GEMINI LAUNCHES AGENTIC AI TRADING ON US-REGULATED EXCHANGECrypto exchange @Gemini rolled out Agentic Trading today. The product lets users connect @claudeai, @ChatGPTapp, and other MCP-compatible AI models directly to their trading accounts to monitor markets, place orders, and manage risk autonomously based on predefined strategies.The connection runs over the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets external tools interact with financial accounts. Gemini calls the launch the first agentic tradi ...

ISRAEL APPROVES FIRST SHEKEL-PEGGED STABLECOIN AFTER TWO-YEAR PILOTThe Israel Capital Market Authority approved a framework for the country's first shekel-pegged stablecoin today, to be issued by licensed crypto firm Bits of Gold (@BitsofGold_LTD), per YNet. The green light follows a two-year regulatory sandbox process.Structure: the token will be backed 1:1 by the Israeli shekel, with reserves held in segregated accounts inside Israel. Liquidity and redemption mechanisms must be available at all times, and ...

AVALANCHE FOUNDATION JOINS DEFI UNITED BACKING AAVE AFTER RECENT RSETH HACKThe Avalanche Foundation (@AvalancheFDN) publicly aligned with DeFi United today, the coordinated effort backing Aave through the fallout of the April 18 ethereum:0xa1290d69c65a6fe4df752f95823fae25cb99e5a7 exploit. The foundation framed the moment as DeFi's first transparent stress test of TradFi-scale flows.DeFi United has raised more than $160M as of April 25, with over 100,360 ETH now committed across the broader coalition. Mantle ...

🟣 @RealFinOfficial is preparing for its token generation event after closing a $25 million commitment from @Nimbus_Capital_ . The Layer 1 network is targeting $500 million in tokenized real-world assets within its first year.https://t.co/wBhhLqXUSl ...

MARA LAUNCHES BITCOIN-FOCUSED FOUNDATION AT BITCOIN 2026@MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA) unveiled the MARA Foundation today at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas. The initiative funds five areas: network security including quantum resistance research, open-source software, self-custody tools, public policy, and education.The launch comes with a $100,000 grant decided by community vote. Three finalists are in play: SateNet, the 256 Foundation, and Libreria de Satoshi. Voting runs through April 29 at 3:00 ...

ORCA RIPS 33% AS KOREAN RETAIL FLOODS INORCA (@orca_so) hit $1.93, up 33% on the day and 108% on the week. Market cap sits at $116M against $260M in TVL, leaving the protocol valued at less than half its locked liquidity.Korean exchange Upbit is driving the move. $ORCA logged 331.6B won ($250M+) in turnover overnight and an extreme-greed score of 94, the highest of any listed asset, per TokenPost.Solana DeFi is rotating in tandem. ORCA, Raydium, and Jupiter all gained together over the last 24 hours, a sign ...

DOJ EXPOSES NEW HOLLYWOOD-STYLE BANK SCAM HITTING AMERICANSThe Justice Department published scripts and documents seized from a Cambodian scam compound that show Americans are now being targeted by a Hollywood-style impersonation scam, per the Wall Street Journal. The scripts were unveiled alongside Thursday's coordinated crackdown that restrained $701.9M in crypto.The mechanic: cold calls from people posing as staff at large US banks, warning the target their accounts were used to buy firearms. Victims are ...

GOOGLE STAFF URGE PICHAI TO REFUSE CLASSIFIED MILITARY AI WORK@Google employees are pressing CEO Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) to walk away from a classified Pentagon deal that would deploy Gemini models inside the Department of War. The push comes as the company finalizes terms that would expand its existing unclassified Gemini for Government rollout into classified settings.The internal pressure has been building for two months. More than 100 DeepMind staff first wrote to Pichai and Demis Hassabis in Febr ...

CHINA KILLS META'S $2 BILLION MANUS DEAL ON NATIONAL SECURITY GROUNDSChina's National Development and Reform Commission ordered @Meta today to unwind its $2 Billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus (@ManusAI) on national security grounds. The order ends a four-month review by the Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review.Manus was founded by CEO Xiao Hong and Chief Scientist Ji Yichao, incorporated in Singapore but built in China. Both were barred from leaving China in Ma ...

QUALCOMM BOOTROM FLAW LEAVES MILLIONS OF OLDER ANDROIDS UNPATCHABLE@kaspersky researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in seven Qualcomm chipsets that lets attackers with physical access bypass Android's secure boot chain and plant persistent malware. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-25262.The bug sits in the BootROM, firmware, hard-coded into the chip itself, that runs before the operating system loads. Qualcomm was notified in March 2025 and confirmed the issue in April. Because the code is bake ...