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$ETH, the native cryptocurrency of smart contract giant, Ethereum, is up 1.5% during Tuesday’s U.S. market session to trade at $2,382. The uptick follows the broader market momentum as Bitcoin reclaimed the $80,000 psychological level amid the de-escalating tension in the middle east. Despite the price appreciation, Ethereum coin faces a risk of renewed selling pressure as on-chain data high significant profit-taking from a prominent whale. The activity coincides with a notable shift in $ETH’s option market which projects negative outliers in forward and ATM implied volatility for multiple expirations. In addition, a notable discount in long-dated futures contracts of…

Cryptocurrency trading giant Coinbase (COIN) said new U.S. tax reporting requirements are overly onerous for many crypto holders and add unnecessary clutter to the country’s taxation system. While the idea is that taxable activity on crypto should be reported in the same way as with equities, for example, the rules require reporting transactions in stablecoins — whose value, by definition, doesn’t change — and the tiny amounts spent on the network fees known as gas. The Nasdaq-listed exchange is currently sending millions of American crypto holders the new 1099-DA forms designed to bring crypto in line with the rest of…

Canton price is grinding around $0.14 as Visa’s move to become a super validator sharpens the network’s positioning as an institutional, real‑world‑asset settlement chain. Summary Canton is trading around $0.14 today, with a market cap in the $5.2–$5.6 billion range and daily volume near $10–$37 million. The token has gained roughly 1–3% over the last 24 hours but remains about 29% below its all-time high from early February 2026. Visa’s move to become a super validator on Canton has sharpened the market’s focus on the network’s institutional, real‑world‑asset positioning. Canton (CC), the native asset of the Canton Network, is changing…

Luxembourg-based Banking Circle has launched stablecoin settlement services after receiving a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg’s financial regulator on April 15, expanding into regulated fiat-to-stablecoin and stablecoin-to-fiat settlement for institutional clients. The rollout includes support for Circle’s $USDC, Paxos’ USDG and Banking Circle’s own euro stablecoin $EURI, expanding the bank’s digital asset settlement capabilities beyond its initial $EURI launch in August 2024. In a Monday announcement, the bank said it serves more than 750 payment companies, financial institutions and marketplaces that move and convert over 1.5 trillion euros (roughly $1.7 trillion) annually across its infrastructure. Chief digital…

What Is MegaETH? MegaETH is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built around one obsession: raw speed. The network targets 100,000 transactions per second with 10-millisecond block times, numbers that put it closer to a centralized exchange backend than a typical rollup. It runs a heterogeneous node architecture, meaning sequencers, full nodes, read replicas, and provers each specialize in a single job rather than doing everything badly. The result is an EVM-compatible chain where latency-sensitive apps like high-frequency trading, fully on-chain games, and real-time $NFT minting can actually function without batching their way into a 12-second wait. The project raised $107.68…

Bitcoin is no longer responding to rising global liquidity the way it did in the last cycle. Even as money supply expands, a stronger dollar is tightening financial conditions faster than liquidity can lift prices. Bitcoin traders love one chart more than almost any other: global M2 liquidity with a time lag. More money expanding across the world eventually finds its way into risk assets, and Bitcoin rides the wave. For stretches of the past cycle, that framing looked clean enough to treat as a rule. That framing runs into trouble right now. Broad money is still climbing, yet Bitcoin…

Ethereum is holding above $2,300 as the market builds toward what feels like a decisive move in either direction. The price is constructive but unresolved, and an Arab Chain report has just surfaced a shift in accumulation behavior that adds a layer of structural context to the current setup that the price chart alone does not capture. The pace of Ethereum withdrawals from exchanges slowed significantly in April, reaching their lowest level since September 2024. Across all exchanges, approximately 19.8 million $ETH was withdrawn during the month — a figure that looks substantial in isolation but represents a clear deceleration…

The People’s Bank of China is pushing to make the renminbi, popularly known as the yuan, an efficient international currency for international settlements. Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People’s Bank of China, reinforced that the institution is still promoting financial cooperation with the Global South. PBOC Governor: Yuan Internationalization Still an Objective for China China is still pursuing the internationalization of its currency, the yuan, as part of its comprehensive economic policy. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Pan Gongsheng recently stated that China is promoting the use of the renminbi, commonly referred to as the yuan, as a…

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has taken a new step to expand its spot market trading options. According to the official announcement, the exchange will make the $AVNT/U, $BIO/U, $CHIP/U, $CHIP/$USD1, KAT/U, $USD1/TRY, and XAUT/$USD1 trading pairs available to users starting April 28, 2026, at 11:00 AM. Binance aims to improve the user experience by adding new trading pairs and will also launch Trading Bots services for these pairs. These automated trading tools, called Spot Algo Orders, will allow investors to automatically execute buy and sell transactions according to their chosen strategies. The exchange also announced it…

Jimmy Liao, Neo core developer and founder of R3E Network, published two experimental repositories on May 4 exploring what Neo’s next generation could look like. The larger of the two, neo-n4, prototypes a multi-L2 elastic network architecture built on Neo 4 core. The second, neo-lang, is an early-stage domain-specific language for Neo N3 smart contracts. Both projects are independent community research efforts. The neo-n4 repository prominently states that it is “NOT the official Neo 4 release,” describing itself as “one community’s prototype, not a spec.” neo-n4: elastic network architecture neo-n4 is envisioned as a three-tier design where Neo N3 or…