After a few consecutive days of warning shots, the US and Iran reached a two-week cease-fire, which would allow them to negotiate for a permanent peace deal. Financial markets responded immediately to the news, but in opposing ways. While most assets, such as BTC, gold, and stocks, went up, oil, which had rocketed after the […]
XRP’s price declined to around $1.31 on April 7th, down 2.5% over the past 24 hours. This brings its total losses for the past two weeks to 7.3% and close to 30% for the last year. The disappointing performance comes after what seemed to be a promising rally in the middle of March, when XRP […]
Bitcoin network activity “just snapped higher after months of decline,” reported CryptoQuant on Monday. The blockchain analytics provider’s index tracks addresses, transactions, UTXOs, and blockspace demand. It noted that the daily Bitcoin transaction count is now around 615,000, which is the highest since November 2024. It added that this shift is happening while BTC fees remain […]
Crypto analyst and Taproot developer Udi Wertheimer has stated that the Lightning Network is fundamentally vulnerable in a post-quantum scenario and claimed that its design leaves user funds exposed in ways that cannot be mitigated under current assumptions. According to Wertheimer, the core issue stems from how public and private keys function in cryptocurrency systems. […]
Cybersecurity researcher Taylor Monahan has claimed that North Korea-linked IT workers have been operating within the decentralized finance ecosystem for years. Monahan stated that these actors have contributed to many well-known protocols during the “DeFi summer” era of 2020. According to her latest tweet, the years of blockchain development experience listed on their resumes were […]
Ethereum open interest has climbed close to the all-time high of 7.8 million ETH set in July 2025. At the same time, the ratio of spot trading to futures trading on Binance has dropped to its lowest annual level ever. Price Action Driven By Leverage The above data was shared by on-chain analyst Darkfost in […]
Following a highly uneventful weekend with little to no price action, bitcoin’s volatility returned on Monday morning after the numerous threats, and the asset jumped to $69,600 to mark a multi-day peak. Perhaps the most evident reason behind this sudden increase came after an Axios report, cited by The Kobeissi Letter, which claimed that the […]
A Federal Reserve meeting minutes event and two key inflation reports are due this week as tension in the Middle East remains at a boiling point. Crypto markets are up on Monday morning following President Trump’s extended deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz. He told Fox News on Sunday that he will […]
Cryptocurrency exchange activity continues to be heavily concentrated and largely driven by derivatives trading, according to the latest report by CoinMarketCap. In fact, data showed that a small group of major platforms dominates overall market volume. Binance alone accounts for 29.42% of total monthly volume as it surpassed $1.8 trillion. Derivatives Surge Alongside Binance, other […]
The spot exchange-traded funds tracking the performance of Ripple’s cross-border token continue to dig new lows, as they just ended their first month in the red in March. The landscape is even more worrying when we examine the details, while XRP is currently losing the battle for the fourth spot against BNB. XRP ETFs Fall […]