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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Polkadot recovers 17% after Hyperbridge exploit: Will DOT’s gains continue? The Hyperbri

Polkadot recovers 17% after Hyperbridge exploit: Will DOT’s gains continue?

 The Hyperbridge exploit caused Polkadot [$DOT] to lose a significant portion of its market cap, but it has since fully recovered.

 The altcoin’s price crashed after a hacker minted 1 billion $DOT tokens on Ethereum [$ETH] but only sold them for $237K due to lack of liquidity.  The team clarified that the actual loss had ballooned to $2.5 million as the team made efforts to recover the funds.

 However, the assurance that Polkadot’s core network security remained intact fueled a 17% price recovery.

 What drove $DOT’s price recovery?

 A statement released by the team after the exploit assured users of security, as the core network had not been affected.  It’s the bridged $DOT tokens on Ethereum.

 As a result, the community sentiment returned to 82% bullish from 954.1K voters, as per CoinMarketCap.  Consequently, the price of the altcoin rallied from $1.146 to $1.354.

 The relief brought about a rebound in network activity.  As per Artemis data, the number of transactions increased by 1,400, from 10.5K to 11.9K, in just one day.

 Additionally, daily active users (DAU) increased by 1.67x even though the figures remained relatively low.  DAU rose from 3,000 to 5,000, indicating users were gradually returning to the network.

 Source: Artemis

 The Total Value Locked (TVL) also experienced a surge of about 11.29% in a day, while the stablecoin market cap grew to $77.83 million after the massive drop.

 Moreover, the altcoin commanded a significant amount of daily trading volume of about $403 million.  However, the revenue of the network remained low as it attempted to get back on its feet.

Polkadot recovers 17% after Hyperbridge exploit: W

Following the broader market recovery, sentiment appears to be shifting in the XRP market as signs of renewed bullish momentum start to take hold. A growing bullish momentum implies that buyers are gr

Following the broader market recovery, sentiment appears to be shifting in the XRP market as signs of renewed bullish momentum start to take hold. A growing bullish momentum implies that buyers are gradually stepping back in. However, a key metric suggests a lingering underlying weakness beneath the surface.

The Real State Of The XRP Market

After a period of uncertainty and subdued price action, XRP is gaining bullish traction, drawing closer to reclaiming the $1.50 mark. Even with the newfound strength of the altcoin, certain indicators show the broader market trend still appears to be weak and bearish, creating a layer of uncertainty.

While it may seem bullish, Teddy, a crypto expert, has drawn attention to the XRP Sharpe Ratio, which is offering a sobering view of the XRP market. The key metric is trending in negative territory, indicating that conditions remain in a post-pain phase. What this means is investors are still recovering from earlier drawdowns despite a period of market stabilization.

According to Teddy, the Sharpe Ratio is a crucial indicator that measures beyond price action. It also shows whether the market is delivering enough return for the volatility behind the move, making it important for a phase filter, not as a trigger. When the ratio travels deep into positive territory, the move is typically considered mature, and the reward is already getting stretched.

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Source: Chart from Teddy on X

However, those are often late-trend or overheated phases. In the opposite scenario, where the metric falls deep into negative territory, the market is moving through pain, and this is not an efficient trend. This is due to the fact that reset phases and better long-term entry condi

Following the broader market recovery, sentiment appears to be shifting in the XRP market as signs of renewed bullish momentum start to tak

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Bitcoin’s recent price behavior has kept traders split between those expecting another leg down and those calling that a bottom is already in. That tension is now feeding different technical analyses, with one analyst arguing that the probability of a deeper crash has dropped significantly based on long-term signals.

Chance Of Bitcoin Making New Lows Is Very Small
Bitcoin has spent months testing the patience of its holders since its all-time high of $126,000 in 2025. According to crypto analyst Sykodelic, there is a compelling case that the drawdown is done and that the probability of Bitcoin revisiting new lows at this point has dropped massively.

Sykodelic’s rationale leans heavily on the behavior of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) on the weekly candlestick timeframe chart. According to his analysis posted on X, Bitcoin has just printed a powerful bullish break on the weekly RSI, and what makes this particular reading extraordinary is not just where it bounced from but how low it got before doing so.


Source: Chart from Sykodelic on X
The weekly RSI has only fallen below 30 on three occasions in BTC’s history, with the most recent being Q1 2026. However, the RSI is now back into the normal zone, and it has broken above a descending trendline that touches lower highs. According to the analyst, this scenario means that the probabilities are now very slim for new lows of any kind.

The Bottom Signals Have Stacked Up
The RSI break did not arrive on its own. Sykodelic noted that multiple bottom indicators have converged simultaneously, a convergence he described as reaching a very high degree. According to him, about 12 important bottom indicators have fired, and Bitcoin is showing it here.

The broader data support his reading. Bitcoin exchange reserves have fallen to seven-year lows while whale wallets are now accumulating more than 

Bitcoin’s recent price behavior has kept traders s

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Market Updates: CoinGecko Reports 39% Drop in Q1 CEX Volumes, Arthur Hayes Discloses 90% Bitcoin Position, Key Researcher Josh Stark Exits Ethereum Foundation
A fresh analysis from CoinGecko indicates that the cryptocurrency market has entered a sustained “crypto winter” in the first quarter of 2026, reversing much of the momentum seen in late 2025.

According to the report, total crypto market capitalization declined by more than 20% in Q1 2026. Trading activity also weakened sharply. Spot volumes across the top 10 centralized exchanges dropped to $2.7 trillion in Q1, down from $4.5 trillion in the previous quarter, a steep 39% decline.

Bitcoin reflected this broader weakness, falling 22% over the same period. This came despite having reached an all-time high of roughly $126,000 six months earlier.

Notably, Bitcoin underperformed traditional equity markets during the same period. The NASDAQ Composite declined 7.1%, while the S&P 500 fell 4.8%, marking their weakest quarterly performance since 2022.

CoinGecko links the broader risk-off environment to a combination of geopolitical and monetary policy pressures. Market sentiment was dampened following US–Israeli strikes on Iran in February 2026.

Meanwhile, expectations of tighter monetary policy, associated with the nomination of Kevin Warsh, further weighed on risk assets.



Market Updates: CoinGecko Reports 39% Drop in Q1

The cryptocurrency market extended its decline in Q1 2026, transitioning into what CoinGecko describes as a sustained “crypto winter,” with total market capitalization falling 20.4% to $2.4 trillion. 

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#Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto founder Joe McCann's passport is sitting with Zanzibar police. He isn't going anywhere until

#Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto founder Joe McCann's passport is sitting with Zanzibar police. He isn't going anywhere until they get answers. Related Reading: X Money's Crypto Ambitions Draw Fire From Senator Over Security FearsAuthorities Hold McCann Pending AutopsyTanzanian police are questioning McCann, founder of the crypto hedge fund Asymmetric, after his fiancée, Ashly Robinson, 31, died on April 9 at a hospital in Zanzibar. Robinson had been rushed there after hotel staff found her unresponsive in her room the day before. Based on reports from NBC News and CBS News, police have ruled her death a suicide but they are holding McCann's passport while they await the results of a formal autopsy. The couple had been staying at the same hotel when a dispute arose between them. Officials said the two were separated and moved to different rooms following what police described as a "misunderstanding." Staff later found Robinson in her room with a belt around her neck.McCann has not commented publicly. He could not be reached for comment. Ashly Robinson, right, with her sister, Alyssa Endres. Source: Alyssa Endres Family Pushes Back On Suicide RulingRobinson's relatives are not satisfied with the official account. Her sister, Alyssa Endres, told NBC News that "none of this makes sense." According to the family, Robinson had recently celebrated her 31st birthday and her engagement to McCann both of which had happened just days before her death. Endres described her sister as happy at the time. Robinson, who went by the name Ashlee Jenae on social media, posted her last photo April 5, showing her feeding a giraffe while she celebrated her birthday. The family's challenge to the police ruling adds another layer of uncertainty to a case that is already far from closed. 

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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Most investors tracking XRP are watching the wrong screen. XRP’s price action has struggled to show 

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Most investors tracking XRP are watching the wrong screen. XRP’s price action has struggled to show the scale of what has been building around Ripple, RLUSD, and the XRP Ledger. The price action is full of red monthly candles while a much broader institutional foundation is being assembled underneath it.That disconnect is what enthusiast X Finance Bull leaned on in a recent post on X. Recent developments from Ripple itself suggest that the claim is not as easy to dismiss as it once was. Ripple’s Story Is Growing Past PaymentsMany XRP community members are looking at ultra-bullish pictures for the cryptocurrency. One of such community members is X Finance Bull, who recently took to the social media platform X to highlight reasons as to why the mass adoption of Ripple, XRP, XRP Ledger, and RLUSD is already here.Related Reading: Pundit Says Stop Analyzing XRP On A Chart, Do This InsteadOne of the key points the analyst highlighted is Ripple’s strategy to build a full end-to-end treasury ecosystem setup. The setup functions as a financial operating layer that integrates with a company’s existing banks, ERP systems, and internal workflows, linking them to digital asset rails without requiring any overhaul of existing infrastructure.Enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, and Workday are all connected through a single API layer referred to as ClearConnect. The same API layer bridges traditional rails (ACH, wire transfers, and SWIFT) with XRP settlement, RLUSD, and Ripple’s brokerage and custody infrastructure.  The most important thing in this treasury ecosystem is that Ripple is growing and no longer pitching itself only as a cross-border payments company. On April 1, Ripple announced native digital asset capabilities inside Ripple Treasury, describing it as the first treasury management system with built-in support for digital assets. RLUSD And Ripple Prime Ar

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Recent on-chain data shows that Bitcoin miner selling pressure may be approaching exhaustion, potentially setting the stage for the market’s next upward phase. This development comes amid a resilient 

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