Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

BlockBeats report: On April 17, Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) announced the launch of its stablecoin issuance and redemption services. Businesses and high-net-worth clients can now directly exchange between fiat currency and stablecoins via their SGB accounts, enabling 24/7 instant settlement without re...

Key InsightsDogecoin price had a clear fake-out yesterday as it attempted to break out of a descending triangle on the 12-hour chart.Whale Alert has tracked the movement of 2.56B DOGE tokens, worth $295M, from Robinhood into private wallets.Spot Dogecoin ETFs launched back in November 2025, but thei...

ME News reports that on April 17 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, multiple users discovered that the model selection menu on xAI’s official website, Grok.com, now includes a “Grok 4.3 (beta)” option labeled as “Early Access.” Previously, the primary version on xAI’s web platform was the ...

ChainCatcher reports that CoinGecko’s Q1 2026 Cryptocurrency Industry Report reveals that the crypto market shifted from a sharp correction into a prolonged “winter,” with total market capitalization declining 20.4% ($622 billion) to $2.4 trillion by the end of Q1 2026, a roughly 45% drop from its p...

ChainCatcher report: Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) has launched a stablecoin minting and redemption service, enabling enterprises and high-net-worth clients to directly convert between fiat currency and stablecoins via their SGB accounts, achieving 24/7 instant settlement without relying on traditional ...

The RHODL ratio, by Glassnode, a key on-chain metric tracking the balance between long-term and short-term bitcoin BTC$75,742.21 holders, is flashing signals more consistent with a market bottom than a cycle top, after hitting a ratio of 4.5.Currently sitting at its third highest level on record, th...

ME News reports that on April 17 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, a study by OpenAI on over 900 occupations reveals that the disruption AI may cause in the labor market may not be as tragic as commonly perceived. The report indicates that although jobs such as data entry, bookkeeping, an...

The Ethereum [ETH] community is divided.On one side, large players are stepping in… but mostly in the Spot market, not Futures. On the other, short-term traders continue to push and pull prices.The market looks active, but does the community actually believe in it?ADSpot market whale-heavy, retail d...

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has shared a detailed and balanced take on Zcash, acknowledging its legacy while pointing out the challenges it faces today.Speaking in a recent discussion highlighted by The Rollup, Hoskinson described Zcash as one of the “OGs of OGs” in crypto, crediting it for pi...

ME News reports that on April 17 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, Firecrawl has officially open-sourced its web agent framework, Web Agent, designed to help developers build AI agents capable of autonomously executing closed-loop tasks of “search-crawl-interact.” Built upon Firecrawl’s e...

Huo Xing Finance reports that on April 17, according to market data, as Bitcoin rose again above $75,000, currently trading at $75,874, Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings have turned profitable, with current unrealized gains of approximately $2.32 billion. As of April 12, 2026, Strategy holds a total of 78...

According to ME News, on April 17 (UTC+8), monitoring by Beating revealed that PrismML has released the Ternary Bonsai series of language models, utilizing a 1.58-bit (ternary weights) technique to reduce GPU memory usage to one-ninth that of a 16-bit model while maintaining high performance. The se...

Huo Xing Finance reports that on April 17, according to market data, SIREN surged over 174% from $0.83 to a spike of $2.278, then plummeted 88%, currently trading at $0.271. According to Coinglass data, SIREN saw $7.14 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours, including $3.75 million in long p...

Bitcoin’s quantum risk may show up in derivatives markets well before any compromised coins move on-chain, according to FalconX co-head of markets Joshua Lim, who used an X thread on April 16 to map out what he sees as the most tradable signals around a potential “q-day” event.Lim’s core argument is...

Since the passing of the MiCA regulation, the EU crypto market has experienced a significant rise in compliant euro stablecoins. As a result, compliant stablecoins have seen a surge in their market share as most non-compliant ones exited. The MiCA-compliant stablecoin market cap exceeded $79 billion...