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- Hiltzik: Trump wants you to invest your 401(k) in crypto and private equity. Should you bite? If you believe Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, American 401(k) accounts are about to get much better. Thanks to President Trump's "bold new vision of a new golden age for America," Chavez-DeRemer wrote, her agency is taking steps to open these crucial retirement accounts to a raft of new investment options, such as cryptocurrencies and private equity funds. Her goal, she wrote, is to "unwind regulatory overreach and litigation abuse that have stifled innovation." Her instrument is a proposed regulation that in effect would provide a safe harbor for plan sponsors — that is, employers — to offer those options in their employees' plans...

- Why Smaller Crypto Companies Are Struggling Under MICA MiCA introduced a unified European crypto market framework with one license valid across 27 countries. Large exchanges like Binance, Kraken, and Coinbase have successfully obtained MiCA licenses for all 27 EU countries. For smaller companies, however, MiCA is proving to be a different kind of challenge. The regulation functions as a quality filter, but interpretations differ: some argue it removes bad actors, while others contend it disproportionately affects companies without deep capital reserves. The True Cost of Compliance The cost breakdown reveals significant barriers to entry. Minimum licensing and compliance costs for crypto startups range from €250,000 to €500,000...

- Bitcoin price today trades near $71,800, up roughly 2.9% over the past month. A bullish pattern on Bitcoin's (BTC) daily chart now points to an 11% breakout target. Yet the data behind the rally tells a cautious story. Bitcoin open interest has dropped, spot outflows have halved, and long-side conviction is well below earlier levels. The structure is ready. The fuel is not. Bitcoin Price Builds Breakout Structure as RSI Hints at a Pullback On the daily chart, the Bitcoin price has formed a clear rounded bottom pattern with a slightly upward-slanting neckline. The cup completed its formation after weeks of gradual recovery from late March lows. Since the April 9 local peak, a consolidation has started that could align with the...

- $2.2 Billion in Crypto Options Expire Today as a Hidden Ethereum Signal Resurfaces Around 26,700 Bitcoin (BTC) options contracts expire on Friday, April 10, carrying a notional value of roughly $1.9 billion. Another 151,500 Ethereum (ETH) contracts also settle today, worth approximately $332 million. The combined expiry adds up to over $2.2 billion. However, the event is relatively small compared to the record $27 billion quarterly settlement in late 2025 and is unlikely to move spot prices on its own. BTC Options Show Renewed Optimism Above $70,000 This week's batch of BTC contracts has a put/call ratio of 0.71, indicating more bullish long positions than bearish shorts. Max pain sits around $69,000, according to Deribit, well...

- What Crypto Whales Are Buying and Selling Ahead Of The April US CPI Print The March Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, a measure of the cost of goods and services, lands today with a hot print expected amid Iran war-driven energy costs. A fragile ceasefire has offered reprieve, but uncertainty lingers. Crypto whales are already positioning. BeInCrypto analysts tracking on-chain whale activity have identified three tokens showing sharp accumulation or selling ahead of the release. Ethereum (ETH) Among the tokens seeing heavy whale accumulation ahead of the April CPI print, Ethereum (ETH) stands out. Its positioning dwarfs all others. Santiment data shows ETH crypto whale wallets surged from 122.93 million to 123.43 million tokens...

- Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is down by 6% over the last 12 months and 43% from its all-time high of just above $126,000, set in October 2025. If you're thinking of selling it after such a prolonged and steep decline, you aren't alone. In fact, at its current price, about 47% of all Bitcoin in circulation is now held at a loss. That's a vast amount of pain for investors to be carrying, and the urge to cut losses is natural. But selling into the market's fear has historically been a losing strategy with this asset far more often than not. Here's what the data says about what you should do. Even some evangelists are cracking One important detail is that Bitcoin's long-term holders, which includes all kinds of wallets with balances unmoved...

- MercadoLibre (MELI) to Discontinue Mercado Coin Cryptocurrency MercadoLibre Inc. (NASDAQ:MELI) is one of the best growth stocks to buy for the next decade. On April 1, Reuters reported that Mercado Pago (fintech division of MercadoLibre) announced that it is discontinuing its proprietary cryptocurrency, Mercado Coin. Originally launched in 2022 as a loyalty program feature, the digital asset provided Brazilian customers with cashback rewards for purchases made on the group’s e-commerce platform. The focus of the fintech’s crypto operations has shifted toward the Meli Dolar, which is a stablecoin pegged one-to-one with the US dollar. Launched in 2024, this stablecoin is currently available to users in Brazil, Mexico, and Chile...

- Bitcoin and Ether’s Latest Push Higher Looks More Like Fresh Risk Appetite Than a Short Squeeze BTC and ETH moved higher as traders leaned back into risk, but the latest leg up appears to have come from new positioning rather than a rush to cover shorts. Analysis from CryptoQuant showed open interest in BTC perpetual futures rose by about $2.1 billion over 24 hours, while ETH perpetual open interest climbed roughly $2.2 billion over the same stretch. That changes the feel of the rally a bit. When prices rise alongside expanding open interest, it usually points to fresh exposure entering the market instead of a move driven mainly by liquidations. In this case, the rebound looked more like traders putting risk back on after...

- Bitcoin pushed back above $72,000 on Thursday as improving risk sentiment lifted crypto and stocks, but the rebound did not carry over to every name tied to the sector. Circle fell about 10% to $85.10, while Bullish dropped roughly 6% to $36.12 even as bitcoin traded near $71,900 after topping $72,900 intraday. The split says something about where the market is getting more selective. Bitcoin’s move higher still works as the headline, especially when macro pressure eases and traders lean back into risk. But for crypto-linked equities, the story can change quickly once valuation, margins or earnings durability come into focus. Circle came under pressure after Compass Point cut the stock to Sell, arguing that USDC (CRYPTO: $USDC)...

- Where Will the Cryptocurrency XRP Be in 5 Years? The cryptocurrency XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is down more than 60% since peaking near $3.65 last July. It now trades around $1.30 -- roughly the same price it was before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled its case against Ripple and spot XRP ETFs, like the Bitwise XRP ETF, launched in the U.S. Two of the biggest catalysts bulls had been waiting years for have come and gone, and the token is right back where it started. I think in the near term, you can expect more of the same, and I expect XRP to seriously struggle to keep pace with the broader crypto market over the next five years. That doesn't mean I think banking adoption will slow or that Ripple, the company behind...

- TD Cuts Bitcoin Giant Strategy's Price Target, Calls Ethereum Treasury Sharplink a ‘Buy’ TD Cowen analysts initiated coverage of Sharplink with a “buy” rating on Thursday, while reducing the investment bank’s price target for Bitcoin-buying Strategy. The analysts, led by Lance Vitanza, penciled in a $16 price target for Sharplink shares, which changed hands around $6.42 in after-hours trading, according to Yahoo Finance. The company’s stock price has fallen 62% over the past six months. Unlike crypto-buying firms dedicated to Bitcoin, Sharplink has shaped itself as an operating company that’s able to grow its digital assets stockpile through staking, the process through which entities participating in the process of validating...

- Cryptocurrency markets have been in the throes of a brutal sell-off since the middle of last year. Investors are trimming their exposure to risk assets in the face of rising economic and political uncertainty, which recently hit a crescendo with the ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. The combined value of all cryptocurrencies in circulation is down 45% from last year's peak of $4.4 trillion, and no major coins or tokens have avoided the carnage. Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) is the world's largest platform for building decentralized software applications, which are popular in industries like gaming and financial services. However, a growing number of developers are turning to the Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) ecosystem instead, which...

- Five weeks into the United States-Israel-Iran conflict, and a fragile calm has settled over the Middle East, at least on paper. On the night of April 7, just 90 minutes before the 8 PM ET deadline, U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to pause attacks on Iran, announcing what he called a "double-sided" ceasefire. The deal, brokered by Pakistan, came with a critical condition that Iran had to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the world's daily oil supply flows and which has been shut since the war began in late February. Tehran agreed for two weeks, and only as long as all attacks remain halted. Iran's Foreign Minister confirmed the terms, and media reports indicated Israel had also...

- Nexus Mutual wants to be the insurance policy your crypto never had The suits have arrived in crypto. In an interview at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City, Nexus Mutual head of business development Ralf Turner noticed the shift firsthand. For a protocol that's been building decentralized insurance since 2019, the real signal isn't the dress code. It's the demand. Nexus Mutual operates as a decentralized finance (DeFi) insurance marketplace on the Ethereum blockchain. How decentralized insurance works Capital holders deposit Ethereum and other assets into the protocol, which mints them $NXM, the protocol's core token representing their share of a collective capital pool. That pool then backs coverage for crypto-native...

- Pepe May Follow Dogecoin to Wall Street—But ETF Investors Aren't Buying Meme Hype Canary Capital thrust Pepe into the limelight on Wednesday with an application for an exchange-traded fund that tracks the meme coin’s price, but the token’s muted reaction may serve as the latest sign of Wall Street’s tepid appetite for assets that trade on vibes. On Thursday, Pepe changed hands around $0.00000359, up about 0.6% over the last day, according to CoinGecko. The day before, trading volume rose 10% to $432 million. Not long ago, meme coins served as key growth drivers for firms like Wintermute. Yet the crypto market maker acknowledged last year that their prediction of a core asset manager debuting a meme coin ETF, particularly Dogecoin...

- Launched in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, Bitcoin (BTC) is one of the most innovative currencies. Advocates argue cryptography makes it secure and its limited supply makes it a valuable asset in comparison to fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar that the government can print anytime it likes. Bitcoin mining is the process of using specialized computing hardware to solve complex cryptographic functions to verify and add blocks containing BTC transactions to the chain. As a reward, miners earn newly minted Bitcoin plus transaction fees. The cryptocurrency relies on the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism that requires miners to perform computational work (solving cryptographic functions) to prove they did the...

- AI is poaching Bitcoin miners — and this CEO says holders shouldn't worry Bitcoin's hash rate has pulled back a little more than 5% year-to-date, the first meaningful decline in years. Public miners are pivoting to artificial intelligence (AI) compute, margins are compressed, and some of the network's largest operators are rethinking what their megawatts are worth. When asked if this is something Bitcoin holders should be concerned about, Beau Turner, CEO of Abundant Mines, mentioned that these developments can actually benefit the network in the short and long term. "I don't think this should concern Bitcoin holders at all," Turner said. "The security model of the network works really well regardless of whether the public miners...

- Bitcoin and Ethereum Open Interest Rises, Signaling Renewed Risk Appetite: CryptoQuant A surge in open interest, or the amount of money dedicated to futures contracts that have not yet settled, has helped propel the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum over the last 24 hours, according to a report from blockchain analytics firm CryptoQuant. Perpetual futures open interest has risen by $2.1 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively, for BTC and ETH over the last 24 hours, according to the firm, which says the dollar-denominated levels have hit their highest marks since last month. CoinGlass data shows that Bitcoin open interest is currently at its highest level in more than two months, while Ethereum open interest is at its highest mark in...

- Quantum threat looms far beyond Bitcoin, says Grayscale Quantum computing is often cited as a potential long-term risk to Bitcoin and blockchain technology — but one that the industry is likely to overcome. Speaking in an interview, Grayscale’s head of research, Zach Pandl, described quantum as part of a broader evolution in digital security, rather than a fundamental threat to crypto. What quantum computing means for digital security Pandl explained that modern digital systems — including blockchains — rely on cryptography built on mathematical assumptions that are difficult for traditional computers to solve. “Think about digital security, the cryptography that underpins that is based on a certain type of mathematics that...

- How Legacy Institutions See DeFi in 2026 Once treated as the black sheep of finance, DeFi is now being seriously examined by institutions – its core mechanisms tested, validated, and increasingly viewed as a credible alternative to legacy systems. In a report published last week, the Bank of Canada explored decentralized lending with a case study on Aave V3, the largest DeFi lending protocol by TVL. Authored by Bank of Canada economist Jonathan Chiu and University of Toronto researcher Furkan Danisman, the paper analyzed transaction data from Aave V3’s Ethereum mainnet deployment, examining revenue flows, borrower behavior, and liquidation events. The analysis found that Aave’s revenue is largely generated from the spread...