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Bitcoin is hovering near $75,000 as steady institutional demand meets a wall of supply, while the options market is biased toward downside hedges.

The Blockstream CEO’s approach contrasts with BIP-361, a proposal that would implement mandatory freezes of quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin.

The Cato Institute says U.S. bitcoin tax rules are overly complex and discourage everyday use despite growing crypto adoption.

HIVE Digital plans a $75 million zero-coupon note offering to fund GPUs and data centers as it moves to the TSX.

A review of over 150 crypto protocols finds fewer than 1% disclose market-making arrangements, revealing a major transparency gap in token trading structures.

Token-based payments can be programmed with spending limits and which industries can use them, reducing audits and lowering transaction fees by removing intermediaries.

Morgan Stanley’s new MSBT fund has quickly attracted over $100 million by offering the market's lowest fees, sparking a fresh wave of competition from rivals like Goldman Sachs.

The couple argued according to hotel staff and were separated. Despite confirming Ashly Robinson died by suicide, police said they are still investigating her death.

The pitch is global scale for the yuan, but capital controls, offshore limits and convertibility gaps still stand in the way

The sandbox will test preset spending limits, timing controls and category restrictions for public sector expense payments.

A libertarian think tank argues that treating bitcoin as a capital asset for tax purposes makes everyday payments impractical due to the complex reporting requirements.

Chinese authorities have said yuan-pegged stablecoins cannot be issued offshore without prior regulatory approval.

Analysts at the bank say negotiations for the CLARITY Act are reaching a final breakthrough as lawmakers resolve long-standing disputes over stablecoin rewards and agency oversight.

South Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy is launching a new pilot to substitute government expense credit cards with deposit tokens.

Macro-driven ETF inflows have lifted prices, but CryptoQuant data signals large holders are positioning to sell near a key breakeven zone

Crypto users in the US are required to pay capital gains taxes on cryptocurrencies, stifling their usefulness as a currency, argued a Washington DC-based think tank.

Major World Liberty Financial investor Justin Sun called a plan to lock tokens for up to four years “the most absurd governance scams I have ever seen.”

The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust is also within striking distance of overtaking three other US spot Bitcoin ETFs that launched in January 2024.

The amount of capacity and the type of compute it was trained on is “abundantly available in China,” said the Nvidia CEO.

The Blockstream CEO told Paris Blockchain Week that Bitcoin should build quantum-resistant upgrades now, a day after Jameson Lopp proposed freezing vulnerable coins instead.

BTC is up 10% for the month, but the bull run has stalled near $75,000 in the past 48 hours. Here's why.

Breakout backed by heavy participation and late-session buying, though weak on-chain activity raises questions over durability.

The deal is Ripple's first with a Korean insurer and targets near real-time settlement of Korean treasuries, though the release stops short of committing to a live volume or timeline.

Sentinel Action Fund has received backing from the Solana Institute and Multicoin Capital, a crypto-focused venture capital firm.

Tech stocks helped drive the Nasdaq to 24,016 and the S&P 500 to 7,022 as Bitcoin climbed nearly 10% over the past two weeks.

Crypto's derivatives desks still want downside protection, QCP says, and long-end yields and gold aren't confirming the risk-on move.

The CFTC is investigating trades that took place before the US delayed strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure on March 23 and agreed to a ceasefire with Iran on April 7.

BitMEX Research proposes a canary system that pays a bounty to the first quantum attacker and activates a network-wide freeze, offering an alternative to a fixed five-year timeline.

It may be appropriate to attempt to mitigate the extent of the freeze as much as possible, even at the cost of greater complexity, said BitMEX.

CryptoQuant says Bitcoin could be reaching a temporary ceiling after hitting a multi-month top of $76,000 on Wednesday, with investors moving Bitcoin in bulk to exchanges.

Tron Founder Justin Sun issued harsh criticism of the new proposal, calling it one of the 'most absurd governance scams.'

Back said the safest approach is to build optional upgrades that would allow Bitcoin to migrate to quantum-resistant cryptography once it's needed.

The Sentinel Action Fund is supporting Republican John Husted in that race, with funding from the Solana network's advocacy group and Multicoin Capital.

The Nasdaq was higher for the 11th consecutive session as investors looked past the conflict in the Middle East.

The Tron founder claimed that dissenters would face token lockups and exclusion from voting, while the project said the proposal aims to align all participants for the long-run.

Institutional investors are buying Ether again, but a handful of factors could slow market momentum and negatively impact ETH’s rally.

The committee, led by Tether’s head of government affairs, reported spending $3 million on advertising through a company co-founded by Tether US CEO Bo Hines.

The new Google Gemini Robotics AI model gives robots improved spatial reasoning and task planning abilities for industrial applications.

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.

Short-term Bitcoin traders took profit on 63,000 BTC over the past 24-hours. Will profit-taking continue to stall the rally?

Maine's moratorium on AI data centers would last for over a year. Will the governor, embroiled in a tough Senate primary, sign it into law?

The contracts mark Injective’s first entry into US-regulated derivatives markets and could help support a spot ETF following a filing from Canary Capital.

BTC's recent rally is facing rising profit-taking risk, with several indicators showing growing signs of selling pressure, according to CQ.

Cantor Fitzgerald donated $10 million to a super political action committee backing pro-crypto candidates as election season ramps up.

CEO Tarek Mansour said in an interview that Kalshi would prevent kids from using a parent’s ID to skirt its age restrictions by launching a parent portal and AI verification.

The Stablecoin Development Corporation is a publicly-traded holding company with an approximately 2.15 billion SKY token treasury.

Anthropic quietly rolled out government ID and selfie verification for Claude—a first among major AI chatbots, and a peculiar pivot for a company whose privacy stance just drove a record wave of users away from ChatGPT.

World Liberty Financial's early supporters vented frustrations after the Trump-backed crypto venture released a four-year vesting schedule.

Kyber currently leads with ~30% market share, followed by CowSwap at 22%, while 1inch has seen its share decline to 15% over the same period.

A $70 million feature film focusing on Bitcoin and the hunt for creator Satoshi Nakamoto will lean heavily on AI tools.

The product is designed to generate yield by participating in network validation, adding an income component to passive exposure.

While Tether has been closely associated with the emerging political action committee, the opening funding came from Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital.

Jane Street said it needs GPU-based computing power to keep its trading and research operations competitive amid growing adoption of AI.

Legal & General Asset Management brings decades-old money market funds onto blockchain rails to expand access and enable faster settlement.

The USDT stablecoin issuer has now accumulated over $7.1 billion in bitcoin as part of its strategy to recycle up 15% of its profit into BTC.

Alibaba shut down Qwen Code's free tier today, following MiniMax's license bait-and-switch. The idea that Chinese labs are the "open-source good guys" is crumbling fast.

A Bitcoin daily candlestick close above $76,000 would complete a bullish trend reversal and shift the bulls’ short-term price target to $84,000. Will altcoins follow the rally?

On Hyperliquid, just three of the top 10 markets by volume are crypto pairs and the rest are tokenized equity or commodity futures.

Also: AI agents & crypto payments, CoW Swap hijack, ZK proofs on XRPL.

Starbucks’ ChatGPT integration lets customers describe their mood or upload photos to receive AI-generated drink picks.

Leaked models, a new design tool, and an unreleaseable cyber weapon walk into a press cycle.

Potential conflicts of interest in the state’s gubernatorial race and a pro-crypto Super PAC endorsing a Republican candidate for Senate could cloud the 2026 race.

The move is consistent with Tether's pattern of accumulating bitcoin and moving the asset to its reserve wallet periodically.

London-based Legal & General Asset Management is the latest global asset manager to expand distribution across blockchain networks and trading models.

Bitdeer's total hashrate under management grew to 78.1 EH/s, including its massive self-mining fleet and hosted machines.

Ether looks poised to gain a price advantage over BTC as the ETH/BTC ratio soars to a 10-week high.

Leading Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies posted a major loss thanks to unrealized losses on its ETH.

The deal signals eToro's strategic push into self-custody solutions amid growing demand for non-custodial crypto infrastructure.

Chen argues that crypto exchange security is still mostly theater, and that stricter enforcement is essential.

New Bitcoin macro analysis found its "addressable market" surpassed the $38 trillion gold market cap, driven by geopolitical instability and financial sanctions.

The Massachusetts Democrat has been critical of private companies, including non-bank entities, issuing their own dollar-pegged stablecoins.

Banks in Pakistan can now provide services to registered crypto firms—but not trade crypto themselves—after a 2018 ban was rescinded.

"Avalanche is emerging as one of the leading platforms for businesses, governments, and real-world use cases," says Bitwise.

To help fund its recent infrastructure investments, Riot Platforms has been selling off the bitcoin on its balance sheet.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Tricia Gallagher writes how the fix for broken digital identity systems will need to be state-led and user-controlled.

Shares in High Roller Technologies nearly doubled Tuesday after the firm announced it was entering the prediction markets space.

Lopp says dormant coins could pose systemic risk if quantum computing gives attackers the ability to grab them, intensifying the growing “freeze or not freeze” debate.

Bitcoin paused its rally toward new range highs while the S&P 500 came within an inch of a fresh year-to-date high, leading analysts to warn that traders are overconfident.

Morgan Stanley CFO Sharon Yeshaya says the bank is eyeing a "tokenized world" where blockchain technology allows client assets and liabilities to move more efficiently across its wealth management platform.

Sterling Crispin's 'Nothing Ever Happens' bot automatically buys "No" on every non-sports Polymarket it finds. It's not that crazy.

EIP-8105 proposes a scheme-agnostic encrypted mempool for Ethereum, designed to hide transaction payloads until after inclusion and reduce harmful MEV.

The proposal would phase out Bitcoin's original security methods and freeze coins that don't move in time.

The UK financial regulator has launched a consultation on crypto rules covering stablecoins, trading and staking ahead of a broader UK crypto regime expected to take effect in 2027.

KellyBench put Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, and Grok through a full Premier League season of betting. Not one turned a profit. Here's why.

WLFI proposes moving 62.3B locked tokens to fixed vesting schedules, requiring insiders to burn 10% of their allocation.

Sustainable footwear company Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI and enter the GPU-as-a-service market. Investors love the pivot.

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee told Paris Blockchain Week that the recent crypto slump was a “mini crypto winter” and said Ether could climb above $60,000 over the next few years.

Sun's comments follow recent debate over whether quantum computers could eventually break the cryptography that underpins cryptocurrencies.

The new proposal outlines multi-year lockups and opt-in token burn, as the Trump-linked DeFi platform responds to pressure over delayed liquidity access.

Crypto credit cards see roughly 100,000 average daily transactions, with Etherfi accounting for about a third of that volume.

Bhutan moved 250 BTC on April 13, extending 2026 outflows to $240 million as holdings fell 73% from an October 2024 peak.

The Massachusetts Senator warned of consumer protection gaps as Musk's payment platform launches amid weakened federal oversight.

Kevin Warsh is holding Solana, Polymarket and more. Goldman Sachs is filing for a BTC ETF. And Circle stock is jumping on news of a token.

The legislation ensures unclaimed digital assets are held in their native form for at least one year before the state can move to sell them.

Analysts cited easing geopolitical tensions and improving liquidity as driving Bitcoin’s uptick, but warned of a “weak and unstable” market.

Those seeking VIP treatment at the next Trump meme coin event didn't need to spend nearly as much as last time. Here's a breakdown of the numbers.

CoW Swap, a decentralized exchange used by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, paused its protocol after suffering a front-end attack.

Visa joins Stripe and Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered as the first external validators for the Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain.

Jackrong, the developer behind Qwopus, has released Gemopus—a family of Claude Opus-style fine-tunes built on Google's open-source Gemma 4, putting all-American AI in your pocket and on your potato PC.

Former Wall Street banker Kevin Warsh, worth well over $100 million, also invested in numerous tech startups—including a “reversible male contraceptive solution."

Bernstein's analyst argued that prediction markets will be driven less by big league bets as institutions become more involved.

Tether’s self-custodial wallet aims to simplify crypto transactions with email-like identifiers, supporting stablecoins and Bitcoin alike.

Goldman Sachs filed an application for an ETF that seeks to generate income for investors by selling options tied to Bitcoin’s price.

Nous Research's open-source AI agent is the first with a built-in learning loop—it creates skills from experience, gets better the more you use it, and runs on terminal.

A fake Ledger Live app on the Mac App Store duped more than 50 users, swiping more than $9 million in a new crypto scam.

Banks and crypto firms remain divided even as White House data says a yield ban wouldn’t do much for lending.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire reiterated plans for its stablecoin-focused layer-1 blockchain to launch in mainnet “soon.”

Bitcoin just hit its highest price in over two months, with Ethereum and other top coins rising faster as crypto bears get liquidated.