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New York, Illinois sign EO banning state employees from prediction markets



New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order banning state employees from betting on prediction markets, following a similar move by Illinois earlier this week.

“Getting rich by betting on inside information is corruption, plain and simple,” Hochul said on Wednesday, adding: “Our actions will ensure that public servants work for the people they represent, not their own personal enrichment.”

Hochul also slammed the Trump administration and congressional Republicans for allowing an “ethical Wild West” to take hold around prediction markets without implementing any “meaningful ethical standards” to protect against insider trading.

Executive order banning New York state officials from trading on prediction markets. Source: New York State

Adoption in prediction markets is rapidly accelerating, with monthly trading volumes rising over the last seven consecutive months to an all-time high of $23.6 billion in March, with markets covering everything from sports and elections to financial results and cultural outcomes.

However, the rise has been accompanied by increasing concerns about insider trading and market manipulation.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker also signed an EO banning state employees from betting on prediction markets on Tuesday, stating:

“Illinois is doubling down on its commitment to a transparent and ethical government by bolstering its current state laws to prevent insider trading amid the rapid growth of online prediction markets and event-based gambling contracts.”

Insider trading accusations in prediction markets

Hochul’s EO made reference to several suspected insider trading instances involving US military action.

One of them was a Polymarket trader who placed a low-odds bet that Nicolás Maduro would be ousted as Venezuelan president just hours

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A quiet corner of the XRP Ledger is suddenly lighting up. After years of relatively flat activity, a specific transaction type, the AccountSet, is now spiking to levels never seen before, adding to a surge in on-chain usage across the network.

The increase in activity is playing out alongside rising transaction counts, expanding wallet activity, and growing institutional involvement in 2026, hinting that something more structural may be taking shape.

New Numbers On The XRP Ledger
What was once a rarely used function has now turned into one of the fastest-growing transaction categories on the ledger, with activity going on a huge vertical spike in 2026. Recent data shows that XRPL AccountSet transactions recently spiked to an all-time high, marking a break in years of muted activity and flat movement.

To understand why this matters, it is important to know what AccountSet transactions actually do, as they are not ordinary transfers or trades. They are used to configure an account’s settings on the XRP Ledger. This includes permissions, setting operational flags, linking identity domains, and preparing accounts for features.

Because of that, spikes in AccountSet transactions are a reflection of backend activity. They show that accounts are being set up, adjusted, or prepared for more advanced use cases. In practical terms, it points to infrastructure being built, not just coins being moved.


Source: Chart from Xaif Crypto on X
In this instance, AccountSet transactions climbed past 120,000, and this is a scale of activity that normal users cannot produce.

The Broader Transaction Surge: Nearly Three Million Daily
The AccountSet spike is part of a wider explosion in ledger activity that the numbers make difficult to dismiss. Daily transaction volume on the XRP Ledger recently surged to almost 3 million, a near-tripling of the approximately 1 million transactions recorded per day in mid-2025, according to data published by Evernorth, the largest public XRP treasury 

A quiet corner of the XRP Ledger is suddenly light

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BASED: Hyperliquid’s On-Chain Super App

Building on its US success, crypto exchange Coinbase has rolled out crypto-backed USDC loans for UK residents, using Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as collateral. This expands the exchange’s growing suite of financial services in the region.

Crypto-Backed Loans Cross The Pond
On Monday, Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the US, announced that it has expanded its Borrow product to UK residents, unlocking more liquidity for users without having to sell their crypto holdings.

UK customers can now instantly borrow USDC using their Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Coinbase Wrapped Staked Ether (cbETH) as collateral, powered by Morpho, an on-chain protocol on the Base network.

Notably, Coinbase users will be able to borrow up to $5 million in USDC for Bitcoin-backed loans, depending on the amount of BTC pledged as collateral, the announcement explained.

The crypto exchange stated that collateral will be locked in a Morpho smart contract until the loan is fully repaid, and there is no fixed repayment schedule. However, it will be liquidated to repay the loan if the loan-to-value ratio exceeds a certain threshold, and Morpho will charge a liquidation penalty fee.

According to the Monday announcement, the launch expands access to the exchange’s crypto-backed lending service, which has seen multi-billion-dollar demand since launch in the US last year.

Providing access to crypto-backed loans in the UK is the first step in Coinbase’s ongoing efforts to expand following the launch of this offering in the US in January 2025. Initial interest in the service in the US has been substantial with total loan originations through Coinbase on Morpho growing to over $2.17B USDC as of April 14, 2026. Coinbase plans to continue expanding access to crypto-backed loans in more countries in the near future.

It also marks another step in Coinbase’s efforts to build a broader lineup of financial products in the country, following its successful registration as a crypto service provider by 

Building on its US success, crypto exchange Coinba

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MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Neha Narula has laid out a proposed roadmap for making Bitcoin resilient to a future cryptographically relevant quantum computer, arguing the network should prioritize a practical, low-risk path that lets users secure their coins now rather than waiting for consensus on harder questions such as how to handle unmoved coins.

In a post published April 20, Narula said Bitcoin does not need “100% of the answers immediately” before taking meaningful action. Instead, she argued for a staged approach: deploy a post-quantum-safe output type and signature scheme through a soft fork, coordinate wallet and application support around it, and push users toward migration well before any true quantum emergency arrives.

Bitcoin Needs Low-Risk Quantum Defenses Now
Her core thesis is straightforward. “We should make the low-harm, low-risk, high-benefit, safety-critical mitigations NOW, and save the high-harm, high-risk mitigations for LATER, when we know with more certainty a CRQC is close,” she wrote, using CRQC to refer to a cryptographically relevant quantum computer.

The proposal Narula favors centers on P2MR, described in BIP 360, combined with a new post-quantum signature opcode and cryptographic agility. In her framing, that combination would allow Bitcoin users to move funds into an output type that remains safe against a quantum attacker, provided they do not reveal a non-post-quantum public key through address reuse or similar behavior.

“If this is done, it gives Bitcoin users the ability to move their coins to a safe output type immediately, having confidence their coins are safe even if a powerful CRQC appears, without worrying about future softforks,” she wrote. “The best candidate for this I have seen so far is P2MR (BIP 360) in conjunction with a new PQ signature opcode and cryptographic agility.”

Narula’s case is not that this solves everything. It does not. She draws a clear distinction between protecting individual users 

MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Neha Naru

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Trump-linked American Bitcoin shares spike over 12% after announcing more mining power

American Bitcoin (ABTC), a mining and treasury firm tied to the family of U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday it had added nearly 11,300 bitcoin mining rigs at its Drumheller site. The news caused its share price to rise by about 12% to $1.38.

The firm said the miners were fully deployed at its facility in Alberta, Canada, increasing its fleet of ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) to roughly 89,242. It also said that the new bitcoin mining rigs contribute an incremental 3.05 exahash per second (EH/s) at an efficiency of 13.5 joules per terahash (J/TH) to its current operational fleet.

This high efficiency rating (13.5 J/TH) is critical because it lowers the company’s electricity cost per coin, allowing ABTC to remain profitable even as rising network difficulty makes Bitcoin harder to mine, the firm explained in its statement. “Scaling hashrate is one of the ways we strengthen our position in Bitcoin,” the firm said.

“Bringing these miners online at Drumheller reflects exactly how we intend to lead: moving quickly, allocating capital with discipline, and growing our Bitcoin exposure efficiently at institutional scale,” said Eric Trump, co-founder and chief strategy officer at American Bitcoin, in a statement.

The American Bitcoin statement added that the new units at Drumheller represent the operational completion of a fleet expansion first announced on March 3, 2026, a sign that the company has decided to double down on bitcoin mining operations even as several other miners pivot capital and infrastructure to artificial intelligence and AI data centers.

On March 18, American Bitcoin raised its $BTC holdings to 6,899, becoming the 16th-largest bitcoin holder, overtaking Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital. By March 30, the Trump-backed firm rai

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