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GSR introduces a redistribution layer built for scale Genius ecosystem activity generates constant transaction flow Each transaction creates built in tax pressure That pressure buys external assets fr

GSR introduces a redistribution layer built for scale

Genius ecosystem activity generates constant transaction flow

Each transaction creates built in tax pressure

That pressure buys external assets from open market

Purchased value flows directly to GSR holders

No staking no locking no claiming required

As buy pressure increases redistribution expands

As redistribution expands holder incentives strengthen

The system compounds through activity alone

Backed by CZ and YZi Labs the foundation is strong

GSR positions itself as the value capture layer

Turning volume into continuous passive yield

GSR Turns Genius Volume Into Automatic Holder Yiel

#Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Chinese-Canadian educator and Predictive History host Jiang Xueqin has stirred debate after arguing

#Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure 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.Was Bitcoin A CIA Project?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. Related Reading: BlackRock Is Buying Up Bitcoin & Ethereum Again, And The Numbers Are Staggering“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, beyo

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestDaily $5000U Airdrop Rain: Claim Yours Now! Wrapped XRP launches on Solana, enabling broader DeFi access for token holders Sol

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Wrapped XRP launches on Solana, enabling broader DeFi access for token holders
Solana said wrapped XRP (wXRP) is live on the blockchain via Hex Trust and LayerZero.

wXRP is available on Solana apps like Titan Exchange, Jupiter Exchange, Meteora and Phantom.

XRP holders can now access Solana’s DeFi ecosystem without selling their tokens, Solana said Friday.

"XRP is a digital asset native to the XRP Ledger, a decentralized public blockchain designed for fast, low-cost transactions," Solana posted to X. "wXRP is live on Solana via Hex Trust and LayerZero," it added.

The move allows XRP holders to retain exposure to the asset while tapping into Solana’s trading, liquidity and yield opportunities.

The move should expand XRP holders' exposure to the asset while tapping into Solana's decentralized finance ecosystem. wXRP is a 1:1-backed representation of XRP designed to expand the asset's utility.

Typically, XRP has functioned as an "institutional payment network" while Solana "operates as a decentralized application platform, powering the emergent DeFi, NFT, and gaming economies through raw speed and developer flexibility," according to a paper published by Ledger.

In December, in a similar move, Hex Trust said it planned to issue and custody wXRP to expand the asset's use in DeFi and cross-chain applications. Hex Trust said the wrapped asset is fully redeemable for native XRP held in its regulated custody, and users will also be able to access yield opportunities through supported DeFi platforms.

At the time, Hex Trust said wXRP would become available on Solana, Optimism, Ethereum, and HyperEVM.

"There's growing demand to use XRP across the wider crypto ecosystem and institutions, and so we are excited to see Hex Trust address this demand," RippleX SVP Markus Infanger said in December. 


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On April 18, news regarding the domestic AI giant DeepSeek potentially initiating its first external financing has been circulating within the industry. A recent report from a vertical media outlet in

Analysis: DeepSeek's External Financing Likely True, But Currently Not Investable

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!The Lightning Network isn’t ‘helplessly broken’ A post from Udi Wertheimer a few weeks a

The Lightning Network isn’t ‘helplessly broken’


A post from Udi Wertheimer a few weeks ago made headlines across crypto media with a stark claim: the Lightning Network is "helplessly broken" in a post-quantum world, and its developers can do nothing about it. The headline traveled fast. For businesses that have built real payment infrastructure on Lightning or are evaluating it, the implications were unsettling.

It deserves a measured response.

Wertheimer is a respected Bitcoin developer, and his underlying concern is legitimate: quantum computers, if they ever become sufficiently powerful, pose a real long-term challenge to the cryptographic systems on which Bitcoin and Lightning depend. That part is true, and the Bitcoin development community is already working on it seriously. But the framing of Lightning as "helplessly broken" obscures more than it reveals, and businesses making infrastructure decisions deserve a clearer picture.

What Wertheimer got right

Lightning channels require participants to share public keys with their counterparty when opening a payment channel. In a world where cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) exist, an attacker who obtains those public keys could theoretically use Shor's algorithm to derive the corresponding private key, and from there, steal funds.

This is a real structural property of how Lightning works. What the headline leaves out

The threat is far more specific and far more conditional than "your Lightning balance can be stolen."

First, the channels themselves are protected by a hash while they are open. Funding transactions use P2WSH (Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash), meaning the raw public keys inside the 2-of-2 multisig arrangement are hidden onchain for as long as the channel remains open. Lightning payments are also hash-based, routed through HTLCs (Hashed Time-Lock Contracts), which r

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestDaily $5000U Airdrop Rain: Claim Yours Now! HYPE Technical Analysis The earlier rally followed a well-formed higher low on the

HYPE Technical Analysis

The earlier rally followed a well-formed higher low on the daily chart. After a higher high of $43.77 on March 18, HYPE started to pull back. It retested prior higher highs and eventually found support around $35 on April 2.

Afterward, HYPE resumed an uptrend from the higher low at $34.47, targeting an upward push. This time, it had a golden cross as further fuel for the rally. This bullish crossover happened between the 200-day and 50-day moving averages on April 6. The latter crossed over the former, signaling that bearish momentum has exhausted.

The price expansion continued, pushing HYPE past its former higher high of $45.77 yesterday before the current consolidation started. With no clear resistance around this area, analysts expect a further push higher.



HYPE Technical Analysis

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

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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.

How a quantum computer can be used to actually ste

Geopolitical tensions took another turn on April 18 as Iran announced it has reasserted control over the Strait of Hormuz — one of the world’s most critical energy corridors. In response, U.S. Preside

Geopolitical tensions took another turn on April 18 as Iran announced it has reasserted control over the Strait of Hormuz — one of the world’s most critical energy corridors.
In response, U.S. President Donald Trump pushed back firmly, stating that Iran “cannot coerce” the United States. Speaking during a White House media briefing, Trump struck a somewhat balanced tone — acknowledging that ongoing discussions between the two countries are “very good” and progressing “very smoothly,” while also warning against any attempt to use the strait as leverage.
“We are talking to them… they want to block the strait again, but Iran cannot coerce us,” Trump said, hinting that further developments could emerge before the end of the day.
Meanwhile, Iran signaled a much tougher stance on the ground. A spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Headquarters stated that due to what it described as repeated U.S. violations of commitments, Iran has restored full control over the strait. The area, according to Iranian officials, is now under strict supervision by its armed forces.
This dual narrative — diplomatic optimism paired with military assertiveness — highlights the fragile balance currently shaping U.S.–Iran relations. While both sides are engaged in dialogue, actions on the ground suggest neither is willing to ease strategic pressure just yet.
Given that nearly 20% of the world’s oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, even the slightest disruption or escalation can ripple across global markets.


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The Ethereum Foundation exposed 100 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)‐linked IT workers embedded across roughly 53 crypto projects. Ethereum Foundation Levels Up Its Security With A Detecti

The Ethereum Foundation exposed 100 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)‐linked IT workers embedded across roughly 53 crypto projects.

Ethereum Foundation Levels Up Its Security With A Detective Program
The North Korean secret crypto-agents don’t rest, so the Ethereum Foundation decided it was time they put on the detective’s hat to track them before they too fell victims to them, just as Drift Protocol was at the beginning of the month. And so, yesterday afternoon the Foundation announced on an official blog post the starking results yielded by the ETH Rangers Program (and yes, everything related to North Korean hackers inevitably sounds straight out of an RPG or action movie).

The ETH Rangers Program has wrapped up and the results speak for themselves: $5.8M+ recovered, 785+ vulnerabilities reported, 100+ DPRK operatives identified, and so much more.

A decentralized defence for a decentralized network.

Read the full recap 👇

— EF Ecosystem Support Program (@EF_ESP) April 16, 2026

According to the blog post, the Ethereum Foundation teamed up with Secureum, The Red Guild, and Security Alliance (SEAL) in late 2024 to roll out said program. The initiative offered stipends to people carrying out public‐goods security work across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Related Reading: Blockchain Is South Korea’s New Fiscal Weapon — A Blow To Privacy?

The program’s mission consisted in backing independent security initiatives that strengthen Ethereum’s overall robustness, while spotlighting and rewarding contributors with a proven history of delivering high‐impact security work for the broader network.

After six months, the results of the program speak for itself.

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The ETH Rangers Program funded multiple crypto-security projects, but the Ketman Proj

The Ethereum Foundation exposed 100 Democratic Peo

XRP whales accumulate 20 million coinsSHIB just crossed one trillion threshold in outflowsEthereum outpaces Bitcoin as price hits $2,391 Advertisement XRP whales accumulate 20 million coinsXRP volatil

XRP whales accumulate 20 million coinsSHIB just crossed one trillion threshold in outflowsEthereum outpaces Bitcoin as price hits $2,391 Advertisement XRP whales accumulate 20 million coinsXRP volatility hits 2026 low as whales accumulate 20 million coins. The XRP price continues to trade within an abnormally tight range, according to the Bollinger Bands technical indicator as per TradingView, which has recorded a compression down to 6%. This marks the lowest volatility level since the beginning of the year and signals that a major move is expected for the XRP market.For comparison, in January 2026, volatility reached 10%, after which the price increased by 28% by mid-March. A similar style compression to 7.7% led to a 17% impulse within five days. Today’s 6% stands as a zone of extreme compression, where any large market order could trigger a chain reaction for XRP. HOT Stories XRP Signals Breakout Setup, Shiba Inu (SHIB) Crosses 1 Trillion Threshold, Ethereum Outpaces Bitcoin — U.Today Crypto Digest Mow: Strategy's Purchasing Price to Be New BTC Floor Declining trading volumes during such compressions often indicate the dominance of market makers and the absence of strong market drivers, keeping the price within the $1.30-$1.38 range.  Advertisement SHIB just crossed one trillion threshold in outflowsShiba Inu is seeing massive exchange outflows, hinting at quiet accumulation despite a still-weak price trend.With exchange outflows exceeding one trillion SHIB in a brief amount of time, Shiba Inu is exhibiting a change in on-chain behavior. That is a significant shift in the positioning of large holders, particularly in light of the months-long downtrend and low demand.Both exchange inflows and outflows have increased, but outflows are outpacing inflows, according to the data. Net flow is still marginally negative, with total outflows at about 1.24 trillion SHIB and inflows at about 1.13 trillion SHIB. Advertisement At the same time, exchange reserves are still slig

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