Washington has started selecting which crypto firms control custody at a national level
On Apr. 2, Coinbase received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust charter. Coinbase joined a cluster of at least eight firms that the OCC has moved toward federal trust-charter status since December 2025, and the cluster reveals a deliberate federal decision about which parts of crypto […]
ICBA Opposes OCC’s Conditional Nod For Coinbase National Trust Bank Charter
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted Coinbase (COIN) a conditional approval for a national trust bank charter, a move that would place the crypto exchange among a small group of five digital-asset firms — including Ripple, Circle (CRCL) — that have received similar tentative sign-offs from the agency. If the charter […]
Crypto consolidates as volatility cools and futures markets tilt bearish
Bitcoin holds a tight range as altcoins rally on low liquidity, but derivatives data and options skew suggest traders are bracing for downside.
XRP Transactions Hit Lowest Levels Since Mid-2025: Here’s What It Means for Ripple
Since the onset of the Middle East conflict, crypto markets have remained volatile in the short term but directionless overall. Several major assets, including XRP, have moved sideways during this period. At the same time, XRP transaction activity on Binance has declined sharply, with both deposits and withdrawals falling to their lowest levels since 2025. […]
Reputed Crypto Trader Calls the Bottom at $54,000 BTC Price, Bullish Expectations Grow
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trade in the $66,000 price range, hinting at possibly sinking down to lower price targets as most bearish analysts were expecting. At the moment, one reputed crypto trader calls the bottom at $54,000 BTC price, igniting bullish expectations. This prediction is in contrast with the growing bearish calls […]
Ethereum Price Prediction: IMF Warns Tokenization, ETH RWA Booming
Ethereum price is trading at $2,060, barely moving with just 0.8% gain in the last 24 hours, but the surface calm masks something far bigger, building bullish prediction underneath. The IMF’s April 2026 “Tokenized Finance” note validated and warned about the tokenized real-world asset boom that Ethereum is dominating. To put it into perspective, on-chain […]
Solana Price Prediction: After The Exploit, Is The Network Still Safe? Will Price Recover?
Solana price appears to be stabilizing below $80, but the Drift Protocol exploit raised questions, followed by bearish prediction. Is the network’s infrastructure fundamentally compromised, or is this selloff noise masking a recovery setup? The Drift Protocol attack drained at least $270 million in under 60 seconds, but notably, no code was broken. The attacker […]
Algorand Crypto Jumps 20% Thanks to Google AI Paper: Cited 32 Times, Revolut Integration Adds Momentum
Algorand (ALGO) is experiencing a +23% surge in 24 hours, the sharpest single-day move up since the name faded from the crypto space after the 2021 bullrun. The catalyst is not a protocol upgrade or exchange listing. A Google Quantum AI whitepaper dropped at the end of last month comes with the Algorand name appearing […]
Circle Unveils New Token Aimed at Expanding Bitcoin Utility
Circle has launched cirBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin token backed 1:1 with native on-chain BTC reserves, deploying first on Ethereum mainnet and its own Arc blockchain. The move is direct: Bitcoin holds over $1.7 trillion in market cap but generates almost no DeFi activity, and Circle is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer that changes that. […]
Coinbase & Linux Foundation Debut X402: HTTP-Native Crypto Payment Standard
Coinbase and the Linux Foundation launched the X402 Foundation on April 2, 2026, a non-profit tasked with stewarding an open-source protocol that finally puts the 30-year-dormant HTTP 402 status code to work as the web’s native payment layer. The founding coalition includes Stripe, Cloudflare, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Mastercard, which means this is not […]
New Bitcoin Crash Ahead? Bloomberg Strategist Forecasts Return To $10,000 – Here’s Why
Bloomberg senior strategist Mike McGlone has renewed a stark prediction for Bitcoin (BTC), arguing that the market’s leading cryptocurrency could resume a prolonged decline that takes it back toward $10,000. Why McGlone Sees Bitcoin Heading Back To $10K In a Thursday post on social media platform X (previously Twitter), McGlone framed the $10,000 level as […]
$285M Bug Or Human Error? Solana-Based Drift Protocol Suffers Largest Exploit Of 2026
Solana-based Drift Protocol has suffered the largest exploit of 2026 to date, losing nearly $300 million in a “highly sophisticated operation” that has raised concerns about the growing threat of human-targeted attacks in the crypto space. Solana DEX Loses $285M On April Fool’s Day On Wednesday, Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Drift Protocol was the victim […]