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Crypto treasury firms are using Strategy's STRC preferred stock, which offers an 11.5% annual dividend and was issued to finance Bitcoin purchases. Daily STRC trading volume recently surpassed $1.6 billion. Saturn Credit bought $15 million of STRC within six days of launch, while about $200 million of STRC has been tokenized on-chain.

eToro agreed to acquire self-custodial wallet provider Zengo in a deal Bloomberg reported is worth about $70 million, mostly in cash. eToro said the acquisition will deepen its push into onchain products such as tokenized assets, prediction markets, perpetuals and yield products, while terms were not disclosed. At Paris Blockchain Week, CEO Yoni Assia said he still expects Bitcoin to rise above $250,000 after another quarter of market slowdown.

Larger tax refunds and new IRS crypto reporting rules could support Bitcoin retail demand this tax season, as IRS data showed $241.7 billion in refunds by April 3. MarketWatch reported average refunds of about $3,521 and said slower filings were partly tied to late-arriving forms and crypto paperwork.

Rakuten announced XRP as a payment option for 44 million users, with access to 5 million registered merchants in Japan once the service goes live. Rakuten said users can convert loyalty balances into XRP inside the app. Rakuten already supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash payments.

XRP handlowało po $1.36, ponieważ zacieśnianie kompresji wykresu i spadający wolumen wskazywały na decydujący ruch. Dane Santiment pokazały ilość transakcji wielorybów powyżej $100,000 w najcichszych poziomach od grudnia, podczas gdy ustawienie utrzymuje $1.37 jako poziom do odzyskania w krótkim okresie i $1.28 jako kluczowe wsparcie.

Six Bitcoin contributors published BIP-361, a draft proposal that would phase out legacy ECDSA and Schnorr signatures through a three-phase migration. The proposal would first block sends to quantum-vulnerable addresses after 160,000 blocks, then later reject transactions using those signatures, while a recovery phase remains pending further research and community consensus.

Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF on April 14 as Bitcoin was rejected near $76,100. The fund sells call options against spot Bitcoin ETF holdings, so it performs best when BTC trades sideways or rises only modestly. CryptoQuant data showed the 1-month to 3-month UTXO cohort at $76,662, near the same resistance area.

Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin income ETF that would use options and indirect exposure instead of buying Bitcoin directly. The proposed fund would invest in spot Bitcoin ETFs, related options, and associated index products. The filing says the strategy aims to generate premium income and may lag direct spot exposure if Bitcoin rises sharply.