Cardano development teams wants almost $50 million for Bitcoin DeFi and Vision 2030
Input Output Global, the primary software laboratory behind the Cardano blockchain, has halved its annual treasury funding request, asking the network’s decentralized governance body for $46.8 million to finance its 2026 operations. The pullback marks a deliberate transition away from single-entity
Bitcoin’s $3.8 billion recovery in 2026 hits crossroads with the path to $150,000 still open
Several recovery engines are running in parallel as Bitcoin trades near $78,000, roughly 38% below its October 2025 peak. US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $1.32 billion in March, reversing the outflow streak that ran from November 2025 through February. From
Trump “not happy” with prediction markets – says world is a “casino” as Special Forces soldier arrested for insider trading on Polymarket
Federal prosecutors have charged Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty U.S. Army soldier who the indictment says has served as a U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant, with allegedly using classified information about a military operation to make more than $400,000 in
Bitcoin’s 38% plunge just revealed who has paper hands — and it wasn’t ETF buyers
The March and April 2026 drawdown has structural consequences, as Bitcoin ETF holders stayed steady. Bitcoin sits near $78,000, roughly 38% below the $125,761 peak from Oct. 6, and US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $1.32 billion in March, reversing a
How Strategy’s STRC could propel the Michael Saylor’s firm Bitcoin holdings past BlackRock’s IBIT this week
Michael Saylor has signaled that Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, may be preparing to buy more Bitcoin, reviving a pattern investors now treat as an early marker for another weekly treasury announcement. On April 19, the company’s executive chairman posted a screenshot of
Public miners dump record BTC and are pivoting to AI — is Bitcoin’s security backbone starting to hollow out?
Publicly listed Bitcoin miners liquidated more than 32,000 Bitcoin during the first quarter of 2026, marking a record sell-off as the industry's largest operators redirect billions in capital toward artificial intelligence. This historic shift is unfolding precisely as the economics of
Wall Street moves beyond the Bitcoin ETF trade as XRP leads altcoins on fragile macro relief
Institutional investors are looking past the crypto market’s two largest behemoths, aggressively rotating capital into alternative cryptocurrencies as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East agitate traditional markets. Data from SoSoValue shows that US-based investment vehicles tracking the spot price of XRP
What Happens to Bitcoin if the TradFi rally breaks? Wall Street keeps printing record highs but consumer confidence just hit rock bottom
The S&P 500 closed at 7,126 on April 17, another record, while the University of Michigan’s preliminary April consumer sentiment reading fell to 47.6, the weakest print in the survey’s history. The split on the screen looks surreal. Charlie Bilello shared the
Charles Schwab is bringing Bitcoin to its 39 million clients – but without the protections they expect
Charles Schwab announced this week that it will begin selling Bitcoin and Ethereum directly to its 39 million brokerage clients. They will appear in the same account view as stocks, ETFs, and retirement funds, in the same app, under the
White House tells “greedy” banks to “move on” from CLARITY Act stablecoin yield fight
A White House digital assets official has slammed the traditional banking sector's continued opposition to the proposed stablecoin yield compromise in the CLARITY Act. On April 17, Patrick Witt, the executive director of the White House Presidential Advisory Committee on Digital
SEC removes huge pattern day trader barrier to allow retail investors to day trade Bitcoin with just $2k margin
The SEC has approved a rule change that eliminates one of Wall Street's most recognizable barriers for small traders: the old $25,000 minimum tied to pattern day-trading restrictions. Regulators signed off on FINRA's proposal to scrap a framework that long made
Bitcoin network activity just hit an 8-year low — has Wall Street replaced retail in the market?
Bitcoin's network just recorded its lowest activity in eight years, and the price has barely flinched. CryptoQuant flagged that active BTC addresses hit their lowest level since 2016 on Apr. 8. At the same time, Glassnode's latest 24-hour reading puts active
Bitcoin faces critical weekend test as Iran closes Strait after immediately disputing the US narrative on Hormuz deal
UPDATE Saturday 9 am UTC: After markets closed Friday, the Speaker of Iran's parliament announced that the Strait of Hormuz would not remain open while the US blockade remained in place. So far, Bitcoin has retraced part of its gain,
FSB warns of ‘triple whammy’ crisis as private credit threat to global markets worsens
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is warning that global markets could be heading toward a chain reaction in which tighter funding, war-driven volatility, and deepening cracks in non-bank finance converge into what its chair calls a possible “double or triple
Data proves Bitcoin must retake $80k soon or risk BTC miners being shut down and replaced with $4B in AI revenue
Quantum computing has long served as Bitcoin’s most cinematic threat. It has the right ingredients for a high-drama warning, strange machines, broken cryptography, and the possibility of a future rewrite of digital trust. Yet the greater danger facing Bitcoin today looks
Bitcoin now has just 4 days before ceasefire deadline risks price reversal with Hormuz closed again
Iran's Friday announcement that the Strait of Hormuz would be opened during the current ceasefire triggered one of the sharpest oil reversals of the year. Brent crude fell 12.95% to $86.52, and WTI dropped 14.26% to $81.19, both their lowest levels
US Bitcoin ETFs pull in $664M in largest daily inflow since January, because Iran reopened Hormuz for a few hours
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their largest single-day capital inflow since January on April 17, as the reopening of a critical Middle Eastern shipping route sparked a broader market rotation into risk assets. According to SoSoValue data, the 12
On Schedule and Above Target: JST’s Third Buyback and Burn Breaches $21 Million
According to the latest official update, the third large-scale buyback and burn of JST has been completed. In this round, 271,337,579 JST tokens, worth an estimated $21.3 million, were burned, representing 2.74% of the total supply. Every dollar deployed in