Top Stories of The Week Tether freezes over $500M of USDT in 30 days, BlockSec data shows Tether has frozen more than $514 million in USDT across Ethereum and Tron over the past 30 days, according to onchain data from BlockSec’s USDT Freeze Tracker, highlighting the stablecoin issuer’s growing role in crypto-related enforcement actions. As …
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Ethereum down 35% versus Bitcoin in a year: Will the ETH price downtrend continue?
Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), has fallen more than 35% against Bitcoin (BTC) over the past year, and the downtrend may still have further to go. Key takeaways: ETH may plunge another 40% as it mirrors the 2025 bear trend setup. Rising Ether reserves on Binance, even as Bitcoin reserves decline, add to the case …
Three young DeFi apps return $100M in revenue to token holders in 30 days
Three of DeFi’s relatively young applications, including Hyperliquid, EdgeX and Pump.fun, have distributed a combined $96.3 million to token holders over the past 30 days, as the sector’s focus shifts to actual earnings. Hyperliquid led the pack, generating $50.95 million in revenue over the period, all of which went directly to token holders with zero …
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Bitcoin holds $80K into weekly close as traders say BTC price dip not yet over
Bitcoin (BTC) eyed $81,000 into Sunday’s weekly close as traders saw a fresh support retest next. Key points: Bitcoin preserves $80,000 over the weekend, but traders are waiting for a dip to retest a familiar chart feature. Continuation higher remains the overall consensus for what happens afterward. US CPI data is due out, with Bitcoin …
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South Korea crypto holdings halve in a year as investors turn to stock market
The value of cryptocurrency held by South Korean investors more than halved over the past year, falling from 121.8 trillion won ($83.3 billion) at the end of January 2025 to 60.6 trillion won ($41.4 billion) by the end of February 2026. Daily trading volumes across the country’s five major exchanges, including Upbit, Bithumb, Korbit, Coinone …
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Bitcoin price may dip toward $70K as Fed estimates hotter inflation print
Bitcoin (BTC) may head into next week’s US inflation report with less support than it had during the last two CPI releases, raising the risk of a pullback toward $70,000. Key takeaways: Cleveland Federal Reserve nowcast projects April headline CPI to rise to 3.56% year over year. BTC’s rising wedge pattern could trigger a decline …
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Trump Media posts $406M quarterly loss as crypto bets turn sour
Trump Media & Technology Group posted a $405.9 million net loss in the first quarter of 2026, up from $31.7 million a year earlier, amid growing unrealized losses on its crypto holdings. The parent company of Truth Social booked $244 million in unrealized losses on its Bitcoin position and a further $108.2 million in investment …
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Santiment flags risk as crypto bullish talk spikes while BTC holds $80K
Crypto bullish chatter on social media has surged to levels that, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment, could signal the current market uptrend may be short-lived. “Rallies that arrive with a confident crowd tend to fade faster than those climbing a “wall of worry,” Santiment said in a report published on Saturday. “Those climbing skepticism …
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Bitcoin Open Interest Explodes Beyond 2025 All-Time High Levels
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XRP Whale-Retail Spread On Binance Falls To 2024 Levels — What’s Happening?
Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms …
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Analyst Predicts Biggest Bitcoin Bull Trap Of The Cycle, Calls Out 50% Crash To $42,000
Bitcoin’s price recovery is not a new beginning: it is a familiar ending. That is the warning from a crypto analyst, who is of the notion that the current Bitcoin price action is playing out a bull trap the market has seen before and that the setup is pointing to a destination that sees the …
8 Months To Go: Here’s How Bitcoin Could Trend In 2026 – Analyst
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Swiss Bitcoin Reserve Effort Withdrawn After Resistance From Central Bank
Campaign founder Yves Bennaim isn’t giving up. Even after his group failed to gather enough signatures to force a Swiss national referendum on Bitcoin reserves, Bennaim said another push could follow. Related Reading The Swiss direct democracy system requires campaigns to hit a signature threshold within 18 months — his team didn’t make it. A …
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CZ Says Crypto Exchange Rivals Opposed His Pardon Bid
Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said he was not very confident he would be pardoned by US President Donald Trump after serving a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for violating US anti-money-laundering laws. “You never know because we actually had very strong anti-lobbying from some of our perceived competitors in the US,” Zhao told Ran …
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7 major Bitcoin mining pools join Stratum V2, working group
Seven major Bitcoin mining pools have joined the Stratum V2 working group to develop an industry-wide open standard protocol used by mining pool operators to communicate with individual miners in their pools. AntPool, Block Inc, F2Pool, Foundry, MARA Foundation, SpiderPool, and DMND all joined the working group to collaborate on the mining pool communication standard, …
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