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Bitcoin’s BTC$69,557.67 muted price action is masking a buildup of downside risk in derivatives markets, where traders are increasingly positioning for a sharper move lower.According to a recent Bitfinex report, the options market is showing a persistent gap between implied and realized volatility, with implied volatility holding in the 48% to 55% range while actual price swings remain subdued. This divergence suggests traders are paying a premium for protection, even as spot markets appear calm.The more critical factor sits just below current levels. Analysts point to a “negative gamma environment” under $68,000, where market makers who have sold downside protection…

A new report claims crypto tokenization is a structural overhaul of market plumbing, not just an efficiency tweak. Crypto Tokenization: The Hot New Thing? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a new report with fresh warnings related to crypto tokenization. Shifting Wall Street’s trading rails onto blockchain-based systems could speed up financial crises beyond regulators’ capacity to react, even as the technology vows to reduce costs and wipe out settlement lags, Bloomberg says. Tokenization is a process that moves assets and liabilities onto programmable ledgers, embedding settlement, margin and compliance into code. Tobias Adrian’s report claims that such “atomic settlement”,…

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In two days, on Wednesday April 7th, a handful of Bitcoin Core developers are going to be doing a demonstration of “attack blocks” designed to take an inordinate amount of time to verify on Signet. The demonstration will take place at 10 AM EST (2 PM UTC). Anyone who wishes to participate can run Bitcoin Core node on Signet and watch the blocks be mined and processed by their node in real-time. Instructions can be found here to spin up a node and follow along (including how to check your node’s logs to see the verification times for the attack…

ETHGlobal Cannes 2026’s 10 finalists push AI agents, privacy infrastructure and on-chain prediction markets through projects like ENShell, DIVE, Corpus and VEIL VPN. Summary ETHGlobal has named 10 Cannes 2026 finalists pushing AI agents, privacy infrastructure and on-chain prediction markets across ENShell, DIVE, maki, Défi, ALMA, npmguard, VEIL VPN, PaintGlobal, EVM PORST and Corpus. Projects like ENShell, DIVE and Corpus show how autonomous agents can safely sign, verify and trade on-chain, while VEIL VPN builds a verifiable “no‑logs” network at the Internet’s encrypted edge. The finalists sit inside a maturing Ethereum hackathon circuit, where events like ETHGlobal routinely put up…

US Senate Banking Committee member Bill Hagerty said Monday that he expects a potential path for a digital asset market structure in the coming weeks after months of delays in Congress.Speaking at the Digital Assets and Emerging Tech Policy Summit at Vanderbilt University, he said his fellow Republican lawmakers planned to move the bill through the banking panel starting next week. “We will be in a position, I hope, to bring all of this together very soon,” said Hagerty, referring to work on the bill in the Senate. “On the banking committee side, I think we’re very close, and my…

Polymarket said it expects to roll out a new 1:1 USDC-backed collateral token in the coming weeks as part of a broader overhaul of its trading platform, according to a post on X.The upgrade, described by the company as a “full exchange upgrade,” includes a rebuilt trading engine, updated smart contracts and a new collateral token called Polymarket USD. The token will replace USDC.e, a bridged version of Circle’s USDC stablecoin that originates on Ethereum (ETH) and is wrapped for use on other chains.USDC.e acts as a stand-in for native USDC but relies on bridge infrastructure, which can introduce added…

China’s tax and financial regulators on Monday urged banks and local authorities to use blockchain and privacy computing to upgrade the “bank-tax interaction” model and expand financing for small businesses.The State Administration of Taxation and National Financial Regulatory Administration said in a joint policy notice that banks and taxpayers should standardize data sharing and reduce information asymmetry between tax authorities, banks and enterprises.The report also urged banks to improve credit models, enhance credit approval efficiency and increase the supply of financing services to “honest, tax-paying enterprises.”The directive aligns with China’s broader effort to integrate blockchain into data infrastructure, following a…

The Bitcoin price has surged back above $69,000 after experiencing a major decline last week. While the price appears to be rebounding from the downtrend, a market analyst has warned that the BTC could still face another price crash. After projecting its decline from above $100,000, the analyst now forecasts a price plunge to $29,000, likely marking Bitcoin’s final bottom. Bitcoin Price Faces Possible Crash To $29,000 Market expert LavaXBT has shared two possible scenarios for Bitcoin’s next move. However, the analyst appears to be leaning more bearish, projecting that BTC could fall again, hitting levels not seen in years.…

EDX Markets’ bid for a federal trust bank charter is not just another crypto expansion story. It is a live test of whether Wall Street-backed firms can move more of crypto’s custody and settlement stack inside the U.S. banking perimeter. Citadel, Fidelity, and Schwab-backed EDX wants to bring equity market structure to crypto through a federal trust bank EDX Markets’ application for a federal trust bank charter opens a more consequential question than whether another large financial consortium wants deeper exposure to digital assets. The sharper question is whether some of the firms that helped shape modern U.S. equity market…