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Ethereum breaks key levels but struggles at $1,800. Could growing network activity and increasing long positions spark a move toward $2,000? As the crypto market recovery pauses, Bitcoin drops below $93,000, while Ethereum continues to struggle below the $1,800 level. Currently, Ethereum is trading at $1,769, showing an intraday pullback of nearly 1.5%. While Ethereum continues to face resistance, optimistic traders anticipate a post-retest bounce. Could this recovery push the price past the $2,000 mark? Let’s find out. Ethereum Price Analysis On the 4-hour price chart, Ethereum’s trend showcases a bullish breakout from a long-standing supply zone, surpassing the 38.20%…

The price of Bitcoin added to yesterday’s gains, despite dipping earlier Wednesday after the Trump Administration’s latest zigzag on trade. The leading cryptocurrency was recently trading hands around $93,400, up 2.2% over the past 24 hours, according to crypto data provider CoinGecko. It had fallen near $92,000 earlier in the day. Ethereum and Solana rose 5.3% to $1,780 and 4% to $150, respectively. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t made a one-sided offer to reduce tariffs on China, which can be up to 245% on certain goods, per Bloomberg. It may also take years…

The SHIB team continues to push meme coins out of circulation. Data shared by the popular wallet tracker Shibburn has revealed a big four-digit surge in the burn rate over the past day. This became possible thanks to millions of SHIB coins getting burned during this period. Meanwhile, SHIB has suddenly experienced a solid 5.2% crash after rising more than 10% overnight. At the time of this writing, SHIB is changing hands at $0.00001444 per coin. SHIB burns up 1,866% According to the aforementioned data source, during the past 24 hours, the amount of meme coins transferred to unspendable wallets…

Republican lawmakers want to scrap the US audit regulator, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), to help deliver Donald Trump’s deregulatory plans. On Friday, the House Committee on Financial Services leadership first proposed the audit regulator shutdown. However, Democrats will most probably resist the closing plans for the agency. The PCAOB’s responsibilities could be pushed to the Securities and Exchange Commission if the bill passes The PCAOB was introduced roughly twenty years ago, after the fall of Enron in 2001, to monitor audit practices and regularly inspect US auditing firms. However, as per the proposed legislation, the audit regulator…

Binance Futures leads the market through its April 2025 trading activity, which exceeds $1.049 trillion before the month’s end. Bitcoin’s climb from $85,000 to $94,000 during the recent surge caused a substantial increase in crypto derivatives trading activities across major exchanges. Binance Futures Volumes Passed $1.04T Alongside Strong Price Movement“This already exceeds the volumes seen in February ($962B) and March ($683B), with several days remaining in the month.” – By @JA_Maartun pic.twitter.com/Q0nmSr9TX4 — CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) April 25, 2025 In January, Binance achieved its second-highest monthly trading volume total of $1.23 trillion in 2025. The platform exceeded previous volume records set…

In a new report, CoinShares offers important insights into the economics of Bitcoin (BTC) mining, which is evolving following the network’s 2024 halving and hashrate increase. According to CoinShares, the weighted average cash cost to mine a bitcoin among publicly traded mining firms jumped sharply by 47%, from $55,950 in Q3 2024 to approximately $82,162 in Q4. Excluding the non-standard Hut 8, the average cost was slightly lower at $75,767, but this still represents a significant 35% increase quarter-over-quarter. When non-cash expenses such as depreciation and stock-based compensation are included, the total average cost rose to $137,018 per bitcoin, far…

UniLend Finance, a renowned decentralized borrowing and lending platform, has partnered with ColdStack, the prominent decentralized storage aggregator. The collaboration denotes a key move toward establishing relatively interoperable and robust decentralized cloud solutions to redefine the Web3 sector. The platform revealed this endeavor on its official social media account. Join us in welcoming @coldstack_io to our ecosystem!🎊📊ColdStack is the Uber for clouds—aggregating decentralized storage like Filecoin. With $CLS, users access the platform freely, without censorship or interference.🤝 Together, we’re forging powerful synergies to shape the… pic.twitter.com/5l5EQRlLXA — UniLend Finance (@UniLend_Finance) April 25, 2025 UniLend Finance Joins Forces with ColdStack to…

According to Bitcoin analyst and advocate Luke Broyles, the journey to mining the final Satoshi, the smallest unit of Bitcoin, will be unprecedented in digital history. According to Broyles, the energy required to mine the final singular Bitcoin will surpass the combined energy it took to mine the first 20,000,000 BTC. He predicts that producing the final Bitcoin could consume energy over the entire first third of the 22nd century. The final singular Bitcoin will take more energy to create than the first 20,000,000 Bitcoin… the entire first third of the 22nd century.The final satoshi will take infinite energy.Digital scarcity…

This is a segment from the Blockworks Daily newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” — Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape Stablecoins might unbundle banking (and then re-bundle it) Bundling and unbundling aren’t the only ways to make money, of course — you can also invent something new or do an old thing more efficiently, for example. But Jim Barksdale’s comment — made spontaneously to close a roadshow meeting for the Netscape IPO — became a dictum in tech circles because it explains a lot of things…

In a significant development for the cryptocurrency space, particularly within the stablecoin sector and the Solana ecosystem, data reveals that the market capitalization of Solana USDC has officially crossed the monumental $10 billion threshold. This milestone, confirmed by Solscan data, underscores the growing prominence of USDC on Solana and highlights the increasing demand for fast, low-cost stablecoin transactions. Understanding USDC on the Solana Network Before diving into the significance of the $10 billion figure, let’s quickly touch upon what USDC on Solana actually is. USDC, or USD Coin, is a popular stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. It’s issued…