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Bitcoin critics and gold supporter Peter Schiff posted on X on April 23, saying that the STRC perpetual preferred stock introduced by MicroStrategy (Strategy) is “the most obvious Ponzi scheme to date,” and criticizing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to effectively stop Michael Saylor from promoting STRC.

According to a report by TASS on April 22, Ruslan Vestrovskiy, senior vice president and head of wealth management at Russia’s Sberbank, said at the Moscow Exchange Forum that once cryptocurrency-related regulation is implemented and exchanges begin organized trading, Sberbank will provide its customers with cryptocurrency trading services. On the same day, the Russian State Duma passed the first reading of a bill on cryptocurrency regulation.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas on April 22 that Google plans to invest $175 billion to $185 billion in 2026 in capital expenditures to build the infrastructure needed for autonomous AI agents, up from $31 billion in 2022.

According to the official April 23 announcement by the Google Jules team, Jules’s product positioning has been upgraded from an asynchronous coding agent to an “end-to-end agentic product development platform.” The new version can read the full product context, independently determine the next steps for building, and submit a PR. The official also announced that the new version candidate list is now open.

On April 22, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that its enforcement team, together with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Southwest Regional Organized Crime Unit (SWROCU), conducted raids on eight suspected illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency trading venues in London on April 21, issuing stop orders at each location. The FCA confirmed that there are currently no legally registered P2P crypto platforms in the UK.

Vitalik Buterin made comments on April 23 regarding the Polymarket platform fan controller manipulation incident, saying that for this kind of event, prediction markets should be required to use at least 3 (or even more) independent sources’ medians as the basis for adjudication. Earlier, a user used a fan to raise the temperature data collected at a Paris weather sensing terminal, manipulated the outcome of a weather-related prediction market event, and profited about $34,000.

According to CoinTelegraph’s report on April 23, CertiK senior blockchain investigator Natalie Newson said that real-time deepfakes, phishing attacks, supply-chain vulnerabilities, and cross-chain vulnerabilities are the main sources of some of the largest-scale crypto hacking attacks in 2026. By 2026, the cryptocurrency industry has already lost more than $600 million due to hacking attacks.

Institutional crypto market maker GSR launched its first crypto exchange-traded fund, the GSR Crypto Core3 ETF (ticker: BESO), on April 22. The fund tracks three assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, charges a management fee of 1%, and offers staking incentives. According to Nasdaq data, BESO’s trading volume on its first day was 185,574 shares, with a trading value of about $4.8 million.

According to a public report from the April 23, 2026 Hong Kong Institutional Digital Wealth Management Summit, Fu Peng, Chief Economist of Xinhuo Group (Hong Kong stock code: 01611), said at the forum that he has been paying attention to the crypto industry since 2022 and continues to follow developments in the sector. Xinhuo Group officially announced on April 20 that Fu Peng has joined the company as Chief Economist; this summit is his first public address after joining Xinhuo Group.

MetaMask co-founder and longtime developer Dan Finlay posted on the X platform on April 22 to announce that it was his last working day at Consensys. He said he is stepping down due to extreme physical and mental burnout caused by more than a decade of work developing crypto wallets, and he plans to spend more time with his family. On the same day, Finlay also announced the launch of MetaMask’s ERC-7715 advanced permissions feature.

According to SolanaFloor’s April 23 report, the Solana-based decentralized trading aggregation platform Jupiter has officially launched the Jupiter Prediction Bot, bringing prediction market functionality to the Telegram platform so users can access prediction markets without leaving their messaging app.

Pi Network core team released the second Pi Request for Comments draft (PiRC2) on April 23, announcing that the testnet will open subscription smart contracts for technical review and community feedback, and inviting developers to test the subscription feature integration, review contract design, and identify potential vulnerabilities. As of the time of reporting, the PI token is about $0.17, unchanged from the previous day.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch posted an update on an X security investigation on April 22 in U.S. Pacific time, saying the investigation team has processed nearly 1 PB of Vercel global web and API logs, and that the scope of the investigation goes far beyond the Context.ai intrusion incident. Rauch said that the attackers stole Vercel account keys by distributing malware to computers, and that they have notified the victims.

According to data monitoring on GMGN Chain, on April 23, the BSC ecosystem meme token HAKIMI (Hakimi) saw a 24-hour increase of 66%. Its market cap rose from $11 million, and the intraday high reached $24.0 million. On the same day, GMGN data showed that the “Binance Life” token in the BSC ecosystem—previously the hottest by popularity—fell 25% over 24 hours, and more than 90% of BSC meme coins’ market caps continued to decline.

According to a Bloomberg report dated April 23, Polymarket—long a dominant force in predicting-market trading volume—has been facing multiple operational challenges. Dune Analytics data shows that Polymarket’s global trading volume has been surpassed by Kalshi; on valuation, after Kalshi announced a new round of funding last month, it reached $22 billion. The two prediction markets simultaneously announced plans to enter the perpetual futures market in April.

On April 22, the crypto community account Crypto Rover (@cryptorover) posted on X, drawing a comparison between Berkshire Hathaway’s current cash holdings and similar situations before the 1999 dot-com bubble and before the 2007 global financial crisis. According to Berkshire Hathaway’s latest publicly disclosed financial filings, the company currently holds more than $350 billion in cash and short-term assets.

According to an alert posted on the X platform on April 23 by SlowMist’s Chief Information Security Officer 23pds, the hacker group ShinyHunters claims it has breached internal systems related to the Anthropic Mythos models and has publicly shared screenshots as evidence, including a user management panel, an AI experiment dashboard, and analyses of model performance and costs. However, Anthropic has not yet issued an official statement.

According to a report by Cointelegraph on April 23, citing the ADI Foundation announcement that was obtained, the Sharia-compliant stablecoin PUSD issued by Palm Azgar Finance has completed deployment on the ADI Chain, becoming the second stablecoin on this Ethereum Layer 2 network that focuses on institutional settlement in the Middle East. The PUSD circulating supply is about $2.3 billion.

According to disclosures by the crypto community account @aaronjmars on April 23 on the X platform, and subsequent reporting by Le Monde and BFMTV, a man allegedly tampered with the automated weather sensors at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) with portable heating devices on April 6 and April 15, respectively, generating cumulative profits of about $34k from weather betting markets on the prediction market platform Polymarket.

According to publicly available records from the New York Criminal Court on April 23, Solana ecosystem application Believe founder Benjamin Pasternak was arrested in New York on April 22. He is charged with one second-degree strangulation count and two counts of assault with intent to cause bodily injury. The case is scheduled to be heard at the New York Criminal Court on June 11. Pasternak has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges mentioned above.