UFC and Crypto.com announced this week that the cryptocurrency platform will co-present UFC Freedom 250, a historic mixed martial arts card scheduled for June 14 on the grounds of the White House to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States.

A pro- crypto super PAC linked to Tether executives spent $300,000 on its first political ad buy, directing the funds to a firm co-founded by Tether’s U.S. CEO.

According to the web portal gettrumpmemes.com, the registration cutoff for Trump’s forthcoming Mar-a-Lago meme coin gala has been pushed to April 14, because apparently, even deadlines like a second chance. The rules clarify that participants can hold the official TRUMP meme token to calculate their time-weighted average holdings, while merchandise purchases also count toward earning a spot on the guest list.

Bittensor co-founder characterized Simon Dare’s exit as a “deep betrayal,” accusing his former colleague of intentionally inflicting “maximum pain” on the community and causing significant financial losses for investors.

The gaming platform utility token, aria (ARIA), staged a dramatic recovery to reach a new all-time high of $0.95 on April 12, 2026. This rally follows a volatile week where the token plummeted over 80% to a low of $0.11 on April 9.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) publicly threatened legal action against Tron founder Justin Sun on Sunday, and Sun responded by demanding that the team identify themselves and answer for what he called secret controls over investor funds.

Justin Sun, founder of the Tron project, criticized the actions of the people behind World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project linked to President Donald Trump. Sun revealed that the “illegitimate” decisions taken by token holders treated the “ crypto community as a personal ATM.”

Oil-linked perpetual futures on Hyperliquid climbed on Sunday after U.S. Vice President JD Vance left Islamabad without a nuclear agreement with Iran, reigniting fears of renewed conflict in the Middle East.

Strategy’s latest signal is fueling expectations of renewed bitcoin accumulation as volatility and geopolitical tension heighten focus on institutional demand driven by Michael Saylor’s influence. Traders are closely watching for confirmation of another major purchase cycle.

Bitcoin dropped to $71,067 on Sunday after U.S.-Iran peace talks in Islamabad collapsed and the U.S. Navy moved two destroyers into the Strait of Hormuz to begin clearing Iranian mines.

Musician G. Love lost nearly 5.9 BTC, his entire retirement savings held for roughly a decade, after downloading a fraudulent Ledger app from the Apple App Store on April 11, 2026.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Argentinian banks start a JPM Coin-based interbank settlement pilot, TRM Labs underscores compliance advances, and Milei backpedals on dollarization.

Federal Reserve officials risk the worst monetary policy mistake in the central bank’s history by keeping rates elevated as the U.S. economy slips toward recession, according to QI Research CEO Danielle DiMartino Booth.

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Jordi Vasser, a financial analyst, believes that artificial intelligence (AI) can become a key catalyst to help bitcoin reach its true potential. As agentic AI becomes pervasive in money networks, bitcoin can become a neutral platform for financial transactions, as other fiat platforms become inherently insecure due to AI’s relentless snooping.