The Chamber of Digital Commerce, the digital commerce chamber of the blockchain industry, on April 20, 2026, sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Banking, urging the committee to advance the legislative process for establishing the digital assets market structure to the formal markup stage, and to publish a public statement simultaneously on the X platform. The letter was also sent to Tim Scott, the committee chair, and others.

Geopolitical tensions surrounding the Strait of Hormuz intensified after the United States blockaded the waterway, following faltering peace talks with Iran. The move sent a sharp, if brief, reaction through Bitcoin markets: the leading cryptocurrency touched a low near $70,623 before a partial

An open-source project named “badclaude” drew attention after it claimed it could speed up the execution of Claude Code, but it was immediately hit with an infringement takedown notice from Anthropic, requiring the removal of its branding. Surprisingly, this was part of the project’s roadmap, sparking mockery and debate in the online community. This reflects the open-source community’s response to brand management by large AI companies.

Meta released its first self-developed AI model, Muse Spark, on April 8, marking an important step toward “personal superintelligence.” The move sent the stock price up 6.5%. Muse Spark is a multimodal reasoning model that supports a variety of applications, including health tracking and a shopping assistant, and emphasizes technical scalability and commercialization. In the future, it will be integrated across various platforms to further enhance the user experience.

In recent weeks, the crude oil market has seen abnormal trading activity. Investors sold short positions totaling $950 million before the announcement of a ceasefire between the US and Iran, causing crude oil prices to subsequently plunge by about 15%. Because this trade was abnormal in terms of execution window, method, and timing, it has raised market concerns about whether there was insider trading. Representative Ritchie Torres has sent a letter to the relevant agencies requesting an investigation, stressing that the trade was targeted and that the beneficial holders behind it need to be identified. This incident is similar to the $500 million short position from March 23, indicating potential market manipulation issues.

The crypto market is back on the front-foot after a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran removed some of the geopolitical uncertainty and sent oil prices tumbling. Still, energy market dynamics are such that it may be too early to assume the return of animal spirits to risk assets.

An open-source AI job hunter built on Claude Code just auto-applied to hundreds of roles and actually landed a job, exposing why the real bottleneck is on-chain compute, not résumés. Summary An open-source AI agent built on Claude Code sent more than 700 targeted job applications and "actually

Today in crypto, rushing post-quantum cryptography could spark “Blocksize wars 2.0,” Samson Mow warned. Digital asset markets bounced 2.5% after US President Donald Trump sent mixed signals on a possible Iran deal, and a

Crypto markets bounced 2.5% as US President Donald Trump sent mixed signals over a potential deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, including reports of a possible ceasefire that could permanently end the war.  In an expletive-laden post on the Truth Social platform on Sunday, Trump