Pi Network is starting to turn heads again, and this time, the setup looks more convincing. With over 10.2 billion tokens in circulation with a market cap of $1.91B, Pi sits among the top 50 cryptocurrencies globally. After months of slow movement, Pi has finally broken an important resistance level, just as attention builds ahead …
The Trump administration is preparing to unveil its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve plan within the next two months, according to recent reports. The proposal aims to use around 200,000 BTC seized by the government as a national reserve asset. Officials say a major announcement could come in the coming weeks, with legal and policy work already …
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, the second-largest public crypto holding company, provided a detailed update on its Ethereum (ETH) strategy on Monday, along with broader figures covering its crypto portfolio, including total holdings and so-called “moonshots.” The company said its combined crypto-related positions now reach $13.3 billion, while the key focus for investors remains its Ethereum accumulation, which it says has hit a new high. Bitmine Targets 5% Of Ethereum Supply According to Bitmine’s disclosure, its ETH holdings have reached a record 5,078,386 tokens at $2,369 per ETH. Thomas Lee, the company’s Chairman, emphasized that the milestone was reached during the past week, noting that Bitmine “crossed 5 million this past week.” He framed it as an important step toward a longer-term objective: acquiring 5% of the Ethereum supply. In his remarks, Lee said the speed of accumulation has been “astonishing,” with Bitmine reaching the 5 million mark in roughly 10 months. Related Reading: ‘The Beat Goes On’ – Saylor Hints At Another Bitcoin Buying Spree Lee also pointed to research that supports the idea of Ethereum as a “store of value.” He cited recent reports, including a study by Etherealize, arguing that ETH could increasingly be held as collateral as digital assets become more involved in financial transactions. In his view, Ethereum’s recent performance since the Iran War began has helped demonstrate that role. Lee claimed ETH has outperformed the S&P 500 by 1,696 basis points since the war started, and he added that Ethereum remains the single best-performing asset in the world, aside from crude oil prices. He argued this dynamic reinforces the idea of ETH as a particularly resilient asset in “war-time,” portraying it as both meaningful and distinctive relative to other holdings. Beyond valuation and performance, Lee connected Ethereum’s momentum to two larger trends. He said Ethereum benefits from Wall Street tokenizing activity on the blockchain, and also from the rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems that, in his framing, increasingly require public and neutral blockchains. Highest Purchase Pace Since December On the trading pace itself, Lee said Bitmine has maintained an increased rate of ETH purchases over each of the past four weeks, describing this as evidence of an ongoing accumulation strategy even amid changing market conditions. He said that in the most recent week, the company bought 101,901 Ethereum, calling it the highest pace of buys since the week of December 15, 2025. Lee also linked the buying strategy to what he referred to as Bitmine’s base case, stating that ETH is in the final stages of a “mini-crypto winter.” Related Reading: Dogecoin Trap Shows A Major Crash, But How Low Will The Price Go? The company also detailed its staking position. As of April 26, 2026, Bitmine reported that its total staked ETH stands at 3,701,589 tokens, which it valued at $8.8 billion using the $2,369 per ETH price. In addition to that figure, Bitmine said its annualized staking revenues are now $264 million. At the time of writing, Ethereum was trading at $2,292. Despite improving market conditions, it retraced 3% on Monday after failing to surpass the $2,400 resistance level. Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
Senator Cynthia Lummis walked off the Bitcoin conference 2026 stage on Sunday, having delivered the clearest public commitment yet on the Clarity Act’s timeline. “We are going to mark up the Clarity Act in May,” Lummis told the crowd. “We are going to get it to the finish line. We are going to have the …
For the first time in history, a sitting SEC Chairman addressed a Bitcoin conference. Paul Atkins used the moment to speak about regulatory limits, political risk, and why the Clarity Act is not just important but essential to protecting everything the current administration has built for crypto. The SEC Cannot Do This Alone He said …
Gold advocate and longtime Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff has taken direct aim at Michael Saylor’s most famous prediction, and the math he is using is simple enough to make Bitcoin bulls uncomfortable. In 2025, Saylor predicted Bitcoin would hit $1 million per coin if Strategy accumulated 5% of the total supply. Strategy currently owns 3.9%, …
At Paris Blockchain Week, Anodos CEO Panos Mekras shared a strong view on how the XRP Ledger is evolving beyond institutions and moving toward everyday users. The discussion focused on the idea that the next phase of crypto adoption is not just about banks, but individuals taking control of financial services directly. From Banking Crisis …
US Representative Nick Begich has announced plans to rebrand the Bitcoin Act as the American Reserves Modernization Act (ARMA) in the next few weeks. Speaking at the 2026 Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, the Congressman said the move is intended to draw additional support from lawmakers for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve similar to that of …
Bitcoin (BTC) approached the $80,000 psychological barrier today but only reached a high of $79,420. What followed was a downward trend, with the price currently at $76,757 (-3.35%). While no major news triggered this drop, sell pressure heightened following massive derivative liquidations in an over-leveraged market. Bitcoin retracement from near $80K Within an hour, crypto …
In the race to determine whether XRP can mount a real rally toward the $10 level next year, one market expert, Sam Daodu, argues that the answer depends less on hype and more on whether two major forces finally line up. Daodu says nearly every serious XRP price forecast for 2027 relies on the same prerequisites: US regulation has to be clarified, and institutional capital has to begin flowing in at a meaningful scale. Without both, the upside case becomes harder to justify, even if parts of the story are already moving in the right direction. Mixed Progress For XRP Price Daodu’s latest report stresses that, at the moment, neither prerequisite is fully in place. He points to continuing regulatory uncertainty as the key blocker for institutions. In his view, the currently stalled CLARITY Act is the legislation that could change the price dynamics by permanently establishing XRP’s position as a digital commodity—an outcome that, if it materializes, would likely remove a major share of the risk institutions are still pricing in. Related Reading: Bitcoin Is Headed For $40,000: Analyst Reveals The Best Time To Buy BTC That said, the report frames the situation as a “mixed progress” scenario rather than a clear-cut bull market versus bear market. On the positive side, several catalysts connected to a potential rally are already showing up. Exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows, for instance, have reportedly remained positive without a single outflow day since April 9. Daodu treats that steady demand as an important signal that market participation is still present. Beyond ETF flow data, Daodu highlights on-chain activity as another supportive element. According to the report, whales have been withdrawing roughly 7 billion XRP from exchanges since February, and large holders appear to be driving a significant portion of those movements. Even with these bullish indicators, Daodu argues they aren’t arriving with the speed or scale that the $5–$10 outlook depends on. He emphasizes that institutional money—described as essential to those higher targets—still hasn’t shown up at the level required to match an “instant” re-rating of XRP. Why The Next 60 Days Are Key To reach above $10, the report argues XRP would need a rare alignment of several events. Daodu says the CLARITY Act would have to pass, ETF inflows would need to scale toward the $4–$8 billion range, and Bitcoin (BTC) would have to lead a wider rally that accelerates demand across the altcoin complex. In short, pushing XRP toward $10 is not framed as the most likely path; it’s presented as a scenario that requires multiple catalysts to land correctly at the right time. Related Reading: Dogecoin Trap Shows A Major Crash, But How Low Will The Price Go? Daodu concludes with what he believes XRP holders should monitor over the next 60 days: the Senate Banking Committee markup before May 21. In his view, this is a key near-term checkpoint. If the markup clears, the bull case remains intact, and $7 becomes a more realistic anchor price for the market’s expectations. If, however, the process stalls in May, the report suggests the outcome could be pushed out and possibly delayed until 2027. In that event, regulatory delay could cap XRP’s price at around $3 for much of that year—unless Bitcoin triggers another explosive run. Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
Bitcoin has climbed roughly 25% from its lows, touching $79,500, but analyst Gareth Soloway says the easy money from this move has already been made. The near-term target zone sits between $80,000 and $85,000. A push to $80,000 would represent just 3.5% upside from current levels. Even a stretch to $85,000 is only 8%. That …
Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson has a message for the XRP community celebrating the Clarity Act as a victory for the industry: you are wrong, and the bill you are cheering for would have classified your token as a security if Ripple were founded today. Speaking in an interview, Hoskinson said the Clarity Act in its current …
The UMXM price is sprinting today. In a market that usually needs weeks to build momentum, Manadia managed to compress that into days, pushing from roughly $1.15 to the doorstep of $2.00. That’s not organic drift. That’s aggressive demand kicking the door open. And yeah, there’s a story behind it because there’s always a story …
The XCN and LUNC price action are today in focus as they snapped today. Two completely different catalysts, one common outcome that’s bullish price action one saw freedom from long-dead bearish trends getting steamrolled in a matter of hours that’s XCN for you. On the other token, you’ve got a courtroom narrative breathing life this …
South Korea’s K Bank, the country’s largest internet-only bank, has teamed up with Ripple to pilot blockchain-based cross-border payments across two corridors: the United Arab Emirates and Thailand. K Bank operates entirely online with no physical branches, making it one of South Korea’s fastest-growing financial institutions and a natural fit for blockchain-based payment rails that …
Pi Network holds approximately $1.85 billion in market capitalisation, accounting for nearly 95% of the $1.94 billion mobile mining sector, according to market data. The figures put Pi Network in a position of near-total dominance within its category, with no other project coming close in terms of market value. The mobile mining segment, which was …
Bitcoin is currently trading around $79,126, up 2% in the last 24 hours and roughly 6% in the last week. BTC is slightly outperforming the broader crypto market as the level $80,000 comes back into focus. Analyst Michaël van de Poppe says Bitcoin is gaining strength again, but it’s now entering a phase where the …
A market structure analysis circulating on X this week put forward an interesting claim about XRP: retail investors are not pushing the price up, but they are likely the main reason it has not fallen further. The data behind the argument draws on April 2026 on-chain estimates. Around 50 to 55% of all XRP sits …
Momentum around the U.S. CLARITY Act remains uncertain, but Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz says the long-delayed bill could move forward in May and potentially become law by June. Speaking with Anthony Scaramucci,Novogratz maintained a positive tone despite recent setbacks. “So this is going to get done. It will probably get done in May,” he …
Crypto analyst Trader Tardigrade is pointing to a setup that could define Dogecoin’s next major move. The Dogecoin monthly candlestick chart, which stretches back to 2014, shows a pattern that has played out with remarkable consistency, almost mechanical in nature. According to that structure, Dogecoin is now sitting right at the level where previous price explosions have been triggered. Related Reading: Stablecoins Go Institutional As Morgan Stanley Rolls Out New Portfolio A Pattern That Has Played Out Twice Before Dogecoin is still trading below $0.10 into the last week of April, languishing well below its cycle peak of $0.48 and largely ignored by many crypto investors. But for Trader Tardigrade, that lack of action may be precisely the point. The structure at the center of Trader Tardigrade’s analysis is a descending triangle that appears to form on Dogecoin’s monthly chart at the end of every major market cycle. Looking at the monthly chart below, Dogecoin initially broke above this triangle formation in 2024. However, the meme coin has been on a price correction path since late 2024, and is now at the point of retesting the apex of the triangle. Interestingly, similar retests of the apex of the triangle, which is its tightest, most compressed point, have always indicated the precise moment before an explosive move to the upside. Back in 2017, Dogecoin compressed into the tip of such a formation and then surged in what became its first significant bull run. The pattern repeated in 2020, when the DOGE price once again coiled into the triangle’s apex before exploding into the historic 2021 rally that took the meme coin to a peak of $0.73. Now, in 2026, Trader Tardigrade is pointing to a third convergence. The monthly chart shows price action once again compressing and retesting the triangle’s tip. Dogecoin’s Price Chart. Source: @TATrader_Alan On X Dogecoin Price Projection According to Trader Tardigrade, when Dogecoin comes back to the tip of the triangle, it doesn’t ask permission. The prediction is a bounce from the triangle’s apex that pushes the Dogecoin price into new price territories. Notably, the analyst’s projection sees Dogecoin going as high as $2.4 if the bounce plays out in full. Although the pattern itself is clear, the broader market environment will likely play a key role in determining how this setup unfolds. This is because Dogecoin’s previous rallies coincided with strong bullish phases across the crypto market. The crypto market is more complex right now, and the fundamental landscape around Dogecoin in 2026 is materially different from what existed in prior cycles. Related Reading: XRP Signals Imminent Breakout — Is A 10% Rally Coming? Bitcoin, for one, needs to stabilize into a full bullish momentum first. The leading cryptocurrency has been attempting to stabilize above $78,000, while capital flows into the industry have picked up in recent days. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
Bitcoin has spent April staging a recovery from its March lows, briefly climbing back above $79,000. However, not everyone is convinced of the rebound, and some analysts believe the move is only a mid-bear-market rally before a deeper correction. One such analyst is one that previously predicted a coming peak in July 2025. Now, the same analyst is predicting how far the Bitcoin price still has to fall before it puts in a true bottom. Related Reading: Stablecoins Go Institutional As Morgan Stanley Rolls Out New Portfolio Analyst Uses Previous Top Model To Predict Bitcoin Bottom Crypto analyst Killa made a cycle-top prediction of $121,362 back in June 2025. This call was made months before Bitcoin reached its all-time high of $126,100 in October 2025 and it was off by only about 3.9%. Now, using the same analytical framework that generated that call, Killa has turned the model toward the downside. The principle behind the projection is that each successive Bitcoin market cycle produces a smaller multiple relative to the prior cycle’s bottom, reflecting the maturation of the asset. His data across five cycles shows the high-to-bottom multiple declining from 15.50x in the first cycle to 7.64x, then 6.26x, and then 4.47x in Cycle 4, where Bitcoin peaked at $69,800 before bottoming at $15,600. Applying the same rate of reduction, Killa projects the current cycle’s multiple at 3.25x, dividing the $126,100 cycle top to arrive at a base bottom target of $38,800. To account for the 5% variance that offset his top prediction, he added in two upside scenarios of $40,740 and $42,680. Even at the top of that range, Bitcoin would still be well below the $60,000 level that some market participants have cited as the correction bottom. Bitcoin Price Chart. Source: @KillaXBT On X At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $78,015, meaning a move to $42,680 would still require a drop of about 45%, while a further drop to $38,800 would be close to a 50% correction from current prices. Three Years Up, One Year Down Killa’s bottom projection finds support from a separate analysis by analyst CryptoBullet, who approached the question of a bottom from a symmetry standpoint. CryptoBullet’s weekly Bitcoin chart characterized the current cycle as a five-wave Elliott Wave advance beginning in late 2022, with Wave 5 completing around the $126,000 high in October 2025. The subsequent correction, labeled as a W-X-Y corrective structure in blue, projects a final Wave Y leg down below $50,000 to $45,000. Bitcoin Weekly Chart. Source: @CryptoBullet1 On X Related Reading: XRP Signals Imminent Breakout — Is A 10% Rally Coming? According to the analyst, three years of upward price action from the November 2022 bottom through the 2025 peak cannot reasonably be corrected in less than a year of decline. The current bear phase is shown extending into the second half of 2026 before the bottom structure can be completed. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
Tuttle Capital has filed for an XRP Income Blast ETF, the latest sign that Wall Street’s appetite for XRP exposure is growing faster than the market seems to notice. Related Reading: Stablecoins Go Institutional As Morgan Stanley Rolls Out New Portfolio The filing came as US spot XRP ETFs quietly pulled in more than $75 million in April — drawing almost no attention while traders focused on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Institutions Accumulate With Little Noise Data from SoSoValue shows US spot XRP ETFs now collectively hold $1.08 billion — equal to 1.20% of the token’s total supply. Inflows have been steady and one-sided. Since April 9, meaningful outflows have not materialized, with only a minor $661,000 dip recorded across the entire period. In a single day, ETFs brought in $3.89 million, with the Franklin Templeton XRP ETF — trading under the ticker XRPZ — leading that charge. The consistency of these flows points to long-term positioning by institutional buyers rather than the short-burst trading typical of retail-driven markets. ???? XRP Ledger saw 34.94M $XRP in total exchange outflows, the 6th largest 24-hour period of the year. Historically, these large outflow days have corresponded with upcoming bullish price action. ???? Check out XRP outflows here on Santiment any time: https://t.co/WLCy1405T2 pic.twitter.com/nTDT8nDnV3 — Santiment (@santimentfeed) April 24, 2026 One market observer noted on social media that the $75 million pulled in during April flew under the radar while attention stayed locked on bigger tokens. The implication: that kind of gap rarely holds. Whale Moves Dominate On-Chain Activity On the blockchain side, the XRP Ledger recorded 34.94 million XRP leaving exchanges in a single 24-hour window — the sixth-largest daily outflow of 2026, according to data from Santiment. Large outflow events like this have historically preceded price increases, since tokens exiting exchanges tend to reduce the amount immediately available for selling. This isn’t retail traffic. Large holders accounted for 94% of recent outflows on Binance. That means nearly all of the movement was driven by wallets holding significant amounts of XRP. At the same time, whale transfers back into Binance climbed to around 3,000 transactions on April 23 and 24, after dropping close to zero in the days prior. Reports indicate this kind of bounce-back suggests active repositioning — not distribution. Big players appear to be moving XRP around with purpose. What that purpose is remains open to interpretation, but the scale and speed of the activity stands out. Related Reading: XRP Signals Imminent Breakout — Is A 10% Rally Coming? ETF demand and on-chain signals are picking up, but XRP isn’t following through. The price keeps failing at resistance and easing back toward $1.43, staying slightly above the $1.40 support zone. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView
A crypto analyst has identified a Golden Triangle, a rare structure that has been forming on the Ethereum (ETH) chart for almost nine years. According to the analyst, the Ethereum price has remained within this triangle during both bullish and bearish periods. However, he says the cryptocurrency is now approaching the apex of the triangle pattern, signaling an upcoming breakout either to the upside or downside. Depending on the direction of that breakout, the analyst has forecast ETH’s next move and possible price target. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Big Players Are Accumulating — Is $80K Just The Start? Ethereum Golden Triangle Could Trigger A Surge To $10,000 A market analyst identified as ‘Merlijn The Trader’ on X has shared a new Ethereum price analysis, presenting both bullish and bearish scenarios. In a post shared on April 24, Merlijn said the Ethereum price is currently trading within a Golden Triangle pattern that has maintained its structure since 2017, two years after the cryptocurrency launched in 2015. According to the analyst, the pattern has withstood several major events that caused sharp price swings during all those. He pointed to the 2020 COVID crisis, when most cryptocurrencies suffered steep declines, including ETH, which also crashed significantly. Even so, he noted that Ethereum continued to hold within the Golden Triangle. The same pattern remained intact during the 2022 bear market, which followed ETH’s explosive surge to an all-time high above $4,800 in 2021. He added that even after reaching a peak in 2026 and undergoing another major correction, Ethereum remained within the triangle without breaking its structure. Because the structure has held firm through all these bullish and bearish events, Merlijn believes ETH could now be approaching a decisive breakout from the nine-year formation. Looking at his accompanying chart, he noted that ETH is moving closer to the apex, the highest point, of its Golden Triangle, where a breakout often occurs. Once the price reaches this apex, two outcomes are possible: Ethereum could either break upward or move lower through the bottom of the structure. In his bullish case, Merlijn believes an upside breakout could send ETH above $4,350 and push its price toward a measured target of around $10,000. Given how long the triangle has held, he expects Ethereum to continue trending higher, with occasional pullbacks, until eventually reaching an ambitious peak above $56,000. He placed this longer-term price target in 2028, suggesting the rally could extend over the next two years. ETH Bear Case If Price Breaks Below Triangle For his bear case scenario, Merlijn The Trader noted that if Ethereum decides to go the opposite direction to break below the triangle, that move could trigger a decline toward $1,950. Currently, Ethereum is trading above $2,300, following its latest rally that saw it surge over 36%. Related Reading: Stablecoins Go Institutional As Morgan Stanley Rolls Out New Portfolio If the cryptocurrency declines to $1,950, it would mark a more than 15% drop from current prices. Even so, despite outlining this downside risk, Merlijn remains confident that a breakout to the upside may be the likely scenario. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
According to a crypto analyst, the Bitcoin price remains firmly in a bear trend and could be preparing for another major crash to new lows. Using a wave structure, the expert mapped out BTC’s price action during this bearish phase, outlining how he sees the current market developing and where he believes the next downside move could lead. Contrary to other analysts’ predictions, the analyst believes that BTC has not yet reached its cycle bottom and may first see a final surge before plunging below $40,000. Related Reading: Stablecoins Go Institutional As Morgan Stanley Rolls Out New Portfolio Bitcoin Price Could Rebound To $80,000 Before A Final Crash Market analyst Crypto Bullet has presented a bearish BTC forecast on X, suggesting that the flagship cryptocurrency may still have more declines ahead before the current bear market ends. In his analysis, he described BTC’s market structure as a “Double ZigZag (WXY)” formation, using it to track the cryptocurrency’s price action from its October 2025 peak and project where the next major decline could unfold. One reason Crypto Bullet views BTC’s bear market through this WXY structure is because of how the cryptocurrency has traded in recent months. He noted that Bitcoin has spent far more time consolidating between $62,000 and $78,000 than it did in the $84,000 to $97,000 range, where it traded from November 2025 to January 2026. To him, that prolonged sideways movement reflects a broader bearish structure still playing out. Based on that setup, Crypto Bullet believes that BTC’s recent rebound above $78,000 does not mean its bear market has ended but could instead be part of a larger corrective move. He expects the cryptocurrency to make one final push higher toward $85,000, with this level as the next major resistance above his ABC target of $82,500, as highlighted on his chart. Crypto Bullet has tied this outlook to his WXY wave structure. According to him, Bitcoin completed wave W after peaking above $126,000 in October 2025 and plunging to $60,000 in February 2026. He noted that wave X also began after BTC reached $60,000 and projected it could end once the cryptocurrency rallies above $80,000. If that scenario plays out, Crypto Bullet expects wave Y as the final leg low, which is where he believes BTC could eventually find a bottom. In terms of timing, the analyst believes that BTC still has five months left before its bear market ends, which closely aligns with timelines from past bear cycles. Analyst Marks BTC Bottom Target At $40,000 Crypto Bullet’s bearish outlook for Bitcoin centers on wave Y, which he believes could bring the most severe downturn of this cycle. According to him, once Bitcoin completes its rebound above $80,000 in wave X, the market could reverse sharply, triggering a rapid price crash toward a final bottom. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Big Players Are Accumulating — Is $80K Just The Start? He marked BTC’s potential bottom target at $40,000, expecting the move to play out between September and October 2026. From the $80,000 level, this would represent a whopping 50% decline, potentially wiping out bullish traders who had interpreted the surge to $80,000 as the start of a new bullish trend. Supporting this outlook, crypto analyst Tony Severino said he believes this could be the most likely scenario for BTC. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
Crypto pundit Star has highlighted that crypto decentralization is a myth, noting that crypto networks and firms can freeze funds. The pundit specifically alluded to the Tether freeze and Arbitrum’s move to freeze the crypto assets stolen by the Kelp DAO exploiter. Pundit Highlights Crypto Decentralization Myth In an X post, Star stated that centralization has been exposed inside TRON USDT. The pundit noted that Tether just executed the largest freeze in its history, freezing $344 million USDT, which it carried out in coordination with OFAC and the U.S. law enforcement. This was executed directly through the USDT smart contract, with the funds visible but completely unusable. Related Reading: What The Kelp DAO’s $292 Million Hack Means For XRP Holders Earning Yield Further commenting on how it works, Star explained that Tether has admin control over USDT contracts, which proves that crypto decentralization is a myth. The pundit added that this admin control enables the USDT issuer to blacklist any address, freeze balances instantly, and permanently destroy funds. It is worth noting that Tether had confirmed the freeze, stating that it supported the U.S. government in freezing $344 million USDT across two addresses, which were on the TRON network. The firm added that the freeze was executed after the addresses were identified, preventing further movement of funds. A CNN report confirmed that the U.S. government directed the freeze of these USDT funds because they are linked to Iran. Iran had notably opted against stablecoins in favor of Bitcoin for toll payments at the Strait of Hormuz over fears of seizure, further highlighting the myth around crypto decentralization. Meanwhile, Star pointed out that the Tether freeze on TRON came just days after the network’s founder, Justin Sun, said that TRON is the most decentralized blockchain in the world after the Arbitrum incident. Sun has yet to comment on the Tether freeze on the TRON network, which occurred earlier this week. The Arbitrum Incident Also Raises Concerns Star also cited the Arbitrum incident to highlight that crypto decentralization is a myth. Earlier this week, Arbitrum announced that the network’s Security Council had taken emergency action to freeze the 30,766 ETH being held in the Arbitrum address that is connected to the Kelp DAO exploiter. Related Reading: Remember Arbitrum? This Analyst Just Predicted That A 7,400% Rally Is Coming The network stated that the Security Council acted with input from law enforcement regarding the exploiter’s identity. It is worth noting that the Kelp DAO exploiter had stolen up to $292 million in staked ETH from the Kelp DAO bridge last weekend. Meanwhile, Arbitrum’s decision to freeze this ETH drew mixed reactions. Crypto pundit Pledditor noted that Arbitrum, which has regularly received praise from Vitalik Buterin as the most decentralized Layer-2, has just frozen funds. On the other hand, Helius CEO Mert praised the move, noting that Arbitrum having the means of control and refusing to use it to appease the exploiters would be a “much worse and dishonorable outcome.” Featured image from Pxfuel, chart from Tradingview.com
The ORCA price detonated today with a 40% intraday surge sending the token flying from a quiet base near $0.93 to a sharp peak around $1.30 before coming to $1.22, this surged wiped out March month’s boredom in a single, aggressive move. One candle. Clean break. No hesitation and this move didn’t came random but …
The BSB price didn’t just move but it snapped this week and recent 60% intraday surge is another impressive run. What we observed is an staggering 300% climb in just 14 days of April, from $0.156 to $0.621, this is the kind of move that forces even the most jaded market watchers to pay attention. …
Momentum around the U.S. CLARITY Act markup has slowed further after the Senate Banking Committee failed to signal any markup schedule before the end of the week, pushing expectations into May and raising doubts over the bill’s near-term progress. Eleanor Terrett reported that no update came from Senator Tim Scott or Senate Banking Committee Republicans …
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has raised alarm over a sharp rise in crypto-related kidnappings in France, linking the trend to alleged leaks of tax and investor data. He argues that increasing exposure of personal financial information is making crypto holders easier targets for organized crime groups operating across the country. “More data = more victims,” …
The cryptocurrency industry is once again facing questions about one of its core promises: decentralization. Charles Hoskinson recently revisited a widely discussed essay by Moxie Marlinspike, renewing debate over whether Web3 systems are as independent from centralized control as the industry claims. Hoskinson argued that while blockchain networks themselves may be decentralized, most users still …