Bitcoin sits on a knife edge but holds $71k as “no Iran deal” spooks market over the weekend
Bitcoin kept part of the ceasefire bounce, but the chain still has not confirmed the move Bitcoin is still holding above $71,000 after the weekend’s ceasefire-driven risk bounce, even as the macro story behind that move has already started to fray.
Zcash beats Bitcoin by 46% as privacy coins decouple during Iran War
The US-Iran ceasefire made oil retreat, European equities posted their largest single-day gain in more than four years, and crypto joined the relief wave alongside everything else. During the relief, traders rotated sharply into privacy-adjacent names, pushing Zcash up roughly 59.6%
Trump’s World Liberty Financial borrows $75M against illiquid WLFI tokens with 16B token dump incoming
World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance project co-founded by the Trump family, is hastily preparing to unlock a massive tranche of its WLFI tokens after a nearly two-year holding period. The impending release will likely target a portion of the remaining
Bitcoin bulls are eyeing $100,000, yet the futures market hints at another dip first
Bitcoin traders are rebuilding bets on a move toward $80,000 as easing geopolitical tensions, firmer institutional demand, and a rebound above $70,000 revive appetite for upside exposure after weeks of defensive positioning. On Coinbase-owned Deribit, the largest venue for crypto options,
How institutions made Bitcoin a weekday market so retail takes on all the weekend risk
Bitcoin might trade around the clock, but its liquidity doesn't anymore. The asset that was supposed to become more resilient after absorbing billions in institutional capital through ETFs has instead developed a split personality, one that looks deep and orderly
How Trump-linked WLFI set up a lending model where lenders pay the price of failure
Money market Dolomite users are at risk of bad debt because the WLFI token is used as collateral under the WLFI Markets initiative. By World Liberty's own description, WLFI Markets is only an interface, as Dolomite smart contracts handle the lending
CLARITY Act faces White House blitz as Treasury and SEC flood Senate with coordinated pressure this week
The Trump administration and the broader crypto industry have initiated an unprecedented, multi-agency pressure campaign aimed at forcing the Senate to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, signaling a decisive final push to overhaul the regulatory framework of the
Bitcoin miner fees are close to zero as cost to mine nears $80,000 with difficulty about to drop 5%
Bitcoin mining is still running on the subsidy, not demand. That is the more useful place to start as we head into the next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment window, which CoinWarz now estimates for April 18, 2026, with difficulty projected to fall
US inflation soars to 3.3% in largest jump since 2021 – so why did Bitcoin barely move?
March inflation has delivered a split result with one immediate consequence. US consumer prices accelerated hard enough to keep the Federal Reserve boxed in, while the softer core reading kept the next month alive as the real test. That tension reaches
Bittensor sheds $900 million in market value as key AI developer exits amid in-fighting
A high-profile departure from Bittensor has triggered a steep sell-off in the decentralized artificial intelligence network, wiping out nearly $900 million from its market capitalization in a matter of hours as internal disputes spill into public view. On April 10, Covenant
Bitcoin’s rebound looks like a trap and Wall Street knows it – as real Hormuz threat may not be over
A two-week conditional ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran has forced a rapid rewrite of the Strait of Hormuz trade, but it has not fully restored the pre-war macro backdrop. Oil has fallen sharply from the panic highs, global equities have
Crypto projected to move $719 trillion through global payments with Visa, Mastercard aggressive stance
For most of the past two years, debate about stablecoins in payments has focused on the checkout screen: will consumers ever tap a wallet instead of a card? Visa, Stripe, and Mastercard have answered with their capital. Visa now settles in
Ethereum Foundation keeps selling ETH after telling the market it was staking 70,000 coins
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced on Apr. 8 that it would convert 5,000 ETH into stablecoins through CoWSwap’s TWAP feature to fund research, grants, and donations. The announcement reopened a debate over what the foundation’s treasury overhaul was ever meant to
Morgan Stanley’s new Bitcoin ETF buys 430 BTC on debut, raising pressure on BlackRock’s IBIT
On April 8, Morgan Stanley’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund began trading on the NYSE Arca under the ticker MSBT, logging 1.6 million shares and roughly $34 million in volume on its highly anticipated first day. The MSBT fund purchased 430 Bitcoin
Strategy made nearly $2 billion on Bitcoin this year but SEC filing hides a far bigger number
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is claiming its aggressive Bitcoin purchases have yielded a nearly $2 billion gain this year despite the top asset's clear price struggles. However, a close look at the enterprise software company's legally binding regulatory filings tells a much
Why Bitcoin’s $72k breakout started before Trump’s ceasefire post in the craziest trading day in years
Markets spent the night unwinding one trade: the fear that the Iran deadline would turn into a broader energy shock. Once Trump signaled a two-week ceasefire window, oil broke lower, equities jumped, and Bitcoin surged. Bitcoin, SPY, and crude oil tracked
Traders poured $3 billion into Binance after Bitcoin hit $72,734 on ceasefire headlines – what are they betting on?
Bitcoin climbed back above $70,000 on Wednesday after news that the United States and Iran had agreed to a Pakistan-brokered two-week ceasefire tied to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. According to CryptoSlate's data, the top crypto rose 5% to a peak
After the $285M Drift hack, new Solana scare shows crypto’s next security risk may already be inside
The Drift exploit and Stabble’s precautionary warning point to a difficult crypto security problem: the next major breach may begin long before funds move on-chain. That is what makes these incidents more than isolated alarms. They suggest that some protocols may