Solana, Litecoin, and XRP Lead 2025 ETF Approval Odds

Bloomberg Intelligence exchange-traded fund (ETF) analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart have released updated odds for 2025 U.S. spot cryptocurrency ETF approvals, assigning a 90% chance to solana ( SOL). Bloomberg Intelligence Analysts Forecast 90% Chance for Solana, Litecoin Spot ETFs The analysts note that litecoin ( LTC) and digital asset index baskets also have … Read more

Bitcoin price recovers, Ethereum RWA value up 20%: April in charts

April 2025 witnessed crypto markets rocked by more tariffs at the direction of US President Donald Trump — controversial policies that could have influenced the outcome of Canada’s elections on April 28. On April 2, Trump levied “discounted reciprocal tariffs” on 185 countries and territories. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,200 points on April … Read more

Senator Rand Paul Pushes Colleagues to Rein In White House Tariff Powers

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is pressing Congress to reclaim its taxing authority, arguing that President Donald Trump’s reliance on emergency powers to impose tariffs on dozens of countries violates both economic logic and the Constitution. Rand Paul Warns Emergency Tariffs Could Hand ‘Karl Marx’ Future Powers Paul on Tuesday touted a joint resolution that would … Read more

China’s DeepSeek launches new open-source AI after R1 took on OpenAI

Chinese artificial intelligence development company DeepSeek has released a new open-weight large language model (LLM). DeepSeek uploaded its newest model, Prover V2, to the hosting service Hugging Face on April 30. The latest model, released under the permissive open-source MIT license, aims to tackle math proof verification. DeepSeek-Prover-V2 HuggingFace repository. Source: HuggingFace Prover V2 has … Read more

Vitalik outlines vision as Ethereum ecosystem addresses hit new high

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released another update on what he believes the future of the network should entail. In an April 30 post on blockchain-based social media platform Farcaster, Buterin outlined his personal areas of focus for Ethereum development this year. These include investigating changes to the network infrastructure to achieve single-slot finality, updates to … Read more

Bitcoin ETFs Hit Eighth Day of Successive Gains With $173 Million Inflow

Bitcoin ETFs continued their winning streak with an eighth consecutive day of inflows, bringing in $173 million as Blackrock’s IBIT remained the dominant force. Ether ETFs held firm, notching their fourth straight day of inflows, led by Fidelity’s FETH. Bitcoin and Ether ETFs Keep Momentum With $191 Million Combined Inflows The crypto exchange-traded funds (ETF) … Read more

The open source debate: Is crypto losing its soul?

Crypto was born from an open-source ethos, where code was shared publicly, accessible for review and shaped by community contributions. Transparency and verifiability are foundational principles that enable trust in Bitcoin. But as the space matured, some disadvantages of open source surfaced. Innovative smart contract platforms and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications were forked to create … Read more

Crypto hackers hit DeFi for $92M in April as attacks double from March

Cryptocurrency hackers stole more than $90 million in April, dealing another blow to the industry’s mainstream reputation despite ongoing efforts to improve cybersecurity. Hackers made off with $92 million of digital assets across 15 incidents in April, according to an April 30 research report by blockchain cybersecurity firm Immunefi. The total marks a 124% month-over-month … Read more