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Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded bitcoin BTC$76,987.97 holder, has maintained an 11.5% dividend rate for May on its perpetual preferred stock, Stretch (STRC), marking a third consecutive month at that dividend rate. The volume weighted average price (VWAP) during April came in at $99.76, which was close enough to its $100 par value to justify holding the rate unchanged.STRC Dividend Rate (Strategy)STRC has seen a series of increases since listing in July 2025 with a 9% dividend as the company aims to reduce volatility and keep the price anchored near its $100 par value. Strategy markets STRC as a…

The number that’s been circulating across crypto media — $831 billion — is not a stablecoin market cap. It is not total supply. It is the amount of stablecoins that were actually transferred on-chain over the past 30 days. That distinction matters enormously, because the story it tells is almost the opposite of what a declining figure usually implies.According to data from RWA.xyz as of April 28, 30-day stablecoin transfer volume dropped 19.18% to $8.31 trillion — meaning $831 billion was the rounded figure being widely cited, while the full measure is $8.31 trillion in circulation activity. Think of transfer…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Visa has announced an expansion for its stablecoin pilot, with the payments processing giant adding Arc, Polygon, and three other blockchains. Visa Has Added Five New Blockchains To Its Stablecoin Pilot As revealed in a press release, Visa has expanded its global stablecoin settlement pilot with five new blockchains. The pilot enables issuers and acquirers to settle payments in stablecoins rather than traditional banking rails. Stablecoins are digital assets that are tied to a fiat currency. Since these tokens run on the blockchain, they come with all…

SINGAPORE, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — VerifyVASP, a leading Travel Rule solution provider, today announced the acquisition of Sygna, a prominent Japan-based provider. This transaction represents a major step in VerifyVASP’s global expansion strategy, further establishing the company as a core compliance infrastructure provider for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) across key international markets. Consolidating the Travel Rule Ecosystem The acquisition marks a defining moment in the evolution of the global Travel Rule landscape. By integrating Sygna into its network, VerifyVASP is advancing the consolidation of a fragmented market into a unified, interoperable compliance network aligned with national regulations, Financial…

New York, United States, April 28th, 2026, Chainwire 30-day Trade-to-Feed competition marks BitMart’s 8th anniversary and the exchange’s strategic listing of $EAT, the first cause coin. BitMart, the global digital asset exchange serving millions of users worldwide, today launched the Trade-to-Feed competition, a 30-day trading competition paying out up to $4.4 million USDT in trader rewards. The campaign marks BitMart’s eighth anniversary and the exchange’s listing of $EAT (WYDE: End Hunger), the first cause coin to list on a major centralized exchange. Cause coins are an emerging asset class engineered so that fees from trading activity flow to charitable grant-making…

Eightco treasury composition as of April 27, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $25M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $121M cash and equivalents World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes and agentic agents Tinder, Zoom, Docusign, Vercel, Browserbase, and Exa to integrate Proof of Human verification features Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update on its total holdings, highlighting…

London, United Kingdom, April 28th, 2026, Chainwire AxeCasino announced that members of its leadership and product teams will attend iGB L!VE 2026, one of the established events in the online gaming and affiliate marketing calendar. The company said its participation reflects an ongoing effort to remain closely engaged with the conversations shaping the digital gaming sector, including platform usability, product development, responsible gaming standards, and changing player expectations. During the event, AxeCasino representatives plan to take part in networking sessions, meetings, and broader industry discussions with operators, affiliates, technology providers, and service partners. According to the company, the goal is…

Western Union is preparing to launch USDPT, a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank on the Solana blockchain, as early as next month, alongside a consumer-facing prepaid card product called the ‘Stable Card’, a rollout that would extend stablecoin settlement rails to Western Union’s network of more than 360,000 cash pickup locations across more than 200 countries and territories, according to reporting by The Block. The announcement is not simply Western Union adding a crypto product. It is a traditional remittance operator attempting to restructure the underlying settlement architecture of cross-border payments at the infrastructure level. NEWS: During…

The emails passed domain authentication checks because they appeared to have been sent through Robinhood’s actual email infrastructure. Ripple’s CTO Emeritus David Schwartz posted a warning on X, telling users that a phishing campaign had sent fraudulent security alerts appearing to come from Robinhood’s own email infrastructure. Robinhood has since confirmed the incident, attributing it to an abuse of its account creation flow rather than any breach of its systems. What the Phishing Email Looked Like and How It Got Through According to Schwartz, the fake email, whose subject line was “Your most recent login to Robinhood,” claimed that there…

Some of the price declines for BTC came even after the Fed actually lowered the interest rates. In what is expected to be one of the most eventful economic weeks of 2026, arguably the most notable event will take place tomorrow evening when the US Federal Reserve will announce whether it has made any interest rate changes and its future plans. Although experts are convinced the rates will be left untouched, history has shown that BTC tends to go volatile in the days after the meetings, mostly heading south. Will BTC Dip Again? Popular crypto analyst Crypto Rover has observed…