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Another Friday is upon us again, which means another batch of Bitcoin options are expiring as the asset holds ground above $70,000.  Around 26,700 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, April 10, with a notional value of roughly $1.9 billion. This event is smaller than usual and very similar to last week’s expiry, so it is unlikely to have any impact on spot markets. Crypto prices have been climbing slowly this week, with around $90 billion being added to total capitalization since Monday. Bitcoin Options Expiry This week’s batch of Bitcoin options contracts has a put/call ratio of 0.71,…

In brief TD Cowen reiterated a “buy” rating for Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy, despite cutting its price target. The company initiated coverage on Ethereum treasury company Sharplink, also calling it a “buy.” Analysts said that Ethereum staking rewards should cover all of Sharplink’s operating costs, even if the price of ETH stays down. TD Cowen analysts initiated coverage of Sharplink with a “buy” rating on Thursday, while reducing the investment bank’s price target for Bitcoin-buying Strategy.The analysts, led by Lance Vitanza, penciled in a $16 price target for Sharplink shares, which changed hands around $6.42 in after-hours trading, according to…

Wall Street giants are betting big. BlackRock and Goldman Sachs are pushing hard into tokenizing treasuries and yield funds, basically turning traditional financial instruments into blockchain-based assets that can trade faster and cheaper. The world’s largest asset manager isn’t messing around with this stuff. BlackRock is investigating how to tokenize treasuries, which could totally change how these instruments get traded. The company sees tokenization as a way to boost liquidity and make trading way more efficient. Goldman Sachs is right behind them, looking at blockchain for yield funds to streamline operations and make transactions more transparent. Both firms think this…

In brief Crypto firms and government agencies teamed up in “Operation Atlantic,” designed to stop crypto fraud schemes and approval phishing campaigns. The sprint led to $12 million in frozen funds and $45 million in total traced funds believed to be related to crypto fraud. Held at the U.K.’s NCA headquarters in London, the operation had involvement from Coinbase, Binance, the Secret Service, and more. Crypto firms like Coinbase and Binance, alongside government agencies like the United States Secret Service and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA), have flagged $45 million in stolen crypto funds as part of fraud schemes,…

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on The Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced on Apr. 8 that it would convert 5,000 ETH into stablecoins through CoWSwap’s TWAP feature to fund research, grants, and donations.The announcement reopened a debate over what the foundation’s treasury overhaul was ever meant to accomplish. Over the last year, EF moved treasury assets into DeFi, borrowed against ETH collateral, and then launched a staking initiative centered on about 70,000 ETH.The reality described in EF’s June 2025 treasury policy suggested a different model. It tied monetization to a fiat-denominated operating buffer and kept ETH sales, staking, and stablecoin borrowing inside the…

Bitcoin is still far from triggering the three signals that have historically appeared at the end of bear markets, according to analyst Willy Woo. Bitcoin Is Still Trading Far Below The Cost Basis Of Recent Investors In a new post on X, analyst Willy Woo has listed the three things that tend to happen at the end of bear markets. The first signal is the price breaking the cost basis of the short-term holders (STHs). The STHs refer to the investors who purchased their coins within the past 155 days. As such, the cost basis of this group represents the…

XRP’s price remains suppressed and further downside could be around the corner. XRP’s price declined to around $1.31 on April 7th, down 2.5% over the past 24 hours. This brings its total losses for the past two weeks to 7.3% and close to 30% for the last year. The disappointing performance comes after what seemed to be a promising rally in the middle of March, when XRP shot up to almost $1.6, but the bulls failed to sustain momentum. Source: TradingView Analysts now offer multiple takes on the altcoin’s current price action, but the consensus is that any positivity remains…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy has resumed its buying spree after a two-week gap with a new $329.9 million acquisition of the cryptocurrency. Strategy Has Added 4,871 Tokens To Its Bitcoin Treasury In a new post on X, Strategy co-founder and chairman Michael Saylor has shared details related to the company’s latest Bitcoin acquisition. In total, the firm has added 4,871 BTC for $329.9 million or $67,718 per token with this purchase. Strategy has had a consistent routine of announcing acquisitions on Monday, but the firm had a…

Anthropic has announced a partnership with Google and Broadcom for “multiple gigawatts” of next-generation TPU compute capacity expected to come online starting in 2027, a commitment the company called its most significant to date as revenue growth accelerated to a $30 billion annual run rate from $9 billion at the end of 2025.The scale of AI compute demand is now competing directly with bitcoin mining for the same scarce resources — grid connections, land permits, cooling infrastructure, and cheap electricity.We’ve signed an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity, coming online starting in 2027, to…