Month: April 2026

Bitcoin Trading Expands As Charles Schwab Enters Crypto Market

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Charles Schwab is charging into the crypto space with fees lower than its closest rival — and a customer base that dwarfs most financial platforms in America. Related Reading A Slow Roll, Not A Full Launch The Texas-based brokerage has begun offering spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading through its Schwab Crypto platform, operated via Charles Schwab Premier Bank. But don’t expect every customer to get access right away. The rollout starts with an internal employee pilot, moves to a client waitlist, then opens more broadly through the rest of Q2…

Foundation Shuts Down NFT Marketplace After Failed Sale

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Foundation, one of the better-known Ethereum-based non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces of the 2021 boom, is shutting down after the sale that was supposed to keep it operating fell apart. Kayvon Tehranian, Foundation’s founder and CEO, took to X on Wednesday to announce the marketplace’s closure following a failed acquisition by the digital art distribution platform Blackdove. Although Tehranian did not directly mention Blackdove, he said the original goal of the sale was to ensure the platform would continue operating under new ownership. “That’s no longer possible,” he said, adding that…

WHITE HOUSE COINBASE CRYPTO LEGISLATION DRAMA & BITCOIN OVER $100K THIS WEEK?

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Bitcoin Breaks Above $75K, But Bears Refuse To Blink

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Bitcoin has reclaimed and held above the $75,000 region after the latest rebound, but derivatives data shows the recovery lacks broad conviction. Bitcoin In The Middle Of A Credibility Problem Bloomberg claims Bitcoin has a credibility problem right now. Funding rates on perpetual futures have stayed negative for around a month and a half, meaning leveraged traders are still paying to stay short even as spot grinds higher. This divide ranks among the largest this year between spot price action and how derivatives traders are positioned. Bitcoin has climbed about…

Tokenization Doesn’t Fix Illiquid Assets: PBW 2026

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Tokenization does not automatically make hard-to-trade assets liquid, industry executives said at Paris Blockchain Week, pushing back on the idea that putting private credit, real estate or other illiquid products onchain will by itself create active secondary markets. Speaking during a panel moderated by Cointelegraph CEO Yana Prikhodchenko, Oya Celiktemur, Ondo Finance sales director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said there is still a misconception that tokenizing illiquid assets can make them easier to trade. “I think there’s still this idea that tokenizing something illiquid will somehow…

Sanctioned Exchange Grinex Hit by $13.7M Hack; Blames Foreign Intelligence Services

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Key Takeaways: Grinex halts operations after a state-level hack drains over 1 billion rubles in USDT from user wallets. The 2025 takeover of Garantex solidified Grinex as a primary target for ongoing U.S. sanctions. Law enforcement is reviewing logs from 54 wallets as Grinex seeks to recover 13.74 million USDT in stolen TRX. Allegations of State-Sponsored Interference Grinex, a crypto-ruble exchange serving Russian businesses and individual investors, has suspended operations after a sophisticated cyberattack. The breach resulted in the theft of digital assets valued at approximately $13.74 million (more than…

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Trump says U.S. is “very close to making a deal with Iran”, how will Bitcoin react?

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Bitcoin held steady around $75,000 on Friday as investors digested reports that the U.S.-Iran conflict could end as early as this weekend. Summary Bitcoin price holds near $75K as Trump signals a potential U.S.-Iran deal, easing geopolitical tensions and lifting risk sentiment. Oil prices decline, and fear levels ease, pushing the crypto fear and greed index back to neutral territory. A confirmed deal could trigger a breakout above $76K, opening the path toward $80K and potentially $90K amid short squeeze dynamics. According to reports, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated that…

Bitcoin Derivatives Are The Earliest Signal Of A Quantum Selloff

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Bitcoin’s quantum risk may show up in derivatives markets well before any compromised coins move on-chain, according to FalconX co-head of markets Joshua Lim, who used an X thread on April 16 to map out what he sees as the most tradable signals around a potential “q-day” event. Lim’s core argument is that the market problem is not simply whether Bitcoin can migrate to post-quantum cryptography. It is also whether the network can politically resolve what to do with Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins and other old outputs that may never participate…

Public Miners Sell Record Bitcoin as Industry Splits Between Selling and Quality Growth – Mining Bitcoin News

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This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by BlocksBridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis from TheEnergyMag. Subscribe to receive in your inbox once a week. Several major public miners, including MARA, CleanSpark, Riot, Cango, Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ), and Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR), have already sold more than 32,000 BTC in the first quarter of 2026, according to data analyzed by TheEnergyMag. The dataset remains incomplete, as first-quarter earnings reports are still pending. Even so, the figure already exceeds total net…