Ripple (XRP) exhibits technical weakness, trading around $1.43 at the time of writing on Friday. Prices across the crypto market appear pressured amid buyer exhaustion following the early-week gains driven by the extension of the US-Iran ceasefire on Tuesday.

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading just below the critical $78,000 resistance at the time of writing on Friday. This pivotal level continues to shape BTC’s outlook, with a sustained break above it likely to open the door to gains above $80,000.

Russian ruble-pegged stablecoins like A7A5 and RUBx will be hit by the EU’s newest sanctions aimed at further cutting Moscow’s financial flows. The restrictions introduced by Brussels seek to thwart transactions using both traditional and digital currencies by attacking processing entities. Europe imposes ‘total ban’ on Russian crypto platforms The European Union is now banning […]

Bitcoin is trading near $77,911, up 0.67%, but the rally is still failing to break cleanly higher. Open interest is at $122.62B, down 0.81%, while liquidations fell to $163.29M. USDC on Binance rose from about $4.5B in March to $7.51B by April 21. Gold is down this week, while the dollar and 10-year Treasury yields […]

Bitcoin (BTC) looks set for a fourth consecutive week of gains, hinting at a bullish market structure as it faces resistance at the $80,000 psychological level.

Funds from the Balancer hack are active again after five months of dormancy. The hackers deposited 1,100 ETH and used ThorChain DEX to swap the funds into BTC.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on Friday unveiled a preview of its long-awaited V4 model while also moving to raise outside funding for the first time.

Trump will head back home to Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday to speak at a private crypto conference.

SpaceX said Texas law and its own rules could make hostile takeovers, proxy fights, and leadership removals harder.

Dogecoin (DOGE) extends gains for the third consecutive day, trading above $0.095 at press time on Friday and approaching a key resistance trendline.

TSMC’s stock hit another new all-time high today because investors got two reasons to buy more of the world’s largest chipmaker.

Jane Street asked a New York court to throw out Terraform's insider trading lawsuit on April 23, 2026.

USDe outflows have surged $1.6 billion in April 2026 as Whales appear to be losing faith in DeFi following the ~$293 million exploit of Kelp DAO this month.

Monero (XMR) trades around $375 at press time on Friday, displaying mild retracement after over 3% gains the previous day. The privacy coin steadily recovers demand in the derivatives market as traders anticipate further upside amid a broader market risk-on phase.

Cardano (ADA) remains under pressure, trading below $0.250 on Friday as price action stays muted below key resistance levels. On-chain data from Santiment shows that certain whale wallets are reducing their holdings, increasing selling pressure.

The broader cryptocurrency market retains its newfound risk appetite as Bitcoin (BTC) holds above $78,000 on Friday, despite the US-Iran peace negotiations becoming volatile. Meanwhile, Zcash (ZEC), Chiliz (CHZ), and Algorand (ALGO) emerge as top performers over the last 24 hours.

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) are supporting a constructive outlook on Friday after surging by 6%, 2% and 3% so far this week, respectively.

Bitcoin's (ETH) recovery above $76,000 has strengthened expectations that the asset could reclaim $80,000 in the near term, as analysts point to rising institutional demand and improving market structure as support for further upside.

Strategy now holds more Bitcoin than any fund or government, and could surpass Satoshi Nakamoto within two years.

DeFi's recent wave of consistent hacks and stalled total value locked (TVL) is weakening its institutional appeal, according to JPMorgan analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, in a report late Wednesday.

Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment accusing Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a 38-year-old active-duty U.S. Army soldier from Fayetteville, North Carolina, of using classified Maduro raid information to win about $409,881 on Polymarket. Prosecutors say Gannon had access to secret details from Operation Absolute Resolve, the U.S. mission to capture Nicolás Maduro, then […]

Sam Bankman-Fried, alias SBF, the disgraced founder of the now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange, has withdrawn his motion for a new trial. This follows the recent conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried to serve 25 years in prison after his involvement in the fraud against FTX customers and investors, who felt he would not get a fair trial. […]

Tesla stock is falling today because investors are dealing with rising spending, merger talk, and a market that chases big stories when numbers look weak. After earnings on Wednesday, the stock moved lower as traders focused on a spending plan that came in bigger than expected. Tesla raised its full-year capex target to $25 billion […]

Ethereum (ETH) has seen a spike in total fees captured on its mainnet over the past week.

Intel came into Thursday with a lot to prove and left with a much louder number set. The chipmaker posted first-quarter results that beat what Wall Street had penciled in, and traders pushed INTC shares up 15% in after-hours trading right after the release. Intel reported $13.58 billion in revenue for the quarter, above the […]

Aave has frozen rsETH reserves across Ethereum Core, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, and Linea as the fallout from the KelpDAO exploit shifts from emergency mode to recovery mode. Announcing the decision on X, the protocol said it will help recover more funds while recovery plans keep moving after the April 18 exploit that drained 116,500 rsETH, […]

The April 2026 Vercel security incident continues to extend past initial claims. The incident, which was said to involve what Vercel referred to as a “limited subset of customers,” has now expanded toward a much broader developer community, especially those building AI agent workflows.  In its recent security bulletin on April 19, which has been […]

Prediction markets are betting that Hormuz will stay choked for longer, even after Washington and Tehran extended their ceasefire. Traders on Kalshi moved the odds lower for a quick return to normal shipping after both sides said very little about the one thing the market actually cares about: whether Iran will reopen the strait and […]

Washington is facing pressure from a broad coalition of crypto industry players over the market structure bill. More than 120 organizations moved ahead to formally urge the US Senate Banking Committee to push the bills. It specifically includes the long-awaited CLARITY Act. However, the group is led by the Blockchain Association and Crypto Council for […]

The BIS, famously known as the central bank of central banks, highlighted the need for appropriate safeguards as cryptoasset service providers have stopped being fringe aspects of global finance to become real financial intermediaries in its latest paper.  The post comes close to the end of an active month for DeFi hackers. Two of the […]