Tetra Trust Company, a Canadian digital asset custodian operating under full regulatory compliance, announced today that CADD, a stablecoin pegged to the Canadian dollar, has been approved by the Alberta Treasury Board and Finance through its representative, CAD Digital Inc.
On May 4th, World Liberty Financial filed a defamation lawsuit against Justin Sun in Florida, just after the Consensus 2026 conference began in Miami. This action was a direct response to a lawsuit Sun filed on April 21st in California, where he claimed World Liberty Financial had built a hidden feature into its smart contract. Sun alleged this feature allowed the company to freeze, limit access to, and essentially take control of investors’ tokens.
Crypto-related stocks rallied Monday, led by Circle (CRCL) and Coinbase (COIN), as the politics of digital assets coughs and sputters forward and bitcoin, stubborn and unyielding, climbs above the $80,000 mark, giving a sort of caffeinated zeal to the sector.
The Gulf nations are having a full-blown existential crisis, darling. “Does Washington love us, or is it just Israel they’re into?” they’re whispering into their designer pillows. Meanwhile, the UAE has dramatically stormed out of OPEC like a diva leaving a reality show. And Iran? Oh, Iran’s charging tolls through the Strait of Hormuz like it’s the world’s most expensive carpark-and they want crypto, not dollars. Because why not add a dash of blockchain to this mess?
The market, ever the gossip, whispers that OpenAI has sealed this $10 billion pact, a Delaware LLC known as DeployCo, with a group of private equity backers. The details, first spilled by the Financial Times and echoed by the likes of Bloomberg, paint a picture of ambition and hubris.
As a crypto investor, I’m really encouraged to see Cardano partnering with Scorechain. It means ADA and all the tokens built on Cardano now have better compliance tools. This is a big deal because it gives exchanges, banks, and developers the resources they need to track transactions, assess risk, and generally keep things secure and compliant with regulations. It’s a step towards wider adoption and building trust in the Cardano ecosystem.
SOL Strategies Inc., a company that invests in the Solana blockchain, announced it will buy Houdini Swap, a platform for private and easy cryptocurrency swaps across different blockchains, for $18 million. The purchase will be made with a combination of cash, promises to pay in the future, and company stock.
Pray, consider the current plight of Bitcoin, perched precariously upon the precipice of this critical juncture. According to the sage Cryptorphic, the price doth test the mettle of this resistance, a barrier both psychological and technical, which hath proven itself a most stubborn adversary. A daily close above this threshold, they say, would vanquish the bearish spirits and herald a new era of bullish triumph. Yet, the ascent is slow, the grind tedious, suggesting the buyers lack the fervor requisite for such a conquest.
According to the chroniclers at The Block, SOL Strategies has penned a definitive agreement to acquire HoudiniSwap, a move that further cements its dominion over the Solana ecosystem. This acquisition, like a well-placed chess piece, advances SOL Strategies’ grand strategy of building an institutional Solana treasury and routing stack.
The Shiba Inu community account, Shibizens, announced on X (formerly Twitter) that April 27th was a day of significant growth, leading to a total increase of 24,000 new wallets for the week.