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Bitcoin (BTC) is pinned at the $75,000 level that traders have dubbed make-or-break, as three independent pressure points converge in a 48-hour window: Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh's Senate confirmation hearing, the imminent expiry of the U.S.–Iran ceasefire, and the widening fallout from crypto's largest exploit of the year.
Michael Saylor's Strategy has pushed past one of the most closely watched milestones in corporate finance, confirming a purchase of 34,164 Bitcoin for $2.54 billion between 13 and 19 April — its third-largest acquisition by coin count since the company began its treasury accumulation programme in 2020.
A $292 million exploit at Kelp DAO has drained $6 billion from Aave and pushed DeFi's April losses past $580 million — but the configuration errors behind this month's hacks are the easy problem. The harder one, already visible in AI red-team research, is that autonomous exploit generation is becoming cheap enough to industrialise.
Bitcoin (BTC) has clawed back above $74,000 this week, but the story beneath the price tape is considerably more cautious than the charts suggest.
The move triggered a massive wave of liquidations across the [...]
Bitcoin is navigating one of its most eventful weeks of 2026, with a confluence of geopolitical tension, renewed institutional accumulation and fresh urgency around US crypto legislation combining to shape the market's near-term trajectory.
The tokenisation of real world assets is no longer a fringe experiment. With billions of dollars in traditional financial instruments now living on public blockchains, RWA has become one of the most consequential themes in digital finance — and one that every crypto investor needs to understand.
Bitcoin had a week that underscored its growing relevance at the intersection of global geopolitics and US financial regulation. Reports emerged that Iran may begin accepting BTC payments from oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, while in Washington, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly backed the long-stalled Digital Asset Market Clarity Act after months of opposition.
The crypto industry has spent years debating whether quantum computing will eventually crack Bitcoin's cryptography. That threat remains largely theoretical. The one that arrived this week is not.
Coinbase has secured an Australian Financial Services Licence from ASIC, becoming the first crypto exchange to receive the approval directly from the regulator. The US-listed exchange says it now plans to expand into equity trading and payments in Australia, just days after Canberra passed its landmark Digital Assets Framework Bill requiring all major crypto platforms to hold an AFSL.
