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New Stablecoin, Faster Order Matching, Smart Contract Wallet Support – Crypto News Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Polymarket launched Polymarket USD on April 6, 2026, replacing bridged USDC.e as collateral across all prediction markets. The CTF Exchange V2 upgrade cuts gas costs and adds EIP-1271 support, affecting API traders and bot operators within 2-3 weeks. Polymarket’s POLY governance token airdrop, confirmed by CMO in October 2025, remains separate and pending a full U.S. relaunch. Polymarket Upgrades Trading Engine and Drops Bridged USDC.e in Major 2026 Overhaul The move is the platform’s largest infrastructure change since launch. Polymarket has processed record trading volumes over the past…

South Korean Fintech Toss Targets Web3 Finance With Proprietary Mainnet and 24 Stablecoin Trademarks – Crypto News Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Toss, operated by Viva Republica, is building an L1 blockchain mainnet and native coin to power its 30 million-user financial platform. South Korea’s pending Digital Asset Basic Law has delayed final decisions on whether Toss pursues an L1 or L2 approach. A Stablecoin Task Force led by Chief Business Officer Kyuha Kim filed 24 KRW stablecoin trademarks in June 2025, including “TOSSKRW.” South Korea’s Toss Recruits Blockchain Engineers as Mainnet Plans Advance in 2026 The fintech company Toss serves roughly 30 million registered users, close to 60% of…

South Korea Orders 5-Minute Reconciliation for Crypto Exchanges After $56B Bithumb Error

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South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has ordered all cryptocurrency exchanges to implement near real-time asset reconciliation and submit to monthly external audits. Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!). The directive follows a February operational failure at Bithumb that briefly sent $56 billion worth of bitcoin to hundreds of retail users. The Bithumb Incident On February 6, 2026, Bithumb mistakenly credited approximately 620,000 BTC (worth around $56 billion at the time) to hundreds of users during a promotional event. The intended payment was…

Bitmine Reaches 4.803 Million ETH, Announces NYSE Uplisting – Crypto News Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Bitmine holds 4.803 million ETH worth $10.2 billion, making it the world’s largest ethereum treasury as of April 6, 2026. MAVAN, Bitmine’s institutional staking platform, has staked 3.33 million ETH generating $196 million in annualized staking revenue. Bitmine’s NYSE uplisting takes effect April 9, 2026, as the company targets 5% of total ETH supply under Chairman Tom Lee. Bitmine Buys 71,252 ETH in One Week, Highest Pace Since December 2025 The Norwalk, Conn.-based company Bitmine said its common stock will move from NYSE American to the NYSE effective…

New AI Cybercrime Tool Targets Crypto, Bank KYC Systems via Deepfakes

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A threat actor known as “Jinkusu” is allegedly selling cybercrime tools designed to bypass Know Your Customer (KYC) checks at banks and crypto platforms. The tool uses deepfakes and voice manipulation to trick KYC verification systems on finance platforms, cybercrime tracker Dark Web Informer wrote in a Sunday X post. Cybersecurity company Vecert Analyzer added that Jinkusu uses AI for real-time face swaps via InsightFace for “fluid gesture transfers,” along with voice modulation to evade biometrics. Source: Dark Web Informer The emergence of deepfake tools is a “wake-up call” for…

The Future Of Institutional Crypto Runs Through Prime Brokerages

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Opinion by: Dominic Lohberger, chief product officer at Sygnum. Counterparty risk in crypto markets has always moved in cycles. Exchanges default or get hacked. Standards tighten for a while. Then, complacency quietly returns as losses are forgotten.  What is happening this time is different.  Leading traditional finance players entering crypto must adopt practices from established financial markets. For the first time, the infrastructure exists to enable them to do so. They can mirror assets held with regulated custodians onto trading venues without ever depositing on-exchange.  This is a lasting change…

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Drift Says $270M Crypto Hack Was a Six-Month North Korean Intelligence Operation

Drift Crypto Protocol has attributed a $270 million exploit executed on April 1, 2026 to a six-month intelligence operation conducted by UNC4736 – a North Korean state-affiliated threat group also tracked as Citrine Sleet or AppleJeus – in a detailed incident update published by the team on Sunday, making it the largest native Solana decentralized application exploit on record. Attackers posed as a quantitative trading firm, deposited more than $1 million of their own capital into an Ecosystem Vault, held working sessions with contributors across multiple countries, and waited nearly…

Charles Schwab Adds Bitcoin and Ethereum Crypto Trading to Brokerage Platform

Charles Schwab is rolling out direct Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto trading to its brokerage client base, a platform that encompasses 38.9 million active accounts and $12.22 trillion in client assets – in a phased launch beginning in the second quarter of 2026. The offering, branded Schwab Crypto and operated through Charles Schwab Premier Bank, SSB, marks a structural departure from the firm’s prior crypto exposure model, which routed clients through ETFs, futures, and crypto-adjacent equities. The significance is not merely product expansion. It is a test of whether direct digital…

Iran War Bets Put Crypto Prediction Markets on the Macro Map

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Prediction markets rapidly repriced the odds of US escalation in the Iran conflict, offering a real-time signal of geopolitical risk for traders. Odds on platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi shifted in real time as President Donald Trump paired new threats with signals of possible negotiations on Sunday, while Bitcoin (BTC) rose more than 3.5% on Monday. Crypto prediction markets are no longer a sideshow during periods of geopolitical tension, with professional desks increasingly using them to gauge macro risk, according to Sygnum Bank chief investment officer Fabian Dori.  …