The team hired a market maker to raise their shield to the heavens after the announcement of delisting from Binance and Bybit - some experts believe
Founder of DeFiance Capital: the biggest problem in the crypto markets right now is the collusion between project teams and market makers to manipulate prices, while the entire process lacks transparency.
Chinese authorities have stated that no economic or trade negotiations are currently being held with the US. Moreover, Beijing believes that if Washington truly wants dialogue, it must first cancel all unilateral tariffs. Otherwise, China is ready for a full-scale tariff war.
😅 Trump's guide on how to negotiate:
- The US imposes tariffs on Chinese goods and raises them to 34%; - China does not respond;
- The US raises tariffs to 145%; - China responds with corresponding tariffs;
- Trump states that he wants Xi to call him; - China remains silent;
💵 Bitcoin Surpasses Google in Market Capitalization for the First Time
On April 23, $BTC first surpassed Alphabet, although their market capitalizations are close (~$1.86 trillion).
📔 Now only Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and gold are above it.
The rise of BTC and the decline in value of competitors allowed it to enter the top five leaders.
💡 Despite the minimal gap with Alphabet, the cryptocurrency demonstrates a higher rate of capitalization growth, strengthening its position in the ranking.
According to Swiss bank Sygnum, the 2nd quarter could be the runway from which the altsector will make a good takeoff.
📔 Bankers are confident: against the backdrop of global developments in crypto regulation, a solid foundation is forming for altcoins.
This could become a catalyst for upward movement that is not yet priced in.
🫥 Experts predict that regulatory steps in the U.S., such as the launch of a digital reserve initiated by Trump or the development of stablecoin regulations, will push the market towards broader adoption.
$ETH ☀☕What happened in the crypto market while everyone was asleep — review from April 23
• XRP Ledger Foundation discovered a vulnerability in the code library • Trump Media signed an agreement with Crypto.com as part of the release of 'American' ETFs • The new head of the SEC shared work plans during the inauguration
$BTC ☀☕What happened in the crypto market while everyone was sleeping — overview from April 22
• The founder of Mantra started burning his tokens in response to the sharp drop in the OM rate • The list of applications for launching crypto-ETFs in 2025 on the SEC's desk exceeded 70 • Pro-crypto commissioner Paul Atkins officially became the new head of the SEC
💬 What will be the price of ETH by the end of the year?
Famous analyst Peter Brandt evaluated the prospects of Ethereum and made a forecast for the coin's price by the end of 2025. The expert does not believe in a reversal for ETH and predicts the continuation of the bearish trend that emerged in December 2024.
According to the chart published by Brandt, the price of Ethereum will break the support barrier around $1,000 and drop to $500-700 by December 31, 2025. In this case, ETH will decrease by 57% from the current level.
CryptoQuant specialist under the pseudonym abramchart drew an analogy with previous cycles and suggested that in the spring, the price of Ethereum will fall to the lower boundary of the realized value of the coin in the range of $1,000 to $1,100.
Thus, the breakdown of the barrier at the level of $1,000, as reported by Peter, may occur by the end of May.
Not everyone agreed with Brandt's position. Some believe that this year Ethereum and Bitcoin will rise significantly, and their prices will reach new historical highs. This positive forecast is based on three favorable factors:
1. Donald Trump will maintain customs duties at 20-30%; 2. U.S. authorities will lower the key interest rate; 3. Newly emerged capital will flood into the crypto market and trigger the start of a bull rally.
The founder of the Tron blockchain ($TRX ) Justin Sun has made the cover of Forbes
— His net worth is estimated at $8.5 billion
Sun is now referred to as the "savior" of Donald Trump's cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial (WLF), although he was recently accused of fraud
Justin Sun has become an advisor to WLF, and the project, thanks to him, has already brought Trump a profit of $400 million
👛 Cryptocurrencies that whales are buying the most right now
Data for April shows a 30-day spike in whale activity for cryptocurrencies with a market capitalization of over $500 million.
🚀 GateToken is the leader with a 200% increase. It is followed by USD Coin with a 124.41% increase and UNUS SED LEO with a 100% increase. Chainlink and Toncoin also saw a 100% increase, ranking 4th and 5th respectively.
This indicates increased activity from major stakeholders, which is often interpreted as a trend towards accumulation.
🏆 Interestingly, there are two Layer-2 blockchain projects in the top five, with USDC on Polygon and LINK on Optimism.
This may indicate a growing institutional interest in Layer-2 solutions for faster and cheaper transactions.
⚡️⚡️⚡️The Trump Administration is exploring various budget-neutral strategies for purchasing $BTC in reserves, including the use of tariff revenues, said Bo Hines, Trump's chief cryptocurrency advisor, in an interview with Anthony Pompliano.
🤑 Ethereum has introduced a simplified development plan focusing on scalability
The Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation emphasized that the network will continue to issue tokens at the first level, support the development of RWA and stablecoins, and strengthen communication and network security.
✅ Among the long-term goals:
⏺ integration of AI agents; ⏺ implementation of autonomous machines; ⏺ ensuring privacy in interactions between people; ⏺ creation of an open-source system.
Co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin hinted that updates may now occur faster due to developers' readiness to accelerate the pace of hard fork implementations.
🔠 He also spoke about a key issue with Ethereum-based applications — the weakly expressed social value. According to Buterin, key decisions are made at the application level that determine what benefits they will bring to the community.
Developers must understand and embrace the values of decentralization and Ethereum's overall contribution to the crypto industry. $ETH
📌 Founder of Cardano: "BTC will surpass $250,000 this year, and the 'Magnificent Seven' will start using stablecoins"
The world is transitioning from a system of international rules to an era of great power conflicts. Due to the weakening role of international treaties, cryptocurrency is becoming the only tool for globalization.
In the USA, laws on stablecoins and digital assets are being prepared for adoption. After that, the largest tech companies (the 'Magnificent Seven' — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) will start using stablecoins:
1. to pay salaries to employees in different countries; 2. for fast and cheap microtransactions on their platforms.
The wealth of the world's richest people increased by $304 billion yesterday, according to Bloomberg. This is the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Such a jump occurred amid a rapid rise in stock markets following Donald Trump's announcement of a suspension of tariffs for a number of trading partners.
The S&P 500 index showed the strongest daily gain since 2008 after Trump's announcement, partially offsetting recent declines and adding an average of 3.5% to the wealth of the 500 richest people in the world. Nasdaq also sharply recovered, showing the largest one-day gain in more than 24 years.
The previous record for the daily increase in billionaire wealth was set in March 2022 due to the first rate hike by the Fed in many years.
The leader in daily wealth increase was Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The company's stock rose by 23% yesterday, earning him $36 billion.
🟦Bitget. In the first quarter, Bitget burned 30 million tokens, following a larger burn of 800 million at the end of 2024 — this reduced the total supply by 40%. BGB has also expanded its functionality: it can now be used for fee payments in multi-chain networks and real payments, going beyond the ecosystem.
🟦Cronos. Crypto.com had ambitious plans for the year, including discussions of a potential ETF on CRO. If market sentiment improves, especially due to Crypto.com’s partnership with Trump Media, CRO could quickly rebound and become one of the leading exchange tokens.
🟦$1INCH remains an important aggregator of DEX in the crypto space. The current downturn in the Ethereum ecosystem has significantly impacted aggregators like 1INCH. However, if Ethereum's activity recovers, it could quickly change the trend.
$BTC ⚡️⚡️⚡️Santiment notes strong FOMO in BTC on news of a 90-day pause on US mutual tariffs, and warns that the issue of trade wars is still unresolved
$BTC ☀☕What happened in the crypto market while everyone was asleep — overview from April 9
• The team of the crypto project MELANIA sold tokens worth $30 million • The first ETH based on SUI may appear in the USA • Kaspersky experts warned crypto enthusiasts about a new virus
$BTC 💵 Bitcoin risks falling to $70,000 within the next 10 days
This was stated by network economist Timothy Peterson.
📊 He presented a chart that allows comparison of bearish BTC markets and includes Peterson's metric Lowest Price Forward — a historically accurate tool for determining the long-term bottom price of BTC.
📦 According to the expert, if the price continues to move along the 75th percentile line of the bearish market range, then $70,000 will become the actual bottom.
He noted that the theory aligns with the current LPF data, which last month indicated a 95-percent probability that the BTC/USD pair would maintain the historical highs of 2021 as support.