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Social media bearishness around Bitcoin has reached its highest level since the end of February, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment. “FUD has crept back in with the community showing a key lack of optimism,” Santiment said in an X post on Saturday, adding that it is “usually a common ingredient for prices rebounding.” The data comes from a large sample of crypto-focused social media accounts and tracks the ratio of bullish to bearish Bitcoin (BTC) comments across X, Reddit, and other social media platforms. Markets move in “opposite direction,” says Santiment On Saturday, the ratio of bullish to bearish…

Bitmine Immersion Technologies has advanced its Ethereum staking plan with 77.2% of its overall $ETH holdings now locked for yield. According to on-chain data, the firm staked another 106,200 $ETH ($244 million) on Wednesday, the 29th of April. Now the world’s largest treasury firm has staked 3.92 million $ETH (worth $8.97 billion) Worth pointing out that the firm crossed the 5 million $ETH milestone last week. Interestingly, it bought an extra 45K $ETH (worth $103 million), which will likely be staked too. Bitmine’s aggressive $ETH staking bet Overall, Bitmine has accumulated over 5 million $ETH in a record 10 months…

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, recently said that the freedom to invest should be a human right. He emphasized that tokenization can open investment opportunities to people around the world. By turning real-world assets into digital tokens, anyone could access assets that were once limited to wealthy individuals or big institutions. Armstrong’s comments highlight the growing importance of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization in finance. Brian Armstrong says the freedom to invest should be a human right.Tokenization could open access to assets and investment opportunities for people worldwide.Another big signal for the RWA future. pic.twitter.com/ybgxir9sRL — Real World Asset Watchlist (@RWAwatchlist_)…

From Polygon to Polymarket, crypto communities have their own way of pulling off April Fool’s Day stunts. This year, Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer couldn’t resist giving Ripple a friendly jab. Banks are choosing Ripple. April Fools, obviously. They actually use Avalanche. — Emin Gün Sirer🔺⚔️ (@el33th4xor) April 1, 2026 The post racked up 585 likes and more than 50,000 views as of reporting. Its comment section exploded with hundreds of responses, many from Ripple’s community who came for the fastest bait-and-switch and stayed for the debate. April fools to you. Ripple is at the center of the entire…

Bitcoin is trading at $67,100 on Sunday, roughly flat over the weekend, but the mood around it is the worst it has been since the Iran conflict began on February 28. Santiment data published Saturday shows social media commentary on bitcoin has hit a ratio of five bearish posts for every four bullish ones, the most negative skew in five weeks. The last time sentiment was this one-sided was the day Operation Epic Fury launched and bitcoin dropped below $65,000 for the first time in the conflict. 🗣️ According to social data across X, Reddit, Telegram, and other platforms, Bitcoin…

Chip giant NVIDIA is preparing to unveil a powerful new artificial intelligence processor designed to speed up how chatbots and other AI tools generate responses, potentially making today’s systems like ChatGPT appear sluggish by comparison. The new platform, expected to debut at NVIDIA’s annual GTC developer conference, is optimized for AI inference, the stage when trained models produce answers to user prompts. Unlike traditional GPUs built to handle both training and inference, the upcoming processor focuses specifically on delivering responses faster and more efficiently. The product, if launched, will mark the first tangible result of December’s deal that brought Groq’s…

Ripple, the company behind $XRP, has announced the launch of a new product that enables corporate finance teams to manage both fiat currency and digital assets through a single platform. The company announced that with the “Digital Asset Accounts” and “Unified Treasury” features integrated into the Ripple Treasury platform, CFOs and treasury teams can manage digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), $XRP, and RLUSD directly within their existing workflows. Thanks to the new system, companies will be able to view and manage the assets they hold in banks and custodians through a single dashboard. This structure aims to eliminate data…

The Clarity Act is running late again. What lawmakers described just weeks ago as nearly done has now slipped into May, and the crypto industry is no longer staying quiet about it. Analyst Dan Gambardello said this week that the delay has taken over conversations across the industry, with pressure mounting directly on Senate Banking Republicans to bring the bill to markup without further stalling. Industry Push Reaches Critical Mass More than 100+ major players, including Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, Circle, and Chainlink Labs, have signed a joint letter urging immediate action. Gambardello stressed that this is not just routine lobbying…

Tech investor and former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan has called on the crypto industry to develop more financial tools for refugees and stateless people. In a Saturday post on X, Srinivasan said the number of displaced individuals could grow as global conflicts intensify and economic migration increases. He pointed to examples ranging from Ukrainians fleeing war to workers leaving the Gulf countries amid regional tensions. “We should build more crypto tools for refugees and stateless people,” Srinivasan wrote, suggesting that blockchain-based systems can provide financial infrastructure when traditional institutions fail or become inaccessible. Srinivasan described crypto as “wartime…

The exchange-traded funds (ETFs) market is throwing up a few surprises as institutional investors hold off from committing their funds into $XRP. In the last 24 hours, despite the asset’s price uptick, the $XRP ETF has recorded zero inflows. $XRP ETF records zero inflows after recent institutional outflows As per SoSoValue data, the total daily net inflow on the last trading day of March 2026 was $0. The figure is not an April Fools’ Day prank as $XRP continues to battle volatility on the institutional front over the last four trading days. About 48 hours ago, the $XRP ETF recorded…