Crypto VC funding crashes 75% to $660M in April
April was the lowest monthly tally in over a year — and the drop from March's $2.6B is sharper than typical seasonal softness, pointing to a hard risk-off reset in capital flows.
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April was the lowest monthly tally in over a year — and the drop from March's $2.6B is sharper than typical seasonal softness, pointing to a hard risk-off reset in capital flows.
Two consecutive up months and a staking rate above 30% are the structural read — May's historical +28–31% average is the seasonal overlay the trade is now leaning into.
The breakout rode a record high in the MSCI AC Asia Index, a Fear & Greed reading still stuck at 40, and a USDT flow into Binance that traders read as fresh dry powder.
Public companies collectively held 1.15 million BTC at the close of Q1 2026, a 4.6% increase from the prior quarter…
Senator Cynthia Lummis has called for the immediate passage of the Clarity Act, cautioning that the absence of clear…
Chainalysis projects stablecoin settlement volumes could hit $719 trillion by 2035 under a base-case scenario, with an…
The OpenAI Foundation CFO appointment is the headline grab, but the substantive beat is Evernorth's 473M-XRP treasury and Ripple's 126.79M anchor commitment ahead of a Q2 2026 SPAC debut under ticker…
The legal theory is binary: either the recovered ether belongs to Aave's users, or it belongs to North Korea — and Aave argues attribution to Lazarus Group is unproven, with $327M in industry…
Upbit's 13M-user exchange will run its own sequencer — a model the Optimism Foundation is now packaging as a new "Self-Managed" enterprise tier aimed at regulated operators who won't rent their chain.
The new 1–7 day freeze is the first major exchange feature aimed squarely at physical coercion, not phishing — and it lands as CertiK data shows 75% more wrench attacks in 2025.
A social post turned into a payment instruction: obfuscated text passed through Grok into Bankrbot, which executed a token transfer from an X-issued agent wallet — exposing how model output can…
Circle and Coinbase led a broad rally in crypto-linked equities as the Clarity Act moved forward in Washington, with…
A usage-based rewards carve-out resolves the longest-running dispute between banks and crypto firms over stablecoins — and Coinbase's Brian Armstrong publicly backing it signals the industry is…
Telegram taking over the validator seat from the TON Foundation is the structural shift — the fee cut and the April 10x speed upgrade were the appetiser, and a refreshed ton.org and developer toolkit…
Perps and spot both faded last week, but the institutional bid stayed alive — Bitmine kept stacking ETH while Strategy paused BTC adds.
The 1-day number is large, but the more telling beat is Ethereum's first green day after a week of red — a $98.92M swing back into ETH products alongside Bitcoin's biggest daily print of the cycle.
When the US market's settlement backbone starts moving real-world assets on-chain, the question is no longer whether TradFi tokenizes — it's which rails the next trillion settles on.
Targets of $95K–$100K BTC, $3K–$4K ETH, and $1.70 XRP are framed against real spot levels, with ETF inflows, staking narratives, and a cup-and-handle XRP setup as the triggers.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation moves tokenized equities, ETFs and Treasuries onto existing market plumbing — a quiet but structural step toward making blockchain rails the back office of…
The pivot ends the TON Foundation's role as primary steward and concentrates technical and validator responsibility inside Telegram itself — a structural shift for a chain that has long needed a…