It's Back to Bitcoin for Darknet Markets After Monero's Binance Delisting: Chainalysis
Privacy tokens have been suffocated as governments around the world fight darknet markets – so it's back to bitcoin for purchasers of illicit goods.
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Privacy tokens have been suffocated as governments around the world fight darknet markets – so it's back to bitcoin for purchasers of illicit goods.
A whale dumped 438 billion PEPE tokens worth $3.03 million at a $434,000 loss in the last hour, making Pepe one of the most volatile meme coins on the market in the bearish zone. This massive sell-off has caused market tremors and could be a watershed in the token's near-term future.
Bitcoin hovers around $81,966 to $82,126, commanding a market valuation of $1.62 trillion and a daily trading volume of $19.42 billion, oscillating between $81,287 and $83,340 amid a downward trajectory visible across multiple intervals. Bitcoin Bitcoin‘s 1-hour chart paints a vivid portrait of decline, with prices retreating from a recent zenith of $87,481.
Cryptocurrency investors are increasingly moving capital into stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) in a bid to avoid volatility ahead of US President Donald Trump's widely anticipated tariff announcement on April 2.Increasingly more capital is flowing into stablecoins and the real-world asset (RWA) tokenization sector, which refers to financial products and tangible assets such as real estate and fine art minted on the blockchain. “Stablecoins and RWAs continue to see steady inflows of capital as safe havens in the current uncertain market,” crypto intelligence platform IntoTheBlock wrote in a March 31 X post.
The upcoming tariff statements from Donald Trump on April 2 create new market uncertainties that negatively affect cryptocurrency investor attitudes. ETH, together with PI, PEPE, and SOL, should be considered as altcoin to sell because of ongoing market uncertainties.
MARA Holdings Inc (CRYPTO: MARA) on Monday announced it sought to raise up to $2 billion through a stock offering to expand Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) reserves What Happened: The firm submitted paperwork to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, outlining its strategy to sell shares via an at-the-market agreement. This deal involves prominent financial players like Barclays Capital, BMO Capital Markets, and Cantor Fitzgerald, among others, who will facilitate the sale.
Marathon Digital Holdings, one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies in the US, made headlines with its announcement of a $2 billion stock offering to increase its Bitcoin holdings.
Bitcoin price has slipped below key moving averages, triggering fresh concerns among traders and investors.
Hut 8 said on Monday it had joined hands with President Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, to launch a bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin.
Optimistic Rollups remain a crucial scaling solution for layer one blockchains, despite the recent hype around newer technologies. Industry experts, including Cartesi co-founder Felipe Argento, emphasize optimistic rollups' continued dominance in the layer-two (L2) landscape.
Ethereum's chances of reaching the $20,000 level are fueling debate among investors and analysts. The success of the Ethereum network is dependent on real-world usage and rising activity on its platforms, so it is an area of focus in the cryptocurrency space.
The firm plans to offer tokenized real-world assets and equities in the U.S. building on its existing partnerships across blockchains such as Ethereum, Polygon, Hedera Hashgraph and XRP Ledger.
The price of Shiba Inu (SHIB) is now falling after peaking at $0.00001567.
Although Shiba Inu (SHIB) is still a well-liked meme currency, its long-term prospects are called into doubt due to its volatility and crowded market position. In 2025, analysts predict that SHIB's price might rise by 100%.
After hitting its monthly lows on March 11, the cryptocurrency market entered an accelerating uptrend, which, within approximately two weeks, ensured its market capitalization grew more than $350 billion from about $2.48 trillion to roughly $2.85 trillion.
Ripple (XRP), Cardano (ADA), and Dogecoin (DOGE) are down at support, and even lower. Is there a rally in the offing, or can these cryptos sink further?
Elon Musk may be one of Dogecoin's most high-profile proponents, but he has clarified that the United States government has no intention of using DOGE, distancing the OG memecoin from the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) he is currently helming.
Dogecoin slipped 6% in the past 24 hours, underperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum, which declined 2.4% and 3.2%, respectively. This comes amid clarification from Elon Musk that the meme-based digital asset will not be adopted for any US government use.
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Elliot Chun, a partner at the tech-focused financial advisory firm Architect Partners, forecasts that by 2030, one in four S&P 500 companies will have Bitcoin on their balance sheets. Radical prediction?
Energy infrastructure platform Hut 8 Corp has partnered with US President Donald Trump's sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., to launch American Bitcoin Corp.
Australia has the highest number of crypto ATMs in the Asia Pacific region.
A short video of Ethereum ETH co-founder Vitalik Buterin kneeling in front of a robot and making a “meow” sound has drawn a lot of attention from the crypto community on X.
The offering would allow MARA to use the proceeds for “general corporate purposes, including the acquisition of Bitcoin and for working capital."
