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Bitcoin, ether, solana hold steady as Trump sets Tuesday night deadline for Iran deal

Oil jumped above $112 on threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure if no agreement is reached by midnight, while crypto markets gave back Monday's ceasefire rally gains.
Bitcoin miners face a new rival for cheap power as Anthropic signs multi-gigawatt compute deal

The AI company's partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-generation TPU capacity starting in 2027 adds to a wave of demand reshaping the economics of every industry that competes for cheap electricity, including bitcoin mining.
XRP slips to $1.31 after failed breakout as liquidity dries up

Rejection at $1.35 and collapsing depth raise risk of sharper moves as positioning builds.
Bitcoin ETF inflows hit highest level since February

Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $471 million on April 6, the 6th-largest inflow of 2026, as prediction markets price little near-term Fed movement.
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Bitcoin pulls away from software stocks as Iran war, AI reshape market dynamic

BTC correlation with an ETF tracking software comany stocks broke sharply from near-total alignment to near zero after the conflict started.
Bitcoin price-drop speculation spurred by familiar price pattern

BTC and ETH remain stuck in a two-month range as oil prices and Iran tensions weigh on sentiment, while AI and privacy tokens show surprising relative strength.
Why Michael Saylor's bitcoin buys aren’t moving the needle anymore

Despite billions in purchases, MSTR demand is being outweighed by long term holder positioning and broader capital flows.
Solana Foundation unveils security overhaul days after $270 million Drift exploit

The program includes 24/7 threat monitoring for protocols with more than $10 million in deposits and a dedicated incident response network of security firms.
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How North Korea's 6-month long secret espionage program has crypto community rethinking security

For years, the DeFi industry has treated security as a technical problem: something that could be solved with better code. But the Drift incident suggests something far more complex: that the real vulnerabilities may lie outside the codebase altogether.
Bitcoin quantum threat is real and closer than it looks, says Nobel physicist

Former Google quantum hardware leader and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, Dr. John Martinis, warns that breaking encryption will be among the earliest uses of quantum computing
'A whole civilization will die': Crypto markets under pressure as Trump ups rhetoric towards Iran

Weekend gains for bitcoin have been mostly erased ahead of the president's Tuesday night deadline for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz
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CoinDesk 20 performance update: index drops 2.4% as all constituents trade lower

Aave (AAVE) dropped 8.5% and Avalanche (AVAX) fell 7.6%, leading the index lower from Monday.
Binance.US plots comeback with derivatives, prediction markets push

Under new CEO Stephen Gregory, the U.S. arm of the crypto exchange giant look sot regain market share lost to Coinbase and Kraken.
Schwab says even a 1% crypto allocation can reshape portfolio risk

The brokerage's research finds that even a tiny crypto allocation can dominate your portfolio's risk, suggesting that the "right" amount to own depends entirely on your stomach for 70% price swings.
Crypto's $224 million inflow rebound was led by mostly one country and XRP

Switzerland accounted for 70% of global crypto ETP inflows last week with XRP products contributing more than half the total.
Regulation by hostility: the real legacy of Biden-era crypto policy

Thorn argues that a recent New York Times op-ed rewrites history through omission, glossing over the collateral damage caused by the previous administration.
Americans’ losses to crypto scams rose to over $11 billion last year, FBI reports

Fraud schemes grew more sophisticated and targeted larger sums than in 2024.
DeFi yields are crashing so hard that they can't compete with a traditional savings account

DeFi yields have collapsed below TradFi rates, forcing investors to face higher smart contract risks for lower returns as regulation and exploits mount.
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Grayscale says bitcoin's quantum problem is governance, not engineering

The asset manager's research arm argues the technical path to quantum-safe blockchains is clear but reaching consensus on protocol changes, especially what to do with Satoshi's coins, is the real obstacle.
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‘Don’t waste time with crypto': Here is what Solana Foundation's cryptic message really means

The foundation says it is becoming a leading network for “agentic payments.”