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The crypto market expects a token unlock of $621.4 million in early May 2025.
Hyperliquid, Ethena, and RedStone will conduct major unlocks, which could cause short-term price volatility.
Space and Time, Opinion, and BounceBit will also release new assets to the market.

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Tether announced that the volume of gold reserves backing the stablecoin XAUT tied to the price of gold increased by 36% in the first quarter of 2026 and exceeded $3.3 billion. As of the end of the first quarter, the project's reserves totaled 707,747 ounces (about 22 tons) compared to 520,089 ounces (about 16.2 tons) at the end of 2025.
Each XAUT token, according to the company, is backed by one troy ounce of physical gold. It is stored in Switzerland and meets the London Good Delivery standard.
All of this is just part of Tether's gold reserves; the company u

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Bitcoin (BTC) started the day with a decline that turned into a surge of growth. As of 07:40 (MSK), the cryptocurrency is trading at $80,348. Bitcoin's lowest in 24 hours is $78,073, and the highest is $80,596.
The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Ethereum, followed Bitcoin's trajectory. As of the time of writing this review, the coin is trading at $2,390.
In the top 10 most capitalized cryptocurrencies, the best performance over the day (+4.87%) and the week (+13.24%) is by Dogecoin. During the 24 hours, all coins except the stablecoin T

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The Ethereum Foundation has entered into a new deal with BitMine to sell Ether.
The total value of the deal was approximately $22.9 million.
The Foundation said the proceeds will be used to finance its core activities, including protocol research and development, ecosystem growth, awarding grants to the community, and similar efforts.
The deal is already the third of its kind. An identical transaction involving the sale of 10,000 Ether at a price of $2387 took place a week earlier. In just the past week, the Ethereum Foundation generated about $47 million from

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A forecast of Bitcoin's market capitalization until 2030 has been made. Growth of more than ten times will be driven by the accelerated spread of BTC among major business representatives and the evolution of cryptocurrencies into a class of assets present in investment portfolios worldwide, according to analysts.
ARK Invest specialists compared Bitcoin's market capitalization with the gold market, which is estimated at approximately $12 trillion. According to analysts, properties such as limited supply and transparency make the first cryptocurrency an alternati

#OilBreaks110
Elon Musk stated that most cryptocurrencies are scams.
Platform X has launched the web version of Cashtags — a feed feature for real-time trading tracking.
Tesla still holds 11,509 bitcoins worth $786 million.

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The monthly payment volume through cryptocurrency cards has reached $600 million, showing a 500% increase since September 2024.
The Visa payment system processes 90% of on-chain card transactions thanks to partnerships with infrastructure projects.
Jupiter's crypto exchange card based on the Solana blockchain recorded a 660% increase in transaction volume for April.

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The largest asset holders have increased their balances to a record high of 108.52 billion Dogecoin.
The number of transactions over $100,000 has reached the highest levels in the past six months.
Over the past week, the asset showed the greatest growth among the top one hundred cryptocurrencies.

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Gold is trading around $4 611 – bulls are trying to break out of the downtrend channel.
The 50-day moving average at $4 842 remains the main resistance.
A break on the hourly timeframe opens a target at $4 786; support is solid at $4 376.

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Stellar will hold a quarterly report broadcast on May 4th at 19:00 UTC. Danel Dixon, Jose Fernandez da Ponte, Tomer Weller, and Raja Chakravorti will discuss key milestones, network updates, and Stellar's future plans.
Stellar is a decentralized open-source blockchain platform for conducting financial transactions, founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb, one of the co-founders of Ripple. Stellar uses the consensus protocol (SCP), which allows for faster and more reliable transactions than most traditional blockchain solutions.
The main goal of Stellar is to create an i

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In the first quarter, the spot trading volume of tokenized gold amounted to $90.7 billion — more than the entire 2025 year ($84.64 billion).
Analysts attributed the growth to two factors: high demand from investors and the increasing availability of such assets on exchanges — primarily centralized ones.
The segment leaders remain PAXG from Paxos and XAUT from Tether. The share of the first in monthly turnover ranged from 34.2% to 82.5%, the second from 14.8% to 64.6%. The average turnover of PAXG over the past 15 months was $5.72 billion, XAUT — $5.32 billion.

#DeFiLossesTop600MInApril
The Grinex cryptocurrency exchange promised payouts to clients affected by the hack.
First, affected clients will be able to withdraw ruble stablecoins A7A5, the platform promised.
Currently, assets withdrawn from the platform remain in the hackers' wallet and are inaccessible for recovery, according to Grinex representatives. They said that international AML services have marked the funds in the attacker's wallet as "stolen assets." Russian police have opened a case based on Grinex's report.
In a statement, the exchange described the attack as "lasting, complex, wit

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Historical patterns indicated a risk of Bitcoin's price crashing to $30,000 in May.
Bitcoin increased by 11% in April. Maintaining these positions will make the past month the most successful since April 2025.
This surge followed a modest 1.81% growth in March.
Two positive months interrupted a prolonged downward trend.
The first cryptocurrency experienced a decline for five consecutive months from October 2025 to February 2026.
The asset's price fell by 17.67% in November and by 14.94% in February.
Now, investors' attention shifts to May.
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