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Li Xiong, a central figure in a major crypto scam syndicate, has been extradited to China from Cambodia to face charges of fraud and money laundering after his arrest. His group's activities resulted in significant losses globally, prompting law enforcement actions.

Volume-to-market cap ratios are increasing across selected crypto assets. Ethereum and BNB remain stable liquidity anchors in the market structure. Mid-cap tokens like JUP and ENA show early signs of rising speculative activity. Cryptomarkets are demonstrating that they are beginning to

SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has submitted an IPO application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with plans to complete the listing in June 2026. The deal targets raising $75 billion, setting a record for the largest IPO in the United States. This IPO will use a dual-class share structure, offering 30% of the shares to retail investors, with the five largest investment banks on Wall Street underwriting the rest. In addition, SpaceX’s valuation is $1.75 trillion, which would place it among the top ten by market cap globally. The company also holds 8,285 Bitcoins, which could affect its IPO performance.

The xrp price prediction is turning bullish as whales stack ETH at a pace that caught the entire market off guard, with on chain data showing wallet balances going parabolic across every major large cap. That buying supports the long term outlook for XRP and every blue chip in the top ten, but the r

Monad blockchain reached a total value locked (TVL) of $355 million within about four months, setting a record for rapid growth, but its daily transaction fees are less than $3,000, indicating a disconnect between locked capital and real trading activity. At the same time, the fully diluted valuation of the MON token fell from $4.7 billion to about $2.2 billion, reflecting the market’s lack of confidence in its continued ability to attract users.

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Taiwan is advised to consider Bitcoin as a key reserve asset amidst rising geopolitical tensions, viewing it as a financial defense strategy that provides liquidity beyond traditional systems during potential conflict scenarios.

Claw Code is an open-source project developed by developer Sigrid Jin, rewritten from scratch within 24 hours after the Claude Code code leak, and quickly gained more than 124,000 stars on GitHub, becoming the fastest project in history to reach this milestone. It uses a “clean room implementation” approach, making it unaffected by the DMCA, because the code is completely original and does not include any of the leaked original code. The project’s rapid growth is mainly driven by the leak incident, reflecting unusually high user activity.

Crude oil rose to over $100 a barrel while Bitcoin fell 2% after a national address by US President Donald Trump on the conflict in Iran, where he vowed to hit Iran "extremely hard" over the next few weeks.  Speaking at the White House on Wednesday during an address to the nation, Trump said the US

A new on-chain signal from Santiment is raising eyebrows across crypto markets. In a post shared today, the analytics platform said the number of non-empty Tether wallets on Ethereum fell by 72,841, or 0.54%, in just 48 hours, an unusually sharp move for a metric that, as Santiment noted,

Trust Wallet’s Discord short link was hijacked and points to a malicious phishing server. Users should immediately stop clicking the relevant links and wait for official confirmation that they are safe. The newly released address poisoning protection feature can actively screen for potential scam addresses. Since 2025, Trust Wallet has faced multiple security challenges, so users need to take precautions.

Key takeaways: A Hyperliquid whale placed an $80 million bet against Bitcoin and the S&P 500 while going long on Brent crude oil prices. The whale’s history of massive losses and inconsistent signals suggests the trade could fall on the wrong side of the market. Bitcoin (BTC)

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued Bulletin 2026-4, effective April 1, providing a clear regulatory path for Ripple’s national trust bank and allowing it to operate after meeting the conditions to open for business. This bulletin replaces “fiduciary activities” with “the operations of a trust company,” expanding the organization’s service scope, including digital asset custody services. Ripple’s regulatory status has undergone a significant transformation, and in its application for a licensed institution, it seeks a Federal Reserve master account, focusing on the growth and challenges of the digital asset market.

SlowMist analyzed the Drift Protocol hack, pointing out that the core vulnerability was that the multisig mechanism change did not include a time lock. After the attacker gained administrator privileges, they systematically extracted assets by forging tokens, manipulating oracles, and disabling security modules, ultimately stealing about 105,969 ETH. ZachXBT criticized Circle for not freezing USDC in time during this process, which had a negative impact on the industry and sparked widespread discussion.

Pi Network announced that its testnet remote procedure call (RPC) servers are now live, laying the groundwork for building a smart contract ecosystem. Although this news is seen as a positive, the core team’s selling of more than 21.8 million PI tokens, along with the ongoing supply pressure stemming from user top-ups, has still exerted downside pressure on the market. Technical analysis shows that the support level for the PI token is $0.1736; the future price action needs to be closely watched.

The TON core team announced a consensus mechanism upgrade: Catchain 2.0 has started mainnet deployment. The goal is to reduce block confirmation time to about 1 second. This upgrade improves block generation speed and emphasizes that application developers need to adapt to the Streaming API to ensure a good user experience. If they do not adapt, the benefits of the upgrade will be greatly diminished.

Bitcoin demand remains under pressure despite institutional accumulation, with 30-day apparent demand growth standing at negative 63,000 BTC, indicating that broader market selling continues to outweigh purchases by exchange-traded funds and corporate treasuries, according to a report published by CryptoQuant on April 1, 2026.

A CryptoQuant report indicates that as of the end of March, Bitcoin’s “apparent demand” is -63,000 BTC, showing that the market has an oversupply situation, and institutional buying cannot offset retail selling. Starting in mid-2025, the giant whales began large-scale selling, pushing the market into a distribution phase. Although ETF institutional buying has increased, it has not been able to change the weak demand situation, and weakening domestic U.S. demand may further affect the market. Easing geopolitical tensions could become a catalyst for a short-term rebound.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) did not issue its anticipated first batch of stablecoin licenses by the end of March 2026, missing the target timeline previously signaled by officials, with the regulator stating only that the licensing process is advancing and further details will be announced in due course.

Drift Protocol was hacked on April 1, when attackers stole about $285 million in assets, setting the record for the largest loss in DeFi security incidents in 2026. The hackers quickly converted funds to ETH and split up storage, increasing the difficulty of recovery. The industry is currently pessimistic about the likelihood of funds being recovered. This incident will intensify regulatory pressure on the DeFi industry and force developers to strengthen smart contract security.