Crypto News Archive - April 2026

Every breaking-news story Cryptomat published in April 2026, ordered newest first.

BreakingApr 30, 20264 min read

Morgan Stanley Says Bitcoin On Bank Balance Sheets 'Not Out Of The Question' As Basel Review Looms

Morgan Stanley's Amy Oldenburg said Bitcoin on bank balance sheets is 'not totally out of the question,' citing Basel and Fed capital rules as the real…

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BreakingApr 30, 20263 min read

U.S. Senate Bans Members and Staff From Prediction Market Bets in Unanimous Vote

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously Thursday to bar senators and staff from wagering on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, citing…

Morgan Stanley Says Bitcoin On Bank Balance Sheets 'Not Out Of The Question' As Basel Review Looms

U.S. Senate Bans Members and Staff From Prediction Market Bets in Unanimous Vote

Iran Asserts Control Over Strait of Hormuz, Sending Energy and Risk Markets on Edge

TRM Labs Pins 76% of 2026 Crypto Thefts on North Korea-Linked Hackers After KelpDAO, Drift Hits

Musk Calls Most Crypto Coins Scams as OpenAI ICO Plans Surface in Court Filing

Ripple Prime Pushes Past XRP Into Bitcoin Options as Higgins Bets on RLUSD-Backed Liquidity

Datavault AI Plans $150M Gold Tokenization Program, Pushing RWAs Beyond Treasuries

Meta Begins USDC Creator Payouts In Philippines, Colombia On Polygon And Solana

BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein Says AI's Unpredictability Tests Accountability in Asset Management

Korean Prosecutors Seek 20-Year Sentence for Delio CEO Jeong Sang-ho in Crypto Fraud Case

Dogecoin Pushes Past $0.10 as Bulls Target $0.1120 Breakout

Upbit Lists MEGA With KRW, BTC and USDT Pairs, Opening South Korea Access

Bitcoin $90,000 Calls Flood Social Media as BTC Holds $76,700, Santiment Warns

BNB Chain Tops 150,000 On-Chain AI Agents as Binance Rolls Out Agentic Wallet

Western Union Picks Solana For USDPT Stablecoin In Cross-Border Payments Push

MoonPay Bundles Sodot Tech Into Institutional Stack, Taps Ex-CFTC Chair Pham to Lead

Tillis Pushes CLARITY Act Into Senate Banking Markup, Reigniting Stablecoin Yield Fight

CoinDesk Op-Ed Declares 'Tokenization of Everything' a Working Reality Ahead of Consensus 2026

Ethereum Foundation Q1 2026 Grants Funnel Capital Into ZK Research, Core Clients, Validator Security

Mashinsky Banned From Asset Management In FTC Settlement Over Celsius Collapse

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour Says Crypto Regulation Feels Like an 'Endless Desert' on Uncapped Podcast

Polymarket Pushes CFTC for Green Light to Reopen Main Platform to U.S. Users

Morgan Stanley Launches First Major Wall Street Spot Bitcoin ETF

Ethereum Closes In On 190M Holders, More Than Triple Bitcoin's Userbase

Bitcoin Retests $76,000 Support Ahead of Powell's Final FOMC Meeting

Bitcoin 2027 Conference Returns to Nashville, Set for July 15-17 at Music City Center

21Shares Lists Spot Dogecoin ETP On Euronext, Opening European Access To DOGE

Crypto ETPs Pull $1.2B in Weekly Inflows, Bitcoin Captures $932.5M

Bitcoin Stalls Near $80K as ETF Inflows Clash With Iran Risk and $200M Short Squeeze

Galaxy Digital Hands CoreWeave First Helios Data Center Tranche, Wins Approval to Double Capacity to 1.6GW

Iran Claims Full Control of Strait of Hormuz, Putting a Bid Under the Oil-Crypto Trade

China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Acquisition, Deepening US-China AI Standoff

Majestic Labs Unveils Prometheus AI Server, Claims 1,000x Nvidia GPU Memory Capacity

BNB Chain Activates Osaka Hard Fork, Targeting 20,000 TPS as Token Holds $620

China's Politburo Backs National AI Push, Boosting Alibaba's Position in Beijing's Tech Race

Bitmine Crosses 5 Million ETH, Now Holds $13.3B in Crypto as Lee Targets 5% of Supply

Iran Condemns US Seizure of Oil Tankers as Maritime Tensions Rise

dLocal Launches Stablecoin Full, Routing Merchant Payments Across 44 Emerging Markets

Trump Cool on Iran's Strait of Hormuz Offer, WSJ Reports, as Crude and Risk Assets Brace

Solana Outlines Quantum-Resistant Roadmap as Post-Quantum Crypto Talk Turns Concrete

Gemini Opens Door To Agentic AI Trading, Letting Models Execute Crypto Orders Directly

EU's 20th Sanctions Package Bans Ruble Stablecoins, Targets Anyone Using Russian Crypto Services

Bitmine Hits $13.3B Treasury With 5.08M ETH, Eyes 5% of Ether Supply