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Bitcoin set for best week since September 2025 as tech correlation weakens

Bitcoin is on track to close its strongest week since September 2025, rising about 8.5% and trading above $71,000. Since the Middle East conflict began, it has outperformed equities and gold as institutional inflows return and broader market sentiment remains cautious. Using BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)

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Bitcoin Eyes Weekly Close Above $70,000 as Buyers Reclaim 200-Week Trend Line

Bitcoin inched higher on Sunday as bulls pushed for a weekly close above $70,000, reclaiming the 200-week exponential moving average and holding above the old 2021 highs at $68,300 and $69,400. Out-of-hours action topped out just below $72,000 before cooling, and BTC was in line for

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Analysts weigh in on Matt Hougan’s $1 million bitcoin call

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan revisited his view that bitcoin could reach $1 million if it captures a much larger share of the global store-of-value market now dominated by gold and government bonds. "One million sounds crazy," Hougan said, noting that the market for defensive assets has grown from

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Crypto bulls say AI agents will make stablecoins the default payment layer

Visa and Coinbase are preparing for an internet where AI agents make payments without humans. Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong predicts there will soon be more AI agents than humans making transactions, and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has gone further, saying agents will make one million times more payments than people,

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Dormant wallet buys $7M in TRUMP tokens after gala announcement

A crypto wallet that had been inactive for five months bought more than $7 million worth of TRUMP tokens hours after the TrumpMeme account on X announced a gala and luncheon at Mar-a-Lago for April 25, sending the memecoin up more than 60% from an intraday low. Onchain data from

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Stablecoin uncertainty could disadvantage banks more than crypto firms

Colin Butler, executive vice president of capital markets at Mega Matrix, warned that regulatory uncertainty around stablecoins may leave traditional banks at a greater disadvantage than crypto companies. He noted that many financial institutions have already spent heavily on digital asset infrastructure but cannot fully deploy it while lawmakers debate

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Bitcoin's war-linked selloff keeps shrinking as Iran conflict worsens

Bitcoin was the first asset to price the Iran war because it was the only liquid market open when U.S. and Israel first launched their attack on a Saturday a few weeks ago. It dropped 8.5% that day, but two weeks later it has outperformed gold, the S&

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Bitcoin Whales Resume Accumulation Near $71K, Santiment

Large Bitcoin wallets are increasing their holdings again as the asset’s price holds around $71,000, with Santiment calling the recent shift to accumulation 'a bullish signal' and 'a positive reversal.' Wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 BTC now control 68.17% of Bitcoin’

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Arthur Hayes Says Hyperliquid HYPE Token Could Reach $150 by 2026

Arthur Hayes said Hyperliquid’s strong revenue, genuine trading activity and disciplined token supply could push HYPE to $150 by 2026. He sold his firm’s HYPE position around $50–$55 ahead of expected token unlock pressure but turned bullish after the team chose not to sell most of its

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Bank of England softens stance on stablecoins

The Bank of England’s position on stablecoins is shifting toward a more receptive stance. The bank launched a consultation on stablecoins in November last year and has been revising backing requirements and rethinking account limits after industry objections. Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden told the House of Lords Financial Services

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XRPL activity hits records while XRP price sits 62% below peak

The XRP Ledger is busier than ever: daily successful payments recently topped 2.7 million, up from roughly 1 million in late 2025, with the network processing 2–2.8 million transactions per day at 20–26 transactions per second. Automated market maker pools have swelled to nearly 27,000

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CLARITY Act 2026 odds 'extremely low' if not passed by April

Galaxy Digital head of firmwide research Alex Thorn said in an X post on Saturday, "If CLARITY doesn't pass committee by the end of April, odds of passage in 2026 become extremely low." He added, "This needs to hit the Senate floor by early May.

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Bitcoin survives most cable cuts, but targeted attacks could cripple it

Researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance analyzed 11 years of peer-to-peer network data and 68 verified submarine cable failures and found Bitcoin’s physical infrastructure far more resilient than commonly assumed. Running 1,000 Monte Carlo simulations per scenario, they concluded that between 72% and 92% of inter-country

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Yield-bearing stablecoins surge as Washington fights over yield

Yield-bearing stablecoins have grown far faster than the broader stablecoin market over the past six months, a Messari report found, outpacing it by 15-fold. The surge was driven by a 198% rise in Circle’s USYC, a 169% increase in Paxos’ USDG, a 114% gain for Tron’s USDD and

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Bitcoin holds $71,000 as Trump warns of strikes on Iran's Kharg Island

Two weeks into a Middle Eastern war, bitcoin was trading at $71,000 on Saturday morning, down 0.7% over the past 24 hours after the U.S. bombed military targets on Kharg Island, Iran's main crude export facility. The move reversed Friday's $73,838 high;

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Authorities dismantle SocksEscort proxy network and seize crypto

US and European authorities said Thursday they disrupted SocksEscort, a malicious proxy service used by cybercriminals to hide their identities while carrying out fraud, including cryptocurrency account takeovers. The DOJ said the service compromised at least 369,000 routers and other internet-connected devices in 163 countries, giving cybercriminals control over

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AI developers may shun crypto, but stablecoins could enable agentic finance

Stablecoins — largely dollar-pegged tokens on public blockchains like Ethereum — are being cast as a natural fit for autonomous, micro‑transacting AI agents. They have already lowered cost and time compared with traditional bank transfers, and proponents argue their programmable and composable features will be especially useful in agentic finance. Companies

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How Strategy could reach 1 million bitcoin in 2026

Strategy (MSTR), led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, held 738,731 BTC as of last Monday. It would need to acquire an additional 261,269 BTC — roughly $22.2 billion at an average price of $85,000 — to reach 1 million coins this year. With roughly 297 days, about 42

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Basel reform may channel fresh bank capital into Bitcoin, analyst

The Basel III rules, set to be updated in 2026, could trigger a "huge" influx of liquidity into Bitcoin if the asset receives a lower risk rating, market analyst Nic Puckrin said. Under current Basel rules, BTC and similar digital assets carry a 1,250% risk weight, which

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Ethereum Foundation sells 5,000 ether to BitMine in $10.2 million OTC deal

The Ethereum Foundation completed an over-the-counter sale of 5,000 ether to BitMine Immersion Technologies for roughly $10.2 million, clearing at an average price of $2,042.96 per ETH. The funds will support the foundation’s core operations, including protocol research and development, ecosystem growth and community grants.

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Bitcoin Outperforms Stocks as STRC Signals $776M Buying Power

Bitcoin is on track for its strongest weekly gain since September 2025, rising more than 7% over the past week to about $70,625 while the S&P 500 fell 1.60%, amid an escalating US–Israel–Iran conflict. STRC.LIVE estimates suggest Strategy may have raised roughly $776

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Boris Johnson calls bitcoin a 'Ponzi'; Michael Saylor and others push back

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called bitcoin a "giant Ponzi scheme" in a Daily Mail column and on X, recounting a story from his Oxfordshire village about a retired man who handed £500 to someone in a pub who promised to double it. The man spent

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KuCoin Launches USDt-Settled Perpetual Futures for Tesla and Strategy

Crypto exchange KuCoin has launched equity-linked perpetual derivatives tied to stocks including Tesla and Strategy, letting traders speculate on price movements through USDt-settled contracts that trade around the clock. The first listings are TSLAUSDT and MSTRUSDT perpetual contracts; they track the equities' prices but do not confer ownership, instead

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Brazil industry groups say extending IOF to stablecoins would be unlawful

ABcripto, ABFintechs, Abracam, ABToken and Zetta — representing more than 850 companies across Brazil’s fintech, virtual asset and market infrastructure sectors — warned that expanding the financial transactions tax (IOF) to stablecoin operations could harm innovation and violate existing law. The groups argue the Constitution limits the IOF to settlement of

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Crypto Can Fight Money Laundering Without Stifling Financial Freedom

Crypto does not have a unique money‑laundering problem when compared with traditional finance, where the practice is at least twice as prevalent and over 90% is believed to go undetected. Blockchain records everything, so when laundering occurs an indelible trail can be traced end to end. The anti‑money‑