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
DeFi Protocols Launch Joint Escape Hatch for Aave ETH Lenders and Loopers
Fluid, a DeFi DEX and lending platform, launched an aWETH Redemption Protocol with Lido, Ether.fi, 1inch, 0x and Kyber to free ETH lenders and borrowers trapped after Aave’s WETH pool froze following the $293 million Kelp DAO exploit. In its first 48 hours the system swapped 58,510 aWETH—about $136 million—into wstETH or weETH, letting users withdraw or re‑collateralize. The protocol was built in under 24 hours and leverages existing Aave primitives without taking on new directional risk. Aave’s DAO now directs trapped suppliers to the Fluid route.
Ethereum Offers Upgradeable, Limit‑enforced Contracts; Canton Lacks Protection
What's possible on Ethereum that's not possible on Canton? "You can set limits, you can make it upgradeable with keys in cold storage by Circle in a multisig, and this smart contract. enforces limits. "You cannot do this on Canton. Your...
Major Crypto Platform Shuts Down Amid Market Slump
Netrunner, an AI‑powered tax reporting platform for Solana users, announced it will shut down on April 30 after failing to achieve sustainable scale in the ongoing crypto winter. The service automatically generated IRS Form 8949, Schedule D and Schedule 1 for activities across more...
Permissionless, Not Democratic, Defines Crypto Governance
"The reason you're getting this pushback [on calling @CantonNetwork] is because -- it's like calling something 'democratic.' You're saying, 'You can apply, and if you're approved, you get to vote,' but that's not what people mean when they say 'Democratic.'...
Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver Says He Won‘t Placate Prediction Markets Users
John Oliver used his HBO platform to call out prediction‑market operators Kalshi and Polymarket, highlighting trivial event contracts and the ease of outcome manipulation. He pointed to Donald Trump Jr.’s advisory role and criticized the CFTC for allowing contracts on...
Permissionless Access, Not Unlimited Rights on Canton Network
What permissionmless means to @YuvalRooz: "Anyone can create an app, connect to and participate in the infrastructure, but not that just by connecting to the infrastructure that you'll have access to every asset or application on @CantonNetwork. "And everyone can...
Bitcoin Bounces Above $76,000 as DeFi Suffers $14 Billion Exodus After KelpDAO Hack
Bitcoin surged past $76,000, gaining about 2.4% despite heightened Iran‑war tensions that lifted oil to near $90 a barrel. Spot‑ETF inflows and modest leverage underpin the rally, concentrating capital in large‑cap assets while altcoins lag. Meanwhile, the $292 million KelpDAO exploit...
Polymarket Updates Prediction Markets with Short-Duration Contracts Prioritizing Automation : Analysis
Polymarket has rolled out ultra‑short prediction contracts, including 5‑minute markets launched in February 2026, which now account for roughly 20‑25% of the platform’s trading volume. Within eight weeks, 5‑minute contracts generated $2.3 billion in notional volume, dwarfing the $795 million accumulated by 15‑minute...
⚙️ An Important Upgrade
Paul announced that an important upgrade to the crypto asset framework will be detailed in tomorrow’s Bitcoin video update. Over the past two weeks he has been mapping the full structure, narrative, and target metrics for all crypto holdings. The...
Lending Markets Need External Data, Making Efficiency Impossible
"An AMM or exchange is very self-contained. It doesn't care about the outside world. It has to balance a single variant. "If you look at a credit or lending market, they really care about the outside environment -- the volatility...
SEC Leadership Shift: Atkins Prioritizes Investors over Power Grabs
The SEC’s first mission is to protect investors. Under Gary Gensler, the SEC clearly lost its way. He declared war on a technology.. It was an unlawful power grab…and the courts said as much. By comparison, @SECPaulSAtkins is a...
Aave Models $124M to $230M in Bad Debt From Kelp Exploit
Aave’s service providers released an incident report quantifying the protocol’s exposure to the April 18 Kelp DAO rsETH bridge exploit, estimating bad‑debt between $123.7 million and $230.1 million. Attackers moved 89,567 rsETH onto Aave, borrowing roughly $193 million in WETH and wstETH, with health factors...
Coinbase Opens Services Marketplace for Agentic Commerce
Coinbase has launched Agentic.Market, a services marketplace that lets developers and AI agents discover, compare, and integrate tools for autonomous commerce using the x402 protocol. The platform spans categories such as inference, data, media, search, social, infrastructure and trading, and...
Web Worker Boosts Trading UI 2.5× Performance
We're moving @Gemini ActiveTrader real-time market data processing off the main thread and into a dedicated web worker. The worker handles WebSocket message parsing and orderbook state management so that the UI thread can stay responsive even under heavy market...
Vietnam Accelerates Crypto Exchange Pilot, OKX to Fund $380 Million Platform
Vietnam's government will launch a pilot for crypto exchanges in the second quarter of 2026. OKX, through its venture arm, is injecting capital to help the Vietnam Prosperity Crypto Asset Exchange meet the 10 trillion VND ($380 million) minimum capital rule, signaling a...
Coinbase Now Offers Crypto Backed Loans in the UK, Shares Rise
Coinbase has introduced crypto‑backed lending in the United Kingdom, allowing users to pledge Bitcoin, Ethereum or Coinbase‑wrapped ETH as collateral for USDC loans. The service, powered by Morpho, offers variable rates and permits borrowing up to $5 million per borrower, with...
What Iran's Hormuz Toll and Romance Scams Have in Common
Iran announced that vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz must pay a cryptocurrency toll, using the US‑pegged stablecoin Tether. The same Tether infrastructure is also used by U.S. investors defrauded in “pig‑butchering” romance scams, with illicit funds flowing through offshore...
The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Futures Trading in 2026
Crypto futures have become a cornerstone of digital‑asset investing in 2026, offering traders exposure without owning the underlying coins. BitMEX now commands over 30% of the futures market, providing both perpetual and fixed‑date contracts with deep liquidity and ultra‑low latency....
Your Crypto Stays Safe with Multi‑sig, Advisor‑approved Transfers
A compromised Google account wiped out someone's XRP. Assets at Digital Wealth Partners are not tied to your Apple ID or Google account. Separate login, multi-sig verification, whitelisted addresses only. Nothing moves without a wealth advisor signing off. Some partners...
One Year Under Paul Atkins, SEC's Crypto Stance Shows Break with Past
Paul Atkins, confirmed as SEC chair in April 2026, has steered the agency toward a markedly softer stance on digital assets. Within his first year the SEC approved several crypto‑linked exchange‑traded funds, signed a coordination MOU with the CFTC, and...
How XRP Stayed Safe During the Weekend’s DeFi Meltdown
Over the weekend, leading DeFi platforms such as eth.limo, Aave and Kelp DAO suffered crashes and a $292 million hack, erasing roughly $13 billion of value. While the broader market fled to traditional safe‑havens, XRP’s price held its $1 stablecoin peg and...
Price Predictions 4/20: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, HYPE, ADA
Bitcoin’s price rallied on strong buyer sentiment, buoyed by $996 million of inflows into US spot BTC ETFs—the best week since early January—and a $2.54 billion purchase of 34,164 BTC by Michael Saylor’s Strategy. The S&P 500 reached a fresh all‑time high of...
Bitcoin Poised to Break $85K Amid Bullish Inflows
I don't see a reason why markets shouldn't go higher. I've mentioned this before, but the risk-off weekend correction is quite normal for #Bitcoin. It's a Monday, nothing bad has happened, so the risk-on appetite comes back. Great bounce upwards, and lower...
Transaction Parties Must Agree on State Despite No Public Verification
"It is true there is no public verifiability. Only if you are a party to a transaction. But it's important that parties to a transaction agree on the state of the transaction." -- @YuvalRooz on @CantonNetwork https://t.co/xtIdxNvnOf
Anchored Finance Introduces US Tokenized Stocks
Anchored Finance has launched tokenized versions of the ten largest Nasdaq‑listed companies on Monad’s Layer 1 blockchain, backed one‑to‑one by real US shares. The offering leverages Alpaca’s brokerage technology to provide regulated, instant settlement via USDC stablecoins and 24/7 on‑chain trading....
MEV Lacks TradFi Precedent for Transaction Reordering
On Don Wilson's view that MEV is not suitable for markets: "I've yet to see an example of being able to re-order transactions in TradFi." -- @YuvalRooz https://t.co/xtIdxNvnOf
Looking for Bitcoin Conference Meet‑ups in Vegas
Who's all going to the #Bitcoin conference in Vegas next week? Let's meet up. I fly in Monday morning. 🤝
Why the BIS Is Worried About Stablecoins
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warned that the stablecoin market’s concentration—dominated by Tether and Circle, which together hold about 85% of the $315 billion supply—poses systemic risks. BIS General Manager Pablo Hernandez de Cos called for stronger international regulatory coordination to...
Target Back Above 99‑week SMA, First in Two Years
$TGT Back above 99smma on weekly for the first time in 2 years. Looks like I should've my sub $100 entry longer whoops https://t.co/AbJHtt8VQF
Fairshake Super PAC Holds $166M Cash in April
The pro-crypto super PAC Fairshake had $166 million on hand entering April, per new filing.
Scot Becomes Second Scattered Spider-Linked Crook to Plead Guilty in US
Tyler Robert Buchanan, a 24‑year‑old Scottish national linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group, pleaded guilty in California to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for a phishing and SIM‑swap scheme that stole at least $8 million in...
RWA on Permissionless Chains Hinge on Issuer Trust
"Any RWA on any permissionless chain relies on the issuer --" [I interrupt] "No, no, no, if @gluk64 started went down this rabbit hole, I'd like him to dig himself out of it." -- @YuvalRooz @hosseeb: LOL 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/s0BeE0UnBP
ZEC Drops; 0.786 Fib Support Key
$ZEC Dropping after the "buy approaching" alert from Top Goon X Buy zone per TG X rules is the 0.786 fib if it holds as support. https://t.co/TSK5lYPFux
Canton Network Explains Limits on Unchecked Stablecoin Minting
"What prevents any stablecoin provider from minting one billion new coins onchain?" 🛡️ -- @YuvalRooz, defending @CantonNetwork https://t.co/xtIdxNvnOf
Ensuring Single Bitcoin Version Amid Separate Party Views
"In Canton itself, how do you ensure that you don't produce two versions of Bitcoin? Because your infrastructure only provides each party with their view." -- @gluk64 https://t.co/xtIdxNvnOf
Local Stablecoins & Liquid DEX Pairs Accelerate On‑Chain Adoption
Local stablecoins are important for bringing more of the world onchain. Liquid DEX pairs between stablecoins remove multiple intermediaries, saving a lot of time and fees. Base is for everyone.
Ensuring No Double Spend When Spending a UTXO
"Who guarantees that when you spend one UTXO there's no double spend?" -- @gluk64 on Canton https://t.co/s0BeE0UnBP
Canton’s Value Lies in Properties, Not Blockchain Label
"Canton is not really a blockchain. It's not about definitons or semantics. It's really about the properties." 💥 -- @gluk64 https://t.co/s0BeE0UnBP
Canton Network Secures Major Tokenized JGB Deals
😎 "We didn't do a pre-mine, we didn't publish all these white papers. We just very quietly executed, and now we're signing all these deals. "Today we signed deals around with Mizuho and Nomura and JPX around tokenized JGBs." --...
ActiveTrader Now Runs 100fps at 500x Volume
ActiveTrader just got a serious speed upgrade ⚡ We moved real time market data processing to a dedicated background worker, the interface can now run at ~100fps even at 500x normal volume. Fast enough to keep up with any market https://t.co/fVvut6BZx7
DeFi Must Rethink Trust After Lazarus Breaks Eight Protocols
"If Lazarus can break 8 different protocols in 8 different ways, then DeFi has to stop working from the framework of assuming that all transactions are legitimate." 👀 -- @austincampbell https://t.co/xtIdxNvnOf
Bitcoin Likely to Hit $100K by Q3 2026
Statistically, after such a correction of #Bitcoin, a new ATH is made within 12 months. Within 3-6 months, on every occassion of such an outlier, Bitcoin was trading 30-60% higher than the low. That would put $100K on the map in...
Predict Who Will First Reach Satoshi’s 1.1 M Bitcoin
POLL: Who do you think will be the first to pass Satoshi’s 1.1mil Bitcoin held?
Flare Announces Update on Frozen Bridged XRP
🚨Flare provides latest UPDATE on "Frozen" Bridged $XRP 🔥👀 $FLR $RLUSD @FlareNetworks @doppler_fi @xrpmickle @ZachRector7 @JoelKatz @RippleXrpie @LayerZero_Core @FlareDevHub
Gemini Launches MCP API for AI Trading Bots
Calling all robots 🤖. Check out @Gemini's new MCP API, designed specifically for AI agents to trade predictions, crypto, and more.
Quantum Computing Threatens Bitcoin’s Former Risk‑on Appeal
Dear @grok, remember the days when Bitcoin was actually a risk-on asset? Quantum computing risk limiting upside?" cc @chamath https://t.co/HMXqbhIFGT
MicroStrategy Now Out‑holds Bitcoin ETF IBIT
$MSTR now holds more Bitcoin than $IBIT, the most successful ETF in history. Let that sink in. https://t.co/b5Q8vQTqqY
Deterministic Scripts Cut AI Token Burn Rate
Reducing Token Burn Rate With A Well-Designed Architecture Trying to put out the AI token fire - or at least manage it as a controlled burn by using deterministic scripts for gathering inputs and directing agents https://t.co/WMInyNRV9H https://t.co/3f6MG65b7j
Subnet Tokens Mark Institutional Milestone for Bittensor $TAO
A big moment for subnet tokens and meaningful step forward for institutional participation in Bittensor $TAO
Quantum‑fear Sellers Offloaded 200k BTC to Strategy
It’s important to know that a good portion of the last 200,000 BTC that @Strategy bought was sold to them by people worried about Quantum Computers that don’t exist yet.