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PayPal officially announced a strategic reorganization on April 30, simplifying its business structure into three main core segments: checkout solutions and PayPal, consumer finance services and Venmo, and payment services and crypto; within this, the payment services and crypto segment was established separately, integrating Braintree, SMB processing, value-added services, and crypto business (including the stablecoin PYUSD).

Ant International said its payments network links more than 150 million merchants with over 2 billion consumer accounts worldwide, supporting more than 300 payment methods across 220 markets. The company handles more than 20 million transactions per day on average and is expanding across Asia,

A U.S. court sentenced Maximilien de Hoop Cartier to eight years in prison for helping launder more than $470 million through an unlicensed crypto exchange. Prosecutors said the network used U.S. banks, shell companies, and crypto accounts to move criminal proceeds overseas. Key Takeaways:

The Bank of England has expressed concern about plans to reduce capital requirements for professional trading firms, citing potential increases in financial risk, according to reports from April 30. This position creates a disagreement with the UK Financial Conduct Authority, which proposed the capi

According to the Los Angeles Times, on April 30, Evan Tangeman, a 22-year-old man from Newport Beach, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the District of Washington, to 70 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release; Tangeman pleaded guilty in December 2025, admitting to laundering $3.5 million for a crypto scam group.

Crypto exchange OKX introduced its Agent Payments Protocol (APP) on Wednesday, an open standard designed to enable AI agents to conduct full business cycles including payments, negotiations, and dispute resolution. The protocol follows similar offerings from competitors including x402, incubated by

April Blockchain Upgrades: Live Forks and Planning Phases In April 2026, blockchain protocols took divergent paths—some delivering live mainnet changes, others refining future architectures. Polygon's Giugliano hard fork activated on April 8, Polkadot executed Runtime v2.1 through governance in la

According to a notice released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on April 30, an international joint operation led by Dubai Police with the joint participation of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and China’s Ministry of Public Security dismantled at least 9 cryptocurrency fraud hubs last week, resulting in 276 arrests in total, including 1 additional person arrested by the Royal Thai Police. The DOJ announcement on the same day also stated that 6 defendants have been charged in the U.S. District Court in San Diego with federal fraud and money laundering crimes.

According to Kite’s official announcement, Kite, a payment infrastructure for the AI Agent economy, officially launched its mainnet on April 30. During the mainnet launch period, Kite Treasury will cover network fees, so users do not need to worry about gas. Kite also opens Kite Agent Passport to the public, serving as the authorization and payment control layer for agents.

SlowMist’s Chief Information Security Officer 23pds posted on X on April 30, stating that a logic vulnerability named “Copy Fail” (CVE-2026-31431) was found in Linux systems, which is extremely easy to exploit; SlowMist advises users to quickly upgrade the kernel.

According to Visa’s official announcement on April 30, Visa said it is expanding its global stablecoin settlement pilot program to five new networks: Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon, and Tempo, bringing the total number of supported blockchains to 9. Visa’s blockchain settlement annualized run rate has reached $7 billion, growing 50% quarter-over-quarter from about $4.7 billion previously.

Gumi Cryptos Capital managing partner Miko Matsumura said in an interview with BeInCrypto reporter at the NBX Warsaw conference on April 30 that the crypto industry has already achieved a structural victory. He warned that founders who repeat the meme-coin speculation pattern face the risk of being eliminated, and that this cycle will define success based on different behaviors.

Markets favor disciplined allocation over hype, with Chainlink/Uniswap tied to DeFi liquidity, and stablecoins as buffers; altcoin cycles face structural shifts amid cautious, liquidity-driven strategies. Abstract: The article highlights a secular shift in crypto markets from speculative cycles to disciplined, liquidity-aware allocation. It links Chainlink and Uniswap activity to actual DeFi usage and liquidity trends, while stablecoins USDT and USDC serve as buffers amid uncertainty. The outlook emphasizes macro conditions and liquidity shifts as primary determinants of market direction, with institutional actors adopting structured approaches.

According to an exclusive report by the Financial Times (FT) on April 30, SoftBank is planning to split in the United States and set up a brand-new independent company, named Roze, whose business covers AI robots and data center infrastructure, with the goal of completing an IPO as early as 2026 and a targeted valuation of $100 billion. The Financial Times also reported that there are internal concerns at SoftBank about the valuation target and the IPO timetable.

According to a report by Bloomberg on April 29, AI company Anthropic is seriously evaluating a new funding round offer, with a potential valuation of more than $900 billion; Anthropic’s valuation in February this year was about $380 billion. Bloomberg cited sources familiar with the matter, saying Anthropic’s board of directors will make a decision as early as May 2026.

According to The Verge on April 30, Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI—jury trial—opened in federal court in Oakland this week, where the court sequentially presented emails and founding documents from 2015 to 2017. The materials include: a proposal from Musk to name the company Freemind, and a 2017 capitalization table showing his claimed ownership stake at as high as 51.2%.

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for the third consecutive time, with a rare 8-4 split vote highlighting internal disagreements. Powell is stepping down as chair but remaining as a governor; this article analyzes his deeper impact on the crypto market.

According to SoSoValue data, on April 27, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of $263 million in total, ending the prior streak of nine consecutive trading days of net inflows. Last week, the funds collectively absorbed about $767 million. On that day, iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) under BlackRock saw net inflows of zero, as Bitcoin continued to trade below $80,000.

According to Hyperliquid’s official documentation update on April 30, the Hyperliquid team has clearly set out the fee logic for HIP-4 outcome tokens in the documents: the core rule is that outcome token trading only incurs fees when positions are closed or settled, and no fees are charged when opening positions; the fee formula is now disclosed to developers. In March, Hyperliquid announced the HIP-4 launch testnet.

According to BBC’s report on April 30, researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) analyzed more than 400k responses from 5 artificial intelligence systems that were “fine-tuned” to be friendlier, warmer, and more empathetic when interacting with users. The study found that the probability of incorrect responses from the friendly-trained models rose by an average of 7.43 percentage points, and the likelihood of reinforcing users’ incorrect beliefs was about 40% higher than in the unadjusted original models.