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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestMarket Rally! Claim Your AirdropEthereum price climbed to an intraday high of $2,375 on Friday as Ethereum ETFs continued to d

Ethereum price climbed to an intraday high of $2,375 on Friday as Ethereum ETFs continued to draw steady institutional interest. Summary Ethereum price climbs to $2,375 as spot ETFs extend inflow streak to six days, drawing nearly $300 million and signaling renewed institutional demand. Improving macro sentiment, including easing U.S.-Iran tensions, and continued whale accumulation are strengthening bullish expectations. ETH nears a breakout above $2,400, with technical indicators pointing to a move toward $2,600, while $2,200 remains key downside support. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price was trading at $2,375 last check on Friday, April 17. The largest altcoin in the market was up 1% over the past 24 hours and up over 7% in the past 7 days. Ethereum price rallied as institutional investors continue to show steady demand for the token. According to data from SoSoValue, the 10 U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $18 million in net inflows on April 16, led by BlackRock’s ETHA. Notably, these institutional products experienced back-to-back inflows for the sixth straight trading day, drawing in nearly $300 million in the period. Although the flows have been moderate in nature when compared to the beginning of the year, when these products drew in over $100 million a day, they suggest that institutional investors are starting to accumulate the asset with renewed confidence. You might also like: Trump says U.S. is “very close to making a deal with Iran”, how will Bitcoin react? With reports suggesting that the U.S. and Iran could end their ongoing conflict soon, Ethereum ETFs could see a boon in investor sentiment as capital flows back into riskier assets. Meanwhile, Ethereum treasury firm Bimine has also been aggressively building its holdings with its most recent purchase completed on Monday, April 13. At the moment, the firm holds roughly

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#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 ContestMarket Rally! Claim Your AirdropIran’s move to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz while Donald Trump keeps Iran’s ships under b

Iran’s move to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz while Donald Trump keeps Iran’s ships under blockade has left oil and Bitcoin trading the ceasefire headline by headline. Summary Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is fully open to commercial traffic again. Trump vows the US naval blockade on Iranian ships and ports “will remain in full force.” Bitcoin holds near war‑zone ranges as oil traders weigh partial relief for supply. Iran’s announcement that it has fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz has eased the worst energy shock fears, but President Donald Trump’s decision to maintain a US naval blockade on Iranian ships and ports has kept oil and crypto markets on edge. Around 20% of the world’s oil normally moves through the strait, making it one of the most important chokepoints for global energy and a key macro driver for Bitcoin’s (BTC) role as a geopolitical hedge. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X that the waterway is now “fully open” to commercial vessels, signaling Tehran’s willingness to restore flows even as a fragile 10‑day truce between Israel and Iran‑backed Hezbollah in Lebanon holds. Trump initially echoed that tone, posting that Iran had declared the strait “fully open and ready for full passage” before reversing minutes later and insisting the blockade will continue “UNTIL SUCH TIME AS OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE.” Hormuz reopening meets unresolved U.S. blockade Trump first ordered the blockade earlier this week after Iran partially restricted traffic through the strait, a move Washington framed as a breach of the Pakistan‑brokered ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran. At the time, Trump said the navy would enforce an “all or none” policy, effectively turning Hormuz into leverage over nuclear talks, tanker insurance and any attempt by Tehran to monetize exports via schemes such as the mooted $1‑per‑barrel crypto

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8,000 Jobs'—Polymarket Sees Tech Layoff Surge As Meta AI Push Bites"We're starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person." That was Mark Z

8,000 Jobs'—Polymarket Sees Tech Layoff Surge As Meta AI Push Bites"We're starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person." That was Mark Zuckerberg, talking up the rise of artificial intelligence inside Meta this year. On Friday, Reuters reported the corollary: the Meta layoffs investors had been bracing for are coming, with roughly 8,000 jobs cut starting May 20, about 10% of its 79,000-person workforce.
Bettors on Polymarket, the prediction market backed by Wall Street's Intercontinental Exchange, saw it coming. The site's Meta headcount and Meta share-price markets, with about $112,000 in combined volume, were already pricing the cuts as both inevitable and good for the stock before Reuters published. The broader "Tech Layoffs Up or Down in 2026?" book has been at 77% Up all month and the Q1 companion has collapsed to 96% Up, essentially calling the quarter resolved before it formally settles on May 5.



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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestMarket Rally! Claim Your AirdropNVIDIA Ising has launched as the world’s first family of open-source quantum AI models, target

NVIDIA Ising has launched as the world’s first family of open-source quantum AI models, targeting the two biggest engineering bottlenecks in quantum computing: processor calibration and error correction decoding. Summary NVIDIA Ising delivers up to 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate quantum error correction decoding than current open-source benchmarks, with calibration workflows shrinking from days to hours. The model family includes Ising Calibration, a 35-billion-parameter vision-language model, and Ising Decoding, a 3D convolutional neural network framework, both available on GitHub and Hugging Face. Early adopters include Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Harvard, IQM Quantum Computers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the UK National Physical Laboratory. NVIDIA Ising launched April 15, 2026, as the world’s first open-source AI model family purpose-built for quantum computing, providing researchers and enterprises with tools to address processor calibration and error correction, the two engineering barriers standing between today’s fragile qubits and large-scale useful quantum systems. The models achieve up to 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate quantum error correction decoding compared to pyMatching, the current open-source benchmark. What the Ising Models Actually Do The family has two domains. Ising Calibration is a 35-billion-parameter vision-language model that automates quantum processor tuning, compressing calibration workflows that previously required days of manual setup to hours of automated execution. Ising Decoding is a 3D convolutional neural network framework for real-time quantum error correction, available in two variants optimized for either speed or accuracy depending on the application. Both models are distributed through GitHub, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA’s build.nvidia.com platform, integrated with CUDA-Q and NVQLink. NVID

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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeHTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Part of the answer sits in the liquidity hierarchy. Bitcoin still commands t

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Part of the answer sits in the liquidity hierarchy. Bitcoin still commands the first response in macro stress, because it carries the deepest liquidity, the broadest institutional recognition, and the strongest reflex move during periods of geopolitical uncertainty.

XRP has a narrower lane. It needs investors to believe that utility can translate into token demand on a timeline that the market can price.

That challenge has shown up repeatedly in the split between Ripple’s business traction and XRPL activity and on XRP’s amplified beta during broad crypto drawdowns. The current move forces that same issue into a macro context.

Part of the answer sits in the liquidity hierarchy

Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeHTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!XRP’s core pitch hinges on stress in the global financial system. If higher 

XRP’s core pitch hinges on stress in the global financial system. If higher costs, tighter liquidity, and cross-border friction are increasing, the token should be moving closer to its use-case value. Instead, it is still reacting like a high-beta asset, which raises a more practical question for investors: when does utility start to matter in price?

The connection to XRP runs deeper than broad crypto weakness. Bitcoin usually absorbs the first layer of geopolitical and liquidity shock. XRP sits closer to the payment, liquidity, and settlement conversation.

XRP’s core pitch hinges on stress in the global fi

Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation Contest Blockchain Forum 2026, Moscow Bitcoin Surges, Oil Slides as Trump Says Iran Has Announced Strait of Hormuz Reopening Total cr

Bitcoin Surges, Oil Slides as Trump Says Iran Has Announced Strait of Hormuz Reopening

Total crypto market cap rose about 3% over the past 24 hours to around 2.61 trillion dollars.

WTI crude was quoted down about 12% on the day at around 83 dollars.

A sudden shift in Middle East tensions sent shockwaves through global markets, pushing Bitcoin to its highest level in over two months as traders reacted to signs of a possible breakthrough between the United States and Iran.

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Total crypto market capitalization rose to about 2.61 trillion dollars, up 3.16% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin gained roughly 3% on the day and 6% over the week, while Ethereum added about 4% daily and 8% weekly, reinforcing the risk‑on shift in majors.

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XRP advanced around 3% in 24 hours and 9% over seven days, and Solana posted a more moderate 0.86% daily rise and 5% weekly gain, showing the rally was broad but still led by the largest assets.



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