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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Post To Earn BonusCardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Bitcoin's proposed quantum defense, BIP-361, is mischara

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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Bitcoin's proposed quantum defense, BIP-361, is mischaracterized as a soft fork and would in practice require a hard fork that conflicts with Bitcoin's anti–hard fork culture.

He argues the plan's zero-knowledge recovery mechanism cannot protect about 1.7 million older bitcoins, including roughly 1 million attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, because those coins were created before BIP-39 seed phrases existed.

Hoskinson contends that if adopted as written, BIP-361 would permanently freeze those early coins and highlights this as evidence that Bitcoin's lack of formal on-chain governance leaves it ill-equipped to handle such contentious upgrades.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson argues that Bitcoin's proposed quantum defense, BIP-361, is wrongly labeled a soft fork and would effectively require a hard fork that clashes with Bitcoin's longstanding resistance to such changes.

He says the plan's zero-knowledge recovery scheme cannot protect about 1.7 million older bitcoins, including roughly 1 million attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, because those coins predate BIP-39 seed phrases and lack the necessary cryptographic proofs.

Hoskinson contends that, if adopted as written, BIP-361 would permanently freeze those early coins and sees the controversy as evidence that Bitcoin's absence of formal on-chain governance leaves it poorly equipped to manage high-stakes protocol upgrades.

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SHARP CORRECTION AFTER RECENT HYPE? 🔍 $ORDI {future}(ORDIUSDT) /USDT -31.74% ORDI is dropping hard after a violent pump, classic post-hype exhaustion in the BRC-20 space. Current Price: 6.236 My Short

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On April 18, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that there is some 'pretty good news' regarding the Iran issue, but he declined to provide further details. 'We heard some pretty good news about 20 min

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Elon Musk's ambitious semiconductor venture, Terafab, is moving closer to reality after his team began reaching out to some of the world's leading chipmaking equipment suppliers. According to Bloomber

Elon Musk's ambitious semiconductor venture, Terafab, is moving closer to reality after his team began reaching out to some of the world's leading chipmaking equipment suppliers. According to Bloomberg, staff representing the joint venture between Tesla and SpaceX have contacted industry heavyweights Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Lam Research to request price quotes and delivery timelines for critical manufacturing equipment. Musk first unveiled the Terafab initiative in March, positioning it as a bold step toward making Tesla, SpaceX, and his Al company xAl entirely independent in chip production. The facility is designed to handle every stage of semiconductor manufacturing in-house, spanning chip design, fabrication, lithography, masking, and packaging a vertically integrated model rarely attempted at this scale. Perhaps the most striking claim tied to the project is its production target: one terawatt of computing power annually. That figure would dwarf the current combined output of most chipmakers operating globally today, signaling just how transformative Musk envisions the facility to be. The project gained further credibility last week when Intel announced it would be joining the venture, adding established semiconductor expertise to what is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched manufacturing plays in the Al industry. At its core, Terafab is built to fuel Musk's interconnected ambitions across artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous driving areas that demand enormous and ever-growing supplies of cutting-edge processing power. By controlling chip production from start to finish, 

Elon Musk's ambitious semiconductor venture, Teraf

Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!Post To Earn BonusUSDT stablecoin issuer Tether has stepped in to anchor a massive recovery plan for Drift Protoc

USDT stablecoin issuer Tether has stepped in to anchor a massive recovery plan for Drift Protocol, the Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) that was crippled by a $286 million exploit earlier this month.

However, the rescue package includes a potent commercial string that could challenge Circle's dominance of USDC on the Solana blockchain.

According to the recovery plan, Drift must abandon its long-standing reliance on Circle Internet Financial's USDC and pivot its entire ecosystem to Tether's USDT.

The deal marks a calculated offensive by Tether to capture market share on Solana, a blockchain that has rapidly emerged as the primary battlefield for retail payments and high-frequency decentralized finance (DeFi).

While USDT remains the global king of liquidity with a market capitalization of $185 billion, it has historically trailed Circle on the Solana network. By bailing out one of the ecosystem's most prominent protocols, Tether is effectively buying a seat at the head of the table.

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Bitcoin whales just bought the most BTC since 2013 – so why is the price stuck below $80,000?

Whales quietly drain exchange supply as ETFs and treasuries test how Bitcoin behaves in a thinner, more fragile market.
Bitcoin has spent much of 2026 moving between recovery attempts and macro shocks, yet one part of the market has kept moving in a single direction. Large holders have been buying.

On April 16, Bitfinex highlighted CryptoQuant data showing whales accumulated 270,000 BTC over the previous 30 days, the largest buying spree since 2013, while exchange reserves fell to their lowest level since December 2017.

That combination carries more weight than usual, pointing to a market where available supply is thinning beneath the surface, even while price remains far below the October 2025 all-time high of $126,198.
As of press time, CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin data page shows BTC trading near $74,500, up 0.9% over 24 hours, 3.3% over seven days, and 0.7% over 30 days. Market capitalization stands near $1.5 trillion, and 24-hour volume is just above $41.2 billion.
Those numbers describe a market that has regained balance after a bruising first quarter, though they only show part of the supply picture that the CryptoQuant chart is starting to expose. Price has recovered enough to draw fresh attention, while the deeper change sits in where the coins are and who holds them.

Coins on exchanges are available for quick sale. Coins moved into colder, longer-duration hands take more time and stronger conviction to bring back into the market.

When that transfer happens at scale, price can stay quiet for a period and then respond much more sharply once fresh demand pushes into a thinner pool of supply. That is the core development behind the latest whale activity.





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Blockchain Forum 2026, MoscowCircle unveils USDC Bridge for native cross-chain stablecoin transfers Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched $USDC Bridge, enabling users to transfer $USDC natively betwee

Circle unveils USDC Bridge for native cross-chain stablecoin transfers
Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched $USDC Bridge, enabling users to transfer $USDC natively between at least 17 blockchains without needing to rely on wrapped or synthetic tokens.

On Friday, Circle’s $USDC X account said the bridge allows users to move the $USDC ($USDC) stablecoin in a “predictable, transparent way,” citing a native burn-and-mint transfer mechanism and no bridge complexities.

Gas fees will be handled automatically, fees will be shown upfront, and live status updates will be provided throughout the transfer, Circle added.
The $USDC Bridge builds on Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), which was introduced in April 2023 and facilitates hundreds of millions of stablecoin transfers each day.

Cross-chain bridges seek to make the broader crypto ecosystem interoperable, functioning as a unified network rather than a collection of fragmented, isolated blockchains.

Making bridges as simple and easy to use as possible has been an area of focus for many crypto infrastructure firms.

In the past, bridges have confused users and arguably slowed crypto adoption, especially for beginners struggling to navigate bridge interfaces, trade routes and gas fees.

$USDC Bridge supports over a dozen blockchains

Cointelegraph found that $USDC Bridge supports $USDC transfers between at least 17 Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible blockchains, including Ethereum, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Base, Monad, Optimism, Polygon, Sonic and World Network.

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Circle’s CCTP supports a broader number of blockchains, including Solana, Sui and Aptos, which are not natively EVM compatible.

On Wednesday, Circle was hit with a class action for failing to freeze around $230 million worth of $USDC that moved through its CCTP from the Drift Protocol exploit on April 1.

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cfg soared to 0.2448 USDT, a new high with a 24-hour increase of -2.98%. It currently trades at 0.2214 USDT on HTX.

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