Japan Exchange Group CEO Hiromi Yamaji says JPX wants to list spot BTC and ETH ETFs as early as 2027, citing the success of US products.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/jpx-japan-bitcoin-ethereum-etf-2027-april-2026/

Rakuten Pay opened XRP conversion for 44 million users, putting a $23B loyalty network on rails that reach 5 million Japanese merchant locations.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/rakuten-pay-xrp-loyalty-points-44m-users-april-2026/

Wasabi Protocol lost roughly $5 million after an attacker took control of the deployer admin key and drained contracts across three chains.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/wasabi-protocol-5m-deployer-key-exploit-april-2026/

Shinhan Card, one of South Korea's largest card issuers, is testing stablecoin payments on the Solana testnet, signaling Korea's deepest card-rail crypto experiment yet.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/shinhan-card-stablecoin-solana-testnet-pilot-april-2026/

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says Malaysia's Securities Commission removed the exchange from its alert list after months of formal engagement and policy discussions.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bybit-malaysia-watchlist-removed-ben-zhou-april-2026/

FBI, Dubai Police, and Chinese authorities dismantled nine crypto scam centers in a joint sweep, while European police separately arrested ten suspects.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fbi-dubai-china-crypto-scam-centers-dismantled-april-2026/

Ripple is deploying its institutional custody stack inside Kbank, Korea's first internet-only bank, to power digital asset wallet services for clients.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-kbank-korea-custody-institutional-wallet-april-2026/

World Liberty Financial begins voting on a proposal to unlock 62.3B previously frozen WLFI tokens via staggered vesting plus a 4.5B insider burn.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/world-liberty-financial-62-billion-token-unlock-vote-april-2026/

FTC settles with Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky for $10M and a permanent industry ban, sharply down from the original $4.7B judgment.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/mashinsky-celsius-ftc-10m-settlement-industry-ban-april-2026/

Steak 'n Shake reports Bitcoin payments cost roughly half what credit card processing does, the first concrete merchant data on Lightning savings.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/steak-n-shake-bitcoin-50-percent-processing-fees-april-2026/