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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has become the first sitting British MP and party leader to publicly back Bitcoin — a distinction his own company was quick to highlight when it announced his involvement. A Company Built Around A Single Asset Stack BTC, listed on the Aquis exchange and chaired by former UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, bought 37 Bitcoin on Monday for roughly $2.7 million, or about £2 million. The purchase price worked out to approximately $72,385 per coin. The company now holds 68.19 BTC in total.…

ECB supports tokenization with strict rules, focusing on central bank money, regulation, and interoperability for safe financial market growth. The European Central Bank has outlined a cautious plan for tokenizing Europe’s capital markets. The policy emphasizes efficiency benefits but also stringent protection. In addition, the authorities stressed that financial stability should be the priority. In turn, the strategy is to strike a balance between innovation and high regulatory standards in the region. ECB Sets Conditions for Safe Tokenization Growth in Europe The ECB believes that distributed ledger technology has great potential, according to its most recent Macroprudential Bulletin. It claimed…

The $73,000 ceiling that rejected bitcoin three times in eight days just broke.Bitcoin surged 4.8% to $74,484 late on Monday, its highest price since before the Iran war began in late February, after President Trump signaled a willingness to resume talks with Tehran even as the U.S. blockaded the Strait of Hormuz. The move triggered $534 million in crypto liquidations across 180,000 traders, with $430 million coming from shorts, the second major squeeze in less than a week.Ether led the majors with a 7.7% jump to $2,366, now up 12.4% on the week and outperforming bitcoin by a wide margin.…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Trading and Markets has issued new staff guidance aimed at bringing more clarity to how certain crypto trading tools may operate without triggering broker-dealer registration.  SEC Draws Guardrails For Crypto Interfaces According to the guidance, some crypto trading interfaces—explicitly including decentralized finance (DeFi) front-ends, wallet extensions, and mobile applications—could fall outside the broker-dealer framework if they meet a set of strict conditions.  The key point is that this is not a broad “permission slip” for every interface that…

A new arxiv study finds 26 LLM API routers injecting malicious code and draining ETH wallets, exposing a hidden supply chain threat inside AI coding agents. The AI coding tools developers trust daily may be feeding credentials and crypto funds to unknown third parties. A new peer-reviewed study published on arXiv has exposed a serious and underreported attack surface inside the LLM supply chain, one that puts real wallets at risk. Researchers from UC Santa Barbara tested 428 paid and free LLM API routers. These are services that sit between a developer’s AI agent and the upstream model provider. Think…

Ether (ETH) is pulling ahead of bitcoin in a clear rotation, with capital shifting as bitcoin ETFs see outflows and ether funds and prices move higher.ETH is up about 8% over the past 24 hours versus bitcoin’s roughly 5% gain, according to CoinDesk market data, extending its outperformance to about 4 percentage points over the past week and nearly 9 points over the past month.U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $325.8 Million in net outflows on April 13, led by $229 Million from Fidelity’s FBTC and $63 Million from ARK’s ARKB, according to SoSoValue data. The pullback marks a clear cooling…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Strategy has continued its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation with another billion-dollar buy despite the BTC price trading below its cost basis. Strategy Has Added 13,927 BTC To Its Treasury As shared by Strategy co-founder and chairman Michael Saylor in a new X post, the treasury company has furthered its Bitcoin buying spree. The new acquisition involved a total of 13,927 BTC, bought for $1 billion or $71,902 per token. This is a sizeable purchase and a step up from the company’s last two buys of 1,031 and 4,871…

Ondo Finance files with SEC to bring Ethereum blockchain rails to its Global Markets platform, targeting U.S. stocks for non-U.S. investors. Ondo Finance made a bold regulatory move on April 13. The crypto firm submitted a no-action request to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  The filing centers on Ondo Global Markets, its platform for non-U.S. investors. Through OGM, users access onchain tokens tied to over 200 U.S. stocks and ETFs.  Ondo now wants SEC clearance to bring a targeted Ethereum layer into the mix. Related reading: Ondo Emerges as Key Settlement Layer as Banks Push Trillion Dollar Tokenization What…

Congressmen Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and Max Miller (R-Ohio) re-introduced their Digital Asset Protection, Accountability, Regulation, Innovation, Taxation and Yields (PARITY) Act late last month, seeking to update how the U.S. addresses crypto and taxes.Congress is going to address taxes (in general) in the coming months, and crypto may end up part of this. It’s pretty important for anyone in the U.S. who owns any crypto at all, given they will have to report on their digital asset holdings and transactions. The PARITY Act was first released in discussion draft form last December and re-released on March 26 for further review.The…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Researchers from the University of California set up a trap — a crypto wallet loaded with a small amount of Ether and connected to third-party AI routing infrastructure. One of the routers took the bait. The wallet was drained. The loss was under $50, but the implications reached far beyond the dollar amount. That experiment was part of a broader study published recently, in which researchers tested 428 large language model routers — 28 paid and 400 free — collected from public online communities. What they found…