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Standard Chartered published a research note on April 29, 2026, titled “DeFi – Bent, not broken.” Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets research, wrote the note in response to the $292 million KelpDAO exploit that occurred on April 18, 2026. The bank said the incident caused real damage to decentralized finance (DeFi)…

Ethereum’s next major network upgrade is called Glamsterdam; the one that follows it carries the name Hegotá. Since August 16, 2026, a single figure has been travelling through the trade press: 66 proposals are said to be up for debate for Hegotá. Anyone who reads that as 66 new features arriving with the upgrade has…

Bitcoin ($BTC) surged sharply after the US Treasury Department expanded liquidity support for the long-term bond market, triggering one of the largest short liquidations since October 2020.

The cryptocurrency market experienced a strong upward movement after a long period of calm. According to data, Bitcoin ($BTC) briefly rose above $69,000, gaining approximately 5.7% in the last 24 hours. Ethereum (ETH) also climbed above $2,100, rising nearly 8.8%. The total value of the cryptocurrency market also increased by 4.7%, reaching approximately $2.4 trillion.

Bitcoin price pulled back to about $64,300 on Aug. 19 after failing to hold above $65,000, as weak spot demand, rising bond yields, and resistance near $65,400 limited the rebound.

Bitcoin rose above $67,000 after the U.S. Treasury said it would at least double the size of long-end bond buyback operations.

Bitcoin couldstruggleto reach $250,000, let alone $1 million, because billionaire Michael Saylor has fundamentally changed the cryptocurrency market through Strategy’s accumulation and financial engineering, according to early Uber investor Jason Calacanis.

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A blockchain is treated as a ledger you can only add to at the end. That very promise is up for debate whenever a protocol, hit by an attack, starts weighing a rollback. Because a rollback does not erase only the attack. It also erases the purchases and transfers of uninvolved holders.

Bitcoin has lost more than half its value from its October 2025 peak, but BlackRock does not see the correction as a breakdown of the Bitcoin thesis. Instead, the asset manager sees leverage, changing capital flows and macro expectations as the main forces behind the sell-off.