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Crypto whales have continued to load up on the TRUMP memecoin ahead of the luncheon at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida this month, which offers entry to the largest holders.

One whale withdrew about 105,754 TRUMP from Binance on Saturday to add to its stash of 1.13 million TRUMP, worth about $3.2 million, according to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain said in an X post on Sunday.

Two days earlier, another whale withdrew 850,488 Trump from the crypto exchange Bybit.

On Monday, another holder increased their TRUMP stash to more than 368,000 tokens after withdrawing from BitMart, and a fourth whale boosted their stash to over one million tokens after withdrawing from Bybit, according to blockchain explorer Solscan.

Critics have accused Trump of using his position as US president for personal financial gain through the scheme. Democratic lawmakers have introduced bills to limit political influence and profits from memecoins.

Source: Lookonchain

The top 297 token holders are invited to a luncheon on April 25 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. The event has billed the president as the keynote speaker and offered a private reception for the top 29 holders, despite the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., being the same day.

TRUMP drops 33% since March announcement

Trump’s announcement of the luncheon in March saw TRUMP spike more than 50% to a peak of $4.35. However, the memecoin has since dropped by over 33% to trade at $2.80 as of Monday, according to CoinGecko.

Dominick John, an analyst at Zeus Research, told Cointelegraph the price is likely being pushed lower as retail-driven market selling overwhelms already thin liquidity, forcing continuous repricing.

“At the same time, insider supply overhang means even small distributions from concentrated wallets can absorb whale bids, limiting any meaningful upside follow-through,” he added.

Crypto data analytics platform CoinCarp lists 642,882 TRUMP holders, with over 91% of the supply concentrated among the top 10 wallets and over 97% among the top 100 wallets.

Token spiked after the crypto gala announcement last year

Trump held his first “crypto gala” dinner in May 2025, a few months after his Jan. 20 inauguration as US president, which drew concern from critics who accused him of using his position for personal financial gain.

The token peaked at $15.59 about a month before the event, but fell as the event drew closer, gradually falling to $8.90 a month after the event.

John said this time around, the token could stage a recovery, with the 2026 midterms acting as a potential sentiment multiplier and other positive announcements. Catalysts and early signs of institutional accumulation could help establish a floor and trigger reflexive upside, he said.

“One catalyst to watch is the potential for event-driven launches like the Trump Billionaire Game, which could generate the social buzz needed to drive short-term upside momentum,” John added. 

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South Korea’s central bank says crypto exchanges should have their own “circuit breakers” that halt trading to prevent a repeat of the market fallout after Bithumb mistakenly sent more than $40 billion in Bitcoin to its customers in February.

The Bank of Korea said in a payments report on Monday that lawmakers should consider introducing mechanisms similar to the Korea Exchange’s trading curbs to suspend trading if crypto prices suddenly fluctuate.

“Currently, the virtual asset industry lacks internal control mechanisms and faces lower regulatory intensity compared to established financial institutions,” the bank said.

“Consequently, as similar incidents could occur at other virtual asset exchanges, it is necessary to strengthen relevant regulations to prevent them in advance,” the report added.

It comes as South Korean lawmakers are currently looking to pass laws to further regulate crypto, which the Bank of Korea said should include its suggested measures “to enhance the safety and transparency of virtual asset exchange operations.”

In early February, Bithumb erroneously sent customers 620,000 Bitcoin (BTC), worth around $42 billion at the time, instead of 620,000 Korean won, worth $400.

The price of Bitcoin on Bithumb fell as users rushed to sell, causing others to panic-sell and further driving down its price, according to the bank’s report.

A translated graph showing the price of Bitcoin on Bithumb (blue line) compared to Upbit (yellow line) after Bithumb’s erroneous Bitcoin transactions. Source: Bank of Korea

Bithumb halted trading and reversed its Bitcoin sends within minutes, but the exchange said that 1,788 BTC, worth around $125 million, had been sold before it could act, and it covered the shortfall using company reserves.

The Bank of Korea suggested that crypto exchanges should be required to have systems capable of detecting and preventing “erroneous payments caused by human error.”

It added that exchanges should also have systems to automatically verify a platform’s internal assets compared to those on the blockchain to flag discrepancies.

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Financial institutions have “accelerated” their participation in crypto markets this year, while retail investors have pulled out, said Exodus CEO JP Richardson on Sunday. 

“This might be the first cycle in crypto history where institutions are in a bull market, and retail doesn’t even know it,” the crypto executive said. 

Richardson cited a few examples, such as the stablecoin market capitalization all-time high this year, Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin (BTC) ETF launch, Schwab starting a waitlist for spot Bitcoin trading, Franklin Templeton announcing a crypto division and Fannie Mae accepting Bitcoin-backed mortgages.

“In 2018 and 2022, institutions pulled out with retail. This time, they accelerated,” he said.

This shift could signal that crypto has evolved from volatile, retail-driven hype cycles to a more mature, institution-led market with steadier accumulation, deeper liquidity and reduced reliance on emotional spikes or panic selling. 

Cost of living crisis keeping retail away

MN Fund founder and crypto YouTuber Michaël van de Poppe echoed the sentiment in an X post on Sunday, stating, “It’s super clear that retail isn’t interested in crypto.”

“Almost everyone has a hard time paying their bills on a monthly basis,” he added, referring to the escalating cost-of-living crisis and inflationary pressures. 

“That’s why this cycle won’t be the retail cycle. It’s the institutional cycle and will take longer.”

CryptoQuant analyst “Darkfost” noted that retail activity hit a nine-year low earlier this month, reporting that inflows from small accounts with less than 1 BTC reached a record low on Binance.

“Retail investors are clearly absent from the market,” he said. 

The analyst added that some retail investors may have recently left the crypto market to move into equities and commodities, which have also delivered strong performances.

Retail trading activity on Binance has dried up. Source: Darkfost

Near-term sentiment remains fragile

CoinEx exchange chief analyst Jeff Ko told Cointelegraph on Monday that near-term sentiment “remains fragile and heavily macro-driven, especially by oil, the dollar, and inflation expectations.” 

“At this stage, the move still looks more like a macro risk premium overwhelming the near-term bid than a genuine deterioration in crypto appetite.” 

He said he was more confident over the medium term, adding, “I do not expect oil prices to remain elevated given the underlying supply-demand fundamentals.”

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Garrett Dutton, an American musician better known as “G. Love,” said he lost $420,000 worth of Bitcoin after installing a malicious app impersonating the self-custody crypto app Ledger Live from Apple’s App Store and entering his seed phrase.

“I had a really tough day,” Dutton told his 67,500 followers in a post on X on Saturday, adding that he lost his 5.9 Bitcoin (BTC) stash “in an instant” after spending about 10 years accumulating the coins to secure his retirement.

Source: Garrett Dutton

In a follow-up post, crypto sleuth ZachXBT said that Dutton’s Bitcoin has been sent to deposit addresses linked to the crypto exchange KuCoin across nine transactions. KuCoin replied to the post with a statement typically addressed to customers.

The incident highlights a continued problem that bad actors have posed in the crypto industry. On Tuesday, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that Americans lost over $11 billion from crypto-related incidents in 2025, up from the $9 billion recorded the previous year.

Dutton said he was tricked into sharing his seed phrase after downloading the malicious software on his new Apple MacBook Neo but didn’t share which link he used.

“I been in the crypto circus since 2017. Today they caught me off guard. It was my own damn fault for not being more diligent. But let it serve as a warning. There's so many scams,” he added.

Cointelegraph was unable to find the fake Ledger app on Apple's App Store at the time of writing. Cointelegraph reached out to Apple for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

Fake Ledger apps have appeared on Microsoft’s store

Scammers have been adopting this fake Ledger app strategy since at least 2023.

That year, almost $600,000 worth of Bitcoin was stolen from several users who downloaded a fake Ledger Live application from Microsoft’s app store.

Microsoft admitted that the malicious app had bypassed its review process and took it down shortly after.

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Bitcoin mining runs the risk of becoming more centralized as time goes on, while artificial intelligence could be moving in the opposite direction, according to Galaxy Research head Alex Thorn.

Thorn said that while Bitcoin mining began decentralized, with users mining Bitcoin on their personal computers, it has since become far more centralized, requiring ASIC miners or industrial-scale farms. 

“AI may follow the opposite path,” said Galaxy’s research head Alex Thorn on Sunday, explaining that AI started centralized in giant hosted clusters, but as frontier models experience “data scarcity, context limits, and memory bottlenecks, open-source models could close the gap.” 

“If local models keep getting smaller, cheaper, and more efficient, AI may become increasingly personal and on-device.”

The divergence strikes at the heart of crypto’s core promise: decentralization. If Bitcoin mining were to continue down a path of centralization, it could begin to raise concerns about the network’s long-term resilience.

AI may move opposite to BTC mining and become more decentralized over time. Source: Alex Thorn

Edge AI market to grow 300% in the next eight years

Edge AI computing refers to the deployment and running of AI models directly on local devices or “at the edge” of the network, rather than sending all data to centralized cloud servers or massive data centers for processing.

The global AI edge market is anticipated to grow from about $25 billion in 2025 to a projected $119 billion by 2033, according to Grand View Research.

The edge market is experiencing significant growth driven by the “rapid expansion of IoT (Internet of Things) and connected devices,” stated GVR. 

This increases the demand for real-time and low-latency data processing, growing the adoption of AI-enabled automation across industries, and “rising focus on data privacy and localized intelligence at the network edge,” GVR added.

Edge AI market is predicted to surge by 300% by 2033. Source:  Grand View Research

Bitcoin mining is decentralizing geographically 

Crypto exchange KuCoin reported on Friday that Bitcoin mining has become increasingly unviable in the United States as the cost to mine a single BTC has surpassed $100,000 in some regions due to surging energy costs. 

This is resulting in a geographic migration with hash rate actively moving toward the “Global South,” with Paraguay and Ethiopia emerging as the leading destinations due to surplus hydroelectric power.

This could help to decentralize mining, at least from a geographical perspective.

“This decentralization of mining power across different continents enhances the security of the network by making it less vulnerable to any single country’s political or environmental shocks,” it stated.

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Aave Labs, the core development team behind the Aave protocol, has been granted $25 million in stablecoins, alongside a token allocation of 75,000 AAVE by its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) as part of the “Aave Will Win” framework. 

The vote passed Saturday with nearly 75% in favor. The stablecoin allocation will be paid in installments over 12 months, while the 75,000 AAVE tokens will vest linearly over four years, according to the governance dashboard. 

The Aave Will Win framework aims to accelerate the protocol’s growth, with the DAO funding development and Aave Labs focusing on building and scaling. The stablecoins directly fund Aave Labs' operations, while the token allocation serves as an incentive for developers to help grow the protocol.

Other elements of the framework, including the growth and development grants tied to specific product launches and milestones, will have separate governance proposals. 

Aave is one of the largest DeFi protocols in the industry, with its total value locked exceeding $25 billion, DeFiLlama data shows. The framework marks a major shift in funding allocation. 

The vote passed on Saturday with nearly 75% in favor. Source: Aave

Most important proposal in protocol’s history, founder says 

Following the vote, Aave founder Stani Kulechov said in an X post Saturday that Aave Will Win is the “most important proposal in Aave's history” and it “just passed with a landslide.” 

“If you own AAVE, you own not just the economic rights of the protocol, but the brand, the users, and the integrations, he added. “This is the direction we are committing to, a multi-year journey. The foundation is set. Now it's time to build. Aave will win.”

Source: Stani Kulechov

Under the framework, which passed on April 5, Aave Labs would shift to a DAO-funded operating model, with revenue generated by Aave products, such as Aave Pro, flowing to the DAO treasury rather than being retained by Aave Labs. 

The proposal also sought ratification of Aave V4 as the protocol’s long-term technical foundation and outlined plans for a new foundation to steward the Aave brand. Aave Labs would also focus only on Aave-related products, with the goal of streamlining operations, accelerating development and building more competitive offerings. 

“Fintechs are entering DeFi, institutions are coming on-chain, and regulatory clarity is emerging in certain markets that allows us to go directly to consumers,” Aave Labs said.

“The protocols that win the next decade will be those that move fast, build great tools and products and capture new markets before competitors,” it added.

Proposals met with friction before 

Some community members have previously raised concerns about the size of the funding package and the inclusion of 75,000 AAVE tokens, which carry voting power, and the definition of what counts as revenue. 

The Aave Will Win framework passed a temperature check on March 1, and soon after, a major governance delegate, the Aave Chan Initiative, announced it would wind down its involvement with the DAO due to concerns about governance standards and voting dynamics during the proposal process.

In January, another proposal to transfer control of Aave’s brand assets and intellectual property to its DAO failed, prompting debate within the Aave community over the protocol’s long-term direction and governance structure.

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Evropská centrální banka podpořila plán Evropské komise na přenos dohledu nad hlavními kryptoměnovými společnostmi pod regulátor finančních trhů EU.

ECB uvedla v názoru publikovaném v pátek, že plně podporuje přenos dohledu nad systémově důležitými přeshraničními kapitálovými tržními společnostmi, jako jsou velké obchodní platformy a kryptoměnové společnosti, pod Evropský úřad pro cenné papíry a trhy (ESMA).

Centrální banka uvedla, že návrhy "představují ambiciózní krok směrem k hlubší integraci kapitálových trhů a dohledu nad finančními trhy v rámci Unie."

Výzkumníci z Kalifornské univerzity zjistili, že někteří třetí strany AI velké jazykové modely (LLM) mohou představovat bezpečnostní zranitelnosti, které mohou vést k krádeži kryptoměn.

Studie měřící zlovolné prostřednické útoky na dodavatelský řetězec LLM, publikovaná ve čtvrtek výzkumníky, odhalila čtyři vektory útoku, včetně injekce zlovolného kódu a extrakce přihlašovacích údajů.

„26 LLM routerů tajně injektuje zlovolné volání nástrojů a krade přihlašovací údaje,“ řekl spoluautor studie Chaofan Shou na X.

Bitcoin fell as low as $70,623 on Sunday after the US announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz following failed peace talks with Iran.

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) initially fell 1.9% to $71,686 after US President Donald Trump confirmed the blockade in a post to Truth Social on Sunday, adding that peace talks collapsed because Iran refused to end its nuclear program — the only issue that “really mattered.”

Bitcoin dipped further to $70,623 as the US futures markets opened late on Sunday, with oil shooting up 9.5% to $105 per barrel within half an hour of the market open, with Bitcoin down 2.7% over the day at the time of writing. 

The US-Iran dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz — which handles one-fifth of global oil trade — has caused significant disruption in the financial markets over the past six weeks, particularly in oil markets, which have experienced their highest volatility since Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022.

Oil’s change in price over the last month. Source: TradingView

In addition to the ceasefire announced on Tuesday, Iran wanted the US to pay for war reparations and to unfreeze blocked Iranian financial assets. 

Trump didn’t directly address those requests in the Truth Social post, instead blaming the fallout on Iran’s reluctance to end its nuclear weapons program.

He also labeled Iran’s use of mines on the waterway and demands for tolls as “world extortion,” ordering the US Navy to block any vessels that paid Iran and to destroy the mines.

Bitcoin up since the US-Iran war began

Despite the conflict, Bitcoin has risen about 7.4% to $71,194 since the US-Iran conflict started on Feb. 28, when a US airstrike killed Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Bitcoin has still managed to outperform the S&P 500 and gold since the US-Iran war started, though, clawing back some lost ground from October when Bitcoin hit a high of $126,080.

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Now almost a week old, the Bitcoin (BTC) recovery is “fragile” as the crypto market faces geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds from the ongoing war in the Middle East, according to Nic Puckrin, a crypto market analyst and founder of the CoinBureau media outlet.

“Even if the war ends now, its repercussions will likely be the story of 2026, and certainly the dominant narrative for Q2. I don’t expect to see a rate cut until late Q3 or Q4, if at all,” Puckrin told Cointelegraph. He said that he sees: 

“For a push toward $90,000, we would need to see a combination of factors: a ceasefire that results in the end of geopolitical tensions, a sustained drop in oil prices toward $80, and ideally also softer-than-expected economic data that calms stagflation fears.”

If Bitcoin closes the week above $71,000, it could signal continued upside for BTC, with resistance forming around the $74,000 level, he said. At last look, it was trading at about $71,276, according to TradingView data.

BTC faces resistance at the $74,000 level and continues to trade below its 200-day exponential moving average. Source: TradingView

The ongoing conflict has caused an inflationary spike, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Price Index report, published on Friday, chilling hopes of further interest rate cuts in 2026. Rate cuts or credit easing tend to stimulate asset prices.

Bitcoin stumbles as Iran negotiations fail and US President threatens major escalation

Bitcoin surged by about 5.8% beginning on April 6, reaching above $73,000, before retracing to about $71,000 on April 11, following news of failed negotiations between the US and Iran, according to the Kobeissi Letter.

“Peace talks appear to have come to a screeching halt,” Kobeissi Letter said, adding, “the outcome of talks was arguably the worst-case scenario.”

Following the failed peace talks, US President Donald Trump said he directed the US military to form a naval blockade around the Strait of Hormuz.

“I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas,” Trump said on Saturday.

Source: Donald Trump

Members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which decides interest rate policy in the US, remain divided on further interest rate cuts in 2026, citing inflation concerns from the war.

The FOMC did not rule out an interest rate hike in 2026 if inflation remains elevated above its 2% target, according to the meeting minutes from the March FOMC meeting.

According to the CME Fedwatch tool, there is more than a 98% probability of the FOMC maintaining the current target rate range of 350-375 basis points at the next two meetings, on April 29 and June 17. Chances drop to about 65% for the July 29 meeting, with a 33.6% probability of a 25-bps cut.

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Bitcoin (BTC) klesl o 3 % a obchodoval se pod 71 000 $ na nedělním týdenním uzávěru po selhání jednání o ukončení války mezi USA a Íránem.

Hlavní body:

Bitcoin ztratil své zisky, protože jednání mezi USA a Íránem selhala.

Hormuzský průliv se znovu stává ohniskem, když prezident USA Donald Trump požaduje jeho opětovné otevření.

Snížení ceny BTC trestá pozdní dlouhé pozice.

Cena BTC klesá z obav z války mezi USA a Íránem

Data z TradingView ukázala, že cena BTC klesla pod 71 000 $ po zprávě o náhlém selhání jednání mezi USA a Íránem v Islámábádu, Pákistán.

Justin Sun, zakladatel blockchainové sítě Tron layer-1, kritizoval World Liberty Financial (WLFI), decentralizovanou finanční platformu, kterou spoluzaložili synové prezidenta USA Donalda Trumpa, kvůli dlouhým období zámku pro vládní token platformy.

Sun řekl, že investoval „významný kapitál“ do WLFI jakožto raný investor a také uvedl, že březnový návrh na správu WLFI, který měl určit období zámku tokenů, přičemž více než 76 % hlasovacích tokenů pocházelo z 10 peněženek, postrádal transparentnost. V nedělním příspěvku na X Sun napsal (v překladu):  

Michael Saylor, spoluzakladatel společnosti pro správu bitcoinů (BTC) Strategy, naznačil, že společnost získává více BTC, když cena klesla z místního maxima přes $73,000 dosaženého tento týden.

„Myslete ve velkém,“ řekl Saylor v neděli, když sdílel graf historie nákupů BTC společnosti Strategy, který se stal synonymem pro blížící se akvizice BTC.

Nejnovější nákup BTC společnosti Strategy byl 6. dubna, kdy zakoupila 4,871 mincí za více než $329.8 milionu, čímž zvýšila své celkové držení na 766,970 BTC, oceněných na přibližně $54.5 miliardy podle tržních cen v době publikace, podle společnosti.

Páté halving Bitcoinu je zhruba za dva roky a těžební sektor do něj vstupuje s daleko menšími rezervami na chyby než v roce 2024, protože vyšší náklady, přísnější energetické trhy a jasnější regulace přetvářejí odvětví.

Na posledním halvingu v dubnu 2024 se Bitcoin (BTC) obchodoval za přibližně 63 000 $, když odměny klesly z 6,25 BTC na 3,125 BTC za blok, podle Coingecko. V dubnu 2028, při dalším halvingu, čelí těžaři vyšším vstupním nákladům na polovinu nových mincí, když odměny klesnou na 1,5625 BTC. To vypadá obtížněji ve světě rekordního hashrate, vyšších cen energií a selektivnějšího kapitálu.

Banky a korporace v Evropě se posouvají za fázi průzkumu a nyní aktivně vybírají infrastrukturní partnery na podporu adopce stablecoinů, podle Lamine Brahimiho, spoluzakladatele a managing partnera poskytovatele technologie pro správu kryptoměn Taurus.

Brahimi řekl Cointelegraphu, že před osmnácti měsíci byla většina diskuzí stále vzdělávací, zaměřená na pochopení stablecoinů a jejich rizik. Dnes se firmy s schválením na úrovni představenstva připravují na spuštění. Řekl, že zavedení regulace trhů s kryptoměnovými aktivy (MiCA) urychlilo tuto přechod tím, že nahradilo fragmentované národní pravidla jednotným regulačním rámcem.

Vláda Spojených států musí brzy schválit zákon CLARITY, který má za cíl poskytnout kryptoprůmyslu jasnější regulační dohled, jinak riskuje, že bude čekat téměř další čtyři roky na posun průmyslu vpřed, podle senátorky USA Cynthie Lummis.

„Toto je naše poslední šance schválit zákon o jasnosti nejpozději do roku 2030,“ řekla Lummis v příspěvku na X v pátek.

„Nemůžeme si dovolit vzdát se finanční budoucnosti Ameriky,“ dodala. Komentáře přicházejí v době, kdy začínají účastníci kryptoprůmyslu mít obavy, že šance na schválení tohoto zákona v tomto roce se zužují, přičemž volby do Kongresu v listopadu mohou potenciálně změnit priority Kongresu a zpomalit momentum na velmi očekávané legislativě o kryptoměnách.

Sázkové trhy Polymarket se údajně objevily uvnitř výsledků Google News vedle zavedených zpravodajských vydavatelů, než zmizely.

Mluvčí Googlu uvedl pro The Verge, že vzhled platformy v News byla chyba. „Tato stránka se na chvíli objevila v Google News omylem a již se neobjevuje v News,“ uvedl mluvčí Ned Adriance.

Před odstraněním byly odkazy na Polymarket zobrazeny přímo pod mainstreamovými médii, když uživatelé vyhledávali dotazy související s událostmi. V jednom příkladu uvedeném Futurismem se vyhledávání „bude lodě přecházet úžinou“ vztahující se k Hormuzské úžině vrátilo na trh Polymarket, který předpovídal výsledky ohledně průchodu lodí vedle zpráv od Reuters a The Guardian.

Ether Machine odvolal svůj plánovaný veřejný debut poté, co se firma zaměřující se na ethereum treasury a Dynamix Corporation dohodly na ukončení své fúze, přičemž uvádějí zhoršující se tržní podmínky.

V sobotním příspěvku na X uvedl Ether Machine, že rozhodnutí ukončit dohodu bylo vzájemné a účinné okamžitě. Transakce měla za cíl vzít firmu veřejně prostřednictvím fúze s Nasdaq-listovanou společností pro speciální účely (SPAC), spolu s účastí od The Ether Reserve LLC.

„The Ether Reserve LLC, spolu s určitými dalšími stranami, dnes oznámila, že se vzájemně dohodly na ukončení své dříve oznámené Dohody o obchodní kombinaci, účinné okamžitě, v důsledku nepříznivých tržních podmínek,“ napsala firma.

Bitcoin a Ether nejsou daleko od úrovní, které by mohly signalizovat obrat trendu tento rok, navzdory rostoucímu konsensu v průmyslu, který volá po medvědím trhu, říká makro investor Jordi Visser.

„Pokud budeme obchodovat nad 76 000 $ a zároveň uvidíme Ethereum nad 2 400 $, věřím, že to je začátek pohybu, který bude udržitelný tento rok, protože si nemyslím, že budeme mít recesi,“ řekl Visser v podcastu Anthonyho Pompliana zveřejněném na YouTube v pátek.

Pohyb na 76 000 $ by představoval nárůst o 6,1 % z ceny Bitcoinu (BTC) 71 646 $ v době publikace, podle dat CoinMarketCap. Pohyb Etherea (ETH) na 2 400 $ by představoval nárůst přibližně 8 %.

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