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Wintermute analysts said Bitcoin’s price stability against the extreme bearish sentiment present in the market is a positive. Will BTC ever flip $70,000 back to support?

Roman Storm, the co-founder of the crypto mixing service, still faces a possible retrial on two charges after a jury failed to reach a verdict in 2025.

Split Capital founder Zaheer Ebtikar is closing his crypto hedge fund after strong returns to join Plasma as chief strategy officer, citing a major industry shift.

Polymarket has become one of decentralized finance’s highest fee-generating protocols, pulling in about $7.1 million in fees in the first week of the second quarter.

Bitcoin and risk-asset price action tried to brush off new US-Iran war rhetoric just hours before the deadline for a deal passed.

CME Group said it will launch Avalanche and Sui futures contracts pending regulatory approval, as it expands its regulated crypto product offering.

Multiple Bitcoin indicators, including a bull-bear sentiment index and realized price metric, point to a possible final BTC shakeout toward $54,000

Lido’s institutional lead argues that more crypto treasury companies will need to incorporate liquid staking to outperform the returns generated by staked Ether ETFs.

An inspection found slow reconciliation cycles and weak trade-halting systems across major crypto exchanges.

XRP’s profitable supply fell to 43% as high capitulation and a bearish chart setup signaled a potential drop toward $1.10 in the coming weeks.

Operation Atlantic is a cross-border law enforcement effort to detect and disrupt crypto scams in real time, targeting approval phishing before funds are fully drained.

Binance said it will roll out a spot trading rule on April 14, restricting executions outside a set range during periods of volatility and thin liquidity.

Crypto ETPs drew $224 million in inflows last week as XRP led gains, while US ETFs lagged and Ether posted outflows amid mixed macro data and policy expectations.

Argentine lenders are reportedly testing JPMorgan’s JPM Coin to improve settlement speed and efficiency, even as the central bank maintains restrictions on crypto services.

Bitcoin stochastic RSI signals led a trader to draw key comparisons between current BTC price action and its rebound after the 2022 bear market.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs draw $471 million in their strongest daily inflow in weeks, while Ether funds return to gains despite cautious sentiment.

The Bitcoin community has a “history of contentious debates over protocol changes,” said Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl.

One of the three convicted terrorism financiers sent $49,000 worth of stablecoins to a foreign exchange before it was routed to an ISIS-linked campaign.

The proposal includes a startup exemption, a fundraising exemption and an investment contract safe harbor for issuers. 

New documents seen by The New York Times suggest the Argentine president had seven phone calls with the entrepreneur behind the Libra token.

The Solana Foundation and Web3 security firm Asymmetric Research unveiled a new security initiative called STRIDE, along with a real-time incident-response network.

DeFi risk manager Chaos Labs said Aave’s planned migration to Aave V4 introduced risks that it wasn’t willing to assume, while Aave said Chaos wanted to take on full control as the sole risk service provider.

Polymarket is upgrading its exchange infrastructure in the coming weeks, introducing new contracts and a USDC-backed token while phasing out a bridged stablecoin.

Bitcoin may invalidate its bear flag setup as Strategy buys 46,233 BTC in just over a month, outpacing the 16,200 BTC supply in the same period.

As states seek to regulate prediction markets, a panel of federal judges ruled in favor of Kalshi’s position that only the CFTC has jurisdiction.

Fraud schemes grew more sophisticated and targeted larger sums than in 2024.

Thorn argues that a recent New York Times op-ed rewrites history through omission, glossing over the collateral damage caused by the previous administration.

The brokerage's research finds that even a tiny crypto allocation can dominate your portfolio's risk, suggesting that the "right" amount to own depends entirely on your stomach for 70% price swings.

The asset manager's research arm argues the technical path to quantum-safe blockchains is clear but reaching consensus on protocol changes, especially what to do with Satoshi's coins, is the real obstacle.

Switzerland accounted for 70% of global crypto ETP inflows last week with XRP products contributing more than half the total.

Aave (AAVE) dropped 8.5% and Avalanche (AVAX) fell 7.6%, leading the index lower from Monday.

Weekend gains for bitcoin have been mostly erased ahead of the president's Tuesday night deadline for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

Former Google quantum hardware leader and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, John Martinis, warns that breaking encryption will be among the earliest uses of quantum computing

For years, the DeFi industry has treated security as a technical problem: something that could be solved with better code. But the Drift incident suggests something far more complex: that the real vulnerabilities may lie outside the codebase altogether.

Despite billions in purchases, MSTR demand is being outweighed by long term holder positioning and broader capital flows.

Your day-ahead look for April 7, 2026

BTC and ETH remain stuck in a two-month range as oil prices and Iran tensions weigh on sentiment, while AI and privacy tokens show surprising relative strength.

The program includes 24/7 threat monitoring for protocols with more than $10 million in deposits and a dedicated incident response network of security firms.

BTC correlation with an ETF tracking software comany stocks broke sharply from near-total alignment to near zero after the conflict started.

Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $471 million on April 6, the 6th-largest inflow of 2026, as prediction markets price little near-term Fed movement.

Rejection at $1.35 and collapsing depth raise risk of sharper moves as positioning builds.

The AI company's partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-generation TPU capacity starting in 2027 adds to a wave of demand reshaping the economics of every industry that competes for cheap electricity, including bitcoin mining.

Oil jumped above $112 on threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure if no agreement is reached by midnight, while crypto markets gave back Monday's ceasefire rally gains.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will address fundraising and startup exemptions in this proposal, Paul Atkins told a crowd Monday.

Glassnode data shows soft participation, while a negative gamma setup below $68,000 leaves BTC exposed to a faster move toward $60,000.

Morgan Stanley is joining the Bitcoin ETF party late, but Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says the investment bank isn't showing up empty-handed.

The Fifth Element and Resident Evil star reveals an AI project inspired by the ancient “memory palace” method.

The Solana Foundation will offer tiered security services to DeFi protocols, marking a shift toward institutionalized protection following the Drift exploit.

New evidence from Argentina's federal probe into LIBRA complicates Milei's claim he had no ties to the meme coin.

Bitcoin usually drives investment action around crypto ETFs, but last week, XRP led as overall crypto fund flows flipped positive.

CME Group is adding to its list of crypto derivatives contracts, expanding to include Avalanche and Sui in early May.

The proposed Ethereum ERC-8211 standard would allow complex, multi-step blockchain actions to run in one transaction.

A Reddit post claiming 75% output token savings sparked 400 comments and multiple GitHub repos dedicated to making AI grunt its way to efficiency.

Older Americans bore nearly 40% of all crypto fraud losses in 2025, as investment scams and crypto ATM fraud ran rampant.

Bitcoin rose and fell alongside ceasefire hopes. Strategy and Tom Lee kept buying size. And Polymarket may be building its own financial system.

A Bitcoin whale transferred 300 BTC worth over $20 million to Binance Tuesday, potentially facing a $15 million loss.

Bitcoin ETFs saw their biggest inflow in six weeks as crypto investors positioned ahead of Trump's Iran deadline.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said that the rate of AI adoption "will likely be far faster than prior technological transformations."

Polymarket is overhauling its technical foundations and launching a stablecoin as it aims to improve the user experience and order book.

A new OpenAI blueprint urges economic changes for the AI era as reporting raises questions about Altman’s motivations.

Holders of tokenized shares in Galaxy (GLXY) will soon be able to participate in proxy voting on-chain via Broadridge.

Altcoins like Ethereum and Solana have plunged from all-time highs, but their recent resilience is a compelling sign, according to Grayscale.

A solo miner with computing power equivalent to just 0.00002% of Bitcoin's network successfully mined a block last week.

Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone argued that Bitcoin could fall as the crypto market purges market excesses that coincided with the pandemic-era boom.

Circle’s upcoming Arc blockchain is gearing up for quantum resilience, revealing a multi-step roadmap to prepare for the looming threat.

A panel of appellate judges ruled that Kalshi's sports wagers should be regulated by the CFTC, not state gambling regulators.

Tokenization moves settlement to machine speed, outpacing the tools regulators use today, the International Monetary Fund said.

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added $150 million of ETH last week, boosting its $10.3 billion stash.

The Bitcoin treasury firm reported that the value of its BTC holdings plummeted by $14.4 billion in the first quarter of 2026.

North Korea just pulled off the most sophisticated DeFi heist in years, while Google just moved the quantum timeline up majorly.

The decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app has been used by protestors in countries including Nepal, Madagascar and Iran.

Drift Protocol said the attackers posed as traders, met contributors in person, and spent months infiltrating before draining the platform.

Bitcoin jumped on reports that Pakistan has put together a framework for a U.S.-Iran ceasefire, but analysts remain cautious.

Claude developer Anthropic registered an employee-funded PAC amid a legal battle with the White House and rising election-year scrutiny of AI.

Researchers say internal emotion-like signals shape how large language models make decisions.

Financial giant Charles Schwab is set to launch spot buying of Bitcoin and Ethereum by the end of the quarter, the firm said Friday.

The FIFA World Cup will feature a prediction market platform built on ADI Chain, with the network’s token hitting a new high Friday.

HYPE holds bullish structure, but whale selling and weakening funding raise caution near resistance.

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An Ethereum whale deposited 60,001 ETH, worth $128.8 million, into Coinbase.

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Strategy raises capital first, then deploys it gradually into BTC, allowing steady accumulation while adapting to uncertain market conditions.

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Memecore signals a reversal after a fakeout near $3, with rising sell pressure pointing to a downside move.

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XRP’s recovery stays capped as loss-driven selling and overhead supply slow any sustained upside.

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What happened in 5 months that shifted Circle's USYC from an Ethereum native fund to the largest TMMF gloabally?

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Despite the Drift incident, there were no reported panic exits from the Solana DeFi network.

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As Bitcoin trades near a key supply zone, rising short interest raises one key question: Is this a bear trap?

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Can Aave maintain its risk edge after Chaos Labs’ exit, or will slower adjustments begin to expose hidden vulnerabilities?

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Update comes hot on the heels of their Bittensor ETF filing.

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The FBI’s latest Internet Crime Complaint Center [IC3] report has revealed a sharp rise in cybercrime losses, with total reported damages exceeding $20.8 billion in 2025.  The figure marks a 26% increase year-over-year, highlighting the growing scale and sophistication of online financial crime. According to the report, more than 1 million complaints were filed inContinue reading "From pig butchering to AI scams: FBI report shows crypto at the center of $20B cybercrime surge"

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