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On April 16, U.S. stocks closed on Wednesday with the Dow Jones down 0.15%, the S&P 500 up 0.8%, and the Nasdaq up 1.59%, both reaching all-time highs. Tesla (TSLA.O) rose 7.6%, Apple (AAPL.O) increas

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According to monitoring by Beating, multiple polls indicate a collective shift in public sentiment towards AI in the United States. An NBC News survey conducted in March found that 57% of registered v

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On April 16, Bitwise officially launched the Spot Avalanche ETF (ticker: BAVA). This ETF directly holds AVAX tokens and stakes them, sharing an average staking yield of approximately 5.4% while mainta

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On April 16, Iranian Islamic Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf stated via social media that the achievement and consolidation of the comprehensive ceasefire agreement in Lebanon is attributed to the courage

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A pool with 93% utilization and shrinking exit options is one of the more uncomfortable details buried in the growing controversy around World Liberty Financial — the crypto project connected to US President Donald Trump that is now fighting accusations of deception from one of its own biggest backers.

Sun Claims His Wallet Was Frozen First
Tron founder Justin Sun, who poured more than $100 million into the project across two separate investments, went public on X with a pointed accusation: that WLFI quietly built a backdoor into its smart contract infrastructure — one that lets the team freeze, restrict, or block access to user funds without warning.

I have always been an ardent supporter of President Trump and his crypto friendly policy.

As an early supporter who invested heavily in World Liberty Financial, I did so because I believed in the vision that was presented to the public: a decentralized finance platform that...

— H.E. Justin Sun 👨‍🚀 🌞 (@justinsuntron) April 12, 2026

Sun said he was not just a critic watching from the outside. His own crypto wallet was blacklisted in 2025, he claimed, making him the project’s first and largest victim. He called the feature the opposite of what decentralized finance is supposed to stand for.

WLFI has not issued a formal public response to the allegations.


Borrowed Millions Against Its Own Tokens
The hidden control accusation arrived alongside a separate controversy that had already been gaining attention. According to blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, WLFI deposited close to 2 billion of its own tokens into the Dolomite lending protocol and borrowed more than $31 million in stablecoins against them.

The project now accounts for roughly 55% of Dolomite’s total liquidity — a concentration that has raised eyebrows among observers tracking the platform’s exposure.

Earlier transactions pointed

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Russian forces launched a wave of missile and drone attacks on multiple Ukrainian cities in the early hours of Thursday, leaving three people dead — among them a 12-year-old boy — and wounding more th

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China's new home prices extended their downward trend in March, according to fresh data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, though some of the country's largest cities began showing modest 

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Bitcoin should prepare now, even if quantum is a 'lab experiment’: Adam Back

Blockstream CEO Adam Back, an early pioneer of the crypto movement, said Bitcoiners should be looking at building quantum-resistant solutions now, even if the threat is still decades away.

“Quantum computing still has a lot to prove. Current systems are essentially lab experiments. I’ve followed the field for over 25 years, and progress has been incremental,” Back said at Paris Blockchain Week on Tuesday.

“That said, Bitcoin should prepare,” Back said, adding that the “safest approach” is to build optional upgrades that allow migration to quantum-resistant cryptography if needed.

Concerns that quantum computers could eventually break blockchain cryptography have fueled industry-wide fear that bad actors could use it to break into crypto wallets, plunging the market into chaos.

Source: Cointelegraph

Back said in November that the quantum threat is still 20 to 40 years away, while explaining to Bloomberg earlier this month that today’s quantum computers are slower than calculators.

Despite this, his Bitcoin development company, Blockstream, has a dedicated quantum team researching potential threat vectors to the Bitcoin network.

Part of that work has involved implementing hash-based signatures on Blockstream’s Bitcoin layer-2 Liquid Network, Back said at Paris Blockchain Week.

“Preparation is key. Making changes in a controlled way is far safer than reacting in a crisis.”

He added that the Taproot protocol could also support alternative signature schemes on the Bitcoin network without affecting current users

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Arthur Hayes says crypto markets are crashing because the community can't agree on why they're crashing


Arthur Hayes says the crypto crowd is getting hit while still fighting over the reason for the drop. In his latest essay, Arthur warns that: “I don’t know anything about war fighting,” and makes clear he has no inside line into what global leaders may do next.

What he does say he has is public data, basic math, propaganda AI agents, and a portfolio to protect.

He says there are really four possible outcomes, but one is useless for investors. Nuclear destruction is not something he thinks anyone can trade around, so he throws it out. That leaves three main paths, plus one middle case tied to a US blockade. Arthur says he is trying to find a portfolio setup that can beat hydrocarbons, food, and fuel prices in the best case, and in the worst case still do better than most major assets.

Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin comeback is waiting for Fed liquidity injection

In the first case, Arthur says the war stops and things go back to what they were before, but that still would not solve the deeper problem because the bigger threat is AI replacing white-collar workers across the US economy.

“The American economy is the most exposed because its GDP is ~70% driven by consumer spending. Consumers finance their materialism using bank credit, and these loans become assets on banks’ balance sheets,” says Arthur.

Arthur says the AI-led bust could be as serious as the 2008 subprime mess. He writes that rising consumer delinquencies are already showing up before the real layoff wave has even started.

He also gives a story from a crypto gaming founder who tested the latest Claude model during Christmas 2025, built usable code fast, then brought top engineers together to rethink the company.

After that, the firm built an agent workflow that coded all day and al

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Tim Draper Renews Bitcoin Target, Sees $250K in 18 Months as Inflation Pressures Weigh on Dollar



Tim Draper has reset his long-term bitcoin market case by renewing a $250,000 price target tied to inflation pressures and fiat weakness. The fresh prediction matters because it reinforces a conviction he has maintained despite earlier setbacks.

Key Takeaways:

Tim Draper renewed a $250K $BTC target, resetting his long-term forecast again.

Bitcoin’s outlook remains tied by Draper to inflation and weakening dollar dynamics.

Confidence now depends on bitcoin adoption validating Draper’s extended timeline.

Renewed Bitcoin Prediction Resets Tim Draper’s Market Case

Venture capitalist Tim Draper has doubled down on his long-term bitcoin outlook after revisiting the early setbacks that shaped his conviction in the asset. In an Apr. 14 post on social media platform X, he retold how his first attempt to gain exposure unfolded, why later market disruptions did not weaken his thesis, and how those experiences continue to inform his current expectations. The post centers on his early missteps and sustained confidence in $BTC’s long-term trajectory.

His post highlighted the renewed price call and drew attention back to his broader macro argument. Draper stressed:

“I have reason to believe that bitcoin will reach $250K in 18 months … eventually I expect the number to be higher as bitcoin rises and the dollar falls to inflationary pressures.”

That framing suggests he is again tying $BTC’s upside to weakening fiat purchasing power rather than short-term trading signals. The timing also matters because the new 18-month window effectively refreshes a target he had previously attached to earlier deadlines, including 2022, June 2023, and later 2025. With bitcoin still far below that threshold, the latest post functions as another reset of a forecast that remains central to his publi

Tim Draper Renews Bitcoin Target, Sees $250K in 18

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