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In Bitcoin news today, the Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate at 3.5%–3.75% on Wednesday in what was almost certainly Jerome Powell’s final meeting as chair, with an 8-4 FOMC vote revealing a committee more fractured than the headline hold implies. Bitcoin traded near $76,000 by late Wednesday in New York, down from $77,000 earlier in the session, extending a roughly 40% drawdown from October 2025’s all-time high near $126,000. The analytical question is no longer whether the pause delays the bull case by a quarter. It is whether the three simultaneous tailwinds that were supposed to power the…

SINGAPORE, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — VerifyVASP, a leading Travel Rule solution provider, today announced the acquisition of Sygna, a prominent Japan-based provider. This transaction represents a major step in VerifyVASP’s global expansion strategy, further establishing the company as a core compliance infrastructure provider for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) across key international markets. Consolidating the Travel Rule Ecosystem The acquisition marks a defining moment in the evolution of the global Travel Rule landscape. By integrating Sygna into its network, VerifyVASP is advancing the consolidation of a fragmented market into a unified, interoperable compliance network aligned with national regulations, Financial…

New York, United States, April 28th, 2026, Chainwire 30-day Trade-to-Feed competition marks BitMart’s 8th anniversary and the exchange’s strategic listing of $EAT, the first cause coin. BitMart, the global digital asset exchange serving millions of users worldwide, today launched the Trade-to-Feed competition, a 30-day trading competition paying out up to $4.4 million USDT in trader rewards. The campaign marks BitMart’s eighth anniversary and the exchange’s listing of $EAT (WYDE: End Hunger), the first cause coin to list on a major centralized exchange. Cause coins are an emerging asset class engineered so that fees from trading activity flow to charitable grant-making…

Eightco treasury composition as of April 27, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $25M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $121M cash and equivalents World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes and agentic agents Tinder, Zoom, Docusign, Vercel, Browserbase, and Exa to integrate Proof of Human verification features Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update on its total holdings, highlighting…

London, United Kingdom, April 28th, 2026, Chainwire AxeCasino announced that members of its leadership and product teams will attend iGB L!VE 2026, one of the established events in the online gaming and affiliate marketing calendar. The company said its participation reflects an ongoing effort to remain closely engaged with the conversations shaping the digital gaming sector, including platform usability, product development, responsible gaming standards, and changing player expectations. During the event, AxeCasino representatives plan to take part in networking sessions, meetings, and broader industry discussions with operators, affiliates, technology providers, and service partners. According to the company, the goal is…

Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) price touched $0.010 amid double-digit gains. The token surged as the Pudgy Penguins floor price pumped. Other non-fungible tokens also soared, including the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Pudgy Penguins’ native PENGU token is up double digits in the past 24 hours, riding high on skyrocketing floor prices to touch three-month highs. This surge comes amid notable price increases in the Pudgy Penguins NFT, with other tokens related to the sector also experiencing significant gains. However, an uptick for Bitcoin and Ethereum fizzled on Monday, a scenario that puts the tokens’ prices in danger of retreating amid profit-taking.…

Some of the price declines for BTC came even after the Fed actually lowered the interest rates. In what is expected to be one of the most eventful economic weeks of 2026, arguably the most notable event will take place tomorrow evening when the US Federal Reserve will announce whether it has made any interest rate changes and its future plans. Although experts are convinced the rates will be left untouched, history has shown that BTC tends to go volatile in the days after the meetings, mostly heading south. Will BTC Dip Again? Popular crypto analyst Crypto Rover has observed…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on South Korea’s Kbank has signed a strategic partnership with Ripple to test blockchain-based overseas remittances, placing a bank with a central role in Upbit’s KRW account access beside one of crypto’s longest-running payments infrastructure firms.Local reports describe the work as a technical verification, or proof-of-concept, focused on whether Ripple’s infrastructure can improve the speed, cost, and transparency of overseas remittances. ZDNet Korea separately described the test as part of a phased push around bank-linked overseas remittance infrastructure.For now, the commercial pieces remain open: launch date, customer access, fees, live volume, and the exact settlement asset.Kbank already…

Xandeum, the decentralized storage network built on Solana, today began anchoring its state to Bitcoin. At every checkpoint of its consensus, Xandeum writes a cryptographic fingerprint of its storage state into the Bitcoin blockchain, where it cannot be altered or erased. Anyone, anywhere, at any point in the future can use that fingerprint to prove what data Xandeum was holding at a given moment in time — without trusting Xandeum, its team, or any third party. It is the first time a Solana-native infrastructure project has tied its trust model to Bitcoin. “Solana gives us the speed and programmability to…

Jessie A Ellis Apr 27, 2026 16:59 IREN (NASDAQ:IREN) transitions from Bitcoin mining to AI cloud services, aiming for $3.7B revenue with Microsoft partnership and GPU expansion. IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) is undergoing a seismic shift in its business model, moving away from Bitcoin mining to focus on AI cloud infrastructure. According to Bernstein analysts, this pivot could generate $3.7 billion in annual revenue once fully implemented, with the company already securing a five-year agreement with Microsoft for AI workloads. The transition hinges on IREN’s $5.8 billion investment in GPUs and its ability to repurpose existing Bitcoin mining facilities in…