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JUST IN: Bank freezes without a judge are now valid in Mexico. How does this affect Bitcoin?
By validating the freezing of funds without prior judicial oversight, the Court prioritizes administrative speed to comply with FATF monitoring.
The ruling reverses previous criteria and empowers the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) to act on suspicions of local origin.
The measure increases operational risk in bank accounts linked to Bitcoin liquidation.

MARKET: With Trump's ultimatum about to expire, Bitcoin is heating up.
The price of Bitcoin will be driven either up or down depending on what happens in the coming hours of this Tuesday.
The eyes of the global market are on the Strait of Hormuz.
The ideal scenario would be for negotiations between the United States and Iran to succeed.

BREAKING: Polymarket to Launch Its Own Stablecoin, it will be used within the decentralized betting platform itself.
The token will be called Polymarket USD and is backed 1:1 by USD Coin (USDC). This sets Polymarket apart from USDC.e.
The initiative is part of a broader upgrade to its exchange infrastructure.

JUST IN: The Quantum Panic in Bitcoin Is a Massive Fraud Scheme Underway Greg Maxwell
The developer is optimistic about post quantum development adapted to BTC, and believes the panic about inaction stems from fraud schemes.
Greg Maxwell, the renowned Bitcoin Core developer and co founder of Blockstream, published an analysis yesterday, April 6th, on the Hacker News forum regarding the post quantum debate in Bitcoin.
His analysis runs counter to the sense of urgency promoted by companies and some members of the Bitcoin community.

JUST IN: 58% of novice investors use social media to make decisions.
Research by the Financial Education Alliance revealed that most young people starting to invest make decisions based on viral trends.
The data shows that many buy assets only after seeing significant price increases on their favorite social media platforms, entering the market due to peer pressure and fear of missing out (FOMO).
As a result, they buy at high prices, take unnecessary risks, and often sell at a loss when the trend changes.

JUST IN: Maduro, Delcy, and Maria Corina: Polymarket Breaks the Internet in Venezuela.
The Polymarket predictions platform ignited Venezuelan social media with a question no one expected to see quantified in real time Who will lead Venezuela by the end of the year Nicolás Maduro, Delcy Rodríguez, or María Corina Machado?
The Venezuelan political market on Polymarket has surpassed $80 million in trading volume.

JUST IN: Argentina is the economy that uses stablecoins the most in daily life, according to a report.
A study by the firm DeCard indicates that the South American country stands out among the nations with the greatest need for stable cryptocurrencies.
The instability of the peso is driving citizens to seek refuge in dollar linked assets.
Stablecoins are a tool for financial survival in Argentina, according to DeCard.

JUST IN: James Wynn, a trader closely followed by the crypto community, once again captured market attention after suffering another liquidation on Hyperliquid.
His account, which once reached a value of $100 million, was reduced to a mere $900 after he held a 40x leveraged short position against Bitcoin amidst a price surge.
James Wynn suffered his sixth forced liquidation in two weeks on the Hyperliquid platform.
His account plummeted from a peak of $100 million to less than $900, according to on chain data.

JUST IN: Standard Chartered has once again shaken the crypto market with an ambitious projection of Bitcoin reaching $500,000 by 2030.
Although the price barely reacted with an advance, the message carries weight because it comes from a major financial institution and is based on a thesis of scarcity, institutional adoption, and a direct comparison to the gold market.
Geoff Kendrick of Standard Chartered stated in a podcast that Bitcoin could reach $500,000 by 2030 and Ethereum $40,000.

JUST IN: An attack attributed to North Korean hackers briefly compromised Axios, one of the most widely used open source projects on the web, following a social engineering campaign that reportedly took weeks.
The incident puts further pressure on open source software maintainers, in a context where these repositories have become high value targets for stealing credentials, private keys, and digital assets.
Axios maintainer Jason Saayman indicated that the attackers built trust over approximately two weeks before compromising his computer.

JUST IN: A video that went viral on X showed how an interviewer put a supposed IT worker with ties to North Korea on the spot during a work video call.
The case once again highlights an infiltration tactic that has worried Western companies hiring remote talent for years.
A viral clip shows a recruiter asking the candidate to insult Kim Jong Un to test his reaction.

JUST IN: Apple plans to take its long running dispute with Epic Games back to the U.S. Supreme Court in a renewed attempt to overturn court ordered limits on the commissions it can charge developers when they use third party payment methods outside the App Store.
Apple has requested a stay of a ruling that restricts how it charges for third party purchases and is preparing a new appeal to the Supreme Court.
Epic argues that Apple's 27% commission effectively nullifies the right to link alternative payment methods.

JUST IN: Aave faces a new sign of internal tension following the departure of Chaos Labs, one of the most important firms in the protocol's risk management.
The company justified its decision by citing strategic differences, the increased complexity associated with V4, and an economic structure that, it claims, is no longer sustainable.
Chaos Labs will leave the Aave ecosystem after denouncing a fundamental misalignment regarding how risk should be managed.

JUST IN: South Korea's largest securities firms are reportedly accelerating their entry into the crypto market.
Korea Investment & Securities is considering a potential acquisition of Coinone, while Mirae Asset is looking to finalize its acquisition of Korbit, in a strategic shift that reflects the sector's frustration with the regulatory delays surrounding tokenization.
Korea Investment & Securities, backed by a parent company valued at up to $8.5 billion, is reportedly exploring the acquisition of Coinone.

JUST IN: Visa believes South Korea possesses two key factors for accelerating stablecoins high cryptocurrency adoption and significant spending on artificial intelligence.
However, the sector's enthusiasm clashes with a regulatory framework that still blocks token issuance in the country.
Visa described South Korea as an ideal location for experimenting with stablecoins outside the United States.

JUST IN: Google quietly launched a new AI powered dictation app on iOS called Google AI Edge Eloquent, focused on offline use and automatic text cleanup to compete with a new generation of speech to text tools.
The app can function offline after downloading speech recognition models based on Gemma.
It also offers a cloud mode with Gemini models to refine the dictated text.

JUST IN: Iran's threat against data centers linked to the Stargate project introduces a new level of risk to artificial intelligence infrastructure in the Middle East, at a time when the war is already impacting supply chains, technological assets, and energy networks of high strategic value.
Iran warned that it could attack data centers in the Middle East if the United States intensifies attacks against its civilian infrastructure.
A video released by military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari showed a close up of the Stargate data center in the United Arab Emirates.

JUST IN: US federal highway safety regulators have closed their investigation into Actually Smart Summon, Tesla's remote parking feature, after concluding that the associated crashes were infrequent, low-speed, and without serious consequences.
However, the agency clarified that the closure does not rule out a safety defect and that the case could be reopened.
The NHTSA closed the investigation into Actually Smart Summon after reviewing millions of usage sessions.

BREAKING: DeFi Development presented a comprehensive defense of its Solana centric strategy, combining a scarcity and demand thesis for SOL, a target of 1 SOL per share by 2028, and new leverage options through Apex and preferred equity.
The company also warned that the digital asset treasury market faces NAV compression and potential market consolidation among competitors.
The company maintains that SOL should be analyzed using supply and demand, not traditional discounted cash flow models.