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Friday has rolled around again, and that means more Bitcoin and Ether options are expiring as spot markets hold on to recent gains.  Around 22,200 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, April 17, with a notional value of roughly $1.66 billion. This event is a little smaller than last week’s expiry, so it is unlikely to have any impact on spot markets. Crypto prices have been climbing slowly this week, with around $150 billion being added to total capitalization since Monday. Bitcoin Options Expiry This week’s batch of Bitcoin options contracts has a put/call ratio of 1, meaning that…

Alabama has become the second state in the United States to grant legal status to decentralized autonomous organizations under the Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act. Summary Alabama granted legal status to decentralized autonomous organizations under the DUNA Act, becoming the second US state after Wyoming to do so. The law provides DAOs with legal recognition and limited liability protections, allowing them to operate, contract, and hold assets within a defined legal framework. The DUNA Act, introduced in February by Republican Senator Lance Bell, provides legal recognition and limited liability protections to DAOs after passing 82-7 with 16 abstentions on March…

Crypto’s biggest liquidation event this week wasn’t about crypto.Tokenized Brent oil futures on Hyperliquid accounted for $46.6 million of the $403 million in total liquidations over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass data, making oil the third-largest liquidated asset behind ether at $104.5 million and bitcoin at $98.3 million. Solana came in fourth at roughly $24.7 million.The single largest liquidation across all assets was a $17.17 million Brent oil position on Hyperliquid, not a bitcoin or ether trade. That is the second time in under 30 days that oil has produced the largest individual liquidation on a crypto venue.The…

What looks like a geopolitical threat aimed at US multinationals could quickly become a crypto story too.That is because several of the companies threatened by Iran now sit inside the infrastructure, payments, and corporate treasury layers that parts of the digital-asset industry rely on.According to the Wall Street Journal, the IRGC warned that US companies in the region would be targeted from April 1 and named firms including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, IBM, Tesla, and Boeing. Other multinationals mentioned in the reports included JPMorgan Chase, Oracle, Palantir, Cisco, HP, and Nvidia.Why this matters: Crypto is no longer exposed only through…

Nishad Singh, the former head of engineering at FTX, will pay $3.7 million to resolve his case with the US commodities regulator over his alleged role in the collapse of the crypto exchange and the misappropriation of user funds.As part of the supplemental consent order, Singh will be required to pay a disgorgement of $3.7 million and imposes a five-year ban on trading in markets and an eight-year registration ban, blocking him from obtaining a license to operate in the sector, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said in a statement on Wednesday.“The initial consent order and supplemental consent…

Recently, the digital asset market endured a significant structural correction as Bitcoin faces Q1 of 2026 with a staggering 24% drop. Falling from a January peak of $87,508 to a closing price of $66,619 on Tuesday, the largest cryptocurrency experienced its worst opening performance in eight years. Historical data suggests that only the 50% collapse during early 2018 surpassed this current quarterly retreat in percentage losses.Over the past six months, Bitcoin shed approximately 41.6% of its market value, extending a downward trend from late 2025. Despite these double-digit setbacks, industry experts view the volatility as a cyclical phase rather than…

The past four weeks have been brutal for bitcoin BTC$66,673.98 traders as prices keep chasing comments by President Donald Trump, who can’t make up his mind about Iran.One day he talks peace, and bitcoin and risk assets rally while oil drops; the next day he turns hawkish, sending bitcoin down and oil back up. Meanwhile, Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz is “closed forever,” and analysts throw out wildly bullish and bearish oil targets. It’s nearly impossible to navigate this choppy environment.Traders may be better off focusing on the following real indicators that actually matter. These, unfortunately, do not paint…

Ripple on Thursday introduced native digital asset capabilities inside its enterprise treasury management system, letting corporate finance teams hold, view and manage XRP and RLUSD alongside traditional fiat balances for the first time within a single platform.The two features, called Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, are built on GTreasury, which Ripple acquired in 2025. That system processed $13 trillion in payments volume last year for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. The digital asset layer adds to that existing infrastructure rather than replacing it.Digital Asset Accounts let treasury teams create a Ripple-native digital asset account inside…

This week banks and crypto lobbyists may reach a compromise on stablecoin yield payments, according to U.S. Senator Tim Scott. Currently, the Senate’s crypto market structure bill progress remains stalled. Summary Senator Tim Scott says a proposal to resolve the stablecoin yield dispute could arrive this week, raising hopes for movement on the stalled Senate crypto market structure bill. Talks have slowed over a provision targeting stablecoin yield payments, with banks warning of deposit outflows while crypto firms argue the restriction would limit competition Speaking at a crypto lobby event in Washington, Scott, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, said…

After gaining more than 100% since its all-time low, PI has now dumped by almost 50% from its local peak. Although it was completed several days ago, the Core Team behind the controversial project announced the migration earlier today, solidifying the successful upgrade to version 20.2. They reasserted that the new protocol version should be groundbreaking for the project as it provides the foundations to eventually enable smart contract capabilities. However, even this big news couldn’t halt PI’s free-fall. V20.2 Arrived The past month has been quite eventful for Pioneers as the Core Team made several key protocol upgrades even…