Из жизни альткоинов
Отец Илона Маска озвучил количество биткоинов в кошельках сыновей
На биткоин-рынке сложилась нетипичная ситуация — CryptoQuant
Приток капитала в криптофонды оказался максимальным за год — CoinShares
Bitcoin Sentiment Is Turning Bullish Again, But This Analyst Says It’s Not A Good Thing, Here’s Why
Bitcoin has climbed back above $73,000 from lows that saw the Crypto Fear & Greed Index in single-digit fear, and with that recovery has come a familiar chorus of the bottom is in, the next leg up is approaching, and the cycle is ready to turn bullish again. One analyst on X, however, is not buying it, and his reasoning is based on one of the most consistent patterns in Bitcoin’s price history.
Why Rising Bullish Sentiment Can Cause More DownsideBitcoin’s sentiment is now slowly turning bullish again, which is a reflection of its price action in recent days. However, according to crypto analyst Max, the gradual return of optimism across social media and trading circles is a warning sign.
Max, who shared his outlook on X alongside a multi-cycle Bitcoin chart, proposed that the re-emergence of bullish sentiment at this point is precisely what should concern investors. “When sentiment slowly starts turning bullish again,” he wrote, “that’s usually your sign that the bottom isn’t in yet.”
Max pointed out that recent discussions around a cycle bottom forming already, along with predictions of a historic rally, mirror sentiment conditions that have always appeared before further downside moves. In short, the crowd turning optimistic too early could mean the market has not yet completed its corrective phase.
This outlook is based on the fact that the Bitcoin price has not yet produced the structural conditions that have historically confirmed cycle lows. He identifies three specific cycle low signals that are currently absent on the Bitcoin chart: total capitulation, repeated sweeps of the lows, and a confirmed change in market structure on the weekly timeframe.
Bitcoin Price Chart. Source: @_ctm_crypto On X
Cycle Timing Puts The Bottom In OctoberThe most interesting part of this technical outlook is the cycle comparison overlaid by Max onto Bitcoin’s full price history. Previous Bitcoin cycles show a consistent rhythm of extended accumulation and expansion phases followed by lengthy corrections.
From the 2013, 2018, and 2021 cycle tops, Bitcoin required around 365 days of decline before reaching a definitive bottom. Interestingly, each cycle was characterized by a smaller decline by the previous one. The 2013 top was followed by a 427-day decline of 87%, the 2018 top brought a 365-day drop of 83%, and the 2021 top saw a 365-day correction of about 75%.
The projected path suggests a similar structure is still playing out in the current cycle since the October 2025 peak. Projecting that structure forward from the 2025 cycle top, Max’s chart targets October 2026 as the likely bottom window, with a projected price of $40,000.
This bottom would align with both the duration and magnitude of previous bear phases, instead of the much faster recovery some market participants are expecting. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $74,590, up by 5.4% in the past 24 hours.
Диджей и NFT-коллекционер Стив Аоки распродаст почти все криптоактивы
На автозаправке в Иркутской области нашли нелегальную майнинг-ферму
Бенджамин Коуэн допустил падение биткоина до $30 000 при одном условии
США направят $40 млн на компенсации жертвам криптопирамиды OneCoin
Михаэль ван де Поппе назвал три сценария движения биткоина
Kraken Reveals Extortion Demands After Client Data Incident: ‘We Will Not Pay’, Security Chief Says
Kraken, the US’s second-largest crypto exchange, has rejected extortion threats from a criminal group after two incidents of unauthorized access to limited client support data in the past year, reigniting investors’ concerns about insider threats.
Kraken Fights Back Extortion DemandsOn Monday, Kraken’s Chief Security Officer (CSO), Nick Percoco, revealed that a criminal group is extorting the crypto exchange, threatening to release videos of their systems exposing client data.
In a security update, the CSO affirmed that Kraken had identified and shut down two instances of inappropriate access to limited client support data since 2025. Per the post, the crypto exchange received a tip about a video shared on a criminal forum. The video reportedly showed access to Kraken’s client support system.
The exchange “immediately launched an investigation and quickly identified the individual involved as a member of our support team,” Percoco explained, “Their access was revoked immediately, a full investigation was conducted, additional security controls were put in place and a limited number of affected clients were notified.”
More recently, they received another tip with a new video showing similar activity, prompting a new investigation to identify the parties involved, terminate their access, and notify the affected clients.
“Shortly after access was terminated, we began receiving extortion demands,” the security chief stated. “The criminals threatened to distribute materials from both the February 2025 incident and the recent incident to media outlets and on social media if we did not comply.”
Percoco emphasized that the exchange’s systems were never breached and funds were never at risk. In addition, he noted that “only a very small number” of client accounts, approximately 2,000 or 0.02% of clients, were potentially viewed across both incidents.
Kraken has now publicly rejected the criminal demands, declaring that they “will not pay these criminals” and “will not ever negotiate with bad actors.”
In the announcement, the exchange highlighted that it has been collaborating with industry partners and law enforcement to “investigate and disrupt insider recruitment efforts targeting not only crypto companies, but also gaming and telecommunications organizations.”
Based on intelligence gathered from the two incidents and extensive analysis, Kraken believes there is sufficient evidence to identify and arrest all individuals involved, but did not share additional details as the investigation continues. However, they urged anyone with relevant information to contact the exchange directly.
This incident comes just a month after Kraken scored a major victory for the crypto industry, becoming the first crypto company with direct access to the Federal Reserve’s core payment system after winning the Kansas City Fed’s approval for a Fed master account.
Crypto Community Raises Insider Access ConcernsCrypto investors and Kraken users online reacted to the news, questioning the exchange about the details of the two incidents and criticizing the exchange for offshoring customer support staff.
“So, basically, you outsourced it to shady third-party companies (or even worse, your internal recruiters are sleeping), and you got hacked twice or more. You made your customers vulnerable to wrench attacks,” an X user wrote under Percoco’s post.
However, details of whether the inappropriate data access was from an in-house support team or an overseas third-party support staff have not been revealed yet.
Another crypto community member pushed back on Kraken’s “very small number” of clients clarification, asserting that “this is not the metric you think it is… of those 2000 accounts, they are probably the ones with balances worth wrench attacking.”
Others drew a parallel between this incident and Coinbase’s data breach controversy from last year. For context, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed in May 2025 that malicious actors had bribed a handful of support contractors overseas to access the company’s internal tools.
This led to the leak of names, email addresses, limited transaction records, and partial Social Security numbers of around 1% of the exchange’s users. Then, the attackers attempted to blackmail Coinbase using the breached information, demanding a $20 million Bitcoin (BTC) ransom for the sensitive data.
Reuters later alleged that Coinbase had been aware of the customer data leak months before it disclosed it, also raising concerns about transparency and insider threats.
Биржа Coinone получила штраф $3,5 млн и временные ограничения на работу
Банк России назвал причину введения лимитов на операции с криптовалютой
Биржа Kraken отказалась платить вымогателям за видео с данными клиентов
Предсказания на стейблкоинах: что известно о Polymarket USD
What Is RAVE DAO And Why Has It Been Pumping Non-Stop For 3 Weeks?
While the crypto market has been caught in sideways movement over the last few weeks, one token, RAVE, has defied all odds and staged a 4-digit rally during this time. The token, which rose from seemingly obscurity into the limelight in less than a month, has quickly become the hot topic of the crypto market. Naturally, its rapid surge has triggered excitement among some community members. But the broader majority are only left with questions: what is RAVE and why is it pumping?
Tearing Down The Mystery Behind RAVE DAORaveDAO (RAVE) was launched back in December 2025, making it a fairly new cryptocurrency in the space. It first burst into the scene in what seemed to be a pretty insider-dominated sale, with a total supply of 1 billion, and the tokens from the sale vested.
As for the utility, the RaveDAO website says that the project is meant to be the future of on-chain entertainment. They do this by hosting events around the world, with past events billed across countries such as the UAE, Singapore, South Korea, among others.
The RAVE token was launched on the Ethereum Layer 2 network, Base, owned by Coinbase, and quickly gained widespread acceptance. According to its CoinMarketCap page, the RAVE token was quickly listed on top exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase, and Bitget.
With widespread influencer and KOL support, the token’s social media quickly grew to tens of thousands of followers. But while the project itself is interesting, the real ‘tea’ is what happened in the days leading up to its over 4,000% rally.
A Real Pump Or A Classic Manipulation?In the days following the pump, on-chain sleuths and investigators had dug into the on-chain activities of the RAVE team to unveil what appears to be a sinister manipulation scheme. According to the Evening Trader Group, a multisig wallet linked to the team had begun a massive accumulation trend using intermediary wallets. By the time the accumulation was done, the wallet had accumulated over $40 million worth of RAVE, quickly multiplying its profit.
As investigators dug deeper, the true holder concentration showed just how deep it went. According to on-chain data, the team currently controls more than 90% of the total supply. This concentration has led to manipulation allegations against the RaveDAO team as community members demand answers.
The surge also caught the attention of the popular on-chain investigator, ZachXBT, who reached out directly to co-founder @wildwoodmoo on X. However, there has been no response from the co-founder, who hasn’t been active on the social media platform since February.
At the time of writing, the RAVE token is up by more than 4,500% in the last month. This has pushed its unlocked market cap above $3 billion, and its Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV) to over $13 billion. Its trading volume has ballooned, garnering over $4 billion in trading volume on Binance Perps alone, and its growth continues to befuddle investors, who have taken to calling it another Binance “crime” token.
$2.7M Bitcoin Buy: Politician-Backed Stack BTC Expands Treasury
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has become the first sitting British MP and party leader to publicly back Bitcoin — a distinction his own company was quick to highlight when it announced his involvement.
A Company Built Around A Single AssetStack BTC, listed on the Aquis exchange and chaired by former UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, bought 37 Bitcoin on Monday for roughly $2.7 million, or about £2 million. The purchase price worked out to approximately $72,385 per coin. The company now holds 68.19 BTC in total.
Stack BTC markets itself as a way for UK investors to gain crypto exposure through public markets — essentially a listed vehicle that holds Bitcoin so ordinary shareholders don’t have to hold it themselves. Its share price climbed 7.3% on Monday, closing at $14.42, up from $13.42 at Friday’s close.
BREAKING: Nigel Farage has purchased £2m of Bitcoin for Stack BTC – becoming the first sitting MP and the first UK political party leader in history to publicly buy Bitcoin.
A landmark moment for Bitcoin in British politics.$STAK @Nigel_Farage @blockchain @kwasi_stackbtc… pic.twitter.com/O614kKe5TN
— Stack BTC (@stackbtc_) April 13, 2026
Farage already had skin in the game before Monday’s announcement. He disclosed a $286,000 equity stake in Stack BTC, giving him a 6.31% minority holding in the company. Kwarteng holds a stake as well. Both investments were disclosed in March.
In a video tied to Monday’s purchase, Farage said a Bitcoin treasury company could not function without actually holding BTC. Kwarteng said the firm had made significant progress over recent weeks.
Reform UK Pulled In $18M In Crypto Donations Last YearThe announcement lands at an awkward moment for Farage politically. Over the past year, Reform UK collected around $18 million in crypto-linked donations — more than either the ruling Labour Party or the Conservatives.
That figure drew scrutiny from regulators and transparency groups. The UK government responded by pushing forward plans to temporarily prohibit crypto donations to political parties. UK lawmakers have since called for a moratorium on such contributions.
The proposed ban would cut off one of Reform UK’s most productive funding streams. Farage has not publicly addressed that conflict directly.
Bitcoin Backing Puts Farage Ahead Of His UK Political RivalsReports indicate that no other sitting British MP or party leader has taken a comparable financial position in Bitcoin. Stack BTC described Farage’s involvement as a landmark moment for Bitcoin in British politics.
Whether that framing holds depends partly on what happens next in Parliament, where the crypto donation restrictions are still working their way through.
Featured image from Protos, chart from TradingView
What The SEC’s Latest Crypto Self-Custody Update Means For DeFi, Wallets, And Bitcoin
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Trading and Markets has issued new staff guidance aimed at bringing more clarity to how certain crypto trading tools may operate without triggering broker-dealer registration.
SEC Draws Guardrails For Crypto InterfacesAccording to the guidance, some crypto trading interfaces—explicitly including decentralized finance (DeFi) front-ends, wallet extensions, and mobile applications—could fall outside the broker-dealer framework if they meet a set of strict conditions.
The key point is that this is not a broad “permission slip” for every interface that touches crypto. Rather, the SEC is outlining a specific path for interfaces structured in a way that does not involve traditional trade intermediation.
One of the most important requirements is that users must control their own keys. In other words, the interface cannot become a point where custody shifts to the platform or where the operator effectively takes over the user’s ability to initiate and sign transactions.
The guidance also emphasizes that the interface must be purely facilitative: it should take inputs from the user, convert those inputs into on-chain commands, and then allow the user to sign. It cannot perform discretionary routing, make recommendations, or otherwise steer users toward particular investment outcomes.
Fees are another focal area. The SEC’s staff says fees must be fixed or otherwise agnostic, and the interface must provide full disclosures. The guidance further notes that platforms need proper compliance policies.
Together, these conditions are meant to distinguish between an interface that simply helps a user execute a transaction they control, and an arrangement that looks more like an investment intermediary—something broker-dealer rules are designed to regulate.
SEC Tone Shift Under Paul AtkinsThe staff clarification is also limited in scope. It applies to interfaces handling “crypto asset securities,” not to Bitcoin (BTC). That distinction matters because the SEC has long treated Bitcoin as a non-security digital commodity.
As a result, Bitcoin self-custody and peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions have historically been outside the broker-dealer reach described in this guidance.
Even with those limits, the tone of the guidance is significant. Under Chair Paul Atkins, the SEC appears to be reinforcing the idea that self-custodial, non-intermediated activity belongs outside the broker-dealer structure.
This is a notable shift in emphasis compared with the Gensler era, when many enforcement actions were seen as casting a wide net over interfaces touching digital assets, even when the underlying mechanics involved users signing transactions themselves.
Atkins has also suggested there may be an “innovation exemption” on the way, which could potentially extend more relief to tokenized securities trading that relies on decentralized infrastructure.
In simple terms, the SEC is signaling that it recognizes there may be ways to build market access using decentralized tools without recreating the traditional broker-dealer model.
Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
Strategy Drops Another Billion On Bitcoin—Holdings Cross 780,000 BTC
Strategy has continued its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation with another billion-dollar buy despite the BTC price trading below its cost basis.
Strategy Has Added 13,927 BTC To Its TreasuryAs shared by Strategy co-founder and chairman Michael Saylor in a new X post, the treasury company has furthered its Bitcoin buying spree. The new acquisition involved a total of 13,927 BTC, bought for $1 billion or $71,902 per token.
This is a sizeable purchase and a step up from the company’s last two buys of 1,031 and 4,871 coins. Saylor hinted at the purchase being significant in his usual Sunday X post with the company’s Bitcoin portfolio tracker, this time using the caption “Think ₿igger.”
Following this acquisition, Strategy has witnessed its holdings cross the 780,000 BTC milestone. Also, its total investment is approaching the $60 billion mark, with its current value sitting at $59.02 billion.
According to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Strategy made the new purchase between April 6th and 12th and funded it using sales of its STRC at-the-market (ATM) stock offering.
With 780,897 BTC in Strategy’s wallets, its holdings alone account for about 3.9% of the entire circulating supply of the cryptocurrency. This makes it by far the largest public holder of BTC.
Strategy has continued its Bitcoin accumulation despite the fact that the cryptocurrency’s spot price has been trading below the company’s cost basis of $75,577 since the crash at the start of February. At the current price, the firm’s massive holdings are about 6.3% underwater.
Interestingly, Strategy actually doesn’t need much of a return on its BTC investment to sustain its operations. As Saylor has explained in an X post, the company’s break-even BTC annual rate of return is just 2.05%. “If Bitcoin grows faster than that over time, we can cover our dividends indefinitely without issuing new $MSTR shares,” noted the chairman.
Strategy isn’t the only digital asset treasury firm that has maintained a consistent buying schedule despite the bearish shift in the wider sector. Bitmine, the largest Ethereum treasury company, has also been adding to its reserves week after week.
According to the latest Monday press release from Bitmine, it participated in accumulation of another 71,524 ETH over the past week. This happens to be the largest weekly addition to the firm’s holdings since December 2025 and continues a pattern of larger buys from the last few weeks. Thomas “Tom” Lee, the firm’s chairman, said:
Bitmine has maintained the increased pace of ETH buys in each of the past four weeks, as our base case ETH is in the final stages of the ‘mini-crypto winter.’
After the acquisition, Bitmine’s reserves have grown to 4,874,858 ETH, equivalent to 4.04% of the total Ethereum supply in circulation.
BTC PriceBitcoin has pulled back from its weekend high as its price has dropped to the $71,100 level.
Crypto Security Faces New Test As Rogue AI Agents Emerge
Researchers from the University of California set up a trap — a crypto wallet loaded with a small amount of Ether and connected to third-party AI routing infrastructure. One of the routers took the bait. The wallet was drained. The loss was under $50, but the implications reached far beyond the dollar amount.
That experiment was part of a broader study published recently, in which researchers tested 428 large language model routers — 28 paid and 400 free — collected from public online communities.
What they found was alarming. Nine routers were actively inserting malicious code into traffic passing through them. Two were using evasion techniques to avoid detection. Seventeen accessed AWS credentials belonging to the researchers. One stole actual cryptocurrency.
How Routers Became A Security Blind SpotLLM routers sit between a developer’s application and AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. They work as intermediaries, bundling API access into a single pipeline.
26 LLM routers are secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing creds. One drained our client $500k wallet.
We also managed to poison routers to forward traffic to us. Within several hours, we can directly take over ~400 hosts.
Check our paper: https://t.co/zyWz25CDpl pic.twitter.com/PlhmOYz2ec
— Chaofan Shou (@Fried_rice) April 10, 2026
The problem is structural. These routers terminate encrypted internet connections — known as TLS — and read every message in plain text before passing it along. That means anything sent through them, including private keys, seed phrases, and login credentials, is fully visible to whoever operates the router.
According to the researchers, the line between normal credential handling and outright theft is invisible from the client’s end. Developers have no way to tell the difference. A router that looks like a legitimate service can silently forward sensitive data to a third party without triggering any alarm.
Co-author Chaofan Shou said on X that 26 routers were found to be “secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing creds.”
The study also flagged what researchers called “YOLO mode” — a setting built into many AI agent frameworks that lets agents run commands without stopping to ask users for approval.
A malicious router combined with an auto-executing agent could move funds or exfiltrate data before a developer even notices something went wrong.
Crypto Security: Free Access Used As BaitReports from the study indicate that free routers are especially suspect. Cheap or no-cost API access appears to be used as an incentive to get developers to route traffic through infrastructure that may be harvesting credentials in the background.
Even routers that start out clean are not safe — the researchers found that previously legitimate routers can be quietly turned malicious once operators reuse leaked credentials through poorly secured relay systems.
The recommended fix for now is straightforward: keep private keys and seed phrases out of any AI agent session entirely.
For the long term, researchers say AI companies need to cryptographically sign their responses so that the instructions an agent executes can be mathematically traced back to the actual model — cutting off the ability of any middleman to tamper with them undetected.
Featured image from Xage Security, chart from TradingView
Over 860 Million XRP in Futures Positions Just Vanished – Warning Or Opportunity?
XRP has been under selling pressure for weeks. The uncertainty is higher. And beneath the price, the derivatives market on Binance just recorded one of its sharpest single-venue position closures in recent memory.
A CryptoQuant analysis tracking XRP’s derivatives structure across major platforms has identified a development that reframes the current weakness as something more specific than a broad market correction. Binance — the exchange that processes the largest share of XRP futures volume globally — recorded an open interest decline of approximately 721.49 million XRP. That is not a routine position adjustment. That is a near-complete evacuation of leveraged exposure from the market’s most systemically significant trading venue.
The scale of the Binance decline is the first data point that demands context. When open interest contracts are this sharply on a single exchange that reflects broader market trends, the movement typically signals one of two things: deliberate risk reduction by traders who have decided the current environment does not justify maintaining exposure, or forced liquidations triggered by price volatility removing positions that could not withstand the pressure.
The line between those two explanations matters — because one describes a market-clearing excess, and the other describes a market still under stress.
The Pattern Repeats Across Two More VenuesThe Binance decline does not stand alone. Bybit recorded an open interest drop of approximately 132.10 million XRP — the second largest decline in the dataset and a meaningful reduction in its own right, even against the scale of Binance’s movement. Bitfinex added a further 10.96 million XRP to the total. Combined across all three venues, the aggregate position closure reaches approximately 864 million XRP removed from the XRP derivatives market in a single period.
That multi-venue confirmation is the finding that transforms the Binance reading from a platform-specific event into a market-wide signal. Three exchanges with different user bases, different ownership structures, and different geographic footprints, all recording simultaneous open interest declines, point to a single systemic cause rather than three separate explanations.
Traders are reducing XRP exposure across the board. The risk appetite that built these positions has withdrawn from the market at scale.
The report’s forward assessment holds both possibilities without resolving them prematurely. A sharp, broad-based drop in open interest is consistent with cautious sentiment and weakening short-term momentum — the bearish reading. It is equally consistent with the clearing of excess leverage that creates the structural conditions for a stronger move when liquidity returns and new positions begin forming — the constructive reading.
Which interpretation prevails depends on what arrives next: continued selling pressure that confirms the bearish thesis, or a catalyst that fills the vacuum the position closures have created. The market has cleared. The direction of what refills it is the question the data cannot yet answer.
XRP Remains Under Pressure as Range TightensXRP continues to trade just above the $1.30 level, maintaining a narrow consolidation range after the sharp breakdown that defined February’s price action. The chart reflects a clear transition from trending behavior to compression, with price moving sideways between roughly $1.25 and $1.40.
Despite the stabilization, the broader structure remains weak. XRP is still trading below the 50-day (blue), 100-day (green), and 200-day (red) moving averages, all trending downward. This alignment confirms that bearish momentum has not reversed. Recent attempts to push higher have repeatedly failed near the 50-day average, indicating persistent overhead supply.
The February capitulation wick, accompanied by a spike in volume, suggests a liquidation-driven event that likely marked short-term exhaustion. However, the subsequent decline in volume signals reduced participation rather than renewed demand. The market is no longer under stress, but it is also not attracting strong buyers.
Structurally, XRP is compressing near support. The $1.30 level is holding, but without conviction. A break below $1.25 would likely trigger another leg lower, while a move above $1.50 is required to shift momentum and challenge the broader downtrend.
For now, XRP remains in a state of equilibrium, awaiting a catalyst to resolve direction.
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