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Guess BTC Price, Share 540M HTX!HTX Community Spring Creation Contest10 x Airdrop Speed Challenge Crypto News Today: Brent Crude Hits $120 and Bitcoin Snoozes Into Good Friday While AlphaPepe Presale 

Crypto News Today: Brent Crude Hits $120 and Bitcoin Snoozes Into Good Friday While AlphaPepe Presale at $0.00806 Targets 10,000% Returns
CoinDesk captured the April 3 market session in a single phrase. Crypto snoozes into Good Friday as oil and macro stir with Brent crude hitting $120 per barrel at levels not seen since the Iran conflict began while Bitcoin sits stuck in a tight range near $66,600. The word snoozes is doing heavy lifting in the context of $120 Brent crude. Bitcoin is not rallying in the face of oil's inflationary signal. It is not collapsing either.


Crypto News Today: Brent Crude Hits $120 and Bitco

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Oil prices surged 10%, exerting pressure on Bitcoin after President Donald Trump's mixed signals on the West Asia crisis. Trump said the war could end in the next "two to three weeks," but added, We a

Oil prices surged 10%, exerting pressure on Bitcoin after President Donald Trump's mixed signals on the West Asia crisis.

Trump said the war could end in the next "two to three weeks," but added,

We are going to bring them (Iran) back to the Stone Age, where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing... We have all the cards; they have none.

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This was contrary to some expectations, as some quarters were hoping for an end-of-war announcement.

Following the remarks, oil prices rose from $97 to $108, suggesting traders expected further escalations.

But performance across markets was mixed. On the 1st of April, the U.S. equity market closed higher, but BTC stalled at $69K. It extended the losses on the 2nd of April to $66K, marking a 4% drop.

Source: Oil price vs. BTC

What's next for BTC?

The biggest portion of the BTC pullback happened on Thursday before the U.S. market opened. This meant risk sentiment may sour further, especially if U.S. ground troops invade Iran as speculated.

In fact, prediction site Polymarket was pricing a 62% chance of a U.S. ground invasion in April.

Oil prices surged 10%, exerting pressure on Bitcoi

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HTX Community Spring Creation ContestWL: Ethereum L2/Sidechain USDT in the Monthly Creation Challenge LIT extended its recovery to 30% and retested $1 following the Telegram integration. Lighter, a DE

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Lighter, a DEX focused on perpetual (perps) trading, has been tapped to power Telegram’s native leveraged trading.

In a statement on the 2nd of April, Wallet in Telegram said that users on the privacy-focused messenger can now trade crypto, stocks, metals, and oil with up to 50x leverage. 

The wallet has seen strong adoption with over 150 million registered users.

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About 25 million of these users are considered active, especially in P2P transfers and fiat on-ramps, making Telegram a key crypto trading terminal. The messenger itself has over 1 billion users. 

As such, the integration of Lighter could boost trading volumes on the DEX too. As it stands, this is the primary and largest Lighter integration to date. 

For comparison, its rival Hyperliquid runs perps trading for Phantom, Rabby, MetaMask, and others. This fueled Hyperliquid’s initial adoption by sharing fees from trades routed by the apps. 

Could Lighter benefit from a similar traction? 



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Guess BTC Price, Share 540M HTX!HTX Community Spring Creation ContestClaim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation Challenge #Algorand spikes 17% - Will resistance cap ALGO's upside at $0.11? Algorand [$ALG

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#Algorand spikes 17% - Will resistance cap ALGO's upside at $0.11?

Algorand [$ALGO] has continued to uphold a strong upward trend in the last four days. This momentum is still in place, as it has risen by 17% in the last 24 hours.

The steady surge indicates a constant buying pattern and not a one-time spike. Interestingly, most on-chain metrics also spark bullish signals.

Algorand's whale activity and derivative metrics are in favor of the market bulls.

A key supply zone stands in the way

$ALGO has witnessed an aggressive bullish run over the last four days. The token has maintained its strong momentum with a 17% increase over the last 24 hours.

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HTX Community Spring Creation ContestBASED: Hyperliquid’s On-Chain Super AppAnother outflow from Riot Platforms has been spotted on the Bitcoin network, a sign that the mining company may be participa

Another outflow from Riot Platforms has been spotted on the Bitcoin network, a sign that the mining company may be participating in further selling.

Bitcoin Mining Company Riot Has Moved Another 500 BTC
As shared by on-chain sleuth Lookonchain in an X post, Riot Platforms has made a transfer away from its Bitcoin wallet during the past day. In total, this transaction involved 500 BTC, worth $34.13 million at the time that the move took place.


The recent transaction history of Riot Platforms | Source: @lookonchain on X
The destination of the move was an unknown wallet, so it’s not possible to say for sure what the intent behind it was, but it’s likely that it was for selling the tokens. Previously, the company offloaded $200 million worth of Bitcoin during the final months of 2025.

Riot is a public Bitcoin mining company based in the United States that holds the BTC that it mines as a treasury asset. In terms of computing power or Hashrate, the firm is among the largest miners in the world, according to data from BitcoinMiningStock.


The top 10 public BTC miners based on operating Hashrate | Source: BitcoinMiningStock
From the table, it’s visible that Riot Platforms has a total installed Hashrate of 38.50 exahashes per second (EH/s), putting it number five on the list of the largest public mining companies.

Like other big miners, Riot has also been exploring the AI/high-performance computing (HPC) business. As such, it’s possible that the new Bitcoin sale is linked to this expansion.

Before the outflow transaction, Riot Platforms held a total of 18,005 BTC in its treasury, but if the sale is confirmed, that figure would reduce to 17,505 BTC. The miner is currently ranked seventh among the public Bitcoin treasury firms.

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WL: Ethereum L2/SidechainGuess BTC Price, Share 540M HTX!HTX Community Spring Creation Contest Japan-based Metaplanet has now become the third-largest public firm holding Bitcoin. The ascent comes aft

Japan-based Metaplanet has now become the third-largest public firm holding Bitcoin. The ascent comes after the firm acquired 5,075 BTC, worth $405M, in Q1 2026, bringing its overall holdings to 40,177 BTC.

As of late 2025, Metaplanet held 35K BTC and ranked fourth. During that period, Bitcoin miner MARA ranked third with over 50K BTC. However, the miner offloaded over 15K BTC ($1.1 billion) in March, bringing its holdings to 38K BTC.

Collectively, the two factors led MARA to lose the third spot to Metaplanet.



Source: Bitcoin Treasuries

Metaplanet’s 2026-2027 plan

But Metaplanet’s broader plan and long-term goal are way larger. The firm aims to acquire 210K BTC by 2027.

In 2026 alone, it plans to scale its holdings to 100K BTC. Put differently, in the remaining three quarters, it could add an extra 60K BTC.

At current prices, this would imply about $3.96 billion in needed capital to fund the 2026 deficit.

For the 5,075 BTC bought in Q1, the firm said the bid was funded by “capital market activities and operating income.” In fact, last month the firm raised $275 million, with an option to increase it to $531 million through selling its stock.

Even so, this was still short of the nearly $4B needed to hit the 2026 target. Additionally, its Bitcoin revenue, generated from selling Bitcoin Options contracts and lending and borrowing against its holdings, hit $18.9 million in Q1.

Taken together, this would bring overall funds to $550M in Q1. Still, this implied a shortfall of $3.5B to hit the 100K BTC milestone this year.

Metaplanet’s BTC strategy faces a $1.5B paper loss

That said, Metaplanet’s ascent to the third spot has not been a smooth sail. The firm’s current BTC holdings now face an unrealized loss of $1.5 billion.

The current stash was bought at $4.1B, but at current prices, it was worth $2.7B, translating to a 36% drawdown as BTC struggles below 

Japan-based Metaplanet has now become the third-la

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Crypto traders alert! Why Trump's weekend post could trigger liquidations on Monday Is the worst still yet to come for crypto? From a technical standpoint, the market is officially rolling into Q2. Ho

Crypto traders alert! Why Trump's weekend post could trigger liquidations on Monday

Is the worst still yet to come for crypto?

From a technical standpoint, the market is officially rolling into Q2. However, to see where it's headed, we need to check where it's been. Q1 closed with the total crypto market cap down nearly 21%, extending losses from Q4 2025 when it fell by about 24%.

In just six months, crypto has technically lost over $1.5 trillion. Bitcoin [BTC] hasn't been spared either, making up 60% of those outflows - A sign that it's lagging compared to other volatile assets. Backing this, the XAU/BTC ratio closed Q1 up almost 40%, underlining BTC's relative weakness versus gold

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