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Catapult Trade has closed an investment from KuCoin Ventures as part of an ongoing fundraising round. Terms were not disclosed. Additional deals are in progress, with the round expected to stay open as the platform targets expansion into new regional markets.The investment follows early commercial traction. Since its full launch in December 2025, the platform has recorded $1.1 billion in cumulative trading volume and 77,000 monthly active users — numbers that arrive at a moment when retail attention has been moving away from traditional DEXs and launchpads, and into a category where Catapult has no established competitor at scale.How the…

Luisa Crawford Apr 19, 2026 17:45 Kelp liquid restaking hack cascaded through Aave, Compound, and 7 other DeFi platforms. rsETH down 23% as industry debates isolated lending risks. A $293 million exploit of liquid restaking protocol Kelp DAO has rippled across the DeFi ecosystem, forcing at least nine major platforms to freeze markets or scramble damage control measures in what security researchers are calling a “cross-protocol contagion event.”The attack, which targeted Kelp’s rsETH adapter bridge contract on Saturday, didn’t stay contained. Aave, Compound Finance, Fluid, SparkLend, and Euler all took emergency action to…

XRP has become quite a hot cryptocurrency over the last year. The asset struggled to gain attention from December 2020 till late 2024 due to the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple, the fintech company that utilizes the XRP Ledger. The SEC alleged that the company was issuing non-registered securities. However, the lawsuit came to a close in 2025 and XRP has since been on everyone’s radar. Let’s discuss which other assets you could pair with your XRP holdings to have a more balanced portfolio.Which Assets To Hold In Your Portfolio Along With XRP?Source: WatcherGuruXRP and other cryptocurrencies carry substantial risks. The…

Most PR teams still evaluate media outlets the same way they did five years ago. Traffic estimates, domain authority scores, and a manual check of recent coverage. These signals are familiar, easy to pull, and increasingly insufficient.AI-powered search has changed how audiences discover content. The outlets that perform well in traditional analytics do not always perform well in AI-generated responses. And the gap between the two is where most media budgets go wrong.Outset Media Index (OMI) was built to close that gap. One of the platform’s core differentiators is LLM referral share, a metric that tracks the share of traffic…

Terrill Dicki Apr 19, 2026 16:32 CFG surges 10.86% through critical $0.26 resistance as real-world asset tokenization gains institutional traction. Technical breakout pattern suggests 35% upside potential to $0.35, though overboug… Market Context: RWA Infrastructure Play Heats Up CFG’s explosive move through $0.26 resistance reflects growing institutional appetite for real-world asset tokenization infrastructure. The token has benefited from the broader RWA narrative gaining momentum across traditional finance, positioning Centrifuge as a key infrastructure provider in this emerging sector. The breakout comes as tokenized assets continue attracting institutional capital, with CFG serving as the…

According to data from a recent on-chain evaluation, the Bitcoin mining sector is once again flashing warning signals, as a key industry health metric now hovers above historically critical levels. In this scenario, the Bitcoin price stands a chance to regain past grounds, but only if a specific pattern plays out. Bitcoin Miner Financial Stress Approaches Capitulation Levels Seen In Past Cycles  On Saturday, April 18th, MorenoDV put out a Quicktake post on the CryptoQuant platform, revealing an ongoing dynamic shift among Bitcoin miners. The relevant indicator here is the Miner Financial Health Index 7D-SMA metric, which tracks the short-term…

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have recorded their strongest weekly inflows in several months. Summary Bitcoin ETFs recorded nearly $1 billion inflows, marking strongest weekly performance since mid-January period. Ethereum and XRP ETFs followed with steady inflows, reflecting renewed investor interest across crypto markets. Rising ETF demand coincides with improved sentiment but ongoing geopolitical uncertainty still affects market stability. Data shows that nearly $1 billion entered these funds over the past week, marking the best performance since mid-January. April 17 stood out as the most active day, with over $663 million in net inflows. Among the leading products, BlackRock’s IBIT attracted…

A memecoin called ASTEROID surged more than 68,000% in a week, crossing a $100 million market cap and generating over $100 million in 24-hour trading volume, driven by one of the most emotionally charged stories the crypto market has seen in years.The token is not based on a dog or a cartoon. It is based on a Shiba Inu plush toy designed by Liv Perrotto, a 15-year-old who died after battling cancer. Her design flew as a zero-gravity indicator on a space mission. Before she passed, she had one request for Elon Musk.“Can you make Asteroid the mascot for SpaceX?”How…

Joerg Hiller Apr 19, 2026 15:24 Bittensor’s current consolidation at $245.60 masks heavy institutional buying through derivatives markets. The $234 support level will determine whether TAO launches toward $312 or faces a brutal c… Market Forces Driving TAO’s Next Move Bittensor trades in a critical consolidation phase where institutional behavior diverges sharply from retail sentiment. The recent 1.52% decline reflects surface-level weakness while derivatives data reveals sophisticated accumulation patterns underneath. The negative funding rate of -0.0111% creates an asymmetric setup where shorts pay longs to maintain positions. This dynamic typically precedes violent upward…

Key Takeaways: Trump threatened to destroy every power plant and bridge in Iran if the country rejects a proposed deal by April 22, 2026. Iranian IRGC gunboats fired on commercial vessels Saturday, hitting ships linked to France and the UK, triggering a ceasefire breach. U.S. negotiators are returning to Islamabad, Pakistan, for talks as Iran loses roughly $500 million daily from the ongoing naval blockade. Trump Draws the Line on Iran Trump posted the threat on Truth Social on April 19, 2026, stating the United States would “knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran” if…