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Bitcoin is trying to reclaim $70,000. The market is preparing for a decisive move. And a publicly listed company just removed another 5,075 Bitcoin from the available supply — without announcing a ceiling on how many more it intends to buy.

Top analyst Maartunn has highlighted a corporate treasury move that deserves more attention than a standard acquisition announcement typically receives: Metaplanet has purchased an additional 5,075 BTC, adding to a position that now places the company among the largest Bitcoin-holding publicly listed entities in the world. The transaction was not a one-time allocation. It is the latest step in a deliberate, escalating accumulation strategy that has been building for months.

The timing is not incidental. Bitcoin attempting to reclaim $70,000 while a major corporate holder continues to absorb supply at scale is not the same market as Bitcoin attempting $70,000 without that demand. Every BTC that enters Metaplanet’s treasury is a BTC that leaves the liquid float — unavailable for immediate sale, removed from the overhead supply that has been capping recoveries.

The price is trying to break higher. The corporate buyers are not waiting for it to succeed before they act. That sequence — institutional accumulation preceding price confirmation — is worth paying attention to.

Third in the World. And Still Buying

Maartunn’s data places Metaplanet’s current position in the corporate Bitcoin hierarchy with precision. At 40,177 BTC, the company now ranks third among publicly listed Bitcoin holders globally — behind only Strategy, whose 762,099 BTC position remains the dominant benchmark by an enormous margin, and Twenty One Capital, which holds 43,514 BTC and sits just ahead of Metaplanet in the rankings. The gap between the second and the third is narrow. The gap between first and everyone else is a different conversation entirely.

What makes the ranking less important than the trajectory is Metaplanet’s stated long-term target: 210,000 Bitcoin. That figure is not an aspirational range or a soft commitment. It represents approximately 1% of the total Bitcoin supply that will ever exist — a fixed, finite number that every purchase brings closer to being concentrated in a single corporate treasury.

To put that ambition in context: Metaplanet currently holds 40,177 BTC. Its target is 210,000. It has acquired roughly 19% of its goal. The remaining 81% represents a sustained, structural source of demand that does not respond to short-term price movements, does not pause during corrections, and does not reduce its target because the market is uncertain.

At $70,000, Bitcoin is trying to break higher. Metaplanet is trying to own 1% of it. Both things are happening simultaneously — and one of them is not waiting for the other to resolve first.

Bitcoin Presses $70K Resistance as Downtrend Structure Holds

Bitcoin is attempting to reclaim the $70,000 level, but the daily structure still reflects a market in recovery rather than trend continuation. Price is currently trading just below that threshold after bouncing from the February capitulation low near $60,000. That rebound established a short-term range between roughly $65,000 and $72,000, where the price has been compressing for several weeks.

The broader context remains bearish. Bitcoin is still trading below the 50, 100, and 200-day moving averages, all of which are sloping downward and stacked above price. This alignment confirms that sellers continue to control the higher timeframe trend, and each rally into these averages has been rejected.

What has changed is volatility. The sharp sell-off in February was accompanied by a clear spike in volume, signaling forced liquidation and aggressive selling. Since then, volume has normalized, and price action has become more orderly. That typically marks a transition phase — not a reversal, but a pause where the market rebuilds positioning.

The key level remains $70,000. A clean break above it, followed by acceptance, would shift short-term momentum and open the path toward $75,000–$78,000. Failure to reclaim it keeps Bitcoin range-bound, with $65,000 acting as the lower boundary and a critical level to monitor for renewed downside pressure.

Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com 

Ethereum’s price being positioned above the $2,000 level now may be heavily attributed to the massive activity on the Futures market front. While the spot market has slowed down, the futures market is growing at an extremely high rate compared to spot, reshaping the market dynamics of ETH.

Futures Lead The Way In The Ethereum Market

As the week begins, Ethereum, the leading altcoin, is exhibiting a key development in its market dynamics. Even with broader market volatility, the derivatives activity of ETH is at the top of its game, snatching volumes at a notable rate.

Darkfost, an author at CryptoQuant and market expert, has outlined a strong divergence between BTC futures and the spot market. Looking at both markets, ETH futures volumes are running higher than those of spot markets. With traders primarily relying on leveraged positions rather than outright asset ownership, this imbalance suggests that the market is becoming more dominated by speculation.

The expert shared that the spot-to-futures volume ratio on Binance has recently dropped to the 0.13 level, marking the lowest annual level ever recorded for Ethereum. From a practical standpoint, this pattern implies that future volumes are 7 times larger than spot volumes. To put another way, almost $7 passes through futures contracts for every $1 traded on the spot market. 

This dynamic implies that Ethereum price changes are currently being driven by speculation. While this pattern remains difficult to interpret, it is generally not a good sign for markets. Excessive leverage can increase volatility through position changes or liquidation events and does not offer a solid structural foundation.

At the same time, current uncertainty, both geopolitical and economic, is powering a large share of investors to remain cautious. However, another key portion of this trend is that it does not appear to apply to the most speculative participants. 

The derivatives market on ETH remains highly active, with Open Interest gradually demonstrating signs of a rebound since reaching 5 million ETH. However, on-chain data shows that the open interest is now sitting at 6.4 million ETH, which is not far away from its previous all-time high of 7.8 million ETH, achieved in July 2025. 

Binance is at the forefront of this rising open interest, solely accounting for 2.3 million ETH, representing roughly 36% dominance in the ETH derivatives market. 

ETH Withdrawal From Crypto Exchanges Expands

Ethereum’s exchange outflows do not seem to slow down. According to Nexo, ETH on crypto exchanges has declined to its lowest level since 2016, and it’s not coming back quickly.

During this massive exchange withdrawal, staking queues were backed up for nearly 50 days, while the exit queue has almost finished. Next, it is noted that supply is locked in by design. At this point, the price is particularly vulnerable to any significant increase in demand when there is less ETH available on exchanges.

The Bitcoin (BTC) history is filled with strange milestones, and the latest appears to be a single block mined in 2021. Crypto enthusiasts have uncovered surprising details about the 666,666th block, which contains a powerful biblical message that has sparked widespread attention for its unusual mix of superstition and religious symbolism. The news comes as the market celebrates Easter, creating an even more ominous coincidence, which many crypto users are already circulating online. 

Bitcoin 666,666th Block Sparks Widespread Curiosity

While Bitcoin has captured global attention through its innovative technology and surging price, the cryptocurrency’s blockchain continues to reveal intriguing details that fuel speculation among users and analysts. On January 18, 2021, Bitcoin’s 666,666th block was successfully mined by BTC.com, a mining pool responsible for validating transactions and adding new blocks to the chain. 

The block’s number alone was enough to send corners of the internet into frenzy, with many pouting to the figure’s association with the biblical “number of the beast.”  However, even more intriguing, a short, clear message was permanently recorded within the block. It reads, “Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good,” followed by a reference to the Bible verse Roman 12:21. 

In Christian tradition, the number 666 is widely regarded as the mark of the “Antichrist,” drawn from the Book of Revelations. The number’s repetition within the single block also appears to deepen the symbolism, catching the attention of many crypto community members. As for the embedded message, Romans 12:21 is widely interpreted as a call to resist evil and corruption while triumphing against darkness through virtue.  

Whatever the hidden meaning, the block’s message is circulating all over X and other social media. The text can still be viewed on-chain today through public explorers, where the record remains fixed as part of the block’s data. It was added through a Bitcoin feature called OP_Return, which allows users to attach small pieces of text directly onto the blockchain, making them permanent and unchangeable once confirmed. The block’s miner reportedly paid over five times the normal fees to add the message, with the transaction linked to wallets named “God” and “Bible.”

Origin Of BTC’s 666,666th Block

As news about the 666,666th block spreads, some crypto members have begun questioning the timing and source of the message. One user even speculated whether it might be linked to Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder and creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Even more interestingly, the widespread attention and discussion came a day after Nakamoto’s birthday, April 5. 

However, reports indicate that the message was never part of Bitcoin’s original design and was not placed there by Nakamoto. The Bitcoin creator stepped away from the project in 2011, years before block 666,666 was ever mined. Additionally, the Romans 12:21 inscription was also added by an anonymous Bitcoin founder over a decade after Nakamoto’s disappearance. Since the text was an external addition, its placement has no direct connection to Bitcoin’s core history or its mysterious founder.

Data shows the XRP Open Interest rose alongside Funding Rates turning red, a sign that traders opened new short positions related to the coin.

XRP Has Witnessed A Surge In Open Interest Recently

As pointed out by CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn in a Sunday X post, the XRP Open Interest witnessed a sharp surge. The “Open Interest” here refers to an indicator that measures the total amount of positions related to the cryptocurrency that are currently open on all centralized exchanges. The metric includes both short and long positions.

As the chart shared by Maartunn shows, the XRP Open Interest climbed to $943 million during the weekend.

The increase in the indicator naturally implies a jump in speculative activity among derivatives market traders tok place. Now, what kind of bets were traders opening? The answer to that can be inferred from the Funding Rate, which tracks the amount of periodic fees that derivatives contract holders are paying each other.

From the chart, it’s visible that the Funding Rate remained negative during the Open Interest surge, suggesting short investors were paying a premium to the long ones. In other words, the new positions that appeared leaned in the bearish direction.

Generally, a sharp rise in the Open Interest can lead into market volatility, as the risk of mass liquidations occurring can go up. The side that’s more likely to be caught up in such a squeeze tends to be the one that’s more dominant. Since the new Open Interest increase came alongside a red Funding Rate, a short squeeze became more probable to happen.

XRP has observed a bounce over the past day, so it’s possible that short liquidations had a role in it. As the analyst has highlighted in a new post, however, the Open Interest has still remained at high levels even after the rebound.

Currently, the XRP Open Interest is sitting at $952 million, higher than it was on Sunday. Thus, it would appear that a further influx of speculative activity has occurred in the market. “Open Interest didn’t fully reset, and price is now tapping resistance,” noted Maartunn. “Not the kind of structure I want to overstay.”

XRP isn’t alone in finding a rebound in the past day; the rest of the cryptocurrency sector has also surged. Bitcoin, for example, has gone up by more than 4% over the last 24 hours.

Like with XRP, the rally has been accompanied by a spike in the Open Interest, a potential sign that leverage is driving the market right now. “These rallies are usually fragile. Around 75% tend to return to their origin,” explained the analyst.

XRP Price

At the time of writing, XRP is floating around $1.35, unchanged from one week ago.

Oil prices were already pushing higher when Bitcoin caught a sudden jolt. Crude climbed to about $112 a barrel on Monday morning after the Middle East war and the Strait of Hormuz shutdown added new pressure to energy markets, while one market watcher warned that if prices stay near that level for weeks, US inflation could edge up again.

Oil Market Pressure Builds

US President Donald Trump added to the tension with a new warning for Iran. In a post on Truth Social, he said Iran would be “living in Hell” if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened, and he set a fresh deadline, saying the country now has until Tuesday or face attacks on its power plants and bridges.

The message did not stop there. Trump also told Fox News that Iran was negotiating and said there was a “good chance” of a deal within 24 hours. Axios later reported that the US, Iran and regional mediators were discussing a 45-day ceasefire that could end the war.

Market Jump Follows The Headlines

Crypto moved quickly on the mixed signals. Total market value rose about $70 billion, or 2.5%, to $2.38 trillion in early Monday trading, reaching an 11-day high. Bitcoin touched $69,870 on Coinbase, according to TradingView data cited in the report.

The move also hit traders who had bet against the market. CoinGlass data showed roughly $255 million in liquidations over 24 hours, with 73% coming from short positions. That points to a fast squeeze, not a slow build driven by steady buying.

The wider backdrop is still the war itself. The conflict has lasted more than a month, and the strain on energy supply has helped push oil higher. Based on reports in the piece, Americans have been paying an extra $240 million a day for fuel since the war began on Feb. 28.

A Risky Week Ahead

That oil pressure is the part markets are watching most closely. The Kobeissi Letter, as cited in the report, said inflation tied to the US Consumer Price Index could rise to about 3.7% if current oil levels hold for another seven weeks.

For now, crypto is moving on headlines that can flip in hours. Trump’s latest remarks carried both a threat and a door left open for a deal, leaving traders to sort through a market that is reacting to war, energy prices and shifting US signals all at once.

Featured image from Vecteezy, chart from TradingView

Инвестиционный директор управляющей криптоактивами компании Bitwise Мэтт Хоуган (Matt Hougan) заявил, что биткоин может достичь $1 млн, если займет заметную долю на глобальном рынке сохранения ценностей (store-of-value market). Сейчас здесь делят доли золото, государственные облигации и недвижимость.

Крупнейший корпоративный публичный держатель эфира, компания BitMine Immersion Technologies, за последние семь дней приобрела 71 252 ETH. Это самая крупная покупка с декабря: тогда компания добавила в свои резервы 98 852 эфира.

Северокорейские специалисты внедряются в криптокомпании и проекты децентрализованных финансов (DeFi) уже как минимум семь лет, многие из них — с целями взломать платформы, сообщил специалист по безопасности MetaMask Тейлор Монахан (Taylor Monahan).

Crypto analyst Shah has made a bullish case for Litecoin, predicting that it could soon witness the “most violent face-melt.” The analyst compared the projected LTC parabolic rally to the explosions that Solana, XRP, and Cardano witnessed in the past. 

Why Litecoin Is Not ‘Dead’ And Is About To See A Parabolic Rally

In an X post, Shah stated that bears who think Litecoin is “dead money” are about to be the fuel for the most violent face-melt of 2026. The analyst pointed to the macro reality, noting that LTC is currently sitting in a 1,400-day accumulation zone. He added that this is 1,440 days of sideways grind, with the altcoin absorbing every weak hand and building a very solid base. 

Shah then alluded to history, noting that XRP had a similar price action before its 2017 explosion of over 40,000%. The same happened for Cardano before it rallied from cents to dollars. The Solana price also showed a similar pattern when it traded at $10, just before its “legendary” run to $260. 

Now, Litecoin is printing the same “Spring” signature, with Shah stating that the 1-week chart is a “coiled snake.” He declared that a structural re-pricing that will leave the sidelined bears in total disbelief will happen when the 1,400-day range finally breaks. He suggested that the bulls can expect a parabolic rally rather than just a bounce. 

The analyst noted that the longer the base, the higher the space. He further remarked that while retail investors are chasing new coins, smart money is accumulating Litecoin, which is the “OG silver to Bitcoin’s gold.” Shah also affirmed that the “vertical expansion is a mathematical certainty at this point.” As to how LTC could rally, he predicted that the first stop could be a surge to $400, representing an 8x from current price levels. 

The Silver Narrative For LTC

In another X post, Shah doubled down on the silver narrative for Litecoin, pointing to the LTC/BTC ratio. He noted that LTC is currently trading at 0.00079 BTC, a level that has historically triggered “mean reversion” pumps. He added that the 1,400-day accumulation is not just a range but a total supply absorption, with strong hands taking coins from the “impatient.”

Shah also pointed to the positive divergence on the LTC/BTC chart, noting that the higher-timeframe RSI is signaling a reversal. He affirmed that the momentum is actually building higher lows, with the spring coiled to the limit. The analyst added that once Litecoin breaks the 0.0012 BTC resistance, there is no overhead supply until 0.006 BTC. 

At the time of writing, the Litecoin price is trading at around $54, up almost 2% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

14–15 апреля 2026 года в Москве состоится Blockchain Forum 2026 — крупнейшее крипто- и Web3-событие в СНГ. За последние годы форум стал ключевой площадкой региона, где встречаются представители криптоиндустрии, банковского сектора, инвестиционных фондов и технологических компаний.

Слишком поспешная разработка способов борьбы с квантовой угрозой способна вместо спасения от угрозы Биткоину создать новые угрозы, считает основатель Jan3 Самсон Моу (Samson Mow).

Компания Strategy, крупнейший корпоративный публичный держатель биткоинов, с 30 марта по 5 апреля увеличила свои запасы первой криптовалюты на 4871 монет. Покупка обошлась в $329,9 млн. Средняя цена одного приобретенного BTC составила $67 718.

Американская Apple удалила децентрализованный мессенджер Bitchat, созданный командой основателя Твиттера Джека Дорси (Jack Dorsey), из своего китайского магазина приложений по запросу властей КНР.

Соучредитель проекта Bitcoin Vector и инвестфонда CMCC Crest Вилли Ву (Willy Woo) предположил, что фактическая стагнация цены биткоина и боковое движение первой криптовалюты завершится через 10–12 лет.

Искусственный интеллект снижает затраты и упрощает кибератаки на криптоплатформы, считает технический директор производителя аппаратных кошельков Ledger Чарльз Гийеме (Charles Guillemet). Он посоветовал исходить из того, что многие системы в конечном счете окажутся уязвимы.

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) is ordering all domestic crypto exchanges to implement near real‑time asset‑matching systems.

A Tighter Time-Regime For Crypto Exchanges

All Korean crypto exchanges must have a new asset-matching system by the end of May if they don’t want compliance problems, the financial regulator said this Monday. According to The Korea Times, exchanges must now switch from the 24‑hour reconciliation cycles that most major exchanges currently have to a uniform 5‑minute asset‑matching regime.

A time asset‑matching system is a software that constantly compares what an exchange says customers own on its internal ledger with the actual coins and cash it holds in wallets and bank accounts. In real‑time asset tracking, every few minutes the system reconciles user balances, order‑book positions, and margin with on‑chain and off‑chain reserves. If there is a mismatch beyond a set threshold, it can automatically trigger alerts or even a kill‑switch to halt deposits, withdrawals, or trading.

Regulators found that the existing kill switches of some of the major exchanges were also unreliable during large mismatches. This is why the FSC is also requiring that exchanges report their asset‑matching results on a daily basis, with additional independent reviews by accounting firms carried out every month.

Another Update To The Digital Asset Basic Act

This is the most aggressive tightening of operational rules since Korea’s first wave of virtual‑asset laws. Connected regulations will be integrated into a new bill designed to govern the broader virtual asset market, the Digital Asset Basic Act. The government and the ruling Democratic Party are currently refining the virtual‑asset legislation’s phase 2, The Korea Times claims.

The Framework Act on Digital Assets should have been on the National Policy Committee’s March 31st agenda, but the crypto act’s second phase debate was pushed until after the June 3 local elections.

A Recap On Bithumb’s “Ghost Bitcoin” Incident

This change of direction follows Bithumb’s “ghost Bitcoin” system error this past February, when an employee input “Bitcoin” instead of won in a promotional event, mistakenly crediting 620,000 BTC (roughly 13–15 times Bithumb’s actual reserves) to 249 users. This situation briefly crashed Bithumb’s BTC price, triggering liquidations and revealing that the exchange’s internal ledger allowed transfers far beyond real holdings.

Afterwards, Bithumb faced a 6-month partial business suspension and 36.8 billion won fine over serious AML/KYC breaches.

Korea is moving toward bank‑style liability and real‑time verification for exchanges. The question this shift poses is if this regime will become a template for other high‑volume markets, especially where regulators already talk about proof‑of‑reserves, stablecoin oversight, and exchange accountability.

Traders can expect tighter collateral rules, and potentially thinner short‑term liquidity on Korean venues, but also lower tail‑risk of “ghost” assets.

If Korea proves that 5‑minute matching and kill switches are workable at scale, global regulators may demand similar systems, turning the Bithumb saga into a baseline for centralized‑exchange risk control.

Cover image from Perplexity. BTCUSDT chart from Tradingview.

Средняя скидка на некоторые заблокированные крупные криптоактивы на вторичном рынке достигла 90%, заявил криптоинвестор, основатель и гендиректор криптофонда Inversion Сантьяго Роэль Сантос (Santiago Roel Santos).

A crypto analyst, who publishes technical analysis to his audience on X, has released a zoomed-out weekly Ethereum chart that interprets the current price weakness as the final stage of a multi-year accumulation cycle. As it stands, the Ethereum price is trading around $2,100 and 57% below its peak. Therefore, the technical analysis is suggesting that the cryptocurrency is in an accumulation zone, one that is setting up a price move to as high as $20,000.

The Accumulation Blueprint Playing Out On ETH’s Weekly Chart

The weekly ETH/USDT chart posted by Crypto Patel on X illustrates a structured price pattern that has been developing since 2024. The chart identifies a Selling Climax (SC) in early 2024, followed by an Automatic Rally (AR) to resistance within two months, and then a Secondary Test (ST) of the Selling Climax in mid-2024. 

These are all terminologies of a Wyckoff blueprint, and this has created the sequence of price events that established the boundaries of the current trading range. There is a horizontal resistance line around $4,700 at the top of that range, while Support 1, at $1,549, represents the bottom.

There are also two notable downside wicks labeled as Spring 1 and Spring 2, both of which are situated around Support Spring 1, which occurred in mid-2025 and saw the Ethereum price fall below Support 1 very briefly before recovering and pushing back to a new all-time high just above the resistance line.

Since then, however, the Ethereum price has been on a downside path, and the current price action is labeled as Spring 2, which is just above Support 1. If Support 1 breaks down, the next intended buy zone is Support 2 at $1,065. It is within the projected fall to Support 2 where Crypto Patel identifies the $1,800 to $1,400 range as the best buying and accumulation zone.

Ethereum Price Chart. Source: @CryptoPatel On X

Price Move To $20,000

The ETH accumulation map projects a price rally to as high as $20,000 after Ethereum breaks out of the accumulation zone. This rally is, however, contingent on a big resistance / breakout level around $4,700. 

Crypto Patel’s projected targets ($10,000, $15,000, and $20,000) are plotted on the chart as a staged upside trajectory extending into late 2027 and 2028. The projected rally shows a rally from the current accumulation zone to $4,700, a pullback below $4,000 to consolidate the breakout, and then a parabolic extension to new all-time highs as high as $10,000 before continuing higher to $15,000 and $20,000.

A $20,000 price target for Ethereum would represent about a 10x return from the current price, which is trading at $2,135, up by 4.8% in the past 24 hours.

Старший стратег платформы Bloomberg Intelligence Майк Макглоун (Mike McGlone) заявил, что биткоин может снизиться до $10 000, если покупатели не смогут удержать уровень $75 000.

Бывший технический директор Ripple Дэвид Шварц (David Schwartz) назвал три причины, по которым криптовалюты могут быть предпочтительнее для финансовых учреждений, чем стейблкоины, обеспеченные государственными валютами.