Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Story HighlightsGrayscale has amended its HYPE ETF filing with the SEC to place Anchorage Digital as custodian in place of Coinbase.The decision is based on conflicts of interest, market monopoly, and regulatory concerns, among other reasons.The HYPE price is slightly down amid heightened selling pr...

Security trade-offs in cross-chain infrastructure are drawing sharper scrutiny as operational shortcuts threaten to undercut protections built into bridge designs. Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz’s latest remarks tied those risks to RLUSD-related evaluations and broader collateral concerns.Key Ta...

ChainCatcher report, according to CNBC, CME's "FedWatch" tool shows a 0% probability of the Federal Reserve raising rates by 25 basis points in April, with a 100% probability of holding rates steady. Additionally, the probability of a cumulative 25-basis-point rate cut by June is 2.5%, while the pro...

Aave released a report stating that, due to a vulnerability in the Kelp DAO bridge, the protocol could face two potential loss scenarios: if the loss is distributed across all rsETH, the loss would be approximately $123 million; if limited to Layer 2, the loss could reach up to $230 million. The vul...

Key Insights:XRP Ledger (XRPL) quantum upgrade targets full readiness by 2028.Ripple says “harvest now, decrypt later” is a real planning risk.XRP traded near $1.43 as Ripple outlined the roadmap.Ripple has placed the XRP Ledger (XRPL) quantum upgrade at the center of its long-term security strategy...

CoinDesk reports:As DeFi moves into the mainstream, Mastercard, BlackRock, and Franklin Templeton are turning to the XRP Ledger.As decentralized finance (DeFi) matures and becomes the connective tissue of modern finance, its focus is shifting from experimentation to real-world applications, and inst...

CoinDesk reports:On Monday, Aave service provider released a incident report quantifying the protocol’s exposure to the Kelp DAO rsETH bridge vulnerability on April 18, outlining two default scenarios ranging from $123.7 million to $230.1 million, and recommending an immediate pause of the protocol’...

CoinDesk reports:Although Ripple’s XRP has just launched on Solana with the trading symbol wXRP, the cross-border applications may slow down according to the latest statement from Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer. “Joel Katz” Ripple’s CTO Schwartz has been running test code on multiple blockchains ...

According to Citigroup, if the disruption to navigation in the Strait of Hormuz lasts for a month, oil prices could rise to $110 per barrel, with estimated global crude and refined product inventory losses of 1.3 billion barrels. Even with a ceasefire extension agreement signed this week and gradual...

Key Insights:Analysts see further upside for MSTR stock with a target of $200, $300, and even a higher prediction of $663.Michael Saylor MicroStrategy added 34,164 BTC, bringing total holdings to 815,061 BTC.With this, the firm has overtaken BlackRock in terms of total BTC holdings.Amid the global m...

ME News reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), Hugging Face announced that its Transformers library now supports the SAM-3 Lite-Text model. Trained via knowledge distillation, the model replaces the heavy text encoder in the original SAM-3 with a compact MobileCLIP student model, reducing the parameter c...

CoinDesk reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), Hugging Face announced that its Transformers library now supports the SAM-3 Lite-Text model. Trained via knowledge distillation, the model replaces the heavy text encoder in the original SAM-3 with a compact MobileCLIP student model, reducing the parameter ...

Digital asset investment products pulled in strong capital last week, signaling a decisive shift in market sentiment as macro tensions eased and crypto prices regained momentum. Investors moved quickly to re-enter risk assets, encouraged by geopolitical stability and a technical breakout in Bitcoin....

Anthropic is deepening its relationship with Amazon through a deal that commits the AI startup to spend more than $100 billion on AWS technologies over the next decade, while Amazon plans to invest $5 billion immediately and up to another $20 billion tied to commercial milestones. The agreement give...

Following the security breach on KelpDAO’s rsETH bridge, Aave has released a comprehensive status update. The protocol details the technical background of the incident, its impact on Aave, and potential damage scenarios in the new report.According to the statement, service providers connected to the...