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Rakuten Wallet, the cryptocurrency trading and management platform operated by Japan’s renowned e-commerce group Rakuten, will officially list XRP as both a tradable asset and a payment method on April 15, 2026. At that time, users will be able to directly purchase XRP using Rakuten Points and deposit XRP into Rakuten Cash for spending at over 5 million merchants across Japan. With 44 million users, Rakuten Pay—Japan’s leading e-commerce payment platform—will expose XRP to a massive non-crypto user base. Users can also directly exchange over 3 trillion Rakuten Points (approximately USD $23 billion) for XRP. Rakuten boasts over 100 million members and achieves annual e-commerce gross merchandise value (GMV) of JPY 5.6 trillion; XRP will thus become a spendable, interoperable digital asset within the Rakuten ecosystem.
According to official announcements, ahead of the mainnet launch of Pharos—the Layer 1 financial public blockchain—Pharos has partnered with OKX Web3 Wallet to launch a pre-deposit campaign for RWA-backed stablecoins. Participants in this campaign can lock up their assets for 100 days, earning an annualized yield of 14%–16% (backed by Pharos-exclusive RWA assets, plus additional subsidies from the project team). Users participating via OKX Wallet will also receive exclusive airdrops. Currently, participation in the campaign is highly active: after the 24-hour whitelist round concluded, the public round opened for just one hour before reaching its staking cap, with total staked value already hitting $50 million.
Aster, a high-performance on-chain trading platform, has announced an enhanced partnership with Binance Wallet, integrating native perpetual contract trading directly into the app. This enables users to trade crypto assets, U.S. equities, ETFs, and commodities seamlessly in one place—anytime, anywhere—while retaining full self-custody of their assets. As part of this upgrade, Aster has launched a USD1-denominated perpetual contract market, supporting BTC, ETH, and SOL trading with USD1 as margin. This new market offers lower fees and WLFI incentives. To celebrate the app integration launch, users who accumulate $1,000 USDT in perpetual contract trading volume on Binance Wallet between April 14, 2026, 20:00 and April 28, 2026, 20:00 (UTC+8) will receive an additional 3 Binance Alpha Points. As a high-performance on-chain trading platform, Aster continues to deepen integrations with top-tier wallets to deliver a secure, ultra-smooth trading experience for users worldwide—truly enabling the migration of derivatives trading from centralized platforms to wallet-native entry points.
According to an official announcement, Tether launched its self-custodial digital wallet, tether.wallet, on April 14, directly opening its global financial infrastructure to end users. The wallet supports digital assets including USD₮, USA₮, XAU₮, and Bitcoin, and operates across blockchain networks such as Ethereum, Polygon, Plasma, and Arbitrum. Users can transfer funds using simple, human-readable identifiers—eliminating the need for traditional long addresses or additional network tokens—and pay transaction fees directly in the asset being transferred. tether.wallet employs local signing, with private keys and recovery phrases held exclusively by the user, emphasizing openness, neutrality, and user sovereignty. Tether stated that this product aims to simplify the use of digital assets and enhance financial inclusion, with plans to support additional blockchain networks in the future.
Binance Wallet officially launched its perpetual contract trading feature on April 14, 2026, at 20:00, alongside a dedicated Alpha Points campaign. The campaign runs from April 14, 2026, at 20:00 to April 28, 2026, at 20:00. Users who complete a cumulative $1,000 in perpetual contract trading volume during the campaign period will receive 3 Alpha Points. Rewards will be distributed by May 12, 2026, at 20:00.
Bitget Wallet has officially launched BGB staking—the first fixed-term staking product designed exclusively for holders of the new BGB (CCIP version). The initial pool size is capped at 2 million BGB tokens, with a maximum staking limit of 20,000 BGB per wallet address. Subscriptions will close automatically once the pool is full, on a first-come, first-served basis. This product offers a fixed annualized yield of 5%, with a lock-up period of 90 days. Yields are distributed daily, and both principal and accumulated yields can be claimed simultaneously upon maturity. If users do not manually unstake and claim their yields within 90 days after maturity, no additional yields will accrue. As a new addition to Bitget Wallet’s crypto-native wealth management suite, BGB Stake aims to provide long-term BGB holders with a deterministic, on-chain yield-generating channel. Simultaneously, the staking mechanism enhances the stability of the BGB ecosystem and advances on-chain asset management toward robust, sustainable, everyday-use scenarios.
According to CoinDesk, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of California, San Diego; blockchain security firm Fuzzland; and World Liberty Financial jointly published a paper warning that “LLM routers”—intermediary services positioned between users and AI models—have become a major threat to cryptocurrency asset security. The researchers discovered that 26 LLM routers are secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing user credentials, with one incident resulting in the complete draining of a customer’s cryptocurrency wallet worth $500,000. Additionally, by “poisoning” the router ecosystem, the researchers were able to gain control of approximately 400 downstream hosts within hours. Since sensitive data—including private keys and API credentials—is frequently transmitted in plaintext through these routers, users unknowingly expose their assets to risk. The researchers note that as McKinsey forecasts AI agents will mediate $3–5 trillion in global consumer commerce by 2030—and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao predicts AI agents’ payment volume will be one million times greater than that of humans—the current infrastructure’s security lags far behind the pace of industry development. The “weakest link” risk could thus trigger systemic, cascading crises.
According to an official announcement, the fifth installment of the Strategy campaign—collaborating between the decentralized stablecoin USDD and Binance Wallet—officially launched on April 10 at 08:00 (Singapore Time) and will run until May 30, 2026, at 07:59. This edition features a total reward pool valued at $1 million in USDD. Users who deposit at least 100 USDT into the USDD-USDT Strategy via the Binance Wallet Strategy section automatically qualify to share in the rewards. Notably, participants currently engaged in the campaign do not need to take any additional action—they are automatically enrolled in the fifth installment. Access the campaign via the Binance Wallet Strategy page; for more details, please visit the official website.
Bitget Wallet has announced a new AI subscription cashback campaign, covering mainstream AI tools such as ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, and Grok. The campaign aims to address long-standing issues faced by Chinese-speaking users in everyday AI subscription scenarios—including payment failures, unstable card binding, and subscription renewals being interrupted. The campaign runs from April 9 to April 30. During this period, new users who activate the Bitget Wallet Card and complete their first eligible AI subscription will receive 50% cashback—up to $10 per transaction. If they successfully invite one new user to activate the card and complete their first AI subscription purchase, the cashback rate for the inviter’s first transaction increases to 100%, with a maximum total cashback of $20. Additionally, existing users who participated in the March AI subscription cashback campaign will be eligible for 50% cashback—up to $10 per transaction—upon completing their first AI subscription purchase during this campaign and successfully inviting one new user to make their first purchase; if they invite two new users, the cashback rate rises to 100%, with a maximum total cashback of $20.
According to Binance, Binance Wallet has officially launched its prediction market feature. By integrating Predict.fun—the leading on-chain prediction market platform on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC)—users can now directly take positions on future outcomes across sports, economics, world events, culture, and cryptocurrency—all within the Binance App. This feature offers one-click access and supports direct trading using spot and funding account balances. Gas fees are fully covered by Binance Wallet, and both market orders and limit orders are supported. For security, Keyless MPC technology is employed. Upon market settlement, correctly predicted outcome shares are redeemed at $1 per share. Binance Wallet serves only as an access point and does not act as a counterparty to trades; the actual service is provided by Predict.fun. This feature is available only to users in select regions.