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Bitcoin Passes $78K as Trump Extends Ceasefire Indefinitely Apr 23, 2026

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Elon Mentions Asteroid Meme & It Blows Up, DeFi Shaken With $292M KelpDAO Exploit, BTC at $75K Apr 20, 2026

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Crypto majors are red but rebounding after a big Sunday selloff; BTC -0.5% at $75.1k; ETH -1% at $2,307; SOL -1% at $85; HYPE -5% at $41.80. EDGE (+16%), DEXE (+7%), and SKY (+7%) led top movers. Oil +2% at $88; Gold even at $4,780. Stock futures red after record-breaking green streak. Vercel’s CEO confirmed a breach traced to a compromised third-party AI tool (Context.ai), which gave attackers access to internal Vercel environments via a hijacked Google Workspace account; CEO Guillermo Rauch called the actors “highly sophisticated” and said they may have used AI to accelerate the intrusion. Coinbase is deploying AI agents modeled after legendary former executives directly into Slack and email; “Fred” is based on co-founder Fred Ehrsam and acts as a strategic planning agent; “Balaji” is modeled after former CTO Balaji Srinivasan and is designed to challenge assumptions and spark innovation. Sam Altman’s World launched its biggest upgrade yet, bringing iris-scan proof-of-human verification to Zoom, Tinder, and concert ticket sales; Tinder will show a “verified human” badge, Zoom gets a deepfake-detection feature called Deep Face, and Concert Kit lets artists reserve tickets for real humans to block scalper bots.

Asteroid Memecoin Up 150x, Trump Says War Should End Soon, BTC Above $75K Apr 17, 2026

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Crypto majors are green after Trump says war should end soon; BTC +1.5% at $75.5k; ETH +1% at $2,354; SOL +4% at $88; HYPE -3% at $43.60. TIA (+13%), ARB (+13%), and AERO (+12%) led top movers. Oil even at $88; Gold -1$ at $4,780. Stocks have closed green for a record-tying 12 days in a row and would set a new record if green today. Tennessee lawmakers introduced a bill to invest state funds in Bitcoin, joining a growing list of state-level Bitcoin reserve efforts moving through legislatures in 2026. The Polkadot-Ethereum bridge hack cost $25M in losses - 10x the original estimate. DoubleZero launched an edge platform giving trading firms accelerated access to Solana blockchain data. Circle is being sued for its failure to freeze funds during the Drift exploit.

AllBirds Stock Up 800% After AI Pivot, UNC Jumps to $20M, BTC Devs Propose New Quantum Solution Apr 16, 2026

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Crypto majors are slightly green; BTC +0.5% at $74.4k; ETH +0.2% at $2,332; SOL +2% at $85; HYPE +1% at $44.69. EDGE (+25%), RAVE (+15%), and CHZ (+14%) led top movers. Oil -1% at $88; Gold even at $4,820. Bitcoin whales have accumulated 270,000 BTC ($20B) in the past month, the largest accumulation streak since 2013 according to CryptoQuant. Tether acquired another 951 Bitcoin, now holding 97,141 and 5th largest onchain holder.

Bitcoin at $74K, Next Fed Chair Owns Crypto, $200M Invested in Kraken Apr 15, 2026

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Crypto majors fall 1-2% after recent rally; BTC -1% at $74k; ETH -2% at $2,325; SOL -3% at $83; HYPE -2% at $44. DEXE (+17%), CHZ (+4%), and ARB (+2%) led top movers. Oil -4% at $89; Gold +1% at $4,810. Robinhood’s HOOD stock jumped 15% after the SEC approved ending the Pattern Day Trader rule, which eliminates the $25K minimum equity requirement for day trading. Deutsche Börse invested $200M in Kraken for a 1.5% stake at a $13.3B valuation (down from $20B in November) as Kraken confidentially files for IPO. CowSwap suffered a front-end compromise — DeFi exchange website hijacked; users warned not to interact with the interface until confirmed safe. Fake Ledger app on the Mac App Store drained $9.5M from crypto users before being removed; Apple store security failure with real losses. The Ethereum Foundation put up $1M to back ecosystem security audits. Visa backed Stripe’s Tempo payments network as an anchor validator. JPMorgan CFO raised caution about potential regulatory arbitrage with stablecoins, arguing banks are held to stricter standards than stablecoin issuers on equivalent products.

Crypto Rebounds, The Saylor Time Bomb, DeFi Green Light Apr 15, 2026

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Crypto majors rallied 5-10% on STRC, peace progress; BTC +5% at $74.4k; ETH +9% at $2,380; SOL +5% at $86; HYPE +8% at $44.90. VVV (+15%), ALGO (+10%), and MON (+9%) led top movers. Oil -5% at $92; Gold +1% at $4,770. White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt is working to finalize compromises on the Clarity Act, saying that the stablecoin yield compromise appears intact while other issues like tokenization, SEC/CFTC jurisdiction, and DeFi illicit finance. An attacker exploited Hyperbridge’s cross-chain gateway to mint 1 billion bridged Polkadot tokens on Ethereum, though the hacker walked away with just $237K due to shallow liquidity in the DOT-ETH pool. Foundry Digital launched its Foundry Zcash Pool on Monday with institutional miners already onboarded, capturing 29% of ZEC network hashrate. Coinbase’s VP of International Policy left to take a job at OpenAI, leading EMEA policy.

Bitcoin & ETH Are Pumping, Saylor is Buying Big, Kraken is Getting Extorted Apr 14, 2026

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Iran Peace Talks Fail, BTC Down, Alameda Unstake $16M SOL Apr 13, 2026

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Crypto majors fell from local highs after Iran peace talks fell through; BTC -1% at $70.8k; ETH -1% at $2,190; SOL -1% at $82; HYPE +3% at $41.60. Stable (+10%), VVV (+5%), and AAVE (+5%) led top movers. Oil +3% at $97; Gold even at $4,724. Bitcoin faced $20M/hour in profit realization above the $70k level according to Glassnode data, meaning there are still some big sellers out there. Alameda unstaked $16M in SOL, potentially for creditor reimbursements. Hackers minted 1B DOT tokens on the Ethereum mainnet and then sold them off but netted just $250k due to liquidity; the exploit was due to a Hyperbridge vulnerability.

BTC Breaks $73K Ahead of CPI, ZEC & MON Rip 20%, CZ & OKX Drama Apr 10, 2026

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Crypto majors are slightly green ahead of this morning’s CPI print; BTC +1% at $72.1k; ETH +1% at $2,210; SOL +2% at $84; HYPE +5% at $41. DEXE (+30%), ZEC (+20%), and MON (+20%) led top movers. Oil -3% at $94; Gold even at $4,764. The Bitcoin options market is showing concentration at the $80,000 price level for June expiry contracts with over $1.6B in open interest. Treasury Secretary Bessent urged the Senate to pass the Clarity Act, pushing for resolution on stablecoin yield provisions still stalling the bill. The Treasury will share cybersecurity intelligence with crypto firms, giving the industry access to the same threat data distributed to traditional financial institutions. Former SEC official Brett Redfearn joined Securitize as president ahead of the BlackRock-backed tokenization firm’s anticipated public listing. Binance founder CZ got into a public dispute with OKX founder Star, escalating to the point that CZ bet Star $1B that he is “officially divorced” from Binance.

Iran Wants BTC to Let Oil Tankers Through Strait, NY Times Claim They’ve Found Satoshi, + Markets Apr 09, 2026

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Crypto majors are red as the ceasefire is questioned and oil rebounds; BTC -1% at $71.1k; ETH -3% at $2,180; SOL -3% at $82; HYPE -1% at $39. DEXE (+4%), JST (+3%), and CC (+2%) led top movers. Oil +5% at $99; Gold -0.2% at $4,764. The US Treasury proposed rules requiring stablecoin issuers to maintain AML and sanctions compliance programs under the GENIUS Act, meaning issuers must be able to block, freeze, or reject transactions that violate law. Chainalysis projects stablecoins could handle $1.5 quadrillion in annual trading volume by 2035, potentially exceeding Visa and Mastercard’s combined volumes. Standard Chartered is considering merging Zodia Custody’s crypto custody business with its broader digital asset division. JPMorgan noted a sharp decrease in Q1 2026 crypto capital inflows citing market volatility and external pressures including the Iran war and a hawkish Fed.

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