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Aave has surged more than 30% since Monday, making it one of the standout performers in a market that has been searching for momentum. The move is drawing attention — and raising a question that is worth examining carefully: is this a genuine recovery, or a relief bounce after one of the most turbulent stretches in the protocol’s recent history? Related Reading To understand what the rally means, it helps to understand what preceded it. According to top analyst Darkfost, Aave has been navigating a serious confidence crisis. Chaos Labs, the risk management firm that played a central role in…

Key Takeaways Bitcoin ETFs added $26.05 million, led by Blackrock’s IBIT, extending a 3-day inflow streak. Ether ETFs gained $18.02 million over 6 days, signaling steady recovery despite mixed flows. XRP rose $11.87 million and Solana $15.5 million, suggesting broader ETF demand may continue. Bitcoin ETFs add $26 Million as Crypto Rally Broadens The ETF rally did not fade. It tightened. For a third consecutive session, crypto ETFs attracted fresh capital, reinforcing a recovery that is now beginning to look more durable. The pace slowed, but the direction remained intact. Bitcoin ETFs recorded $26.05 million in net inflows, extending their…

On April 17, the Zcash price dropped by around 4.39% on a daily chart, forcing its value to drop below $330 following growing selling pressure due to profit booking.  The drop comes amid the bullish sentiment in the overall crypto market, where Bitcoin (BTC) soared above $77,000 amid reduced geopolitical tension.  Technical indicators are showing a bearish trend in the cryptocurrency, supported by the altcoin season index. Despite the bullish sentiment in the overall crypto market, the leading privacy coin, Zcash (ZEC), suffered a drop of around 4.23% on a daily chart, declining its value by $330. At present, Zcash…

Bitcoin price prediction turned aggressively bullish early Friday as CoinDesk reported that perpetual funding rates dropped to their most negative level since 2023 on a seven-day moving average, with ZeroStack CEO Daniel Reis-Faria targeting $125,000 within 30 to 60 days if the market’s heavily short positioning is forced to unwind. Summary BTC was trading near $74,700 in Asian morning hours Friday, up 3.5% on the week but down 0.4% on the day, with the 10-day global equity rally pausing ahead of the April 22 Iran ceasefire expiry. The 7-day moving average funding rate dropped to approximately -0.005% per Glassnode data,…

Jessie A Ellis Apr 17, 2026 22:08 Prediction market odds spike after Iran reopens Strait of Hormuz during ceasefire. Bitcoin rallied to $78K but analysts warn truce remains fragile. Polymarket traders are pricing in a 73% probability that oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz will return to normal by May 31, following Iran’s announcement that the critical waterway is temporarily open under ceasefire terms.The odds briefly touched 82% on Friday after Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi confirmed the reopening on X, before settling back to current levels. Shorter-term bets remain…

In Solana news today, DoubleZero Foundation launched Edge, a public beta platform that delivers raw Solana block data through a private global fiber network using multicast, bypassing the public internet to cut average delivery times by 6 milliseconds — the same data distribution standard that traditional exchanges have used for decades. Summary Edge launched with 379 validators publishing shreds, covering approximately 43% of Solana’s total stake, with Jito, Triton, Staking Facilities, and Harmonic participating as initial launch partners. Traders subscribe in USDC per device per epoch, with prices from $30 to $100 depending on city, while revenue splits 50% to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 17th, 2026, ChainwireBybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, reported that global stock markets have reached new record highs, led by a historic breakout in the S&P 500 and supported by synchronized gains across risk assets.The S&P 500 closed above the 7,000 mark for the first time on April 15, a key psychological milestone and a historic high for the index. The benchmark has posted gains of approximately 7.8% month to date in April and about 2.9% year to date in 2026 (prior to market open on Friday, April 17), reflecting continued momentum…

Bitcoin’s quantum debate keeps slipping sideways because people keep arguing about two different things at once. One question is technical: if quantum computing gets good enough to break Bitcoin’s signature scheme, the protocol can respond. New address types, migration rules, soft forks, deprecations, key rotation. That is a real engineering problem, but it is still an engineering problem. The other question is legal: suppose someone uses a quantum computer to derive the private key for an old wallet and sweep the coins. What, exactly, just happened? Did he recover abandoned property, or did he steal someone else’s bitcoin? In April…

There are 21 million bitcoin. That number is fixed, coded into the protocol, finite. It is one of the most consequential design decisions in the history of money, and yet for most people it remains an abstraction. Green digits cascading down a black screen like something out of The Matrix, or a talking point tossed around on a podcast. The Japanese artist On Kawara spent nearly fifty years hand-painting a date onto a canvas every day — if he didn’t finish by midnight, he destroyed it. Anik Malcolm spent 900 hours painting 21 million beads. The impulse is the same:…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Ethereum Foundation exposed 100 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)‑linked IT workers embedded across roughly 53 crypto projects. Ethereum Foundation Levels Up Its Security With A Detective Program The North Korean secret crypto-agents don’t rest, so the Ethereum Foundation decided it was time they put on the detective’s hat to track them before they too fell victims to them, just as Drift Protocol was at the beginning of the month. And so, yesterday afternoon the Foundation announced on an official blog post the starking results yielded…