 ETH to Aave DAO, offering a lifeline to the lending protocol after a $292 million exploit of Kelp DAO's bridge left Aave facing bad debt that, depending on how losses are distributed, could range from approximately $123.7 million to $230.1 million.