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Ethereum’s price action has been closely tied to macro liquidity conditions and institutional risk appetite. Ethereum ($ETH) is currently positioned at a critical juncture as broader crypto markets attempt to sustain bullish momentum alongside improving equity market sentiment. After Bitcoin recently reclaimed the $80,000 level, traders are increasingly asking whether $ETH can deliver a similar breakout or lag behind in a rotation-driven market. With U.S. stocks continuing to show strength and AI-driven equities like Nvidia hitting new highs, risk-on conditions are broadly supportive for digital assets, including $ETH. However, Ethereum has historically required stronger catalysts than Bitcoin to sustain upside…

Kevin Hassett warns that reappointing Jerome Powell to the Fed Board could delay or dilute Trump-era rate cuts, keeping crypto traders fixated on personnel-driven monetary policy. White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s reappointment as a governor “may affect interest rate cut decisions,” injecting new uncertainty into the path of U.S. monetary easing. His comments land just as the Fed keeps its target rate in a 3.5%-3.75% band and as Powell chairs his final policy meetings before stepping down in mid-May. In recent remarks relayed by U.S. media, Hassett has repeatedly argued…

Cardano continues to prepare for its intra-era hard fork to Protocol 11 (van Rossem hard fork), with a critical node release now anticipated. According to a recent update by Intersect, a member-based organization within the Cardano ecosystem, Cardano Node 10.7.0 Target prerelease is expected within a few days. Cardano Node 10.7.0 is one of the two node releases highlighted as necessary for the van Rossem hard fork. https://t.co/Y3YKgFrqki — Intersect (@IntersectMBO) March 19, 2026 The Cardano node 10.6.2 was released in February as the network kicked off preparations for the hard fork. The release of Cardano node 10.7.0 is expected…

Emerging markets accounted for 77% of Binance users in 2026, up from 49% in 2020, as users in those countries increasingly used the exchange for savings, payments and investment access, the exchange said. Binance Research’s latest report frames crypto adoption as a financial-access story rather than a trading story. Binance said 83% of users engaging with two or more products on the platform are based in emerging markets, while users in those markets show savings rates more than twice as high as users in developed markets. About 36% of emerging-market Binance users with balances of at least $10 hold at…

Peter Schiff, well known as a crypto skeptic, believes that Bitcoin has set a negative record of four-year stagnation. According to him, four years and four months after the 2021 peak, the price of $BTC has still failed to show real growth despite large-scale adoption. In his view, this cycle has become the worst in the asset’s history in terms of maintaining value. The main argument is that 52 months have gone nowhere. Why Peter Schiff says Bitcoin’s current cycle is worst yet Schiff emphasizes that Bitcoin first reached $69,000 in November 2021, while today, at the end of March…

Elon Musk said most cryptocurrencies are scams during testimony in his lawsuit against OpenAI, where past plans for an ICO also surfaced, as reported by New York Times journalist Mike Isaac. Elon Musk explaining what cryptocurrency is to the jury: “Some of them have merit, but most of them are scams.” this is responding to early emails where OpenAI discussed holding an ICO, or initial coin offering, in order to fund the company. (back then, ICOs were en vogue…) — rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) April 29, 2026 The tech mogul and vocal Dogecoin fan has confirmed in multiple interviews that…

Although Shiba Inu is currently facing further volatility as its price suddenly returns to the red zone, showing a notable daily decline, its exchange activities suggest that the asset is still in demand. Over the past day, Shiba Inu holders have acquired more tokens than they have sold as data from crypto analytics platform Cryptoquant shows that the Shiba Inu exchange netflow has flipped extremely negative over the last day, sitting at a massive -141,471,460,000 $SHIB. Shiba Inu demand grows When the exchange netflow of an asset is negative, as seen in the case of $SHIB today, it is a…

Binance’s user base has undergone a quiet but dramatic demographic shift. The exchange now counts 77% of its users from emerging markets, up from 49% in 2020. The numbers behind the banking shift 73% of stablecoin savers on Binance are located in emerging markets. In English: nearly three out of four people using the platform to store dollar-denominated value live in countries where the local currency might lose purchasing power faster than you can refresh a price chart. The engagement metrics go deeper. 24% of active users now utilize two or more services on the platform, while 14% use three…

Bitcoin price slid to its lowest level in nearly a month on Friday, just as David Sacks confirmed he is stepping down as President Donald Trump’s “AI and crypto czar,” amplifying anxiety over the policy outlook for digital assets. Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen to $65,720, its weakest print since March 2, before recovering slightly to around $65,804, a daily loss of more than 4% that dragged the wider crypto market lower. According to derivatives tracker CoinGlass, over $500 million in crypto positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with nearly 90% of the wipe‑out hitting long traders, a sign…

Robinhood’s (HOOD) nearly 12% drop since its big earnings miss is being waived off by some big investors and Wall Street analysts. The popular trading platform missed its first-quarter earnings and revenue estimates on April 28, mainly due to weaker crypto trading activities. The market punished the stock on the miss, but Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest saw that as an opportunity and bought roughly $39.7 million worth of shares the next day, signaling confidence in the trading platform’s future. Robinhood remains a meaningful position across Ark’s portfolios, accounting for roughly 3% and ranking among the top holdings in all three…