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Make CryptoSlate preferred on Charles Schwab announced this week that it will begin selling Bitcoin and Ethereum directly to its 39 million brokerage clients. They will appear in the same account view as stocks, ETFs, and retirement funds, in the same app, under the same brand, one click from the S&P 500 index fund a customer bought for their IRA.What makes that arrangement so consequential is that the assets will arrive in one of the most familiar and trusted environments in American finance, while carrying a very different set of protections from what customers are used to seeing there.Schwab’s own…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Her withdrawal requests kept getting denied. That was the moment a Hong Kong woman realized the crypto investment platform she had been using for weeks was fake — and that her money was gone. Scam Built On Fake Promises The woman had made 17 separate transfers of USDT and Ethereum to the fraudulent platform, losing nearly HK$7.7 million, roughly $982,000. It started on Telegram, where someone posing as an investment expert approached her and pitched a trading strategy powered by artificial intelligence. The promised returns were guaranteed.…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Charles Edward, founder of the digital asset hedge fund Capriole Investments, has warned that BTC miners are rapidly shifting to artificial intelligence (AI), raising concerns about the future of mining activity and its impact on the Bitcoin price. He described the trend as both unexpected and worrying based on statements from publicly listed Bitcoin mining companies about future revenue targets.  Bitcoin Price At Risk As Miners Pivot to AI Edwards reported in an X post that every major public Bitcoin mining firm has announced plans to pivot…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Washington isn’t trying to solve every crypto policy fight at once, but it appears to be carving out a workable path for one specific category of digital asset: the regulated, dollar-pegged stablecoin.The GENIUS Act established the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, and a bipartisan House tax discussion draft now proposes friendlier tax treatment for those same tokens when people actually use them.Together, the two efforts point toward a deliberate, stablecoins-first lane in American crypto policy that could reshape how users, merchants, and issuers interact with digital dollars in the years ahead.What the stablecoin tax…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure France’s Finance Minister Roland Lescure has called for the development of more Euro-pegged stablecoins. This comes amid rising tensions between the European Union and the US, as the EU seeks to weaken US dominance over its payment systems. Euro-Stablecoins: Europe’s Push For Financial Independence Stablecoins represent a unique type of cryptocurrency with a fixed value pegged to a fiat currency. Although other fiat-backed stablecoins exist, US dollar–denominated stablecoins such as USDT and USDC overwhelmingly dominate the market, reflecting the greenback’s role as the world’s primary reserve currency.…

In brief GalaxyOne Head Zac Prince said he’s “not particularly excited” about prediction markets when it comes to enabling customers to build long-term wealth. The executive highlighted the retail investment platform’s recent support of Solana staking and associated lending products in the firm’s pipeline. Staking has enabled competitors like Coinbase to diversify revenue, while others like Robinhood have embraced prediction markets as growth drivers. For Galaxy’s retail investment platform, enabling customers to bet on the news isn’t a priority, according to Zac Prince, head of GalaxyOne. Rather, the service that debuted in October is being built in a way that’s…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto pundit James has highlighted what the XLS-66 amendment is about and what it would mean for XRP holders in terms of earning yields. This comes as the XRP Ledger validators prepare to vote on the amendment, which will introduce the institutional lending protocol.  How XRP Holders Can Earn Yields Through XLS-66 Amendment In an X post, James noted that, contrary to what XRP holders may think, the XLS-66 amendment is not just about depositing one’s tokens and collecting interest. Instead, it is a structured, institutional lending…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on For most of its life, crypto lived outside the financial system. If you wanted to move dollars in or out of an exchange, that money still had to pass through a regular bank somewhere along the way. Most people assumed it would stay that way until Washington finally decided how to regulate it.But that assumption is now breaking down. In March 2026, a regional Federal Reserve bank approved a limited account for Kraken, the first time a crypto exchange has ever been allowed to plug directly into the US central bank’s payment system. More approvals could…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Kevin Warsh is set to become the first Federal Reserve chair with disclosed crypto holdings, and the first whose policy instincts could still squeeze the sector harder than his predecessors.Most Americans don’t follow Fed personnel drama closely, but they feel its aftershocks every month through mortgage rates, savings yields, and the temperature of equity markets.Bitcoin feels those same currents even more acutely than most traded assets, which is why the question of who leads the central bank matters to crypto long before that person says a word about digital assets. When Warsh’s odds of becoming Fed…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure XRP price had begun crashing after hitting a cycle peak of $3.6 back in July 2025. Since then, the digital asset’s price has crashed by more than 50%, naturally leading to a rapid decline in investor participation. However, this has not completely eradicated the bullish sentiment surrounding the coin. Despite losing support at $1.5 and the crash continuing to deepen, a crypto analyst, known as Crypto Luke on the X (formerly Twitter) platform, does not believe that the price will eventually move below $1. Why XRP Price…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their largest single-day capital inflow since January on April 17, as the reopening of a critical Middle Eastern shipping route sparked a broader market rotation into risk assets.According to SoSoValue data, the 12 products drew approximately $664 million in fresh capital on April 17.US Bitcoin ETFs Daily Inflows Since January 2026 (Source: SoSoValue)The surge was catalyzed by an announcement from Iran’s foreign minister that the Strait of Hormuz had reopened to commercial shipping for the duration of the ceasefire.The development, subsequently confirmed by US President Donald Trump, alleviated immediate…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Iran’s Friday announcement that the Strait of Hormuz would be opened during the current ceasefire triggered one of the sharpest oil reversals of the year.Brent crude fell 12.95% to $86.52, and WTI dropped 14.26% to $81.19, both their lowest levels since Mar. 11 and the largest single-day declines since Apr. 8. US stocks surged, bond yields dropped, the dollar weakened, and Bitcoin registered an intraday high of $78,336.Traders stripped the war premium they had spent weeks layering into crude prices, and risk assets repriced accordingly.A divergent bar chart shows Brent crude falling 12.95% and WTI dropping…

In brief OpenAI unveiled GPT-Rosalind to accelerate drug discovery workflows. Benchmarks show strong gains, but real-world impact remains constrained . Access is tightly restricted amid rising biosecurity concerns. OpenAI just named its first domain-specific AI model after Rosalind Franklin—the British chemist whose X-ray crystallography work helped reveal DNA’s double helix, and who was famously denied credit for it during her lifetime.GPT-Rosalind, unveiled Thursday, is a purpose-built reasoning model for biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine. It’s the first in what OpenAI is calling a Life Sciences model series—a direct play for a market where many specialized labs from universities to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman and two Commissioners have highlighted the crypto industry as one of the top priorities in the regulatory agency’s pivot toward clearer and pro-innovation oversight. Crypto Tops SEC’s Pro-Innovation Agenda On Thursday, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Hester Peirce discussed the regulatory agency’s shift towards pro-innovation regulation and their efforts to implement US President Donald Trump’s vow to make America the “crypto capital of the world.” In the first episode of the SEC’s official “Material Matters” podcast, Atkins outlined…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Quantum computing has long served as Bitcoin’s most cinematic threat. It has the right ingredients for a high-drama warning, strange machines, broken cryptography, and the possibility of a future rewrite of digital trust.Yet the greater danger facing Bitcoin today looks far more ordinary and far more commercial. It is artificial intelligence, and the pressure point is electricity.That pressure is already visible. As of today, Bitcoin is trading at $77,845 on CryptoSlate, up 5% over 24 hours, 6.7% over seven days, and 9.2% over 30 days.Price has recovered over the past month, but the mining side of…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is warning that global markets could be heading toward a chain reaction in which tighter funding, war-driven volatility, and deepening cracks in non-bank finance converge into what its chair calls a possible “double or triple whammy” for financial stability.In a letter sent ahead of the April 16 G20 meeting, FSB Chair Andrew Bailey laid out a scenario in which several fragile parts of the financial system crack at the same time rather than one by one.Bailey, who also serves as governor of the Bank of England, said the Middle East conflict…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum is pushing against the $2,400 level but has not been able to close above it, caught in a market that is heating up around it, while the price action remains tentative. The broader environment is increasingly constructive, but ETH is still navigating the lingering effects of the correction that defined the first quarter of 2026. And according to an Arab Chain analysis, the data beneath the price is starting to shift — quietly, gradually, but in a direction that matters. The Sharpe Ratio for Ethereum on…