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April 15, 2026 – Georgetown, Cayman Islands The three-year deal commits $3 billion in ETH to ETHGas’ HPS (high-performance staking) service and marks a major step toward forward pricing infrastructure for Ethereum’s growing institutional settlement layer. ETHGas, a performance infrastructure bringing forward markets and execution guarantees to Ethereum, and Ether.fi, the leading onchain banking alternative and non-custodial staking protocol, today announced a $3 billion commercial deal to advance the development of institutional-grade blockspace markets on Ethereum. The gap in Ethereum’s market infrastructure Ethereum currently allocates blockspace through a real-time spot auction with no mechanism for forward pricing, pre-purchase or execution…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin’s recent recovery above $75,000 is forcing some traders to reassess their next move, and one analyst who previously called the market top is now adjusting his strategy.  Crypto analyst Doctor Profit, who publicly called for a short at the $115,000 to $125,000 range, has revised part of his trading plan in a fresh update posted to X. The analyst is still bearish on the medium-term outlook, but the path to his targets has changed in one important way. A Strategic Adjustment Around $76,200 Recent price action…

In brief Allbirds executed a definitive agreement with an institutional investor for a $50 million convertible financing facility. The sustainable footwear company announced it will pivot its business to AI compute infrastructure. The firm will sell the Allbirds brand and footwear assets to American Exchange Group and rebrand. Sustainable footwear company Allbirds announced Wednesday that it will pivot its business to AI compute infrastructure, securing $50 million in convertible financing to fund the dramatic transformation. The company executed a definitive agreement with an institutional investor for the financing facility as it abandons its shoe business for GPU-as-a-Service operations.Allbirds said it…

In brief Frontier AI models blew up betting on real-world football markets. They knew the right strategy—but failed to execute it. A simple 1990s model was able to best most of them. General Reasoning just gave frontier AI its worst report card yet. Eight top models, including Claude, Grok, Gemini, and GPT-5.4, were each given a virtual bankroll and asked to build a machine learning betting strategy across a full 2023-24 English Premier League season.Every single one lost money. Several went completely bankrupt.The benchmark is called KellyBench, named after the Kelly criterion, a 1956 formula that tells you exactly how…

In brief Pakistan lifted an 8-year ban on crypto banking, allowing financial institutions to serve registered crypto firms. Banks can support crypto companies, but cannot trade or hold digital assets themselves. The shift follows partnerships with World Liberty Financial and Binance to expand crypto adoption in Pakistan. Eight years after banning all banks from providing crypto services, Pakistan has officially greenlit the practice—a move poised to quickly facilitate the adoption of digital assets in the world’s fifth-most populous country.In a letter issued this week, Pakistan’s central bank formally rescinded its prior crypto restrictions, which were instituted in 2018. The new…

In brief “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi,” is a new feature-film starring Casey Affleck, Gal Gadot, and other notable actors, centered on the mystery of the top crypto asset’s creator. The film was produced with heavy involvement from AI tools. It is the latest in a string of films and documentaries that question the identity of the mysterious and pseudonymous Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. An upcoming full-feature movie produced with artificial intelligence will star crypto and its leading asset, Bitcoin, according to a report from The Wrap.“Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi,” directed by “Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman, will feature a star-studded cast including…

In brief Janet Mills must decide whether to sign or veto a first-in-the-nation ban on large AI data centers. The moratorium, passed by Maine lawmakers, would pause new projects for over a year. The decision comes as Mills faces a competitive Senate primary, adding political pressure to the outcome. Maine Governor Janet Mills, who is currently locked in a bitter Democratic primary for a U.S. Senate seat, will have to decide in the coming days whether to sign or veto the nation’s first-ever ban on AI data centers.Earlier this week, Maine’s state legislature became the first in the country to…

In brief Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, an AI model that enables robots to perform industrial tasks through spatial reasoning and embodied intelligence. The model shows 6% text and 10% video improvement in safety hazard identification compared to Gemini 3.0 Flash. Boston Dynamics integrated the technology into its Orbit AIVI-Learning platform, with the update going live for customers on April 8. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 on Tuesday, an upgraded AI model designed to enable robots to perform complex real-world tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning capabilities. The model specializes in spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection, marking…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is accumulating Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) once again, as institutional demand for crypto-based Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) ramps up. The move comes despite ongoing market volatility and heightened bearish sentiment, highlighting how institutional appetite for crypto exposure remains firm even as fear and uncertainty spread across the market. BlackRock Ramps Up Bitcoin And Ethereum Buying From April 6 to 10, BlackRock recorded a strong wave of inflows into its spot crypto ETFs, highlighting sustained institutional demand for digital assets. The recent…

In brief World Liberty Financial outlined a pathway for early supporters to gain complete control over their investments, four years from now. The Trump-backed crypto project’s proposal sparked outrage among some investors, who warned the measure could further erode confidence. Those investors have seen gains on paper shrink after WLFI’s first unlock, as the token has plunged to $0.08 from $0.23 in September. Investors eager to access $1.3 billion worth of tokens sold by World Liberty Financial have learned that capitalizing on the Trump-backed crypto venture will likely require years of patience, with a proposed vesting schedule that’s set to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure World Liberty Financial (WLFI)—the crypto project linked to the Trump family—is drawing renewed backlash after advancing a proposal that would keep some early investors’ WLFI tokens locked and unusable for trading for an extended period.  The situation has also triggered strong condemnation from Tron founder Justin Sun, who took to X (formerly Twitter) to describe the venture as “World Tyranny,” arguing that the proposal is not true governance but instead a mechanism for coercion. World Liberty Financial Proposal Sparks Outcry At the heart of the controversy is…

In brief Alibaba shut down the free tier of Qwen Code. Users are directed to check third-party providers like OpenRouter. Recently, Minimax also changed its license from open source to open weights, with conditions for commercial use. Alibaba’s Qwen Code killed its free tier today. The message in the GitHub repo doesn’t mince words: “Qwen OAuth free tier has been discontinued.”Alibaba also reduced the 1,000 free requests quota to 100 per day. Users wanting to run Qwen code on the cloud are now directed to check Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan, OpenRouter, Fireworks AI, or bring their own API key.Qwen Code…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on WLFI’s new unlock proposal feels like a move to contain a crisis, but the bigger issue is still about who actually holds the reins and how governance really works.World Liberty Financial is back on its governance forum with a proposal that covers 62.28 billion locked WLFI tokens. This comes at a time when the real challenge is rebuilding trust, not just managing timelines. The plan would move 17.04 billion early supporter tokens into a two-year cliff, then a two-year linear vesting schedule, with all tokens kept intact and no burn.For founders, team members, advisors, and partners, the…

In brief BitMine posted a net loss of more than $3.8 billion during the three-month stretch ending in February. The firm attributes most of the losses to the unrealized or paper losses mounting from its Ethereum holdings. Shares of BMNR are up about 1% on Wednesday, but have slid nearly 60% in the last six months. Leading Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies lost more than $3.8 billion in the quarterly period ending on February 28, according to a new 10-Q the firm filed with the SEC on Tuesday. The firm’s net loss figure of $3.81 billion was largely driven by…

In brief Starbucks launched an app within ChatGPT that uses AI to recommend drinks based on user mood descriptions or uploaded photos. Users can describe their feelings or share images to get personalized drink suggestions, but can’t order through the AI chatbot. The integration represents a major consumer brand’s adoption of AI for personalized product discovery and commerce. Starbucks launched a beta app within ChatGPT on Wednesday that uses AI to recommend drinks based on user mood descriptions or uploaded photos. The integration allows customers to describe their feelings or share images to receive personalized beverage suggestions.Users can browse drinks,…

Tether, issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, moved 951 bitcoin valued at $70.5 million into a reserve wallet linked to its treasury operations, according to on-chain data from blockchain analytics firms including Arkham Intelligence. The transfer originated from a Bitfinex hot wallet and landed in an address labeled as a Bitcoin reserve account tied to the company. The transaction aligns with a profit allocation policy introduced in 2023 in which Tether assigns 15% of net realized profits toward Bitcoin purchases each quarter. The approach converts revenue from stablecoin issuance into a growing Bitcoin position held on the company balance…