SPAR, a global grocery retailer with 13,900 stores in 48 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, has begun testing Bitcoin and Lightning Network payments in Switzerland

HashKey Capital has launched Asia's first regulated XRP Tracker Fund, with Ripple serving as the anchor investor by providing the initial seed capital

HashKey Capital has announced the launch of Asia's first XRP Tracker Fund, designed to expand institutional access to XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization

Cryptocurrency exchange eXch announced it will cease operations on May 1 following allegations linking it to North Korea's Lazarus Group

Coinbase has introduced support for Solana wallets on its developer platform, enabling developers to create wallets with no key management, plug-and-play APIs, and wallet creation times of under 500 milliseconds

EigenLayer launched its slashing mechanism on mainnet on April 17, 2025, achieving feature-complete status

Kraken, a major cryptocurrency exchange, announced that trading for Binance Coin (BNB) will officially launch on April 22 at 14:00 UTC

EigenLayer, a protocol focused on verifiable computing, has launched its slashing feature on mainnet, marking the completion of its protocol development

Galaxy Digital has deposited a total of 49,681 ETH, valued at $79

Japanese fashion retailer ANAP Holdings has purchased $70 million worth of Bitcoin for its treasury, marking a notable move by a public company in Japan to adopt cryptocurrency as a reserve asset