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South Korean digital bank K Bank has reached a strategic partnership with Ripple to advance blockchain-based cross-border remittance technology verification, evaluating improvements in Ripple's payment network in terms of speed, cost, and transparency. The collaboration covers digital wallet verification, joint development of cross-border remittance models, and digital asset expansion. The second phase of testing has simulated integration with banking systems and customer accounts, with fund transfers tested on the blockchain in the United Arab Emirates and Thailand. K Bank is also evaluating Ripple's SaaS digital wallet Palisade to enhance compliance and deployment efficiency.

IMF former Chief Economist Rogoff warns that the Trump administration's easing of bank regulations will significantly increase the risk of a systemic financial crisis in the United States in the future. The relaxation partly comes from allowing traditional banks to stay innovative in the face of competition from dollar-pegged stablecoins; if cryptocurrency regulation is also relaxed, combined with deregulation, it could trigger a systemic collapse. The current hidden danger lies in the balance between stablecoin regulation and traditional banking oversight.

Author: Nic Carter
Translation: Deep Tide TechFlow
Deep Tide Guide: U.S. military special forces used confidential information on Polymarket to earn $400,000, and this is just the latest scandal. Nic Carter points out that prediction markets are stuck in a vicious cycle: producing accurate prices depends on insider trading, but that makes retail investors feel the market is being manipulated and they leave. This tension determines whether prediction markets can survive long term.
As I wrote in February this year, prediction markets have serious insider trading problems, and this isn’t an accident. This leads to a major failure mode:
The social value of prediction markets comes from paying insiders to leak confidential information for money, but over time it destroys retail investors’ confidence in the market.
Two days ago, the biggest scandal to date broke: the U.S. Department of Justice charged Special Forces Sergeant Gannon Ken

Polymarket announces an upgrade scheduled for UTC 2026-04-28 11:00, with an estimated trading pause of about 1 hour. The upgrade will launch CTF Exchange V2, reconstruct the order book, and switch collateral assets from USDC.e to the new token pUSD. During the upgrade, existing order books will be cleared, and users will need to place new orders after the upgrade; the first transaction requires a one-time authorization, and transactions will still be settled in native USDC. CTFv2 has been audited by Cantina and Quantstamp, and the Cantina bounty program is now live.

Iranian lawmakers reveal that Iran is proposing a comprehensive management plan for the Strait of Hormuz, with sovereignty fully in Iran, ships within the region must obtain permission, tolls are to be collected from passing vessels and settled primarily in rials, hostile country ships are not allowed to pass, and damaged countries must negotiate compensation before passage is granted. Analysts say this move aims to pressure the U.S. and Israel, leave room for negotiations, and increase revenue (if an additional $1 per barrel is charged, about $7.7 billion annually), but faces international legal disputes, widespread opposition, and must be approved by the parliament or the Supreme Security Council, with uncertain prospects for implementation.

Writing: Decentralisedco
Compiled by: AididiaoJP, Foresight News
What makes an agreement resilient against shocks, and how tokens are used as leverage to move the ecosystem. In the weeks following the hacking incident, we delved into the Hyperliquid ecosystem. We quickly discovered that protocols in this industry are building hard-to-competitively-penetrate moats through vertical integration.
This article explores how leading players in the Web3 space maintain their moats.
I often use terms like "supply-side aggregator," "demand-side aggregator," and "vertically integrated capital ecosystem" in this article. For clarity:
A supply-side aggregator refers to aggregating differentiated market participants to offer commodified products (e.g., Uber).
A demand-side aggregator refers to external entities that appear similar.