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Canary'S Spot Litecoin Etf, Trading Under The Ticker $Ltcc, Recorded A Net Inflow Of Approximately $548,000 On April 22, Marking Its First Positive Flow Day Since February 4, When $144,500 Entered The Fund, According To Data From @Sosovaluecrypto.

The near three-month gap between inflow days underscores the tepid investor appetite the product has faced since launch. $LTCC currently holds assets equivalent to roughly 0.15% of $LTC's total market capitalisation. Whether the April 22 figure signals renewed institutional interest or a one-off move remains to be seen, but it represents the most notable demand the fund has attracted in months.

People Forget Just How Dominant Ethereum Is...

The "Ethereum-killer" narrative has quietly faded, and the data makes clear why. Despite persistent price pressure on $ETH, @Ethereum's mainnet continues to function as the centre of gravity for the global blockchain ecosystem. According to DefiLlama, Ethereum's total value locked sits at nearly $46 billion, representing more than 54% of TVL across all chains combined. The stablecoin picture tells a similar story. Close to $167 billion worth of stablecoins currently reside on Ethereum, accounting for roughly 53% of the entire stablecoin market. Those two figures alone speak to a network that remains deeply embedded in how crypto actually moves and stores value, regardless of where token prices sit on any given day. For some, that context matters when forming a view on the asset. Being bearish on $ETH, the argument goes, is increasingly hard to separate from being bearish on the broader crypto market itself.

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Pavel @Durov Has Announced That Transaction Fees On The Open Network Will Fall Sixfold To 0.00039 $Ton, Equivalent To Roughly $0.0005, Within One Week.

The fee will be fixed regardless of network load. Durov added that most transactions will become fully feeless shortly after that change takes effect. The announcement marks the second step of Durov's MTONGA roadmap, a multi-phase plan to scale @ton_blockchain. Step one landed on April 10 with the Catchain 2.0 upgrade, which Durov said made the network ten times faster and introduced sub-second transaction finality. Five further steps remain on the roadmap, though no timeline has been disclosed for those stages.

Pantera Capital'S Dat Opportunity Fund Is Among Investors Pushing London-Listed Satsuma Technology Plc To Liquidate Its $50 Million $Btc Position And Return The Proceeds To Shareholders, According To Bloomberg.

The fund holds a 6.7% stake in the company. Satsuma (@Satsuma_UK) confirmed it has received capital return requests but declined to identify the investors. Executive Chairman Ranald McGregor-Smith said the company is "assessing options" while weighing the interests of all shareholders. The stock has fallen 98% from its £14 peak last June. The pressure from Pantera carries a certain irony. The firm was one of the original backers of Satsuma's Bitcoin treasury strategy, participating in a £164 million convertible note raise in August 2025 alongside Kraken, Borderless Capital, and DCG. Satsuma has already begun unwinding its position. In December, the company sold 579 $BTC for approximately £40 million to raise cash, roughly half its holdings at the time. It currently holds around 646 $BTC worth approximately $50 million. Leadership instability has compounded the pressure. A director departed in February, followed by the resignation of CEO Henry Elder in March. $BTC, meanwhile, has retreated sharply from a $126,000 high reached in October, falling to around $60,000 in early February before recovering to test $80,000 resistance.

Bridgetower Is Tokenizing More Than $11 Billion In Securities Tied To The Dom X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, Using The Full @Chainlink Technology Stack In What Appears To Be One Of The Largest On-Chain Migrations Of Physical Mining Assets To Date.

The deployment is built around the $LINK Runtime Environment (CRE), which orchestrates real-time reserve verification and automated on-chain valuation updates. BridgeTower is also using Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to enable these commodity-backed assets to move across regulated DeFi venues and licensed secondary markets, while meeting institutional privacy standards. The project brings a significant volume of physical copper and gold resources onto a blockchain-based orchestration layer, reflecting growing institutional appetite for tokenized real-world assets. The real-world asset tokenization market has been expanding rapidly, with major financial institutions and infrastructure providers moving to bring commodities, debt instruments, and other traditional assets on-chain.

Okx Has Integrated With @Bitgo To Offer Off-Exchange Settlement Services For Institutional Clients In The United States, The Two Companies Announced.

The partnership allows institutional firms to access OKX's trading liquidity while keeping their assets held in @BitGo's qualified custody throughout the entire trading process. By separating trade execution from asset custody, the arrangement removes exchange counterparty risk — a concern that has historically deterred large allocators from trading directly on centralised exchanges. Off-exchange settlement models have gained traction among institutional participants following high-profile exchange collapses in recent years, which exposed the risks of holding assets directly on trading platforms. Under this structure, funds never leave qualified custody during the trading cycle, providing asset managers with a cleaner compliance and risk management framework. The integration is designed to meet the increasingly stringent security and regulatory standards demanded by US-based asset managers, a segment that has grown more active in digital asset markets heading into 2026.

Tether Has Frozen Two Wallet Addresses Holding A Combined $344.2 Million In $Usdt On The Tron Network, In What Ranks Among The Largest Single-Address Blacklisting Actions The Stablecoin Issuer Has Carried Out To Date.

On-chain data flagged by @Whale_Alert shows the two addresses held 131,288,800 $USDT and 212,922,653 $USDT respectively. Both have now been blacklisted, rendering the funds immovable and effectively pulling that liquidity out of the $TRX ecosystem. According to @Tether, the freeze followed information provided by several U.S. authorities relating to activity tied to unlawful conduct. The company did not identify the wallet holders or disclose the specific nature of the alleged violations. The action is consistent with a broader pattern of compliance enforcement by Tether, which has increasingly coordinated with international law enforcement agencies to freeze wallets linked to illicit activity. Tether has previously stated that it works directly with agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice and the Secret Service to respond to freeze requests.

Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman Of Strategy And One Of Bitcoin'S Most Prominent Institutional Advocates, Has Declared That The Crypto Winter Is Over, Posting Simply "Winter'S Over" On X.

@Saylor's proclamation comes as $BTC holds above $93,000, a level that has proven resilient despite ongoing geopolitical tensions and broader macroeconomic uncertainty. For Saylor, the message carries weight. Strategy holds over 538,000 $BTC on its balance sheet, making it the largest corporate holder of the asset in the world, according to publicly available treasury disclosures. His comments point to what he views as a structural shift in how Bitcoin is owned and traded. Rather than retail-driven boom-and-bust cycles, Saylor argues the market is entering a prolonged period of institutional dominance, with corporate treasuries, asset managers, and sovereign-aligned entities anchoring demand. The framing echoes a broader narrative gaining traction on Wall Street. Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, approved by the SEC in January 2024, have drawn tens of billions in inflows, fundamentally changing the composition of Bitcoin's investor base. Whether the bear market is truly behind us remains a matter of debate. But with institutional infrastructure now firmly in place and a leading corporate holder publicly calling the turn, sentiment at the top of the market appears to have shifted decisively.

Core Trading Volume Increase By Nearly 200%

Core DAO's (@Coredao_Org) native $CORE token has continued to push higher following a positive price recovery over the past several days. According to CoinMarketCap, trading volume over the last 24 hours surged more than 150%, reaching upwards of $205.02M. Sentiment within the community remains broadly bullish, with analysts anticipating further upside in the near term.