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Bitcoin’s price as of April 16 is approaching $74,700. The Bullish Sentiment Index (BSI) has risen to 40 points, indicating a rebound in market sentiment. The United States and Iran are evaluating options to extend the current ceasefire agreement, and they are also discussing navigation issues in the Strait of Hormuz, as diplomatic negotiations continue.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has declared President Gustavo Petro’s economic emergency decree unconstitutional, ending a 13-month effort to impose value-added taxes on the country’s online gambling sector through executive action. The April 9 ruling forces the government to pursue any future gamb

Trump claimed that the Iran conflict was “nearing an end,” and after that, US stock futures jumped across the board, gold surged sharply, oil prices plunged, and Bitcoin briefly broke above $76k. This article offers an in-depth analysis of how a geopolitical shift triggers a broad rebound in risk assets.

_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

Y Combinator has completed its first venture capital investment paid entirely in stablecoins, settling $500,000 in USDC on the Solana blockchain for prediction-markets startup Totalis. The transaction, reported on April 13, 2026, marks a concrete shift in how the world’s most influential startup

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission released its 2025 franchise business status report on April 15, revealing a significant structural gap in the coffee franchise market: the brand with the most stores does not generate the highest average sales per location. Mega Coffee leads with 3,325

Renault plans to reduce its global engineering workforce by up to 20% over the next two years, affecting approximately 2,200 positions from its total of more than 11,000 engineers worldwide. The move reflects intensifying competition from Chinese automakers in Europe and a broader strategic shift to

Charles Hoskinson just dropped a reality check on the Cardano community. His message is simple. Crypto parties and big conference events are not going to move the ADA price. Instead, he wants to take the funds that would have been spent on flashy gatherings and put them into permanent global co

Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution are internally reviewing mass production plans for sodium-ion batteries, marking a strategic pivot by South Korean battery manufacturers to compete with Chinese lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery dominance. At the NGBS 2026 seminar held in Seoul on

The Netherlands’ state-owned lottery operator, Nederlandse Loterij, has launched civil proceedings against the country’s largest unlicensed online gambling platform. It also directly targets the offshore shell companies and individual directors behind it in a case that could set a European

Susquehanna Investment Research raised Intel's price target to $80 per share on April 23, ahead of the company's Q1 2026 earnings release, citing strong server CPU demand driven by agentic artificial intelligence workloads. The new target represents a 25% upside from Intel's Tuesday close of $63.81

Key Takeaways: Foundry Digital created a Zcash mining pool which soon had a hashrate of about 30% of the network Institutional miners are accelerating the compliant, purpose built ZEC infrastructure adoption A new block explorer, Zcashinfo.com offers real-time information on network activity

Google Korea's three operating units paid 28.3 billion won (approximately US$19.2 million) in corporate tax last year, representing an 18% year-on-year increase, according to audit reports cited by The Korea Herald. The three units—Google Korea, Google Cloud Korea, and Google Payment

The article discusses former CFTC Chair Giancarlo's transition from law to providing advisory services in the cryptocurrency sector, highlighting his expertise and insights into the evolving digital asset landscape.