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HTX Community April Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End? The BIS General Manager has said that existing stablecoins fall short of the requirement

The BIS General Manager has said that existing stablecoins fall short of the requirements for a widely accepted and used payment instrument.

Stablecoins Remain A “Niche” Payment Instrument
Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), spoke on the topic of stablecoins at a Bank of Japan seminar in Tokyo on Monday. The BIS is an international financial institution that serves as a bank for central banks. It’s owned by constituent central banks, of which there are 63 in total at the moment. The institution has been vocal about its concerns regarding stablecoins in the past.

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that have their price tied to a fiat currency. In recent years, these tokens have gained popularity, inviting regulation from major economic hubs.

Since stables run on blockchain technology, they naturally offer relatively cheap 24/7 transactions. This has made their main use, besides being a store of value, as a mode of payments.

Stablecoins try to mimic fiat currencies, but do they count as “money”? de Cos has discussed the two features that decide the “moneyness” of an instrument: singleness and interoperability.

First, singleness is the idea that different forms of money should be perfectly substitutable at par across financial intermediaries and platforms. In fiat economics, this is facilitated by central banks. For the decentralized stablecoins, there is no such central settlement so deviations can emerge.

Though, these differences tend to be relatively modest. “Yet confidence shocks can widen discounts abruptly and, when they do, users may refuse to accept certain stablecoins, as seen on several occasions in the past,” said de Cos.

The other property, interoperability, means that users can send and receive funds seamlessly across platforms and networks. Today, stablecoins are distributed across a wide range of blockchains, so even versions of the same token that run on different blockchains aren’t interoperabl

The BIS General Manager has said that existing sta

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Hermetica запустила доходное BTC-хранилище hBTC The vault is self-custodial and keeps assets in Bitcoin terms, with profits converted back to $BTC daily. The first cohort has already allocated 25 $BTC

Hermetica запустила доходное BTC-хранилище hBTC

The vault is self-custodial and keeps assets in Bitcoin terms, with profits converted back to $BTC daily. The first cohort has already allocated 25 $BTC and is generating yield through Strategy-linked exposure and Stacks mechanisms. The company said access is now expanding to a wider group of institutional participants.

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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeHTX Community April Creation ContestPost To Earn BonusMore than $10 billion has left Aave since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, as impaired collater

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More than $10 billion has left Aave since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, as impaired collateral and forced deleveraging drove users to unwind positions and withdraw funds.

Capital has fragmented across alternatives, with Maker-linked Spark, real-world asset protocols and major liquid staking platforms seeing modest inflows as users favor simpler, tightly risk-managed venues.

A sizable share of funds has moved into stablecoins such as USDC or been used to repay loans, signaling a broader pullback from complex shared-collateral and cross-chain structures rather than a shift to a single new platform.

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?Daily 5K USDT Airdrop - Join & Win! Blockchain Forum 2026, Moscow PENGU Notches Double-Digit Gains as Bitcoin Hits $78K Amid $418M Liquidation Spree Bitcoin has be

PENGU Notches Double-Digit Gains as Bitcoin Hits $78K Amid $418M Liquidation Spree

Bitcoin has been on a steady uptrend in April, with shallow pullbacks, allowing altcoins to extend their gains.

Pudgy Penguins meme coin $PENGU led altcoin gains, up 12.6% on the day, while Cosmos (ATOM), Aptos and Bitcoin Cash saw gains of over 5% over the past 24 hours.



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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?BIO: DeSci Governance & LiquidityDaily 5K USDT Airdrop - Join & Win!Crypto Fear and Greed Index Moves Out of ‘Extreme Fear’ Zone! Here Are the Details The recovery

Crypto Fear and Greed Index Moves Out of ‘Extreme Fear’ Zone! Here Are the Details


The recovery trend seen in the cryptocurrency market in the middle of the week was noteworthy. Leading digital assets, especially Bitcoin, rose due to strong inflows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and a decrease in geopolitical tensions.

According to the data, Bitcoin rose approximately 2.2% in the last 24 hours, climbing above the $78,000 level and trading at $78,015. Ethereum, meanwhile, increased by 2.7% during the same period, reaching $2,386. The overall cryptocurrency market saw an increase of approximately 2.3%.

Analysts attribute this rise to a combination of factors. Zeus Research analyst Dominick John stated that reduced geopolitical risks, strong capital inflows into ETFs, and market positioning supported prices. He noted that the liquidation of short positions as Bitcoin surpassed the $75,000 level created a “short squeeze” effect that drove prices higher.

The net inflow of approximately $1.8 billion into spot Bitcoin ETFs over the past three weeks was also a significant factor supporting the rise. Furthermore, the increase in institutional demand through new Bitcoin purchases by Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, was noteworthy.

On the other hand, US President Donald Trump’s decision to extend the ceasefire with Iran somewhat reduced uncertainty in the markets, boosting risk appetite. As a result of these developments, the Crypto Fear and Greed Index rose to 33, moving out of the “extreme fear” zone.

Nevertheless, experts emphasize that for the current rise to turn into a sustained bull market, Bitcoin needs to hold in the $78,000–$83,000 range and see stronger liquidity and increased demand across the market.

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Vote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!HTX Community April Creation ContestHTX DAO's First Hackathon Launches! Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used his latest livestream to argue that the roughly $29

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used his latest livestream to argue that the roughly $292 million KelpDAO exploit was not just another bridge failure, but a broader warning about how Ethereum’s restaking, cross-chain messaging, and lending stack can turn a single compromise into system-wide contagion.

In Hoskinson’s telling, the April 18 attack exposed what he sees as the most fragile part of modern DeFi: not necessarily application-level smart contracts, but the verification layers and interdependencies that sit between protocols. He said the exploit, which involved about 116,500 rsETH drained from KelpDAO’s Ethereum escrow, should force a wider industry conversation about bridge trust assumptions, verifier design, and the speed at which bad collateral can spread through lending markets.

Cardano Founder Warns Of Dangerous Flaw At The Heart Of Ethereum DeFi
Rather than deliver a standard postmortem, Hoskinson said he took internal incident-report material and used AI to turn it into a website that walked viewers through the mechanics of the exploit. That structure framed his larger point: the failure, as he described it, did not begin with broken contract math inside KelpDAO itself, nor with an obvious accounting flaw at LayerZero. Instead, he said it centered on a forged cross-chain message that was accepted as legitimate and allowed funds to be released on Ethereum.

“So, this was not a smart contract issue with Kelp and this was not a smart contract issue with LayerZero, but this was a cross-chain message forgery,” Hoskinson said. “So this was something new and different.”

The Cardano founder repeatedly returned to one design choice in particular: the reported use of a one-of-one verifier configuration. In his explanation, best practice would be a multi-verifier model such as three-of-five, but KelpDAO’s setup relied on a single active DVN. That, he argued, created an unacceptable single point of failure in a system already layered with staking wrappers, res

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?Daily 5K USDT Airdrop - Join & Win!HTX Community April Creation Contest How Will Strategy's $2.57 Billion Purchase Affect Bitcoin's Price Value? - Here's What Coul

How Will Strategy's $2.57 Billion Purchase Affect Bitcoin's Price Value? - Here's What Could Happen

Strategy has added 34,164 Bitcoin in a single week, paying roughly $2.54 billion at an average price of $74,395 per coin between April 13 and April 19. The purchase lifts the company's total holdings to 815,061 BTC, acquired at an overall average cost of $75,527.

The entire position, valued at $61.56 billion at the time of purchase, now has a market value of $61.25 billion and an unrealized loss of $325 million. It marks Strategy's largest weekly addition in one year and five months, underscoring Michael Saylor's continued commitment to building the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury.

The buying has been methodical. In the weeks leading up to this latest tranche, Strategy purchased 13,927 BTC on April 13, 4,871 on April 6, 1,031 on March 23, and 22,337 on March 16, among others.

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