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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Post To Earn BonusTraditional equities like the S&P 500 are staging a historic comeback, shaking off weeks of geo

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Traditional equities like the S&P 500 are staging a historic comeback, shaking off weeks of geopolitical anxiety to chart new all-time highs.

Yet Bitcoin, which has historically been a synchronized beneficiary of risk-on sentiment, is noticeably dragging its feet, leaving investors questioning what is missing from its narrative.

The S&P 500 closed higher by 0.8% this week, pushing the benchmark index to a record 7,022.95 and eclipsing its previous peak established in late January.

The milestone marks a dramatic reversal from the turbulent first quarter, where the index plummeted nearly 10% to a local bottom of 6,316.91 on March 30 amid the US-Israel-Iran conflict and subsequent oil price shocks.

While Wall Street celebrates a return to “greed” and heavily capitalized tech stocks reclaim their market dominance, Bitcoin remains ensnared in a prolonged consolidation phase.

The flagship cryptocurrency continues to trade significantly below its previous all-time high, highlighting a rare and persistent decoupling from traditional risk assets that has not been observed with this severity since 2020.

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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Post To Earn BonusBitcoin funding rates have dropped to their lowest levels since 2023, signalling heavy short po

Bitcoin funding rates have dropped to their lowest levels since 2023, signalling heavy short positioning even as prices trend higher.

Despite the current sustained stretch of negative funding throughout March and April, bitcoin has continued to grind higher, climbing from the low to mid $60,000s to around $75,000.

Historically, deeply negative funding rates have coincided with local bottoms, including March 2020, mid 2021, and the FTX collapse in 2022.

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Anthropic reportedly introduced a highly specialized AI system called Claude Mythos Preview, designed to detect vulnerabilities in smart contracts at machine speed. Unlike typical AI tools, this model is described as so powerful that it has not been released publicly due to safety concerns.
The key worry for the crypto industry is how quickly this kind of AI could shift the balance in DeFi security. Instead of slow, human-led audits discovering bugs, AI-driven systems could potentially identify and exploit weaknesses in seconds—before developers even realize there is an issue.
Security experts, including leaders from blockchain security firms like Cyvers, warn that the financial impact could be severe. In theory, AI-assisted exploits could expose hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in decentralized finance protocols, especially in complex or unaudited smart contracts.
The broader concern is not just about better hacking tools, but about speed and scale. In a fast-moving on-chain environment, even a small vulnerability could be turned into an irreversible loss almost instantly, leaving little or no reaction time for human defenders.
This raises a new reality for crypto security: the race is no longer just between attackers and auditors, but increasingly between human oversight and machine-speed intelligence.

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Cardano's Charles Hoskinson says Bitcoin's quantum fix is a hard fork that can't save Satoshi's coins

Bitcoin's core developers earlier this week proposed freezing 8 million coins to defend against quantum attackers.

But Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson believes it still can't save coins belonging to the network's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto, per a video posted to his YouTube channel late Wednesday.

Hoskinson said Bitcoin's proposed defense against quantum computers is both technically mislabeled and structurally incapable of protecting the network's oldest coins, including the roughly 1 million bitcoin attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto.

He argued that BIP-361, the proposal from developer Jameson Lopp and others to phase out quantum-vulnerable bitcoin addresses, is being presented as a soft fork but would functionally require a hard fork because it invalidates existing signature schemes that users are actively relying on.

"To actually do this, you need a hard fork," Hoskinson said. The distinction matters because Bitcoin's development culture has historically opposed hard forks, viewing them as violations of the network's immutability. BIP-361 authors have described the proposal as a soft fork, a characterization Hoskinson called a lie.

A soft fork tightens the rules so old software still works but can't use the new features. A hard fork changes the rules so fundamentally that old software stops working entirely and the network splits unless everyone upgrades.

BIP-361 suggests that users with frozen quantum-vulnerable funds could reclaim them by constructing a zero-knowledge proof tied to their BIP-39 seed phrase, a standard for generating wallet keys from a recoverable phrase.

Hoskinson argued this approach cannot rescue approximately 1.7 million bitcoin that predate BIP-39's introduction in 2013, including the roughly 1 million coins a

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In the Fed’s own proposal details, the logic is explicit. Banks could use an intermediary, such as a correspondent bank, for the international portion of a transaction and use FedNow for the domestic U.S. leg.

That is a narrow regulatory change on paper. In practice, it reaches directly into the operational space XRP has spent years trying to own, faster movement of money across borders with fewer delays, less friction, and lower dependence on idle pre-funded capital.

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The 24-hour trap: Why the UK’s new crypto rules could catch some firms off guard

The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing crypto rules that could quietly expand the definition of custody, potentially sweeping in platforms and software providers that don’t consider themselves custodians.

The FCA published its Cryptoasset Perimeter Guidance on Wednesday, which includes a few technical traps for firms handling clients' crypto assets.

The rules draw a red line at the 24-hour mark for custody. Any firm or crypto platform or app holding client assets for longer than a day during trade settlement will likely fall under the regulated custodian classification, which triggers a requirement for a full safeguarding-license.

Validators and node operators also need to proceed with caution. The regulator warned those involved in those activities will lose their pure tech exemption the moment they provide “added value” features. That includes things like user dashboards, yields or reward-compounding tools. In those cases, they must seek full approval for arranging staking.

“Our new perimeter gives us the tools to strengthen protections for consumers and support fair, transparent and orderly markets as the sector matures,” the FCA stated in the paper.

Also noteworthy is that for the first time, the FC has addressed the “shadow custody” issue. The financial watchdog made it clear that if a crypto service provider allows it to theoretically override a client’s authority, it is officially a custodian even if it guarantees it will never exert that power.

“The fact that an arrangement involves smart contracts, public blockchains or some elements of decentralisation does not determine the perimeter position or place the arrangement outside of regulation,” the document noted.

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Bitcoin price prediction turns cautious on Thursday as BTC hovers near $74,921, with profit-taking slowing a ceasefire-driven rally that pulled in $597.5 million in spot ETF inflows over two days. Sum

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XRP "Boring" Price Hides Strong On-Chain Signal The price of XRP may be moving sideways near $1.35, but underlying data suggests a very different story is unfolding beneath the surface.

A fresh analysis from community figure Xaif points to the Network Value to Transactions (NVT) ratio as a key signal investors may be overlooking. Market participants often describe this metric as crypto's equivalent of a price-to-earnings ratio.

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XRP trades sideways near $1.35, but falling NVT signals stronger real usage backing its current valuation.

NVT dropped from 1,200+ to ~170, suggesting less speculation and more utility-driven demand.

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