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MiniPay, Opera’s self-custodial stablecoin wallet built on Celo, has announced integration with Binance Connect, the official fiat-to-crypto gateway by crypto exchange Binance.According to the press release shared with Cryptonews, the new integration enables fiat on-ramps, expands payment options for users globally, and boosts accessibility to digital assets.Opera argues that a massive challenge in Web3 adoption is converting local currency into digital assets, quickly, securely, and affordably. The partnership aims to solve this, they add, lowering the barriers. Binance Connect meets MiniPay! https://t.co/nDFD7LjE0j— MiniPay (@minipay) April 29, 2025 Furthermore, the integration is a major step in MinidPay’s “evolution from a lightweight…

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this “Checkpoint” series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 calls, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. tl;dr: {#tldr} The past month centered on locking in the scope of the Fusaka upgrade and final Pectra deployment details. The Pectra upgrade ships on mainnet in just about a week, after which focus will shift to Fusaka testing and deciding what goes into the Glamsterdam upgrade (in other words, the ”scope” of the upgrade). A new All Core Developer (”ACD”) call structure…

Homepage > News > Editorial > A time for truth: Bitcoin and the future we must build April 30 is National Honesty Day, a holiday quietly created in the early 1990s by M. Hirsh Goldberg, a former press secretary for the state of Maryland. After writing The Book of Lies, Goldberg realized that while April Fools’ Day is widely celebrated with pranks and deception, there was no cultural counterweight. No day reserved for honesty, integrity, and straightforward communication. So he chose the final day of April, a symbolic close to a month that begins with trickery to honor truth, transparency,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has entered what its new co-executive directors call “a moment of transition and opportunity,” unveiling a comprehensive management shake-up and refreshed strategic vision through three coordinated blog posts published on Monday, 28 April. Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz K. Stańczak, who have jointly steered EF for “almost a month,” announced that the “honeymoon is over—it’s time to get moving,” signaling the end of an unusually quiet hand-over period and the start of an assertive push to redefine the Swiss-based foundation’s internal governance and external…

The Beijing city administration has announced a plan for local blockchain development and implementation over the next two years.According to an April 29 announcement, the plan was jointly developed by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Zhongguancun Administrative Committee, the Cyberspace Administration Office, the Bureau of Government Services and Data, the Bureau of Economy and Information Technology and the Bureau of Commerce. The implementation is expected to start this year and continue until 2027.The announcement. Source: Beijing governmentThe Beijing Blockchain Innovation and Application Development Action Plan recognizes blockchain as a “critical foundational technology for industrial digitalization and vital…

Neo Legacy, the original version of the Neo blockchain launched in 2016, will cease operations by October as the project completes its transition to Neo N3. Neo will shut down its original blockchain called Neo Legacy by the end of October, urging users and developers to migrate assets and smart contracts to Neo N3 before the deadline to avoid permanent loss. Since launch in 2016, the Legacy chain has produced more than 14 million blocks, processed over 281 million transactions, and supported nearly 3 million addresses, the project revealed in an X post on Tuesday. Neo Legacy was succeeded by…

AI16Z surged by as much as 22% today, ahead of its upcoming listing on South Korea’s Bithumb exchange. According to data from crypto.news, Ai16z (AI16Z) an agentic AI crypto spiked to an intraday high of $0.305 during morning hours in Asia on April 29, extending its gains to nearly 200% from its monthly lows and lifting its market cap over $328 million. The main catalyst driving its gains today is a listing announcement by South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, which will launch a KRW trading pair for AI16Z later in the day at 6:00 PM KST. The listing price is…

Table of Contents Strengthening U.S. Federal Agencies With Blockchain Technology: 10+ Real-World Use Cases 1. Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies 2. Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies  3. Defense 4. Energy and Water Development 5. Financial Services and General Government  6. Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 7. Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies 8. Legislative Branch 9. Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies 10. State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 11. Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Modernizing the Public Sector With Blockchain

As global uncertainty grows due to Trump’s trade war and tariff announcements, Americans are increasingly turning towards Bitcoin as their go-to safe haven. Historically, investors sought refuge in gold, but recent trends highlight a significant shift towards cryptocurrency.To explore how Americans are turning to BTC as a safe haven, NFTEvening partnered with Storible to survey 1,290 Americans via Prolific between April 27 and April 28.Our survey revealed that 68.21% of Americans have bought Bitcoin since Trump announced the tariffs—a remarkable figure that surpasses gold buyers by 23.77%. This trend underscores a pivotal moment for Bitcoin, positioning it as a modern…

Payments giant Mastercard unveiled a “360-degree” approach that allows 150 million merchants across its network to receive payments in stablecoins.The stablecoin settlement support comes amid increasing global regulatory clarity on digital assets, particularly stablecoins.Mastercard announced its partnership with payments processor Nuvei and stablecoin issuers Circle and Paxos to enable a seamless payment ecosystem.With the “global end-to-end stablecoin acceptance and payments capabilities,” Mastercard aims to grab stablecoin’s evolving regulatory clarity to ensure people and businesses can benefit most from it.“We believe in the potential of stablecoins to streamline payments and commerce across the value chain,” said Jorn Lambert, chief product officer…