🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!

⚡️Mastercard has partnered with OKX and Nuvei to allow consumers and merchants to send and receive stablecoins seamlessly.

🇨🇦 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney leads Liberal Party to victory in Canada's 2025 election. The former Bank of England governor, known for his measured but critical stance on Bitcoin, has pledged to make Canada a leader in emerging tech.

⚡️ Metamask partners with CompoSecure and Baanx to launch a self-custody crypto card backed by Mastercard, allowing users to spend crypto directly.

⚡️ Ethereum Fusaka hard fork is set for Q3 or Q4 2025, according to Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak

🔥 BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF bought 10,360 $BTC worth $970.9M on Apr. 28, marking its second largest inflows since launch.

🇦🇪 Circle wins in-principle approval from Abu Dhabi’s regulator to operate as a money services provider.

🇺🇸 Crypto advocacy group DeFi Education Fund urges President Trump to end prosecution against open-source software developers including Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm.

🚨 Tether co-founder says Trump’s stablecoin launch marks a turning point for global adoption, as tokenized assets begin to challenge the dollar’s grip on crypto.

🇨🇳 Trump says Chinese tariffs are “unsustainable” and could cost China up to 10 million jobs if they remain in place.

🇬🇧 The UK government has released draft crypto rules proposing new regulated activities like operating trading exchanges and issuing stablecoins.

🇺🇸 Senator Lummis says that in his first 100 days, Trump brought accountability to Operation Chokepoint 2.0 and appointed a crypto czar.

🚨 SEC delays decision on the Bitwise Dogecoin ETF.

🔥 Cardone Capital creates a 10 Asset Real Estate fund (2500 units) to acquire 1000+ BTC.

📊 Corporations added nearly 100,000 $BTC to reserves in April.

🇺🇸 TRUMP: “I know much more about interest rates than he [Jerome Powell] does.