US-China summit and inflation data trigger market volatility; SHR Miner emerges as a new choice for investors chasing $17,700 in returns
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Bitcoin slips below $80K as inflation data pressures markets and cloud mining interest grows. Summary Bitcoin fell to $79.2K…
UK borrowing costs hit 18-year high as leadership uncertainty rattles gilt markets
The UK government’s cost of borrowing just hit a level that predates the euro as a physical currency. Thirty-year gilt yields touched 5.807% on May 13, the highest since 1998, while 10-year yields punched through 5.11%, a number the market…
KRWQ Expands to Solana in a Move That Could Boost Real-World Asset Activity
KRWQ token, a Korean won-denominated stablecoin, has announced its expansion to the Solana blockchain, positioning itself as a core settlement asset for Korean won liquidity on the network. The move follows KRWQ’s listing on EDX Markets in March and marks…
Cardano Whales Keep Buying as ADA Crashes 71% in 9 Months
ADA millionaires now hold over 25 billion tokens for the first time ever, according to Santiment’s latest findings. At $0.26, Cardano (ADA) continues to trade significantly below its previous market highs, but large holders of the 11th-largest crypto asset…
Crypto Correlations Hit Record Highs as BTC-SOL Reaches 0.99
Ethereum emerged as the most connected asset, showing strong alignment with Cardano, Solana, and Dogecoin. Analytics platform DefiLlama has reported an elevated degree of price synchronization among leading cryptocurrencies. Over the past week, several major trading pairs showed correlation…
Bitcoin Pulls In $706M as Traders Abandon Short Positions in Massive Sentiment Shift
While Bitcoin dominated headlines, Solana and XRP investment products also recorded sharp increases in activity. Digital asset investment products posted inflows of $857.9 million, and extended six straight weeks of positive flows – the highest weekly figure since April…
Solana and Google Cloud Team Up for Stablecoin-Powered AI Agent Payments
Developers can link a Solana wallet to AI tools like Claude Code or Gemini and have an agent accessing paid APIs within one minute. The Solana Foundation has partnered with Google Cloud to launch Pay.sh, a platform that allows…
Wall Street Giant Morgan Stanley Enters Crypto Race With Pricing Edge: Report
Morgan Stanley is bringing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading to E*Trade clients soon. One of the world’s largest wealth management firms, Morgan Stanley, is all set to introduce cryptocurrency trading on its E*Trade platform, which it acquired for $13…
US and Iran clash at UN over Tehran’s nuclear non-proliferation role
The US and Iran clashed at the UN after Tehran was appointed to a nuclear non-proliferation role, and the odds of a US-Iran nuclear deal by April 30 have dropped to 1% YES, down from 7% yesterday. Market reaction The…
BIR to Explore Blockchain Analytics to Boost Tax Compliance
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) met to discuss the use of data and blockchain analytics regarding tax compliance among online sellers and emerging payment channels. The meeting involved BIR Commissioner Charlito Mendoza,…
Analyst Warns of a Potential Drop as ETH Is ‘Looking Weak’
The asset’s price may retrace in the short term before giving trades a better opportunity to open long positions. Earlier this month, it seemed like Ethereum (ETH) was on its way to reclaim $2,500, but the bears intercepted the…
Aave Commits 25000 ETH to Industry-wide Recovery Fund
The DeFi world stands at a historic crossroads following the April 18, 2026, exploit of Kelp DAO’s rsETH bridge, which effectively broke the critical cross-chain backing invariant between locked Ethereum collateral and remote-chain mints. In response, a powerful coalition of…
Solana Readies Quantum Defense With 3-Step Roadmap and Falcon Implementation
Key Takeaways: Anza and Firedancer independently selected the Falcon post-quantum signature scheme for Solana, with code on Github. Blueshift’s Solana Winternitz Vault has been live for over 2 years and was cited by Google Quantum AI in 2025. Solana’s 3-step…
Bitget Research Bitcoin Outlook April 2026
Ryan Lee, Chief Analyst at Bitget Research, says Bitcoin and Ethereum are supported by steady institutional ETF demand and lower leverage, with BTC expected to break $80,000 to $85,000 short term and ETH targeting $2,800 to $3,000. Summary Bitget Research…
US-Iran nuclear deal talks stall, odds plummet
Odds for a US-Iran nuclear deal by April 30 have crashed to 1.1% YES on Polymarket, down from 7% yesterday and 68% a week ago, as negotiations appear to have broken down with six days left. Market reaction The Crude…
SEC Chair Paul Atkins Tells Bitcoin Las Vegas 2026 a New Era Starts Now at the Agency
Key Takeaways: SEC Chair Atkins confirmed that an innovation exemption for onchain tokenized securities trading is coming within weeks in 2026. The SEC and CFTC’s joint token taxonomy guidance is already moving Asian markets, creating premiums on listed digital commodities….
Ripple’s David Schwartz Warns of Phishing Campaign Using Robinhood Emails
The emails passed domain authentication checks because they appeared to have been sent through Robinhood’s actual email infrastructure. Ripple’s CTO Emeritus David Schwartz posted a warning on X, telling users that a phishing campaign had sent fraudulent security alerts…
Are stablecoins now the core plumbing of global finance?
Stablecoins have “quietly become core financial plumbing” and pushed on‑chain finance past a “point of no return,” according to a new a16z crypto framework that recasts programmable dollars as the base layer for a multi‑chain, banking‑as‑a‑service stack and a coming…