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
Dune Analytics Reveals 47% of LayerZero OApps Use Minimal DVN Security Following KelpDAO Hack
Dune Analytics examined roughly 2,665 active LayerZero OApp contracts over the last 90 days and found that 47 % run with a 1‑of‑1 Decentralized Validator Network (DVN) security floor, the weakest possible setting. A further 45 % use 2‑of‑2 configurations, while only about 5 % employ three or more validators. The recent KelpDAO rsETH exploit fell into the 1‑of‑1 category, underscoring the exposure. The report is open‑source, inviting the community to scrutinize and improve DVN standards across the ecosystem.
Crypto Infrastructure Company Blames $290 Million Theft on North Korean Hackers
Crypto infrastructure firm LayerZero says a North Korean hacking group, TraderTraitor, stole nearly $290 million from the Kelp platform by exploiting a single‑verifier (DVN) setup. The attackers minted counterfeit rsETH tokens without collateral, used them as loan collateral on platforms like...
Nomura, Mizuho, JSCC to Trial Tokenized Collateral on Canton Network
Nomura, Mizuho and the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation announced a proof‑of‑concept to issue tokenized collateral for Japanese government bonds on Digital Asset’s Canton Network. The initiative is part of the Financial Services Agency’s Payment Innovation Project sandbox, which is testing...
Treasury Proposes AML/CFT and Sanctions Compliance Requirements for Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers
The U.S. Treasury, working with OFAC and FinCEN, issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would bring permitted payment stablecoin issuers under the Bank Secrecy Act AML/CFT framework. The proposal mandates written compliance programs approved by the board, a U.S.-based...
Five Times President Trump Made a Statement that Moved Bitcoin, and Why It Might Happen Again This Week
President Donald Trump’s social‑media posts and policy remarks have repeatedly sparked sharp Bitcoin moves, with five documented incidents causing price swings between 5% and 12%. The most dramatic were a 7.1% drop after his 2019 anti‑crypto tweet and a 12.4%...
Bitcoin Faces Near-Term Pressure as Liquidity Tightens, Hilbert Group CIO Says
Hilbert Group chief investment officer Russell Thompson warns that global liquidity could contract by 20‑25%, creating near‑term headwinds for Bitcoin. He expects the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve to respond with tools such as a Treasury General Account draw‑down, supplementary...
RBI Deputy Governor Warns Indian Banks CBDC Could Erode Deposits
India's central bank deputy governor T Rabi Sankar told lenders to brace for the Digital Rupee's impact on deposit balances, warning that the new central bank digital currency could displace funds used for transaction services. He also ruled out any role for...
Solana Outpaces Ethereum in Daily Transaction Volume, Signaling Scalability Edge
Solana recorded almost 9 billion transactions in the past month, far surpassing Ethereum's 69 million. The volume gap underscores Solana’s high‑throughput design and its growing appeal for blockchain‑based financial services.
Dubai Caps Crypto Leverage at 5:1, Joining Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria in New Rules
Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) announced a 5:1 retail leverage ceiling for crypto derivatives, affecting 45 licensed firms including Binance FZE and Crypto.com. The move aligns the emirate with Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, which are also rolling out...
UK Gas-Investment Firm Weighs Bitcoin Mining, Draws Criticism
London‑based Reabold Resources, a gas‑investment firm, is evaluating a pilot gas‑powered bitcoin mining operation at its West Newton A well in northern England. The company says the venture will generate revenue to fund further development of the on‑shore gas field...
Ethereum - The Setup for a Generational Top
Ethereum is hovering around $2,300, still confined within a corrective pattern that has dominated its price action since early 2025. From an Elliott Wave standpoint, the move from the 2021 all‑time high to the present forms a textbook A‑B‑C correction...
Liminal - xLEND Extends the Yield Layer
Stablecoin lending yields on Hyperliquid compress when borrowing demand falls, prompting Liminal to launch xLEND, a tokenized yield product that captures USDC lending rates. xLEND uses a block‑by‑block routing engine to shift deposits among Hyperliquid’s money markets—HyperLend, HypurrFi, Felix, MorphoBeat,...
Bitcoin Models Are Wrong… Here’s the Better Way
In this episode, host Matthew and Bitcoin analyst Plan C discuss the shortcomings of traditional Bitcoin price models that rely on calendar time and introduce a protocol‑time approach that aligns data with actual block production. They show how the first...
BTC Climbs as USDC Dominance Declines, Then Reverses
#BTC Bitcoin's price action is going to continue going up for as long as $USDC Dominance keeps going down In the short-term, there is scope for USDC Dominance to drop but once the retest is over, the reversal to the upside...
Illicit Activity and Software Solutions: Identifying Illegal Activity with Software Solutions
Software solutions are increasingly able to spot illicit activity in cryptocurrency by leveraging the inherent transparency of public blockchains. The process begins with massive data collection from ledger records, followed by processing that attributes wallet addresses to real‑world identities and...
Bitmine Buys 101,627 ETH in Largest Purchase Since December 2025
Bitmine Immersion Technologies purchased 101,627 ETH—about $234 million—between April 13 and 19, marking its largest buy since December 2025. The acquisition lifts its treasury to 4,976,485 ETH, valued at roughly $11.5 billion and representing over 4% of the total Ether supply. Bitmine also reports 3.33 million ETH staked,...
Miner Selling Vs. Saylor Buying Keeps Bitcoin Range‑Bound
FalconX's Joshua Lim on why Bitcoin is stuck in a range — and what the arithmetic of miner selling vs. Saylor buying tells you. https://lnkd.in/ebwDAE89
Secure Your Crypto: Essential Practices for Maximum Protection
Crypto Security Checklist - High Security Email for important accounts (Protonmail) - Always use 2FA (never mobile 2fa) - Level 1 Data (Seed phrases, passwords high security emails): paper or metal in fireproof safe, never digital. - Level 2 Data (account passwords): unique and...
Six Years After “DeFi Summer” Is the Sun Already Setting on the Decentralized Finance Revolution?
A series of high‑profile hacks – KelpDAO’s $292 million rsETH exploit, Drift’s $285 million privileged‑access breach, and Venus’s $14.9 million loss – triggered an estimated $10 billion outflow from DeFi over a single weekend. The attacks exposed vulnerabilities in governance, cross‑chain bridges, and operational...
New Case Exposes Coordinated Bad Actors Targeting MMAT
This is a very interesting new case vs #Anson and a few others, relevant to #MMAT/#MMTLP and many others affected by these bad actors, from my initial read they have an entire team. I wonder which of the shills in...
Low Volatility, Miner Sales Signal Bitcoin Stalls Below $80K
Bitcoin vol is at historically low levels, miners are selling to fund HPC transitions, and smart money is not adding leverage. FalconX's Joshu Lim explains why bitcoin’s recent surge is not ready to push past $80,000. Worth watching. https://lnkd.in/eX5i7kzN
ZachXBT Asks MemeCore to Explain Valuation and Token Supply
On Monday, on‑chain analyst ZachXBT publicly challenged MemeCore to justify its claimed $6 billion market capitalization and the assertion that insiders control more than 90% of the M‑token supply. Major price trackers list the token’s valuation between $4.3 billion (CoinMarketCap) and $5.97 billion...
New Hampshire Crypto‑ATM Scam Prompts $30,000 Loss, Sparks Legislative Battle
A Nashua senior lost $30,000 after feeding cash into a cryptocurrency ATM, exposing a regulatory gap. Senate Bill 482, backed by public‑safety groups, seeks to impose transaction caps and refund windows, while a House amendment led by Rep. Keith Ammon...
Crypto VC Slowdown Reflects Limited Founder and Idea Pool
controversial take: crypto VC take on fewer funds deploying is downstream of there being ENOUGH good founders and ideas to back. the quality of early stage founders and ideas in crypto, taken in aggregate, is simply not as large of...
Bitcoin Pulls Back From $78K Highs as Iran War Tensions Flare Again
Bitcoin slipped to about $73,962, a 2.3% drop from its near‑$78,000 peak, as renewed Iran‑related tensions pushed oil above $100 a barrel and rattled risk assets. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF that could launch by...
AI Crypto Mining in 2026: How Cloud-Based Mining Platforms Work
AI crypto mining has emerged in 2026 as a cloud‑based alternative to traditional hardware‑intensive Bitcoin mining. Platforms such as AngelBTC, ECOS, NiceHash, BitFuFu and Binance Pool use data‑driven algorithms to allocate hash power, optimize uptime and automate daily payouts. These...
Hardware Wallet Tangem Announces Global Rollout of Its Retail Payments Service
Switzerland‑based hardware wallet maker Tangem has launched Tangem Pay, a retail payments service that lets users spend USDC via virtual Visa cards on Apple Pay and Google Pay. The product, now available in the United States (excluding some states), Latin America and...
On‑chain USDe Enables ADL‑Free Staking Yield
While I don't recommend depositing now (even though there is no rsETH or other exposure), it is nice to see the model starting to work. Onchain USDe capable of doing the DN play with any native staking asset with no...
StUSDS Drops to 26%; SKY Price Remains Steady
stUSDS is at 26% due to large withdrawals SKY price hasn’t dropped so the risk shouldn’t have materially changed https://t.co/Yn9SwaGnhl
OCBC Launched Physical Gold Fund Token
OCBC, Lion Global Investors and DigiFT have launched GOLDX, Southeast Asia’s first tokenised physical gold fund on public blockchains. The token is available on both Ethereum and Solana and can be bought with stablecoins or fiat through the DigiFT platform....
Prioritize PQ‑safe Outputs and Signatures Now, Defer Other Fixes
Follow up on Bitcoin and Quantum: A proposed roadmap. https://t.co/QoOrvnxeOe tl;dr: we should work towards activating a PQ-safe output type with PQ signatures now. everything else (including escape hatches, zk proofs, commit/reveal, to freeze or not) can, and should, wait.
Grayscale Amends Hyperliquid ETF, Anchorage Named Custodian
NEW: Another amended Hyperliquid ETF filing, this one from @Grayscale. More signs of movement between issuers and SEC. Notably @Anchorage will be custodian. https://t.co/neEmg4PWZ2
Speculating Bitcoin Price without Saylor’s Massive Purchases
.@grok what would the price of $btc be if @saylor had not bought $61b+ / 34k+ bitcoin?
Institutional Crypto Surge: Ripple, BTC ETFs, S&P High
Crypto things you might have missed: -Ripple-powered SBI Remit partners with MAJOR bank -Ripple: "The institutional era is NOW" - $BTC ETFs see highest inflows since mid-Jan -Strategy now holds 800+ BTC -S&P 500 hits record high -Bankers push Senator Tillis on stablecoin yield
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True Market Bottoms Appear when Curiosity Disappears
Real bottoms don't feel like a great buying opportunity. They feel like nobody cares anymore. People are still texting me asking if this is the dip. The DCA begins when the questions stop.
BTC Holds Above Resistance, Bullish Trend Persists
🚨 BTC HOLDING STRONG 🚨 $BTC broke above key resistance a while ago, and continues to hold it as support. As long as this level holds… the trend remains bullish But will a real strong move follow? 👀 https://t.co/1svjMGCpa5
Sparks spUSDT Stands Alone as USDT Liquidity Survivor
Quite impressive that Sparks spUSDT was the only USDT yield product in all of DeFi that kept having liquidity throughout all of this. Literally every single other USDT market seized up - I have a feeling Spark will be getting...
Bitcoin's Rise Meets Mining Cost Overhang
$BTC at $77,501 — riding the risk-on wave. Up from $73.5K earlier in the week. But here's what doesn't change with price: Bitcoin mining costs hover near $80K. Miner stress below cost-of-production is a structural overhang the bulls haven't fully priced in. https://t.co/ELyuoM516H
Bitcoin Set to Rise as Volatility Eases
An elevated volatility index doesn't do well for #Bitcoin. A lower volatility index does well for #Bitcoin, as it's a higher-beta proxy for the Nasdaq. We're approaching such a period of time.
Circuit Breakers and EIP7265 Secure DeFi Risk Controls
One of those "not the right time to talk about why x solves y" times, but sadly also generally the only time security gets proper attention. Circuit breakers work. We use a modified version of EIP7265, highly recommend just adding...
Seeking Community Input on Desired Crypto Chart Features
What kind of charts would you like to have in Coingecko/CMC? Please be as specific as possible. Do you want try draw lines, show EMAs and SMAs, etc? what other charting features do you want in charting for a CG/CMC like...
BTC Falls Post‑EMA Crossover, Trend Shows Continued Decline
#BTC Bitcoin dropped to $60,000 since the Bull Market EMA crossover Orange boxes show that Bitcoin's price tends to drop even further over time (of course, not without periods of limited upside relief in between) $BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin https://t.co/cNQZeo5WDn
Sky's USDS Offers 3.65% APY, Backed by Whales
Sky, the oldest DeFi protocol and largest yield generating stablecoin USDS with more than 10b in circulating supply that gives you 3.65% APY with the native Sky Savings Rate - trusted by the biggest DeFi native institutions and crypto whales...
No Bugs, No Broken Protocol—Still $290M Lost
crazy how no protocol was broken, there were no bugs, but still $290M was lost 😒 tbh, those statements are not very helpful. so what if the smart contract worked as intended if in the end that still resulted major losses...
Bitmine Makes 2026's Biggest Weekly ETH Purchase
JUST IN: Bitmine dropped over $230 million on 101,627 ETH, scoring their largest weekly purchase of 2026.
CME Crypto Products Surpass $7.3 Trillion Notional Volume
JUST IN: CME Group's crypto products have hit over $7.3 trillion in total notional volume.
Matador Tech Shows Technical Breakout Amid Quiet Consolidation
Matador Technologies $MATA.V Technical breakout on watch in crypto sector. Quiet consolidation for now. https://t.co/OOO3IXJHoT
Smart Money Predicts $50k Bitcoin After Market Damage
Standard Chartered is now calling for a 50k Bitcoin. I've been saying this for months while they were telling you to buy the rallies. Smart money always gets loud AFTER the damage is done.
Meme Coins Turn Identity Into Crypto Power Play
Crypto Kleptocracy https://t.co/wNj7GJKbw0 "Meme coins illustrate how crypto enables political enrichment through the commodification of identity rather than through the exchange of value for services. " https://t.co/pQXAdg24FR