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Just as investors were trying to steady the 2026 rate outlook, the oil market handed the Federal Reserve a fresh inflation problem. The Fed meets on April 28 and 29. On April 30, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is scheduled to publish the advance estimate for first quarter GDP alongside March personal income […] The post The global oil shock has the Fed cornered just days before its next meeting — what that means for Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DeFi leaders say that AI will arm both attackers and defenders, and widen the gap between projects that prioritize security and those that do not.

Bitcoin hash rate recovery and negative funding rates signal potential gains ahead, according to the ETF provider's latest network analysis.

Trump is expected to speak at his crypto conference in Palm Beach shortly.

The event, at which Trump himself is scheduled to speak, gathers top-tier holders of the $TRUMP meme coin.

The world's central banks stopped arguing about whether stablecoins are risky long ago. Their main concern now is about who will control them and how. On April 20, BIS General Manager Pablo Hernandez de Cos called for global cooperation on stablecoins, describing it as “critically important.” The Bank for International Settlements, often called the central bankers' […] The post The world’s central banks are now treating stablecoins like a real multi-trillion dollar monetary threat appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Mean-reversion models suggest bearish targets imply a 0.4th percentile event, far beyond typical market corrections.

3 signals converged at the February low: weekly RSI at a 4-year low, the sentiment index at its worst, and BTC retesting the 2021 cycle high.

The CFTC has filed suit to block New York from enforcing gambling laws on prediction platforms, arguing federal regulators have sole authority over event-based contracts. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against New York to stop the state from applying its gambling laws to federally regulated prediction market platforms, escalating a growing clash over who has authority to oversee these products. In a complaint lodged in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the CFTC argued that federal law gives it exclusive authority over these markets, asking the court for a declaratory judgment and a permanent injunction against New York’s enforcement actions. “CFTC-registered exchanges have faced an onslaught of state lawsuits seeking to limit Americans’ access to event contracts and undermine the CFTC’s sole regulatory jurisdiction over prediction markets,” CFTC Chair Michael Selig said. Read more

Brahimi explores the impact of European banks' integration of digital assets into their existing brokerage and payments infrastructure in the wake of MiCA.

Crypto market liquidity is increasingly hyper-concentrating within a handful of massive trading venues, creating a market structure that global central bank researchers warn is evolving into a heavily leveraged “shadow crypto financial system.” Data from CryptoQuant shows that Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, cleared over $1 trillion in trading volume during the first 112 days […] The post Trillions of dollars in crypto liquidity is concentrating inside the venues US regulators fear most appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Pollak, who will be speaking at Consensus Miami 2026 next month, also sees the open-source protocol x402 as a key part of that wave.

Bitcoin market participants favored a short-term return to $73,000 as resistance stayed in place, with some analysis seeing even lower levels. Bitcoin (BTC) risked a return to $73,000 as the weekend began after bulls failed to reclaim a key trend line. Key points: Bitcoin price analysis increasingly sees $73,000 getting retested in the short term. Read more

Getting from the current price of around $1.43 to the base zone would mean a drop of anywhere between 35% and 50%.

UK authorities have carried out their first coordinated operation against suspected illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, sending a clear and simple message to the market: once a person turns crypto dealing into a business, the state expects names, checks, records, and accountability. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it worked with police and tax officials to […] The post New police raids on people trading crypto for cash raises a hard question about financial freedom appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Brazil has blocked 27 prediction market platforms, including Kalshi and Polymarket, as new rules classify many contracts as gambling. Brazilian authorities have moved to shut down 27 prediction market platforms, including Kalshi and Polymarket. The decision, announced Friday, follows a directive from the Ministry of Finance and enforcement by the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), according to state-owned news outlet Agência Brasil. Authorities claimed that such services fall outside Brazil’s current legal framework and therefore operate illegally. “We have been monitoring the evolution of this sector in Brazil, which suffered a period of anarchy because there were no rules, no oversight, from 2018 to 2022,” Finance Ministry executive secretary Dario Durigan reportedly said during a press conference at the Palácio do Planalto. Read more

Can a network without formal governance coordinate the biggest cryptographic migration in its history?

BTC's share of the total crypto market is still holding above 58%.

On Apr. 24, Project Eleven awarded its Q-Day Prize to Giancarlo Lelli, a researcher who used publicly accessible quantum hardware to derive a 15-bit elliptic curve private key from its public key. This is the largest public demonstration to date of the attack class that could one day threaten Bitcoin, Ethereum, and every other system […] The post Latest “quantum computer breaks the math behind Bitcoin” headlines massively exaggerate risk appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Recent XRP outflow spikes have often come before short-term price rallies, signaling a potential move higher in May if the pattern repeats. XRP (XRP) has rallied more than 30% in the last three months, and fresh technical and on-chain signals suggest the XRP/USD pair may have more upside ahead. Key takeaways: Exchange outflows, positive whale flows and strong ETF demand raise XRP’s bullish outlook. Read more