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"Ethiopia 🇪🇹 is now the 8th largest #Bitcoin miner in the world." - @KalKassa

STABLECOINS | Yield-Bearing Stablecoins Accounted for Over Half of the Supply in Q1 2026 Increased bot-driven trading and reduced retail participation point to a market increasingly shaped by institutional flows and automated strategies rather than individual investors. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/stable… #stablecoins #Q12026 #YieldBearing

[TECH] LIST | Here Are the 26 Projects Funded by Human Rights Foundation in Q1 2026 Across Africa, Asia, LatAm: The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has allocated 1.5 billion satoshis through its Bitcoin Develo.. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/hrf-q1… via @BitcoinKE

DeFi | Solana DEX Hit by the Largest DeFi Exploit of 2026 So Far Reports suggest the attacker converted a large portion of the funds into USDC and bridged them from Solana to Ethereum, a process that took hours. Critics argue Circle had enough time to freeze the funds but didn’t intervene. Industry voices have criticized Circle for failing to act while hundreds of millions in stolen funds were being moved and converted into $USDC. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/drift-… #DeFi @DriftProtocol @circle $USDC

REGULATION 🇬🇭 | Bank of Ghana Says Crypto Still Risky Even With New Regulations Despite more than three million Ghanaians participating in digital asset transactions, @thebankofghana has said that simply #imposing rules won’t make crypto risk‑free - it can only help #manage those risks more #effectively. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/bank-o… #Ghana #CryptoRegulationGhana #CryptoGH

A directive issued by @thebankofghana in Q4 2025 makes the #GhanaCard the compulsory means of identification for customers of all accountable institutions. "Accountable Institutions (AI) shall use only the #Ghana Card to #identify and #verify all customers," the notice stated.

REALITY CHECK | Quantum Computers Could Crack Bitcoin Keys Before a Transaction is Confirmed by 2029, Says Google #Quantum computing is no longer a distant, theoretical risk. It’s now a planning problem with a rough deadline attached. Google highlights a specific ‘on-spend’ attack scenario, where quantum systems could intercept and break keys before transactions are confirmed. Even more concerning: millions of BTC are already tied to exposed public keys, making them permanently vulnerable if quantum capabilities arrive in time. Details: bitcoinke.io/2026/04/quantu… #Bitcoin $BTC @NewsFromGoogle

USE CASE | Another Bitcoin Treasury Company Liquidates All its BTC Holdings to Pay Off Debt The firm liquidated its entire #Bitcoin treasury to repay roughly $8.5 million in debt, effectively unwinding a strategy it had heavily promoted just months earlier. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/genius… $BTC #BitcoinTreasury #Treasury @GeniusGroupLtd_

April 2, 2026

REGULATION 🇺🇸 | U.S Treasury Seeking Public Input on the GENIUS Act The U.S. Treasury is moving to shape how stablecoins are regulated at both the federal and state level - marking one of the first concrete steps in implementing the GENIUS Act. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/us-tre… @USTreasury #GENIUSAct

Liftoff! One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.

Artemis II Mission is Go! Locked and loaded

[TECH] PRESS RELEASE | The Central Bank of Nigeria Commences AML / CFT / CPF Supervision Pilot for Select Virtual Asset Service Providers: The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues to strengthen the integr.. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/nigeri… via @BitcoinKE

Artemis II Mission | To the Moon . . . literally. The #astronauts are aboard the spacecraft and carrying out checks as NASA prepares for the first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years. #Artemis

LIST | Here Are the 26 Projects Funded by Human Rights Foundation in Q1 2026 Across Africa, Asia, LatAm The funding targets tools and initiatives helping people operate outside surveillance-heavy financial systems, particularly across #Africa, #Asia, and Latin America (#LatAm). bitcoinke.io/2026/04/hrf-q1… @HRF

@StartaleGroup, a leading blockchain firm and @Sony's #web3 collaborator,  has closed a $50M investment from SBI Holdings, completing a $63M Series A. The round caps off a strong few months for the company – Sony Innovation Fund led the first close of $13M in January. #SBI, one of Japan's largest financial groups, with 80 million customers, is already partnered with Startale. The pair is co-developing Strium, a platform for tokenized securities and RWA trading, and JPYSC, Japan's first trust bank-backed JPY stablecoin. The capital will go toward scaling Strium and creating solutions that not only serve SBI's customers but also capture opportunities across the broader financial market.

REGULATION 🇦🇺 | Australia Bill Now Requires Crypto Exchanges & Custody to Secure a Financial Services License with Financial Regulator The legislation brings digital asset platforms under existing financial services rules aiming to improve consumer protection, market integrity, and regulatory clarity in the sector. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/austra… #Australia @asicmedia

INSTITUTIONAL | Bitcoin ETFs See $500 Million in Net Outflows in Q1 2026 While the latest figures signal renewed confidence, they also highlight a more cautious and selective institutional approach to Bitcoin exposure in 2026. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/bitcoi… #BitcoinETFs #Bitcoin #ETFs $BTC

FINTECH AFRICA 🇳🇦 | Bank of Namibia to Launch a National Instant Payment System by June 2026 The initiative is also tied to wider government reforms aimed at lowering transaction costs, improving financial inclusion, and supporting economic participation particularly for underserved communities. bitcoinke.io/2026/04/namibi… @BankofNamibia

FUNDING | OpenFX Raises $94 Million After Crossing $45 Billion in Annual Payment Volume in Stablecoins The Series A round was backed by major venture firms valuing the company at $500 million. bitcoinke.io/2026/03/openfx… @openfx_