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
W3.io and Space and Time Launch Verifiable Data Layer for Enterprise Autonomous Finance
W3.io and Space and Time announced a production partnership that provides an end‑to‑end, blockchain‑backed data infrastructure for autonomous finance. The integrated system is already handling more than 200,000 enterprise workflows per day, giving companies a tamper‑proof audit trail from execution to settlement.
Ripple Charts Four‑Phase Roadmap to Quantum‑Resistant XRP Ledger by 2028
Ripple Labs unveiled a four‑phase plan to transition the XRP Ledger to post‑quantum cryptography by 2028. The roadmap includes an emergency hard‑fork trigger, a comprehensive risk assessment, integration of quantum‑resistant signatures on Devnet, and a network‑wide amendment. The move seeks...
Infinite Unveils 'Infinite Accounts' To Merge Bank and Stablecoin Payments
Infinite announced the launch of Infinite Accounts, dedicated bank accounts that operate on both traditional ACH rails and stablecoin networks. Powered by Erebor Bank, the service lets firms pay contractors, settle cross‑border transactions and manage treasury functions without juggling multiple...
Justin Sun Sues Trump-Backed World Liberty Over Token Freeze, Claims Extortion
Justin Sun, founder of TRON and a leading crypto billionaire, filed a federal lawsuit in San Francisco accusing Trump‑backed World Liberty Financial of extorting him and illegally freezing his tokens. Sun also questions the project's ability to back its USD‑linked...
XRP - Prepare Now or Regret Later
In a blog post dated April 22, 2026, Paul Webborn urges XRP investors to position themselves before an anticipated breakout. He notes that Bitcoin continues to dominate market sentiment, which could constrain XRP’s short‑term moves. Webborn announces a detailed multi‑timeframe...
Experts Identify Real Culprits Behind Kelp DAO Hack
Chris Perkins on the Kelp DAO hack: “Let's point fingers at the people who really deserve it — the criminals who perpetrated this attack.” Bits + Bips has the full breakdown, with Austin Campbell, Ram Ahluwalia, and Michael Bentley of...
Bitcoin Poised for $90k+ Rally After Bottom
The markets are always opposing the sentiment. The moment that #Bitcoin starts to get some spotlight will be the moment that we'll see a correction. However, the fair value is still far away. Nasdaq has made new all-time highs, #Bitcoin is...
What Is an AI Crypto Trading Bot? 8 Crypto Trading Platforms Compared in 2026
In 2026 AI‑powered crypto trading bots have moved from hedge‑fund labs to retail desks, offering automated quantitative strategies that replace gut‑driven trades with data‑driven execution. A new guide ranks eight platforms, with SaintQuant emerging as the most complete solution—full automation,...
DoorDash to Offer Gig Workers Stablecoin Payouts
DoorDash announced that it will allow its gig couriers to receive earnings as a dollar‑pegged stablecoin through Stripe’s Tempo blockchain. The partnership aims to give drivers near‑instant access to funds, cutting the typical one‑to‑two‑day bank delay. Tempo, launched only last...
Stablecoins: Proceed with Caution
Stablecoins have surged to a $302 billion market cap, more than double their 2024 size, as regulatory frameworks like the U.S. Genius Act and the EU’s MiCA bring clearer rules. Payments giants such as PayPal and Mastercard are piloting stablecoin solutions,...
How Donald Trump Made Me Rich Trading XRP
An author of the Crusaders Newsletter claims to have generated consistent profits trading XRP by timing his positions around statements made by former President Donald Trump. The piece promotes a paid subscription that promises daily analysis linking Trump’s comments to...
Altcoins Poised for 20‑40% Market‑cap Surge Post‑correction
The #Altcoin market capitalization is trailing behind #Bitcoin, as it should. Bitcoin is less risky and, hence, earlier to be bought during regime switches. Altcoins take their time, and that time is upon us. I would expect this market capitalization to increase...
DeFi Must Rethink Implicit Transaction Legitimacy Post‑Hack
Austin Campbell asked the question I keep coming back to after the Kelp DAO hack: should DeFi stop assuming transactions are legitimate by default? This week's Bits + Bips is worth watching in full: https://lnkd.in/epMWa_4F
How to Trade Crypto Perpetuals: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
TradeView, a new on‑chain crypto perpetuals platform, launched its TVX token presale, offering up to 1001x leverage and full on‑chain order transparency. The presale is priced at $0.015 per TVX, has raised roughly $180,000 and sold 12 million tokens. The guide...
Stick to Bitcoin, Ethereum; Top Assets Drive Returns
All you need to own is Bitcoin and Ethereum, and you own 97% of the volatility of all the other poo-poo coins. So what's happened to the poo-poos is they collapsed last October, and all of them, thousands of them,...
Bitcoin Thrives Without Relying on Institutional Truth
This was actually the final question of the final 1x1 fireside during the incredible @OPNEXT2026 hosted by @blockspace, and it could not have landed at a more fitting venue. The Times Center has always been sacred ground to me personally, because...
Crypto-Miners Are Quietly Colonising Computers
Crypto criminals are covertly installing mining software on unsuspecting organizations’ computers to siphon processing power and electricity. By placing hidden miners in crawlspaces, storage rooms or through compromised VPNs, they turn idle hardware into low‑cost hash power. The practice inflates...
Bitcoin Breakout Signals Imminent Market-Wide Rally
The equivalent of lagging behind. Gold down --> VIX down --> $NQ breaks to an ATH --> $NQ stabilizes --> $BTC follows --> $BTC breaks out --> a few days later, the rest of the markets will follow. That's where we're currently...
DIEM Inference Pays for Itself Instantly at Stable Price
People keep doing the math wrong... Day 0: buy 1 DIEM for $1k Day 1: use $1 of inference Day 2: sell 1 DIEM for $1k It paid for itself on day 1. Caveat is the risk on resale... price may be higher or...
Signs of Life for Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s price, after a more‑than‑50% plunge from its $126,251 all‑time high, rebounded from $68,000 at the end of March to about $79,000 in early April. The rally broke the downtrend channel that formed late last year and has produced a...
Washington Cities Contemplate Crypto ATM Bans Amid Losses
Washington’s Tri‑Cities have seen at least $2.4 million siphoned through cryptocurrency ATMs, prompting Kennewick to consider a 180‑day notice ban on new kiosks. Spokane, the state’s first city to outlaw crypto ATMs, reported a sharp drop in related cases after its...
AgTech-Turned-Crypto Company Aims to Build Data Centre Near Calgary
Avax One, the former Agri‑FORCE now operating as an Avalanche treasury firm, announced plans to build a 10‑megawatt AI high‑performance compute data centre within an 80‑kilometre radius of Calgary. The modular facility, developed with energy‑infrastructure partner BlueFlare Energy Solutions, will...
Base Pushes Toward Final L2 Stage with First Independent Upgrade
Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer‑2, announced its first fully independent upgrade, Azul, now live on testnet with a mainnet rollout slated for May 13. The upgrade introduces a multiproof architecture that merges a trusted execution environment prover with a zero‑knowledge prover, enabling...
Banks Seek to Slow Down Implementation of Crypto's GENIUS Act on Stablecoin Oversight
U.S. banking groups have asked the Treasury Department to pause the comment periods for three GENIUS Act rule proposals that govern stablecoins until the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalizes its own oversight framework. The banks argue...
Late Stablecoin Adoption Risks Economic Obsolescence
Countries slow to adopt stablecoins will face the same problem as late internet adopters. Sending money across borders still costs 6% and takes days, while stablecoins settle in seconds for fractions of a cent with no intermediaries sitting in the...
Crypto Long & Short: Protecting the People Building DeFi Infrastructure
The DeFi Education Fund is championing the bipartisan Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act (PIBDA), which would shield software developers from criminal‑code Section 1960 liability. At the same time, industry analysts argue that Ethereum’s Layer 2 roll‑up strategy has created a fragmented...
The $292 Million Kelp DAO Exploit Shows Why Crypto Bridges Are Still One of the Industry's Weakest Links
A cross‑chain bridge exploit involving KelpDAO and LayerZero resulted in the loss of about $292 million. The attack manipulated false messages fed to the bridge’s validator network, allowing attackers to mint unbacked tokens on a destination chain. Experts say the flaw...
Coinbase Launches UK Crypto‑Backed USDC Loans, Offering Up to $5 Million for Bitcoin
Coinbase has rolled out a crypto‑backed lending product for UK customers, allowing Bitcoin holders to borrow up to $5 million and Ethereum holders up to $1 million in USDC. The service runs on the open‑source Morpho protocol on Base and follows a...
AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions
Cybersecurity firm Expel uncovered a North Korean state‑sponsored group, dubbed HexagonalRodent, that used commercial generative AI tools to write malware, build phishing sites and automate credential theft, stealing roughly $12 million in crypto from over 2,000 victims in three months. The...
Trump-Linked American Bitcoin Shares Spike over 12% After Announcing More Mining Power
American Bitcoin, the Trump‑family‑linked mining and treasury firm, announced the deployment of 11,298 new ASIC miners at its Drumheller, Alberta site, raising its total fleet to roughly 89,242 units. The added hardware contributes 3.05 exahash per second of hashpower at...
Crypto Is Leading the Race to Build the Ultimate Gambling Super-App
Crypto platforms are converging on a gambling‑style super‑app model as Kalshi prepares crypto perpetual futures, Polymarket launches perpetual contracts, Hyperliquid adds outcome‑token trading, and Pump.fun integrates social trading with token swaps. Hyperliquid alone generated roughly $191 billion in 30‑day perpetual volume...
Bitcoin Breaks Strategy's STRC Ex-Dividend Date Slump for the First Time in Six Months
Bitcoin surged past $79,000, marking the first price increase in the week after Strategy’s (MSTR) STRC ex‑dividend date in six months. The rally is fueled by negative perpetual futures funding rates that compel short sellers to cover, creating a short‑squeeze...
Aave Prioritizes Users, Seeks Strong Resolution After $70M Recovery
The past few days have been intense, but I wanted to give some updates as we continue to work on this. Our priority is our users, and every decision we are making is aimed at an orderly return to normal...
Bitcoin Tops $79,000 as Crypto Rally Gathers Steam; Circle, Coinbase, Strategy Lead
Bitcoin broke the $79,000 barrier on April 22, reaching $79,296, its highest level since early February. The rally lifted major crypto‑linked equities, with Strategy, Circle, and Coinbase posting double‑digit gains. Analysts point to a heavily bearish short‑interest profile in perpetual...
LayerZero V2 - Splitting Protocol From Configuration
LayerZero introduced V2, a cross‑chain messaging protocol that splits its immutable core from a configurable security stack. The new architecture isolates verification (MessageLibs and decentralized verifier networks) from execution (executors), allowing developers to tailor security settings such as DVN count...
Defending Cowen: 90% Accuracy Still Valuable Amid Criticism
I think it's wrong to be attacking @benjamincowen. He's been right on 90% of the moves over the past five years and is getting completely roasted as the markets turn up. Nobody is going to be right 100%. However, only a few people...
AI Agents and Stablecoins Shaping Payments Future
I’m really excited to share this new @AIRinnovate #podcast because it’s a glimpse of the future. Great conversation with @RkBench & @anders94 of @radiustech_xyz on AI agents, stablecoins and the future of payments. 🎧 https://t.co/aIO7MtzfTY #Fintech #AI https://t.co/yKlrDW7HWm
BitDelta India Launches Institutional-Grade VDA Infrastructure, Targets Trust-Led Growth in Crypto Market
BitDelta India has launched an institutional‑grade virtual digital asset platform after registering as a VDASP with FIU‑India. The service provides a unified INR‑native trading ecosystem for spot and derivatives, backed by an ultra‑low‑latency matching engine and API access for advanced...
Altcoin Market Update: New Rekt Capital Newsletter Out
New edition of the Rekt Capital Newsletter is live I share an Altcoin Market Update Features analysis on the following Altcoins: $ETH $SOL $SPX $XMR $XRP $PENGU Sign up to read it here: https://t.co/P4ZeGdNRFy #BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin
Own Your Mistake: Verify L2 Details Before Posting
I deleted some incorrect posts of mine that were based on me confusing Arbitrum with a different type of L2. I should have done a few seconds of research and apologize to @monerify and @dario_nakamoto for the noise and confusion....
Uniswap Docs Receive Major Overhaul, Seeking Feedback
Uniswap developer docs got a massive glow up Would love any feedback from crypto twitter https://t.co/9mav1hdXkl
Circle's Economist Proposes New AAVE USDC Liquidity Rules
A proposal on AAVE USDC market and liquidity parameters from Circle's Chief Economist @gordonliao https://t.co/7wX3TWIHop
New “Finding Satoshi” Doc Impresses Even Skeptics
Finding Satoshi is out now and I have a feeling even those who roll their eyes at the thought of another Satoshi documentary will really appreciate this one… My audience gets a discount with code NATALIE at https://t.co/2viimN98iQ https://t.co/JG92QPihzp
Add Gemini Prediction Widget for Instant Trade Visibility
Pro tip: add a Prediction Widget to your home screen with the Gemini app to keep your favorite trades front and center https://t.co/WLp70nEpo1
Bold Crypto Forecasts & Risks Highlight 2025‑2035 Landscape
Crypto things you might have missed: -Bitwise: $1.3M $BTC by 2035 might be too low -Etherealize sets $ETH long-term target at $250K - @MoneyGram extends @StellarOrg partnership -Jefferies: KelpDAO hack could scare banks away from crypto (I called it) - Justin Sun sues...
Early Bear Market: Stay Calm, Keep DCA
We're still soooo early into a bear market There's no need to panic or rush your DCA There will be pullbacks You haven't missed anything yet Nothing goes straight up Just stay vigilant for now
Earn $1 Daily AI Credit with DIEM on Venice
Each DIEM gives you ongoing $1 daily renewing credit at Venice (API + App) on all leading models (including Opus, etc) Buy on Coinbase, send to web3 wallet, stake at Venice and enjoy private and unrestricted AI 🌅
Crypto Rallies Repeat; Stay Cautious, Not Emotional.
One thing I will say about this crypto rally is that we’ve been here before. Many times during bear market years, the market rallies and everyone thinks we’re so back. Only to get absolutely rekt a few weeks/months later. Don’t get emotional. Stay...
Passive Concentrated LP Earns More than Invested
Passive LPing is pretty fun When v3 deployed on Optimism 4 yrs ago I made a concentrated position on eth/dai from 1400-3200 I've never rebalanced, it was out of range ~30% of the time It earned $5400 in LP fees on $4700...
Bitcoin Climbs Past Weekly High, Stays in Month‑long Channel
bitcoin continues to move higher in a trend channel established over the past month. above last week's high. $IBIT https://t.co/Fbkkini3ri