Revenue has fallen four quarters running while open interest hit a record high. The gap is a fee-sharing program that hands half the platform's volume to outside builders.

The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s mining difficulty with only a tiny share of hashpower, leaving blocks hours apart while both chains still accept the same transactions.

BTCPay told users running LND to update immediately or take servers offline after attackers stole credentials that can control Lightning wallets and move funds.

A new XRPL amendment proposal would let institutions encrypt token balances and transfer amounts while still giving issuers, auditors and regulators selective access.

If a minority chain appears this weekend, buyers could replay signed fork-coin sales on bitcoin itself, making doing nothing the safest move until the chains can be separated.

Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet's own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after quantum computers can forge its signatures. It runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.

The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale.

Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.

A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 level it reached on this week's soft inflation print.

Japan's Nikkei had its worst day since March. Ether is still the only major holding a gain on the week, barely.

An early miner says Strategy's stock mNAV has fallen to 0.72, near the level that marked the last cycle's turn, and that bitcoin historically bottoms about six months after that signal.

Strategy's common stock hit a multi-year low, while its STRC preferred stock plunged to a new record low.

The token fell from nearly $3 to about $0.50 in hours, wiping out close to $3 billion in market value, with no exploit or announcement to explain it. Onchain investigator ZachXBT warned in April that M's price had been propped up by insiders.

Japan's financial regulator cleared the U.S. dollar-backed token as a new category of payment instrument, letting SBI VC Trade offer it to institutions and retail. RLUSD remains small, at about $1.7 billion.

The move came as bitcoin briefly rose over $70,000 in U.S. morning hours, reversing Thursday's sharp declines ahead of the weekend.

Ripple and XRPL developers say recent mainnet upgrades and upcoming features position the XRP Ledger as a hub for regulated, real-world finance.

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The company's pivot to building an ether treasury sparked a 3,000% rally, attracting attention from high-risk investors.

Standard Chartered predicted XRP could rise to $8 by 2026 in an April note, supported by improved U.S. regulatory clarity and institutional interest.

The market's focus is now on whether bitcoin can maintain its support levels into the new year, as the failed rally may signal a need for a deeper market reset.

The market remains technical, with DOGE and SHIB's movements reflecting broader risk sentiment and liquidity conditions.

XRP remains in a tight trading range, with sellers defending the $1.90 resistance and buyers supporting the $1.86 level, indicating a potential decisive move soon.

The biggest single-day exit came from BlackRock’s IBIT, which saw $91.37 million leave the fund. Grayscale’s GBTC followed with a $24.62 million outflow.

XRP remains in a $1.85–$1.91 range, with strong selling near $1.90 and consistent bids near $1.86, suggesting a potential decisive break ahead.

Such sudden price changes are often due to thin liquidity and can be exacerbated by fewer active traders during quieter hours.

The movement follows inflows into wallets tied to Trump Media, implying the company is actively managing its bitcoin position rather than leaving it static.

Quantum computing is not currently an existential threat to Bitcoin, but as capital becomes more institutional and long-term, even distant risks require clearer answers.

Dogecoin rebounding sharply from a heavy-volume flush while Shiba Inu broke key support before staging an aggressive intraday reversal.

The market remains bearish with XRP struggling to break above the $2.23–$2.24 resistance zone.

Analysts caution that the market remains vulnerable to further declines, with large token movements and macroeconomic factors contributing to uncertainty.