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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!'XRP Keeps Growing,' Ripple CEO Says Amid Solana Milestone Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse 

'XRP Keeps Growing,' Ripple CEO Says Amid Solana Milestone


Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has reacted to $XRP's recent interoperability milestone on Solana. Wrapped $XRP (wXRP) went live on Solana, enabled by Hex Trust and Layer Zero.

"Growing demand for $XRP is driving liquidity cross-chain, opening new paths across ecosystems and expanding the overall market," Garlinghouse wrote in a tweet in reaction to the milestone.

Demand for $XRP keeps growing. More access, more ecosystems, more utility. https://t.co/zEqt5C3mmJ

— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) April 17, 2026

$XRP utility has expanded on Solana with wXRP, allowing individual users and institutions alike to gain access to the token through the wrapped token issued by Hex Trust.

Authorized users can send native $XRP to Hex Trust, which then mints wXRP tokens on Solana or supported Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchains such as the Ethereum mainnet, Optimism or HyperEVM.

First announced in December, the move opens up the use of $XRP beyond $XRP Ledger, increasing its use in market-making and decentralized finance (DeFi) on Solana.

What comes next as $XRP's institutional era arrives

In a tweet, Ripple stated that $XRP's institutional era is now, supported by ETFs. For years, legal uncertainty kept institutional capital away from $XRP, but regulatory clarity has arrived now. Futures markets have launched, with the path to institutional access now opened.

Ripple believes that the $XRP ETF market is still young. While seven U.S. spot ETFs with $1.53 billion in AUM and 773 million $XRP tokens in custody represent meaningful progress, there is still plenty of room to grow. The JPMorgan prediction of $4 to 8.4 billion in first-year inflows has not yet been tested by a full bull cycle.

It is believed that the product landscape will also continue to evolve. ARK Invest has allocated nearly

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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

HYPE Technical Analysis The earlier rally followe

Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?Market Rally! Claim Your Airdrop Blockchain Forum 2026, Moscow “Institutional Era”: Ripple Confirms $1.5B XRP ETF Milestone XRP ETFs surpass $1.5 billion as Ripple

“Institutional Era”: Ripple Confirms $1.5B XRP ETF Milestone

XRP ETFs surpass $1.5 billion as Ripple enters a new institutional era. Learn why Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs are backing XRP.

XRP ETFs reached $1.53 billion in total assets with over 770 million tokens held.

Major institutions including Goldman Sachs and Citadel have disclosed XRP positions.

JPMorgan projected that XRP ETFs could attract up to $8.4 billion in their first year.

Legal clarity achieved in 2025 paved the way for rapid institutional adoption.

Ripple says XRP has entered a new “institutional era” after strong growth in ETF demand. According to its latest report, XRP ETFs have now crossed $1.5 billion in total inflows. 

This shift comes after years of uncertainty. Once legal clarity improved in 2025, institutional access quickly followed. As a result, XRP moved from the sidelines to the center of regulated markets.

XRP ETFs Gain Momentum Fast

The growth of XRP ETFs has been quick and steady. By early March 2026, total assets reached about $1.53 billion. At the same time, these funds held over 770 million XRP tokens. Even more important, there were no net outflow days in the first month. This shows consistent demand from investors. Large firms like Millennium and Citadel have already taken positions. In addition, multiple asset managers launched XRP ETF products. These include firms like Bitwise, Grayscale, and Franklin Templeton. Together, they helped build strong early momentum.



“Institutional Era”: Ripple Confirms $1.5B XRP ETF

On April 18, according to HTX market data, RAVE experienced significant volatility in the past two hours, plummeting from $24.42 to $8.88, with a maximum drop exceeding 63%. It has now rebounded to ar

RAVE Drops Over 63% in Two Hours, Currently at $12.45

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation Contest Blockchain Forum 2026, Moscow Bitcoin Price Tops $77K as AI Agents Get Crypto Wallets Bitcoin (BTC) price surged to $77,124.7

Bitcoin Price Tops $77K as AI Agents Get Crypto Wallets

Bitcoin (BTC) price surged to $77,124.75 over the past 24h, leading a broad market rally driven by easing geopolitical tensions and news that Anthropic’s top-ranked AI model, Claude Opus 4.7, can now autonomously hold and trade BTC through Coinbase’s AgentKit.

The crypto market rallied on geopolitical de-escalation after Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz on April 17, boosting risk sentiment and triggering a breakout.

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The primary driver was Iran’s April 17 announcement that the Strait of Hormuz would be fully open to commercial traffic during a ceasefire.  This eased a major global energy chokepoint, causing oil prices to drop over 11% and reviving appetite for risk assets like Bitcoin.

The move was a macro-driven relief rally that reduced the war premium that had previously pressured crypto markets. Market direction is anticipated to be driven by further developments in US-Iran relations and their impact on oil prices, a key sentiment proxy.

Market update reports

The rally triggered a cascade of liquidations, with $379.74 million in BTC positions forced closed in 24 hours—a 216% spike from the prior period. Shorts accounted for over $344M of this total, indicating a violent squeeze that fueled the price surge.

Technically, Bitcoin broke out of a two-month range. The key upcoming trigger is whether the market can sustain the breakout. If price holds above the $75,000–$75,800 support zone, the next target is the 127.2% Fibonacci extension at $81,951. A break below $75,000 could see a retest of the $70,000 area.

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Bitcoin’s surge was triggered by geopolitical relief and supercharged by a short squeeze, placing it in a technically bullish breakout. Anthropic’s top-ranked AI model, Claude Opus 4.7, can now autonomously hold and trade Bitcoin through Coi

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestClaim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation Challenge The Ethereum Foundation exposed 100 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (D


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.

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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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