Joseph Rees

Regulated AVAX and SUI Futures Coming to CME Group This May – Crypto News Bitcoin News

Key Takeaways: CME Group added AVAX and SUI futures on April 7, 2026, with contracts launching May 4 pending CFTC review. CME crypto derivatives hit $3 trillion notional volume in 2025, with March ADV up 19% year-over-year. CME’s full crypto…

Bitcoin Stalls Below $70K as Momentum Fades Across Timeframes – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

Key Takeaways: Bitcoin held above ~$68,000 on April 7, 2026, stuck below $70,000 resistance. Charts show 12 bearish signals among moving averages, reinforcing weak trend momentum. Bitcoin range $65K–$72K persists; breakout above $70K remains key next move. Bitcoin Chart Outlook…

Axie Infinity: Atia’s Legacy Playtest 2 Launches April 8, Features ‘Risk-It-All’ Dungeon

Axie Infinity: Atia’s Legacy, an upcoming massively multiplayer online (MMO) game set in the Axie universe of Lunacia, has announced that its highly anticipated Playtest 2 will officially launch on April 8, 2026. Following the success of Playtest 1 –…

Justin Sun Highlights Agentic AI Payments on TRON at EthCC; TRON DAO Co-Hosts MetaMask Builder Nights Cannes – Press release Bitcoin News

PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, April 7, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications ( dApps), participated as a Ruby Sponsor at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC[9]),…

Philippine Inflation Accelerates to 4.1% in March, Breaching BSP Forecast

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported that year-on-year headline inflation accelerated to 4.1 percent in March 2026, a significant jump from the 2.4 percent recorded in February. The March inflation figure exceeded the central bank’s projected forecast range of…

SEC Chair Atkins Says ‘Reg Crypto’ Proposal Covering Fundraising and Startup Exemptions Is One Step From Publication – Regulation Bitcoin News

Key Takeaways: SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirmed on April 6, 2026, that “Reg Crypto” is at OIRA awaiting White House sign-off before public comment. The proposal creates three safe-harbor exemptions, allowing startups to raise up to $5 million and issuers…

Roblox Ban Temporarily Deferred as Platform Agrees to New Safety Measures — Digital Pinoys

The potential nationwide ban on the online gaming platform Roblox has been temporarily deferred following a high-level meeting between company representatives and Philippine authorities. According to an update shared by digital advocacy group Digital Pinoys, Roblox has agreed to implement…

What You Need to Know About the 2028 Timeline – Taxes Bitcoin News

Key Takeaways: On March 31, the Diet passed a stopgap budget that keeps the proposal to reduce crypto tax from 55% to 20% flat tax to stop the Web3 exodus to Dubai. While the proposal has hailed critics say the…

[Op-Ed] Paul Soliman: Google Just Put a Number on It. Crypto’s Quantum Clock Is Ticking

A few months ago, I wrote about Bell states and how quantum entanglement could be operationalized for blockchain security. I talked about how BYC is building toward quantum-safe infrastructure through Prismo and Lumen. At the time, some readers probably thought…

Why Japan’s Stablecoin Push May Be the Most Practical Crypto Story in the World Right Now – Featured Bitcoin News

Key Takeaways: Japan’s Payment Services Act, revised in June 2023 and updated through 2026, created the world’s strictest stablecoin issuer rules. Project Pax, backed by MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho, targets 1 trillion yen in B2B stablecoin issuance by 2028. JPYC…