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Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has reached a settlement with conceptual artist Ryder Ripps and his business partner Jeremy Cahen – resolving a trademark dispute filed in July 2022 that produced two significant federal court rulings on intellectual property

Crypto-linked card spending reached $600 million in monthly volume in March 2026, more than tripling from $187 million recorded a year prior – a 211% annual increase that signals structural rather than cyclical adoption across point-of-sale payment infrastructure. Cumulative card volume across the

StarkWare proposes a “quantum-safe Bitcoin” transaction scheme. It replaces elliptic curve signatures with brute-force hash computations to enhance Bitcoin’s security against quantum attacks. However, each transaction costs 75 to 150 US dollars, limiting its everyday use. The community’s assessment of the proposal is mixed, involving fundamental debate over Bitcoin security and its design philosophy.

Strategy In Q1, bought 89,599 BTC, while Bitcoin ETFs saw nearly $500 million in outflows year over year, marking a historic divergence in capital between the two types of institutions.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that after the TON blockchain completed its upgrade, transaction confirmation time was shortened to sub-second levels, overall speed increased by 10x, and block generation frequency increased by 6x. Durov proposed a seven-step upgrade plan (MTONGA); it has already achieved sub-second confirmations and plans to reduce transaction fees by 6x. Future steps will further strengthen network performance and the ecosystem economy. This upgrade will attract more validators, enhancing decentralization and security.

Circle introduces Managed Services to simplify stablecoin adoption and reduce technical and compliance barriers. CPN Managed Payments enables fiat-native access to USDC settlement through a single API integration model. Growing demand for faster payments drives adoption, with stablecoin

Security research reveals that in the LLM agent ecosystem, over 20% of free API routers actively inject malicious code, leading to asset theft and credential crises. In addition, the Claude code-leak incident has enabled attackers to spread malware by exploiting developers’ curiosity. The research team proposes a three-layer defense mechanism to address supply-chain security risks.

Cardano's founder, Charles Hoskinson, highlights the synergy between AI and blockchain, announcing an AI bot for content creation. Cardano's developer group shifts focus to growth, halting Acropolis development to prioritize chain abstraction, while addressing performance issues in their upcoming hard fork upgrade.

HolmesAI, a decentralized intelligent network that enables users to create, deploy, and monetize AI agents, today announced a strategic partnership with Noos Protocol, a verifiable intelligent infrastructure that connects AI agents with data and computation in an open ecosystem. Using this

Hidden Funders Face Shareholder-Level Scrutiny Thailand is moving to tighten control over crypto ownership structures while expanding regulated market access. Authorities plan to track hidden financiers and restrict illicit capital flows. At the same time, regulators are opening pathways for

Fresh on-chain analytics show that three newly created wallets pocketed a combined $484,575 from Polymarket’s “US x Iran ceasefire by April 7” market, intensifying scrutiny over insider trading risks in prediction markets. Lookonchain highlighted that these wallets had no prior on-chain activity

Solayer’s founder exposes a security vulnerability in large language model (LLM) routers; in 428 routers, more than 20% exhibit malicious behavior, such as private keys being stolen. The research recommends that developers implement a separate end-to-end integrity verification mechanism on the client side and provides three defense options to mitigate supply-chain attacks.