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Several major investment firms have preemptively downgraded Coinbase and other platforms as a sharp drop in trading activity and falling token prices threaten to derail upcoming first-quarter earnings results.
Barclays took the most direct step, downgrading Coinbase (COIN) and warning that “global crypto trading activity has declined to a level not seen since the end of 2023.” The bank added that “absent a resurgence in near-term crypto trading activity, we see profitability under pressure at Coinbase.”
The slowdown is visible in the data. Coinbase’s March trading volume marked “the lowest volume month since September 2024,” Barclays wrote, with April showing “no signs of improvement.” For the first quarter, the bank estimates volumes fell roughly 30% from the prior quarter.
Coinbase and other exchanges charge fees on each transaction they facilitate, meaning lower volumes will lead to less revenue.
The mechanics are straightforward. When markets turn quiet, many traders step back. A retail user who once traded weekly during a rally may stop altogether when prices flatten. Multiply that behavior across millions of accounts, and exchange volumes drop quickly.
That matters because transaction fees remain the main revenue driver for most crypto platforms. Barclays underscored this risk, saying its forecast for Coinbase’s adjusted EBITDA is about 24% below the Street, driven largely by weaker spot trading and retail activity.
Crypto prices have pulled back in the first quarter, with the average price of major tokens falling sharply quarter-over-quarter. Bitcoin lost over 22% of its value in the first quarter of this year, while ether was down 29%.
Oppenheimer struck a similar tone but kept a more upbeat stance on Coinbase. The firm said it is cutting its forecasts due to softer crypto prices and lower trading activity in the first quarter, driven in part by broader economic uncertainty. It also noted that current Wall Street estimates still do not fully reflect the drop in trading volumes during that period.
Across the industry, analysts are revising models downward to reflect a quieter market.
Oppenheimer cut its Coinbase volume estimate to $211 billion for the quarter, down from $244 billion previously, and now expects total revenue of $1.48 billion, below prior forecasts and consensus.
The reset is not limited to Coinbase. Oppenheimer said that Circle (CRCL) continues to expand the USDC stablecoin network, with stablecoin market cap and USDC transfer volume rising about 1% and 12% quarter over quarter, respectively.
Crypto platform Bullish (BLSH), the owner of CoinDesk, saw “strong on platform activity” tied to volatility in February, though spot volumes still missed expectations. As a result, Rosenblatt downgraded BLSH earlier this week while Compass Point downgraded CRCL — to "neutral" and "sell," respectively.
Even these pockets of strength highlight the broader issue: the core business of crypto trading is slowing.
Efforts to diversify revenue streams are underway but may take time to offset the downturn. Coinbase’s push into becoming what it calls an “everything exchange” includes derivatives, tokenized assets and new markets. Barclays was skeptical, writing that the strategy is “likely to take a long time to pay off” and that it sees “little ‘right to win’ in new asset classes like equities.”
Stablecoins, often seen as a steadier revenue stream, also face uncertainty. Barclays pointed to ongoing debate in Washington over regulation, noting that the status of stablecoin rewards “remains in question.” At the same time, Oppenheimer sees near-term support from new use cases, saying “increased prediction market activity could support USDC growth.
Still, those areas remain secondary to trading.
The broader takeaway is that analysts are moving preemptively. With earnings season approaching, firms are lowering estimates now rather than risk being caught off guard by weak results later.
Coinbase reports second-quarter earnings on May 7 and Bullish reports on April 23. Circle has not yet announced a date.
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World Liberty Financialは、CoinDeskの報告に対して「市場が不利に動いた場合、単により多くの担保を供給する」と述べましたが、これはホルダーを安心させるものではありませんでした。
CoinDeskがコメントを求めたとき、WLFIは取引に直接対処したり争ったりしませんでした。代わりに、CoinDeskの報告の後に公開されたソーシャルメディアの投稿を指摘し、そのポジションは意図的で有益であると主張しました。
声明はまた、WLFIが清算を避けるために自社のトークンをより多く担保として追加することを述べており、CoinDeskの報告で提起された懸念を解決するのではなく、むしろ強調しています。

The proposal would move block building away from individual validators, create a revenue entity called FIRE to buy and burn FLR, and reduce annual token inflation to 3%.
External estimates put annual MEV revenues at tens of millions on networks like Arbitrum, upwards of $500 million on Ethereum, and as much as $1 billion on Solana. Flare's three-stage proposal would route the revenue into the protocol's own token economics.
In the first stage, block building moves from individual validators to a designated builder, initially run by the Flare Entity, with a fallback to the current model if the builder is unavailable. In the second, block building moves into Flare Confidential Compute, making the process publicly auditable. The third stage merges the builder and proposer into a single entity, shifting existing validators to a verification role.
The proposal also creates FIRE, the Flare Income Reinvestment Entity to collect revenue from multiple protocol sources including attestation fees, FAsset and Smart Account fees, confidential compute fees and the captured MEV. FIRE's primary mandate is reducing FLR token supply through open-market buybacks and burns.
Several changes would take effect immediately after approval. Annual FLR inflation would drop to 3% from 5%, with the hard cap cut to 3 billion tokens per year from 5 billion. A 20-fold increase to the base gas fee, from 60 gwei to 1,200 gwei, would raise estimated annual FLR burn from roughly 7.5 million to 300 million at current transaction volumes. Even after the increase, a standard Flare transaction would cost a fraction of a cent.
Flare has deep roots in the XRP ecosystem, having distributed its initial token supply through an airdrop to XRP holders in 2023. Its FAssets system, which has produced over 150 million FXRP, is designed to bring smart contract functionality to assets on blockchains like XRPL that do not natively support it.
The network reports over $160 million in total value locked as of late March 2026, with more than 887,000 active addresses.
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Six weeks of war have revealed that bitcoin's floor depends entirely on a handful of mandated buyers absorbing what everyone else is trying to get rid of.
Here is who is on each side and what their behavior tells us about where conviction actually sits.
Three entities account for nearly all of the sustained buying pressure in the bitcoin market right now, and all three are buying because their business model requires it rather than because they've made a discretionary call on price.
Strategy has been the most visible. The company disclosed its latest purchase on April 5, adding 4,871 BTC for approximately $329.9 million at an average of $67,718 per coin.
Total holdings now stand at 766,970 BTC acquired for $58.02 billion at a blended cost basis of $75,644. The position is underwater by roughly 8% at current prices, but Strategy continues buying below its average, pulling the breakeven lower with each purchase.
A CoinDesk report last week showed Strategy's 30-day accumulation holding steady at approximately 44,000 BTC through March.
Strategy's STRC preferred equity product saw hundreds of millions in new inflows around its recent ex-dividend date, providing the capital for continued accumulation. As long as investor appetite for that yield product holds, Strategy keeps buying. If STRC inflows slow, so does the bid.
Meanwhile, U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs absorbed approximately 50,000 BTC in March's 30-day rolling window, the highest monthly pace since October 2025.
But the broader ETF industry data tracked on a weekly basis tells a less bullish story. CoinShares reported only $22 million in U.S. spot ETF inflows last week out of $107 million in total bitcoin ETP flows globally. Meanwhile, most flows came from one country – Swiss-listed products pulled in $157 million alone, accounting for 70% of the global ETP inflow of $224 million.
The institutional channel is open but the flow tis highly concentrated and is slowing on a weekly basis.
Meanwhile, Bitmine Immersion Technologies, while primarily an ether play, represents the same structural dynamic on the ETH side.
The company bought 71,252 ETH last week, its largest single-week purchase since December 2025, and now holds 4.8 million tokens worth roughly $10 billion.
Chairman Tom Lee called the stock market bottom this week while his company was actively spending hundreds of millions accumulating the asset he was publicly talking up.
Whales holding 1,000 to 10,000 BTC have turned from the market's largest buyers into its largest sellers. The one-year change in whale holdings has swung from roughly positive 200,000 BTC at the 2024 bull market peak to negative 188,000 BTC, a nearly 400,000 BTC reversal that CryptoQuant described as one of the most aggressive large-holder distribution cycles on record. The 365-day moving average continues to decline, confirming the selling is structural rather than reactive to any single event.
Mid-tier holders, wallets with 100 to 1,000 BTC, are still technically accumulating but the pace has collapsed more than 60% since October 2025, from nearly 1 million BTC in annual additions to 429,000. They have not flipped to selling yet, but the trajectory points that direction.
Listed bitcoin miners are liquidating treasury. Riot Platforms, MARA Holdings, and Genius Group disclosed selling more than 19,000 BTC from their treasuries in a single week earlier this month.
Some are facing operational strains, with bitcoin near $70,000 and difficulty at all-time highs and rising energy costs. The likes of Core Scientific, Iris Energy, and Hut 8, are pivoting capacity to AI hosting where contracted revenue replaces the volatility of mining income.
Bhutan, the only sovereign nation that built a bitcoin position through its own hydropower-backed mining operation, has sold 70% of its holdings since October 2024, from roughly 13,000 BTC to 3,954. The kingdom moved another 319.7 BTC to exchange-linked wallets this week. Its last mining inflow exceeding $100,000 was recorded over a year ago, suggesting the operation may have stopped entirely. Strategy now buys more bitcoin in a typical week than Bhutan has left.
The gap between what mandated buyers are doing and what the rest of the market feels is historically unusual.
The Fear and Greed Index spent over a month pinned between 8 and 14, the most sustained period in extreme fear territory since the 2022 bottom. It only climbed out of single digits this week after the ceasefire was announced.
Santiment data showed five bearish social media posts for every four bullish ones last weekend, the most negative skew since the war began.
Yet through all of that, ETFs were buying 50,000 BTC a month, Strategy was buying 44,000, and bitcoin never broke below $65,000. The floor held because the mandated buyers were absorbing what the discretionary sellers were dumping. The question is whether that absorption is sustainable.
The ceasefire announcement Tuesday produced the sharpest single-day rally in over a month, with bitcoin surging past $72,000 and $427 million in shorts getting liquidated. Open interest in BTC and ETH perpetuals expanding by $2.1 billion and $2.2 billion respectively in 24 hours, with coin-denominated OI also rising, confirming net new long positions rather than just short liquidations.
The Coinbase Premium turned positive for both bitcoin and ether for the first time since October's all-time high, reversing months of persistent negative readings. If it holds, that is the first sign of genuine U.S. buyer re-engagement since the war began.
But the ceasefire has not changed the structural dynamics underneath. Whether it converts into a trend reversal depends on whether the two-week truce becomes permanent, and whether the institutional flows that held the floor through the war can push through the $73,000 ceiling that has rejected every rally since late February.
In conclusion, a read across all of the data is that bitcoin's buyer base has been narrowing for months.
The number of entities providing sustained buying pressure can be counted on one hand. Strategy, ETFs, and to a lesser extent Morgan Stanley's new channel. Everyone else is either selling, slowing down, or leaving.
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広大な鉱物資源を持ちながら、コンゴ民主共和国は不安定な状況の中で安定した外国投資を引き付けるのに苦労し続けており、ビール大手のハイネケンが長年の存在感を大きく再編する中で、そのブラリマの株式を売却しました。
ハイネケンはブラリマの株式を売却し、コンゴ民主共和国での数十年にわたる直接的な所有権を終わらせました。
モーリシャスに本拠を置くELNAホールディングスへの売却は、特にコンゴ東部における ongoing insecurity and instability の中で行われました。
紛争と武装グループがビジネスオペレーション、物流、供給チェーンを妨害し続け、外国投資に影響を与えています。

Nigeria’s aviation sector is currently confronting a new dilemma as the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency sounds the alarm on its old radar systems, which could hamper the country’s ability to properly monitor its skies
Nigeria's airspace surveillance is at risk due to aging and obsolete radar systems, notably the TRACON system.
The equipment, installed between 2008 and 2010, has exceeded its ten-year operational lifespan and now lacks spare parts and backup.
Budget constraints, including a 30% cut from the Federal Government, hinder necessary system upgrades and maintenance.
Revenue from air navigation fees has become outdated, but attempts to raise charges face resistance, affecting equipment sustainability.
Air traffic controllers, who rely on the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON) system, are expressing increasing concern regarding its reliability.
During a meeting with Mahmoud Kambari, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Farouk Umar, Managing Director of NAMA, described the current condition of the TRACON system as substandard.
Per an assessment by the Punch Newspaper, initiated in 2001, the multibillion-naira Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON) project was designed to provide comprehensive radar surveillance across the country.
For an extended period, this infrastructure functioned as the primary framework for air traffic monitoring, enabling controllers to maintain real-time tracking of aircraft.
While TRACON was formerly regarded as the fundamental component of national air surveillance, its current operational integrity is reported to have significantly deteriorated.
“Our area of urgent attention includes the air traffic surveillance service. The TRACON system has aged. Components are becoming obsolete with no spare parts, and most parts are working without backup. The airspace is at risk of losing surveillance service,” Mr. Umar stated
The Managing Director noted that although the system was implemented between 2008 and 2010, it has since surpassed its projected operational lifespan
“The lifespan of this kind of high-tech equipment is about ten years. Since 2014, the technology has been going out of fashion globally, with many countries migrating to more advanced systems,” he stated
“Without a reliable surveillance system, maintaining safe distances between aircraft becomes more difficult, increasing risks in an already complex aviation environment
Nigeria could also struggle to meet international standards. Providing air navigation services in line with ICAO requirements might become a challenge if urgent steps are not taken,” he added.
In addition to the technical challenges, the managing director revealed that the agency is struggling with budgetary limitations that make upgrading vital systems much more difficult
Speaking about the difficulty of a 30% Federal Government cut from NAMA's internal earnings, Umar maintained that, “This deduction is affecting our ability to meet critical obligations
He also added that. “Revenue challenges persist as well. Since 2008, we have been charging N11,000 per aircraft for each flight
That amount is no longer realistic, yet we face resistance every time we propose an increase. We must sustain our equipment, and that requires funding
Furthermore, he spoke of a lack of manpower and limited training opportunities for staff, which has been detrimental to the system
In response, Mahmoud Kambari, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation, committed the ministry to aligning Nigeria’s aviation sector with international standards.
We will continue to work closely with all agencies to ensure they succeed. Nigeria’s aviation industry must remain a key economic driver and a hub of global connectivity,” Kambari stated.
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African-linked vessels are among the first non-Iranian ships cautiously navigating the Strait of Hormuz after a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, even as traffic through the world’s most important oil chokepoint remains far below normal levels and hundreds of ships remain stranded.
The Gabon-flagged MSG completed the first non-Iranian passage post-ceasefire, while a Botswana-flagged LNG tanker was turned back by Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
African-linked vessels are among the first non-Iranian ships cautiously navigating the Strait of Hormuz after a fragile US-Iran ceasefire.
Iran claims only US- and Israel-linked vessels are restricted and may allow special arrangements for countries like South Africa, while also considering imposing tolls on container ships.
Ship traffic through the strait remains far below normal, with only a handful of vessels passing and more than 600 ships still stranded.
Ship-tracking data shows only a handful of vessels have crossed the strait since the truce, underscoring continued Iranian control of the waterway and growing geopolitical tensions involving Washington, Tehran and global shipping operators.
The Gabon-flagged oil tanker MSG was among the first non-Iranian vessels to transit the strait after the ceasefire, carrying about 7,000 tonnes of Emirati fuel oil bound for India, according to MarineTraffic data.
A Liberia-flagged tanker, Daytona Beach, also crossed earlier, transiting at 8:59 a.m. CET after departing Iran’s Bandar Abbas port about an hour earlier at 7:28 a.m. CETSiyam
By contrast, a Botswana-flagged liquefied natural gas tanker, Nidi, reversed course after attempting to travel out of the Persian Gulf via a designated route before being directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to the Associated Press
Iran has required ships to coordinate movements with the Revolutionary Guard and follow specified routes through the strait amid security risks
Data from market intelligence firm Kpler shows at least 12 vessels have crossed the strait since the ceasefire, far below the usual daily volume of more than 100 ships
Five vessels crossed on Wednesday, down from 11 the previous day, while seven transited on Thursday, indicating traffic has not meaningfully recovered.
More than 600 vessels, including about 325 tankers, remain stranded in the Gulf, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence, raising concerns about prolonged supply disruptions and rising shipping costs
Iran’s continued control of the strait has prompted diplomatic outreach, including from African economies reliant on Gulf energy supplies
Addressing the United Ulama Council of South Africa in Cape Town, Iran’s ambassador to Pretoria, Mansour Shakib Mehr, said reports that the energy supply chain had been closed since the start of the conflict on February 28 were inaccurate
He said only vessels linked to the United States and Israel were being restricted from sailing through the strait, which carries about 20% of crude oil originating in the Persian Gulf
Mehr added that Iranian authorities had allowed Chinese- and India-bound shipments to continue under specific conditions and that the same “special arrangement” could be extended to South Africa
Despite Nigeria and Angola cushioning supply disruptions across parts of Africa, the two producers supply roughly two thirds of crude demand in some markets, helping limit immediate shortages but leaving the continent exposed to global price volatility
Countries including China, Malaysia, India and Egypt have opened discussions with Tehran to secure passage through the waterway, as Iranian officials weigh plans to formalise control of the route, including proposals for a toll of about $2 million per container ship
A spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union also indicated that shipping firms may be required to pay Iran a levy in cryptocurrency for each barrel of oil transported through the strait
US President Donald Trump criticised Iran’s management of oil transit, writing: “Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz
He also warned: “There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait – They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, meanwhile, accused Washington of failing to honour the ceasefire. “The world sees the massacres in Lebanon,” Araghchi said in a post on social media. “The ball is in the US court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments
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One of the most obvious indicators that it could be a smart idea to buy a house rather than keep renting is a lower price-to-rent ratio.
The price-to-rent ratio measures whether it is more affordable to buy or rent a home.
A low price-to-rent ratio suggests that home prices are reasonable compared to rent costs, making buying more attractive
Lower ratios indicate more balanced markets and less financial strain for first-time buyers
According to Numbeo, several major African cities currently have low price-to-rent ratios, indicating that homeownership is financially advantageous there
The statistic, which compares the cost of owning a house to the cost of renting it, is straightforward, yet it provides useful information on long-term financial benefit and housing affordability.
In comparison to rental income, a low ratio indicates that property prices are reasonably priced
Fundamentally, the price-to-rent ratio aids in providing a practical response to the following query: Is it more affordable to rent over time or own this property outright?
Financial hardship is more likely in markets where the ratio is high, since purchasers frequently exceed their budgets to purchase expensive properties
To put it another way, the price of purchasing a home is not much more than what you would eventually pay in rent
This increases the sustainability of homeownership, especially for first-time purchasers
A lower percentage, on the other hand, indicates a more balanced market where genuine economic value underpins property prices
The ratio also takes into account more general market conditions
A lower percentage frequently suggests that supply and demand for housing are reasonably balanced, preventing a sharp price rise
This gives buyers greater leeway to bargain for better prices and less pressure to make snap judgments
Additionally, it may indicate a more stable real estate market where fundamentals rather than speculators drive prices
Numbeo shows that standardizing comparisons across markets is made easier by using realistic assumptions, such as determining rent per square meter based on actual apartment sizes (50 square meters for a one-bedroom and 110 square meters for a three-bedroom)
The ratio nevertheless offers a solid foundation for assessing affordability and making wise choices even when taxes and maintenance expenses are not taken into account
In the end, a low price-to-rent ratio benefits purchasers by bringing the cost of ownership into line with actual rental values
With that said, here are the major African cities with the lowest price-to-rent ratio, indicating that owning a home is more financially viable than paying rent, per data from Numebo.
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アフリカの中央銀行は、2026年2月に中央銀行の購入総量が27トンに達し、約20億ドルの価値があることから、金を裏付けとした準備金への世界的なシフトに徐々に調整している。
アフリカの中央銀行は金を裏付けとした準備金を徐々に増やしている。
世界の中央銀行の金需要の大部分は、一貫した買い手の少数グループに集中している。
アフリカの金の蓄積は控えめだが戦略的で、ウガンダ銀行、ケニア、そしてDRCによって主導されている。
世界の金需要は高いままだが、中国、ポーランド、カザフスタンのような国々によって推進され、アフリカは保有量を増やすために緩やかで政策主導のアプローチを採用している。

ホルムズ海峡でのグローバル貿易の持続的な混乱の中、トーゴは国際海運業界のためにロメ港をより安全で信頼性の高い物流センターとして位置づける野心的な計画を提案しています。
トーゴは、特にホルムズ海峡におけるグローバル貿易ルートの混乱の中で、ロメ港を安全で信頼できる物流センターとして位置づけることを目指しています。
ホルムズ海峡における地政学的緊張が、航 shipping コストとリスクを増加させ、石油に依存するグローバルなサプライチェーンに影響を及ぼしています。

暗号通貨取引所は、アラブ首長国連邦での業務が変わらないことと、多くの従業員が残ることを選択したと述べました。
広報担当者は、UAEでの業務が変わらないことと、多くの従業員が留まることを選択したとも述べました。
UAEでの業務は通常通り続いており、私たちのチームの多くがUAEに留まることを選択しました。私たちはBinanceにとって重要な拠点としてUAEに深くコミットしており、より広い地域にもコミットしています」と広報担当者は述べました。「グローバル企業として、私たちはシームレスに運営を続け、ユーザーに中断なくサービスを提供します。」

The magic word for digital assets adoption and success: choice
The opportunity is both real and transformative, but accelerated adoption of digital assets is not guaranteed.
igital assets have moved well beyond the hype cycle. What began as an experiment in decentralized value transfer has evolved into a serious conversation about how capital markets, custody, settlement and asset ownership could be re-imagined for the digital age. Tokenization, programmable money and distributed ledgers may deliver faster settlement, greater transparency and new efficiencies across the financial system.
If investors, issuers and intermediaries are forced into narrow paths and left without options, the promise of digital assets risks being constrained by the very silos they were meant to dismantle. For Web3 to flourish, market participants must be able to choose how, where and when they engage.
The ecosystem’s success will not be determined by any single technology, protocol, innovator or platform. Instead, it will hinge on whether the industry embraces a principle that traditional markets have relied on and come to expect for more than a century: choice.
Without interoperability, assets risk being locked into isolated environments, limiting liquidity, mobility and investor access. The result is a digital version of the same inefficiencies that have historically plagued financial markets, with the added benefits of being faster and more complex
One of the most pressing challenges facing digital assets adoption today is fragmentation. New blockchains and networks continue to emerge, each optimized for different use cases, governance models or performance requirements. While innovation is healthy, disconnected ecosystems can quickly become a barrier to scale.
Indeed, some investors may prefer open, public blockchains, while others may gravitate toward private blockchains. It’s not a matter of ‘or’ – both can and should be available
Interoperability has the potential to change that result. A “network of networks” approach enables assets to move securely across platforms, enabling market participant firms and investors to take full advantage of tokenization’s potential while preserving market integrity and scale. It simplifies use cases, unlocks new business models and supports regulatory consistency, without forcing the industry to converge on a single ccha
Tokenization is often discussed as an inevitability, but inevitability should not be confused with immediacy. Not every asset will tokenize, and those that do will not do so at the same pace
Achieving this vision will require collaboration. Market infrastructure providers, technology firms and regulators must work together to establish frameworks that prioritize compatibility and interoperability over control. In a recent white paper authored by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) in collaboration with Clearstream, Euroclear and BCG, we explored how shared standards and coordinated governance could help advance interoperability while maintaining trust and resilience. The message was and remains clear: interoperability is foundational to scale and the future growth of digital markets
Certain asset classes, especially those with clear operational inefficiencies, high reconciliation costs or settlement frictions, are natural early candidates for tokenization. Others may follow as technology matures, regulatory clarity increases, and market demand evolves. Giving issuers and investors the ability to decide what makes sense for their needs, and on their timeline, reduces risk and builds confidence
For example, while The Depository Trust Corporation (DTC), as a securities depository, facilitates the post‑trade settlement of securities representing over $100 trillion in value, we are not advocating for broad, indiscriminate, or immediate tokenization. Particularly in the early stages of this ecosystem, disciplined sequencing, intentionality, and caution are essential
Digital transformation does not mean abandoning established investing principles and processes.Certain asset classes, especially those with clear operational inefficiencies, high reconciliation costs or settlement frictions, are natural early candidates for tokenization. Others may follow as technology matures, regulatory clarity increases, and market demand evolves. Giving issuers and investors the ability to decide what makes sense for their needs, and on their timeline, reduces risk and builds confidence
Choice, in this context, is about sequencing and needs. It allows the market to learn, adapt and scale responsibly rather than forcing adoption before the infrastructure is ready
A successful digital asset ecosystem can support both. Investors should be able to hold assets in tokenized form alongside traditional securities – and even switch back and forth between them – without sacrificing legal certainty, operational continuity or even the feeling of being in control. Flexibility ensures participation is driven by value, not obligation, and that trust is earned, not assumed
For many institutional investors, tokenized assets will coexist with traditional holdings for many years to come. Some will prefer onchain representations for their operational efficiency or programmability. Others will continue to rely on established custody models, particularly as compliance and risk frameworks evolve
Perhaps the most tangible expression of choice is the wallet
As digital assets enter mainstream financial markets, participants will bring different preferences, risk tolerances and operational requirements. Some will prioritize self-custody. Others will rely on institutional-grade solutions. Many will want the freedom to change over time
Wallet selection should belong to clients (market participant firms). No prescribed wallet. No mandated standard. This model empowers market participants to choose based on their own security needs, regulatory considerations, geographic requirements or internal controls
This flexibility is essential for adoption at scale. Markets will thrive when financial institutions have the opportunity to engage on their own terms and can make decisions based on their clients’ and investors’ strategies, needs and preferences
The success of the digital assets ecosystem will not be built on constraints and limitations. Instead, it will be built on options: choice in blockchain, in assets, in custody and in wallets. These are practical requirements for facilitating growth
If the industry gets this right, digital assets can deliver on their promise: more inclusive, efficient and resilient markets. If it gets it wrong, it risks recreating the limitations of the past on faster rails
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香港金融管理局、地域の中央銀行による承認は、2025年8月に発効したステーブルコイン条例の下での最初のバッチを示します。
HKMAの最高経営責任者エディ・ユエ氏は金曜日の発表で、「発行者が計画に従ってビジネスを立ち上げ、リスクを適切に管理しながら成長の機会を探ることを楽しみにしています」と述べました。
私たちは、規制されたステーブルコインの推進が金融および経済活動における痛点を解決し、個人と企業の両方に価値を創造し、香港におけるデジタル資産の健全な発展を支援することを期待しています。

約900万BTC、つまり流通供給量の約45〜46%が現在、損失を出して保持されています。この閾値は、歴史的に激しい放棄または遅いサイクルの蓄積ウィンドウの開始の前に現れました。
この指標が同様のレベルに達した最後の時期は2023年1月、FTXの崩壊の残骸の中で、その後迅速な反転ではなく、長期の統合が続きました。
現在のセットアップが同じように解決されるのか、それとも異なる形で崩れるのかは、BTCポジションを持つすべてのトレーダーが今答える必要がある質問です。

上院議員ビル・キャシディ（R-LA）とシンシア・ルミス（R-WY）は、3月30日にアメリカで採掘されたビットコイン法案を提出し、国内のビットコイン採掘業務のための連邦認証プログラムを創設し、トランプ大統領の戦略的ビットコイン準備の大統領令を法律に codifyingしました。
この法案は、業界がもはや無視できない構造的な脆弱性を対象としています：米国は世界のビットコインハッシュレートの38％を支配していますが、その採掘ハードウェアの97％を中国から調達しています。
その非対称性が立法の全体的な論文です。ハッシュレートの地理とハードウェアの依存性は二つの異なるものです – 現在、それらは正反対の方向を向いています。

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $1.32 billion in March 2026, ending four consecutive months of net outflows and posting their first monthly gain of the year. The reversal signals institutional demand returning to Bitcoin specifically, not to crypto broadly.
That distinction matters. While BTC funds snapped their negative streak, Ethereum ETFs closed March with $46 million in outflows, extending their own losing run to five straight months. XRP funds also ended in negative territory, sharpening a capital rotation thesis that increasingly favors Bitcoin dominance over altcoin exposure.
The prior four months had been brutal. Outflows totaled approximately $6.3 billion between November 2025 and February 2026, $3.5 billion in November alone following Bitcoin’s crash from its $126,000 all-time high on October 10.
December added $1.1 billion in redemptions, January another $1.6 billion, with February contributing $206 million more before sentiment began stabilizing.
Macro conditions drove the pressure. Sticky inflation, a cautious Federal Reserve, and geopolitical risk from the U.S.-Iran conflict kept institutional risk appetite compressed. Bitcoin retraced over 50% from its October peak, closing Q1 2026 at $66,619, down 23.8% from January 1.
ETF investors were sitting on an average cost basis near $84,000 against a market price roughly $18,000 below that.
On-chain data showed wallets categorized as whales accumulated 30,000 BTC – approximately $2.1 billion – through March, absorbing selling pressure and stabilizing price near $65,000 during peak Iran-related volatility.
BlackRock’s IBIT added $98.42 million on March 31 alone, and led a $458 million single-day surge earlier in the month. US spot Bitcoin ETFs added $117.63M as BTC reclaimed $68K at one point during that window, reinforcing the case that institutional demand was quietly rebuilding beneath the noise
That $1.32 billion inflow number sounds strong, but it does not tell the full story, because it still failed to offset the $1.81 billion that left earlier in the quarter, leaving Bitcoin ETFs with a net outflow overall, so calling this a clean recovery is a stretch
What we are really seeing is uneven demand, bursts of buying followed by sharp redemptions, which explains why price still feels stuck instead of trending.
If inflows actually stabilize and turn consistent, especially with macro tension easing, that is when Bitcoin has room to push through $74K and aim higher, helped by April usually being a solid month
Right now though it still looks like a range, with price caught between roughly $67K and $74K while institutions absorb supply but do not push aggressively, and retail participation remains weak in the background.
The risk is that those recent inflows were just short term positioning, because we already saw a sharp weekly outflow at the end of March, and if that kind of selling returns and price loses the lower range, things can open up quickly to the downside.
Nate Geraci, co-founder of the ETF Institute, previously argued that cumulative outflows since the October crash are statistically insignificant relative to the $56 billion in total net inflows the category has attracted since its January 2024 launch. The diamond hands thesis holds – but only if inflows resume with conviction rather than in isolated bursts.
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Circle has launched cirBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin token backed 1:1 with native on-chain BTC reserves, deploying first on Ethereum mainnet and its own Arc blockchain.
The move is direct: Bitcoin holds over $1.7 trillion in market cap but generates almost no DeFi activity, and Circle is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer that changes that.
The institutional implication is immediate. With Bitcoin ETFs reversing months of outflows and fresh capital flowing into BTC exposure, the demand for yield-bearing Bitcoin products is structurally rising – and Circle is moving to own that pipeline before a competitor does.
The existing wrapped Bitcoin market is not small, WBTC launched in January 2019 and at its peak represented billions in DeFi TVL, but it has been defined by custodian opacity.
The 2022 FTX collapse accelerated distrust in centralized wrappers, and renBTC, which once held over $1 billion in TVL, faded as audit credibility eroded. Circle is betting that its track record with USDC, now above $30 billion in circulation, gives it the institutional credibility those products never had.
That distinction matters. WBTC routes through BitGo as custodian – a model that requires trusting an intermediary’s audit. cirBTC uses real-time onchain reserve verification with no third-party custodian sitting between holder and backing BTC.
For institutional desks and DeFi protocols that learned hard lessons from opaque collateral structures, verifiability isn’t a feature – it’s the threshold requirement. If Circle can demonstrate reserve proof holds under stress, the institutional case becomes difficult to argue against.
The mechanism integrates directly with Circle Mint for OTC desks and connects ready-made to USDC liquidity pools, creating a cross-collateral environment that no prior wrapped BTC product has had at launch.
The caveat: Circle’s infrastructure is centralized by nature, and IMF warnings around cross-chain tokenization risks apply here as they do across the RWA sector. The bear case accelerates if a bridge exploit or smart contract failure forces Circle to respond – and the firm’s 2023 inaction during $230 million in USDC bridge thefts on Multichain remains an open scar on its credibility.
Full rollout is targeted for Q2 2026, with DeFi protocol integrations and Circle Mint connectivity expected by May.
Expansions to Solana and additional L2s are on the roadmap but unconfirmed. The immediate variable to watch is DeFi TVL migration – specifically whether lending protocols route BTC collateral toward cirBTC or remain with WBTC given its deeper existing liquidity moats.
Regulatory backdrop matters here too. The 2025 U.S. stablecoin legislation created a clearer framework for fiat-pegged digital assets, but tokenized BTC products sit in a grayer zone.
Broader institutional regulatory clarity from the SEC and CFTC on tokenized assets could accelerate or stall adoption depending on how cirBTC is classified. Circle’s NYSE listing as CRCL adds public accountability that custodian-model competitors do not carry – a pressure point that cuts both ways
If cirBTC captures even a fractional share of BTC held in ETF structures and redirects it toward DeFi yield, the liquidity impact on Ethereum and Arc protocols would be structural, not marginal. If adoption stalls at the institutional access layer due to regulatory friction or a trust event, it validates every skeptic who argued Circle’s credibility is stablecoin-specific and doesn’t transfer to Bitcoin infrastructure
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Riot Platformsは2026年Q1に3,778ビットコインを販売し、2億8950万ドルを得ました。この量は、同期間の1,473 BTCの生産量を2.6倍上回っています。
会社は2025年の終了時に保有していた18,005コインから18％減少し、帳簿上で15,680 BTCでQ1を終了しました。Riotが採掘したものと販売したものの間のこのギャップは、説明を必要とする数字です。
ブロックチェーンインテリジェンスプラットフォームのArkhamは、木曜日にRiotに帰属するウォレットからの500 BTCの別の流出を示唆し、Q1が終了しても売却が止まらなかったことを示しています。

ビットコイン価格は$68,500で取引されており、トランプの4月7日のイラン期限が迫る中、暗号市場は動じていません。
ホワイトハウスは「延長しない」という姿勢を維持し、イランに対して民間インフラへの攻撃の脅威の下でホルムズ海峡を開けるよう要求しており、市場は壊滅的な事態を織り込んでいません。
S&P 500は同じく様子見の緊張を反映しており、BTC-SPXの相関関係は二項に絞られています：地政学的エスカレーションが相関したダンプを引き起こすか、トランプがひるんで両資産が上昇するかです。

Bitcoin is consolidating just below $70,000 with one scheduled event this week capable of breaking the pattern in either direction: the March CPI print dropping April 10 at 8:30 AM ET. The binary is clean, if U.S. inflation data comes in soft enough to shift Federal Reserve language toward cuts, BTC $75K becomes an immediate technical target; if core CPI stays sticky above 0.3% month-over-month, the “higher for longer” scenario reasserts itself, and the path of least resistance points back toward $60,000–$62,000.
The Cleveland Fed’s nowcast – built on late-March data – projects a 0.84% monthly headline surge driven by gasoline prices up 26.2% year-over-year and diesel up 50.4%. That reading, if confirmed, would mark a sharp acceleration from February’s 0.27% headline and would effectively freeze any Federal Reserve pivot conversation through at least mid-summer. Macro crypto trading desks are already pricing two radically different worlds into options flow. Thursday’s print decides which one we’re in.
Bitcoin is currently rangebound between $65,000 and $71,000, a compression zone that has held for several weeks and is coiling into what chart structure suggests is a decision point. The $73,700 level above is the immediate overhead resistance; above that is the $75,000 psychological ceiling, which has acted as a load-bearing level since BTC’s last failed breakout attempt.
A weekly close above $75,000 on CPI-driven volume would be the first structural confirmation that the bull case is intact.
RSI on the daily is sitting near 53 – neutral, not oversold, which means there’s no technical floor being built from momentum exhaustion alone. The 200-day EMA is converging with the $67,500 support zone, making that level load-bearing in the near term. A daily close below $67,500 opens the door to $62,000, where significant order book depth and prior accumulation structure sit. MVRV ratio remains below 1.5, suggesting the market hasn’t reached the euphoria zone – but that also means on-chain buying pressure isn’t yet dominant enough to generate self-sustaining momentum.
The bull case requires a CPI-triggered risk-on move through $71,000, then a reclaim of $73,700 on sustained volume, with $75,000 as the confirming close. The bear case activates on a hot print: a rejection at $71,000 that cascades back through the 200-day EMA and targets the $60,000–$62,000 whale accumulation zone. For traders already holding, the downside scenario below $66,000 deserves serious risk modeling before Thursday. The single most important level: $71,000. Hold it post-print and the bull case lives. Lose it and $62,000 becomes the next anchor.
The Bitcoin CPI relationship isn’t incidental – it’s mechanical. CPI drives Fed rate expectations, rate expectations drive the dollar and treasury yields, and dollar strength directly compresses institutional appetite for risk assets, including BTC. February’s CPI landed at 2.4% year-over-year with core holding at 2.5% annually for the second consecutive month, driven by shelter costs rising 0.2%. That stickiness kept “higher for longer” as the dominant Fed posture heading into April’s data cycle.
The threshold that matters for a Federal Reserve pivot signal is a core monthly reading at or below 0.2% – anything above 0.3% entrenches current policy and delays the first cut. CME FedWatch currently prices fewer than two cuts for 2025, a dramatic repricing from the four-cut consensus that opened the year. Energy is the wild card: the Cleveland Fed’s nowcast is being driven almost entirely by gasoline and diesel spikes, and the Fed has historically looked through volatile energy components when assessing underlying inflation trends. If headline runs hot but core stays controlled, traders may interpret that as a conditional green light.
March payrolls added 178,000 jobs, with unemployment holding at 4.3% – a labor market that doesn’t scream imminent recession and therefore gives the Fed cover to hold. The April 10 U.S. inflation data release won’t just move Bitcoin on the day; it will recalibrate the entire rate-cut timeline that institutional crypto positioning is built on
Spot Bitcoin ETF inflows from BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC have shown direct sensitivity to CPI beats and misses – a hot print tightens that inflow tap immediately.
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