Mainstream Crypto News and Updates

Gate News message, on April 3, according to on-chain analyst The Data Nerd, a whale address (bc1qc) withdrew 365 BTC (about $24.2 million) from a certain CEX. The wallet currently holds a total of 4,238 BTC (about $281 million).

Gate News message, April 3, according to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the UK-listed company Satsuma Technology bought 25.65 BTC, bringing its total holdings to 645.7 BTC.

Riot Platforms produced 1,473 BTC in the first quarter of 2026, with daily output down 4% year over year. Net revenue for the quarter was $289.5 million, and computing power deployment reached 42.5 EH/s, up 26% year over year. Total electricity costs fell to 3.0 cents per kilowatt-hour, down 21% year over year.

An American court ruled to forfeit more than $600,000 in USDT, stemming from a physical letter phishing scam targeting Ledger users. After receiving the disguised letter, the victims leaked their seed phrases, and their funds were stolen. The scammers tried to conceal the funds through multiple transfers and conversion methods, but the transparency of the blockchain helped the police track the path of the fund movements. They then successfully recovered the funds through a civil forfeiture proceeding.

Gate News消息，April 3, according to Trader T’s monitoring, yesterday (April 2) spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $9.02 million. Among them, Fidelity FBTC recorded inflows of $7.29 million, VanEck HODL recorded inflows of $4.74 million, BlackRock IBIT recorded outflows of $3.01 million, and the remaining ETFs had no capital movement that day.

Stablecoins stood out as a rare bright spot in an otherwise muted first quarter for the crypto market. Fresh data from CEX.IO shows the sector expanded despite a broad downturn, underscoring their evolving role as the market’s liquidity backbone and a defensive option for investors navigating

Gate News, April 3, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, BR (Bedrock) is trading at $0.16122. In the past 24 hours, it has increased by 41.99%, reaching a high of $0.17303 and a low of $0.10486. The 24-hour trading volume has reached $1.3479 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $42.1187 million. Bedrock is a multi-asset supported liquidity re-staking protocol that has launched a Bitcoin staking product, uniBTC. As a BTC liquid staking asset, uniBTC enables users to earn staking rewards while maintaining the liquidity of their assets, opening up a new yield opportunity in the trillion-level Bitcoin market.

MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA), one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies, has reduced its workforce by approximately 15% across multiple departments, including both full-time staff and contractors, according to an internal company memo.

Federal prosecutors in Connecticut recovered more than $600,000 in tether ( USDT) after tracing stolen cryptocurrency from a phishing scam that used a physical letter to deceive a hardware wallet user. Connecticut Crypto Phishing Victim to Recover Funds Local media reported that the U.S.

As of April 2, the U.S. XRP spot ETF had a total net inflow of $646,000 in a single day, with the Bitwise XRP ETF seeing a net inflow of $1.3138 million, for total net inflows reaching $378 million. The Canary XRP ETF had a net outflow of $1.2492 million in a single day, with total net inflows reaching $420 million. The total assets net asset value of the XRP spot ETF is $917 million.

On April 3, U.S. stock market closed: the Dow Jones fell slightly by 0.13%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose by 0.11% and 0.18%, respectively. Crypto sector performance was mixed: Solana rose 9.41%, while most other digital assets fell. msx.com launched hundreds of decentralized RWA tokens, involving multiple well-known U.S. listed companies.

According to SoSoValue data, on April 2, the SOL spot ETF recorded a net inflow of $9.329 million for the day, all of which came from the Fidelity Solana Fund ETF. Its current total net asset value is $771 million, and its historical cumulative net inflows have already reached $980 million.

Bitcoin’s price surged above $74,400 today, marking a multi-week high and reigniting optimism across the broader cryptocurrency market, as evidenced by the rise in altcoins. The rally came amid renewed buying pressure, a wave of institutional demand, and yet another behemoth purchase by Michael

Gate News, April 3, according to OnchainLens monitoring, 4 hours ago, two addresses received 1,781 BTC from BitGo, worth $118.92 million.

Grayscale called it the “dawn of the institutional era.” Bitwise predicted Bitcoin will break its four-year cycle and set new all-time highs. Bitcoin Suisse published a scenario where Bitcoin approaches $180,000 and Ethereum reaches $8,000 on the back of Fed rate cuts and accelerating institutiona

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as Acting Attorney General, and dissolved the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, issuing a memorandum to halt regulatory enforcement against the crypto industry. When Blanche signed this memorandum, he still held crypto assets, which allegedly violated ethical standards and sparked legal disputes; whether transferring his assets into his family’s name can eliminate the conflict of interest remains controversial.

There’s a specific type of crypto participant who doesn’t chase price charts. They look for infrastructure. They look for systems that generate Bitcoin — not promises of Bitcoin, not tokens that might convert to Bitcoin someday — but actual BTC, flowing from real network activity. That participan