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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Bitcoin and XRP Price as Iran Opens Strait Of Hormuz Bitcoin and $XRP prices have seen a

Bitcoin and XRP Price as Iran Opens Strait Of Hormuz

Bitcoin and $XRP prices have seen a strong surge after Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz, lifting overall crypto sentiment. The crypto market worldwide increased 3.79% in 24 hours pushing the capitalization almost to $2.77 trillion.

Bitcoin and XRP Price as Iran Opens Strait Of Horm

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestMarket Rally! Claim Your AirdropTrusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Discl

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Founding partner at Castle Island Ventures Nic Carter has laid out what he sees as three plausible paths for Bitcoin as the industry moves toward post-quantum cryptography: freeze vulnerable early coins, leave them untouched and accept the consequences, or pursue a legal “salvage” process that avoids a protocol-level confiscation.The debate matters because, in Carter’s framing, roughly 1.7 million BTC in old pay-to-pubkey outputs could become exposed if Bitcoin eventually deprecates elliptic curve signatures and a cryptographically relevant quantum computer arrives. The Third Option In Bitcoin’s Satoshi Coin BattleIn a post on X, Carter argued that the Overton window around quantum risk has shifted quickly. What was recently treated as a fringe concern, he wrote, is now increasingly being discussed as an eventual engineering and governance problem for Bitcoin itself. “The thing about the PQ transition is, it’s impossible as a Bitcoiner to claim that this protocol is cutting edge technology if Bitcoin, a monetary system predicated entirely on cryptography, is a laggard,” he wrote, adding that betting the fate of the network on the hope that the technology does not advance would be both reckless and embarrassing.Related Reading: Cardano Founder Says Bitcoin Has Entered ‘Shitcoin Land’From there, Carter sketched the upgrade path he expects. After a soft fork, Bitcoin would likely move through an intermediate phase in which users could sign with existing ECC-based schemes or with new post-quantum signatures. Eventually, he wrote, legacy signatures such as ECDSA and Schnorr would be disallowed entirely. That transition, in his telling, is the easy part. The harder question comes later: what to do with coins that never migrate.He framed that dispute as a clash bet

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Bitcoin Breaks Above Range Resistance Bitcoin’s price structure shows a clear transition from capitulation to controlled recovery, with the market now testing a critical resistance zone near $75,000. 

Bitcoin Breaks Above Range Resistance

Bitcoin’s price structure shows a clear transition from capitulation to controlled recovery, with the market now testing a critical resistance zone near $75,000. After the sharp breakdown in early February—marked by a high-volume selloff that pushed BTC toward the low $60,000s—the asset established a base through a period of sideways consolidation. This range, roughly between $72,500 and $75,000, is highlighted on the chart as a key demand zone that has been repeatedly defended.

The recent breakout above the upper boundary of this range suggests that buyers are beginning to regain control, at least in the short term. Price is now pressing into the descending 100-day moving average, which has acted as dynamic resistance throughout the broader downtrend. The 50-day moving average has started to turn upward beneath price, indicating improving short-term momentum, while the 200-day moving average remains significantly higher, reinforcing the idea that the macro trend has not yet fully reversed.

Volume has normalized following the February spike, implying that the current move is not driven by panic or forced positioning, but by more measured accumulation. The key question now is whether BTC can hold above the reclaimed range. Sustained acceptance above $75,000 would shift the structure bullish; rejection would likely return the price to consolidation.


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Bitcoin Breaks Above Range Resistance

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!RWA Foundation Sees Trillions in Assets Moving Onchain as Tokenization Grows The convers

RWA Foundation Sees Trillions in Assets Moving Onchain as Tokenization Grows



The conversation around real-world assets, or RWAs, got another boost today after the RWA Foundation argued that tokenization is moving from theory to infrastructure. In a post on X, the group said trillions of dollars in value from stocks, real estate, private credit, bonds, collectibles and commodities are being rebuilt on faster and more efficient rails, with the market still “barely getting started.”

The message was simple but bold: crypto is no longer just adding RWAs on the margins, it is starting to absorb the plumbing of traditional finance itself. At the heart of the post was a familiar promise that has become harder to dismiss. Tokenization, RWA Foundation said, is replacing limited access with global access, T+2 settlement with near-instant settlement, opaque structures with onchain transparency, and illiquid markets with programmable liquidity.

According to data, the tokenized asset sector continues to expand, with distributed asset value rising to $29.92 billion, up 9.64% over the past 30 days. Represented asset value now stands at $357.47 billion, while total asset holders have climbed to 728,287, up 4.84% from a month ago. The broader stablecoin market also remains massive, with total stablecoin value at $302.62 billion and 244.39 million stablecoin holders, both posting modest monthly growth. Ethereum remains the largest venue by a wide margin, with $15.5 billion in tracked RWA value, according to the data.

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What makes the latest commentary notable is not just its optimism, but its argument that there will not be one winner. The foundation said tokenized stocks will likely exist through wrappers, synthetics and fully backed versions at the same time, while private credit could split across onchain funds, leveraged vaults and struct

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Bitcoin Is Not Late — It Is Next in Line The XWIN Research Japan report makes a point worth understanding before drawing conclusions about Bitcoin’s relative weakness. The equity rally that has pushed

Bitcoin Is Not Late — It Is Next in Line


The XWIN Research Japan report makes a point worth understanding before drawing conclusions about Bitcoin’s relative weakness. The equity rally that has pushed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to all-time highs is not the product of solved inflation or aggressive rate cuts. It is a repricing of tail risks — the market breathing out as geopolitical tensions ease and energy shock fears recede.

That is a meaningful distinction, because it means liquidity conditions are still tight and the conditions for a broad, sustained risk-on move have not fully materialized.

Capital flows through global markets in a fairly consistent sequence. Oil and commodities move first, followed by the dollar and interest rates, then equities absorb the shift, and finally the later-cycle assets — Bitcoin among them — receive what flows downstream. Right now, equities are at the front of that chain and crypto is still waiting its turn. That is not a failure. It is a position in a queue.

What makes the current setup interesting is what is happening beneath Bitcoin’s price in the meantime. Exchange reserves continue declining, accumulation is ongoing, and the structural on-chain picture is quietly improving even as price remains below key resistance levels. The report describes this as a pre-breakout phase — the conditions are building without the confirmation yet arriving.

Bitcoin’s lag behind equities, in this reading, is not a signal that something is wrong. It is a signal about timing. The structure is being built. The catalyst that sends capital down the chain is the variable still outstanding.


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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeHTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!The dollar index reclaimed the 100 handle, a psychological level that usuall

The dollar index reclaimed the 100 handle, a psychological level that usually feeds tighter global liquidity conditions. Brent then accelerated back above $108. XRP held around the mid-$1.30s.

That set of moves creates a clean economic message. Payment friction may be rising in the real world, but capital is still seeking safety before it seeks efficiency.

For XRP, that leaves the asset in an identity crisis. Its strongest fundamental narrative says a fractured, expensive, slow-moving global financial system should increase the value of its use case.

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HTX Community Spring Creation ContestClaim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengePIPPIN surges 16% and hits key resistance, with price action signaling a potential sharp reversal at a critical le

PIPPIN surges 16% and hits key resistance, with price action signaling a potential sharp reversal at a critical level.



The risk of a potential price decline in Solana-based Pippin (PIPPIN) continues to rise, even after rallying 16% over the past 24 hours.

As of the 17th of April, while the broader crypto market continues to struggle, PIPPIN has posted notable gains and reached a key reversal zone where it has historically faced selling pressure.

At press time, PIPPIN was trading at $0.0355, up 16.05% over the past 24 hours. It also recorded an intraday high of $0.04273 during the same period.

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The asset’s notable price surge appears to have attracted significant market participation, as reflected in trading volume, which jumped over 95% to $51.02 million.



PIPPIN surges 16%, but the threat of a sharp rever

On April 18, data showed that U.S. Bitcoin ETFs experienced a net inflow of $663.9 million yesterday, with IBIT seeing a net inflow of $284 million, FBTC a net inflow of $163.4 million, and ARKB a net

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Ripple holds above critical threshold as risk-on sentiment expands Ripple ($XRP) is trad

Ripple holds above critical threshold as risk-on sentiment expands


Ripple ($XRP) is trading at $1.44 at the time of writing on Friday, its upside seemingly capped by its weekly peak around $1.47. Still, the overall tone remains bullish as the remittance token holds above key support levels at $1.40 and $1.30.

$XRP buoyant amid renewed retail and institutional demand

The $XRP derivatives market is gaining traction as Open Interest (OI), reflecting the notional value of outstanding futures and options contracts, increased to to $2.71 billion on Friday from $2.58 billion the previous day.

On Monday, the OI averaged $2.38 billion, underscoring growing risk appetite and retail capital influx. $XRP requires a highly concentrated retail market to sustain short to medium-term gains.


$XRP Futures OI | Source: CoinGlass

$XRP spot Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) also uphold a positive outlook, evidenced by the $11.87 million in inflows on Thursday. SoSoValue data shows that US-listed $XRP spot ETFs have maintained a bullish streak for five consecutive days, bringing cumulative inflows to $1.26 billion and net assets under management to $1.08 billion.

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