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Gulf Aluminium Rerouting Capacity Falls to 40% Amid Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Gulf aluminium producers can now reroute only about 40 percent of output away from the Strait of Hormuz, down from earlier estimates of as much as 80 percent, according to Swiss private bank Julius Baer. This

The UAE's two top banks—First Abu Dhabi (FAB) and Emirates NBD (ENBD)—each increased provisions in the first quarter of 2026 as precautionary measures following the outbreak of the Iran war on February 28, according to their Q1 earnings results released April 23, 2026. Despite higher provisions,

Pi Network unveiled the Pi Token Design Framework PiRC1 on April 22 as part of the Protocol V22 upgrade. PiRC1’s core rule is: only projects that already have deployable applications within the Pi ecosystem and that have real user demand are eligible to issue tokens. Token proceeds do not flow to the project team; instead, they flow into a perpetual liquidity pool anchored by Pi Coin to prevent rug-pull behavior.

One of Poland’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Zondacrypto, announced on April 16 via social media that its CEO, Przemysław Kral, said the exchange could not access a wallet holding 4,503 bitcoins, worth more than $350 million in current value. Kral published the address of the wallet in question to rebut allegations of misappropriation, but this disclosure immediately triggered a large-scale withdrawal.

Misty Fog Chief Information Security Officer 23pds forwards a warning from the Bitwarden security team. The Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 version had an npm version that had been tampered with—where a malicious package was distributed through npm—within a 1.5-hour window from 5:57 PM to 7:30 PM Eastern Time on April 22, and that version has been withdrawn. Bitwarden has officially confirmed that password vault data and production systems were not affected.

The U.S. military deployed a third aircraft carrier to Middle Eastern waters on April 23, 2026 (local time), according to U.S. Central Command. The Nimitz-class carrier USS George H.W. Bush arrived in the Indian Ocean to support operations against Iran, the command announced via social media on

A J.P. Morgan research team led by analyst Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou released a report on April 23 stating that persistent security vulnerabilities and stagnant total locked value (TVL) are weakening DeFi’s appeal to institutional investors. The report emphasized that the KelpDAO vulnerability wiped out roughly $20 billion worth of DeFi TVL within days, exposing structural risks.

SlowMist, a security organization, has issued an emergency alert. North Korea’s Lazarus organization’s subsidiary, HexagonalRodent, is launching attacks against Web3 developers, using social engineering tactics such as high-paying remote positions to lure developers into executing skill assessment code that includes malicious software backdoors, ultimately stealing crypto assets. According to an Expel investigation report, in the first three months of 2026, the loss amount reached $12 million.

Hong Kong is embedding digital assets deeper into mainstream finance, with tokenization and stablecoins gaining stronger regulatory backing as market infrastructure. The push signals a broader effort to expand regulated blockchain use cases and attract global firms to the city. Key Takeaways: Hon

CoW DAO on April 23 published a compensation proposal (CIP) in the governance forum, proposing the establishment of a discretionary grant program to provide eligible victims of the April 14 cow.fi domain hijacking incident with up to 100% loss reimbursement. The incident is estimated to have caused user losses of about US$1.2 million in USDC. CoW DAO emphasized that the compensation is of a voluntary, special-discretionary nature and does not represent an admission of any legal liability.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on the X platform on April 23, announcing that TON network transaction fees will be reduced by 6x within a week, down to 0.00039 TON per transaction (about 0.0005 USD). The fee rate is fixed and is not affected by network load. Durov also announced that after the fee reduction, most transactions will further move toward a fully free zero-fee model.

According to CryptoQuant’s assessment on April 23, the KelpDAO exploit attack that occurred last week created potential bad debt risk for Aave of $124 million to $230 million within 72 hours, with TVL crashing 33%. USDT and USDC borrowing rates jumped from 3.4% to 14%, and ETH borrowing rates rose to the highest level since January 2024 at 8%.

JPG Store, the largest NFT trading market in the Cardano ecosystem, announced that it will permanently shut down on May 23, 2026, and its Comet platform will stop services at the same time. The team attributes the closure to the fact that “the platform has developed to the point where it can no longer continue operating,” marking the end of this flagship market that has served the Cardano community for five years since 2021.

According to a report by the Belarusian news agency BelTA on April 23, Alexander Yegorov, First Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of Belarus, announced at the “2026 Digital Bank” conference that the Belarusian crypto-banking framework allows the use of 26 cryptocurrencies and 11 types of operations, as set out in accordance with Belarusian Decree No. 19, “On certain regulatory issues in the field of crypto banks and digital tokens.”

Bitcoin (BTC) rebound momentum is weakening, with a temporary quote around $78,030 as of April 24. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a Cambodian politician linked to a crypto “pig butchering” scam center. Tether issued another 1 billion USDT on the Ethereum network; over the past 5 days, it has issued a total of 3 billion USDT on the Ethereum network.

SpaceX secured a US$20 billion bridge loan in March to refinance most of its debt ahead of a planned US IPO, according to Reuters. The loan came from unnamed lenders and reduced SpaceX's total debt to US$20.07 billion as of March 2, down from US$22.05 billion at the end of 2024. The company may

AI infrastructure tokens gained despite extreme fear sentiment remaining near level twenty-three across broader cryptocurrency markets. KITE showed the strongest weekly movement among the four tracked artificial intelligence-linked assets. Analysts continued identifying decentralized

Infosys reported March-quarter revenue of 464 billion rupees (US$4.93 billion), up 13.4% year-over-year, beating analyst estimates of 460.3 billion rupees (US$4.9 billion), according to Reuters. The company attributed stronger demand in its banking, energy, and communications segments to the revenue