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💸 Analysts at Standard Chartered stated that Bitcoin will continue to rise against the backdrop of threats to the independence of the Federal Reserve of the United States. If pressure persists, BTC could become a decentralized hedge against instability in traditional finance.

🕯 The report emphasizes:

1️⃣ BTC protects against risks in the private sector (for example, bank bankruptcies),

Lookonchain analysts recorded a large operation from the investment company Galaxy Digital: over the past two weeks, the firm transferred 65,600 ETH (~$105.5 million) to Binance and withdrew 752,240 SOL (~$98.3 million).

📉 At the time of exchange:

💎 Ethereum: $1624 (−1.4% over 24 hours, −1.2% over the week)
🧂 Solana: $139.86 (−0.5% over 24 hours, +6.1% over the week)

📊 Fundamentally, Solana is also strengthening its position:

On April 14, the realized capitalization of digital gold set a new historical maximum at $872.2 billion. CryptoQuant saw this as a bullish signal.
According to analysts, an increasing number of investors are holding the first cryptocurrency amid a continuing influx of capital.
The metric represents the total value of all bitcoins in circulation, based on the price at which each coin was last moved on the blockchain.

💸 The Japanese investment company Metaplanet continues to accumulate bitcoins: on April 21, the firm announced the purchase of another 330 BTC for over $28.3 million.

📌 The transaction was conducted through a subsidiary — Metaplanet Capital Limited. The new batch of coins was purchased at an average price of about $85,880 per BTC.

💰 This is already the second large purchase in April: earlier, the company acquired 319 BTC for $26.3 million. In total, taking into account the latest transaction, Metaplanet now holds 855 BTC, which strengthens its status as one of the largest public bitcoin holders in Asia.

📈 Ben Zhou, CEO of the Bybit cryptocurrency exchange, confirmed that the hack on February 21, carried out by the Lazarus hacker group (North Korea), was the largest single theft in the history of the cryptocurrency market.

🔹 A total of 500,000 ETH worth about $1.4 billion was withdrawn from the exchange. Of this:

🔴 27.59% of the funds are considered lost
🔴 68.57% are still being tracked on the blockchain