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Meanwhile, according to the Avalanche Foundation, more than 30 million contracts have been deployed across all indexed Avalanche Layer-1 (L1) networks. Approximately 10 million were deployed in the past month alone, with accelerating activity across the Avalanche network highway casino review.
The global crypto market capitalization rose by another 2% on Tuesday, retaking the $3.5 market cap milestone after a brief dip towards $3.2 trillion on Monday. In terms of key bullish catalysts, vital figures in the US CPI data released have raised expectations of imminent Fed rate cuts.
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Cryptocurrency news april 28 2025
RWAs are increasingly adopted by established financial firms launching tokenization pilot projects in real estate, commodities like gold, and even carbon credits. Larry Fink, CEO of the world’s largest fund manager, BlackRock, has noted that tokenized RWAs allow for instant trading and transfers like a “digital deed.”
The crypto asset class includes a wide range of projects with many different use cases. However, they all share the vision of borderless finance and decentralization. Investors already appreciate these attributes of Bitcoin, which is likely why it performed well during a turbulent month for traditional assets. However, many other crypto assets share these features to a degree and may also be partly immune to tariffs and trade conflict. In our view, persistent uncertainty about government policy, the risk of stagflation, and potentially sustained weakness in the U.S. Dollar will lead investors to seek out alternative sources of return and diversification. We expect the resulting shift in capital flows to continue to benefit Bitcoin and to increasingly support the broader crypto ecosystem.
Beyond the large-cap assets, many crypto investors remain focused on blockchain-based artificial intelligence (AI) or decentralized AI (deAI). For example, according to data provider Kaito, AI-related projects accounted for about one-third of crypto industry “mindshare” (social media attention) over the last three months (Exhibit 5). The Bittensor ecosystem in particular has been expanding, driving outperformance of its TAO token. Bittensor now has over 90 active subnets, and subnet tokens have an aggregate circulating market capitalization of $580 million. Other notable crypto/AI developments in April included the first successful decentralized training of a 32bn parameter model by Prime Intellect (a collaboration between Flock.io and Alibaba Cloud), and Nous Research raising $50mm in fundraising led by Paradigm to support decentralized model training on Solana.
From a technical standpoint, the most important news from the past month was arguably the shift in development priorities by the Ethereum Foundation (EF). There are multiple elements to the changes, but from the standpoint of investing in the Ether (ETH) token, the key change, in our view, was the renewed focus on scaling the Ethereum Layer 1 (i.e., increasing the transaction throughput of the Ethereum mainnet itself). Based on EF comments on social media and elsewhere, the rough expectation seems to be a 3x increase in Layer 1 transactions per second (TPS) each year for several years, with a long-run target of 10,000 TPS (Exhibit 4). Increasing Layer 1 TPS while maintaining a degree of pricing power is the best way to increase transaction fees, reduce token supply, and support the token’s price (for more detail, see Ethereum: The OG Smart Contract Blockchain).
Bitcoin purchases by public companies have been one consistent source of demand. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), which pioneered corporate Bitcoin investing, purchased another 25k Bitcoin (~$2.4bn) during April. Strategy now holds roughly 3% of the circulating supply valued at more than $50bn. Separately, a consortium including Tether, Bitfinex, Softbank, and Cantor Fitzgerald announced the creation of Twenty One Capital, a new company initially capitalized with 42,000 Bitcoin. At that size Twenty One Capital would have the third-largest Bitcoin portfolio among public companies, after Strategy and Bitcoin miner MARA. The company will go public through a SPAC (special-purpose acquisition company), which currently trades as Cantor Equity Partners (ticker: CEP).
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While the legislation seeks to provide clarity and oversight in the burgeoning stablecoin market, recent developments have introduced partisan divisions and raised concerns over consumer protections and financial stability.
CoinSwitch Markets Desk noted, “Bitcoin surged past the $106K mark following Moody’s decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating from AAA to Aa1. The downgrade—driven by concerns over the country’s ballooning $36.87 trillion sovereign debt—sparked renewed investor unease, reinforcing BTC’s narrative as a macro hedge against traditional financial instability. As a result, Bitcoin’s dominance climbed by 4.07%. Ethereum wasn’t far behind in the rally, jumping 6.8% in the past 24 hours and crossing the $2,500 level for the first time in weeks.”
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The global crypto market capitalization rose by another 2% on Tuesday, retaking the $3.5 market cap milestone after a brief dip towards $3.2 trillion on Monday. In terms of key bullish catalysts, vital figures in the US CPI data released have raised expectations of imminent Fed rate cuts.
🔴 @Valeurs | Ce mardi matin, deux personnes proches de l’univers de la cryptomonnaie ont fait l’objet d’une tentative d’enlèvement en plein Paris. Trois hommes cagoulés ont tenté de les faire monter de force à bord d’une fourgonnette, en vain. Les enlèvements de ce type, visant… pic.twitter.com/kgXrhIYORZ