Bits of Gold gets the green light from Israel's Capital Market Authority to launch BILS, a 1:1 shekel-pegged stablecoin, after a 2-year Solana pilot.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/israel-approves-bils-shekel-stablecoin-bits-of-gold-april-2026/

Aave's DeFi United relief fund crossed $303M in commitments, exceeding the $292M lost in the KelpDAO exploit and clearing the path to full rsETH user recovery.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/aave-defi-united-303m-kelpdao-coverage-april-2026/

Bitcoin fell 2.9% to $76,854 overnight as Fed rate uncertainty, climbing oil prices, and a fresh AI-stock wobble dragged risk assets lower.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-fed-oil-ai-slowdown-pressure-april-2026/

Roman Storm's lawyers rebuked Acting AG Todd Blanche's suggestion that Tornado Cash and Samourai cases could be elevated, journalist Eleanor Terrett reports.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/roman-storm-defense-doj-case-elevation-pushback-april-2026/

DefiLlama says stablecoins moved over $1T this month and launched a public tracker to compare issuers, chains, and flows side by side.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/stablecoin-transfers-1-trillion-monthly-defillama-april-2026/

Senator Thom Tillis says he will vote against the Senate crypto market structure bill unless it includes ethics rules restricting officials' use of digital assets.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tillis-senate-crypto-bill-ethics-officials-april-2026/

Gemini's new Agentic Trading lets users plug ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI agents into the exchange to run live order flow on their accounts.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/gemini-agentic-trading-ai-chatgpt-claude-april-2026/

Kalshi and Polymarket plan to offer crypto perpetual futures in the US, putting offshore-style derivatives under CFTC-regulated prediction-market venues.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kalshi-polymarket-crypto-perpetual-futures-us-april-2026/

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced the Bitcoin community at Bitcoin 2026, addressing the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet prosecutions head on.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blanche-bitcoin-2026-tornado-cash-samourai-april-2026/

Google scanned billions of pages and found real payloads built to hijack AI agents into draining PayPal balances and leaking enterprise data.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/google-prompt-injection-ai-agents-paypal-payments-april-2026/