Unicoin CEO Rejects SEC’s Attempt to Settle Enforcement Probe

Unicoin has rebuffed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) attempt to negotiate a settlement agreement to close an ongoing probe into the Miami-based crypto company, its CEO Alex Konanykhin revealed in a Tuesday letter to investors. In his letter, Konanykhin said Unicoin was given an “ultimatum” by the SEC to attend a settlement negotiation … Read more

The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AI

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the existence of generative AI yesterday in new rule changes for its annual Oscars awards ceremony. Rather than dictate its use or require disclosures, the Academy simply says using AI doesn’t, on its own, hurt a movie’s chances — but that how it’s used could. Here’s … Read more

DeFi Development Corp adds $11.5M SOL, shares jump 12%

DeFi Development Corporation, formerly known as Janover, is ramping up its Solana treasury strategy following a buyout led by Kraken executives. According to an April 22 announcement, the company added 88,164 Solana (SOL) to its treasury, worth $11.5 million and bringing its Solana stake to $34.4 million. On April 7, DeFi Development Corporation was acquired … Read more

A Chinese AI video startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive images

A China-based startup, Sand AI, has released an openly licensed video-generating AI model that’s garnered praise from entrepreneurs like Microsoft Research Asia founding director Kai-Fu Lee. But Sand AI appears to be censoring images that might raise the ire of Chinese regulators from the hosted version of the model, according to TechCrunch’s testing. Earlier this … Read more

The US hikes tariffs on solar products from Asia

Solar cells are joined together during production at the SunSpark Technology Inc. manufacturing facility in Riverside, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. | Photo: Getty Images Solar cells from four Southeast Asian countries that have been major suppliers to the US are facing newly increased tariffs, hiked up as high as 3,521 percent.  The … Read more

How Uniswap Built a $3 Billion DeFi Protocol

I’m starting a series of articles where I will decode, in detail, Go-to-Market strategies and marketing solutions of the biggest crypto and Web3 projects. Uniswap has solidified its place as the leading decentralized exchange in the DeFi space, boasting a total value locked (TVL) that hit $3+bn in 2025 and making UNI one of the … Read more

Lawyer hopes Hashflare co-founders can 'self-deport' after sentencing

A lawyer representing one of the co-founders of crypto mining service Hashflare has addressed how their criminal case may move forward after the pair received “self-deport” letters from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In an April 11 filing in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, Hashflare co-founders Sergei Potapenko … Read more

Khloe Kardashian launches consumer brand backed by Serena Ventures, WME

Khloe Kardashian has formerly launched her new food company, Khloud, and its first product, a protein popcorn, set to hit Target starting April 29th.  Back in December, TechCrunch reported that Kardashian and her mother, Kris Jenner, were looking to raise at least $10 million for a business called Khloud. Jessica Bixby, an associate partner at … Read more

You Don’t Need a 5AM Routine. You Need to Put Your Phone Down and Sleep.

(Who Also Does the Dishes) Let’s get one thing straight: Your morning routine isn’t the secret weapon you think it is—if your night before looked like chaos, doom-scrolling, and falling asleep in a burrito of laundry. Truth is, high-performance starts the night before. Your morning is just reaping whatever mess (or magic) you left yourself … Read more

Bitcoin price prepares for ‘70% to 80%’ gain as onchain metrics and spot BTC ETF inflows spike

Bitcoin (BTC) price has been in a persistent downtrend since January, but the April 22 surge past $91,000 marks its first higher high breakout of the year and the potential start of a new longer-term uptrend. Bitcoin 1-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView The higher high pattern occurred after BTC moved above its previous lower high and … Read more

Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise

In 2020, when open source database Supabase was founded, its New Zealand-based CEO, Paul Copplestone, couldn’t have imagined it would be sitting in the sweet spot for 2025’s biggest trend: vibe coding.  But on Tuesday, the fruits of that became evident when it announced a $200 million series D at a $2 billion post-money valuation … Read more

Paydify Launches To Enable Businesses Worldwide To Accept Crypto Payments

Victoria, Seychelles, April 22nd, 2025/Chainwire/–Paydify offers an easy plug-in payment layer that enables any business to accept crypto payments from any wallet or blockchain network — with instant stablecoin settlement and zero fees. Paydify, a universal gateway for any crypto payments, has officially launched to enable businesses to accept crypto payments from any wallet or … Read more

Strategy, Coinbase, Miners Among Crypto Stocks Rallying as Bitcoin Surges Above $90K

Crypto-related stocks surged on Tuesday, riding the momentum of a broader crypto rally that has reignited risk appetite across digital assets with bitcoin (BTC) crossing above $90,000. Shares of Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate BTC holder, and crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) were up 8% to 9% during the session. Leading the move higher were bitcoin … Read more

The AI Monetary Hegemony: Why Dollars, Crypto, and Autonomous AIs Will Soon Clash

There are many developers around the world today creating artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can autonomously do millions of useful things, like book airline tickets, dispute credit card charges, and even trade crypto. A recent report from cloud computing company PagerDuty said over half of businesses already use autonomous AI agents, and 35% more plan … Read more

Institutional demand could push BTC past $200k in 2025 — Analysts

Demand from financial institutions could push the price of Bitcoin (BTC) as high as $200,000 per coin in 2025, according to two research reports reviewed by Cointelegraph.  Analysts from Standard Chartered and Intellectia AI said institutional Bitcoin demand from exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and traders seeking to hedge against macroeconomic risk could cause Bitcoin’s price to … Read more

Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, an AI video model to create lifelike chatbots

Character.AI, a leading platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, unveiled its forthcoming video generation model, AvatarFX, on Tuesday. Available in closed beta, the model animates the platform’s characters in a variety of styles and voices, from human-like characters to 2D animal cartoons. AvatarFX distinguishes itself from competitors like OpenAI’s Sora because it isn’t … Read more