After consecutive monthly hikes, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) held its Stretch (STRC) preferred share dividend steady at 11.5% for April 2026. Stretch Dividend Rate maintained at 11.50% for April 2026. $STRC pic.twitter.com/8Jl0QlfNhK — Michael Saylor (@saylor) April 1, 2026 Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens MicroStrategy’s perpetual preferred share debuted
Unique senders of non-USD stablecoins on Solana nearly tripled year-over-year, according to data from Dune released April 1, 2026. The growth is being driven by adoption of EURC and BRZ stablecoins. Solana is positioning stablecoin payments as a core use case, leveraging its sub-second finality and near-zero fees, with institutional integrations from Visa, Stripe, PayPal,
A few months ago, I was sitting with a payments executive who had spent the better part of a year evaluating blockchain. It was the usual story at first. Internal debates, risk assessments, small pilots that were treated more like science experiments than real infrastructure. Then something changed. He told me that at a certain
Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance, told BeInCrypto his team can recreate the quantum attack circuits that Google Quantum AI built but refused to publish. He warned that if his organization can do it, nation-states already can too. Google’s March 30 whitepaper showed that two working circuits implementing Shor’s algorithm to
Solana broke a new milestone, with a total of $2B in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). For the past year, the chain saw near 10X growth of asset tokenization, mostly of equities. Solana retained its spot as one of the emerging networks for asset tokenization. Despite the bear market, RWAs tokenization kept setting new records on
Subprime borrowers are increasingly struggling to meet their debt obligations, serving as an early signal of broader economic distress amid uncertainty created by geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. This trend echoes conditions that preceded the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, though the scale of subprime debt has since diminished. In this context, chief economist at
EDX Markets, the crypto exchange backed by Citadel Securities, has applied to become a national trust bank, according to a filing made public Wednesday and first reported by Bloomberg. If approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the charter would let EDX add custody, asset management, and principal trading services while continuing
SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, moving Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company closer to what could become the largest listing in history, according to a Bloomberg report. The filing is the clearest step yet in an IPO process that had already been signaled through earlier reports on timing, bank mandates, and
Network News GOOGLE SAYS BREAKING BITCOIN IS EASIER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT: Breaking the Bitcoin blockchain with quantum computers may not be as difficult as once thought, and Bitcoin’s Taproot technology, which enables more efficient, private transactions, may be partly to blame, Google’s Quantum AI team said in a blog post and newly published whitepaper. The
Genius Group, which delivers AI-powered learning and acceleration programs to individuals, enterprises, and governments, has sold all of its Bitcoin reserves to fully repay its $8.5 million debt, the company announced today. The firm plans a future rebuild of its Bitcoin treasury when market conditions are more favorable. Genius Group first adopted a Bitcoin-first strategy