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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hata, Malaysia’s only dual-licensed digital asset exchange, today announced the closing of a USD 8 million (approximately RM31.6 million) Series A funding round led by Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, alongside several prominent global family offices. The fundraise marks the beginning of a deep strategic collaboration between the two companies, one that goes beyond capital and signals a shared commitment to growing Malaysia’s digital asset ecosystem responsibly and at scale. “Malaysia is a strategically important market for Bybit, with one of the most digitally engaged populations in Southeast Asia…

Port Vila, Vanuatu, April 21st, 2026, Chainwire Vantage, a multi-asset CFD platform, has introduced an enhanced version of the Vantage App, with upgrades focused on asset visibility, capital movement, and a more integrated all-in-one trading experience. As multi-asset investing becomes more complex, users expect more from trading platforms than execution alone. Beyond spreads, liquidity, and order speed, they increasingly look for clearer asset visibility, smoother capital movement, and a more connected experience across different financial use cases. This is the backdrop for the rise of all-in-one trading apps. It is unfolding at a time when the boundary between traditional market…

New York City, United States, April 21st, 2026, Chainwire The integration embeds Decibel’s fully onchain, decentralized perpetuals exchange directly into Tria, enabling users to trade, earn, and spend from one self-custodial account, without bridges or custodial handoffs. Tria, the self-custodial neofiance app unifying trading, yield, and payments into a single account, today announced a live integration with Decibel, a fully onchain perpetuals decentralized exchange built on Aptos. The integration, facilitated through Decibel’s Builder Code program, brings the decentralized exchange’s central limit order book (CLOB) directly into the Tria app, allowing users to place, match, and settle perpetual trades without leaving…

Eightco treasury composition as of April 20, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity, $25M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $118M cash and equivalents World solves the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deep fakes and agentic agents World and Tools For Humanity (TFH) unveil new features at World Lift Off Event, expanding ‘Proof of Human’ to include Face Auth, Deep Face and Credentials and Concert Kit World announces new implementations of these features with Zoom, Docusign, Tinder, Browserbase, Exa, Okta, and Vercel World also introduces AgentKit, a developer toolkit designed to provide cryptographic proof that…

The blockchain industry evolves through developer innovation rather than short-term market movements. Historically, the ecosystems that attracted builders early became dominant during the next growth cycle. Developers determine where decentralized applications launch, where liquidity flows, and ultimately where users migrate. Recently, an increasing number of builders have begun paying attention to Berachain, an emerging Layer-1 blockchain introducing a liquidity-focused economic design. Rather than relying purely on traditional staking models, Berachain explores a system that integrates liquidity participation directly into network incentives. The Shift Toward Builder-Driven Ecosystems Every successful blockchain follows a familiar adoption path. Infrastructure appears first, developers experiment second,…

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Infinite, the payments and compliance technology platform, today announced the launch of Infinite Accounts – dedicated bank accounts with unique routing numbers that work across both traditional payment rails and stablecoin networks, powered by Erebor Bank, N.A., Member FDIC. Businesses can integrate once with Infinite’s platform to access comprehensive account and payment capabilities, subject to program terms and transaction limits. Erebor Bank, N.A. provides the regulated banking infrastructure underneath. A Unified Account Experience Through the program, businesses and their end users get deposit accounts with full transactional capability – deposits, withdrawals, ACH, and…

PANAMA CITY, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Aurise Foundation today announced the launch of XAUE, a yield-bearing gold token designed as a Treasury Layer for Tether Gold (XAU₮). Built for qualified institutional participants, XAUE introduces crypto-native yield generation to traditionally non-yielding gold, transforming it into a programmable and capital-efficient on-chain asset. At launch, ecosystem partners Aurelion and Antalpha have jointly committed 16,052 XAU₮ into XAUE (approximately $76 million as of April 22). As the ecosystem expands, XAUE may potentially integrate with leading more decentralized financial protocols, positioning itself as a foundational collateral and settlement asset across on-chain financial markets. From Passive…

The average Web3 VC pitch sounds like ours did three years ago. “We have deep relationships across the ecosystem.” “We add value beyond capital.” “Our network is our edge.” It’s not that any of these statements is a lie; it’s that everyone says them, which makes them effectively meaningless.Liquidity providers (LPs) have heard this pitch so many times that the words have lost all shape. And yet somehow, the industry just keeps photocopying the same deck. Impressive logo slide. Vague thesis. Three bullet points about “value add.” A track record that, for most emerging managers, doesn’t yet exist. Repeat until…

According to data from a recent on-chain evaluation, the Bitcoin mining sector is once again flashing warning signals, as a key industry health metric now hovers above historically critical levels. In this scenario, the Bitcoin price stands a chance to regain past grounds, but only if a specific pattern plays out. Bitcoin Miner Financial Stress Approaches Capitulation Levels Seen In Past Cycles  On Saturday, April 18th, MorenoDV put out a Quicktake post on the CryptoQuant platform, revealing an ongoing dynamic shift among Bitcoin miners. The relevant indicator here is the Miner Financial Health Index 7D-SMA metric, which tracks the short-term…

Bitcoin’s quantum debate keeps slipping sideways because people keep arguing about two different things at once. One question is technical: if quantum computing gets good enough to break Bitcoin’s signature scheme, the protocol can respond. New address types, migration rules, soft forks, deprecations, key rotation. That is a real engineering problem, but it is still an engineering problem. The other question is legal: suppose someone uses a quantum computer to derive the private key for an old wallet and sweep the coins. What, exactly, just happened? Did he recover abandoned property, or did he steal someone else’s bitcoin? In April…