News about Cryptocurrencies
The standoff between the traditional banking sector and the cryptocurrency industry has escalated ahead of a key digital asset bill being considered in a specialized committee of the US Senate next week.
Trump Media & Technology Group and associated with Donald Trump’s family reported a financial loss of $405.9 million for the first quarter of 2026.
The Zcash team will introduce wallets with a recovery mechanism in case of a quantum threat within a month.
Analysts of JPMorgan recorded a shift in investors’ priorities after the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.
Several major cryptocurrencies have significantly outperformed bitcoin and Ethereum in terms of growth.
In 2026, traders and cryptocurrency hedge funds are switching en masse to trading traditional assets such as gold, oil and stocks.
Western Union issued its own “stable coin” USDPT on the Solana blockchain. The issuer of the coin was cryptobank Anchorage Digital.
Social network X (formerly Twitter) once again became the epicenter of market fluctuations on May 4, 2026. The occasion was an ultra-laconic post by the platform’s owner Ilon Musk.
In the morning of May 4, the bitcoin (BTC) rate updated the maximum for three months. The price of the first cryptocurrency rose above $80.6 thousand for the first time since January 31, according to Coinmarketcap. The total capitalization of the crypto market is at a two-month high, rising above $2.65 trillion.
Moldova plans to legalize cryptocurrencies and regulate their use, Finance Minister Andrian Gavrilita said in a program on a Moldovan TV channel.
Iran’s Central Bank and the IRGC are using the country’s largest crypto exchange to convert dollars. A Reuters investigation found that it processed transactions worth tens and hundreds of millions of dollars related to sanctioned groups, including the Central Bank of Iran and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The crypto asset is up nearly 3% in the last 24 hours.
Payment company PayPal on April 29 announced a reorganization of the business. The management structure will be divided into three areas, one of which will focus on digital assets.
Digital gold and many other crypto assets fell in price on the evening of April 29 amid the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) decision to keep interest rates at current levels.
AI has found many holes in computer security around the world. The heads of central banks in various countries and major banks are sounding the alarm. Decentralized finance is also adapting to the new AI reality.
The price of the first cryptocurrency will reach a cycle low at $57,000 this October. This opinion was shared by investor Michael Turpin in a conversation with Cointelegraph.
Several U.S. states are restricting the operation of prediction markets with billions of dollars in lawsuits. The US President has also joined in the criticism.
ForkLog portal used Bitget as an example to understand how cryptocurrency exchanges are turning into global financial supercaps.
The EU will impose a “full sectoral ban” on Russian services that deal with crypto-asset transactions as part of the 20th package.
Over the past 24 hours, the rate of the first cryptocurrency has risen by 4.7%. At the time of writing, the asset is trading at its highest level since the end of January – about $79,300.
