Bitcoin Metric Eyes Repeat of Bull Cross That Sparked $25,000 Gains in 2025

Bitcoin (BTC) faces a fresh showdown this week as macro tensions contrast with a bullish BTC price trend reversal. A classic BTC price metric is above to flip bullish for the first time in nearly a year — last time, price gained $25,000 in two months. Short time frames see liquidations as “aggressive” traders pile…

Perp DEX Trading Cools as Volumes Slides For Five Straight Months

Onchain perpetual futures trading has cooled for five straight months since peaking in October 2025. Perp volume on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) fell to $699 billion in March 2026 from October’s $1.36 trillion, according to DefiLlama data. The decline has been steady across the period, with volumes slipping through November and December before losses extended through…

Bitcoin (BTC) price rallies on Iran ceasefire talks, Algorand (ALGO) extends gains: Crypto Markets Today

Bitcoin BTC$69,693.40 climbed to near $70,000 as traders reacted to signs of possible de-escalation in the Iran war and amid a short squeeze that liquidated more than $270 million in shorts. Crypto prices rose, along with equity index futures and equities, as Axios reported that the U.S. and Iran are discussing a potential 45-day ceasefire….

Who is Keven Warsh, Trump’s Pick for the Federal Reserve?

The US Senate could soon hear testimony to confirm financier Kevin Warsh as the new chair of the Federal Reserve. Warsh, who previously served on the Fed’s Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011, has criticized the central bank’s policies under current chair Jerome Powell. Warsh has called for “regime change” and lower interest rates….

Michael Saylor Hints at Return to Weekly Bitcoin Purchases

Michael Saylor has hinted his Bitcoin treasury firm is back on track with its weekly Bitcoin purchases after taking a rare week off at the end of March. In an X post on Sunday, Saylor shared a screenshot from StrategyTracker with the caption  “Back to Work.” He often posts the chart ahead of purchase announcements….

Rwanda Warns Against Bybit FRW to Crypto Offering

The National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) has warned the public that crypto payments and trades using the local currency remain illegal in the country after Bybit added support for the Rwandan franc for its peer-to-peer platform on Friday.  “Crypto-assets are NOT authorized for payments, FRW conversion, or P2P trading involving FRW under the current framework,”…

Pro-Crypto PAC to be Headed by Tether Executive ahead of US Midterms

Jesse Spiro, the head of government affairs at stablecoin issuer Tether, will chair a crypto-backed super political action committee (super PAC) to “actively support candidates” in the 2026 US midterm elections and beyond. In a Wednesday announcement, the Fellowship PAC, a committee that launched in August 2025 and later claimed to have raised “over $100…

Why the mind-bending physics of quantum computing is terrifying for bitcoin and crypto

This week, Google published a paper describing how a quantum computer could theoretically derive a bitcoin private key in 9 minutes, with ramifications that stretch to Ethereum, other tokens, private banking, and potentially everything in the world. Quantum computing is easy to mistake for a faster version of a regular computer. But it is not…

Kiyosaki Says 1974 Shift Drives Debt Crisis, Backs Bitcoin and gold

Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has argued that the economic shifts set in motion more than five decades ago are now unfolding, advocating for Bitcoin and gold while warning against rising debt, inflation and retirement risks. In a Saturday post on X, Kiyosaki pointed to 1974 as a turning point that reshaped both…

EDX Markets Applies for OCC Trust Bank to Expand Crypto Services

EDX Markets, an institutional crypto exchange, has applied to the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank that would provide crypto custody, asset management and trade-settlement services. The proposed entity, EDX Trust, would operate as a non-depository national bank, separating custody and settlement from trading while continuing…