Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

ChainCatcher report: Jerry, Product Director of Mentis, has confirmed his attendance at the "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" forum, taking place in Hong Kong on April 19, where he will participate in a panel discussion. Organized by ChainCatcher in collaboration with RootData, thi...

Article by ChandlerZ, Foresight NewsIn the first quarter of 2026, the total value locked (TVL) across the entire DeFi market declined by 16%. The collective performance of L1 tokens was even more concerning: according to 1kx data, despite accounting for 90% of the crypto market’s total market capita...

ME News reports that on April 17 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, Hugging Face now supports visualization of user-uploaded Pi traces. As shown in the screenshot, after uploading, users can directly view the files, tool calls, and execution results of a single agent session on the page, e...

On 15 April 2026, the CLARITY Act disappeared from the daily session calendar of the US Senate. As a result, the market structure bill still lacks a markup date in the Senate Banking Committee. The compromise formula on the contested stablecoin yield question, however, has been in place since March....

ME News reports that, on April 16 (UTC+8), UBS released a research report stating that, under its baseline scenario, a final diplomatic resolution to the Middle East conflict would allow investors to refocus on solid economic and earnings fundamentals. The bank maintained that, even amid the escalat...

Bitcoin steadies near $75K as altcoins deliver explosive gainsAltcoin rally intensifies with triple digit surges across smaller tokensMarket activity shifts as traders rotate capital into high growth assetsThe cryptocurrency market showed a mixed yet active structure this week as Bitcoin stabilized ...

BlockBeats news, on April 17, according to CoinDesk, the Ethereum network processed 200.4 million transactions in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing 200 million transactions in a single quarter for the first time—a 43% increase from 145 million transactions in the fourth quarter of 2025, reflecti...

ChainThink reports, according to The Defiant, MDC, the digital commodities subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. in Japan, has deployed its tokenized gold, silver, and platinum assets, Zipangcoin (ZPG), to OP Mainnet.This is the first time ZPG has been launched on a public blockchain since its release in 2022,...

Ethereum processed 200 million base layer transactions in the first quarter of 2026, signaling a multi-year U-shaped recovery in network activity. Despite the surge in usage, the price of ETH remains over 50% below its peak of nearly $5,000 in August 2025. Growth in base layer transaction volume was...

ChainCatcher report, according to CoinDesk, the Ethereum network processed 200.4 million transactions in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing 200 million in a single quarter for the first time—a 43% increase from 145 million in the fourth quarter of 2025—showing a clear U-shaped recovery curve. Qua...

Ethereum price, just like any other major alt, is hovering and holding the bullish prediction. The network also reminds us that ETH has never once stopped producing blocks. At BUIDL Asia 2026, Ethereum Foundation researcher Luca Zanolini confirmed a roadmap target to reduce transaction finality to u...

ME News reports that on April 17 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, LangSmith, the observability tool from LangChain, an AI agent development platform, has released two updates: an evaluator template library and reusable evaluators. Assessing whether an AI agent is “usable” is one of th...

Bitcoin Breaks $75,000 Resistance Amid Macro ShiftsThe cryptocurrency market reached a significant psychological and technical milestone today, April 17, 2026. For the first time in over ten weeks (73 days), Bitcoin secured a daily candle close above the $75,000 level. This move signals a potential ...

According to Greeks.live, on April 17, 22,000 BTC options expired with a Put Call Ratio of 1.05, a maximum pain point at $72,000, and a notional value of $1.65 billion; 100,000 ETH options expired with a Put Call Ratio of 0.95, a maximum pain point at $2,250, and a notional value of $460 million. Th...

ChainCatcher report: In response to the recent attack on the “ListaDAOLiquidStakingVault” contract, ListaDAO has issued an official statement clarifying that the compromised contract was not deployed by ListaDAO, but rather by an unverified third party using a similar name to create a counterfeit co...