Ripple Prime Secures Investment-Grade Credit Rating Backed by $39B Assets – Featured Bitcoin News

Ripple Prime Earns Investment Grade Rating Amid Rapid Growth Ripple announced on April 2 that Ripple Prime has received investment-grade credit ratings, highlighting the platform’s expanding prime brokerage operations and financial strength. The digital asset and financial infrastructure firm shared on social media platform X that the ratings reflect growth, execution, and increasing institutional demand across its brokerage structure. Ripple stated: “Global credit rating agency Kroll has assigned Ripple Prime an investment grade issuer rating (BBB), reflecting the financial strength, business expansion and disciplined execution of our growing prime brokerage…

Bitcoin Stays Weak on Oil Woes as Analyst Queries Return to $10,000

Bitcoin (BTC) gained a $10,000 price warning as stocks took a fresh hit over oil-supply fears at Thursday’s Wall Street open. Key points: $10,000 BTC prices may return as the market struggles to hold ground, says new analysis. Bitcoin and US stocks take a further beating as markets discount the odds of the Strait of Hormuz returning to “normal.” Oil spikes to $114 per barrel in a volatile Wall Street open. BTC price “may be reverting” to $10,000 Data from TradingView tracked BTC price action as it dipped below $66,000…

Bitcoin’s Price Drifts Below Key Levels as Sellers Keep Pressure – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

Bitcoin Chart Outlook On the daily chart, bitcoin is consolidating inside a longer-term downtrend. Price has failed to reclaim resistance near $69,000 and remains below the levels that would need to change for buyers to shift the trend. Each recovery attempt has produced a lower high. The range between $65,900 and $69,000 is tightening. Volume is heavier on down moves than on recoveries, which tells you sellers are still in control even when the price action looks quiet. BTC/USD 1-day chart via Bitstamp on April 2, 2026. The four-hour bitcoin…

Analyst Says Bitcoin Closing 6 Red Monthly Candles Isn’t Bearish, What To Expect

Bitcoin’s recent price structure has not been easy to sit through. The price action has spent months moving sideways to lower, printing a series of bearish monthly closes since October that have placed the crypto sentiment in fear. That kind of slow pressure tends to feel worse than sharp sell-offs. According to a crypto analyst, instead of treating the recent stretch as a warning sign of more declines to come, history shows that the Bitcoin price is much closer to a turning point than most participants realize. The 2018 Parallel:…

SoFi Technologies Launches First National Bank Enterprise Crypto and Stablecoin Platform – Bitcoin News

SoFi Launches Big Business Banking With 24/7 Fiat and Crypto Settlement for U.S. Enterprises SoFi Technologies (Nasdaq: SOFI) made the announcement on Thursday, positioning the product as direct competition to the legacy banking model that shuts down at 5 p.m. on Fridays. The offering targets institutions and enterprise clients that need to operate across both traditional and digital finance without patching together multiple providers and custodians. CEO Anthony Noto framed the gap plainly. “To be competitive, businesses today must operate in a global, always-on environment 24 hours a day, 7…

Binance Commits $500K to Scale National Ukraine Web3 Ecosystem Growth – Exchanges Bitcoin News

Binance Launches Ukraine Digital Resilience Web3 Initiative Binance, a global cryptocurrency exchange, launched a national initiative on April 2 to strengthen Ukraine’s digital infrastructure. The program, called the Digital Resilience Lab, focuses on accelerating Web3 solutions through funding, mentorship, and ecosystem access for local participants. Chief Executive Officer Richard Teng shared on X that Binance is working with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Web3 Institute, and Lviv IT Cluster on the initiative. He stated: “Binance is launching the Digital Resilience Lab in Ukraine … we are supporting practical…

NYSE-Listed Bitgo Rolls out Stablecoin Minting Platform for Institutional Clients – Bitcoin News

Bitgo Adds Native Stablecoin Minting With USD1 and SoFiUSD Support The New York-based digital asset infrastructure company, which trades on NYSE under the ticker BTGO, announced the new capability on April 2. Bitgo Mint launches with native support for two stablecoins: USD1 and SoFiUSD. Both assets are already integrated into Bitgo’s Stablecoin-as-a-Service product suite. Before Bitgo Mint, institutions handling stablecoin minting and redemption typically coordinated across separate custody providers, compliance systems, and internal operations teams. Bitgo Mint consolidates those steps inside a single interface, pairing mint and redeem functionality with…

Bitcoin Liquidations Dethroned? A Tokenized Bet Just Posted Crypto’s Biggest Loss

Tokenized Brent oil futures on Hyperliquid generated about $46.6 million in liquidations in 24 hours, making oil the third‑most liquidated asset after ether at $104.5 million, and Bitcoin at $98.3 million. Hyperliquid’s Oil Perps Dethrone Bitcoin The single largest liquidation across all assets in the past 24 hours was not Bitcoin or Ethereum, but a $17.17 million Brent oil position on Hyperliquid, according to Binance Square. This marks the second time in under a month that oil has produced the biggest individual wipeout on a crypto venue. Related Reading The…

Metaplanet Buys 5,075 Bitcoin in Q1 2026, Total Holdings Hit 40,177 BTC – Crypto News Bitcoin News

Metaplanet Overtakes MARA Holdings in Bitcoin Race With Q1 2026 Purchase The Tokyo-based company Metaplanet (TSE: 3350 / OTCQX: MTPLF) disclosed the Q1 acquisition on April 2, 2026, confirming the purchase was completed by March 31. The company spent roughly $398 million on the quarter’s buys, acquiring bitcoin at a weighted average price of approximately $78,000 to $79,898 per coin. With bitcoin trading near $66,400 on announcement day, Metaplanet’s holdings carried a market value of approximately $2.67 billion. On a mark-to-market basis, that represents an unrealized loss of roughly 32…

Genius Group Liquidates Entire Bitcoin Treasury to Repay $8.5M Debt

Genius Group (GNS) liquidated its entire Bitcoin treasury – 84 BTC valued at approximately $5.7 million as of March 2026 – to retire $8.5 million in debt, a full disposition that confirms the company’s balance sheet had reached a point where no alternative capital source was available to service the obligation. The sale was disclosed alongside the company’s Q1 2026 earnings release and represents a complete reversal of the Bitcoin accumulation posture the company publicly committed to just eighteen months ago. The liquidation is particularly notable given that Genius Group’s…