Today's Crypto Pulse
Bitcoin slides below $70k as energy‑price worries spark $1.8B in liquidations
Bitcoin fell under $70,000 amid heightened energy‑price uncertainty linked to U.S.–Iran tensions. The dip triggered roughly $1.8 billion in crypto liquidations, while institutional investors pulled more than $4.2 billion from digital‑asset positions.
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By the numbers: Strive acquires 2,500 Bitcoin for $185.2M
Coinbase Lists British Pound-Backed Stablecoin Expanding Access to $30M Crypto Market
Coinbase announced the addition of tGBP, a British pound‑backed stablecoin, to its exchange on April 22. The token gives Coinbase’s roughly 100 million users access to a niche $30 million market‑cap asset tied to the UK pound. The move is timed ahead of the expected finalization of UK crypto regulations, positioning the platform to serve British customers more directly. tGBP joins other fiat‑backed stablecoins on Coinbase, broadening its stablecoin suite.
ETH Stalls Below Key BTC Levels, Awaiting Bottom
I keep repeating the crucial levels for $ETH. Unfortunately, it broke down, which means that there's no continuation of the uptrend, yet. As long as it stays below 0.032 $BTC, I'm not interested until I see a clear bottoming formation or when...
NEXUS Partners with TRON's 'B.AI' To Expand 20 Million AI Agent Ecosystem
NEXUS announced a strategic partnership with TRON’s B.AI platform to turn AI agents into autonomous economic actors. B.AI’s x402 payment protocol and TRC‑8004 identity standard let agents hold assets and transact without human oversight. The collaboration builds on NEXUS’s Multi‑Royal...
IShares Ethereum ETF (ETHA) Beats VanEck Bitcoin ETF (HODL) with 28% Return Over 12 Months
The iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) posted a 28.16% total return over the past year, while VanEck's Bitcoin ETF (HODL) lost 18.6%. Both funds charge similar fees, but ETHA’s higher return and larger drawdown illustrate the trade‑off between Ether’s upside and...
Bitmine Buys $236 Million in Ether as Tom Lee Touts ETH as 'Wartime Store of Value'
Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 101,901 ETH last week, a $236 million purchase that lifted its treasury above 5 million tokens, representing roughly 4.21% of ether’s circulating supply. The firm now stakes about 3.7 million ETH, generating an estimated $264 million in annualized yield. Bitmine’s...
The Double-Edged Sword: How Crypto Can Fund, Expose, or Deceive in Special Operations
Catherine Woods’ Irregular Warfare Initiative paper argues that Special Operations Forces can exploit cryptocurrency for covert payments, unconventional acquisitions, and deception, but the technology’s pseudonymous nature makes transactions traceable. Adversaries who capture a single wallet can map an entire SOF...
Universal Basic Equity: Humanity’s Pension for the AI Era
Forget UBI. The answer is Universal Basic Equity… and it’s humanity’s pension plan for the post-AGI world... The Economic Singularity is coming faster than people think and the default question is how humans make money in a world that doesn’t really...
Bitcoin ETFs Hit 8-Day Inflow Streak — $2.1 Billion and Counting
Bitcoin spot ETFs posted an eight‑day streak of net inflows totaling $2.1 billion, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust accounting for roughly three‑quarters of the flow and now holding over $53 billion in assets. At the same time, the Ethereum Foundation quietly withdrew...
MicroStrategy’s $2.5 Billion Bitcoin Purchase Highlights Strategy Debate
MicroStrategy disclosed a $2.5 billion purchase of Bitcoin on April 20, raising its stash to 815,061 coins – about 4% of the total supply and 76% of all publicly listed treasury‑company holdings. The move revives a clash between advocates who see the...
DoorDash to Use Stablecoins for Gig Payments
DoorDash announced a partnership with Stripe‑backed blockchain firm Tempo to roll out stablecoin‑based payments for its 8 million Dasher workforce. The new infrastructure will let couriers receive earnings instantly in a digital dollar‑pegged token, cutting traditional banking delays. Tempo’s network supports...
Pudgy Penguins Rally Coincides with Token Unlock as Analyst Flags Exit Liquidity Risk
Pudgy Penguins’ PENGU token rallied after an April 17 unlock that released roughly 703 million tokens, about 0.79% of the 88 billion‑token supply. On‑chain data shows the primary unlock wallet quickly dispersed 182.8 million tokens across 19 addresses, a pattern analysts link to large...
Bitcoin Funds Take in $933 Million as Crypto ETFs Hit Highest AUM Since February
Bitcoin-focused investment products pulled in $933 million last week, pushing total crypto fund assets under management to $155 billion, the highest level since early February. Institutional investors are leading the surge, with digital‑asset funds recording $1.2 billion in weekly inflows and Bitcoin nearing...
Bitcoin Mining: An Industry That Provides Exposure to Crypto & AI
Bitcoin mining has matured into a standalone industry that converts cheap or stranded energy into newly minted Bitcoin, with profitability driven by the cryptocurrency's price, block‑reward halvings, and electricity costs. Publicly listed miners such as Marathon Digital, Riot Platforms and...
Bitcoin Flash Crashes Below $78,000 at Europe Market Open with Nearly $295 Million in Crypto Liquidations
Bitcoin slipped below $78,000 on Monday’s European market open, touching $77,819 and marking a 0.28% decline over 24 hours. The cryptocurrency’s market cap hovered around $1.56 trillion while 24‑hour trading volume stayed near $32.1 billion. Crypto‑wide liquidations surged to roughly $295 million, with...
Bitcoin's Rare Accumulation Trigger Signals Potential $200K Bottom
#Bitcoin has hit the ultimate accumulation trigger in this cycle. It doesn't hit this trigger that often, but when it does, it gives a generational opportunity. In previous cycles, these levels were hit at the actual bear market bottoms. After...
Banking Circle Approved for CASP License, Launches New Service
Banking Circle, the Luxembourg‑based fintech, has been granted a Crypto‑Asset Service Provider (CASP) license by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier. The approval enables the launch of a new stablecoin settlement service that offers 24/7 payments with bank‑level compliance...
Forced Inclusion Lets Arbitrum Freeze $70M NK Funds
Griff Green explains on Unchained how forced inclusion, a mechanism most people didn't know existed, let Arbitrum freeze $70M of North Korean funds with a single Layer 1 transaction. https://lnkd.in/eQVdqjWP
South Korea's KBank and Ripple Are Teaming up to Fix International Money Transfers
South Korea’s digital‑only KBank has partnered with Ripple to test on‑chain cross‑border remittances using Ripple’s Palisade SaaS wallet. The collaboration is now in a second proof‑of‑concept phase, evaluating speed, cost and transparency for transfers to the United Arab Emirates and...
Bitcoin Stalls Below $79K, Shifts to Range Trading
Daily Crypto — Mon Apr 27, 2026 Bitcoin tagged $79,399 overnight on the Iran-reopens-Hormuz headline, then got smoked back to $77.8K within hours. That's the third failed push through $79K in eight sessions. This stops being a coiled spring. This is...
French Authorities Indict Offenders in Crypto Wrench Attacks and Targeted Kidnapping Ring
French prosecutors have indicted 88 individuals, including more than 10 minors, for organized kidnappings that targeted cryptocurrency owners. The arrests stem from two recent operations that linked separate 2025 abductions in Savoie and Charente‑Maritime, bringing the total of pre‑trial detainees...
EU’s Largest Measures Against Russia yet Include Escalation of Crypto Sanctions Evasion
The European Union unveiled its most extensive sanctions package against Russia in two years, imposing a blanket ban on Russian cryptocurrency providers, platforms, the central‑bank digital ruble and the RUBx stablecoin. The measures also target 20 Russian banks, four foreign...
Bitcoin Reverses From $79,500 as Oil Surge Triggers Broader Crypto Selloff
Bitcoin surged to a near‑record $79,500 on Monday before slipping back to $77,800 after it failed to break the $80,000 barrier. The reversal coincided with Brent crude climbing to $107 a barrel amid heightened U.S.–Iran tensions, prompting a broader risk‑off...
Are Impact Crypto Assets a New Emerging Asset Class for Sustainable and Impact Investors?
Researchers Veronika Vinogradova and Mariya Gubareva introduce the Impact Crypto Index (ICI), the first empirically built basket of crypto assets explicitly aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The ICI demonstrates moderate volatility, lower than Bitcoin and Ethereum, and shows...
Larry Fink Says Crypto Is 1996 Internet
Larry Fink’s 2024 annual letter equates today’s tokenization wave with the early internet of 1996, signaling that mainstream finance is finally embracing crypto infrastructure. He highlights BlackRock’s rapid build‑out: roughly $150 billion in assets linked to digital tokens, including a $65 billion...
CFTC Countersues New York Over $3.4B Prediction Market Claim
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued New York State, rejecting a $3.4 billion damages claim against Coinbase and Gemini. CFTC Chair Mike Selig said the agency holds exclusive jurisdiction over prediction‑market exchanges, intensifying a clash between federal regulators and state gambling...
Grayscale Moves Away From Coinbase for New ETF Product – Is Wall Street Building a Post-Coinbase Custody Map?
Grayscale amended its Hyperliquid ETF filing on April 20, replacing Coinbase with Anchorage Digital Bank as custodian. The change highlights growing concerns over the concentration of spot Bitcoin ETF custody, where roughly $77 billion – 84% of the $91.7 billion market –...
Tokenized Treasuries Surge as Institutions Adopt 24/7 Collateral
Q1 2026 Real World Asset Tokenization Market Report https://t.co/yGJ4xZoLFM shows that tokenized Treasuries have become the fastest-growing on-chain asset class in 2026. Growth is being driven by massive inflows into Circle’s USYC ($2.7B) and BlackRock’s BUIDL ($2.4B), as institutions use...
What Is a Crypto Airdrop & How Does It Work? (Guide)
Crypto airdrops are token distributions that projects send directly to qualifying wallets, often without prior notice. The most famous example, Uniswap’s September 2020 airdrop, delivered 400 UNI tokens—worth about $1,200 at the time—to every user who had interacted with the platform,...
True Market Resistance
The author tracks Bitcoin’s price against on‑chain cost‑basis levels, viewing $79,000 as a pivotal break that would return the average active investor, recent buyer, and ETF holder to profit. Recent months have seen investors nursing losses and selling into any...
First U.S. Public Company to Bring Proxy Voting On-Chain
Broadridge announced that its ProxyVote platform now supports on‑chain proxy voting for tokenized equities, using an Avalanche‑based layer‑1 to record votes across multiple blockchains. Galaxy Digital, the first U.S. public company to issue native tokenized stock, will use this system...
Tagus Bytes (27.04.26)
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) surged into the top ten U.S. ETFs by weekly inflows, driven by a nine‑day, $2.1 billion net inflow streak in April. The ETF captured 75% of Bitcoin‑related flows, with five‑day inflows of $733 million, pushing its total...
The Quiet Expansion of Stablecoin Exposure
Stablecoins are moving from niche crypto assets into core business processes, prompting firms to embed them in vendor, payment and treasury operations. The U.S. GENIUS Act now sets reserve, redemption and reporting standards, forcing issuers and intermediaries to adopt institutional‑grade...
This Week Bitcoin Will Face Major Volatility Across a Key 48 Hour Period: Fed First, GDP and PCE Right After
Bitcoin is poised for heightened volatility as the Federal Reserve’s April FOMC decision and press conference on April 29 will be immediately followed by the release of first‑quarter GDP and March PCE data. The tight 48‑hour window forces traders to...
Global Interest Rates, Robinhood, Galaxy Earnings: Crypto Week Ahead
The week of April 27 brings a cascade of macro events, with the Bank of Japan, Fed, ECB, BoE and Bank of Canada all set to announce policy decisions. Bitcoin hovers near $78,000, but analysts warn inflation‑driven hawkish tones could pull...
Bitcoin's Expected Drop May Be Misread, Prediction Coming
Perfection. Bitcoin’s move from $66K played out exactly like this. Now the next move looks like a brutal drop. But here’s the good news: I think that’s wrong. I’ll post my updated Bitcoin price prediction later today. 🤝
A Long-Time Developer Wants to Split Bitcoin Blockchain and Reassign Satoshi Coins. The Community Is Calling It a Theft
Long‑time Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced a hard‑fork called eCash slated for August 2026, which would copy Bitcoin’s ledger and issue a 1:1 eCash token to every BTC holder. The fork adds Drivechains, a side‑chain architecture that lets developers build custom...
The Trojan Horse in Las Vegas: How the Financial-Industrial Complex Hijacked the Bitcoin Revolution.
The Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas opened with a lineup of top U.S. regulators and Wall Street executives, highlighting the growing institutional presence in the crypto space. The event underscores a shift from the original cypherpunk ethos toward profit‑driven...
Aave's rsETH Collateral: 98% Concentrated in Single Trade
What caught me in this Bits + Bips clip: 98% of Aave rsETH collateral was in one looping trade. That's not diversified risk, that's concentrated exposure hiding behind a unified pool. https://lnkd.in/ekXN-43C
DeFi Platforms Petition Arbitrum DAO for Release of $71M in Frozen Ethereum (ETH) Tokens to Support rsETH Recovery
A consortium of DeFi protocols—including Aave Labs, KelpDAO, LayerZero, EtherFi, and Compound—has filed a constitutional AIP with the Arbitrum DAO to unlock roughly $71 million (30,765 ETH) frozen after the April 18 rsETH breach. The seized ETH, representing about a quarter of the...
Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses GENIUS Act Implementation
On April 7 the FDIC released a notice of proposed rulemaking to implement the GENIUS Act, outlining requirements for permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) that are subsidiaries of insured depository institutions. The proposal caps reserve assets at 40% per institution,...
Aave’s Unified Pool Design Fuels $193M Bad Debt
Who Pays for the $193M Aave Bad Debt? 40% of LayerZero OFT deployments still run a 1-of_1 signer. @0xMether and @blockworksres break down how that choice, combined with Aave's unified pool design, produced $193M in bad debt. @bitsandbips Timestamps: ⚠️ 3:36 Dissecting the rsETH...
Consensys and Joseph Commit 30,000 ETH to Rescue DeFi
Pleased to announce that @ethereumJoseph and @Consensys are joining the DeFi United recovery efforts with 30,000 ETH to fully back rsETH and help restore confidence in DeFi. This is substantial support in the spirit of strengthening the DeFi ecosystem. Grateful for...
Sell MSTR at 1.2‑1.3 MNAV, Buy BTC
Full pivot to $MSTR shares makes sense. MNAV at 1.2 -1.3 means sell the shares and buy BTC. Shareholders should "be like Mike" https://t.co/UfWg7gXZGg
Native Account Abstraction Simplifies Starknet’s Quantum‑resistance Migration
Starknet's migration to being fully quantum-resistant will be very easy for users. The key element that will make it easy is native Account Abstraction. Native AA is one of the most important design choices we've made. An unpopular choice, but an...
On‑chain Adoption Inevitable; Just a Matter of Timing
WATCH: Former SEC and JPMorgan exec Brett Redfearn says it’s not a question of if markets move onchain, but when, given the massive scale of traditional equities compared to current crypto markets https://t.co/UQ9D3E48CF
ETH CME Futures Finally Fill Predicted Gap
$ETH CME Futures have just filled the gap I warned you about this earlier… https://t.co/adHWAnbDQl
BTC Poised for $85‑88K Peak Before Consolidation
Such a massive crash on $BTC earlier. I'm kidding. The markets are still shaping up for more upside, and it's still holding crucial levels. I think that we'll see $85-88K in May and correct/consolidate from there. https://t.co/OTJjHG0xbb
Spark's stETH Delivers Risk‑Free Yield and Compounding Network Effect
This is a significant achievement for Spark - stETH is the risk free yield on ETH with incomparable Lindy and proven long term security-focused governance. Combine that with a low risk, high Lindy lending market and you have a network...
Celebrating Women Leaders at Bitcoin 2026 Conference
Bitcoin 2026 thread starts now 🧵 Follow along on my adventures at @TheBitcoinConf First stop: Women of Bitcoin Bash to see @natbrunell @SenLummis and many other amazing women in Bitcoin 💃🏽 https://t.co/B3ReE0W2PA
Judge Declares Swaps Remain Under State Law Post‑Dodd‑Frank
The judge who is presiding over the Kalshi v. New York lawsuit (and may soon be assigned the Coinbase, Titan & CFTC cases) ruled nearly 3 years ago that “swaps” are not subject to exclusive federal jurisdiction “and continue...