A giant whale gained about $26 million by taking multiple short positions on Hyperliquid

"Retail mania is absent from this rally," said analyst @ali_charts, who published a Bitcoin market peak signal observation. "Historical data shows that whenever the bitcoin price hits the top of the cycle, it is often accompanied by a surge in retail trading activity. However, this typical feature is clearly missing from this rise band from $70,000 to $110,000 - this anomaly is highly similar to the market structure at the end of the bull market in 2021."

The Oregon Attorney General today filed a securities enforcement lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, using a regulatory doctrine that the SEC has officially abandoned. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal issued a statement saying the move is "unfounded" and "undermines the constructive policy development that is underway in Washington, D.C." At a time when Congress is pushing for comprehensive federal legislation on digital assets, Coinbase has pledged to maintain normal opera...

The Aptos community has proposed a new Improvement Proposal (AIP), which plans to reduce the current pledge reward rate of about 7% by 1% on a monthly basis over a 3-month period, and eventually reduce it to about 3.8%. The proposal aims to optimize the long-term development of the ecosystem, promote more active participation and competition in the DeFi field by reducing the pledge yield, and enhance the sustainability of the APT token economic model. If approved, this would be the first major c...

ZachXBT responded on the X platform that its public Solana address did receive and refund five SOL donations, which were misinterpreted as participating in the token deployment. He explicitly denied any involvement in the token offering, saying "if you really think I will issue coins, then you should lose money".

According to Lookonchain statistics, 10 Bitcoin ETFs have a net inflow of 1,147 BTC (about $97.03 million) today, of which iShares (BlackRock) has inflow of 955, and the current position has reached 573,188 (about $48.47 billion); 9 Ethereum ETFs have a net outflow of 3,775 ETH (about $6 million), of which Grayscale has outflow of 5,241, and the current position is 1,169,305 (about $1.86 billion).

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Michael Saylor's Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has outperformed Nvidia, Tesla, Google, Apple, and Microsoft in returns thanks to Bitcoin.

Hassett, director of the National Economic Council of the United States: Trump is studying whether "removing Federal Reserve Chairperson Powell" is an option.

According to Whale Alert, 229,767,998 USDT were transferred from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury at 22:20 Beijing time.

On April 18th, according to the monitoring of on-chain analyst Ember, MetalphaPro is suspected of continuing to increase its position in ETH in the near future. It deposited $25 million USDC to Binance 5 hours ago, and then proposed 7,000 ETH (about 11.12 million US dollars) 1 hour ago. Since April 1st, the address has withdrawn 29,000 ETH from Binance, the amount reached 48.73 million US dollars, and the average opening price is about 1680 US dollars.

Vietnam's Ministry of Finance has partnered with Bybit to launch a crypto trading pilot and establish a legal framework for its large crypto user base.

On April 18, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson responded in an interview to the White House Crypto Roundtable that he was not invited, saying that "there is no need to make a deal with Trump", and that the current US-driven crypto policy reform should focus on "sustainable, long-term frameworks" rather than relying on short-term politicians. Previously, Trump met at the White House, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and MicroStrategy Executive Chairperson Michae...

The worst seems to be over, but the earnings season will accelerate next week, and Thunderbolt Enterprises will bring investors the first storm after the holiday... Click to view...