Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago CONSOB, CASPs and MiCA: Italy's April 15 Crypto Deadline Explained Italy's CONSOB sets April 15, 2026 as the first hard deadline for crypto supervisory fees under MiCA. Miss it and forced collection kicks in — with a full market shutdown looming on June 30. RegulationEuropeFintech
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Amundi and Spiko Launch SAFO: $400 Million in Three Weeks SAFO, the tokenized fund from Amundi and Spiko, hit $400 million AUM in under three weeks — overtaking BlackRock BUIDL as the fastest-growing tokenized fund on Chainlink. Europe's institutional RWA race is now real. EthereumRWAFintech
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago Japan Reclassifies Crypto as Financial Instruments Under FIEA Japan's Cabinet approved a landmark FIEA amendment on April 10, 2026, reclassifying Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP as financial instruments — on par with stocks and bonds. A 20% flat tax and insider trading ban are part of the package. Here's what changes from 2027. RegulationAsiaBitcoin
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago Circle Launches CPN Managed Payments: USDC Settlement Without Touching Crypto Circle's CPN Managed Payments lets banks and fintechs settle cross-border payments via USDC without ever holding crypto. Thunes, Worldline, and Veem are already on board — and the GENIUS Act could accelerate US adoption fast. StablecoinsFintechNews
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago Solana Alpenglow: Transaction Finality Drops to 150 Milliseconds Solana Alpenglow replaces Proof-of-History and TowerBFT with Votor and Rotor, cutting finality from 12.8 seconds to 150ms. The biggest protocol upgrade in Solana's history is targeting mainnet by end of 2026. SolanaBlockchainWeb3
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago Ethereum Foundation Sells 5,000 ETH: Strategy or Warning Sign? The Ethereum Foundation converts 5,000 ETH to stablecoins via CoWSwap TWAP — and Paradigm drops Reth 2.0 at 1.7 Gigagas/s. Two April 2026 signals that reveal more about ETH's direction than the price chart alone. EthereumDeFiStablecoins
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Visa and Coinbase Launch Autonomous Payments for AI Agents AI agents can now pay autonomously for digital goods using Visa cards — within user-defined limits. Visa, Coinbase x402, and Nevermined's April 2026 integration marks a turning point for the agentic economy. AIFintechCoinbase
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Iran Demands Bitcoin Payments to Cross the Strait of Hormuz Iran imposed a $1-per-barrel Bitcoin toll on tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz on April 8, 2026 — sending BTC above $72,700. The move marks the first known use of Bitcoin as sovereign payment infrastructure for international trade. BitcoinCryptoTrading
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago PEPE on Wall Street: Canary Capital Files Spot ETF With the SEC Canary Capital filed an S-1 with the SEC on April 8, 2026 for a spot PEPE ETF — the first filing to package a meme token with no claimed utility into a regulated brokerage product. Here's what it means for crypto markets. MemecoinsRegulationEthereum
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago New York Times Names Adam Back as Satoshi Nakamoto — He Denies It The New York Times published a 12,000-word investigation on April 8, 2026, naming Adam Back — Hashcash inventor and Blockstream CEO — as Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Back denied it six times in two hours. Here's what the evidence actually shows. BitcoinCryptoWeb3
