The Sky and Spark protocols could allocate up to $50 million in capital to a Maple Finance lending pool, beginning with a $25 million deployment.This latest allocation represents Sky’s deepening commitments to diversifying its exposure to DeFi and the RWA space.

Trump family’s crypto ventures — including a planned stablecoin launch — could spark backlash and stall U.S. regulation, according to TD Cowen.TD Cowen says political risk is rising even as lawmakers move faster on crypto legislation.

Potential stablecoin legislation in the U.S. could drive a nearly 10x increase in stablecoin supply over the next four years, according to Standard Chartered.That potential growth may lead stablecoin issuers to buy $1.6 trillion in U.S. Treasury bills for their reserves — enough to absorb all new issuance during Trump’s second term, the bank said.

The ZKsync security team said approximately $5 million worth of ZK tokens were stolen from a compromised admin account.User funds are safe, according to the team, which plans to publish an incident report once the investigation is over.ZK, the native token introduced last June, is down approximately 15% on the day, according to The Block’s price page. 

Tallinn, Estonia / San Salvador, El Salvador – April 15, 2025 – Gofaizen & Sherle, a leading global fintech and crypto law company, announces a major milestone in its expansion into Latin America.

In April, two members of Sweden’s Parliament, the Riksdag, urged officials to rethink the nation’s bitcoin approach.The policymakers referenced a U.S. Strategic BTC Reserve and growing global attention toward the leading digital asset.

Improving market dynamics and the launch of a leveraged product last week position XRP ahead of other assets when it comes to spot ETF approval by the SEC, analysts at Kaiko argue.May 22 is the next important date to watch as the SEC must respond to Grayscale’s spot XRP ETF filing by then.

KiloEx lost $7 million after an unknown attacker tricked the protocol’s oracle function with a wallet funded using Tornado Cash.The team halted trading following the multi-chain theft across Base, BNB Chain and Taiko.An update from the decentralized exchange asked the hacker to return most of the funds and keep 10% as a whitehat bounty — or brave a manhunt.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said bitcoin is acting “notably different” to prior pullbacks and could outperform the stock market during a correction for the first time since 2011.Despite President Trump’s tariff turmoil in recent weeks and the ensuing volatility, bitcoin has effectively been flat over the past month, Hougan noted.

Flowdesk CEO Guilhem Chaumont discusses the tariff-induced market volatility and the growing role of digital assets in institutional portfolios.

Kraken now supports equities trading on its digital asset exchange — powered by a brokerage deal with Alpaca.The firm teased the move in March after disclosing plans to acquire CFTC-regulated NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion.

Tether plans to direct its “existing and future” hashpower to a Bitcoin mining pool created by controversial Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr.Dashjr is staunchly against Bitcoin applications like inscriptions and attempts to filter those transactions via the OCEAN mining pool.

Crypto markets have grown beyond simple spot buys and perpetual futures. Options trading is rapidly emerging as the next big leap for traders seeking advanced risk management, strategic flexibility, a

Laser Digital refuted allegations that it contributed to the sharp decline of MANTRA’s native token, OM, on Sunday.Crypto exchange OKX adjusted its risk parameters amid investigations into “potentially coordinated large-scale” activity before the asset’s 90% crash.

Strategy has purchased another 3,459 BTC for approximately $285.8 million in cash at an average price of $82,618 per bitcoin — taking its total holdings to 531,644 BTC.The latest acquisitions used proceeds from the sale of its class A common stock, MSTR.