U.S. Representative Sheri Biggs disclosed a purchase of up to $250,000 in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF.The filing reportedly ranks among the largest bitcoin-related trades reported by an active member of Congress.

Stark served as part of the non-profit’s management team, working alongside co-executive directors Hsiao-Wei Wang and Bastian Aue, among other executives.The move comes amid ongoing changes at the EF, including a renewed focus on scaling and developing the Ethereum mainnet and recommitment to core cypherpunk values.

The Cashtags feature aligns with Musk’s broader ambitions to transform X into a super app.Cashtags are “tokens” linked to crypto and stocks mentioned on the platform, allowing users to navigate posts and view data for the financial instruments.

As part of the broader crypto advocacy group, the Digital Energy Council will focus “on advancing policies that promote energy development, grid resilience, U.S. competitiveness, and national security,” the Crypto Council for Innovation said on Friday.Under the Trump administration, the approach has been more favorable to digital assets, with an emphasis on keeping crypto innovation in the U.S.

Neo’s proposed overhaul would restructure its foundation, return tokens to the community and impose formal oversight, as co-founders clash over governance and control.

Starbucks’ ChatGPT integration lets customers describe their mood or upload photos to receive AI-generated drink picks.

Solana said wrapped XRP (wXRP) is live on the blockchain via Hex Trust and LayerZero.wXRP is available on Solana apps like Titan Exchange, Jupiter Exchange, Meteora and Phantom.

Circle’s new USDC Bridge solution offers a standardized way for interacting with its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol to move native versions of USDC across blockchains.The bridge appears to support EVM-capable chains at launch, including chains like Sei and Monad.

The Rhea team said the exploit manipulated liquidity pools and routed trades through fake tokens.Roughly $11.2 million in assets have been returned or frozen so far.

If approved by shareholders, STRC would pay a dividend twice per month.STRC is a perpetual preferred stock designed to trade near a $100 par value while paying a variable cash dividend, currently at an annualized rate of 11.5%.

The plaintiff, Lee Greenfield, said he lost more than $40,000 investing in the $JENNER token launches on Ethereum and Solana.U.S. District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld, Jr., cited the Howey Test — a 1946 Supreme Court Case that defines sales of securities as “investment contracts” — to determine there was not a common enterprise to expect profit from.

The planned acquisition of Foundation by the digital art platform Blackdove has collapsed, resulting in the permanent closure of the Ethereum-based marketplace.Foundation CEO Kayvon Tehranian confirmed the site is unable to remain online under its current standing but will return briefly to allow users to delist their assets.

The global RAM shortage claims another victim, with Meta boosting Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices following other gadget price hikes.

Laggards included Near Protocol at -2.3% and Polkadot at -1.6%, reflecting the selective nature of Friday’s session as capital rotated toward payment-layer and enterprise-backed tokens rather than broad altcoin names.HBAR’s 24-hour trading volume surged 57.6% to over $103 million, a signal of directional positioning ahead of the April 22 Iran ceasefire deadline that has driven selective rotation toward utility networks with institutional governance backing.Stellar’s Protocol 26 “Yardstick” testnet launched April 16, with a mainnet governance vote scheduled for May 6, while LOBSTR Wallet added XRP Ledger support for 1.5 million users the same day, deepening cross-chain utility between two payment-focused ecosystems.