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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestDaily $5000U Airdrop Rain: Claim Yours Now!Trump nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director 2026 on Thursday, tapping a form

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Trump nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director 2026 on Thursday, tapping a former Navy rear admiral and deputy surgeon general from his first term to lead an agency that has cycled through four leaders in the past 12 months and remains without a Senate-confirmed director since Dr. Susan Monarez was fired last August. Summary Schwartz, 57, holds a medical degree from Brown University, a law degree, and a master’s in public health from the Uniformed Services University, and spent 24 years in uniformed service including as the US Coast Guard’s chief medical officer and as deputy surgeon general from 2019 to early 2021. If confirmed by the Senate, she would become the agency’s second permanent director of Trump’s second term, with acting director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya expected to remain in an interim capacity during the confirmation process, which could take several months. Trump also simultaneously named four additional CDC and HHS leadership appointments including Sean Slovenski, former president of Walmart Health, as CDC deputy director and chief operating officer. The CDC director 2026 nomination arrives at one of the most unstable stretches in the agency’s modern history. The CDC has had no Senate-confirmed permanent director for all but about four weeks of Trump’s second term. Monarez was confirmed in July 2025 and fired just weeks later for reportedly not complying with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s demands on vaccines and personnel. Three acting leaders followed. The 210-day Vacancies Act clock ran out on Bhattacharya’s acting designation last month. Trump called Schwartz “a STAR!” in a Truth Social post Thursday, adding that she had “the knowledge, experience, and TOP degrees to restore the GOLD STANDARD OF SCIENCE at the CDC.” The announcement came on the same day Kennedy testified before the House Ways and Means Committee an

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Iran's Friday announcement that the Strait of Hormuz would be opened during the current ceasefire triggered one of the sharpest oil reversals of the year.

Brent crude fell 12.95% to $86.52, and WTI dropped 14.26% to $81.19, both their lowest levels since Mar. 11 and the largest single-day declines since Apr. 8. US stocks surged, bond yields dropped, the dollar weakened, and Bitcoin registered an intraday high of $78,336.

Traders stripped the war premium they had spent weeks layering into crude prices, and risk assets repriced accordingly.

Yesterday, the Strait was opened on Iranian terms. Commercial vessels required authorization from Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization and the IRGC and had to transit through Iran-designated safe lanes, but the US blockade on Iranian shipping remains fully in place until a broader diplomatic settlement.

That window has already narrowed. As of Apr. 18, Iran said it had closed the Strait again after the US left its blockade in place, pushing the market back into a countdown toward the Apr. 22 ceasefire deadline.

Only eight oil and gas tankers moved during the reopening, underscoring how far the route remains from anything resembling normal traffic.

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The Middle East has de-escalated notably after Israel and Lebanon reached a 10-day ceasefire agreement, with the U.S.-Iran truce window entering a critical phase. This has triggered a sharp drop in oi

Stablecoin Inflows on Nexo Double as Investors Seek Passive Yield in As the market continues to fluctuate with price volatility and cautious sentiment, Stablecoins are taking on an increasingly import

Stablecoin Inflows on Nexo Double as Investors Seek Passive Yield in As the market continues to fluctuate with price volatility and cautious sentiment, Stablecoins are taking on an increasingly important role as a safe haven for investors seeking stability and yield. According to recent data from CryptoQuant, there has been a dramatic change in how investors are using stablecoins to protect their investments, create yields, or escape from volatility. Since February, Nexo has averaged $8 million/week in stablecoin deposits. Recently their average weekly stablecoin deposit amount has risen to $15 million, 



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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Aztec ETH Sale: Strategic Treasury Move Completes $71M Token Sale Liquidation In a signi

Aztec ETH Sale: Strategic Treasury Move Completes $71M Token Sale Liquidation



In a significant treasury management move, Ethereum privacy-focused Layer 2 solution Aztec Network has completed the liquidation of all $ETH raised during its 2023 token sale, depositing a final $12.33 million tranche to Coinbase. This strategic decision marks the conclusion of a carefully executed financial operation that began with a substantial $59.13 million fundraising effort last December. The blockchain community now analyzes the implications of this treasury rebalancing for both Aztec’s operational runway and broader Layer 2 ecosystem dynamics.

Aztec $ETH Sale Completes Treasury Rebalancing

According to blockchain analytics reported by AmberCN, Aztec Network transferred 5,020 $ETH to Coinbase approximately nine hours before public disclosure. Consequently, this transaction represents the final portion of the 19,388.4 $ETH originally secured during the project’s December 2023 token generation event. Initially valued at $59.13 million, the total $ETH holdings appreciated significantly before the systematic liquidation. Therefore, the completed sale demonstrates sophisticated treasury management practices increasingly common among well-funded blockchain projects.

Blockchain projects typically manage multi-asset treasuries containing:

Native tokens for ecosystem incentives

Stablecoins for operational expenses

Bitcoin or Ethereum as reserve assets

Diversified holdings for risk management

Aztec’s approach mirrors strategies employed by other major Layer 2 networks. For instance, Optimism and Arbitrum maintain substantial $ETH reserves while diversifying into stablecoins for predictable budgeting. Meanwhile, this treasury rebalancing occurs during a period of relative stability in Ethereum’s price, suggesting deliberate timing rather than reactionary selling.

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Why the US Government’s $606K Bitfinex Bitcoin Transfer to Coinbase Prime Matters
The US government has moved around $606,000 worth of BTC to a Coinbase Prime wallet, research from on-chain intelligence portal Arkham shows. While the value of the cryptocurrency involved was minuscule compared to the overall stash in the government wallets, the origin of these BTC can be traced back to the Bitfinex hack of 2016. The move is raising questions about whether this is a test run to transfer these BTC to institutional wallets, signaling the end of this nearly decade-long high-profile hack.
The cryptocurrency exchange witnessed one of the largest cyber attacks in the history of the digital currency market, with users losing 119,754 BTC in total. Ilya Lichtenstein exploited a vulnerability in Bitfinex’s multi-signature withdrawal system, authorizing over 2,000 fraudulent transactions, and was able to steal a huge amount from the exchange’s wallets.

American authorities recovered roughly 94,000 BTC from the hackers, and the stash has been sitting in government wallets ever since. It is worth a whopping $7.1 billion based on the cryptocurrency’s latest valuation. Ten years ago, it was worth just $71 million. 

Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, were both co-accused in this case and were arrested in 2022 under money laundering charges. Both received multi-year sentences after pleading guilty.


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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Daily $5000U Airdrop Rain: Claim Yours Now!Bitcoin’s security relies on elliptic curve cryptography, a one-way ma

Bitcoin’s security relies on elliptic curve cryptography, a one-way mathematical function that makes deriving a private key from a public key effectively impossible for traditional computers.

Shor’s algorithm allows a sufficiently powerful quantum computer to efficiently reverse this one-way function, turning a bitcoin public key into its corresponding private key and enabling theft.



A recent Google-led paper outlines a realistic attack in which a future quantum computer could, within about nine minutes, derive a private key from an exposed public key and potentially front-run or drain vulnerable bitcoin wallets.

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestClaim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation Challenge Ripple prepares to release almost $1.5 billion of XRP in less than 2 weeks R

Ripple prepares to release almost $1.5 billion of XRP in less than 2 weeks

Ripple is set to unlock 1 billion XRP from its escrow contracts on May 1, continuing a monthly release program established in 2017.

At the time, the company placed 55 billion XRP into cryptographically secured escrow on the XRP Ledger to improve transparency and predictability around supply.

Under this mechanism, 1 billion XRP becomes available at the start of each month. The structured approach was designed to address concerns about Ripple's large holdings and to avoid sudden market shocks.

Now, the May release is another routine step in a schedule expected to run through at least 2027, as the escrowed balance gradually declines.

With XRP currently trading at $1.47, the upcoming unlock carries a notional value of about $1.47 billion, though the actual figure will vary with price movements.

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