Bitwise has launched BAVA, an exchange-traded fund holding Avalanche (AVAX crypto) tokens directly and staking a portion of those holdings to generate yield for investors. It is the first Avalanche ETF to market with a staking component built in from day one, beating competing filings from VanEck and Grayscale to the launch. The detail most …
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan is arguing that Bitcoin’s addressable market could eventually surpass gold’s, currently sitting around $20 trillion, if geopolitical fragmentation continues accelerating. The claim isn’t abstract: Hougan’s April 2026 memo frames Bitcoin not just as a store of value competing with gold, but as a politically neutral settlement asset for a world where …
Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin Premium ETF on April 14, 2026, an options-based fund designed to generate regular income for investors rather than simply track Bitcoin’s price. The filing marks one of Wall Street’s most structurally novel entries into crypto products yet. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is that this is not …
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, posted seven words on April 14 that pulled in more than 3.7M views in less than 24 hours, sparking excitement that X Money is finally on the way: “Crypto has had a rough year. Maybe we should launch something to fix it.” The detail most headlines are skipping is …
Bitcoin price broke decisively above $75,000 following reports of a high-level US-Iran meeting in Geneva, marking the clearest sign yet that geopolitical de-escalation – not just technicals – is driving this crypto market rally. The catalyst is straightforward: sanctions relief signals a massive reduction in global risk, and capital markets are repricing accordingly. On-chain data …
Iran is reportedly demanding $1 per barrel of oil in crypto from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz during the current ceasefire with the United States – and the operational details are striking. Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, told the Financial Times that vessels must email …
Bittensor’s TAO crypto is trading at $334 after the successful completion of Covenant-72B – a 72.7-billion-parameter model trained across more than 70 anonymous, distributed nodes without a single data center or nine-figure budget behind it. The 90% rally TAO posted through March 2026 is not a narrative trade; it’s a direct market response to a …
Crypto continues to flourish following news of a ceasefire between Iran and the US, with the combined market cap back over its crucial $2.5 trillion level, which has often served as a springboard for a run toward $3 trillion. BTC USD continues to lead the way with another +6% daily pump, taking it to $72,500. …
In SEC crypto news, for the first time in years, a crypto project in the United States might be able to raise money from the public without immediately triggering securities law, and the rule that would make that possible is now sitting on a White House desk. SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirmed this week that …
XRP is trading at $1.34 – down more than 63% from its July 2025 peak of $3.65 and coming off its worst quarter in eight years – and the next move may be decided not by chart patterns, but by a Senate committee vote. The Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act is headed for a Banking …
