Commodities led the growth, with oil trading reaching $6.9 billion in weekly volume after geopolitical tensions, while stock perpetual swaps grew 908% to roughly $4.9 billion.
BitMEX said commodity perpetual swaps volume jumped from $38.1 million to $25 billion in Q1 as traders flocked to 24/7 gold, silver and oil exposure.
ZachXBT said a 390-account North Korean IT worker network has generated over $3.5 million in crypto flows since November 2025.
Iran may accept BTC for oil tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz, while Morgan Stanley just helped drive a huge day for Bitcoin ETFs.
The bitcoin miner earned $222,012 in subsidy and fees for mining block 944,306 using CKpool in a solo mining configuration.
The liquidation was so large relative to the order book that Hyperliquid's auto-deleveraging mechanism activated, forcibly closing profitable short positions on the other side of the trade to prevent the system from accumulating bad debt.
Pepe is back on traders’ radar after Canary Capital’s ETF filing triggered a fresh wave of speculation. The development has pushed sentiment sharply higher, but price action remains locked at a critical breakout zone, where the next move could define the short-term trend. The key question now dominating the market is clear, Can Pepe price …
Whales and options traders are betting on a massive BTC reversal toward $80,000 as a fragile Iran ceasefire fuels hopes for a supply squeeze and a breakout.
The SEI price remains stuck in a deep bearish trend, even as the crypto markets experience a bullish push with Bitcoin trading above $71,000 and Ethereum around $2,200. The price has plunged heavily by 95% from its all-time high and is trading near the lower boundary of its identified demand zone. No clear reversal structure …
The South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), together with the Digital Asset Exchange Association (DAXA) are rolling out unified rules for withdrawal across all registered crypto exchanges. A Unified Crypto Withdrawal System From now on, all local crypto exchanges are being forced to have one tough, standardized withdrawal‑delay regime by South Korean financial regulators. According to the Korean outlet News1, the intention behind the new withdrawal delay system for crypto exchanges is to prevent damage from voice phishing scams that depend on speed. The new criteria for ‘withdrawal delay exceptions’, which according to News1 have previously been highly susceptible to criminal exploitation, will be standardized. Intensive monitoring will also be conducted on accounts to which these exceptions apply. Related Reading: Crypto Trust Crisis — The “Kim Jong‑Un Test” Is Exposing Secret North Korean Moles The aforementioned vulnerability was created by “exchange‑by‑exchange loopholes” that scammers abused, The Korea Times claims. In many of these voice phishing schemes, dirty cash is funneled into an account, quickly flipped into crypto, and rushed back out again before investigators can track it or lock it down. What The Change Really Entails South Korean exchanges have been obliged to hold crypto withdrawals for 24 to 72 hours after a deposit since May 2025. This creates a buffer window that lets banks and regulators spot and stop suspicious transfers. However, the rules include exemptions based on factors like how long an account has been open, its past activity, trading size, and any history of misconduct. Each exchange has set and applied those standards on its own until now. In some instances, accounts slipped into the exempt bucket with minimal checks, letting scammers sidestep the waiting period and pull funds out almost instantly. Between June and September 2025, 59% of identified fraud‑linked exchange accounts sat in these “exception” buckets that dodged the delay. Under the new standards, authorities want exception accounts cut to under 1% of users. Exchanges are also required to tighten KYC, fund‑source checks and monitoring on those accounts Regulators also intend to tighten scrutiny of exempt accounts, rolling out stronger, recurring customer checks. This includes routine verification of where funds come from, at least once a year. Alongside it, a new system designed to more systematically track and analyze withdrawal patterns will also be required. To keep inconvenience to a minimum, exemptions will still be available when immediate withdrawals are genuinely needed, for example, to settle accounts. Market Implications The new measure comes on top of other recent strict Korean crypto regulations, like AI‑powered transaction surveillance and potential early account freezes for suspected manipulators. Just this Monday, the FSC ordered all domestic crypto exchanges to have a new 5-minute asset-matching system, as regulators found that the existing kill switches of some of the major exchanges were unreliable. Related Reading: Binance Deploys PRER Volatility Shield — Here’s How New Price Bands Could Hit Your Orders All new users and large fresh deposits will face predictable 24–72 hour “cooling‑off” windows before they can move coins to self‑custody or offshore venues, which dulls fast‑money flows and arb activity. Standardized delays and tighter exemptions make it harder for scam rings to spin up fresh accounts across multiple exchanges, but they also push sophisticated traders toward long‑term setups, derivatives on regulated venues, or non‑Korean liquidity hubs. If the model works and fraud metrics fall, Korea’s unified‑delay template is likely to show up in other high‑risk jurisdictions as a “best practice” for managing scam‑heavy retail flows. Bitcoin bounced back and reclaimed $72k earlier today. At the moment of writing, BTC trades for the high $71ks on the daily chart. Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview. Cover image from Perplexity. BTCUSDT chart from Tradingview.
Bithumb's error highlights the critical need for robust security measures in crypto exchanges to prevent costly distribution mistakes.
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Chainalysis projects stablecoin volumes could reach $1.5 quadrillion by 2035, driven by generational wealth transfer and retail adoption. Stablecoins already processed $28 trillion in 2025, growing 133% annually since 2023. However, this shows that stablecoins could become a core global payment infrastructure. Stablecoins Growing Faster Than Traditional Payments According to the Chainalysis report titled “The …
Bitcoin needs to regain momentum with higher trading volumes for BTC to reclaim $80,000 as support and sustain the recovery.
Bhutan has moved another 319 BTC, taking the total to over 9,000 BTC since late 2024, and trimming its sovereign stash by around 70%.
Despite a geopolitical "risk-on" boost, crypto markets remain range-bound with BTC hovering at $71,200 while altcoins like MANA and AERO show strength.
Bithumb has filed for a court-approved asset freeze to recover 7 BTC, worth approximately $496,000, from users who have refused to return funds two months after the exchange’s catastrophic payout error. The legal action marks the final unresolved chapter of one of the largest accidental Bitcoin distributions in exchange history. Bithumb $43 Billion Bitcoin Error: …
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced on Apr. 8 that it would convert 5,000 ETH into stablecoins through CoWSwap’s TWAP feature to fund research, grants, and donations. The announcement reopened a debate over what the foundation’s treasury overhaul was ever meant to accomplish. Over the last year, EF moved treasury assets into DeFi, borrowed against ETH […]
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Strategy's Michael Saylor said bitcoin has likely bottomed near $60,000 and downplayed quantum computing risks.
The decision closes a legal battle spanning more than a year, after Dunamu moved to overturn the sanction and halt its enforcement.
Around $180 million worth of Avalanche has been transferred to Coinbase over the past six months, raising concerns about sustained selling pressure. The crypto community reacted with skepticism and frustration, with some users pointing to large transactions as a main reason behind AVAX’s weak price performance. Avalanche is trading around $9.07, down 3.35% in 24 …
The DOJ and CFTC asked a federal court to block Arizona from prosecuting Kalshi, citing event contracts as federally regulated swaps.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the CLARITY Act is vital to set clear rules for crypto, tokenized assets and decentralized exchanges, and that US leadership is at stake.
High yield structure keeps STRC pinned at par while enabling large scale bitcoin purchases.
The Iran war pushed oil to $115, forcing markets to cut expectations from four Fed rate cuts to just one. The Federal Reserve kept rates at 3.50%–3.75%, as rising energy prices lifted inflation to around 3.0%. This signals delayed rate cuts and tighter liquidity for risk assets, which often pressure Bitcoin and altcoins. Why the …
Bitcoin surged above $72,500 within minutes of the ceasefire announcement on Tuesday. Wallets tied to Binance, Coinbase, Wintermute, and Grayscale all moved simultaneously. Then the price stalled and started pulling back. To a lot of people watching on-chain data, that looked like a setup and potential manipulation. And they’re not entirely wrong to ask the …
Bitcoin’s quantum problem is still years away, but Bernstein says 1.7 million BTC sitting in early address types could be among the most exposed if the technology ever gets there. Related Reading: XRP Faces No Immediate Quantum Threat As Only 0.03% Supply Seen At Risk: Analyst That includes an estimated 1.1 million BTC tied to Satoshi Nakamoto, which would matter only if quantum machines become strong enough to break today’s encryption. Legacy Wallets In Focus Bernstein’s view is not that Bitcoin faces a near-term collapse. The firm’s analysts describe the issue as a “manageable upgrade cycle,” not an “existential risk,” and say the danger is concentrated in older wallets and addresses that reuse public keys. Newer wallet practices, including avoiding address reuse, lower exposure. The report also draws a line between wallet risk and mining risk. Bitcoin’s SHA-256 mining process is not seen as meaningfully vulnerable to quantum attacks, even if future machines become powerful enough to threaten some wallet signatures. Bernstein said the most exposed address types include pay-to-public-key, pay-to-multisig and pay-to-Taproot formats. ???? CRYPTO: BERNSTEIN RESEARCH SAYS BITCOIN HAS 3-5 YEARS TO PREPARE FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING THREAT Bernstein Research, the Societe Generale-owned brokerage, said quantum computing poses a credible but manageable threat to Bitcoin, estimating the industry has a three to five year… pic.twitter.com/6QFMObpXjn — BSCN (@BSCNews) April 8, 2026 A Longer Timeline Than Panic The firm pointed to recent research from Google as one reason the threat is being taken more seriously now. That work reduced the resources thought necessary to break modern encryption, but Bernstein still said building a machine capable of compromising Bitcoin remains years away because of major technical barriers and high costs. Its estimate gives the crypto industry about three to five years to prepare for post-quantum security upgrades. That timeline leaves room for the Bitcoin developer community to act through the normal upgrade process. Bernstein said open-source contributors and core developers would likely handle any move toward quantum-resistant standards, with changes proposed and adopted through consensus rather than by force. The report also leans on a broader industry view. Quantum experts generally give a 10-year timeline for cryptographically relevant quantum computers, or machines able to break today’s encryption, according to Bernstein’s chart. That gap is part of why the firm argues the issue is real but not urgent enough to trigger panic. Related Reading: South Korea Imposes 5-Minute Audit Rule On Crypto Platforms What Bitcoin Faces First For now, the pressure sits on old holdings, not the network as a whole. Bernstein said the risk is uneven, with older legacy wallets facing more exposure because public keys are already visible on-chain. By contrast, modern wallet use and better key practices reduce the chance of attack. The rough number Bernstein cited — about 1.7 million BTC in early P2PK addresses — shows why the topic keeps returning. Those coins would not be the first target of any quantum attack, but they are the clearest example of what could be at stake if hardware advances faster than the network’s response. For now, Bernstein’s message is that Bitcoin has time, though not endless time, to prepare. Featured image from Meta, chart from TradingView
On Feb. 6, staff mistakenly entered "BTC" instead of "KRW" in a promotion, crediting roughly 620,000 bitcoin worth over $40 billion.
Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF drew $30.6 million in first-day inflows, ranking second behind BlackRock’s IBIT as US spot Bitcoin ETFs clocked net outflows on Wednesday.
Dubai’s regulator issued new guidance placing token launches into three buckets, tightening disclosure and governance standards for stablecoins, RWAs and other digital assets.
For most of the past two years, debate about stablecoins in payments has focused on the checkout screen: will consumers ever tap a wallet instead of a card? Visa, Stripe, and Mastercard have answered with their capital. Visa now settles in USDC, Stripe bought Bridge, and Mastercard is acquiring BVNK. Each move reflects the same […]
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