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According to the Central Bank of Russia’s “Financial Stability Review,” Russian private investors currently hold approximately 3.8 billion rubles in cryptocurrency-linked financial instruments—a figure nearly unchanged from 3.7 billion rubles six months earlier—indicating stagnation in market interest growth. Of this amount, 1.7 billion rubles flowed into crypto-linked corporate bonds; 5,600 investors collectively held cryptocurrency futures positions worth 1.7 billion rubles; and roughly 3,800 investors allocated 354 million rubles to digital financial assets pegged to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Major issuers include large banks such as Sber and VTB. Meanwhile, the Moscow Exchange has progressively launched Bitcoin and Ethereum futures, along with related ETFs, and will introduce Solana, Ripple, and TRON futures in May 2026.
Odaily Odaily News: Voice AI company ElevenLabs, founded in Poland, has released Music v2. This model can switch genres within the same track, generate songs by sections such as intro, verse, and chorus, and supports local redrawing of specified segments. Music v2 is now available on ElevenMusic and ElevenCreative, with early access to the ElevenAPI currently provided through the sales team. Stability AI has launched Stable Audio 3.0, which includes four models: Small SFX, Small, Medium, and Large. Three of these variants have open weights on Hugging Face. The series is trained on licensed data. The Medium model supports generating tracks up to 6 minutes and 20 seconds long, while the Large model is only available via the Stability AI API. ElevenLabs has signed licensing agreements with Believe, Kobalt, and Merlin. Stability AI has established partnerships with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. In November 2025, Suno was valued at $2.45 billion, with an annual recurring revenue exceeding $300 million, approximately 100 million users, and generating an average of about 7 million songs daily.
the proposed U.S. crypto market structure bill, the "Clarity Act," could foster a new "Yield-as-a-Service" market in the crypto industry. It may also push the sector away from a passive "hold-to-earn" model toward an AI-driven compliant yield infrastructure.Currently, the core of the debate centers on Section 404 of the bill, which would prohibit Digital Asset Service Providers (DASPs) from directly offering yields solely based on users holding a specific digital asset. Joe Vollono believes this means the industry will shift from "Hold-to-Earn" to "Use-to-Earn," making the future market more reliant on active and compliant yield strategies.Joe Vollono, Chief Business Officer at STBL, stated that the bill could drive development in areas such as DeFi infrastructure, treasury management, collateral management, automated capital management, on-chain lending, and reward systems. AI is expected to become a crucial foundational layer for coordinating regulated capital flows.At this stage, the Clarity Act has passed the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. It is expected to move next to a full Senate vote, where it will be reconciled with the version from the Agriculture Committee. The market generally believes this bill could, for the first time, establish a complete regulatory framework for the U.S. digital asset market, clearly defining the regulatory boundaries between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for digital assets. This would pave the way for large institutional capital to enter the crypto market. (CoinDesk)
According to The Block, Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England, stated that the UK’s future financial system will advance tokenization, with the retail payments system incorporating tokenized deposits, regulated stablecoins, and potentially a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Bank of England plans to publish a draft regulatory framework for systemic stablecoins next month and finalize it by the end of 2026—imposing temporary caps on stablecoin issuance volumes if necessary. Breeden also noted that the Bank of England will continue supporting banks in developing tokenized deposits and advancing initiatives such as the Digital Securities Sandbox and Digital Gilt.
Odaily reports: Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to provide a special briefing to relevant officials of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) regarding its Mythos AI model. The briefing will focus on security vulnerabilities identified by the model within the defense systems of the global financial network.According to two sources familiar with the matter, the communication was proposed by Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, requesting that Anthropic brief the FSB on its new preview version of the Claude·Mythos AI model. The FSB is currently compiling a report on compliance standards for the application of artificial intelligence in the financial industry, with a draft expected to be released next month for public consultation. Both the FSB and Anthropic have declined to comment on their recent communications. (Jiemian)
According to the official OpenClaw GitHub release notes, OpenClaw released version v2026.4.25 on April 27. This update covers multiple core modules—including speech, plugins, observability, and browser automation—with the following key highlights: • TTS Overhaul: Added support for six new voice service providers—Azure Speech, Xiaomi MiMo, ElevenLabs v3, Inworld, Volcengine (Volcano Engine), and local CLI—and introduced chat-session-level automatic TTS control, TTS persona binding, and cross-Agent/account-level override configurations. • Plugin Registry Optimization: Migrated plugin startup and installation paths to a cold-persistent registry, reducing full-manifest scanning and improving determinism for plugin updates, fixes, and discovery. • OpenTelemetry Expansion: Extended coverage across the full observability pipeline—including model invocations, token usage, tool loops, Harness execution, process execution, message delivery, context assembly, and memory pressure metrics. • Browser Automation Enhancements: Added iframe-aware role snapshots, CDP readiness tuning, one-click headless startup, and deeper browser diagnostic probes. • Installation Stability Improvements: Fixed installation and update issues across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Docker platforms.