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04/29/2026 01:05 AM Strategy Overtakes BlackRock as Top Bitcoin Holder, Crypto News Today Points to $80K as Pepeto Hits $9.6M
The biggest ownership shift in Bitcoin history just landed in the crypto news today. Strategy, the firm once known as MicroStrategy, added 34,164 BTC for $2.54 billion on April 20 and now holds 818,334 coins, overtaking BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust as the single largest Bitcoin holder on the planet, per 24/7 Wall St.. That buy [...]
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04/29/2026 12:37 AM South Africa’s Crypto Future at Stake as Luno Fights for Balanced Regulations
TLDR: South Africa’s draft Capital Flow Management Regulations propose approval requirements for all crypto transactions above a set threshold. Luno is preparing a formal submission urging the National Treasury to classify locally held crypto assets as onshore assets. The draft rules require users to declare all crypto holdings within 30 days of the regulations taking [...]
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04/29/2026 12:37 AM ASTER Price Breaks Key Support as RSI Weakens and Whale Selling Intensifies
TLDR: ASTER price today drops below the $0.66 support after repeated tests, confirming a shift from range trading to bearish movement RSI hits a three-month low near 35, showing weak momentum with room for further downside before oversold levels Whale transferred over 34 million tokens to exchanges, increasing supply and adding pressure on short-term price [...]
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04/29/2026 12:25 AM Bittensor’s Jacob Steeves Outlines Why $TAO Is AI Infrastructure, Not Just Another Crypto Token
TLDR: Jacob Steeves framed $TAO as AI infrastructure, not an investment token, in a widely circulated lecture Bittensor miners produce models and predictions, with the network automatically rewarding the highest quality output Dynamic TAO replaces human editorial decisions with a continuous, game-theory-driven resource allocation system Open-source AI lacks economic incentives to compete with closed labs, [...]
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04/29/2026 12:09 AM XRP Price Outlook: How Bank Adoption and Token Scarcity Could Drive Long-Term Value Growth
TLDR: Banks integrating Ripple’s DLT are expected to grow XRP Ledger transaction volumes massively over time. Payment providers like Finastra and Volante are adding transaction volume through XRPL’s Cross-Currency RTGS functions. XRP cannot be mined and a portion is burned per transaction, meaning circulating supply will keep falling. XRP targets the $180 trillion international payments [...]
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04/28/2026 11:36 PM LayerZero Pledges 10,000 ETH to DeFi United as Industry Rallies Behind Kelp DAO Recovery
TLDR: LayerZero Labs is donating 5,000 ETH and depositing another 5,000 ETH into Aave to strengthen market liquidity. The $292M Kelp DAO exploit involved an RPC-poisoning attack that forged cross-chain messages via LayerZero’s DVN. DeFi United has raised over $300M in ETH and stablecoins, with major contributors including Consensys and Arbitrum DAO. Total value locked [...]
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04/28/2026 11:35 PM Bitbank Enters the Credit Card Market With 0.5% Crypto Cashback on BTC, ETH, and ASTR Rewards
TLDR: Bitbank and Epos Card launched Japan’s first crypto-linked credit card on April 27, 2026. Cardholders earn a 0.5% crypto cashback monthly, choosing between Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Astar. Users can pay monthly card fees directly from their bitbank exchange account using Bitcoin. Visa’s Japan president confirmed support, calling it a key step in connecting crypto [...]
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04/28/2026 11:13 PM TON Tech Introduces Agentic Wallets to Enable Autonomous AI Transactions on Blockchain
TLDR: TON Tech’s Agentic Wallets let AI agents execute on-chain transactions without needing per-action user approval. Users retain full ownership and can withdraw funds or revoke agent access at any point during operation. The framework needs no wallet upgrades and supports leading AI models, MCP, and CLI developer tools. Telegram bots using Agentic Wallets can [...]
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04/28/2026 10:57 PM Peter Brandt Slams Bitcoin’s $250K Forecasts as Ascending Channel Caps Upside
TLDR: Peter Brandt publicly rejected $250,000 Bitcoin forecasts for 2026, calling them unrealistic based on current chart conditions. Bitcoin’s ascending channel allows gradual gains but does not confirm a bullish reversal or support a parabolic price advance. Brandt identified double bottoms and inverse head-and-shoulders as true reversal signals, none of which appear on Bitcoin’s chart. [...]
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04/28/2026 10:56 PM RailsX Goes Live: Amboss Brings Self-Custodial Bitcoin and Stablecoin Trading to the Lightning Network
TLDR: RailsX enables peer-to-peer bitcoin and stablecoin trading natively on the Lightning Network with no intermediary.. The platform launches with two stablecoin pairs, USDT-L and USDC-L, both issued by Speed Wallet on Lightning. All trades settle atomically through Lightning channels in seconds, removing the need for centralized exchanges. RailsX combines Amboss’s Magma liquidity marketplace with [...]
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