Monthly Archives: April 2026

Hong Kong has issued its first stablecoin licenses, approving Anchorpoint Financial and HSBC’s Hong Kong banking arm under the HKMA’s new regime. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/hong-kong-first-stablecoin-licenses-issued?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Some industry insiders speculate the crypto sector may be just one market cycle away from full-scale mainstream adoption. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/cz-crypto-invisible-mainstream-adoption-ai-blockchain?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The Japanese Cabinet reclassified crypto as a financial instrument and will enforce insider trading bans and annual disclosure mandates for issuers. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/japan-approves-bill-classify-cryptocurrencies-financial-instruments?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Fidelity and Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETFs also saw a combined $68.2 million in inflows, while four other Bitcoin ETFs also tallied inflows on Thursday. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/blackrock-biggest-btc-etf-inflow-in-month?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The AI company argued that such rules would force it to feed its AI chatbot Grok with data aligned with Colorado’s political views rather than striving to be “maximally truth seeking.” Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/xai-sues-colorado-over-ai-law-restricting-free-speech?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The upgrade from flat fees to variable pricing is designed to support the use of AI agents for LLM inference, compute and data queries.  Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-x402-rolls-out-usage-based-pricing-agentic-ai?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

However, it could cost users between $75 and $150 per transaction in GPU computing power, limiting its practical use. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/researchers-say-bitcoin-can-be-made-quantum-safe-without-protocol-upgrade?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

OKX Ventures and HashKey are buying into VPBank-backed CAEX as Vietnam’s strict crypto pilot pushes offshore exchanges toward a high-bar, onshore licensing regime. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/okx-and-hashkey-back-vpbank-linked-bid-for-vietnam-s-tight-crypto-pilot?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

A listing on the NYSE requires a company to meet strict requirements covering financial health, share distribution and corporate governance. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitmine-nyse-listing-4b-share-buyback-ethereum?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The CIA has already tested AI across 300 projects to process large data sets, assist with language translation and publish reports. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/cia-ai-co-workers-help-intelligence-analysts?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound