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Sam Bankman-Fried, alias SBF, the disgraced founder of the now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange, has withdrawn his motion for a new trial.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 […]

Despite a new chip challenge from Google and a billion-dollar contract loss hitting one of its key suppliers, Nvidia remains the dominant force in artificial intelligence hardware, with fresh deals in the UK, China, and the automotive sector reinforcing that position. Wall Street research firm TD Cowen reaffirmed its buy rating on Nvidia this Thursday, […]

The Trump administration says China is trying to raid American AI labs to move faster. A Financial Times report on Thursday said the White House accused China of carrying out industrial-scale theft of US AI intellectual property and warned it would crack down. The report cited a memo by Michael Kratsios, director of the White […]

Platforms that let people bet on real-world outcomes are struggling to keep cheaters out, and the problems are piling up fast. Kalshi, one of the biggest prediction market platforms in the United States, announced Wednesday that it had fined and suspended three candidates running for office after they placed bets on their own elections.  The […]

Tokenized U.S. Treasuries have established a massive footprint in the digital asset landscape, hitting a record $14 billion as of April 2026.

About 13 million barrels per day of oil are caught in the wider Strait of Hormuz crisis, pushing India and China into a scramble for replacement crude. Both are now chasing fewer barrels as disruptions in the waterway and stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks tighten the market. The main target is now Russia. Saudi Arabia is […]

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada came close to moving toward China after economic pressure from the U.S. and Europe boxed in Canadian companies. Speaking Thursday at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore, Trudeau said Western allies “almost drove” Canada “into China’s arms.” He linked that warning to Bombardier, the Canadian aircraft maker that began […]

Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin, USDT, announced on Thursday that it aided the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and United States (US) law enforcement in freezing $344 million across two addresses.

Crypto adoption slowed down in Q1, 2026, driven by a contraction on developed markets. Growth hinged on developing markets, with the most growth coming from Turkey, at 7% year-on-year.

Satsuma Technology is under pressure from its investors, including Pantera Capital, to liquidate its Bitcoin treasury to reimburse shareholders.  The internal pressure is reminiscent of how Empery Digital was also pressured to sell its Bitcoin to buy back its shares, abandoning the market playbook popularized by Michael Saylor’s Strategy, which continues to accumulate Bitcoin for […]

Tether, the world’s leading stablecoin issuer, has frozen two whale wallets on the Tron blockchain that hold a combined $344 million in USDT. According to SolanaFloor, the two addresses held roughly $131.3 million and $212.9 million, and both were halted within minutes.  Tether has confirmed it supported the action in coordination with the US Treasury’s […]

LayerZero (ZRO) is trading at $1.58 at the time of writing on Thursday, rising from the daily low of $1.54. Despite sentiment broadly improving across the crypto market, interest in ZRO has remained subdued, especially in the retail market.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is back to suggesting ways for prediction markets to do better after news reports claimed that a Polymarket trader might have tampered with the temperature terminal that the odds prediction platform uses to settle weather markets for the whole of Paris on two separate occasions, on April 6 and 15.  The […]

ETH retail traders caused selling pressure, keeping the price within a tight range close to $2,300.

WLFI co-founder Zach Witkoff is facing fresh public attention after body camera footage from a 2022 arrest resurfaced online. The video, recorded outside the E11EVEN nightclub in Miami on New Year’s Day 2022, shows Witkoff being detained by police. Its revival has coincided with growing concern over the company’s internal disputes and legal challenges. Arrest […]