Author: 行政

Bitcoin becomes the live market over Easter as oil shocks hit and traditional finance goes darkThe Bitcoin market now has three trading days where it will act as the live venue for geopolitical risk while much of traditional finance is closed.As of Friday, April 3, Wall Street is closed for Good Friday; several other markets are shut or thinner than normal; and the macro backdrop has become harder, rather than easier, to price.Iran launched missiles and drones at Israel and the Gulf states. Fires were reported at Kuwait’s Mina al-Ahmadi refinery. The Strait of Hormuz remains the central transmission line through…

The CFTC and DOJ jointly sued Illinois, Arizona, and Connecticut on April 2 to block state cease-and-desist orders against federally regulated prediction market platforms including Kalshi, Polymarket, and Robinhood. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig cited exclusive jurisdiction under the Commodity Exchange Act, asserting that state regulators were attempting to “subvert federal law” by classifying event contracts as gambling requiring state licences. The federal suits mark the first direct court challenge to state prediction market enforcement, as 11 states pursue legal action against platforms and Congress separately debates bans on political insider wagering. Federal regulators escalated a legal conflict over prediction markets…

Polymarket launched daily up/down and closing-price bracket contracts for Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, gold, and WTI crude oil, automatically resolved by Pyth Network’s feeds from more than 90 institutional contributors. Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE’s operator) has committed a combined US$1.6 billion to Polymarket, which now processes more than US$20 billion in monthly trading volume. The expansion blurs the boundary between prediction markets and regulated derivatives, intensifying a CFTC jurisdiction dispute that has already prompted federal lawsuits against three US states. Prediction market giant Polymarket has introduced on-chain daily prediction markets for US equities, commodities, and ETFs, using Pyth Network’s real-time price feeds…

Bitcoin dropped to a weekly low near US$66,000, down 1.76% on April 2, as the US-Iran conflict disrupted Strait of Hormuz shipping and sent crude oil above US$100 per barrel. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Commodity Strategist Mike McGlone warned Bitcoin may be reverting toward US$10,000, citing its pre-2020 bull run price level before the “biggest money pump in history.” Crypto liquidations exceeded US$400 million in 24 hours, with BTC’s 0.75 correlation to the S&P 500 leaving it exposed to equity-linked selling as oil-driven inflation fears mounted. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to around US$66,000 (AU$95,700) on April 2 after U.S. military action disrupted…

Attackers drained approximately US$280 million from Drift Protocol on April 1, exploiting Solana’s durable nonce feature to pre-sign malicious transactions weeks in advance and seize security council control. Three protocol vaults were emptied, including approximately 41.7 million JLP tokens worth roughly US$155 million, before stolen funds were rapidly swapped to USDC and bridged to Ethereum. Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic identified multiple on-chain indicators consistent with North Korean state tradecraft. Drift Protocol, Solana’s largest decentralised perpetual futures exchange, lost approximately US$280 million (AU$400 million) on April 1 after attackers exploited a novel Solana feature to pre-approve malicious admin transactions weeks in…

The Royal Canadian Mint is celebrating Artemis II and Canada’s part in the historic flight with a new silver coin for collectors. The release honors the first crewed lunar flyby mission since Apollo 17 in 1972 and also marks Canada’s inaugural role in a lunar mission. Royal Canadian Mint images show the colorized design of the 2026 $20 Fine Silver Coin – Moon Mission and its black light effect. The 2026 $20 Fine Silver Coin — Moon Mission is struck in 99.99% pure silver and features black light technology that reveals additional design elements. Artemis…

XRP is in its deepest losing streak in more than a decade, even as Ripple aggressively expands into corporate finance and institutional infrastructure. The disconnect is forcing a key market question: why isn’t that momentum showing up in price?XRP price is in its longest losing streak since 2014, a slide that has left one of the market’s oldest large-cap tokens searching for a fresh catalyst even as Ripple accelerates its push into corporate treasury, institutional trading, and cross-border payments.Why this matters: Ripple is moving XRP closer to real financial workflows rather than speculative use. If treasury systems, trading desks, and…

A recent paper by the Bitcoin Policy Institute on Taiwan opens with a familiar argument that the country’s reserves are overconcentrated in dollars. Gold underperforms its potential, and Bitcoin could complement both.Readers who stop there miss the more consequential claim buried in the blockade-and-invasion framework on pages 5 through 7, where the paper is trying to redefine what makes a reserve asset fail.Traditional reserve analysis judges assets on liquidity, price stability, and credit quality. The BPI paper adds a fourth test: can the asset still be moved, spent, or mobilized when shipping lanes are blocked, the host state withdraws custodial…

XRP enters an identity crisis as oil, inflation fears, and dollar strength hit the market all at onceXRP has reached the hardest phase of the cycle. The asset spent much of the year carrying a cleaner institutional narrative than most large-cap altcoins.CryptoSlate has already tracked institutional migration into Ripple-linked products, ETF resilience tied to Ripple’s expanding footprint, and the growing tension between XRPL adoption and token value capture. The setup has now tightened.A sharp overnight jump in oil, stronger dollar conditions, and renewed inflation anxiety have pulled XRP into a macro test that feels more direct than the themes that…

The CLARITY Act entered Washington as a bid to impose a durable market structure on crypto. It now sits at the center of a four-way fight over who gets to define that structure, who gets paid inside it, who supervises it, and how much of the existing financial rulebook survives the rewrite.The bill still includes broad language for jurisdictional clarity, with the Senate Banking Committee majority outlining a framework that draws lines between the SEC and the CFTC while adding tailored disclosures and anti-fraud protections.Around that frame, the coalition has fractured into four camps with different definitions of success. Senate and industry backers…