ETH price is retesting a long-term support trend line that previously preceded a 5,200% rally, a fractal setup pointing to a potential move toward $60,000 by 2030.
South Korean prosecutors seek 20 years for Delio CEO over $168.8 million embezzlement from 2,800 crypto deposit users.
Bitcoin price action remained weak as the US-Iran war delivered a Fed meeting that was the "most hawkish in years" and oil neared four-year highs.
MegaETH (MEGA), a new Ethereum Layer 2 network focused on real-time performance, is listing across multiple major centralized and decentralized exchanges simultaneously, including KuCoin, Bitget, Bithumb, Upbit, and Coinbase on 30th April 2026.According to CoinMarketCap, Mega token’s pre-launch price surged past $0.195, jumping over 8% in a day. MegaETH (MEGA) Goes Live on Exchanges MegaETH …
AI integration in finance is reshaping enterprise systems, enhancing efficiency and transforming user interactions globally.
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Facebook paid its creators nearly $3 billion in 2025 — a 35% jump from the year before. Now some of those Meta creators will get paid in crypto. Related Reading: Dogecoin Futures Open Interest Explodes As Leveraged Traders Pile In Meta: A Second Try At Digital Payments Meta has begun rolling out USDC stablecoin payouts to select creators in the Philippines and Colombia, marking the company’s return to digital currency after a failed attempt years ago. Creators who sign up can link a third-party crypto wallet to Facebook’s payout platform and receive funds directly on the Solana or Polygon blockchains. The rollout is live now, though it remains limited to eligible creators in those two countries for the moment. Polygon confirmed the launch on Wednesday, adding that expansion to more than 160 markets is expected soon. “This is how creators’ lives are improved,” the blockchain network said, pointing to faster settlement times and access to dollar-denominated assets as key benefits for users outside the US. The future of marketplace commerce is on Polygon.@Meta launched stablecoin payouts for creators on the Polygon Chain. Live in Colombia and the Philippines, with 160+ markets coming, users now get faster settlement with USDC while gaining access to dollar denominated assets. pic.twitter.com/hjodzNpuyU — Polygon | POL (@0xPolygon) April 29, 2026 One catch: Meta does not convert USDC to local currency. Creators who want cash will need to use an outside exchange on their own. The company also reserved the right to pay through alternate methods if technical problems arise. Big Scale, Careful Rollout The creator pool affected by this change is broad. Meta’s platforms — Facebook and Instagram — host influencers, educators, and entertainers who earn through content posted on the apps. According to company data, that creator base collectively received close to $3 billion from Facebook alone last year. USDC, the stablecoin issued by Circle, ranks as the second-largest stablecoin by market value. Data from DeFiLlama puts its market cap at over $77 billion as of Thursday. Tether’s USDT still leads the market at a little over $189 billion. Stablecoins have been gaining traction across the financial industry. Reports indicate that banks and financial institutions in Europe are actively picking infrastructure partners to support stablecoin adoption, a sign that corporate interest in the technology has moved well beyond cryptocurrency circles. Related Reading: Bitcoin Bull Run Brewing: ATH In Sight By Late 2026: Analyst The Ghost Of Diem Meta’s history with stablecoins is complicated. The company first entered the space in 2019 under the name Libra, which was later rebranded as Diem. The project ran into a wall of regulatory opposition from central banks and lawmakers who raised concerns about financial stability, privacy, and consumer protection. In January 2022, the project acknowledged it could not move forward and sold its assets to Silvergate Capital Corporation. This time, Meta is not building its own stablecoin. By using USDC — an already-regulated, widely accepted digital dollar — the company sidesteps much of the friction that doomed Diem. Featured image from MetaAI, chart from TradingView
KAST said Stephanie Allen will bolster KAST's public profile and reputation among policymakers, thought leaders, and media.
Backed by 20VC, Picus Capital and Coinbase Ventures; XO lets users create and profit from their own prediction markets, and plans to rollout a new vault product to democratize market making.
South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, has announced the listing of MegaETH (MEGA) with trading pairs MEGA/KRW, MEGA/BTC, and MEGA/USDT. MegaETH is an EVM-compatible Layer 2 network designed for real-time performance, claiming over 100,000 transactions per second with near-instant latency. The MEGA token is used for governance, staking, and gas fees. The listing aims to …
Robinhood's stock closed down 13.2% after the company reported weaker first-quarter earnings the previous day.
The old Bitcoin playbook ran on the simple logic that when global M2 expands, capital flows into risk assets, and Bitcoin captures a disproportionate share. That relationship powered the 2020-2021 bull market, and crypto Twitter spent the better part of 2024 charting M2 overlays as proof that the next leg was imminent. Now, the global […]
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Bybit CEO Ben Zhou said the exchange has been removed from the Securities Commission Malaysia’s Investor Alert List after constructive engagement and full alignment with local regulatory requirements. The development follows earlier enforcement actions but reflects improved compliance and cooperation with authorities. Zhou also highlighted Bybit’s investment in Malaysia-based licensed platform Hata, signaling a focus …
South Korea’s largest credit card issuer, Shinhan Card, has signed a strategic MOU with the Solana Foundation to test stablecoin payments on Solana’s testnet. The project focuses on real-world customer and merchant transactions to evaluate speed, scalability, security, and user experience. Building on earlier successful trials, the initiative explores instant settlements, lower fees, and non-custodial …
The conversation around Bitcoin at the Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas took a decisive turn this week after Eric Trump confirmed that the U.S. government is sitting on a massive stash of Bitcoin, and isn’t planning to sell. “The US government holds 300,000 BTC and will not sell it,” Trump said during a panel, reinforcing …
XRP's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked into the FOMO zone on April 29, the same level that has historically marked local tops in the token, per Santiment data.
Fidelity Digital Assets says Bitcoin’s latest drawdown has pushed the market into a zone that has historically aligned with accumulation phases, even as its momentum signal remains negative and broader crypto risk appetite stays narrow. In its Signals Report Q2 2026, Fidelity’s research team described a market still working through a corrective phase rather than entering a broad-based expansion. Bitcoin remains the dominant source of unrealized profitability across the digital asset complex, while other major assets continue to stabilize after a sharp reset in Q1. Fidelity Says Bitcoin Looks Undervalued The report’s clearest Bitcoin price signal comes from the asset’s “Yardstick,” a valuation framework that compares Bitcoin’s market capitalization to hash rate. Fidelity rated the metric positive, noting that falling prices and a pullback in hash rate have pushed the indicator into what it calls an “undervalued” zone. Related Reading: Bitcoin $90,000 Predictions Surge Across Social Media—Contrarian Signal? “Historically, this undervalued zone has aligned with accumulation phases and relative bottoms,” the report stated. According to Fidelity, Bitcoin spent 71 of the previous 91 days, or 78% of the period, below negative one standard deviation of the Yardstick’s mean. The condition first appeared in October 2025 and was amplified by two cold-weather events in the United States that temporarily curtailed mining activity as operators reduced power usage to support local grid stability. That nuance matters. Fidelity does not frame the hash-rate decline purely as a sign of deteriorating miner confidence. The report said some analysts have linked the decline to miners shifting toward AI workloads, but argued the move could also reflect demand-response programs, especially in regions such as Texas where miners routinely power down during peak grid demand. The price backdrop remains difficult. Fidelity’s momentum signal for Bitcoin turned negative on October 18, 2025, when BTC traded near $107,000. Since then, Bitcoin has fallen roughly 36%, with most of Q1 2026 spent in a defined range between $62,500 and $76,022. The firm said that pattern is more consistent with consolidation than a renewed trend. “This signal is not designed to identify precise tops or bottoms,” Fidelity wrote, adding that the current reading points to stabilization rather than fresh upside momentum. Bitcoin’s NUPL score also reflects a cautious market. Fidelity said BTC’s net unrealized profit/loss stood at 0.21 at the end of Q1 2026, placing investors in the “Hope-Fear” zone. That reading suggests some holders remain in profit, but the market has not yet established broad conviction that a durable bottom is in place. The historical setup is more constructive. Fidelity found that prior periods when Bitcoin’s NUPL hovered around 0.21, plus or minus 0.01, coincided with a median one-year return of 63% and a three-year compound annual growth rate of 74%. The firm emphasized, however, that these historical relationships may weaken or fail to persist, particularly when macro conditions dominate digital asset flows. Related Reading: Bitcoin To $125,000: Arthur Hayes Says The Setup Is Turning Bullish Separately, Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer pointed to a more tactical Bitcoin setup, sharing a chart that shows BTC testing the upper boundary of what he described as a potential bear flag. The chart places Bitcoin near $79,486 after its rebound from the February low around $60,033, with momentum indicators moving back into overbought territory. Timmer framed the current setup as an important technical test. “Technical Analysis 101 states that when bear market rallies get overbought, it’s usually the kiss of death and time to sell,” he wrote. “However, during bull markets overbought momentum means that the market is strong and likely to stay strong.” His conclusion sharpened the price question raised by Fidelity’s broader report: whether Bitcoin is still trapped in a corrective structure or beginning to transition into a new bull phase. “If Bitcoin cannot be pulled down by this current combination of overbought momentum and trendline resistance, then this is an emerging bull market and not a bear market rally,” Timmer said, adding that this has been his “hunch all along” and “may be about to get confirmed.” At press time, BTC traded at $76,036. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The XRP price has been under significant upward pressure over the past few days, particularly after hitting a local high of $1.44. On the other hand, XRP’s social sentiment has surged to one of its highest levels in two years following the Rakuten integration narrative. But beneath the optimism, market data tells a very different …
Open interest in DOGE-tracked futures climbed to 15.36 billion tokens, a sign that traders are adding fresh leverage as the memecoin’s price surges.
Proposal introduces vesting for 40.7 billion insider tokens after 2-year cliff, even as voting power remains concentrated among a handful of large holders
Crypto markets are under pressure today as the Federal Reserve reinforces a “no rush to cut” stance, tightening expectations around liquidity. Despite holding rates steady, the central bank pointed to prolonged restrictive conditions, which historically weighs on high-risk assets like crypto. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP have all moved lower as liquidity expectations tightened and risk …
Tether has proposed that Twenty One Capital, a NYSE-listed bitcoin treasury venture, merge with Strike and Elektron Energy.
The latest stablecoin move comes years after Meta first dipped its toes into stablecoins through Libra in 2019, before scrapping the plans in 2022 due to regulatory pushback.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis says the Senate’s version of the CLARITY Act has “made a lot of progress,” and it was time for lawmakers to vote on advancing the bill.
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, but the decision itself was almost beside the point. What rattled crypto markets was a single phrase buried in the policy statement that traders and analysts pulled apart within minutes of its release. Gone was the familiar characterisation of inflation as “somewhat elevated.” In its place, the Fed …
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have now recorded their third straight day of outflows, with total withdrawals crossing $490 million. Following this selling pressure, Bitcoin price dropped 3% after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged, and is now trading at $75,621. This shows that short-term institutional confidence in Bitcoin is weakening as several market pressures …
Ripple's expansion in Dubai underscores the Middle East's growing influence in the blockchain sector, potentially reshaping global finance dynamics.
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Hawkish dissent within the Federal Reserve, elevated oil prices and rising long-term inflation expectations are pushing bond yields higher.
Ripple is strengthening its Middle East strategy by expanding its regional headquarters in Dubai’s DIFC, a key global financial hub known for its strong regulatory framework and growing fintech ecosystem. The move builds on Ripple’s early entry in 2020 and follows regulatory approval from the DFSA, positioning it as a licensed blockchain payments provider in …
Shinhan Card has partnered with the Solana Foundation for a proof-of-concept project testing a real-world payment system using stablecoins.
Crypto sold off across the board with bitcoin down 2.1% and ether off 3.4% as Brent crude surged 7.1% to $126 a barrel on reports President Trump is being briefed on military options for Iran.