Leading cryptocurrencies retreated alongside stocks on Thursday, amid lingering uncertainty over the Iran conflict.

Crypto Market Cools After Rally

Bitcoin wobbled in the $78,000 zone after teasing $80,000 the day before. Trading volume plunged 23% over the last 24 hours.

Ethereum also consolidated at $2,300, failing to sustain Wednesday’s momentum, while Dogecoin traded upward.

Over $200 million was liquidated in the past 24 hours, with $126 million in bullish long positions erased, according to Coinglass data.

Open interest in Bitcoin futures fell 3.66% over the last 24 hours to $61.57 billion. Bitcoin’s Long/Short ratio on Binance remained below 1, indicating that derivatives traders were…

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There are moments in the history of any asset class that, in hindsight, everyone agrees were turning points. The problem is that most people do not recognize them as they happen.

April 21, 2026, may be one of those moments.

What a Four-Star Admiral Said About Bitcoin Under Oath

Admiral Samuel Paparo, the Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to discuss the FY2027 defence budget. It was a routine hearing by Washington standards. 

Then, he went on to describe Bitcoin as a “peer-to-peer, zero-trust transfer of value” and called it a meaningful computer science tool for American power projection. 

He stated, unambiguously,…

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Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to offer brokerage services.

The Singapore Milestone

The in-principle approval allows Robinhood to offer trading of securities, exchange-traded derivatives, custody, product financing, and collective investment funds through its local entity, Robinhood Singapore Pte. Ltd.

“Singapore’s world-class regulatory environment, high rates of digital adoption, and growing population of retail investors make it the ideal hub for our mission,” said Patrick Chan, Head of Asia for Robinhood.

Singapore will serve as Robinhood’s Asia-Pacific headquarters. The firm’s subsidiary Bitstamp Asia…

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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is entering a structurally different phase of market development, according to Matt Hougan and Ryan Rasmussen at Bitwise Asset Management.

Weak Q1, Strong Narrative Shift

In a Apr.22 interview with Milk Road, Hougan and Rasmussen described Q1 as the weakest crypto quarter in several years across price action and on-chain metrics. However, they emphasized a sharp divergence between weak data and strong fundamentals.

They noted that while market performance lagged, major developments, including ETF expansion, regulatory clarity, and institutional participation, remained strongly positive.

This disconnect, they argue, could set up a delayed rebound in Q2 as markets begin…

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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has broken above the True Market Mean at $78,100 for the first time since mid-January, but Glassnode data shows profit-taking spiked to levels that marked every local top this year.

The $80,000 Resistance Wall

The Short-Term Holder Cost Basis at $80,100 represents the average acquisition price of investors who purchased within the last 155 days. 

A recovery toward $80,000 would push more than 54% of recent buyers into profit, historically the threshold where distribution pressure has exhausted bear market rallies.

“This is the second instance of this structure forming,” Glassnode analysts wrote. “Repeated encounters with this threshold reinforce its reliability…

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The Two-Coin Portfolio

O’Leary said he dumped all his altcoin holdings after the October 2025 crash and now holds only Bitcoin and Ethereum. 

“So what’s happened to the poo-poos is they collapsed last October, and all of them, thousands of them, never came back,” O’Leary said. “So I dumped all my coins, and I own those two.”

The $150,000-$200,000 Bitcoin Call

O’Leary linked Bitcoin’s potential rise to progress on U.S. crypto legislation, particularly the proposed Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act. 

“It is worth more to tenants than Bitcoin until Bitcoin becomes a regulated security through the Clarity Act and gets up to $150,000—or maybe $200,000,” he said in an…

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