🇫🇷📊 Bybit CEO Ben: DeFi's in Its Regulatory Honeymoon Period

During a fireside chat at Paris Blockchain Week 2026, Ben Zhou, Co-founder & CEO of Bybit, highlighted the inherent contradiction between the cross-border nature of DeFi and centralized regulation. He noted that current regulations, like the EU MiCA, lack a clear definition of DeFi, allowing for regulatory arbitrage. Zhou emphasized that while DeFi is in a regulatory honeymoon period, regulators are likely to focus on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) first, contrasting with the stringent compliance reviews faced by centralized exchanges (CEXs). Full implementation of DeFi regulation will take time. #regulation link link

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🕵️ Grayscale (Ethereum Mini Trust) staked 102,400 $ETH ($237M) again 10 hours ago. link

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🇫🇷📊 Telegram Founder Attributes 41 French Crypto Kidnappings to Tax Leaks

Telegram founder Pavel Durov noted that 41 kidnappings targeting crypto holders occurred in France in the first 3.5 months of 2026. He attributed the crimes to tax data leaks acquired by criminals and warned that expanding government data collection could further exacerbate these risks. link

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🕵️ #AAVE Aave proposes allocating 25,000 #ETH to support DeFi United in addressing vulnerabilities in Kelp DAO. link

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🇺🇸🏆 According to SoSoValue, on April 24 (ET), U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $14.45 million in net inflows, extending their inflow streak to nine days. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs saw $23.38 million in net inflows. link

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🕵️ This guy just dropped another 568 $ETH ($1.32M) on $ASTEROID.

Trader 0x2d2e has spent a total of 1,063 $ETH ($2.47M) to buy 8.38B $ASTEROID ($2.3M) and is now down $167K. link

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🇫🇷🥷 France Sees Surge in Crypto-Related Kidnappings, 88 Charged

According to Le Monde, France’s national anti-organized crime prosecutor reported a rapid increase in crypto-related kidnapping cases. A total of 88 individuals have been charged across 12 cases, including over 10 minors, with 75 held in pretrial detention.

Authorities have recorded 135 such incidents since 2023, including 18 in 2024, 67 in 2025, and 47 so far in 2026. These cases typically involve abduction or unlawful detention, with victims forced to transfer crypto assets as ransom. link

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🇺🇸🔮 CFTC has added New York to the list of states against which it has filed lawsuits to stop legal prosecutions of prediction markets. #regulation link

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🎁 NVIDIA's Market Cap Just Reclaimed $5T.

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🤔 #RWA JPMorgan believes that tokenization will be a driving force for change in the entire securities industry, but "successful use cases" are still far away. link

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Following the upside breakout from the trading range and a bullish engulfing of the 1.400 level, we anticipate the next target at 1.500.

#TONUSDT #Crypto #SIGNAL #SignalsToday

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📊 The BTC ETFs saw net inflows every single day this week with over $823M in weekly net inflows.

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🐳 Crypto Fear & Greed says 11. Whales just bought 270,000 $BTC.

Largest 30-day whale absorption since 2013.
Long-Term Holder supply: 78.3% (up from 74.1%).
Exchange reserves: 2.21M BTC — a 7-year low.

Retail panics. Smart money loads. Same script as every cycle bottom.

See the whale-vs-retail delta live → link

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🤝 So far, a total of 14 ecosystem participants and individual contributors have joined DeFi United, with a disclosed total of 69,642 $ETH ($161M).

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🕵️ Fidelity's $ETH staking ETF pulled $1.2B on day one.

Yield-bearing ETH inside a regulated wrapper is accessible to RIAs and 401(k)s.

21Shares, Franklin, and VanEck staking amendments are still pending for Q2.

ETH remains range-bound near $2,322, with the plumbing moving faster than the price.

Track ETH Smart Money Flow Index → #etf link

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💰 $BTC is 59.9% short.
$ETH, $SOL, $XRP, $DOGE are all 70%+ long.

That's not a market. That's a rubber band.
BTC funding sits at -0.0067%. Alts are paying premium to stay long.

One of these crowds is wrong. Which one capitulates first?

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📊 Miners are mining at a record but losing money doing it.

Hash rate: 995 EH/s — touching 1 ZH/s for the first time in history.
Hash price: $27.89 per PH/s/day — near record lows.
Marathon dumped 15,133 $BTC in Q1 just to keep the lights on.

Setups like this historically resolve through capitulation. Watch the Mining Pressure curve.

Hash Capitulation chart on the dashboard. link

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🤔 #DRIFT plans to relaunch the exchange in May or June.

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🇺🇸📝 Sanctioned ships continue to pass through the Strait of Hormuz despite US blockade, NBC reports.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran left Islamabad without meeting with representatives of the USA.

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🇺🇸🧑‍💻 #USA 79% of the world's crypto ATMs are in the USA.

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