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Bitcoin's network just recorded its lowest activity in eight years, and the price has barely flinched. CryptoQuant flagged that active BTC addresses hit their lowest level since 2016 on Apr. 8. At the same time, Glassnode's latest 24-hour reading puts active addresses at 661,313, a number that, set against a price near $78,000, produces one […] The post Bitcoin network activity just hit an 8-year low — has Wall Street replaced retail in the market? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The token traded at $1.15 on Sunday, down from a $27.33 peak on Friday, wiping out more than $5 billion in market cap as investigations into Binance and Bitget advance.

Roughly $1 billion went into the spot Bitcoin ETFs last week, but what's next?

France has seen 41 crypto-related kidnappings this year, roughly one every 2.5 days, prompting authorities to step up security.

A new survey from Nomura and Laser Digital shows improving sentiment among institutional investors, as regulatory clarity and new products drive deeper engagement with digital assets.

Bitcoin foreshadows fresh market mayhem as it appears that the US-Iran war has returned, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz oil route. Bitcoin (BTC) sought to protect $75,000 into Sunday’s weekly close as crypto surfed fresh uncertainty over the US-Iran war. Key points: Bitcoin price action sinks from ten-week highs amid fears that the US-Iran war has returned in full force. Read more

Is Pi Network as advanced as the team claimed?

The SEC has approved a rule change that eliminates one of Wall Street's most recognizable barriers for small traders: the old $25,000 minimum tied to pattern day-trading restrictions. Regulators signed off on FINRA's proposal to scrap a framework that long made it harder for smaller investors to make rapid-fire stock trades, replacing it with a […] The post SEC removes huge pattern day trader barrier to allow retail investors to day trade Bitcoin with just $2k margin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Co-founders Da Hongfei and Erik Zhang have conflicting restructuring plans, Da wants independent governance and multi-sig protection; Zhang wants accountability investigations and to remain on the board.

Instead of freezing coins early, BitMEX Research suggests waiting for proof, which can be done by using a special address to trigger a freeze if a quantum computer is proven to exist.

A White House digital assets official has slammed the traditional banking sector's continued opposition to the proposed stablecoin yield compromise in the CLARITY Act. On April 17, Patrick Witt, the executive director of the White House Presidential Advisory Committee on Digital Assets, accused the financial institutions of “greed or ignorance” due to their intensified lobbying […] The post White House tells “greedy” banks to “move on” from CLARITY Act stablecoin yield fight appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Alcoa is nearing a deal to sell its idle upstate New York Massena East smelter to NYDIG as US industrial sites increasingly shift toward Bitcoin mining and AI data centers. US aluminium giant Alcoa is reportedly nearing a deal to offload its long-idle Massena East smelter in upstate New York to Bitcoin mining firm New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). The company is in advanced discussions and expects the transaction to close “in the middle part of this year,” CEO Bill Oplinger told Bloomberg on Friday. The site, located along the St. Lawrence River, has been inactive since 2014 after Alcoa shut it down amid rising energy costs and global competition. Built for 24/7 heavy industrial operations, aluminum smelters come with pre-existing substations, transmission lines and high-capacity grid connections. That makes them attractive targets for Bitcoin miners and data center operators, who often spend years securing similar infrastructure approvals from scratch. Read more

Here's the somewhat surprising and even bullish answer.

Charles Schwab announced this week that it will begin selling Bitcoin and Ethereum directly to its 39 million brokerage clients. They will appear in the same account view as stocks, ETFs, and retirement funds, in the same app, under the same brand, one click from the S&P 500 index fund a customer bought for their […] The post Charles Schwab is bringing Bitcoin to its 39 million clients – but without the protections they expect appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Aside from PI, the other big losers over the past 24 hours are M, AAVE, WLD, and PUMP.

RaveDAO denies involvement in RAVE token price surge and crash as Binance and Bitget launch investigations into suspected market manipulation. RaveDAO has denied any role in the recent surge and sharp collapse of its RAVE token, as major crypto exchanges open probes into trading activity following allegations of market manipulation. In a thread posted on X, the project said it was “not engaged in, nor responsible for, recent price action,” responding to mounting scrutiny after RAVE soared from roughly $0.25 to nearly $28 within days before plunging more than 80%. The denial comes as onchain investigator ZachXBT accused the project of orchestrating a pump-and-dump scheme, pointing to concentrated token holdings and suspicious exchange flows. He claimed that more than 90% of the token supply may be controlled by insiders, calling on exchanges to take action. Read more

Here's what happened after the largest security incident of 2026 to one of the used protocols.

This became the biggest security incident of 2026 in terms of USD value.

Charles Schwab and Citadel Securities executives have separately aired interest in prediction markets, but each is looking to steer clear of sports offerings. Traditional finance giants Charles Schwab and Citadel Securities are both considering entering prediction markets, with each separately weighing up how they wish to get involved in the fast-growing sector. “I think at some point we likely will have prediction markets,” Rick Wurster, the CEO of the banking and investing titan Schwab, told investors during a call on Thursday. He added that prediction markets weren’t “of tremendous interest” when he recently asked a group of Schwab clients about them, but it was an area the company would “take a hard look at, and it would be quite straightforward for us to offer.” Read more

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