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Ripple CTO Emeritus, David Schwartz, recently joined a discussion on X pertaining to what qualifies as a commodity.The discussion began on X when a user asked how insider trading charges could apply in a case involving Polymarket. “Polymarket doesn’t sell securities,” the X user added. The point was that if the platform doesn’t deal in securities, how could insider trading laws even come into play?Another X user pushed back, noting that there are insider trading rules for commodities. Still unconvinced, the initial X user responded by asking whether the asset in question (trading on Polymarket) could even qualify as a…

A little over a year ago, CoStar CEO Andrew Florance sat in a box overlooking Super Bowl LIX, beaming at his creation. Florance, holding his phone out in front of his face for those around him to see, played the second of two Homes.com Super Bowl ads airing that night, both directed by Oscar-nominated director Taika Waititi and featuring cameos from Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman. The ads were part of CoStar’s multi-year, billion-dollar push into the residential market after years of minting money on its highly profitable commercial real estate platform. Florance seemed to soak up the publicity that came…

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…

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…

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…

Key Takeaways: Zetachain paused cross-chain transactions on Tuesday after an exploit targeting the GatewayZEVM contract’s call function hit internal team wallets. Slowmist identified the root cause as a missing access control and input validation in the call function, allowing any user to trigger malicious cross-chain calls without authorization. The incident marks the second major cross-chain exploit in April 2026, following the KelpDAO hack that triggered the worst DeFi liquidity crunch since 2024. Slowmist’s Preliminary Analysis The team pinpointed the GatewayZEVM contract’s call function as being the entry point. The function contained no access control and no input validation, a combination…

Bitmine owns more than 4.21% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 84% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 10 months Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains Bitmine uplisted to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) from the NYSE American effective as of April 9, 2026 Bitmine has 3,701,589 staked ETH, representing $8.8 billion at $2,369 per ETH MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR…

Strategy has increased its Bitcoin holdings to 818,334, now controlling over 4% of its circulating supply. A new Bitcoin proposal drew widespread backlash because it sought to redistribute Satoshi’s idle BTC supply. It’s business as usual for Strategy, opening this week with a massive Bitcoin (BTC) acquisition. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, a longtime Bitcoin developer proposes redistributing Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1.1 million dormant BTC holdings. Strategy’s Aggressive Bitcoin Purchases Resume Strategy met Monday with a 2,373 BTC purchase announcement. Its latest batch of acquisitions from April 20 to 26 cost around $255 million at an average price of $77,906 per BTC.…

Wyoming, United States, April 27th, 2026, Chainwire PoW to PoS to PoB: Nexus AiCOS v1.1 Defines “Proofs of Behavior” as the On-Chain Basel III Credit Standard for the AI Agent Civilization on Base Nexus AiCOS, the pioneering on-chain identity and credit primitive for the agentic economy, officially announces the release of Whitepaper v1.1 Axiom Edition. This definitive technical blueprint establishes Proofs of Behavior (PoB) as the arbiter of credit for autonomous entities, mapping the fundamental evolution of decentralized trust from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS), and now to Proofs of Behavior (PoB). Moving beyond speculative hype and…

The dollar took a hit Thursday. Not a crash, but enough to get people talking. Currency traders are glued to their screens, waiting for the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan to make their next moves. Any hint about interest rates or policy shifts could shake up forex markets—and crypto markets too, since digital assets often move when the dollar does. Asian currencies jumped on the dollar’s weakness. The Japanese yen crept higher as traders positioned ahead of the BOJ meeting. Most people think the central bank will stick with its ultra-loose policy, but surprises happen. And when they do,…