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How Mastercard plans to settle card payments with stablecoins
Mastercard is testing stablecoin settlement with SoFiUSD to speed up card transaction clearing and help bridge traditional finance and blockchain.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 10:34:38Creator: Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya
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BTC price due new highs: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin saw a green weekly close despite renewed US-Iran war momentum, and a trader forecast that BTC price action would beat last week's local highs.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 10:18:21Creator: Cointelegraph by William Suberg
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BIS warns dollar stablecoins could strain banks and policy
BIS general manager Pablo Hernández de Cos said US dollar stablecoins may pose risks to financial stability and urges stronger global coordination on regulation.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 09:05:52Creator: Cointelegraph by Christina Comben
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Saylor teases 'bigger' BTC buy days after floating semi-monthly dividends
Strategy’s Michael Saylor posted “Think Even Bigger” on Sunday, coming just a week after it disclosed $1 billion of Bitcoin buying.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 06:49:48Creator: Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte
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Coinbase is testing AI agents that show up on Slack and email
Brian Armstrong has now predicted that AI agents will not only transact onchain more than humans but will outnumber employees at his company very soon.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 06:07:01Creator: Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea
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Cloud hosting firm Vercel confirms ‘limited’ hack of user info
Vercel has confirmed it was compromised after a member of a hacking forum put the company’s information up for sale for $2 million.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 06:05:56Creator: Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan
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The quantum gap: Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are taking different paths on security
Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are taking different paths to address future cryptographic risks and long-term blockchain security.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 05:57:49Creator: Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya
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Polymarket in talks to raise $400M at a $15B valuation: Report
Polymarket’s potential $15 billion valuation would still put it below the $22 billion valuation of competitor platform Kalshi in its latest funding round.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 05:08:17Creator: Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea
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Hackers impersonated eth.limo team to hijack its domain: Post-mortem
EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic said the social engineering attack was highly sophisticated and the company is conducting further investigation to determine how the breach occurred.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 04:57:35Creator: Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte
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Bitcoin erases weekend gains as US-Iran ceasefire faces pressure
Bitcoin briefly crashed below $74,000 on Sunday as Iran threatened retaliation for a US military seizure of an Iranian cargo ship.
Published Date: 2026-04-20 04:15:27Creator: Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan
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