The U.S. Senate Banking Committee Advances the "Financial Transparency and Regulatory Compliance Act"

On April 14, crypto startup Nava closed an $8.3 million seed round to build a "trust layer" for its autonomous payment system, per Fortune. The funding was led by venture firms Polychain Capital and Archetype. Nava CEO and co-founder Vyas Krishnan noted in an interview: “As more such tools hit the market, AI agents will naturally begin autonomously executing transactions, originating deals, and managing economic activity. We aim to position ourselves as a trusted system for real funds in financial workflows.” Nava’s core fix for AI agent “misbehavior” is a custody system: funds are temporarily locked before an agent proposes a transaction. Once the agent submits a transaction, Nava uses a verification framework to check if the outcome matches user intent. If validated, the transaction executes; if not, funds stay in the custody account. Nava records and publishes the approval/rejection decision logic for every transaction on-chain, creating a public decision ledger for other A

[Forex] On April 14, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted the Federal Reserve can hold off on cutting interest rates, adding the critical point is that rate cuts remain necessary.

On April 14, Bitcoin rebounded to touch $76,000, per HTX market data. The cryptocurrency was last trading at that level, posting a 5.98% gain over the past 24 hours.

April 14th: Markets see reduced odds of ECB rate hikes, with a 56-basis-point increase still on tap for later this year. (FXStreet)

April 14th – Per Ashes Monitor, the biggest long position on Hyperliquid has just added 56,000 ETH to its holdings. The position realized $227 million in profits from its long trades today (tied to 1,050 BTC and 62,000 ETH), netting $21.21 million. Currently, the remaining long position holds 58,000 ETH (valued at ~$138 million) with an unrealized profit of $20.18 million.

April 14 (local time) — Iranian Embassy in Pakistan Spokesman Hadi Gorji told CCTV News that Iran plans to prioritize Islamabad as the venue for the upcoming round of Iran-U.S. negotiations.