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Key Takeaways: Itau Ventures invested up to $10M in Minter for mobile data centers that mine bitcoin. Brazil lost $1.2B to 20% energy curtailment in 2025, a market Minter targets. CEO Stefano Sergole plans to grow Minter to 500MW capacity by 2029 across Brazil and the U.S. Brazil’s Itau Invests In Bitcoin and Data Center Company Minter Itau, one of the largest banks in Brazil, has turned its gaze on bitcoin mining and data centers. According to local media, Itau Ventures, the bank’s investment arm, has made an undisclosed investment in Minter. This company seeks to solve one of the…

On April 23, Zcash (ZEC) price soared above 8% on a daily chart, helping its price to soar $343 with $5.7 billion.  The surge in cryptocurrency comes after the recent listing on Robinhood and bullish momentum in the crypto market.  However, the Zcash price is already at the overbought level, which might cool down the upward momentum in the privacy coin.  On Thursday, the Zcash (ZEC) price experienced a surge of about 7% following the listing on Robinhood and positive sentiment in the cryptocurrency market as Bitcoin (BTC) holds its position above $78,000.  At the time of writing this, the…

Felix Pinkston Apr 24, 2026 00:36 Crypto analyst Michael van de Poppe predicts Bitcoin could hit $86K, sparking a 30-60% altcoin rally. Key levels and catalysts ahead. Bitcoin’s current momentum could drive its price to $86,000, triggering a significant rally in altcoins, according to Michael van de Poppe, founder of MN Trading Capital. Van de Poppe emphasized that this next leg up for Bitcoin could see altcoins gain 30-60% from current levels. Bitcoin is trading at $77,890 as of April 23, according to CoinMarketCap, representing an 11.25% gain over the past 30 days.…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The US military is actively operating a Bitcoin node and using the network for cybersecurity-related experiments, according to Admiral Samuel Paparo, the four-star commander of US Indo-Pacific Command. The disclosure is notable not because Paparo framed BTC as a treasury asset, but because he described it as a live tool for network monitoring, protection and what he repeatedly called power projection from a computer-science perspective. Why The US Military Is Testing Bitcoin Paparo made the comments on April 22 during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, in…

GraniteShares has delayed the launch of its 3x Long and 3x Short XRP Daily ETFs from April 23 to May 7, marking the fifth postponement in three weeks and raising fresh questions about whether the SEC will ultimately clear 3x leveraged crypto products under the framework it applied to reject similar products from ProShares in December 2025. Summary GraniteShares delayed its 3x Long and 3x Short XRP Daily ETFs from April 23 to May 7 using Rule 485, which allows issuers to shift effective dates without restarting the SEC review process. The delay is the fifth since the original April…

Bitcoin developers have a solution to quantum computing threats. The harder question is whether the network can agree on one in time. The quantum computing threat to Bitcoin is not primarily a technical problem — it is a political one.  Those are the central arguments of a new commentary published by Guillaume Girard, a venture associate at UTXO Management, the Bitcoin-focused investment firm and subsidiary of Nakamoto Inc. In a piece titled “Bitcoin and the Quantum Threat: A Non-Technical Guide,” Girard argues that while a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) does not yet exist and may never reach the threshold…

KelpDAO’s liquid restaking token, rsETH, has become the center of a major DeFi recovery effort after a hack estimated at roughly $290 million. The latest development came on Thursday, when Lido Finance unveiled a proposal aimed at supporting Aave’s (AAVE) coordinated response to the rsETH shortfall.  Lido Joins rsETH Recovery Effort The Lido plan was submitted to Aave’s Research Forum following this week’s Kelp incident involving the rsETH LayerZero bridge exploit.  While the exploit’s details were still unfolding, Aave moved quickly to organize a larger, ecosystem-wide effort—“DeFi United”—with the goal of making affected users whole after the April 18 bridge…

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, April 23rd, 2026, ChainwireAt the Prediction Conference in Las Vegas, SafeBets [SafeBets.world Inc.] unveiled a first-of-its-kind prediction platform where users can earn substantial financial rewards.The company’s arrival comes as the prediction market sector reaches a historic inflection point. Industry volume has grown 127-fold in three years, from $0.5 billion in 2022 to $63.5 billion in 2025, with research firm Eilers & Krejcik further projecting the sector to reach $1 trillion in annual trading volume by 2030.SafeBets is built to capture a significant share of that market through a model that no existing platform has yet…

In 2026, fintech PR teams are operating in a more demanding environment than ever. Media budgets are under closer scrutiny, campaign outcomes need to be justified with hard evidence, and the old habit of choosing outlets based on brand familiarity or scattered metrics no longer holds up. What teams need now is not more dashboards, but a better decision system.Outset Media Index (OMI) solves the fragmentation pain point. It is the first media intelligence platform to turn fragmented media signals into a unified framework for planning, benchmarking, and decision-making. Rather than forcing PR teams to compare traffic from one tool,…

Key Takeaways: Circle’s Chief Economist Gordon Liao proposed raising USDC’s Aave V3 Slope 2 rate to 50% to restore liquidity after a KelpDAO exploit. A $292 million KelpDAO rsETH bridge attack on April 18 drained Aave of up to $15.1 billion in TVL within days. Aave’s USDC pool sat at 99.87% utilization for four days, with under $3 million in available liquidity as of April 22. Circle Chief Economist Proposes Higher USDC Rates on Aave V3 to Restore Liquidity After KelpDAO Exploit The proposal, filed as an Aave Request for Comment, asks Aave’s Risk Steward to immediately raise Slope 2…