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Bitcoin ‘aging’ chart projects sixfold BTC price rally above $350K
30.4.2025
Key takeaways:Bitcoin’s price increased by sixfold each time its age increased by 40%.If the pattern holds, Bitcoin could rally to $351,046 in 2025.New data highlights a historical pattern that results in Bitcoin (BTC) price increasing by sixfold. Using a logarithmic chart to illustrate...
Tether plans US stablecoin launch as soon as this year — Report
30.4.2025
Tether plans to launch a stablecoin product in the United States as soon as this year, the stablecoin issuer’s CEO, Paul Ardoino, said in an April 30 CNBC interview. Tether’s flagship stablecoin, USDT (USDT), is already the US dollar’s top “exporter,” Ardoino told...
VC Roundup: Funding surge targets confidentiality, tokenization and Web3 infrastructure
30.4.2025
After months of volatility and extreme fear, crypto markets turned a positive corner in the second half of April, highlighting the industry’s big sentiment shift. For venture capital, it was business as usual, with investors continuing to pour money into promising startups across layer-1...
Ethereum Pectra upgrade goes live next week — Will ETH price rally?
30.4.2025
Key takeaways:ETH price has underperformed its peers during the current bull market, but gas sponsorship could lure developers and traders back to the network.Ethereum’s upcoming Pectra upgrade promises to improve staking efficiency, potentially increasing demand for ETH.Data suggests...
Ripple $4B-$5B bid to purchase Circle rejected — Report
30.4.2025
Blockchain payments firm Ripple has reportedly bid up to $5 billion in an effort to acquire stablecoin issuer Circle, but the offer was rejected.According to an April 30 Bloomberg report, Ripple put in a bid of $4 billion to $5 billion as part of an attempted takeover of Circle, which was rejected...
Price predictions 4/30: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, SUI, LINK, AVAX
30.4.2025
Key points:Bitcoin’s 7-day volatility is the lowest in 563 days, signaling an impending range expansion.Bitcoin’s breakout above $95,000 could swiftly take it to $100,000 and above.Although the probability is low, traders should remain cautious about a pullback in the near term.Bitcoin...
Global demand grows for non-dollar stablecoins, says Fireblocks exec
30.4.2025
Governments outside the US, including Singapore, are increasingly interested in stablecoins not tied to the US dollar, despite their currently limited liquidity, Fireblocks director of policy Dea Markova told Cointelegraph at Token2049.In an exclusive interview, Markova described the competition...
Bitcoin selling at $95K is ‘profit-taking pressure test’ but BTC whales are still buying
30.4.2025
Key Takeaways:US GDP shrank -0.3% in Q1, far below +0.3% forecasts, sparking recession fears.Bitcoin faces selling pressure with its spot volume delta dropping $300 million in 3 days.Whales are accumulating BTC, but smaller holders are selling, hinting at profit-taking.Bitcoin’s (BTC) price...
Ex-Binance CEO chides Europe over crypto adoption
30.4.2025
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the former CEO of crypto exchange Binance, said most European countries were moving “nowhere” in terms of the adoption of digital currencies.Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Dubai on April 30, Zhao said that areas of the United Arab Emirates were...
Grayscale launches Bitcoin adopters exchange-traded fund
30.4.2025
Asset manager Grayscale launched the Grayscale Bitcoin Adopters exchange-traded fund (ETF), an investment vehicle that tracks companies employing a Bitcoin (BTC) treasury, or holding strategy.According to the April 30 announcement, the ETF will provide exposure to companies across seven business...
Bitcoin drops under $93K after US GDP data shows shrinking economy, raising recession alarms
30.4.2025
Key points: US GDP shrank in Q1, raising recession alarms while also prompting calls for Fed rate cuts.Bitcoin dropped to $92,910 as GDP figures were released, but sustained buy-side demand could provide support. Today’s crypto derisking is likely transitory; market fundamentals...
EU digital product passports won’t solve food fraud, but blockchain can
30.4.2025
Opinion by: Fraser Edwards, co-founder and CEO, CheqdBrutal honesty has its place, especially when confronting discomfort, so here’s one that can’t be sweetened with honey: 96% of imported honey in the UK is fake! Tests found that 24 of 25 jars were suspicious or didn’t meet...
Bitcoin price recovers, Ethereum RWA value up 20%: April in charts
30.4.2025
April 2025 witnessed crypto markets rocked by more tariffs at the direction of US President Donald Trump — controversial policies that could have influenced the outcome of Canada’s elections on April 28. On April 2, Trump levied “discounted reciprocal tariffs” on...
China’s DeepSeek launches new open-source AI after R1 took on OpenAI
30.4.2025
Chinese artificial intelligence development company DeepSeek has released a new open-weight large language model (LLM).DeepSeek uploaded its newest model, Prover V2, to the hosting service Hugging Face on April 30. The latest model, released under the permissive open-source MIT license, aims...
China’s DeepSeek launches new open-source AI after R1 took on OpenAI
30.4.2025
Chinese artificial intelligence development company DeepSeek has released a new open-weight large language model (LLM).DeepSeek uploaded its newest model, Prover V2, to the hosting service Hugging Face on April 30. The latest model, released under the permissive open-source MIT license, aims...
Vitalik Buterin outlines vision as Ethereum ecosystem addresses hit new high
30.4.2025
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released another update on what he believes the future of the network should entail.In an April 30 post on blockchain-based social media platform Farcaster, Buterin outlined his personal areas of focus for Ethereum development this year. These include...
$330M Bitcoin social engineering theft victim is elderly US citizen
30.4.2025
An elderly US individual is reportedly the victim of a devastating $330 million Bitcoin heist, now ranked as the fifth-largest crypto hack in history.The attacker used advanced social engineering tactics to gain access to the victim’s wallet, onchain investigator ZachXBT said in an April...
The open source debate: Is crypto losing its soul?
30.4.2025
Crypto was born from an open-source ethos, where code was shared publicly, accessible for review and shaped by community contributions. Transparency and verifiability are foundational principles that enable trust in Bitcoin.But as the space matured, some disadvantages of open source surfaced....
Crypto hackers hit DeFi for $92M in April as attacks double from March
30.4.2025
Cryptocurrency hackers stole more than $90 million in April, dealing another blow to the industry’s mainstream reputation despite ongoing efforts to improve cybersecurity.Hackers made off with $92 million of digital assets across 15 incidents in April, according to an April 30 research report...
Mantra links OM token crash to risky crypto exchange policies
30.4.2025
Update (April 30, 4:10 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add a comment from Mantra CEO John Mullin.Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Mantra has called for industry-wide cooperation to reduce investor risks in the aftermath of its OM token crash.On April...