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Despite the bullish momentum into the cryptocurrency market, XRP prices over the past week have not been particularly impressive. According to the latest on-chain data, altcoins may be able to overcome a period of price volatility and have the potential for a breakout. Taker purchase ratio points to intensive accumulation on Binance In a recent Quicktake post on the CryptoQuant platform, market analyst CryptoOnchain hypothesized that there could be a major change in XRP price momentum in the near future. This optimistic forecast is based on changes in the XRP taker buy/sell ratio on the Binance exchange. Taker Buy Ratio…

Trustworthy editorial content reviewed by industry-leading experts and experienced editors. Advertising disclosure Bitcoin prices, and the general cryptocurrency market, have risen significantly over the past week as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East appeared to temporarily come to a halt. The leading cryptocurrency has maintained relatively strong momentum since breaking through the psychological $70,000 resistance on Tuesday, April 7th. Now, this sudden resurgence has sparked a debate among crypto enthusiasts as to whether Bitcoin prices have yet to form a structural bottom. The world’s largest cryptocurrency could still experience a “final dump” before this bearish period ends, according to a…

The White House Council of Economic Advisers released a formal analysis on Tuesday, concluding that allowing stablecoin issuers to pay investors a yield on their holdings would only marginally replace bank loans, directly contradicting banking industry warnings that have stalled the Clarity Act in the Senate Banking Committee since January 2026. The report, published on April 9, 2026, quantifies the banking sector’s claimed exposure as dramatically overstated, predicting that allowing stablecoin yields would only increase bank lending by $2.1 billion, or about 0.02% of outstanding loans, rather than triggering the systematic deposit flight that bank lobbyists have argued in Congress.…

The 10-day lunar flyby mission is scheduled to end with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening.Users of prediction market platform Karsi are using the platform’s event contracts to bet on the aftermath of NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first manned mission to the moon in more than 50 years.As of Friday, several event contracts related to the moon landing were available on the Calci and Polimarket platforms, but many users were taking a position on what would be said at NASA’s press conference after splashdown. Since the event contract costs just over $4,000, Calsi users expect NASA officials…

A new brief from the Bitcoin Policy Institute argues that recent advances in quantum computing have accelerated the time when Bitcoin cryptography faces a credible threat, while stressing that developers are already preparing solutions. In its report, State of Play: Quantum Computing and Bitcoin’s Path Forward, the Bitcoin Policy Institute points to two research papers published on March 31 by Google and the California Institute of Technology that reshape long-held assumptions about the computing power needed to crack Bitcoin’s encryption. For years, estimates have shown that an attacker would need about 10 million qubits to exploit Scholl’s algorithm and compromise…

Bittensor’s native token, TAO, fell by double digits on Thursday after Covenant AI announced its exit from the decentralized network due to centralization and governance concerns. According to CoinGecko data, after the Covenant AI announcement, TAO fell more than 15% from about $337 to $284. The token is trading at $292 at the time of writing, down 9% in the past 24 hours. Covenant AI, which built the large-scale Covenant-72B model using decentralized contributors, argued that the Bittensor network’s governance structure is not actually fully decentralized. The team said that despite the network’s proclaimed decentralization principles, key decisions and operational…

Bittensor’s TAO crypto is trading at $334 after the success of Covenant-72B. Covenant-72B is a 72.7 billion parameter model trained on over 70 anonymous distributed nodes without requiring a single data center or a nine-figure budget. The 90% increase in TAO recorded through March 2026 is not a narrative trade. This is a direct market response to a technological milestone that decentralized AI has been chasing for years. But this milestone requires a precise framework. Covenant-72B proves that permissionless networks can orchestrate model training at scale. This does not eliminate hardware physics that still favors centralized clusters for frontier pre-training.…

Due to the significant drop in XRP since yesterday, it lost its 4th place. Bitcoin hit a multi-week high of about $73,000 yesterday, but was rejected and fell more than two grand. Most altcoins also erased most of yesterday’s gains, with ETH falling below $2,200. LINK and XLM fell by 5%, while RAIN rose by a similar percentage. BTC rejected at $73,000 Bitcoin’s previous peak of over $72,000 came on March 25th, but the subsequent rejection was pretty painful. By the following Monday, the asset had already fallen to a monthly low of $65,000, but that trading week saw further…

US-Iran Ceasefire, Bitcoin, and the Entire Cryptocurrency Market immediately intertwined The easing of geopolitical tensions has caused sharp movements across the digital asset market. Traders reacted quickly as headlines shifted from threats of escalation to pauses, but it remains unclear whether the momentum will continue. Bitcoin leads crypto market rally amid ceasefire easing Markets grew optimistic after US President Donald Trump signaled a two-week pause in military action. Situation around the Strait of Hormuz. This marked a marked change from his previous caveat The large-scale destruction targeted at Iranian infrastructure has heightened fears of a protracted conflict, especially as the…

Iran’s Bitcoin hashrate has fallen by about 77% over the past quarter, dropping from roughly 9 exahashes per second to 2EH/s, as U.S. and Israeli military attacks disrupted power infrastructure and took an estimated 427,000 active mining machines offline, according to a Hashrate Index report released Monday by Ian Philpott, Marketing Director at Luxor Technology. This loss equates to approximately 7 EH/s quarter-over-quarter and represents the most severe regional hashrate contraction since China’s mining ban in 2021. The immediate impact is geographic redistribution rather than network degradation. The global hashrate remained close to 1,000 EH/s throughout the turmoil, a number…