• April 28, 2025
Alpaca Secures $52 Million in Series C Funding to Accelerate Global Expansion

Alpaca, a U.S.-based self-clearing broker-dealer and financial infrastructure company, announced that it has closed a $52 million Series C round of financing from new and existing investors, including Derayah Financial and 850 Management. The company, which currently serves more than 5 million brokerage accounts in more than 40 countries, will use the new capital to expand into the U.S., Middle East and Asian markets. A...

  • April 28, 2025
Loopscale Hacked to Suspend Borrowing, Loses $5.8 Million

On April 26, 2025, Loopscale, a Solana-based DeFi protocol, suspended its lending marketplace operations due to a security breach. Attackers exploited a vulnerability in the on-chain price prediction machine of the RateX PT token to illegally withdraw approximately $5.8 million in assets, equivalent to 12% of the platform's total locked-in value, by manipulating the collateral valuation mechanism. The Loopscale team has activated...

  • April 28, 2025
El Salvador Suspends Public Bitcoin Purchases as Private Sector Continues to Increase Holdings

The government of El Salvador has suspended the use of public funds to purchase Bitcoin in order to comply with the terms of a $1.4 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the director of the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department, Rodrigo Valdez, has confirmed that the country is in full compliance with the terms of the loan agreement. As required by the IMF's Extended Fund Arrangement, El Salvador's government agencies stopped accumulating Bitcoin with public funds. Valdez emphasized that the country is not only complying with the terms of the Bitcoin-related...

  • April 28, 2025
Pakistan joins hands with WLF to accelerate blockchain development

World Liberal Finance (WLF) and Pakistan Crypto Council have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to collaborate on Blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) innovations. The partnership aims to assist Pakistani youth and promote the country's digital economy. WLF is backed by former U.S. President Donald Trump, and its delegation met with Pakistan's Prime Minister, Chief of Army Staff, and other senior officials during a high-level visit. The delegation met with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the Chief of Army Staff, and other senior officials during a high-level visit...

  • April 28, 2025
Poloniex Exchange 2025 Review: Safety and Functionality in a Nutshell

Founded in 2014, Poloniex Exchange is a platform that specializes in cryptocurrency trading, offering a diverse range of trading products such as spot, margin, futures, and exchanges. Backed by Tron Networks founder Yuchen Sun, the platform supports over 350 cryptocurrencies and features a LaunchBase launchpad to help fund new projects. Poloniex's key features include a user-friendly ...

  • April 28, 2025
CoinSafe to go live with SIGN tokens on April 28, 2025

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, CoinSecure, has announced that it will officially go live with the Sign (SIGN) token on April 28, 2025, and will include it as the 16th project in the HODLer Airdrop Program. Trading will begin at 11:00 UTC and will open up SIGN's trading pairs with USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD and TRY. Prior to this launch, Coin has completed 200 million...

  • April 28, 2025
Brazil's B3 Exchange Launches World's First XRP Spot ETF

On April 25, 2025, Brazil's B3 Exchange launched the world's first XRP spot ETF, 'XRPH11', managed by Hashdex and operated by Genial Investments, which tracks the NASDAQ XRP Reference Price Index. The fund received fast-track approval from the Brazilian Securities Regulatory Commission (CVM) in February 2025, renewing its August 2024 approval through the Sola...

  • April 28, 2025
Pionex Referral Code Unlocking $10,000 Reward

Pionex Exchange has launched an exclusive referral code "0PS9p4JpQKs", which new users can enter when registering to enjoy multiple benefits. The code provides 20% transaction fee waiver and a chance to get up to 10,000 USDT new user incentives, including registration bonus, KYC verification incentives and deposit incentives and other multiple benefits. The registration process is simple: visit the Pionex website and click "Register...".

  • April 28, 2025
Gitcoin to End Grants Lab Operations to Focus on Core Grant Programs

Gitcoin has announced that in May 2025 it will officially close its Grants Lab business unit and Grants Stack technology platform. The decision was made in light of financial pressures and the need to focus resources on the core Grants Program. As the leading platform for decentralized public goods funding, Gitcoin says the difficult decision was made after months of internal evaluat...

  • April 28, 2025
SEC Dismisses ICO Lawsuit Against Dragonchain

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially dismissed its 2017 initial token offering (ICO) lawsuit against blockchain platform Dragonchain. The case initially charged Dragonchain with conducting an unregistered $16.5 million securities offering. The DRGN token price surged more than 1,001 TP3T in a matter of hours after the news broke. Dragonchain was originally founded by Disney...

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