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Technical charts suggest that Bitcoin’s rally continuation is fully dependent on bulls securing a weekly close above $75,000.

AI and blockchain infrastructure company Gency AI today announced it has raised $20 million in a new funding round.

Crypto markets splinter as miners pivot to AI, BitMine doubles down on ETH, stablecoin liquidity idles, and tokenized Treasurys reshape trading collateral.

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.

Crypto faces backlash for freezing stolen funds and for doing nothing, with expectations pulling in opposite directions.

Crypto VC funding fell to $659 million in April, its lowest monthly total since July 2024, as dealmaking slowed across the sector.

Dogecoin whale wallets hit record DOGE holdings as the price rallies 23.5%, strengthening the memecoin’s rally chances in May.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted strong April inflows as Bitcoin rallied, with IBIT leading gains despite late-month outflows across funds.

Brazil’s central bank barred virtual assets from settlement inside regulated eFX payment rails as it tightens oversight of crypto-linked flows.

SBI Holdings is in discussions to make Bitbank a subsidiary, adding to its push to acquire crypto exchanges amid improving regulatory clarity in Japan.

Bitcoin finished April above $76,000 to preserve most of its monthly gains, but the S&P 500 stole the limelight with a trip back to record highs.

Bakkt announced the deal in January, which was originally for 9.3 million shares, along with a corporate name change to Bakkt Inc.

The top stablecoin issuer’s balance sheet remains heavily concentrated in US Treasuries as stablecoin adoption expands across emerging markets.

The card links self-custodied wallets to Mastercard rails, allowing AI agents to spend stablecoins at checkout without preloading funds or moving assets offchain.

Futures drove up Bitcoin's price in April while spot demand declined, which CryptoQuant warned has historically preceded extended price declines.

The Bitcoin FUD-stopping tool cites over 22 peer-reviewed research papers to address common misconceptions about Bitcoin.

Carrot's total value locked has collapsed 93% in a month, from $28 million to $1.99 million, leaving the protocol financially unable to continue.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

AIMCo returns to Michael Saylor's bitcoin treasury company years after exiting, now sitting on a sizable unrealized gain.

Of the myriad pundits proclaiming what bitcoin is or isn’t, Blume offers a more clear-eyed framing that, he argues, will outlast the others.

The stablecoin issuer said the crypto market was highly volatile during the first quarter.

Although Manfred will not start trading crypto until the end of May, it already has a crypto wallet and credentials to hire staff, make payments and do business.

The crypto asset rose nearly 3% over the past 24 hours.

The figure implies a sharp increase in the bitcoin price.

Bitcoin (BTC), up 1.9% from Thursday, was also a top performer.

Your day-ahead look for May 1, 2026

The Tokyo-based broker is betting big on crypto with plans in Singapore and a Visa partnership for bank cards that allows users to accumulate digital assets.

BTC rises to $77,000 after holding $75,000 support, but negative funding, unchanged open interest and cautious positioning signal a lack of conviction.

BTC rises on steady volume and strong technical structure, but surging put interest and muted prediction market odds point to defensive positioning.

South Korea's financial watchdog imposed a $24.6 million fine on Bithumb and partial suspension that came into effect last month.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Bitcoin mining company's pivot to AI infrastructure hosting generated its first data center revenue as AMD expanded its capacity.

Outflows from Ethereum ETFs extended to a 4-day streak as Bitcoin funds shed $490 million, even as the S&P 500 hit an all-time high.

MoonPay’s new debit Mastercard lets autonomous AI agents spend stablecoins at any online Mastercard merchant.

Stablecoin giant Tether says it holds over $141 billion in U.S. Treasuries, a figure that has never been verified by a full audit.

Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical company Shuttle pivots to crypto mining in first major institutional play for Dogecoin mining.

The probe follows reports that Dynasty Trust A, which benefits Lutnick’s children, borrowed an undisclosed sum from the stablecoin issuer.

MegaETH just debuted the biggest token of 2026 to date, while Kalshi is now officially a top-five U.S. sportsbook.

Bitcoin rallied 12% in April as Strategy added $4.1 billion in BTC, but on-chain data suggests gains may be speculative.

A Seoul court has reversed March sanctions that would have restricted the exchange's core functions over alleged compliance failures.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was unclear whether all the 13 Republicans will vote for the markup amid reports of one holdout.

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Pantera Capital's wallet moved 83.9 million ONDO tokens worth $22.11 million.

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Whale accumulation and rising long positions supported ADA as price remained range-bound.

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LUNC has shown upward momentum since the early February market crash.

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Tokenized assets are only about 7% of the stablecoin market cap right now.

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The Ethereum Foundation has sold 20,000 ETH in a week while rotating into staked assets, signaling an active shift in treasury management.

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XRP faces pressure after massive unlocks, with weak structure and rising leverage signaling instability.

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Crypto fundraising has cooled sharply in 2026, but top firms like Coinbase Ventures continue to dominate deal flow.

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Attackers drained about $800k from dormant wallets on Ethereum mainnet by directly accessing the private keys.

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The FCA has introduced new guidance to support fund tokenization, allowing asset managers to use blockchain infrastructure within existing rules.

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Tether reported over $1B in Q1 profit and a record $8.23B reserve buffer, but its asset mix and attestation model still draw scrutiny.

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