VALR has integrated with Onafriq to allow users across the continent to fund their wallets using mobile money.

In a new report, TRM Labs stated that while illicit finance threats remain in Latam, including cartel-linked OTC brokers, Venezuelan sanctioned flows, and Chinese laundering networks, regulations are encircling these threats, with every major Latam market increasing its compliance efforts.

Australia’s own impact assessment projects its landmark gambling advertising restrictions will reduce national wagering expenditure by AUD 62.7 million per year, or roughly 0.8 percent of total player losses. The same analysis suggests that a full ban previously rejected by the government would have delivered nearly double the reduction.

Crypto trading activity slowed in March, with spot volumes falling sharply and derivatives showing mixed performance. The decline was broad-based, though a few platforms posted gains in derivatives and user traffic.

AlphaTON Capital Corp. has entered a $43 million artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and financing agreement with Vertical Data Inc. to expand its confidential compute infrastructure.

According to reports, over 100,000 jobs have already been replaced, at least in part, by AI in the U.S. Americans are concerned about what’s happening, with half of the population feeling more concerned than excited about the increased use of this tech.

Even when the DGFIP, France’s tax watchdog, has no way to verify the data submitted, the French National Assembly passed an article establishing that contributors should disclose funds over 5,000 € held in self-custody, affecting wallets like Metamask, Phantom, and even Ledger.

A Bitcoin researcher and Starkware executive published a working scheme this week that makes new bitcoin transactions quantum-safe today, using only rules that have existed in the protocol for years.

Lower bitcoin ETF fees are accelerating competition and pressuring margins as Morgan Stanley undercuts rivals, signaling a potential reshaping of investor flows and pricing dynamics across digital asset markets.

Italy’s outgoing football federation president, Gabriele Gravina, who resigned after the national team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup for the third time in a row, has called for repealing the country’s blanket ban on gambling advertising and redirecting betting revenue into youth development, arguing in an 11-page report that 2019 restriction has failed to curb problem gambling while starving Italian football of investment.

International law enforcement agencies led by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency froze more than $12 million in suspected criminal proceeds and identified more than 20,000 victims during a coordinated crackdown on cryptocurrency investment fraud.

Iran struck Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline after the U.S.-Pakistan-brokered ceasefire took effect, and Israel hit Lebanon with its largest airstrike wave in years, leaving a two-week truce looking fragile before the ink dried.

A federal appeals court in Washington on April 8 rejected Anthropic’s bid to immediately halt the Pentagon’s blacklisting of its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models from U.S. military contracts.

Bitcoin reclaimed the $72,000 level following a volatile session, influenced by the confusion regarding the ceasefire terms.

Binance rolled out prediction markets via its wallet, enabling users to trade real-world outcome probabilities while deepening integration with decentralized platforms and expanding its on-chain ecosystem.