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.
Also developing:
By the numbers: Strive acquires 2,500 Bitcoin for $185.2M
1 in 6 Iranians Turn to Bitcoin Amid Crisis
CoinShares research shows that roughly 14 million Iranians – about one in six of the population – now rely on Bitcoin to sidestep sanctions and a collapsing rial. Bitcoin transaction volume grew 11.8% year‑over‑year and now represents 2.2% of Iran’s GDP. While the country’s mining footprint is modest, at under 1% of global hashrate, civilian usage spikes sharply during crises, driving a premium on Bitcoin in Tehran versus a gold discount in Dubai.
Bitcoin Poised for $80K Rally, Altcoins Set to Rebound
Good stuff happening on the markets, in which I assume that we'll consolidate and continue upwards. #Bitcoin does provide a short correction, but there's literally nothing to worry. If the ceasefire is sustained and calmth comes back, I think we'll see a...
XRPL Poised for $18‑21T Daily Settlement Throughput
Three flows: stock market backend settlement, commodities, FX. Each $6-7T daily volume. Total $18-21T daily XRPL throughput. NASDAQ and NYSE tokenization confirmed. Canton lacks clarity, Project Ion finalized 2022 using XRP settlement.
The New York Times Says It Found Satoshi Nakamoto, the Inventor of Bitcoin. Not so Fast.
The New York Times published a 12,000‑word investigation by journalist John Carreyrou claiming British cryptographer Adam Back is the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Carreyrou’s case leans on linguistic quirks, libertarian ties, and Back’s Hashcash legacy, but offers no definitive proof. The piece repeats the pattern of...
The Dollar’s Slow Unraveling: How Bitcoin, Digital Currencies, and a Secret Oil Deal Are Reshaping the World’s Money
A new paper in the Journal of Post‑Keynesian Economics details how the US dollar became the world’s primary currency, largely thanks to a secret 1974 Saudi‑oil‑for‑Treasury‑bond pact that expired in 2024. The study argues that the petrodollar arrangement allowed the...
Biconomy, Ethereum Foundation Unveil Execution Standard for AI Agents
Biconomy and the Ethereum Foundation have released ERC‑8211, a new execution standard that enables dynamic "smart batching" for on‑chain AI agents. The protocol introduces fetchers, constraints, and predicate entries so agents can read live state, validate values, and conditionally execute...
SBI Ripple Asia Deploys Institutional Token Issuance Platform on XRP Ledger
SBI Ripple Asia, the joint venture of SBI Holdings and Ripple Labs, rolled out a regulated token issuance infrastructure on the XRP Ledger on April 7. The platform, approved as a third‑party prepaid payment instrument under Japan’s Fund Settlement Act,...
Coinbase Secures First Australian Crypto License, Eyes Equity and Payments
Coinbase Global Inc. received an Australian Financial Services licence with retail derivatives authorisation from ASIC, making it the first crypto exchange approved directly by the regulator. The company announced plans to launch equity trading and payment services in Australia, signalling...
Noah Becomes Hyperbeat On-Chain Banking Partner to Help Move $300B in Monthly DeFi Volume
Noah has become the default settlement provider for Hyperbeat’s on‑chain banking layer, enabling fiat transfers in EUR, USD and other major currencies across the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The partnership links traditional bank accounts to HyperEVM, allowing users to fund wallets, convert...
ComfyUI Instances Hijacked for Cryptomining and Proxy Botnet
A new campaign is hijacking publicly exposed ComfyUI instances—an open‑source UI for stable diffusion models—to run illicit cryptocurrency mining and proxy botnet operations. Threat actors scan cloud IP ranges with a custom Python tool, exploiting unauthenticated deployments to execute malicious...
NEAR Poised to Outpace Bitcoin After Breaking Resistance
Technically, I think that $NEAR is about to break to the upside. There's a lot of fundamental growth within the ecosystem, and it's strange that this doesn't automatically resonate with the price of the underlying token. That gap is an opportunity for...
FDIC Floats AML Revamp, Stablecoin Guidelines
The FDIC, together with the OCC and NCUA, released a joint proposal to revamp AML/CFT regulations, shifting focus toward higher‑risk customers and granting FinCEN a formal consultative role in supervision. Simultaneously, the FDIC issued a proposed rule under the Genius...
Bitcoin Enters the War as Iran Wants Ships to Pay in BTC to Get Through Hormuz
Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union announced a $1‑per‑barrel toll payable in Bitcoin for tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Vessels must email cargo details, receive an assessment and settle the fee within seconds using Bitcoin before being...
ETH - $10k Target
Ethereum (ETH) analysts Paul Webborn set a $10,000 price target in his April 8, 2026 update, citing a multi‑timeframe structural breakdown. He stresses that sentiment shifts rapidly and a corrective pattern cannot be ignored. Positioning and patience are presented as essential for...
Aztec - Privacy as a Native Execution Layer
Aztec unveiled its Alpha Network on March 31, 2026, a Layer‑2 solution that embeds private execution, identity, and data directly into the contract layer using its Noir programming language. The network enables developers to label functions as public or private,...
British Cryptographer Adam Back Is the Secret Creator of Bitcoin, Claims New Report — Back Refutes Investigation, Says Parallels to...
A new New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou suggests British cryptographer Adam Back may be the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto, citing decades‑old email exchanges, his creation of Hashcash, and linguistic AI analysis. The 40‑page report links Back’s cypherpunk activity and his role in co‑founding...
Latest $285M Crypto Hack Suggests Next Major Exploit Could Come From ‘Compromised’ Developers
On April 1, Drift Protocol halted deposits after a coordinated attack that siphoned roughly $285 million in a 12‑minute drain. investigators linked the breach to the same actors behind the October 2024 Radiant Capital hack, identifying a social‑engineering campaign that compromised multisig signers...
Stablecoins to Infiltrate Market, Investors Say
Venture capital firm QED Investors hosted a panel asserting that stablecoins will augment, not replace, existing payment rails, creating a hybrid model that leverages the speed and low cost of crypto alongside the reliability of traditional systems. The discussion highlighted...
Circle Launches CPN Managed Payments
Circle Internet Group has launched Circle Payments Network (CPN) Managed Payments, a fully managed stablecoin settlement platform. The service lets payment service providers, fintechs, banks and enterprises settle in USDC while interacting only in fiat, as Circle handles minting, burning,...
THE TIMES STRIKES BACK: NYT Claims Adam Back as Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto – Raising Fresh Questions Over Epstein Ties
The New York Times published a detailed investigation on April 8, 2026, asserting that Adam Back, Blockstream’s CEO, is the real Satoshi Nakamoto. The report combines archival research with linguistic forensics to link Back’s writing style to the original Bitcoin white paper. Simultaneously, U.S. Department...
AI Agents Now Authorized to Spend via Card Payments
Thrilled to see this launch from @Nevermined_ai connecting @Visa @coinbase and @getVGS > Persistent delegation of payment cards to AI agents > Agent-specific card authorization designed for machine-native usage > The ability to delegate spending to third-party agents > ...
White House Report Undermines Bank Ban on Stablecoin Yield
DISGUSTING LIE White House Report DESTROYS Banks Ban on Stablecoin Yield (XRP INSTITUTIONAL NEWS) https://t.co/y8ao544LRX
Arkham Intel Removes TON Blockchain Support
Arkham Intelligence announced that its Arkham Intel platform will cease support for the TON blockchain on Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 12 pm EST. The move follows a routine review of chain integrations, with the firm citing user demand and the blockchain’s overall ecosystem...
Two Decade‑
still not convinced this is Satoshi but do know that two of the top-performing assets of the past 15 years were created by a “Satoshi” https://t.co/dJB0ehV4l6
NYT Claims Adam Back Is Bitcoin’s Mysterious Creator
A New York Times article, published today, concludes that Adam Back, a 55-year-old British computer scientist and cryptographer, is Satoshi Nakamoto. https://t.co/IC4oaTX1I1
Securitize Partners with Currenc Group to Tokenize Shares on Ethereum and Solana: Securitize
Securitize has teamed up with publicly listed Currenc Group to issue tokenized ordinary shares on both Ethereum and Solana. The partnership follows Securitize’s recent designation as the NYSE’s first digital transfer agent for on‑chain securities, underscoring growing institutional confidence in...
Make ZK‑STARKs the Year‑round Security Focus
Instead of spending a few month talking about privacy, then a few month talking about post-quantum security, then a few months talking about scale, we can simply talk about ZK-STARKs all year long.
Walmart Stablecoin Could Drain Rural Liquidity, Harm Local Lending
Let's debate with real numbers please. If @Walmart alone offered a yield-earning stablecoin, the impact to local lending/economies would be crippling. Billions would shift out of rural community liquidity into government debt instruments rather than local loans. These assumptions defy...
Bitcoin’s Support Is Becoming Increasingly Concentrated
After months of outflows, Bitcoin ETF demand has stabilized but remains weak, offering little momentum for price gains. Corporate treasuries have stepped in as the main source of buying, yet their activity is uneven, with a few firms accumulating aggressively...
Misidentifying Satoshi Invites Unnecessary Danger
The only thing worse than trying to figure out who Satoshi is, is claiming it to be someone it’s not and putting a target on them
NYT Names Russ Hanneman as Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto
JUST IN: Following an 18-month investigation, the New York Times has identified Russ Hanneman as Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. https://t.co/S8gbjtLr9J
Deposit Flight Concerns Over Stablecoin Yield Are 'Quantitatively Small': White House Report
The White House Council of Economic Advisers released a study showing that banning stablecoin yield would boost bank lending by only 0.02%, roughly $2.1 billion, while eroding consumer welfare. The report characterizes deposit‑flight worries as “quantitatively small,” noting that most stablecoin...
Iran May Require Crypto for Strait Fees, Boosting Bitcoin Use
Are these reports that Iran's demands for Strait fees are to be made in crypto payments? An interesting lining to a potential Bitcoin bid for a prominent and high volume use case...
Aave Compatibility on Monad Faces No Technical Blockers
We published a technical analysis for @aave compatibility on Monad. tl;dr no technical blockers for deployment.
Morgan Stanley Debuts Bitcoin ETF as Price Slump Rattles Holders
Morgan Stanley will become the first Wall Street bank to launch its own spot Bitcoin ETF, the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), on NYSE Arca. The fund, priced at a 14‑basis‑point expense ratio, is the cheapest in a market of...
Crypto's Security Doubts Rise Amid AI Breakthroughs
Kind of hard to want to invest in crypto when Anthropic is releasing Mythos…. Shit is finding decades old bugs in linux…. And im supposed to expect smart contracts are solid? Get real.
Adam Back Refutes Satoshi Claim, Cites Confirmation Bias Warning
Adam Back denies he's Satoshi Nakamoto and also describes how he warned the NYT author against confirmation bias in his research and analysis before he published his story claiming Back is Nakamoto
Bitcoin: Neutral Value Transfer Like Oil
Like oil itself, Bitcoin is neutral A purely honest mechanism to move value between parties, regardless of their relationship or degree of trust. https://t.co/mGAz62nzwr
Testing NYT's Claim: Is Satoshi Behind 2015 Debate?
The NYT reported it as a fact that this post was in fact Satoshi getting involved in the block size debate in 2015. But I’m curious how it holds up on the battery of stylometric tests.
DeFi Networks Poised to Surpass Traditional Banks
55 in the ranking (source https://t.co/suMvdUMFk9). Lot of work to climb to #1 and prove that networks > banks Eventually all banks will be powered by DeFi https://t.co/rSIg09rBQX
Adam Back Isn’t Satoshi; Journalists Lack Analysis
Adam Back is not Satoshi. Another moment reaffirming that 95% of journalists, the supposed purveyors of “truth,” have absolutely shit analysis/reasoning.
AI and Quantum Optimism Fuels Zcash Bullishness
If you're bullish on AI and Quantum, then you're bullish on Zcash (even if you don't know if yet).
Bitcoin: The Ideal Future World Reserve Currency
"Is Bitcoin actually competing to be the future world reserve currency?" Yes. When you need money that nobody can debase, that is free to hold and receive, that is cheap to transfer, that is censorship-resistant, and that even enemies can settle in......
Follow Your Passion, Ride the Crypto Rocket
The best reminder from the Satoshi Nakamoto search is just how many people were following their passions around crypto and digital cash and recognized and jumped on the incredible solution. Key to success is follow your passions and get on...
Circle Ignored Freezing Power, Let Funds Slip Away
.@Amanda_S_Wick, a former federal prosecutor, compared Circle's behavior to a bank watching a robbery happen in its lobby and saying "we need a court order." The stolen funds moved for 6 hours during business hours. They had freezing power. They chose not...
Binance Dominates Crypto Trading, Liquidity, and Trust
LATEST: Binance leads the crypto market in trading, liquidity, and user trust, with top derivatives and spot volumes, ~$153B in assets, and deep liquidity for big trades. Source: Coinglass https://t.co/DAZvi4D8HX
Franklin Templeton Boosts Digital Assets via $250M Acquisition
Franklin Templeton Aims to Strengthen Digital Asset Capabilities With 250 Digital Acquisition | https://t.co/KTVJGVwr3F https://t.co/agCEO4Si3N https://t.co/H5biPcYGwV
New ETF Targets Bitcoin’s Overnight Alpha with Treasury Hedge
Also launching today… Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries AfterDark ETF (NGHT) Provides long btc exposure during overnight hours & short-term treasury exposure during daytime trading. “First-ever ETF strategy built to systematically isolate Bitcoin’s overnight alpha.” https://t.co/p4tkRdZnyf
Corporate Speaker Claims Bitcoin Could End Iran War
The corporate speaker who added a last-second slide to his future-of-crypto PowerPoint entitled **HOW BITCOIN CAN END THE IRAN WAR—SERIOUSLY** is having an amazing morning rn
Satoshi's Identity Requires Insider Testimony, Not Data Mining
Satoshi’s identity will not be unveiled by slicing and dicing existing public data. Someone will have to find a person with direct knowledge of bitcoin’s origins to talk, or perhaps get access to an intelligence agency document that may or...