Key takeaways:Heavy liquidations played a role in Bitcoin’s return to $95,000.Bitcoin’s weakening correlation with stocks highlights its growing independence as an asset.Bullish institutional investor positioning contrasts with retail traders’ caution, supporting a rally above $100,000.Bitcoin (BTC) gained 11% between April 20 and April 26, demonstrating resilience by holding near its two-month high around $94,000. This relief rally followed signals from the Trump administration about easing import tariffs, as well as strong corporate earnings reports.Investor confidence in Bitcoin was further boosted by a record $3.1 billion in net inflows to spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over five days. However, a key…Read More

Key takeaways: Norges Bank lost $40 billion in Q1 2025 as US tech stocks fell, exposing the risk of concentrated positions.The bank’s indirect Bitcoin exposure via stocks reached $356 million, raising sell pressure risk amid a global trade war and recession concerns.Abu Dhabi’s $437 million spot Bitcoin ETF stake shows sovereign wealth funds see Bitcoin as a hedge.Norges Bank, Norway’s $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund, reported a $40 billion loss in the first quarter of 2025, with most of the decline caused by a drop in the value of US-listed technology companies. Norges Bank also indirectly owned 3,821 BTC through…Read More

Today in crypto, Trump says federal income taxes will be greatly reduced or eliminated, Adam back said Strategy and other Bitcoin treasury firms are some of the earliest bettors on Hyperbitcoinization, which may see Bitcoin’s market cap soar to above $200 trillion, and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crypto task force head Hester Peirce said crypto in the US is like a game of “the floor is lava.”Trump says federal income taxes will be “substantially reduced” or eliminatedUnited States President Trump recently said federal income taxes would be “substantially reduced” or eliminated altogether once the proposed trade tariffs take…Read More

Key points:Bitcoin booked a 10% gain in the past week and technical indicators remain bullish going into a new week.Analysts expect Bitcoin to gain an additional 40% by the end of the yearSelect altcoins are showing a positive bias on improving crypto sentiment.Bitcoin (BTC) rose more than 10% this week as buyers made a strong comeback, pushing the price to the overhead resistance at $95,000. Although buyers are struggling to clear the overhead hurdle, a positive sign is that they have not given up much ground to the bears.The sharp up move is backed by solid buying in the US…Read More

Michael Saylor’s Strategy is “synthetically halving Bitcoin” (BTC) by purchasing half or more of the newly minted supply from miners every single month, according to Adam Livingston, a BTC analyst and author of “The Bitcoin Age and The Great Harvest.”Livingston said miners currently produce around 450 BTC per day or approximately 13,500 BTC per month, but Strategy acquired 379,800 BTC in the last six months. This translates to the firm purchasing roughly 2,087 BTC per day — far in excess of daily miner output. The author added:”When Bitcoin becomes this scarce, access to Bitcoin will require paying a premium. Lending…Read More

Two Ethereum community members, Kevin Owocki and Devansh Mehta, proposed a dynamic fee structure for the Ethereum application layer to strike a balance between revenue generation for app builders and fairness in fee extraction.The April 27 proposal outlined a simple equation that uses a square root function that proportionally lowers the percentage of fees as the funding capital allocated to a particular project grows. Owocki and Mehta explained:”For smaller funding amounts, the fee follows a square root function (sqrt(1000 x N)), providing proportionally higher returns to make building mechanisms for smaller pools worthwhile. For example, if the funding pool is…Read More

What is crypto price manipulation? When a coin moons out of nowhere and then crashes just as fast — it is rarely pure market magic.Cryptocurrency price manipulation is the dark art of bending the market to your will. It is when insiders or coordinated groups inflate or crash a coin’s price, not through real demand, but through smoke and mirrors. They might fake volume, spread hype, trigger fear, or pull sudden sell-offs — all to trap unsuspecting traders and walk away with the profits.In traditional finance, this kind of behavior gets you fined or jailed. But what about in the…Read More

U.S. Peesident Donald Trump’s memecoin has led to calls for impeachment and inflated its circulating supply in major unlocks. It’s still defying gravity.Read More

Gala Games’ Easter event at the White House hints at a potential fresh chapter for GameFi, which has shown signs of life in the last few days.Read More

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said a stablecoin tool for companies outside US, UK and EU is ready for testing.Read More

DeFi Development Corp. plans to use proceeds to bolster its Solana-focused treasury strategy and fund corporate initiatives.Read More

SUI, BCH and Hedera’s HBAR led Friday gains in the CoinDesk 20 Index, with one analyst saying this week’s crypto rally is likely the beginning of BTC’s climb to fresh record prices.Read More

In comments Friday, SNB President Martin Schlegel said holding bitcoin raises liquidity and volatility risks for Switzerland.Read More