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An anonymous wallet bought 2.79 billion ASTEROID tokens for $575 on April 17 and exited Tuesday for 503 ETH, worth $1.17 million, in one of the year's cleanest memecoin trades.

Bitcoin price jumped 2.5% today after President Trump confirmed an extension of the Iran ceasefire. BTC touched $77,500 in early Asia trading, its highest print since Friday's two-month peak of $78,300. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Another Ceasefire, Another Rally appeared first on Cryptonews.

Volo Protocol lost about $3.5 million from three vaults holding WBTC, XAUm, and USDC.

HackerOne, one of the largest bug bounty platforms in the world, reported there were 85,000 valid bounty submissions in 2025, up 7% from the previous year. Crypto protocols have warned that an increase in AI use has led to a flood of bogus bug bounty submissions, putting a strain on teams trying to identify real threats to their protocols.  Bug bounties are a system to reward “good” hackers for submitting reports about potential vulnerabilities and are popular in the crypto industry. AI has now made it easier to sift through large amounts of code to find possible bugs, though AI is also known to hallucinate.  “AI is changing the way that bug bounty programs must operate,” said Barry Plunkett, co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, on Tuesday, responding to a bug bounty hunter who accused the protocol of ignoring their vulnerability report.  Read more

The market's resurgence resulted in almost 110,000 traders being liquidated in the past 24 hours alone.

Bitcoin's Coinbase premium has been positive for 14 straight days, the longest bullish streak since BTC hit its all time high of $126,000 in October.

Umbra has shut down its front end to stop hackers, but says it can’t stop the use of its smart contracts or another version of its open-source front end. Privacy-focused crypto protocol Umbra said it has taken down its front-end website to make it more difficult for hackers who have been using it to move funds from recent “high-profile hacks.” Umbra posted to X on Tuesday that it is aware that around $800,000 worth of stolen funds were moved via its protocol. It added that it made the decision to move the hosted version of its front end into maintenance mode and would restore it “as soon as we are assured that doing so won't create obstacles to the current recovery efforts.” Read more

A recent article on a popular financial financial blog predicted that XRP will fall below $1 in five years. Here's why it's wrong.

New York AG filed a lawsuit against prediction markets operated by Coinbase and Gemini.

Ethereum is trading around $ 2,350 and is at a pivotal moment that will likely define its trajectory in the weeks ahead. The asset has spent the better part of April building a case for a genuine bullish reversal, and while that is not yet closed, the evidence on multiple timeframes is quietly accumulating in […]

While Bitcoin presses against recent months’ highs and Ethereum builds a case for a bullish breakout, XRP continues to tell a different story. Trading around $1.44, the altcoin has largely failed to participate in the broader market recovery. This divergence has become one of the defining characteristics of this correction cycle and shows little sign […]

Anthropic’s powerful Claude Mythos AI model found hundreds of vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, highlighting its cybersecurity potential.

Crypto platform dYdX declared unregistered by the Philippine SEC, with strict warning against investment solicitation and potential criminal liability for promoters.

A sideshow stablecoin yield debate has dragged the market structure bill through months of delay, even as the Senate's available floor time diminishes for 2026.

Advisory council says validator signatures and wallet cryptography could be vulnerable if future quantum computers break current encryption.

A new documentary digs into Bitcoin’s origins, reframing the search for Satoshi Nakamoto as both a technical investigation and a deeply human story.

Core Scientific, a Bitcoin miner turned data center operator, said that it plans to offer $3.3 billion worth of speculative-grade debt.

In just under three weeks, cyber operatives linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have stolen more than $500 million from crypto DeFi platforms. This marks a drastic escalation in Pyongyang’s state-sponsored campaign to bankroll its weapons programs through cryptocurrency theft. Drift and KelpDAO drive North Korea's over $500 million DeFi exploits Notably, […] The post North Korea hit crypto for $500M+ this month — and the $6.75 billion threat is not over yet appeared first on CryptoSlate.

According to reports, Kalshi plans to launch crypto perpetual futures, expanding beyond prediction markets as regulated derivatives offerings in the US continue to evolve. Prediction market exchange Kalshi is reportedly preparing to expand into cryptocurrency trading by introducing perpetual futures contracts, marking a major shift beyond its core event-based derivatives business. In a Tuesday report, The Information cited people familiar with the matter as saying Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures — commonly known as “perps” — on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC). Perpetual futures are a type of derivative contract that allows traders to speculate on price movements without an expiration date.  Read more

New York has become the latest state to argue that prediction market contracts touching on sports and entertainment violate state gambling laws.