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The key global macroeconomic events for the second week of April are as follows: - April 7: Speeches by Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee (4:35 p.m. UTC) and U.S. Fed Governor Jefferson (9:50 p.m. UTC). - April 8: U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes released (6:00 p.m. UTC). - April 9: U.S. data release for February Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), Q4 GDP (final), and Initial Jobless Claims (12:30 p.m. UTC). - April 10: South Korea interest rate decision (1:00 a.m. UTC) and U.S. March Consumer Price Index (CPI) release (12:30 p.m. UTC).

Key token unlocks this week include $9.65 million in APT According to data from Tokenomist, the major token unlocks scheduled for this week (April 6–12) are as follows: - RED: 40.85 million tokens ($4.25 million), representing 13.89% of circulating supply, at 4:00 p.m. UTC on April 6 - MOVE: 164 million tokens ($2.97 million), representing 4.92% of circulating supply, at 12:00 p.m. UTC on April 9 - BABY: 612 million tokens ($7.56 million), representing 37.77% of circulating supply, at 10:00 a.m. UTC on April 10 - LINEA: 1.38 billion tokens ($4.68 million), representing 5.32% of circulating supply, at 11:00 a.m. UTC on April 10 - APT: 11.31 million tokens ($9.65 million), representing 0.68% of circulating supply, at 8:00 a.m. UTC on April 12

The yield on newly issued 10-year Japanese government bonds, a key benchmark for long-term interest rates, rose to 2.400% at one point today, reaching its highest level since February 1999.

Top 5 Gainers (24h) - ARIAIP: +172.87% at $0.007 (Volume: $768.44K) - HIFI: +47.21% at $0.0089 (Volume: $432.98K) - UOS: +38.91% at $0.0081 (Volume: $12.37M) - MMT: +30.25% at $0.1452 (Volume: $156.39M) - TRU: +25.35% at $0.0055 (Volume: $35.18M) Top 5 Losers (24h) - INDEX: -4.00% at $0.24 (Volume: $6.08K) - BTT: -2.69% at $0.00000031 (Volume: $5.92M) - CARV: -1.68% at $0.0577 (Volume: $19.84M) - D: -1.56% at $0.0149 (Volume: $103.02M) - RLS: -1.52% at $0.0051 (Volume: $24.67M)

The Spot CVD chart analyzes the order book for the BTC/USDT spot pair. The top section shows the Volume Heatmap, while the bottom section displays the Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD). - The top Volume Heatmap tracks the volume of trades at specific price levels. The background color brightens when the price lingers in a certain range or moves significantly. These brighter areas can potentially act as support or resistance levels. - The bottom Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) indicator represents buy and sell orders categorized by trade size. As buy orders increase, the corresponding colored line rises. For example, the yellow line tracks orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, compiled by data provider Alternative, rose one point from yesterday to 13, indicating that the market remains in a state of extreme fear. The index measures market sentiment on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 represents extreme fear and 100 signifies extreme optimism. It is calculated based on several factors: volatility (25%), trading volume (25%), social media mentions (15%), surveys (15%), Bitcoin's market cap dominance (10%), and Google search volume (10%).

XRP is failing to close the performance gap with Bitcoin and Ethereum due to factors including weakening technical momentum, selling pressure from past buyers looking to break even, and monthly token unlocks, according to an analysis by Watcher.Guru. The outlet noted that XRP has been setting progressively lower highs since its downtrend began in late 2025, with a recent attempt to break past $1.5 proving unsuccessful. With over 60 billion XRP in circulation, monthly escrow releases are also acting as a suppressant on price appreciation. Furthermore, Standard Chartered previously slashed its price target for XRP by 65%, from $8 to $2.8. Institutional fund flows also appear negative. While the XRP spot ETF has seen $1.44 billion in net inflows to date, 84% of this capital came from retail investors. Weekly net inflows have also plummeted from an initial $200 million to less than $2 million recently, the analysis explained.

The current phase for Bitcoin is expected to differ from past bear markets, crypto analyst Murphy (@Murphychen888) said on X. He noted that the average cost basis for Bitcoin addresses currently holding at a loss is just $93,600. While many holdings were bought at high prices, some addresses sold at a loss during two downturns late last year and early this year, which significantly lowered the average cost basis for all addresses with unrealized losses. To meet the bottoming conditions seen in the last three bear markets, BTC would need to fall to $46,800. However, Murphy stated his belief that this cycle will break from the historical pattern, adding that if such a drop does not occur, this would be recorded as the least painful bear market.

A community debate is intensifying over how to handle four million dormant BTC following a Google report that quantum computers could break Bitcoin's encryption, U.Today reported. On-chain analyst Willy Woo proposed that the dormant supply should be frozen or upgraded to be quantum-resistant if necessary. He warned that if quantum computers were to brute-force older addresses, the resulting supply dump could trigger a market collapse, arguing that the protocol should not abandon its users. In contrast, Blockstream CEO Adam Back contended that security is the responsibility of individual holders. He argued that any attempt by developers to determine the validity of specific coins would be an act of centralization. Back maintained that preserving the immutability of Bitcoin's code is more important than artificial intervention, even if the quantum threat materializes, stating that a hack of dormant coins should be treated as a market event without protocol-level intervention.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $69,000. BTC is trading at $69,107.94 on the Binance USDT market.

Ant Digital Technologies, the blockchain arm of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, has launched Anvita, a cryptocurrency payment platform designed for AI agents, CoinDesk reported. Anvita combines tokenization services with a real-time payment network between agents to enable an autonomous, human-free commerce environment. This development is seen as extending the competition over stablecoin infrastructure, previously dominated by traditional financial firms, into the AI agent sector. The outlet noted that although the volume of payments between agents is still nascent, the technology is drawing attention as a key infrastructure for the future economy amid a wave of related product launches from major tech firms.

Ethereum (ETH) has surpassed $2,100. The token is currently trading at $2,112.29 on Binance against USDT.

Bitcoin has historically outperformed gold and U.S. stocks within two months of a global crisis, according to an analysis by Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil's largest cryptocurrency exchange. In a recent report covered by CoinDesk, the exchange explained that while BTC tends to decline in the initial stages of a global crisis, its speed and magnitude of recovery have been unparalleled. Mercado noted that even amid the current U.S.-Iran conflict, BTC has maintained its growth, whereas gold has fallen 11% and the S&P 500 has dropped 4.4%.

Bitcoin has risen after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iranian energy facilities if the country does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Around 3:30 p.m. UTC on April 5, Trump warned that this coming Tuesday would be a day of reckoning for Iran's power plants and bridges, promising to resolve the situation at once in an unprecedented fashion and demanding the immediate opening of the strait. About an hour later, he issued a specific ultimatum, stating he would strike the power plants if the strait was not opened by 12:00 a.m. UTC on April 7. Trump had previously issued an ultimatum to Iran on March 21 but later extended the deadline. Following the president's remarks, BTC has climbed approximately 1.8%, rising from around $67,000 to its current price of about $68,500.

Drift has concluded that a recent $270 million hack was the work of a North Korean organization, according to a report the protocol released on its official X account on April 5. Drift stated that UNC4736, a unit under North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, began posing as a quantitative trading firm last fall to approach the protocol. The organization engaged in deceptive tactics, including meeting with the team at conferences and depositing $1 million to build trust. After operating as a legitimate partner within the ecosystem for six months, the hackers exploited vulnerabilities in certain tools to infect the devices of Drift contributors and seize multi-signature approval authority. They then executed a Durable Nonce attack, stealing the funds in just one minute. Drift added that the individuals its team met in person were not North Korean nationals but proxies using fabricated identities. The protocol warned that the current security model for DeFi protocols, which relies on trust in human relationships, is highly vulnerable to deliberate and patient attacks.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $68,000. BTC is trading at $68,096.91 on the Binance USDT market.

Bitcoin and the U.S. dollar have a de facto symbiotic relationship, the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) told Cointelegraph. Sam Lyman, the institute's director of research, said that the largest trading pairs for BTC are typically BTC/USD and BTC/USDT. Contrary to the conventional perception that BTC weakens the dollar system, it actually plays a complementary role with the dollar, he explained. Lyman compared the relationship to the petrodollar system that began in the 1970s, arguing that since Bitcoin is most frequently traded against the dollar, it generates demand for the U.S. currency. He also noted that China's ban on cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins, is a response to the threat they pose to the country's capital control system. However, Lyman suggested that activities such as BTC mining and stablecoin inflows appear to remain robust in China, with mining pools with Chinese roots still accounting for over 36% of the global hashrate.

CME Bitcoin futures opened today with a gap of approximately $590. The futures contract, which closed the previous trading session at $67,165, began trading today at $67,755. These gaps occur because the CME market is closed on weekends, while the Bitcoin spot market operates continuously. Significant price movements in the spot market during this time can lead to a disparity between Friday's closing price and Monday's opening price on the CME. Traders often watch these gaps, as futures prices have a historical tendency to revert to fill them.

MicroStrategy (MSTR) founder Michael Saylor has countered claims that Bitcoin is a poor investment compared to gold, silver, and stocks by highlighting its average annual returns, BeInCrypto reported. The comments came in response to crypto skeptic and gold bull Peter Schiff, who recently pointed out that BTC's price had risen only 12% over the past five years. Schiff noted that over the same period, which began after Bitcoin's 2021 peak, the Nasdaq rose 57.4%, the S&P 500 gained 59.4%, gold increased by 163%, and silver was up 181%. Saylor argued that Schiff's analysis was biased by its starting point. He stated that when calculated from August 2020, when MicroStrategy began acquiring BTC, the cryptocurrency's average annual return was 36%. This figure surpasses the returns for gold (16%), the Nasdaq (15%), and the S&P 500 (14%) over the same timeframe. Currently, MicroStrategy holds 762,099 BTC, valued at $57.381 billion, and is facing an unrealized loss of approximately $5.948 billion, or about 10%.

Whale Alert reported that 499,998,672 USDT has been transferred from OKX to an unknown wallet. The transaction is valued at about $500 million.

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MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor declared in a social media post that Bitcoin has won, arguing a global consensus has now formed around BTC as digital capital. He added that the four-year cycle theory is over and that prices will henceforth be determined by capital flows. Saylor also stated that banks and digital credit will determine Bitcoin's growth trajectory. The greatest risk, he noted, is iatrogenic protocol changes stemming from bad ideas.

Ripple will likely not need to forcibly sell its escrowed XRP holdings to comply with the Clarity Act, according to an analysis by The Crypto Basic. The report explains that the bill's '20% ownership limit' is a flexible guideline for determining a blockchain's maturity, not a strict cap that mandates asset disposal. The media outlet noted that the decisive factor is XRP's classification as a "digital commodity" rather than a security, which transfers regulatory oversight to the CFTC. "If the system's decentralization and utility are proven, the current holding of 38.5 billion XRP, representing about 40% of the supply, is unlikely to face a legal sell-off obligation," the analysis stated. "Consequently, concerns about a price drop due to a large-scale token release are expected to be significantly eased."

U.S. President Donald Trump warned that time is running out for Iran to meet a 10-day deadline he set for either reaching an agreement or reopening the Strait of Hormuz. He stated that Iran will face hell in 48 hours.

The mainnet launch of Midnight, Cardano's privacy-focused partner chain, has intensified internal conflict over its asset transfer mechanism. The $200 million project, which enables anonymous transactions through zero-knowledge proofs, is facing criticism because its bridge currently only allows one-way asset flows from Cardano to Midnight. Critics have pointed to this as a design flaw, warning it could drain the liquidity of ADA. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has strongly refuted these claims, asserting that Midnight will bring billions of dollars into the ecosystem and demanding apologies from his critics. While two-way asset transfers are planned for a future phased rollout, the growing rift between leadership and the community is increasing uncertainty within the ecosystem.