Bitcoin continued to trade near the $67,000 level just following the strong report.
Google’s March 30 whitepaper rattled the crypto market but reframed a question the industry has been asking wrong for years. The research from Google’s Quantum AI team found that cracking Bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits – a 20-fold reduction from previous estimates. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could derive …
The foundation deposited the bulk of its planned staking commitment in a single session, completing a program announced in February to turn dormant treasury holdings into a yield-generating position.
Your day-ahead look for April 3, 2026
ETH is trading at $2,055, down 58% from its August 2025 all-time high of $4,953, and sitting at a level that has become one of crypto’s most uncomfortable recurring storylines. Trader Ash Crypto and others captured the mood on X with a simple list: every time ETH has touched $2,000 since April 2021. Twelve entries …
Bitcoin holds a tight range as altcoins rally on low liquidity, but derivatives data and options skew suggest traders are bracing for downside.
Bitcoin is trading at $66,804, up 0.58% over the past 24 hours, nursing a 47% loss from its October 2025 all-time high. The latest hit came straight from the White House. President Trump’s April 1 address flipped the script on markets that had spent Tuesday pricing in a peace deal. Instead, he promised the U.S. …
Ripple’s Treasury platform joining the SWIFT Certified Partner Program is being seen as a major step toward traditional finance. Still, analysts say the reality is more nuanced than the hype suggests. So, let’s break down what actually happened. Ripple Pushes Deeper Into Banking Rails Following its $1 billion acquisition of GTreasury in 2025, Ripple has …
Naoris debuts its quantum-resistant mainnet, which uses algorithms approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Can a stablecoin choose not to freeze your funds and still be a stablecoin? That question, posted on X by Columbia Business School professor Omid Malekan, just got a sharp technical reality check from Ripple CTO Emeritus, David ‘JoelKatz’ Schwartz. The timing could not be more loaded. Malekan’s argument was straightforward. In a space where …
Bitcoin price today faced a sharp setback after a U.S. address in Iran triggered a global risk-off reaction, dragging prices down nearly 6% within hours. The move pushed BTC below the crucial resistance levels, with price now struggling under the $69,000 mark and failing to break the $72,500–$73,000 zone. Adding to the uncertainty, markets are …
XRP News: Two of Asia’s most prominent blockchain-focused firms SBI Ripple and DSRV have started a joint research project to explore how blockchain can improve remittance and payment systems in Japan and South Korea.They teamed up to make cross-border payments faster and cheaper, using the XRP Ledger at the center of their plan. SBI Ripple–DSRV …
The memecoin debate is back in the spotlight after Changpeng Zhao explained why BNB Chain didn’t join the “PUMP” trend like Solana. Speaking in a podcast with ThreadGuy, CZ highlighted that the difference wasn’t just strategy, it was timing, regulation, and risk. Why BNB Stayed Away From ‘PUMP’ CZ admitted that if a PUMP-style platform …
After aggressively accumulating Bitcoin over the past two years, several public companies are now reversing course. With BTC hovering around $66K and prolonged price weakness weighing on balance sheets, firms, especially mining companies, are increasingly offloading holdings to stay liquid. Riot Platforms Sold 3,778 BTC in Q1 2026 As per the latest report, Riot Platforms …
What began as a single protocol exploit is now affecting the entire Solana network. Drift Protocol, which lost $285 million in the attack, is no longer only Drift’s problem. New data from SolanaFloor shows 20 protocols are now exposed, with losses continuing to grow. Here’s how the Drift Protocol exploit impacts the other Solana protocol. …
Good Friday shuts CME futures and ETF activity, removing a key source of demand as large holders continue distributing and spot demand weakens.
U.S. President Donald Trump named Todd Blanche, his former personal attorney and deputy attorney general, as the interim top prosecutor.
On April 2, 2026, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a note regarding real-world assets (RWAs), noting both their advantages and shortcomings in the financial industry. Entitled “Tokenized Finance,” the note acknowledges that permissioned shared ledgers, programmable assets (RWAs), and the smart contracts that connect the two, alter finance in terms of liquidity, settlement, and …
Crypto and banking industry representatives are viewing revised stablecoin yield compromise language this week.
The negative gamma zone below $68,000 can trigger a self-reinforcing sell-off, leading to an ever larger slump.
The CFTC argued in a lawsuit that the Commodity Exchange Act gave it "exclusive jurisdiction" over all swaps, which include prediction markets.
Coinbase’s conditional OCC approval moves it closer to operating as a federally regulated crypto custodian, pending compliance and final review.
The move comes in response to a wave of phishing attacks using fake copyright emails and is the latest in an attempt to shut down crypto-linked scams on the platform.
The exploit did not involve a bug in Drift's code. It used "durable nonces," a legitimate Solana transaction feature, to pre-sign administrative transfers weeks before executing them, bypassing the protocol's multisig security in minutes.
In the middle of a surge higher following President Trump's overnight comments, the price of WTI crude oil quickly fell nearly $6 per barrel on the news.
Beyond simple storage, the next era of institutional crypto will be defined by the real-time connectivity and mobility of digital assets across a fragmented market.
The blockchain analytics firm pointed to cross-chain laundering patterns and Solana-specific tracing challenges that mirror prior North Korean state-linked operations.
The crypto asset manager said investors are sidelined by Middle East tensions, but resilient valuations and structural adoption trends could set up the next leg higher.
For years, the knock on traditional banking has been simple: markets move around the clock, but banks do not. SoFi is building the alternative. The nationally chartered US bank launched Big Business Banking today, an enterprise platform that lets companies hold deposits, move money, and settle transactions at any hour through fiat or crypto, all …
Long term holder trends suggest a maturing bear market, yet extended consolidation could test investor patience.