Estonia-based crypto platform CoinLoan has halted all user withdrawals and activity, as announced in an April 25 blog post. The company said it received a notice of restraint on disposition that requires it to halt all user operations, including user withdrawals. The notice in question says that CoinLoan cannot dispose…

Bitcoin (BTC) is done with its bear market, but the coming months may see a return to $20,000. That is the outlook for Philip Swift, a veteran Bitcoin market analyst who co-founded trading suite DecenTrader and data resource Look Into Bitcoin. In his latest interview with Cointelegraph, Swift takes a…

After recently combining the Brain Team in Google Research and DeepMind into one unit, Google still aims to take a “safe and responsible” approach to developing its AI systems, CEO Sundar Pichai said on Alphabet’s Q1 earnings call. AI opportunities The company is also adhering to its commitment to “invest…

Binance.US has backed out of its agreement to purchase $1 billion of bankrupt cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital assets, the company announced in a tweet. It laid the blame for the move on “the hostile and uncertain regulatory climate in the United States.” Voyager, the Voyager Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors…

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FTX announced that it has entered into a purchase agreement with an affiliate of Miami International Holdings to sell its futures and options exchange and clearinghouse LedgerX.  FTX said in a statement that the total proceeds of the transaction would total about $50 million. The deal still requires the approval…

FTX and its debtors have reached an agreement to sell LedgerX to a potential buyer, as announced in a press release on April 25. FTX will sell LedgerX to Miami firm FTX has entered into an agreement to sell its derivatives trading subsidiary LedgerX to M7 Holdings, an affiliate of…

Roughly 100 people answered the call from the crypto advocacy groups Chamber of Digital Commerce, Satoshi Action Fund, and Texas Blockchain Council to show Texas lawmakers they were against legislation targeting crypto mining firms. Gathering at the Texas Capitol in Austin on April 25, crypto enthusiasts, state lawmakers, industry leaders,…

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Technology conglomerate Alphabet has expanded the Google for Startups Cloud Program.  As of April 25, the program now includes Web3 firms such as Alchemy, Aptos, Base, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Nansen, Near, Polygon, Solana and Thirdweb. The same day, blockchain analytics firm Nansen announced that it has partnered with Google Cloud…