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Key Takeaways Federal agencies will report their crypto holdings to the Treasury Secretary tomorrow. The US government currently holds 198,012 Bitcoin worth approximately $16 billion. Federal agencies have a deadline of Monday to report their Bitcoin and crypto holdings to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a White House official confirmed with journalist Eleanor Terrett today. The reporting is part of President Trump’s March 6 executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile. The executive order, detailed in a March 11 presidential document, mandates all federal agencies to disclose their Bitcoin and digital asset holdings to the Treasury…

Polymarket bettors see only a 2% chance of XRP hitting a new record high this April. At the same time, there is also a 54% chance of the Ripple-linked cryptocurrency remaining in the green this month. The popular altcoin has started this month with a 2% price increase, recovering in lockstep with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. XRP was down 2.56% in March after plunging by more than 29% in February. The third-largest non-stablecoin cryptocurrency by market cap is up by less than 3% this year after soaring by a staggering 237% in 2023. The token is currently trading at $2.13…

Terminus, a popular decentralized exchange (DEX), has recently commenced a new partnership with JOIN, a Solana-based cutting-edge token project. The collaboration focuses on driving Web3 innovation by integrating the blockchain technology into the e-commerce, social networking, and gaming sectors. The platform revealed this joint initiative in a recent X post. ⚡️ Terminus is thrilled to announce our partnership with JOIN! 🤝 JOIN @joineco – a trailblazing token on the Solana network! JOIN redefines digital experiences by integrating blockchain into gaming, social networking, and commerce – championing transparency, security, and user… pic.twitter.com/8ith5KrGWw — Terminus (@terminus_pos) April 6, 2025 Terminus and JOIN…

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Block, the fintech firm behind Square and Bitkey, has confirmed that his team “is working on” integrating Bitcoin as a payment option for Bitkey and Square. Dorsey’s statement came in response to an X user’s question about the delay in enabling Bitcoin payments across Block’s services. He also pushed back against the idea that the process is “a simple flip of a switch.” not a simple flip of a switch but we are doing it — jack (@jack) April 3, 2025 While Dorsey affirmed the company’s commitment to integrating Bitcoin payments, he did not provide a…

Economist and long-time Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff said crypto is “finally starting to crack” after a delayed market response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariffs, announced Friday. He took aim at Trump’s decision to impose tariffs, which have triggered declines in digital assets and equities globally. “I thought the dumbest thing Trump would do was establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. I was wrong,” he posted. Despite some initial chatter on Friday about crypto’s resilience to the tariff news, Bitcoin fell 5.6% over the past 24 hours to $78,769, down 27% from its all-time high of $108,786 on January 20,…

Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson believes memecoins are like celebrities who witness short-lived fame before flaming out. In a new interview on the Wolf of all Streets YouTube channel, Hoskinson says memecoins need to evolve and develop use cases and user bases to avoid going through a ‘dumpening’ – the practice of launching tokens with the sole aim of enriching insiders. “So a memecoin is just like the ascendancy of a celebrity that has 15 minutes of fame. It doesn’t necessarily mean that that celebrity is going to disappear forever, but they’re in a temporary state of popularity. They have…

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), which manages 1,224 trillion won ($836 billion) in assets, plans to look at how a blockchain could be used in its fund transaction systems. The organization is weighing a shift to blockchain technology to boost transparency and security in managing its deposits, withdrawals and investments, according to Seoul Economic Daily, which cited industry sources. The NPS plans to begin a preliminary disclosure process, inviting blockchain experts and companies to weigh in before formally launching the initiative, the news outlet said. This feedback phase, standard for major public projects in Korea, will inform a research…

Prices remain under pressure and sentiment is so weak one would think it’s 2022 all over again, but for the first time in nearly a year, bitcoin (BTC) whales are buying. Following months of distribution as bitcoin surged to a record high above $109,000, so-called whales — wallets holding 10,000 BTC or more — are meaningfully accumulating as prices dip to just above $80,000, according to Glassnode data. The last time whales were buying so aggressively was in August 2024 with bitcoin in the $50,000-$60,000 range as the yen carry trade was unwinding. Often considered “smart money,” whales tend to…

Elon Musk advocates for no tariffs on international trade between the United States and the European Union. During an event hosted on Saturday by Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, Musk said: I hope it is agreed that both Europe and the United States should move, ideally, in my view, to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and Notrh America. In addition, he said that he hoped there would be more freedom for people to move between the two regions. That said, Musk’s views appear to be in stark contrast with US President Donald Trump’s…

American investment manager VanEck has filed to establish a trust entity for a proposed BNB exchange-traded fund in Delaware. The establishment of a trust serves as a preparatory measure in the ETF launch process, preceding the formal application to the SEC. VanEck’s filing marks the first attempt to launch a Binance Coin (BNB) ETF specifically in the US market. While BNB-related products like the 21Shares Binance BNB ETP exist, they are not US-based ETFs. The firm, managing nearly $115 billion in client assets globally, registered the new product on March 31, called VanEck BNB ETF, under filing number 10148820 as…