Cryptonews

Key Whimsical Observations:

The tale of the crypto market here moves with surprising vigor, and the authorities speak of safety and transparency as if they were old friends depositing a future into a well-kept bank. The aim, it seems, is to curb the unruly vigor of unregulated foreign platforms, as one might curb a restless horse with a prudent touch of the whip and a calm voice.

The major financial institutions, those bastions of gravitas, have each published their own estimates for the growth of tokenized assets. JPMorgan, ever the optimist, projects up to $13 trillion in tokenized real world assets by 2030. Standard Chartered, not to be outdone, expects the market to exceed $30 trillion. McKinsey, the voice of reason, estimates a more modest $2 to $4 trillion, while Deutsche Bank falls somewhere in between with $2 to $3 trillion. These are the institutions, mind you, that move sovereign capital-not some starry-eyed crypto VCs.

Bitcoin pulled back to $71,843 on Friday after a third attempt to breach $73,000 was met with selling on Thursday, a level that has now rejected the price on every rally since the Iran conflict began in late February.

Daodu’s latest epistle comes after Bitcoin ran headlong into resistance, just above the lofty $72,000 mark. And while the market has managed to churn out its first consecutive quarterly losses since 2022 (nothing to see here, folks), Daodu assures us that April could still offer a reprieve for the beleaguered crypto.

At the center stands a narrow question, carved with a surgeon’s care: should outsiders such as Coinbase be allowed to pass the yields of stablecoins to those who hold them? Banks speak in measured tones, warning that such a path could drain the old, sturdy deposits from the financial houses that have stood longer than the gossip of markets.

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The big gulp: this would reverse the 2.4 % inflation we had earlier this year, but it would also be the first time the Iran war plays out in your grocery bill. Pantheon says the U.S. has seen the biggest one‑month fuel jump since 1957 – time for a photo essay for the ‘90s.

XRP has, with a certain theatrical flair, surpassed Bitcoin, Ethereum and other substantial assets in daily ETF inflows. The numbers murmur that XRP-linked products enjoyed net inflows of roughly $3.3 million, while Bitcoin ETFs sighed with a $159 million outflow, and Ethereum products bled out by $64 million.

On April 6th, Pi Network updated its Mainnet software from version 20 to 21.2. This update seems to have caused some confusion because the public block explorer still shows the older version (20), while the actual code shows the new version (21.2).