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In brief April’s Bitcoin rally was purely speculative, say analysts—futures demand surged while real spot buying contracted the entire time. The setup mirrors 2022’s bear market onset, and Bitcoin has already begun correcting from its $79K peak. CryptoQuant’s Bull Score fell back to bearish territory (40), flagging continued downside risk. Bitcoin climbed 20% in April, surging from roughly $66,000 to a monthly peak of $79,000. But according to new analysis from crypto data firm CryptoQuant, the rally may have been built on sand.The firm’s weekly report, released Thursday, found that the entire price advance was driven by growth in perpetual…

In brief Elon Musk said xAI partly used OpenAI models to train Grok, according to a TechCrunch report. The method, known as distillation, allows companies to replicate model behavior at lower cost. The disclosure came during Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI over its shift to a for-profit model. Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence company xAI partly used OpenAI models while training its Grok chatbot, according to a report by TechCrunch.The admission is a rare public acknowledgment by a major AI developer of a practice under growing scrutiny. It comes as Musk’s case against OpenAI moves forward in federal court, where…

A U.S. Senate that’s struggled to move crypto market structure legislation moved like lightning on Thursday to ban themselves from participating in prediction markets.Acting on a simple, 14-line resolution pushed by Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, the Senate agreed unanimously to put a restriction between members and the increasingly popular, controversial betting platforms that have drawn scrutiny over insider-trading activity and fights over who has regulatory jurisdiction.“United States Senators have no business engaging in speculative activities like prediction markets while collecting a taxpayer-funded paycheck, period,” said Senator Moreno in a Thursday statement. “Serving in Congress should never be about finding…

In brief Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128 billion parameter dense model priced at $1.50 input / $7.50 output per million tokens, far above comparable Chinese alternatives. Chinese open-source models—Qwen, GLM, MiMo-V2—dominate the leaderboard top, leaving Mistral as a lonely Western holdout. Mistral is positioning the release as a building block toward a future large flagship model. Mistral AI dropped Mistral Medium 3.5 on April 29. The Paris-based lab announced a dense 128-billion-parameter model, a set of agentic features—and walked straight into a wall of online “meh” reactions.The release came in three parts. First, the model itself. Second, remote coding…

A crypto market analyst has suggested that XRP appears to be forming “one of its most significant multi-year structural patterns to date,” which could lead the altcoin to a rally similar to its 2017 expansion. Related Reading XRP Eyes 2017-Like Expansion On Thursday, market observer ChartNerd stated that XRP appears to be repeating a setup that may surpass the scale of the 2017 pre-breakout formation, which led to a massive 68,000% expansion during that cycle. In a video, the analyst explained that the altcoin has been developing since 2020, when the price saw its bear market bottom and created an…

[PRESS RELEASE – Miami, United States, April 30th, 2026] Following a cash and equity transaction, Stratosphere has acquired Movimentum, bringing together two highly experienced teams in Web3 growth and marketing under one brand. As part of the deal, equity in Stratosphere was extended to the Movimentum team, reinforcing a long-term commitment from both sides to build and operate together. The integration combines complementary strengths across growth strategy, network access and execution, allowing Stratosphere to better support founders and brands focused on real market impact. By aligning execution depth with broader distribution and reach, the combined team is positioned to deliver…

Key Takeaways▸ Prediction markets priced Graham Platner as the clear favorite months before Janet Mills exited, while polls lagged behind.▸ Traders focused on fundraising weakness and momentum shifts, signals that polls underweighted but markets quickly incorporated.▸ Mills’ suspension confirmed a scenario traders had already priced in, with Susan Collins vs. Platner now the central 2026 battleground.Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ suspension of her Senate campaign this week is one of the cleanest demonstrations that prediction markets can see around the corner pretty well. Long before Mills’ abrupt exit, Kalshi and Polymarket were already pricing Graham Platner as the overwhelming favorite to win…

SINGAPORE, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — VerifyVASP, a leading Travel Rule solution provider, today announced the acquisition of Sygna, a prominent Japan-based provider. This transaction represents a major step in VerifyVASP’s global expansion strategy, further establishing the company as a core compliance infrastructure provider for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) across key international markets. Consolidating the Travel Rule Ecosystem The acquisition marks a defining moment in the evolution of the global Travel Rule landscape. By integrating Sygna into its network, VerifyVASP is advancing the consolidation of a fragmented market into a unified, interoperable compliance network aligned with national regulations, Financial…

Eightco treasury composition as of April 27, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $25M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $121M cash and equivalents World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes and agentic agents Tinder, Zoom, Docusign, Vercel, Browserbase, and Exa to integrate Proof of Human verification features Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update on its total holdings, highlighting…

New York, United States, April 28th, 2026, Chainwire 30-day Trade-to-Feed competition marks BitMart’s 8th anniversary and the exchange’s strategic listing of $EAT, the first cause coin. BitMart, the global digital asset exchange serving millions of users worldwide, today launched the Trade-to-Feed competition, a 30-day trading competition paying out up to $4.4 million USDT in trader rewards. The campaign marks BitMart’s eighth anniversary and the exchange’s listing of $EAT (WYDE: End Hunger), the first cause coin to list on a major centralized exchange. Cause coins are an emerging asset class engineered so that fees from trading activity flow to charitable grant-making…