Day: 10 April 2026

Hey crypto fam, Here’s the Week in Web3 at a Glance Iran Accepts Bitcoin Payments for Strait of Hormuz Oil Transit Bitcoin Holds Steady Amid Geopolitical Tensions and Mixed Macro Signals RWA Perpetuals Gain Ground as Crypto Trading Expands Into Traditional Markets Stablecoin Expansion Continues Across Payments and DeFi Regulators, ...

Institutional participation in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization is accelerating rapidly, with traditional finance firms increasingly positioning blockchain infrastructure as a long-term distribution layer for global capital markets. The latest wave of activity suggests tokenization is being treated less as an experiment and more as a structural shift in how financial ...

Bitcoin remains largely unchanged despite a ceasefire in the Middle East, rising inflation, and anticipation of a new Fed Chair. The asset continues to trade in a narrow range, caught between a fundamentally strong long-term case and nearly $2 trillion in portfolio losses that the market is still quietly absorbing. ...

USDH is facing increasing pressure within the Hyperliquid ecosystem as USDC continues to dominate stablecoin liquidity and adoption, raising questions about whether the native asset can scale into a meaningful protocol-level settlement currency. Current data shows USDH supply at around $91 million, compared to nearly $5 billion in USDC on ...

Bitcoin and Ethereum entered March with a “decline-then-stabilization” recovery pattern as institutional demand continued to shape overall market structure, with capital allocation remaining heavily tilted toward BTC over ETH. Exchange-traded fund data shows Bitcoin products attracted approximately $86.8 billion in cumulative inflows, significantly outpacing Ethereum ETFs, which recorded around $12.6 ...

As pressure builds in Washington to finally resolve years of regulatory uncertainty, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has publicly backed U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s renewed push for Congress to pass the long-debated CLARITY Act. The endorsement came shortly after Bessent urged lawmakers to move the bill forward, warning that unclear ...

South Korea’s crypto market is entering a structural shift as retail participation slows and institutional players move in, according to a new report by Tiger Research. The country, which has more than 11 million registered crypto users, is showing signs of declining trading activity despite its large investor base. Market ...

Lido Finance has proposed a new emergency shutdown mechanism, “CircuitBreaker,” as part of efforts to enhance security and efficiency within its DeFi infrastructure. The upgrade is designed to replace GateSeal, Lido’s current emergency pause system, which required annual redeployment and multiple governance processes. As the protocol expanded across staking, withdrawals, ...

OKX Ventures has announced a strategic investment in Vietnam Prosperity Crypto Asset Exchange Joint Stock Company (CAEX), joining founding shareholders VPBankS and LynkiD, as well as HashKey Capital. The investment will support CAEX’s participation in Vietnam’s government-backed pilot program for regulated crypto trading, which requires a minimum capital threshold of ...