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Argentine banks are reportedly testing JPMorgan’s deposit token infrastructure for back-end settlement workflows, even as the country’s central bank still bars lenders from offering most crypto-related services to clients, according to local outlet iProUP.A group of financial institutions has begun piloting JPM Coin, a deposit token designed for institutional use. Banco CMF is among the confirmed participants, working through its newly launched corporate unit QORP as part of JPMorgan’s minimum viable product, per the report.“In the first phase, banks are expected to work on integrating available services to verify improvements in settlement times and interbank reconciliations of integrated banks,” Maximiliano…

Bitcoin traded around $68,780 on Tuesday as U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted their strongest daily inflow in more than a month.Funds added a combined $471 million on April 6, according to SoSoValue data, marking the largest inflow since Feb. 25 and the sixth-biggest daily total this year. The figure remains below January’s peak flow regime, when multiple trading days topped $700 million.These high inflows come as bitcoin continues to stall below $70,000, with weak spot demand and distribution by large holders capping upside. ETFs have increasingly offset that pressure, acting as a primary source of marginal buying.Macro signals offer limited…

Eight African countries have now implemented crypto-specific regulations, with South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya leading a continental push that’s reshaping how digital assets operate across the world’s fastest-growing crypto market. Sub-Saharan Africa received over $205 billion in onchain value between July 2024 and June 2025—a 52% year-over-year jump.Ripple (XRP) is positioning itself at the center of this regulatory wave, expanding RLUSD stablecoin access through partnerships with Chipper Cash, VALR, and Yellow Card while landing a custody deal with Absa Bank.Country-by-Country BreakdownSouth Africa moved first. Since June 2023, crypto asset service providers need licenses from the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. The…

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has revealed that during experiments, one of its Claude chatbot models could be pressured to deceive, cheat and resort to blackmail, behaviors it appears to have absorbed during training.Chatbots are typically trained on large data sets of textbooks, websites and articles and are later refined by human trainers who rate responses and guide the model. Anthropic’s interpretability team said in a report published Thursday that it examined the internal mechanisms of Claude Sonnet 4.5 and found the model had developed “human-like characteristics” in how it would react to certain situations. Concerns about the reliability of AI chatbots, their…

Bitcoin jumped 3% to $69,120 on Monday as traders returned from the Easter weekend to a burst of optimism around a potential Iran ceasefire, pushing the largest cryptocurrency to its highest level in over a week and squeezing $196 million in short positions over the past 24 hours.Ether led a bump among major tokens with a 3.7% gain to $2,130, its strongest daily move in the past week. SOL rose 2% to $82, XRP added 2.2% to $1.34, and dogecoin climbed 1.7% to $0.093. The broad rally pushed the total crypto market cap back above $2.5 trillion.The catalyst was an…

LDO Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $0.33-$0.34 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $0.28-$0.36 range • Bullish breakout level: $0.34 • Critical support: $0.31 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Lido DAO While specific analyst predictions are limited in recent trading sessions, on-chain metrics suggest Lido DAO is experiencing a period of consolidation. According to current market data, LDO’s trading volume of $1.26 million on Binance reflects moderate institutional interest, though this remains below historical peaks that typically signal major directional moves. The absence of strong directional calls from major cryptocurrency analysts indicates market participants are taking a…

The Iranian government’s attempt to block the Telegram messaging application in the country has backfired, as users find ways to circumvent national firewalls and online controls, according to Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov.“Iran banned Telegram years ago,” Durov said on Friday; however, tens of millions of users in the country have managed to access the application via virtual private networks (VPNs) and other similar tools, he added.VPNs route web traffic through servers distributed around the globe to mask the true Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of users and obscure their locations. This allows individuals with VPN access to bypass national online restrictions.…

Bitcoin BTC$67,126.87 tends to outperform traditional safe haven assets like gold in the two months following major global crises, according to new analysis from Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin.The study, led by Rony Szuster, head of research at the Latin American crypto platform, examined 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks such as the COVID-19 outbreak and U.S. tariff escalations. Bitcoin posted stronger returns than both gold and the S&P 500 in each of the periods analyzed.In April last year, after the Trump administration announced sweeping tariffs, the price of bitcoin jumped 24% over the following 60 days. Gold rose…

Together AI has rolled out Alibaba’s Wan 2.7 video generation model on its cloud platform, pricing the text-to-video capability at $0.10 per second of generated footage. The deployment marks the first major cloud availability for the four-model suite that Alibaba released in late March.The text-to-video model, accessible via the endpoint Wan-AI/wan2.7-t2v, supports 720p and 1080p resolution with outputs ranging from 2 to 15 seconds. Audio input can drive generation, and multi-shot narrative control works directly through prompt language—a meaningful upgrade over basic prompt-to-video systems that force creators into fragmented workflows.What’s Actually ShippingRight now, only text-to-video is live. Together AI says…

The Ethereum Foundation (EF), the non-profit organization that steers development of the Ethereum ecosystem, staked over 45,000 Ether (ETH) on Friday, bringing the total amount staked to about 69,500 ETH, less than 500 coins shy of the Foundation’s 70,000 goal.The EF staked the coins in a series of transactions, each consisting of 2,047 ETH, with the total amount staked on Friday valued at over $92.2 million, according to data from Arkham Intelligence.A portion of the ETH transfers from the Ethereum Foundation’s treasury to the Ethereum Beacon Deposit Contract for staking. Source: Arkham IntelligenceThe EF began staking ETH in February as…