STRC’s volume weighted average price of $99.76 for April kept the dividend steady for a third consecutive month.

On-chain data shows the Bitcoin spot volume has observed a notable decline, something that could make the market more sensitive to flow shifts. Bitcoin Spot Volume Has Gone Through A Decline Recently As highlighted by on-chain analytics firm Glassnode in an X post, the Bitcoin Spot Volume has declined to multi-year lows. The “Spot Volume”

Japan’s crypto tax overhaul could soon make Rakuten’s new XRP feature far more attractive. Policymakers are reviewing a proposal to slash capital gains rates on digital assets from 55% to 20% — a change that would dramatically alter how Japanese consumers think about holding and spending cryptocurrency. Related Reading: Bitcoin Could Free Businesses From Bank

A crypto market analyst has suggested that XRP appears to be forming “one of its most significant multi-year structural patterns to date,” which could lead the altcoin to a rally similar to its 2017 expansion. Related Reading: Ethereum Poised For $140% Rally If This Resistance Flips – Analyst Calls Breakout Inevitable XRP Eyes 2017-Like Expansion On Thursday, market observer ChartNerd stated that XRP appears to be repeating a setup that may surpass the scale of the 2017 pre-breakout formation, which led to a massive 68,000% expansion during that cycle. In a video, the analyst explained that the altcoin has been developing since 2020, when the price saw its bear market bottom and created an ascending support level that held for nearly six years. Since then, XRP has resembled its pre-2017 performance, where the cryptocurrency experiences significant advances after retesting its ascending support, followed by sharp corrections within descending channels. As the chart shows, the […]

Bitcoin bulls took another swing at the $77,000 resistance, but profit-taking and traders’ reluctance to increase margin and spot longs limit the strength of each breakout.

Tokenized US Treasurys were one of the biggest growth areas of the RWA market, rising from a market capitalization of $3.9 billion at the start of 2025 to more than $15 billion.

Solana found support at $81.40 and corrected some losses. SOL price is now consolidating above $83.50 and might aim for a steady increase. SOL price started a decent recovery wave above $82 and $83.50 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading near $84 and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There was a break above a bearish trend line with resistance at $83.45 on the hourly chart of the SOL/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could continue to move up if it clears $84.50 and $85.00. Solana Price Starts Recovery Solana price remained stable and started a decent recovery wave from $81.40, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. SOL was able to climb above the $82.50 level. There was a move above the 50% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $85.48 swing high to the $81.40 low. Besides, there was a break above a bearish trend line with resistance at $83.45 on the hourly chart of the SOL/USD pair. However, the bears are active below $85.00 and the 76.4% Fib retracement […]

Visa has announced an expansion for its stablecoin pilot, with the payments processing giant adding Arc, Polygon, and three other blockchains. Visa Has Added Five New Blockchains To Its Stablecoin Pilot As revealed in a press release, Visa has expanded its global stablecoin settlement pilot with five new blockchains. The pilot enables issuers and acquirers

XRP is struggling to hold the $1.35 level as the market consolidates in a range that has defined the price structure for weeks without resolving in either direction. The patience required to hold through this kind of sideways action is real — and a CryptoQuant report has just identified a structural condition beneath the surface that reframes what the current consolidation is actually building toward. Related Reading: Bitcoin Large Players Have Built A Sell Wall At $80.5K–$82K – Spoofing Or Structural Supply? The report examines the relationship between XRP’s leverage ratio and its price. What it has found is a divergence that the data describes as inherently unstable. The leverage ratio is sitting low and moving sideways, reflecting a market where speculative positioning has been significantly reduced. Yet the price is holding relatively high despite that absence of leverage support. In most markets, low leverage and resilient price do not coexist for long. The divergence […]

[PRESS RELEASE – Miami, United States, April 30th, 2026] Following a cash and equity transaction, Stratosphere has acquired Movimentum, bringing together two highly experienced teams in Web3 growth and marketing under one brand. As part of the deal, equity in Stratosphere was extended to the Movimentum team, reinforcing a long-term commitment from both sides to

XRP price started a recovery wave above $1.360 and $1.3620. The price is now consolidating and might aim for a fresh move if it clears $1.3830. XRP price started a recovery wave above the $1.3620 zone. The price is now trading below $1.3850 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a bearish trend line forming with resistance at 1.3760 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could continue to move up if it settles above $1.3830. XRP Price Holds Support XRP price remained supported above $1.3450 and started a recovery wave, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The price was able to climb above $1.3550 and $1.3620 to enter a short-term positive zone. There was also a move above the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $1.4060 swing high to the $1.3460 swing low. However, the bears are now active near the $1.3750 zone. Besides, there is a bearish trend line forming with resistance at 1.3760 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair. […]

On-chain analytics firm Glassnode has highlighted how the latest Bitcoin rejection came inside a zone containing some historically important cost basis levels. Bitcoin Could Find Support At -1 SD Of The STH Realized Price Next In its latest weekly report, Glassnode has talked about a key cost basis zone that Bitcoin retested recently. The region in question involves two major on-chain metrics: the Short-Term Holder Cost Basis and True Market Mean. Related Reading: Dogecoin Surges 11%: Is This Parallel Channel Resistance Next? The first of these, the Short-Term Holder Cost Basis, measures the average acquisition price of the short-term holders (STHs), investors who purchased their Bitcoin during the past 155 days. Statistically, the longer investors hold onto their coins, the less likely they become to sell them at any point. Since the STHs represent the new entrants of the market with a relatively low holding time, they can be considered the weak side of the market. Due to their […]

Short-term holders have nearly stepped away from the market. Data from CryptoQuant shows that the realized cap UTXO age bands for one-week to one-month holders dropped to 3.91% — a level last seen in October 2023, when Bitcoin was changing hands near $27,000. That quiet, behind-the-scenes signal is now drawing attention from analysts who say

Ethereum price started a fresh decline and traded below $2,250. ETH is now consolidating above $2,220 and might struggle to recover. Ethereum started a downside correction below the $2,265 zone. The price is trading below $2,280 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a contracting triangle forming with support at $2,255 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a fresh increase if it stays above the $2,220 zone. Ethereum Price Faces Resistance Ethereum price failed to remain stable above $2,300 and started a downside correction, like Bitcoin. ETH price dipped below the $2,280 and $2,265 levels. The price even traded below $2,250. A low was formed at $2,220, and the price is now consolidating losses. There was a minor upward move above the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $2,345 swing high to the $2,220 low. Ethereum price is now trading below $2,270 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. Besides, there is a […]

Ethereum is struggling to hold the $2,250 level as selling pressure reasserts itself. And the market faces resistance that has capped every recovery attempt in recent sessions. The correction following the push above $2,450 has now reached roughly 10%, and the mood among participants is cautious. But according to top analyst Darkfost, the price weakness is producing a specific reaction in the order flow data that changes how the current selloff should be read. Related Reading: Bitcoin Large Players Have Built A Sell Wall At $80.5K–$82K – Spoofing Or Structural Supply? The move below $2,300 today did not go unnoticed. Within a single hour of the level breaking, Taker Buy Volume on Binance surged above $1 billion — aggressive, market-order buying that reflects participants making deliberate, high-conviction decisions at speed rather than cautiously waiting for confirmation. A comparable reaction appeared simultaneously on OKX, where nearly $20 million in buying flows were recorded […]

Bitcoin price started a recovery wave above the $76,500 zone. BTC is consolidating and might aim for more gains if it clears the $76,750 resistance zone. Bitcoin managed to form a base above $75,000 and started a recovery wave. The price is trading below $77,000 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is a bearish trend line forming with resistance at $76,750 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair might gain bullish momentum if it settles above the $77,000 zone. Bitcoin Price Eyes Upside Break Bitcoin price remained supported above the $75,000 zone. BTC formed a base and settled above $75,500 to start a recovery wave. There was a move above the $76,000 and $76,200 levels. The bulls were able to push the price above the 50% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $77,888 swing high to the $74,940 low. However, the bears are active near $76,750. There is also a bearish trend line forming with resistance at $76,750 on the hourly […]

The US Senate unanimously passed a rule banning members and staff from prediction markets, with a similar resolution set to be introduced in the House.

Spot Bitcoin ETF outflows reached $490 million as crypto investors considered the impact of high oil prices, Big Tech earnings and a shortfall in AI industry growth metrics.

The Agent Cards launched to a select group of businesses on Thursday, with a limited number of additional companies set to gain access over the next two months.

Top US officials have increasingly placed Bitcoin (BTC) at the center of national security discussions, and Representative Lance Gooden says the change is more than just political rhetoric.  In comments reported Thursday, the Texas Republican argued that the largest cryptocurrency has become a “geopolitical weapon” being used—simultaneously, in his view—by multiple adversaries. Multi-Front Security Use Of Bitcoin Gooden’s remarks follow confirmation from Pentagon leadership. According to reporting by the TFTC agency, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told him that the Department of Defense is actively involved with Bitcoin in classified operations designed to counter what Hegseth described as “China’s digital authoritarianism.”  Gooden quoted Hegseth directly, saying: “I am a long enthusiast of Bitcoin and crypto potential, and a lot of the things we are doing, enabling it or defeating it, are classified efforts that are ongoing inside our department, which do provide […]

A full-history scan of the XRP Ledger has put fresh numbers on one of crypto’s more uncomfortable long-term security questions: how exposed current accounts may be to a future quantum-computing threat. The analysis, shared by dUNL validator Vet on X, examined all 7,810,364 XRP Ledger accounts and found that 76.82 billion tokens is currently held

An analyst has highlighted how Dogecoin crossed a Parallel Channel’s midline after its latest rally and is now heading toward its resistance level. Dogecoin Could Face Resistance At $0.1172 Next In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has talked about a Parallel Channel forming in the 12-hour price of Dogecoin. A “Parallel Channel” is a technical analysis (TA) pattern that forms whenever an asset observes a phase of consolidation between two parallel trendlines. Related Reading: Bitcoin $90,000 Predictions Surge Across Social Media—Contrarian Signal? Like with other consolidation channels in TA, the upper level of a Parallel Channel tends to be a source of resistance for the coin, while the lower one that of support. A break out of either of these bounds can signal a continuation of trend in that direction. That is, a surge above the channel can be a bullish sign, while a drop under it a bearish one. Parallel Channels can be classified into a few different types based on how […]

XRP ads showed up at the Aria, Horseshoe, and Treasure Island during one of Bitcoin’s biggest annual events — a move that put Ripple’s messaging directly in front of tens of thousands of Bitcoin conference attendees. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Rally Is Being Supercharged By Strategy, According To Bitwise Ripple Plants Its Flag Outside Bitcoin’s Backyard

Latest Ethereum on-chain activity has given traders a clear reason to look at the sell side. A series of large ETH transfers tied to wallets linked with Galaxy Digital has raised questions about whether whales are actively dumping into the market.  Data from on-chain transaction tracker Lookonchain shows that two wallets linked to Galaxy Digital

Short-term traders took profit each time BTC rallied above $77,000, creating overhead sell pressure that has capped BTC’s ability to reach $80,000.

The Senate agreed unanimously to revise its rules to ban members and their staffs from wagers on prediction markets platforms.

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the rare Western entry in the open-source top tier, but it costs multiples more than Chinese rivals that beat it on benchmarks.

As the blockchain sector evolves, the Solana network is persistently gaining serious attention among large players and institutions as they launch new products on the blockchain. Solana has shifted into the spotlight once again following the recent move by Meta to launch a stablecoin payment solution on the leading network. Solana Chosen by Meta for

Benjamin Cowen sees a risk that a more politically aligned Federal Reserve could weaken confidence even if markets get lower rates.

A Bitso report shows shifting user behavior as dollar-linked stablecoins gain traction for everyday financial use across Latin America’s inflation-hit economies.

The admission in federal court is a rare acknowledgment of the use of distillation techniques as AI firms compete to build more capable and cheaper models.

Analysts warn that the Bitcoin rally was fueled by speculative futures trading, mirroring conditions that preceded the 2022 crypto crash.

OpenAI's new opt-in security feature requires passkeys, limits recovery options, and excludes chats from training.

Major rally or a painful decline: what's next for LINK?

Canonical announced plans to bake AI into Linux's most popular distro. The community that chose Ubuntu specifically to avoid this kind of thing was not thrilled.

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest snapped up over 500,000 shares of Robinhood on Wednesday, joining a wave of analysts who believe a surge in April trading activity will outweigh a recent earnings disappointment.

S. Res. 708 prohibits senators and staff from using prediction markets, and became effective immediately upon passage.

Visa said its settlement pilot for stablecoins now supports nine blockchains and has reached a run rate of $7 billion a year. The company announced on April 29 that it added Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo to a pilot that already used Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Stellar. Visa said the annualized settlement run rate The post Visa is quietly building stablecoins into mainstream payment plumbing without you knowing appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin found support above a key investor cost-basis level as spot BTC ETF flows and spot positioning compressed BTC’s price range in preparation for the next trending move.

Pyongyang-linked hackers drained $577 million from two DeFi platforms in April, underscoring an escalating threat to crypto markets.

Polymarket has selected Chainalysis to flag suspicious trades as insider betting concerns mount and regulators tighten scrutiny on prediction markets.

A detailed comparison of Cision, Muck Rack, and Outset Media Index (OMI), explaining how modern PR teams use media intelligence, benchmarking, and data-driven analysis to improve media selection before outreach.

Why did OpenAI have to write "never mention goblins" into its production code on ChatGPT? The company has published a post-mortem.

Capital that would have stayed in crypto is rotating into AI, which may thin the competition for those who remain.

Sentora has announced that Sentora Smart Yield is now publicly available, opening access to its DeFi vault discovery and monitoring platform to all users.

Long-term memory limits what AI agents can do. Walrus is going after it with MemWal plus new OpenClaw and NemoClaw integrations.

Internal data shows users mute crypto more than politics and global conflict on X’s For You feed.

Ondo price hovers around $0.26 after bouncing off crucial support. Ondo leads tokenized stocks, ETFs with over $825M TVL peak. Failure to hold support could see ONDO dip to $0.20. Ondo (ONDO) is trading near a critical psychological support zone, with intraday action including a retest of resistance above $0.26. The token is poised at The post Ondo price forecast: bulls target multi-month resistance at $0.30 appeared first on CoinJournal.

The team-up between Polymarket and Chainalysis aims to bring institutional-grade compliance monitoring to crypto prediction markets.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent letters to Howard Lutnick and Tether CEO Paulo Ardoino asking about a loan Tether reportedly made to Lutnick's family.

X has given users a new way to turn down the noise in their For You feeds. The first signal from that tool should make the crypto industry uncomfortable. According to X product executive Nikita Bier, crypto ranked as the most-snoozed topic since the platform began rolling out topic snoozing for Premium subscribers. It came The post Crypto is the most “muted” term on X as public splits between believers and avoiders appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Earlier today, WLFI plummeted to an all-time low after a 16% daily crash.

XRP is closing out April at $1.37, as it has surrendered the tentative momentum it built through the middle of the month. A promising RSI setup that had buyers eyeing a potential channel breakout less than a week ago has fully unwound, with the price reversing from below the upper channel boundary and drifting back

Ethereum layer-2 network MegaETH will unlock its native MEGA token over time, and reward it to users, as key benchmarks are met.

Despite Ether’s 8% deviation from 10-week highs above $2,460, data suggests that ETH's price could still rise toward $3,000 as a new month begins.

Bitcoin price action risked repeating January's breakdown despite April being poised to offer the best monthly BTC price gains in a year.

HederaCon 2026 will take place on May 4 at the Faena Forum in Miami Beach, bringing together leaders from global finance, policy, and enterprise to explore how tokenization, stablecoins, interoperability, and AI-powered financial systems are moving into real-world adoption.

The evolution of decentralized finance has undoubtedly unlocked many new ways to earn, lend, and invest. However, it has also largely remained confined to the crypto ecosystem itself. While innovations like staking and liquidity mining have driven tremendous growth, they often rely on cyclical incentives that lack direct ties to real-world economic activity. This is

Tether Investments proposed a three-way merger to create a Bitcoin platform combining mining, treasury management, and financial services

The incident shows that as more real-world outcomes become tradable, the real bottleneck is not trading itself, but the integrity and certification of the data used for settlement, argues Hallali.

KuCoin Web3 has integrated Ondo Global Markets into its self-custodial wallet, extending asset access beyond native perpetual trading to include tokenized real-world assets.

KuCoin has integrated its futures market data into TradingView, enabling access for the platform’s global base of more than 100 million users. The update allows traders and investors to view KuCoin’s perpetual futures data directly within TradingView’s charting interface.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss' crypto exchange now holds licenses allowing it to expand into regulated derivatives and prediction markets, the fastest-growing sectors in crypto.

By partnering with Chainalysis to monitor its blockchain data in real-time, Polymarket is signaling to both users and regulators that it is serious about eliminating insider trading and market manipulation.

A DCO license will now allow crypto exchange Gemini to act as a clearinghouse for its derivatives-related businesses.

Anchorage seeks to expand its issuance platform through M0, and opens the door to a broad range of firms looking to launch U.S.-regulated stablecoins.

Sui is a differentiated Layer-1 blockchain, combining novel object-based architecture and parallel execution for high throughput. It's optimized for consumer Web3 apps.

Bitcoin is closing out April at $76k, ending the month exactly where the technical battle lines are drawn. The recovery from the February low near $60k has been orderly rather than explosive, and after a late push toward $80k failed to sustain, BTC has pulled back to retest the structures that matter most heading into

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation.

An OG Shiba Inu whale sold 800 billion SHIB for $4.9 million. SHIB held $0.0000060 support, trading near $0.0000063. If buyers absorb selling pressure further, SHIB could revisit $0.0000075 resistance. Shiba Inu (SHIB) price is showing resilience around $0.0000063, with bulls holding near a critical support level despite a major sell-off by a whale. The The post Shiba Inu price holds key support despite whale selling 800B SHIB appeared first on CoinJournal.

Bitcoin's April rebound is now facing a two-front macro test. The official Treasury curve for Apr. 29 placed the 10-year yield at 4.42%, the 30-year at 4.98%, and the 5-year at 4.05%. Today, market charts show the same pressure zone, with the 10-year near 4.40%, the 30-year near 5%, the 5-year near 4.04%, and WTI The post US Treasury yields spike to highest levels in a year adding new problem for Bitcoin liquidity appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Brighty data shows Spain leading EURC retail usage, offering an early look at how euro stablecoins are being used under MiCA.

There was no pitch deck. No business plan. No moment where two people sat down and decided to build a company together. There was, on an otherwise unremarkable afternoon, a scheduling overlap.

A large overhead supply cluster, increased profit-taking activity and the resumption of spot Bitcoin ETF outflows are key factors keeping BTC price pinned below $80,000.

Stablecoin payments company Kast hired former SEC adviser Stephanie Allen as it expands licensing, communications and policy efforts after an $80 million raise.

Nexo adds SOL, XRP to its 0% APR crypto-backed credit product. ZiC lets users borrow at 0% interest with no liquidation risk. Over 30% of Nexo loans now use non-BTC, ETH collateral. Nexo has expanded its Zero-interest Credit (ZiC) offering to include Solana (SOL) and Ripple (XRP) as eligible collateral, marking what it says is The post Nexo expands 0% credit to SOL, XRP, becoming first mover in crypto appeared first on CoinJournal.

Nexo’s ZiC gives crypto holders access to stablecoin liquidity at 0% interest for a fixed duration, with no risk of forced liquidation.

Solana is launching a Swiss-based research institute and practitioner guide to help European financial institutions evaluate its blockchain as regulatory clarity and onchain usage grow.

The fund, dubbed CUSHY, targets yield from onchain lending and private credit, offering tokenized access through Superstate for institutional investors.

U.S. banks are looking to delay landmark stablecoin legislation even as crypto firms like Agora push ahead.

No rate cuts are coming any time soon, Big Tech earnings gave AI bulls more to work with, and Meta is back in crypto payments with USDC creator payouts.

Prosecutors say Jeong Sang-ho’s “active deceptive acts” left nearly 2,800 investors frozen out of their funds, as South Korea's crackdown on the crypto industry widens.

The FCA signs off rules to let UK funds keep registers onchain and add a new Direct‑to‑Fund dealing model, aiming to simplify tokenized funds inside the existing regime.

Internet Computer (ICP), up 2.4% from Wednesday, joined Aptos (APT) as a top performer.

Bitcoin’s 40% rebound against gold signals a potential bottom, echoing past setups that preceded strong BTC/USD rallies.

BTCC Exchange and the Argentine Football Association Unite as Legends in New Campaign Video

The investor's total profit (including unrealized gains) equals more than $660 million.

Real Finance, Wiener Privatbank partner for regulated blockchain access. EU-compliant framework enables institutional entry into on-chain markets. MVP targets $50 million, scaling to over $500 million tokenized assets in year one. In a move that underscores the growing convergence between traditional finance and digital assets, Real Finance has announced a strategic partnership with Vienna-based Wiener The post Real Finance teams up with Wiener Privatbank to unlock institutional crypto access appeared first on CoinJournal.

The US CFTC has sued four states for trying to enforce state-level gambling laws on prediction markets, meanwhile Strategy stacked over 56,000 BTC.

The security intelligence research firm said North Korean-state-backed hackers account for 76% of all crypto scam and hack losses in 2026 and have stolen $6 billion since 2017.

THORWallet has partnered with Swiss-regulated provider Unblock to expand global access to non-custodial Mastercard solutions, advancing self-custodial finance adoption.

The deal includes a 505 MW gas plant and 1,600 acres in Ohio, offering over 1 GW power capacity for future AI and IT buildout.

OKX published a new open-standard payment protocol for autonomous AI agents in business and commerce, aiming to support more complex financial interactions.

Using Bitcoin for sports betting in 2026: learn how BTC betting works, compare top crypto sportsbooks, understand features, fees, and withdrawal limits.

Best crypto for betting on FIFA World Cup 2026. Compare BTC vs USDT, TRX fees, and network speed to choose the right cryptocurrency for sports betting.

Bitcoin entered yesterday's Fed decision already capped below a dense on-chain supply zone, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference gave buyers little reason to push through it. The Federal Reserve kept the target range at 3.5%-3.75% and explicitly linked elevated inflation to higher global energy prices, citing the tensions in the Middle East as The post Here’s why Bitcoin is stuck below $80,000 and what Powell’s FOMC meeting did for BTC price appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DeFi staking has split into four categories. How liquid staking, restaking, tokenized financial yield, and production-linked yield differ in 2026.

The firm's MiCA-compliant euro token aims to speed up euro transfers and support regulated onchain finance as the euro stablecoin market doubled since early 2025.

New data shows unusually high win rates in defense bets, building on research that 3% of traders drive prices and under 1% capture most profits.

Ranking of crypto PR agencies that build campaigns around measurable outcomes. Includes named case studies, ROI frameworks, and what separates result-oriented PR from generic coverage.

Losses from crypto hacks have topped $630 million in April across more than 25 hacks, with DeFi dominating major incidents and exploits accelerating despite security updates.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US has seized nearly $500 million in Iranian crypto assets, surpassing the previously reported $344 million freeze.

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The Rakuten launch sits alongside deals with South Korea's KBank, Kyobo Life Insurance, and an RLUSD listing across 280+ pairs on OKX.

Shinhan Card signed a deal with Solana Foundation to expand stablecoin payment tests and explore non-custodial wallets and DeFi-based services.

Bitcoin faces profit-taking pressure near $80,000, backed up by a U.S. inflation report that comes as high oil prices and rising bond yields weigh on risk assets.

A draft vision for Australia’s domestic payments system says stablecoins and tokenized fiat currency could reshape how money moves across future rails.

The exploit used a playbook similar to Drift's $285 million breach earlier this month: a compromised deployer key with no timelock or multisig that drained funds.

Libra launched in 2019, rebranded to Diem, and sold its blockchain assets to Silvergate Bank in 2022, three years of work that ended when regulators pushed back, and bank partners withdrew. On Apr. 29, Meta announced USDC payouts to eligible creators through compatible crypto wallets on Solana and Polygon, starting with selected creators in Colombia The post Meta’s USDC pilot shows how stablecoins could capture billions in creator payouts appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto has become the most-muted topic on X since the platform launched its snooze feature, with AI-generated spam and InfoFi posting likely driving users to tune it out.

ETH price is retesting a long-term support trend line that previously preceded a 5,200% rally, a fractal setup pointing to a potential move toward $60,000 by 2030.

With all short to medium term momentum indicators having reset, Bitcoin bulls look to be preparing for one big push back to the top of the bear flag and the $80K horizontal level. Can the $BTC price get there? Can a potential huge breakout occur?

More and more users are looking for smarter, more efficient, and lower-barrier ways to trade. Traditional manual trading often requires long hours of market monitoring and can be affected by emotions, experience, and time limitations.

WLFI, PI, and DEXE have plunged by double-digits in the past 24 hours.

[PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, United States, April 30th, 2026] Kite today announced the launch of its mainnet and the Kite Agent Passport, an identity and payment infrastructure built specifically for autonomous AI agents. The launch marks Kite’s transition from testnet to production, introducing a payments and settlement layer purpose-built for agent-driven transactions. The infrastructure

Backed by 20VC, Picus Capital and Coinbase Ventures; XO lets users create and profit from their own prediction markets, and plans to rollout a new vault product to democratize market making.

The old Bitcoin playbook ran on the simple logic that when global M2 expands, capital flows into risk assets, and Bitcoin captures a disproportionate share. That relationship powered the 2020-2021 bull market, and crypto Twitter spent the better part of 2024 charting M2 overlays as proof that the next leg was imminent. Now, the global The post Bitcoin’s next risk is hiding in the gap between debt and liquidity appeared first on CryptoSlate.

PI was brutally rejected at $0.20.

XRP's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked into the FOMO zone on April 29, the same level that has historically marked local tops in the token, per Santiment data.

Kite Launches Kite Chain and Kite Agent Passport, Enabling Autonomous AI Agent Payments

LBank Launches Global Trading Competition with $100,000 Prize Pool

Open interest in DOGE-tracked futures climbed to 15.36 billion tokens, a sign that traders are adding fresh leverage as the memecoin’s price surges.

Proposal introduces vesting for 40.7 billion insider tokens after 2-year cliff, even as voting power remains concentrated among a handful of large holders

The company said the region has become one of its most important in the past several years.

Hawkish dissent within the Federal Reserve, elevated oil prices and rising long-term inflation expectations are pushing bond yields higher.

Crypto sold off across the board with bitcoin down 2.1% and ether off 3.4% as Brent crude surged 7.1% to $126 a barrel on reports President Trump is being briefed on military options for Iran.

"Whoever thinks Cardano is dead has clearly not been through other bear markets," one analyst argued.

Bitcoin Magazine Strike CEO Jack Mallers Announces Lending Proof-of-Reserves, Volatility-Proof Loans, and Backs Tether Merger Plan Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced a series of product updates and strategic moves at the Bitcoin 2026 Conference. This post Strike CEO Jack Mallers Announces Lending Proof-of-Reserves, Volatility-Proof Loans, and Backs Tether Merger Plan first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy and Blockstream CEOs Paint Vision of Bitcoin’s Financial Future Strategy CEO Phong Le and Blockstream CEO Adam Back joined moderator Natalie Brunell on Wednesday to discuss Bitcoin treasury strategy, tokenization, digital credit, and Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity. This post Strategy and Blockstream CEOs Paint Vision of Bitcoin’s Financial Future first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Bitcoin Magazine Morgan Stanley Executive on Bitcoin: ‘We Are Still So Early on This Journey’ Amy Oldenburg, head of digital assets at Morgan Stanley, says client education — not product design — is the central challenge facing bitcoin adoption at the firm and across the industry. This post Morgan Stanley Executive on Bitcoin: ‘We Are Still So Early on This Journey’ first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin, WikiLeaks, and a Film the Streamers Wouldn’t Touch: Jack Dorsey and Eugene Jarecki Make Their Case Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and Jack Dorsey are teaming up to bring a Julian Assange documentary to the public through a bitcoin-powered distribution model. This post Bitcoin, WikiLeaks, and a Film the Streamers Wouldn’t Touch: Jack Dorsey and Eugene Jarecki Make Their Case first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Alphabet and Microsoft crushed Q1 estimates on the same day, with Google Cloud up 63% and Microsoft's AI business hitting a $37 billion run rate.

The Labor Department unveils an online hub to help workers and employers build AI skills amid a quickly changing jobs market.

The AI model analyzes subtle tissue changes on routine CT scans invisible to human specialists, detecting pancreatic cancer up to three years earlier than doctors can.

The Prince Group allegedly ran at least 10 scam compounds and stole billions through pig butchering schemes targeting victims online.

Thom Tillis, a swing GOP vote on the Senate Banking Committee, says his colleagues should take up a months-delayed vote on the crypto bill.

Bitcoin Magazine Eric Trump, John Koudounis Call Bitcoin a Global Reserve Asset, Float $1M Price Target American Bitcoin Co-Founder and Calamos CEO John Koudounis told attendees at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas that the ownership structure of bitcoin has changed in a way that makes a price retreat less likely, and both men urged skeptics to reconsider the asset before a coming wave of institutional and generational capital arrives. This post Eric Trump, John Koudounis Call Bitcoin a Global Reserve Asset, Float $1M Price Target first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is now offering stablecoin payouts to content creators in certain countries.

The settlement represents a massive reduction from an initial $4.7 billion judgment against the Celsius founder.

Talkie-1930 is a 13-billion-parameter model that has never heard of the internet, World War II, or modern politics. The results are fascinating, funny, and occasionally unsettling.

This month, Israel and Pakistan supplied a quieter test for crypto than the one playing out in US capital markets. What if the more important 2026 shift is happening where digital assets meet local money and bank accounts? Israeli crypto firm Bits of Gold said Israel's Capital Market Authority approved the issuance and distribution of The post Everyone is watching America’s crypto boom but Israel and Pakistan may be showing what comes next appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin dropped to lows of $74,958 before stabilizing above $75,000. The decline also coincided with tighter liquidity in traditional equity markets. Crypto stocks fell sharply as short‑term volatility hit risk assets. Bitcoin price briefly slipped to below $75,000 on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, dimming hopes for near‑term rate cuts and The post Bitcoin slips to $75k as Fed holds rates, crypto stocks tumble appeared first on CoinJournal.

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin-Backed Loans Are Unlocking Homeownership for an Entire New Generation At the Bitcoin 2026 Conference, executives from SALT Lending and Peoples Reserve argued that Bitcoin-backed loans are emerging as a viable path to homeownership by letting holders leverage Bitcoin as collateral instead of selling it. This post Bitcoin-Backed Loans Are Unlocking Homeownership for an Entire New Generation first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Correction to $30 or a pump to $50: what's next for HYPE?

Bitcoin Magazine Steak ‘n Shake Says Bitcoin Payments Cut Processing Costs by 50%, Save $6 Million Annually Steak ‘n Shake exec Michael Boes told Bitcoin 2026 attendees that Bitcoin has become central to the chain’s turnaround, driving 2 million new customers, cutting costs, and helping fund a healthier menu overhaul. This post Steak ‘n Shake Says Bitcoin Payments Cut Processing Costs by 50%, Save $6 Million Annually first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Trump officials reportedly drafted guidance to help agencies access Anthropic’s AI, including Claude Mythos, despite Pentagon restrictions.

BTC had dropped by nearly four grand in the days leading to the FOMC meeting.

[PRESS RELEASE – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 29th, 2026] As data-driven investing grows, Investor10 expands to the U.S. with tools for market analysis, rankings, and portfolio tracking. Investor10, one of Brazil’s leading platforms for investment analysis and portfolio tracking, announced its expansion into the United States with the launch of Investor10.com, introducing a suite

Wednesday's FOMC meeting was expected to be Jerome Powell’s last as Federal Reserve chair.

A new entrant is stepping into the increasingly crowded AI-for-trading market — and it is drawing attention for a mix of pedigree, positioning, and timing.

The personal gift to the Reform UK leader from billionaire Christopher Harborne comes amid scrutiny over crypto industry political funding.

The 10 largest AI stocks now make up about 41% of the S&P 500, according to a BofA Global Research chart circulated online. That puts the AI basket at the same concentration level that tech and telecom reached around the dot-com peak. The BofA chart put the Nifty Fifty at 40% in the 1970s and The post Concentration of AI stocks inside S&P 500 hits dot-com bubble peak – and Bitcoin miners are now exposed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Major exchanges saw steep declines. Binance, for one, has shed $25 billion in volume since March.

VerifyVASP acquires Sygna, consolidating the global Travel Rule network

A California lawsuit could test whether AI companies have a legal duty to report violent threats after a mass shooting in British Columbia.

The country hosts nearly 4,000 crypto ATMs, second only to the U.S.

Strategy grew its BTC market share from 2.76% to 3.9%, a 40% increase in ownership concentration, but the price still fell by about 30%.

Real yield in DeFi has split into four sources by 2026. How tokenized treasuries, on-chain credit, protocol revenue, and production cash flow actually pay.

Crypto payments processor MoonPay is expanding into institutional services with a veteran regulator at the helm.

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Bitcoin is trading near $76,600 after reversing from an earlier intraday push toward $78,000, while crude oil trades near $103 and the S&P 500 fell as the US stock market opened. Before the US cash session, Bitcoin rose even as crude oil kept climbing, suggesting crypto-specific positioning was strong enough to resist the oil-inflation trade The post Bitcoin surges alongside oil as BTC price finally decouples from the war narrative… until US markets opened appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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With four of five CFTC commissioner seats vacant, the decision on whether to lift Polymarket's U.S. ban rests with Chair Michael Selig alone.

Payments giant Visa scales its blockchain settlement infrastructure with five new networks as pilot program shows 50% quarterly growth.

The BlackRock-backed firm was recently selected as by the New York Stock Exchange as a tokenization specialist.

The project's native token tapped a monthly peak at $0.20 earlier today following a big double-digit surge lately.

Passive investing has become one of the most powerful forces reshaping equity markets, and the evidence is accumulating in the returns data. Bloomberg Intelligence data compiled by ETF analyst James Seyffart shows stocks with rising passive ownership have dramatically outperformed those losing passive ownership over the past three years. The market has been rewarding inclusion, The post Passive money is eating stocks and Bitcoin may be next to get a huge liquidity injection appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The ApeCoin token has shed 12% of its price value in the past 24 hours. Pudgy Penguins and Blur have also dipped as NFT sector tokens suffer profit-taking. APE faces potential deeper losses to $0.081 unless fresh catalysts emerge. ApeCoin (APE), the governance token powering the ApeCoin ecosystem tied to the Bored Ape Yacht Club The post ApeCoin price falls sharply as NFT sector momentum fades appeared first on CoinJournal.

USOIL just jumped to a multi-week peak at over $105.

The dispute around Polymarket’s “US x Iran ceasefire extended by April 22, 2026” market has raised a question that goes beyond one contract: what should count as authoritative evidence in a decentralized market?

Multiple $3.3 million sell walls sit between $80,400 and $82,000 as oil volatility and rising real rates keep Bitcoin trapped.

By supporting a vast range of tokens and enabling projects to launch branded slot games, Move2Bet is expanding the role of online casinos beyond traditional crypto play

XRP is currently trading at $1.38, down over 3% in the past week. The XRP Ledger has attracted over $3 billion in tokenized real-world assets. XRP could retest $1.25 or lower if bearish pressure persists. Ripple cryptocurrency XRP is trading largely flat over the past 24 hours, as buyers struggle to decisively breach the $1.40 The post XRP price forecast as tokenized RWA on XRP Ledger explodes to $3B appeared first on CoinJournal.

Ethereum is trading at $2,340 as April closes out, having quietly done what it failed to accomplish for the better part of six months: break out of the descending channel that has defined its entire corrective structure since October 2025. The breakout is fresh, unconfirmed on higher timeframes, and happening right below the $2.4k resistance

The stablecoin has now gone live for spot trading across over 280 pairs on OKX.

The big players sold or redistributed XRP tokens worth over $1.5 billion.

Since 2023, Match Systems has handled over a hundred investigations involving address poisoning - ranging from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

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Crypto majors rebound ahead of FOMC, despite oil surging, while Polymarket is making a push to enter the U.S.

Built on solver-based routing infrastructure, BitGorilla helps traders, builders, and autonomous agents access more consistent cross-chain execution.

A wallet dormant since 2015 just moved 10,000 ETH—but analysts say a custody restructuring, not a sell, is the likely explanation.

AAVE price consolidates as market awaits recovery clarity. rsETH recovery plan addresses $246M bad debt from the Kelp DAO exploit. The immediate resistance sits at $100 as governance execution drives the outlook. AAVE token is currently priced at $97.13, down 0.3% over the past 24 hours, while the broader market has remained slightly positive. That The post AAVE could reclaim $100 as focus shifts to rebuilding rsETH collateral appeared first on CoinJournal.

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Bitcoin could be about to be tossed around on a sea of volatility as four of the Mag 7 stocks release Q1 earnings. As well as Microsoft and Alphabet, two other giant U.S. companies, Amazon and Apple, will also publish their earnings. The U.S. stock market could move strongly in either direction, depending on how the results are perceived by the market. Bitcoin is likely to get swept along into any euphoria/depression that follows.

The judge dismissed the FTX founder’s claims that potential witnesses faced "government threats and retaliation" as "wildly conspiratorial.”

The popular altcoin, PI, has emerged as one of the top performers in the past couple of weeks.

Syndicate is probing a bridge compromise after attackers sold millions of SYND tokens.

Bitwise's Matt Hougan said that Strategy's Bitcoin buying spree, funded through STRC issuance, has driven much of the recent rally.

Ripple's CEO made this comment a month ago as well.

The Litecoin network successfully reorged out the 13-block invalid chain.

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, April 28th, 2026] Built on Symbiotic Core and integrated into Midas’ Open Liquidity Architecture, the partnership adds a capital-efficient RFQ settlement layer for tokenized assets: T+0 atomic settlement with no idle capital and no pre-funded inventory. Most tokenized assets remain functionally illiquid. Redemptions can take 60 to 180 days or

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin is Reshaping Traditional Finance, Industry Leaders Say At Bitcoin 2026, a Nakamoto Stage panel made a simple but striking point: Bitcoin’s institutional growth is being driven by competitors who are actually working together, building the tools, products, and infrastructure needed to bring the asset into mainstream finance. This post Bitcoin is Reshaping Traditional Finance, Industry Leaders Say first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Bitcoin Magazine ‘This Time Is Different’: A First of Its Kind Documentary Covering Bitcoin’s Four Year Cycle, David Bailey, And Nakamoto in Production A new documentary, This Time Is Different, will chronicle Bitcoin’s four-year cycle and David Bailey’s journey building Nakamoto Inc. through its public launch and market swings. This post ‘This Time Is Different’: A First of Its Kind Documentary Covering Bitcoin’s Four Year Cycle, David Bailey, And Nakamoto in Production first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy’s (MSTR) Michael Saylor Says STRC is ‘Going Viral’ After $8.5 Billion Run‑Up At Bitcoin 2026, Michael Saylor pitched STRC as a rapidly growing Bitcoin-backed credit product attracting billions from retail investors and aiming to scale digital credit as a major driver of Bitcoin adoption and price growth. This post Strategy’s (MSTR) Michael Saylor Says STRC is ‘Going Viral’ After $8.5 Billion Run‑Up first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

According to critics, half of crypto's most influential people were at Trump's recent meme coin dinner, which is why they can't say anything.

Here are the latest listings and delistings announced by the exchange.

The structural difference between holding PAXG and earning yield on AYNI staking. How gold-backed DeFi yield is sourced in 2026.

Safe crypto football betting sites for Bitcoin players. Explore platforms like Dexsport with fast payouts, no KYC, and transparent betting.

Best crypto-friendly sports betting sites in 2026. Compare no-KYC sportsbooks with fast payouts, BTC and USDT support, and top football betting markets.

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