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Dubai, UAE, April 16th, 2026, Chainwire Utexo, the Bitcoin-native execution and settlement layer for stablecoin payments, today announced a collaboration with x402 to bring USDT compatibility to the x402 payment protocol and support real-time, agent-to-agent transactions with settlement speeds as fast as 50 milliseconds. x402 is an open protocol that allows payments to be embedded directly into HTTP requests using the HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code. This allows applications, APIs, and autonomous systems to pay for services in real time without relying on accounts or pre-funded balances. With Utexo’s integration, developers using x402 will now be able to transact…

Dubai, UAE, April 16th, 2026, PlayNewswire 1win continues to evolve its VIP ecosystem, bringing global rapper Tyga into its high-tier community while reinforcing its positioning as a crypto-first entertainment platform. The update follows several days of speculation across social media, after the artist was spotted boarding a branded 1win private jet and later shared content featuring the brand. Confirmation was subsequently published via the 1win Owner’s official channels on X and Telegram. According to sources close to the activation, Tyga was welcomed by 1win with a full-scale premium setup. This included a private jet flight and a genuinely VIP gift…

A recap of a podcast hosted by Alevtina Labyuk, Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer at BeInCrypto, in partnership with The Top Voices — a community-led media platform for early-stage startups and IT talent, backed by a global network of 3,000+ entrepreneurs — featuring Anthony Tsivarev, VP of Ecosystem Development at the TON Foundation. Building a startup inside a large ecosystem can look deceptively simple from the outside. The distribution is already there. The infrastructure is ready. Millions of users are just one click away. But according to Anthony VP of Ecosystem Development at the TON Foundation, this perception is one of…

The MANTRA [Old] (OM) token has experienced a sudden surge of over 424% within the past 24 hours, on April 15, with the price rising from approximately $0.0158 to nearly $0.067. This rally occurred in a very short period and brought the price back to its monthly highs.However, this strong upward momentum was not accompanied by a corresponding increase in trading activity, raising questions about the sustainability of the volatility.Rapid Price Surge Draws Market AttentionAccording to aggregate data on CoinGecko, OM rapidly bounced from the about $0.015 zone to about $0.067, equivalent to a more than fourfold increase in just…

US Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers regarding a forthcoming payments feature on X.”Consumers, our national security, and the stability of the financial system may be at risk,” she wrote in a letter addressed to owner Elon Musk.Warren expressed concern that X could take advantage of a “suspicious carveout” in the Genius Act.A forthcoming payment feature meant to turn X into an “everything app” could threaten national security and the US financial system, Senator Elizabeth Warren warned in a letter to Elon Musk on Tuesday.Her chief complaint was Musk’s controversial management of the social media platform. But Warren also pointed…

In brief Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, an AI model that enables robots to perform industrial tasks through spatial reasoning and embodied intelligence. The model shows 6% text and 10% video improvement in safety hazard identification compared to Gemini 3.0 Flash. Boston Dynamics integrated the technology into its Orbit AIVI-Learning platform, with the update going live for customers on April 8. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 on Tuesday, an upgraded AI model designed to enable robots to perform complex real-world tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning capabilities. The model specializes in spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection, marking…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on WLFI’s new unlock proposal feels like a move to contain a crisis, but the bigger issue is still about who actually holds the reins and how governance really works.World Liberty Financial is back on its governance forum with a proposal that covers 62.28 billion locked WLFI tokens. This comes at a time when the real challenge is rebuilding trust, not just managing timelines. The plan would move 17.04 billion early supporter tokens into a two-year cliff, then a two-year linear vesting schedule, with all tokens kept intact and no burn.For founders, team members, advisors, and partners, the…

Bitcoin’s rally toward $75,000 is running into a wall of supply just as institutional demand is holding steady.The move higher has been driven largely by macro flows rather than a broad surge in speculative activity. U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs have continued to draw consistent inflows this month, including roughly $240 million in a single session following geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, according to market maker Enflux. That bid helped lift BTC from around $71,000 to the mid-$70,000s, even as traditional markets absorbed rising oil prices and shifting rate expectations. The pattern, Enflux noted, reflects allocation behavior rather than momentum…

The quantum computing threat has some of Bitcoin’s most vocal developers landing in wildly different places.Blockstream’s CEO, Adam Back, told Paris Blockchain Week attendees on Wednesday that Bitcoin developers should start building optional quantum-resistant upgrades now, even though current quantum computers remain “essentially lab experiments” with progress that has been “incremental” over the 25 years he has tracked the field.”Preparation is key. Making changes in a controlled way is far safer than reacting in a crisis,” the Blockstream CEO said.He pointed to his company’s work testing quantum-resistant transaction signatures on Liquid, a sister network to Bitcoin. He argued that a…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — What will it take to build a financial system that billions of people can trust — and barely notice? That question set the tone for a fireside chat titled “Trust, Technology, and Transformation: Building the New Financial Platform for a Tokenized Economy”, where Bybit Co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou took the stage at Paris Blockchain Week 2026 to outline a future where finance becomes more intelligent, more accessible, and ultimately, invisible. Rather than focusing on price cycles or short-term trends, Zhou framed the industry’s next chapter as a fundamental redesign of…