Feed aggregator

Гендиректор инвестиционной компании ARK Invest Кэти Вуд (Cathie Wood) предположила, что по мере созревания биткоина как актива резкие циклы спада и подъема цены могут остаться далеко в прошлом.

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic says the $286 million exploit of Solana-based Drift Protocol is most likely linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Solana Suffered One Of The Largest Crypto Exploits In History

On April 1st, the DEX Drift Protocol suffered a major exploit that drained almost $300 million dollars in crypto assets from its core vaults. The exchange reported on it on its official X account as it was still undergoing:

Drift Protocol is experiencing an active attack. Deposits and withdrawals have been suspended. We are coordinating with multiple security firms, bridges, and exchanges to contain the incident. This is not an April Fools joke. We’ll provide additional updates from this account as… https://t.co/03SRPq4fHj

— Drift (@DriftProtocol) April 1, 2026

The raid unfolded in under 20 minutes, with roughly $286 million siphoned off across a basket of assets from close to 20 vaults. Drift is the largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange on Solana. This is the biggest crypto exploit seen so far in 2026 and ranks among the largest on record, edging out the $235 million WazirX breach.

Drift’s total value lock (TVL) collapsed from roughly $550 million to under $250 million after the attack. The team’s emergency response consisted of pausing deposits and withdrawals and coordinating with security firms and exchanges.

The protocol shared the details of the incident later on, claiming it was a “a highly sophisticated operation that appears to have involved multi-week preparation and staged execution”. Beyond that, the exchange’s official channels refrained from attributing responsibilities.

Earlier today, a malicious actor gained unauthorized access to Drift Protocol through a novel attack involving durable nonces, resulting in a rapid takeover of Drift’s Security Council administrative powers.

This was a highly sophisticated operation that appears to have involved…

— Drift (@DriftProtocol) April 2, 2026

Now, the analytics firm Elliptic has released an investigation claiming the on‑chain behavior, laundering methods, and network‑level indicators match the techniques seen in prior DPRK‑linked operations, making this not just another DeFi rug, but a suspected state‑sponsored attack.

The North Korean Hackers Strike Again

Ledger CTO Charles Guillement also linked Drift’s attack method to Bybit’s $1.4 billion hack, which was attributed to North Korean hacking groups. NewsBTC’s sister website Bitcoinist reported on this yesterday.

Drift Protocol, one of the leading perpetual DEXs on Solana, has been hacked for approximately $213M. This makes it the biggest hack of 2026 so far, and one of the largest ever on the Solana blockchain, right behind the Wormhole Bridge exploit of 2022.

The full details of the…

— Charles Guillemet (@P3b7_) April 2, 2026

According to Elliptic, the attacker likely compromised Drift’s administrator private keys, gaining privileged control over withdrawals and key parameters. The attack systematically drained three main vaults: JLP Delta Neutral, SOL Super Staking and BTC Super Staking, including a single $41.7 million JLP transfer worth about $155 million.

Elliptic traced the stolen funds and concluded that the attacker created the wallet roughly eight days before the exploit and even received a small test transfer from a Drift vault. This suggests a pre‑planned, staged operation rather than a smash‑and‑grab.

After the exploit was completed, the attacker used Jupiter, a Solana DEX aggregator, to swap the stolen tokens into USDC, bridged funds to Ethereum, and then rotated into ETH and other assets across multiple wallets.

Such cross‑chain laundering patterns, obfuscation methods, and network‑level indicators match techniques seen in prior DPRK‑attributed attacks, Elliptic claims. If officially confirmed, this would be the 18th such operation with over $300 million stolen already.

Confirmed or not, there is no denying that state‑linked actors are systematically targeting liquidity‑rich crypto protocols to fund North Korea’s weapons programs. Let’s not forget that the North Korea‑affiliated Lazarus Group has funneled billions of dollars in stolen money through cryptocurrency networks.

Elliptic has already clustered all attacker‑linked token accounts on Solana and Ethereum so exchanges and protocols can screen against contaminated funds in near real time.

The hack will likely harden scrutiny of Solana DeFi governance, admin key design, and multisig security, even as the ecosystem continues to chase institutional‑grade perps liquidity.

Cover image from Perplexity. SOLUSD chart from Tradingview.

Аналитики Binance Research объявили, что биткоин начал приобретать новую роль на рынке — опережающего события экономического индикатора, заранее отражающего ожидания инвесторов от политики Федеральной резервной системы США (ФРС).

Ethereum has spent the better part of recent months losing ground to Bitcoin, and this underperformance may now be approaching a turning point, at least according to a new technical outlook shared by crypto analyst CrediBULL Crypto. The technical analysis shows that the ETH/BTC pair is no longer breaking down and is now quietly settling down at a level that has always led to sell-off exhaustion in the pair.

ETH/BTC Holds Range Lows As Selling Pressure Fades

The ETH/BTC 12-hour chart tells a story that has been unfolding since July 2025 and is now nearing a completion. The ETH/BTC chart shows a pair that has spent recent months grinding lower before finally reaching a support zone. As shown in the chart below, the ETH/BTC ratio has been in a sustained decline for the past few years from a peak near 0.0420 in mid-2025, which the analyst labels as wave 5 of a completed five-wave impulse. 

The ratio worked its way down through a series of lower highs and lower lows throughout the second half of 2025 and January 2026. However, it has been compressed between February and March into what looks like a macro support zone between approximately 0.02143 and 0.02626.

This support was noted by CrediBULL Crypto as being important in this context, with the analyst pointing out with confidence that the ETH/BTC pair is bottoming here and is in a final stage preceding a true breakout from the current range.

Ethereum/Bitcoin Chart. Source: @CredibleCrypto On X

Reclaim Of Range Could Cause A 20% Outperformance Move

The Elliott Wave labeling on the chart frames the current structure on the ETH/BTC pair as a (w)-(x)-(y) correction after the previous five-wave impulse that peaked in mid-2025. Wave (w) has played out in full, and the projection is a wave (x) move that should see the Ethereum price going on a 20% move up on the Bitcoin price.

The most important step in this projected move is reclaiming the previous range lows around 0.0308-0.031, which have now flipped into resistance. Failure to reclaim the level would likely delay this scenario, but the current price action has been characterized by repeated attempts to push higher.

Switching to the ETH/USD 30-minute chart, the analyst overlays a Wyckoff Accumulation schematic to the current price action. The Ethereum/USD chart complements the ETH/BTC outlook, showing price trading in a range just above $2,000. This is above a notable support level around the $1,900-$1,950 range, where multiple reactions have occurred.

Ethereum Price Chart. Source: @CredibleCrypto

There’s also a pink resistance zone above, which is around roughly $2,120 to $2,200. CrediBULL Crypto’s projection, illustrated by the green arrows, envisions a brief retest of support below $1,900 before an upside resolution that pushes the ETH price above the pink resistance zone to $2,400 and maybe higher.

В января — марте у 34 протоколов децентрализованных финансов (DeFi) хакеры украли криптовалюту на сумму более $168,6 млн, сообщил сервис DefiLlama.

Аналитики ончейн-платформы CryptoQuant обратили внимание, что крупные биткоин-инвесторы перешли от накопления к распределению актива. Эксперты считают эту тенденцию способной иметь долгосрочный характер.

Команда криптовалютного кошелька Leap Wallet объявила о решении прекратить поддержку сервиса и связанных с ним продуктов. Все они будут отключены 28 мая, до этого дня пользователям предложено завершить перенос активов. О причинах своего решения Leap не сообщает.

Bitcoin ended the first quarter of the year on a bearish note, and this red quarter carries some implications for the cryptocurrency. Despite the calls for a bottom, it seems that the digital asset might be far from actually reaching a bottom. As the new quarter unfolds, there is also the possibility that the Bitcoin price will end up forming a bearish pattern, and this could mean that the crypto winter could continue for much longer than expected.

Bitcoin’s Bearish Close And Its Implications

Pseudonymous crypto analyst Ming outlined what the bearish close actually means for the Bitcoin price. According to the post, this move shows that the bears are actually in charge and that the possibility of a lower decline is still very much in play.

Instead, the crypto analyst is looking at the Bitcoin price from the Higher Time Frame (HTF), putting the focus on the structure of the digital asset, as well as key levels that investors need to watch. Taking these in tandem, it could point to where the price is headed next.

The main level, the crypto analyst says, actually lies at around $58,900. This is interesting because the Bitcoin price has yet to hit this low since the decline began, making it an untapped monthly low. Therefore, whether or not the price ends up touching this level would be a great determinant of where Bitcoin is headed next.

What To Expect If Bears Break The Line

As already mentioned above, $58,900 is the next important level for Bitcoin, so it is imperative for bulls to hold above this level while the bears try to pull it down. In the case that the price breaks blow $58,900, then the analyst predicts that further decline are in view.

This is because a break of this level would lead to the formation of the Three Black Crows candlestick pattern. This is historically bearish and would lead to a bearish candle. Following previous performances, it could result in an over 30% decline.

However, in the event that the Bitcoin price does maintain above this level after sweeping it, then it would be bullish for the price. The analyst predicts that the cryptocurrency could end up moving back into the $71,300-$74,400 level as a result. But Minga explains that “There’s liquidity resting there on the LTF so another bearish retest of that area is still very much in play before continuation back to the downside.”

Мемкоин JONATHAN взлетел в цене после новости о смерти маскота монеты — 193‑летней черепахи по имени Джонатан, признанной старейшим наземным животным планеты. Позже выяснилось, что новость была первоапрельской шуткой.

Американская майнинговая компания Riot Platforms сообщила о продаже 3778 BTC на сумму $289,5 млн в первом квартале 2026 года. Средняя цена сделки составила около $76 600 за монету.

Депутат Госдумы России Антон Горелкин заявил, что законопроект об ответственности за незаконный майнинг, предусматривающий до пяти лет лишения свободы и конфискацию имущества, не содержит стимулов для легализации отрасли.

Компания Circle, эмитент стейблкоина USDC, представила «обернутую» версию биткоина — cirBTC, обеспеченную BTC в соотношении 1:1. Инструмент предназначен для расширения использования биткоина в финансовой инфраструктуре.

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 are created, moved, and settled, the IMF stated. 

That change, the note says, carries both the potential for efficiency gains and the risk of significant disruption to established regulatory and crisis‑management frameworks.

A central concern for the Fund is that tokenized finance does not fit neatly within the national, territorially bound legal and oversight structures that underpin current resolution regimes. 

Traditional crisis-management tools rely on jurisdictional control of institutions, infrastructures, and assets. In contrast, the IMF describes tokenized systems capable of executing transactions across multiple jurisdictions at “machine speed.” 

The IMF cautions that this could leave authorities with limited levers to contain stress when the critical control points in a tokenized environment may rest in governance keys, consensus mechanisms, or the logic of smart contracts rather than in nationally domiciled entities.

Five‑Point Roadmap To Tame ‘Tokenization Risks’

To address these alleged tokenization challenges, the IMF sets out what it calls a “coherent policy roadmap” built around five pillars that respond to the new allocation of trust and risk created by tokenized infrastructures. 

First, the Fund claims settlement should be anchored in safe forms of money: systemically important tokenized transactions must ultimately settle in assets that minimize credit and liquidity risk. 

Second, the IMF urges the adoption of global standards and recommendations for crypto markets consistent with the principle of “same activity, same risk, same regulatory outcome,” echoing prior IMF and Financial Stability Board work. 

Third, the Fund calls for legal certainty: they said legislators and courts should clarify the legal status of the tokenization sector, how ownership records are established, and when settlement becomes final, ensuring that legal frameworks evolve alongside technical deployment.

Fourth, the IMF recommends common standards for settlement expectations and finality, and cooperative oversight arrangements to prevent fragmentation and to manage cross‑border risks. 

Fifth, liquidity and crisis‑management frameworks must be adapted to a continuous, 24/7 automated environment; central banks and other authorities may need to develop new tools or operate directly within tokenized infrastructures to keep their policy instruments effective.

Taken together, the IMF argues, these measures would form the backbone of a stable and efficient tokenized financial system. Implementing the roadmap will require sustained and close cooperation between public authorities and private sector participants across jurisdictions, the Fund notes.

Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com 

Германия и Италия представили совместный документ с предложениями по ужесточению регулирования стейблкоинов в Евросоюзе. Инициатива предусматривает ограничение доступа эмитентов стабильных токенов на европейский рынок и расширение полномочий регуляторов.

В первом квартале 2026 года блокчейн Эфириума зафиксировал рекордное количество транзакций с момента запуска. За три месяца показатель составил 200,4 млн операций.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has escalated a jurisdictional clash with state governments by filing lawsuits against three states in a bid to assert exclusive federal authority over prediction markets. 

The litigation targets Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois — and in Illinois’ case, specifically names Governor J.B. Pritzker — after those states took steps the CFTC says improperly constrain or try to regulate contract markets that are registered with the agency.

CFTC Seeks Unified Regulation

In a statement announcing the legal action, the CFTC said event contracts traded on platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket fall squarely within the Commission’s remit under the Commodity Exchange Act. 

The agency argued that Congress intentionally established a unified national regulatory framework for commodity derivatives markets to prevent a fragmented patchwork of state rules that would, in the regulator’s view, undermine consumer protection and increase risks of fraud and manipulation. 

“The CFTC will continue to safeguard its exclusive regulatory authority over these markets and defend market participants against overzealous state regulators,” CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said in the release.

The suits mark the first time the regulator has resorted to litigation to press this point, reflecting mounting tension between federal and state officials over how to treat prediction markets. 

Congress Considers Tighter Prediction‑Market Curbs

The CFTC accused the named states of attempts to outlaw, limit, or otherwise interfere with the operations of designated contract markets (DCMs) that are registered with the Commission. 

Those state actions, the agency said, run contrary to the Commodity Exchange Act’s delegations and risk imposing inconsistent obligations on market participants. 

The regulator noted it recently issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to clarify the application of the CEA and CFTC regulations to prediction markets, and signaled it expects to follow through with formal rulemaking that will more explicitly define and reinforce its supervisory role.

The legal push comes as Capitol Hill and other institutions weigh tighter curbs on certain types of event contracts. A group of congressional Democrats last week introduced legislation that would ban prediction-market wagers on sensitive topics, including elections, war, and sports. 

Separately, Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton proposed a restriction banning congressional staff from using prediction markets, a measure believed to be unprecedented in Congress.

Pressure has also come from professional sports organizations. Sabrina Perel, the National Football League’s (NFL) chief compliance officer, wrote to prediction market operators — in a letter reviewed by CNBC — asking them to block event contracts she considered objectionable. 

The NFL has signaled that it believes sports-related contracts may warrant a distinct regulatory approach, an idea that mirrors the CFTC’s position that certain event contracts may need special attention.

Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com 

Глава отдела исследований компании VanEck Мэтью Сигел (Matthew Sigel) заявил, что в ближайшие месяцы на рынке вряд ли появятся сильные катализаторы, способные изменить текущую динамику биткоина.

Цифровой евро планируется запустить в массовый оборот в июле 2029 года. Об этом заявил член исполнительного совета Европейского центрального банка (ЕЦБ) Пьеро Чиполлоне (Piero Cipollone).

Правоохранительные органы США конфисковали более $600 000 в криптовалюте, связанной с фишинговой схемой. Об этом сообщили в американской прокуратуре.

Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the US, has achieved a major milestone after securing a key approval from the main banking regulator, which could unlock a broader market for the company.

Coinbase Wins Major OCC Approval

On Thursday, Coinbase announced it received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Coinbase National Trust Company, marking a crucial step to becoming a federally regulated crypto custodian.

In the official statement, Coinbase outlined the scope of the charter, explaining that the company is not becoming a commercial bank and will not take retail deposits or engage in fractional reserve banking.

“This charter is about bringing federal regulatory uniformity to the custody and market infrastructure business we have been building for years. The OCC charter was designed precisely for this purpose — to provide clear oversight over assets in safekeeping — and that is exactly how we intend to use it,” the announcement read.

The conditional OCC approval allows Coinbase to “build the next chapter of finance,” the company noted, bolstered by the regulatory confidence, and validates its approach of “engaging with regulators, earning their trust, and operating to the highest standards.”

Moreover, the approval signals that the federal regulatory framework is transforming to align with the evolving landscape that crypto has been gradually shaping.

In an interview, Greg Tusar, Co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional, affirmed that “the ability to have a federal framework for our custody business is important,” adding that “this is about us growing our reach and being able to conduct new business that we may not have been able to before.”

Crypto Trust Banks Face Opposition

Coinbase applied for the charter last October and has now joined the list of firms that have received the main banking regulator’s approval. As reported by Bitcoinist, the OCC approved conditional bank charters for Ripple, Circle, BitGo, Paxos, and Fidelity in December.

In February, stablecoin platform Bridge, owned by Stripe, and crypto exchange Crypto.com announced they had also secured the OCC’s conditional approval to establish a national trust bank. However, US banks have raised concerns that the approvals could blur the lines between banking activities and lead to regulatory arbitrage.

Nearly two months ago, the American Bankers Association (ABA) asked the banking regulator to postpone its review of applications for crypto bank charters, suggesting that the approvals should wait until key regulatory uncertainties are resolved.

In its letter, ABA called for patience as emerging regulatory frameworks take shape, proposing that the review process continue when the US Congress completes the rules that will ultimately govern many recent applicants for the OCC’s charter.

The banking lobby cited uncertainty surrounding emerging business models, the need for increased transparency in the charter application and decision-making processes, and the absence of finalized federal oversight as key reasons for the proposed delay.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren also sent a letter to Comptroller Jonathan Gould asking the banking regulator to pause its review of the Trump Family’s main crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, which applied for a national trust charter in January.