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The Cardano Foundation is becoming less dependent on ADA. Its latest report shows Bitcoin and cash now account for a much larger share of reserves after a year of sharp price divergence.That shift changes how closely the Foundation’s balance sheet tracks the performance of Cardano’s native token.In its 2025 Activity and Financial Insights Report shared with CryptoSlate, the Foundation said its total assets stood at 287.5 million Swiss francs, or about $361 million. This represents a 45% decline from the $659.1 million assets it held as of the end of 2024.The drop in headline value reflected a difficult year for…

The top equity strategist at Barclays believes the S&P 500 is offering a golden opportunity to long-term investors, predicting that the SPX will surge to new all-time highs before the year expires. In a new CNBC interview, Venu Krishna, managing director and head of US equity strategy at Barclays, says the S&P 500 is trading below a 20x price-to-earnings ratio, allowing investors to accumulate shares at an “attractive entry point.” According to Krishna, the bank believes that the conflict in the Middle East will not act as a long-term headwind for the market. “So I think, broadly speaking, our view…

In brief Algorand surged more than 40% over the past week after Google cited its “real-world deployment” of post-quantum protocols in a research paper. Render gained almost 10% in 24 hours, driven by AI demand and adjacency to the trend. Myriad users see an 82% chance that oil hits $120 next, as geopolitical uncertainty persists. Algorand has extended its rally over the past week, supported by a recent citation in a Google research paper singling out the blockchain as an early adopter of post-quantum protocols.Algorand jumped around 13% in the past 24 hours to $0.12, according to CoinGecko data, far…

On Apr. 2, Coinbase received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust charter.Coinbase joined a cluster of at least eight firms that the OCC has moved toward federal trust-charter status since December 2025, and the cluster reveals a deliberate federal decision about which parts of crypto belong inside the supervised system.Why this matters: The US is shifting from regulating crypto to selecting which parts of the stack sit inside the banking perimeter. That decision defines who can scale nationally, who captures institutional flows, and who remains outside the system.The OCC conditionally approved…

In brief Spain’s LaLiga has become the first European soccer league to partner with prediction market platform Polymarket. The deal includes broadcast visibility, digital programming, and exclusive fan experiences in North American markets. The move marks an expansion in Polymarket’s sports partnership strategy following recent deals with major U.S. leagues. Spain’s LaLiga has become the first European soccer league to partner with Polymarket in the U.S. and Canada, in a multi-year deal that gives the platform exclusive prediction market rights across the United States and Canada.The agreement grants Polymarket broadcast visibility during LaLiga matches, digital programming opportunities, and exclusive fan…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a fresh assessment of the tokenization sector, forecasting rapid expansion of on‑chain representation of financial claims while warning that the shift could reconfigure the global financial system and introduce new systemic vulnerabilities. IMF Flags Limits Of Traditional Resolution Tools In a note released by the IMF on Wednesday, tokenization is described as more than a technological innovation: it represents an institutional transformation.  By converting money, securities, and derivatives into programmable digital tokens recorded on shared ledgers, tokenization changes how claims…

Bitcoin becomes the live market over Easter as oil shocks hit and traditional finance goes darkThe Bitcoin market now has three trading days where it will act as the live venue for geopolitical risk while much of traditional finance is closed.As of Friday, April 3, Wall Street is closed for Good Friday; several other markets are shut or thinner than normal; and the macro backdrop has become harder, rather than easier, to price.Iran launched missiles and drones at Israel and the Gulf states. Fires were reported at Kuwait’s Mina al-Ahmadi refinery. The Strait of Hormuz remains the central transmission line through…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Chinese authorities seized over 127,000 Bitcoin — worth more than $15 billion — from the head of a massive crypto fraud network. That seizure, tied to Chen Zhi of Prince Group, was just the opening move. Now his right-hand man is in custody too. Extradition From Phnom Penh Li Xiong, former chairman of Huione Group, was flown from Cambodia’s capital to China on April 1 after a task force from China’s Ministry of Public Security coordinated the transfer with Cambodian officials. He now faces fraud and money-laundering…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Analytics firm CryptoQuant has highlighted how the 365-day trend of the Bitcoin whales signals structural selling pressure from large holders. Bitcoin Whales Have Seen A Large Negative Yearly Netflow In a new post on X, CryptoQuant has discussed the latest trend in the yearly netflow of the Bitcoin whales, who are investors carrying between 1,000 and 10,000 tokens of the cryptocurrency. At the current exchange rate, the lower end of the cohort’s range converts to $66.4 million and the upper one to $664 million. As such, the…

In brief The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Connecticut has recovered more than $600,000 in cryptocurrency from a fraud scheme. The fraud targeted a Ledger hardware wallet user with a phishing letter directing them to perform a security check, stealing $234,000 in crypto. The case is the latest phishing attempt targeting crypto users following data breaches at hardware wallet manufacturers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut has recovered and forfeited over $600,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a fraud scheme, the latest in a series of successful digital asset seizures by federal law enforcement.According to a Department of Justice…

In brief Jonathan, a giant tortoise living in St. Helena that is nearly 200 years old, was falsely reported as dead on Wednesday. The report was a hoax and April Fool’s Day joke that generated millions of views on social media. A Solana meme coin was connected to the hoax, and has been promoted by the perpetrator. An April Fool’s day joke concerning the death of a nearly 200-year-old tortoise named Jonathan caused a stir on the internet Wednesday.The hoax, perpetrated by an individual claiming to be the veterinarian that cared for the tortoise, posted about the purported demise of…

In brief Naoris Protocol launched a blockchain using post-quantum cryptography approved by NIST. Experts warn that quantum computers could eventually break the signature systems securing Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets. Upgrading existing blockchains may require major protocol changes across wallets, tools, and nodes. The long-discussed “quantum apocalypse”—or “Q-Day”—when quantum computers could break modern cryptography, has moved from theory to a race against time for the blockchain industry. But now there are blockchain networks launching that claim to be prepared for that inevitability.On Thursday, Naoris Protocol launched its mainnet, describing the network as a blockchain built with post-quantum cryptography from the start,…

In brief Postquant Labs launched Quip Network, a blockchain testnet that allows mining with quantum computers or traditional hardware. The system replaces Bitcoin-style hashing with optimization problems based on the Ising model. The company says the network could also track quantum progress toward breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography. A startup working with quantum computing company D-Wave says it has built a new kind of crypto mining testnet that replaces Bitcoin-style hashing with optimization problems that quantum systems may solve more efficiently.On Thursday, Postquant Labs launched what it described as the first publicly available quantum-classical blockchain testnet. The network, called Quip Network, lets…

In brief Google has identified six trap categories—each exploiting a different part of how AI agents perceive, reason, remember, and act. Attacks range from invisible text on web pages to viral memory poisoning that jumps between agents. No legal framework yet decides who is liable when a trapped AI agent commits a financial crime. Researchers at Google DeepMind have published what may be the most complete map yet of a problem most people haven’t considered: the internet itself being turned into a weapon against autonomous AI agents. The paper, titled “AI Agent Traps,” identifies six categories of adversarial content specifically…

Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings has begun a series of company-wide layoffs affecting multiple departments, according to reporting from Blockspace Media, marking the latest shift in the firm’s broader restructuring strategy. Sources familiar with the matter said the layoffs have been “ongoing” and executed in a piecemeal fashion, with at least two rounds taking place this week on Wednesday and Thursday. The total number of employees impacted — as well as the percentage of the workforce affected — has not been disclosed, and the company has not publicly commented on the cuts. The workforce reduction comes just days after MARA completed…