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Official Trump ($TRUMP) broke below a multi-week buy wall after an individual attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump on Saturday, April 25. President Trump’s official memecoin dropped more than 14% in the past three days, trading at about $2.54 on April 27. As a result, the $TRUMP memecoin shed around $100 million in market capitalization in the same timeframe, bringing its valuation to approximately $591.4 million at press time, according to metrics from CoinMarketCap. $TRUMP price 7-day chart. Source: CoinMarketCap Despite the Trump family’s unwavering support, investors’ appetite for this memecoin has dwindled. Furthermore, the token’s 24-hour average trading volume…

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four individuals on Tuesday for their ties to organizations the agency characterizes as front groups for Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The designations target key figures in the Gaza flotilla movement and mark another expansion of Washington’s financial pressure campaign against networks accused of funneling support to designated terrorist organizations. The sanctioned individuals include Saif Hashim Kamel Abukishek, Hisham Abdallah Sulayman Abu Mahfuz, Mohammed Khatib, and Jaldia Abubakra Aueda. Their names have been added to OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, which means any…

The Russian government is poised to introduce fees and trade restrictions on cryptocurrencies issued by companies based in Western jurisdictions, a move that could shift billions of dollars in annual trading volume away from international exchanges and into domestic state-owned platforms. Russian Deputy Minister of Finance Ivan Chebeskov said that the new cryptocurrency bill will include “economic incentives, such as commissions or recommendations” to dissuade Russians from using tokens it views as “unfriendly,” namely those issued by entities that can lock up digital assets at the request of any foreign authority. The bill is expected to pass the State Duma…

Bitcoin trades at $79,749 on May 14, pulling back after tagging the 200-day MA at $81,964, as Glassnode and Wintermute flag the same problem: the chart break is real but the spot demand needed to confirm it has not shown up yet. $BTC Daily Chart: 200-Day MA Cleared, Now Comes the Hard Part Bitcoin Daily Price Action (Source: TradingView) The daily chart posted the most significant technical development since October. $BTC broke above the 200 EMA at $81,964 and the 0.705 Fib at $81,958 in the same session, levels that capped every recovery for seven months. Price tagged $79,962 intraday…

EMBARGO: APRIL 21, 2026 @ 9:00 AM BST (UK) Cryptocurrency custody firm Fireblocks is handling the issuance and distribution of a euro-denominated stablecoin, backed by a group of twelve European banks, known as the Qivalis consortium. The euro-backed token, scheduled for release in the second half of 2026, is regulated by the Dutch Central Bank through Amsterdam-based Qivalis and is compliant with the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). The Qivalis consortium is made up of: Banca Sella, BBVA, BNP Paribas, CaixaBank, Danske Bank, DekaBank, DZ BANK, ING, KBC, Raiffeisen Bank International, SEB, and UniCredit. Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies with values…

For two years, Litecoin’s social media managers laughed at Solana’s blockchain outages. This weekend, they had to eat their own words as Litecoin’s blockchain suffered its own denial-of-service and double-spending attack. Repeated Solana outages drew smug chuckles from Litecoin. Unlike Solana, according to its sustained declarations, Litecoin doesn’t have outages. On Saturday, that talking point died. Litecoin definitely had an outage, as well as a double-spending problem. A consensus bug in Litecoin’s privacy upgrade let an attacker mint invalid coins. Looking to double-spend as quickly as possible, the attacker rapidly traded $LTC for other digital assets at crypto exchanges before…

Binance Wallet, a prominent self-custody cryptocurrency wallet, is excited to introduce a Prediction Markets API that enables developers to build applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, and trading bots. The basic purpose of this launch is to automate access, analysis, and trade applications on prediction markets via a single API. The Prediction Markets API name itself indicates that this will provide a proposed sketch for users’ compliance. 🚀 Binance Wallet launches Prediction Markets API.From AI agents to trading bots, developers can now build and automate on top of Prediction Markets through a unified API.Access market data, execute trades, and integrate prediction…

Scaramucci Says Bitcoin Can’t Be ‘Devalued’ During an interview with RiskReversal Media, Scaramucci said that traditional fiat money is essentially “worthless,” but it gains value because people trust it. Bitcoin, he added, is an improved version, which happens to be “an open, transparent, fully decentralized and fully secured” by a network of computers. “This is a computer program that cannot be devalued,” Scaramucci said. The natural next question is — why does Bitcoin’s value fall then? The S-Curve Of Adoption Scaramucci admitted that the majority of people, himself included, were dismissive of Bitcoin initially when it was championed by “libertarians”…

More than $500 billion has been wiped from the crypto market over the past two months, pushing investor sentiment toward Extreme Fear. As investor sentiment weakens, major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and $XRP have dropped 50% and 70% from their recent peaks. Now, popular crypto analyst Ali Martinez believes key on-chain and technical indicators are now revealing where the next major market bottoms could form. Bitcoin’s Key Bottom Zone Emerges Near $43,130 For Bitcoin, Martinez is watching the historical accumulation area identified by the MVRV Pricing Bands, a metric widely used to identify long-term market bottoms. According to his analysis,…

Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song used his first address in office to prioritize central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and bank-issued deposit tokens, while leaving out any mention of stablecoins as South Korea weighs new crypto rules. Shin, who began his four-year term Tuesday, pointed to the bank’s ongoing retail CBDC and deposit-token pilot, Project Hangang, and its role in Project Agorá, a cross-border tokenization effort led by the Bank for International Settlements, according to news outlet Chosun. He framed digital currency as part of a broader shift in central banking during a period of economic strain and slower domestic…