Bitcoin climbed toward $82,000 alongside a more than 1% rise in Nasdaq futures amid reports of progress toward a U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding.

Crypto exchanges are increasingly competing to offer retail traders exposure to Silicon Valley’s most valuable private firms, despite the products conferring neither equity ownership nor shareholder rights.

Bitcoin’s three-month rally shows a clear internal structure than most traders might expect, with performance clustering around specific trading windows across global sessions.

At Consensus Miami 2026, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu argued that stablecoin adoption by firms like Western Union validates Solana’s role as financial infrastructure for both human and machine economies.

The license allows the firm to offer tokenized financial instruments to EU banks as well as secondary trading for tokenized bonds, fund shares, equities, and structured products.

Crypto and traditional finance are converging fast, with perpetual futures emerging as the strongest bridge between the two.

In a 30-page response filed Tuesday, attorneys for victims of three North Korea terrorism cases reframed the April 18 Aave hack as fraud rather than theft — a distinction that could give the attackers legal title to the borrowed crypto.

Price compression near $1.42 comes as analysts point to a repeating bull flag structure and thinning liquidity conditions.

Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor signalling a potential bitcoin sale to cover $1.5 billion in annual dividend obligations sent MSTR down 4% after hours and BTC briefly below $81,000.

Michael Saylor proposes using bitcoin sales to support dividends, as Strategy reported a $12.54 billion Q1 loss.

Speakers point to complexity, poor user experience and lack of transparency as key obstacles for mainstream users.

The Consensys CEO and founder said tokenization can be traced back to Ethereum, the blockchain he helped co-found.

Execs from PayPal, Robinhood, Public.com and 248 Ventures said the way to move retail into crypto and AI is to slow down, show your work, and put users back in control.

Senior leaders from Mastercard, the Crypto Council for Innovation and Clerisy said the right people in the right rooms can reshape internal decisions, citing examples from stablecoin-linked cards and financial access to staking-policy framing in Washington.

The company’s Chief Strategy Officer said that more than half of internet traffic is now non-human, but that the x402 Foundation is building the rails for a \\\"golden age of content.\\\"