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Will XLM hit $0.1800 amid a surge in transaction activity?



Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are currently trading in the red, but Ripple ($XRP) is outperforming the broader cryptocurrency market.

Stellar ($XLM) moves similarly to $XRP as they are both cross-border tokens. However, $XLM is currently outperforming $XRP as it is up 3.5% in the last 24 hours.

$XLM briefly hit the $0.169 level on Friday, after breaking above the descending trendline and rallying over 10% so far this week.

The bullish sentiment continues to increase as $XLM’s network transactions reach a quarterly high, alongside positive funding rates and bullish momentum indicators.

$XLM rally as network activity reaches a quarterly high

$XLM is one of the best performers among the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap. The positive performance comes amid improving on-chain data.

Chainspect, a blockchain fundamentals tracker, revealed that Stellar processed over 14.19 million transactions on Thursday, its highest level in the past quarter.

These surging transactions highlight increased interest and liquidity among traders in the $XLM, supporting a bullish outlook.

The improvement in $XLM’s on-chain data is also supported by retail demand from leveraged traders.

Data obtained from CoinGlass shows that $XLM’s funding rates have also flipped positive on Monday and read at 0.011% on Friday.

This shows that the longs are paying the shorts. Usually, when funding rates have turned positive and surged, the $XLM price has rallied sharply.

The futures Open Interest (OI) also reads $94.73 million on Friday, up from the $82 million recorded last week.

The increasing OI and the surging network activity could push $XLM’s price higher in the near term, with the bulls already targeting a 4-hour swing high.

$XLM price forecast

Similar to $XRP, the $XLM/USD 4-hour chart is bearish and eff

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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeHTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Chinese-Canadian educator and Predictive History host Jiang Xueqin has stirr

Chinese-Canadian educator and Predictive History host Jiang Xueqin has stirred debate after arguing that Bitcoin may have been created by the CIA or a broader US “deep state,” rather than by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. The claim, made on the April 15 episode of the Jack Neel Podcast, quickly drew pushback from prominent Bitcoin commentators who said Jiang’s argument rests on a basic misunderstanding of how the network works.

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Jiang, a Beijing-based commentator with 2.3 million YouTube subscribers, framed the theory around what he described as a game-theory process of elimination. He said the standard origin story “makes no sense,” asking why someone would spend years or even decades developing blockchain technology only to release it to the world for free and then disappear.

“So then you have to ask yourself three questions,” Jiang said. “First of all is who would have the technology and the expertise to create something like the blockchain. Second of all, you have to ask who would benefit from this blockchain creation. The third question you want to ask is why would they keep it secret?”

From there, Jiang argued that the likely candidates were US intelligence and defense agencies, citing the role government-linked institutions played in building foundational internet infrastructure. “Probably the same people who created the internet, probably the same people who created GPS, DARPA, NSA, CIA, probably these guys,” he said. In his telling, blockchain would serve two strategic purposes: surveillance and covert financing.

He pushed the argument further by suggesting that the network’s value depends on people believing it sits outside political control. “The answer is only if people believe that this was transparent, open and beyond authority, beyond political control, would it have value,” Jiang said. “So

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Bitcoin Derivatives Flash the First Warning Sign of a Quantum Selloff, Says Joshua Lim


Actors and figures: Joshua Lim (FalconX) estimates that 1.7 million $BTC, valued at $127 billion, are exposed to quantum attacks.

Dates and signals: The April 16 analysis highlights that derivatives and long-term options will show red flags before on-chain activity.

Market scenarios: An institutional hard fork could trigger massive liquidations and unprecedented price volatility.

The arrival of quantum computing is the greatest technical and political challenge in the cryptocurrency market. Joshua Lim, co-head of markets at FalconX, stated that quantum risk in Bitcoin will initially manifest in the derivatives markets.

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— Joshua Lim (@joshua_j_lim) April 16, 2026

At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading around $75,024, as the sector analyzes how to protect Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1.1 million $BTC. The volume of options and the bias of long-term “puts” already reflect a demand for protection against extreme systemic events.

Typically, forks like the one in 2017 occurred in a retail market of $45 billion. However, with a current market cap of $1.5 trillion, such an event under the quantum risk in Bitcoin would have much more drastic consequences.

Lim argues that the problem is not just mathematical; it is deeply sociopolitical. The community must decide whether to burn old coins through governance or allow a state actor with quantum power to attempt to claim those inactive assets.

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