2 months ago
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
Bitcoin is gathering momentum, rising implicit 2% connected the time to implicit $84,000, with memecoins starring the marketplace higher, followed by tokens associated with artificial quality and gaming. In accepted markets, golden acceptable different record, surpassing $3,140, and futures linked to large U.S. equity indices are pointing to a affirmative open.
President Donald Trump pledged a "very kind" yet steadfast approach toward each trading partners up of Wednesday's planned reciprocal tariffs announcement.
Still, marketplace flows reveal nervousness apt stemming from tariff uncertainty. An assertive determination could ratchet up ostentation expectations, which would little hazard plus prices, including cryptocurrencies.
Reports suggest that the Treasury and different national agencies are expected to disclose their holdings of bitcoin and different tokens connected April 5, That's successful accordance with the March 11 papers that called for specified an enactment wrong 30 days of Trump's March 6 determination to contented an enforcement bid to signifier a strategical crypto reserve.
Still, immoderate indicators telephone for caution. For instance, bitcoin's one-year percent alteration is approaching the antagonistic zone, according to crypto probe steadfast Alphractal. "Out of the 4 times this has happened, 3 led to bearish movements, portion 1 had nary important effect," the steadfast said.
BTC's evident request by 30-day change, derived from the travel of coins into exchanges and adjusted for factors including nett outflows, present shows the astir antagonistic values successful implicit a year, according to information root CryptoQuant.
Speaking of the broader market, decentralized AI information liquidity web Vana unveiled the VRC-20 information token standard for just and transparent information token transactions. "For information markets to work, tokens indispensable beryllium reliable, secure, and useful. As a cosmopolitan modular for data-backed tokens, VRC-20 delivers this by ensuring just and transparent information token trading," Vana said connected X.
Elsewhere, the MOVE Index, which measures the 30-day implied volatility for the U.S. Treasury notes, is rising. A volatile Treasury marketplace often causes fiscal tightening worldwide, starring to reduced request for hazard assets. Stay alert!
What to Watch
Crypto:
April 1: ONINO (ONI) volition person its mainnet launch.
April 2, 10:00 a.m.: U.S. House Financial Services Committee hearing for marking up assorted measures, including H.R. 2392, the Stablecoin Transparency and Accountability for a Better Ledger Economy (STABLE) Act of 2025, and H.R. 1919, the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act. Livestream link.
April 2: XIONMarkets (XION) volition person its mainnet launch.
April 5: The alleged day of Satoshi Nakamoto.
April 9, 10:00 a.m.: U.S. House Financial Services Committee hearing astir however the U.S. securities laws could beryllium updated to instrumentality into relationship integer assets. Livestream link.
Macro
April 1, 9:00 a.m.: S&P Global releases Brazil March purchasing managers’ scale (PMI) data.
Manufacturing PMI Prev. 53
April 1, 9:30 a.m.: S&P Global releases Canada March purchasing managers’ scale (PMI) data.
Manufacturing PMI Prev. 47.8
April 1, 9:45 a.m.: S&P Global releases (Final) U.S. March purchasing managers’ scale (PMI) data.
Manufacturing PMI Est. 49.8 vs. Prev. 52.7
April 1, 10:00 a.m.: The U.S. Department of Labor releases February JOLTs study (job openings, hires, and separations).
Job Openings Est. 7.63M vs. Prev. 7.74M
Job Quits Prev. 3.266M
April 1, 10:00 a.m.: The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) releases March U.S. manufacturing assemblage data.
ISM Manufacturing PMI Est. 49.5 vs. Prev. 50.3
April 2: Trump administration’s “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs volition get announced.
April 2, 4:30 p.m.: Fed Governor Adriana D. Kugler volition springiness a code titled “Inflation Expectations and Monetary Policymaking.” Livestream link.
April 3, 12:01 a.m.: The 25% tariff connected imported automobiles and definite parts announced March 26 becomes effective.
April 3, 12:30 p.m.: Fed Vice Chair Philip N. Jefferson volition springiness a code titled “U.S. Economic Outlook and Central Bank Communications.” Livestream link.
April 4, 11:25 a.m.: Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell volition springiness a code titled “Economic Outlook.” Livestream link.
Earnings (Estimates based connected FactSet data)
No net scheduled.
Token Events
Governance votes & calls
Arbitrum DAO is voting connected converting 15 cardinal ARB into stablecoins to beryllium managed via a “33/33/33 divided among Karpatkey, Avantgarde & Myso, and Gauntlet.” It’s besides voting on allocating 10 cardinal ARB into “on-chain strategies designed to make output portion safeguarding the principal.” Voting ends April 3.
Sky DAO is discussing expanding the Smart Burn Engine (SBE) rate aft a caller enforcement connection “resulted successful important summation to nett revenue.”
Unlocks
April 1: Sui (SUI) to unlock 2.03% of its circulating proviso worthy $143.15 million.
April 1: ZetaChain (ZETA) to unlock 6.05% of its circulating proviso worthy $12.85 million.
April 2: Ethena (ENA) to unlock 0.77% of its circulating proviso worthy $14.07 million.
April 3: Wormhole (W) to unlock 47.64% of its circulating proviso worthy $112.67 million.
April 9: Movement (MOVE) to unlock 2.04% of its circulating proviso worthy $20.23 million.
Token Listings
April 1: Bybit to delist CEL, MXM, ZEND, CTT, BONUS, LGX, PLT
Conferences
CoinDesk's Consensus is taking spot in Toronto connected May 14-16. Use codification DAYBOOK and prevention 15% connected passes.
April 2-3: Southeast Asia Blockchain Week 2025 Main Conference (Bangkok)
April 2-5: ETH Bucharest Conference & Hackathon (Romania)
April 3-6: BitBlockBoom (Dallas)
April 6-9: Hong Kong Web3 Festival
April 8-10: Paris Blockchain Week
April 10: Bitcoin Educators Unconference (Nashville)
April 15-16: BUIDL Asia 2025 (Seoul)
Token Talk
By Shaurya Malwa
A hacker progressive successful February's multimillion exploit of the zkLend DeFi protocol said they inadvertently sent their stolen funds to a phishing tract posing arsenic mixing work Tornado Cash.
The hacker mislaid each 2,930 ETH stolen from zkLend to the evident phishing attack, according to Lookchain and blockchain data.
They past sent an on-chain connection via Etherscan to zkLend apologizing for the "havoc and losses caused," claimed to nary longer clasp the stolen funds and urged zkLend to redirect betterment efforts toward the phishing site’s operators.
Market watchers expressed skepticism, suggesting the alleged phishing tract was acceptable up by the hacker successful an effort to displacement scrutiny distant from the attackers' known wallets to the code that purportedly ended up thieving the thief.
zkLend responded by requesting the hacker to instrumentality immoderate remaining funds. The protocol has been actively moving connected money recovery, having launched a "Recovery Portal" connected March 5, to compensate affected users, and is collaborating with information teams, centralized exchanges and authorities to hint the stolen assets.
Derivatives Positioning
Open involvement successful futures tied to TON, TRX, HYPE, SHIB and XMR has accrued successful the past 24 hours portion the remaining large coins, including BTC, saw a driblet successful unfastened bets.
Perpetual backing rates for BTC, ETH and astir different apical coins stay beneath an annualized 5%, indicating cautiously bullish sentiment.
Deribit's BTC and ETH options proceed to amusement a bias for short- and near-dated puts with bullishness seen lone from July expiry.
Market Movements
BTC is up 2.19% from 4 p.m. ET Monday astatine $84,236.71 (24hrs: +2.47%)
ETH is up 3.34% astatine $1,880.62(24hrs: +3.34%)
CoinDesk 20 is up 3.16% astatine 2,579.16 (24hrs: +5.15%)
Ether CESR Composite Staking Rate is up 10 bps astatine 3.03%
BTC backing complaint is astatine 0.0032% (3.5150% annualized) connected Binance
DXY is unchanged astatine 104.12
Gold is up 1.18% astatine $3,159.80/oz
Silver is up 0.99% astatine $34.80/oz
Nikkei 225 closed unchanged astatine 35,624.48
Hang Seng closed +0.38% astatine 23,206.84
FTSE is up 0.9% astatine 8,660.19
Euro Stoxx 50 is up 1.2% astatine 5,311.30
DJIA closed connected Monday +1% astatine 42,001.76
S&P 500 closed +0.55% astatine 5,611.85
Nasdaq closed -0.14% astatine 17,299.29
S&P/TSX Composite Index closed +0.64% astatine 24,917.50
S&P 40 Latin America closed -0.96% astatine 2,406.22
U.S. 10-year Treasury complaint is down 3 bps astatine 4.185%
E-mini S&P 500 futures are unchanged astatine 5,656.00
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 0.22% astatine 19,482.25
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are down 0.12% astatine 42,207.00
Bitcoin Stats:
BTC Dominance: 62.18 (-0.21%)
Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.02236 (1.31%)
Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 835.3 EH/s
Hashprice (spot): $46.93
Total Fees: 4.9 BTC / $406,290
CME Futures Open Interest: 135,210 BTC
BTC priced successful gold: 26.8 oz
BTC vs golden marketplace cap: 7.6%
Technical Analysis
BTC has moved past the yellowish trendline, confirming an inverse head-and-shoulders breakout to suggest the way of slightest absorption is connected the higher side.
The 24-hour elemental moving mean is present trending north, indicating a renewed upward momentum.
Prices could emergence toward the descending (white) trendline resistance, presently astatine $87,200.
Crypto Equities
Strategy (MSTR): closed connected Monday astatine $288.27 (-0.39%), up 2.54% astatine $295.60 successful pre-market
Coinbase Global (COIN): closed astatine $172.23 (-0.98%), up 1.78% astatine $175.30
Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed astatine C$15.17 (-7.78%)
MARA Holdings (MARA): closed astatine $11.50 (-7.78%), up 2.7% astatine $11.81
Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed astatine $7.12 (-3.91%), up 1.69% astatine $7.22
Core Scientific (CORZ): closed astatine $7.24 (-3.21%), up 0.83% astatine $7.30
CleanSpark (CLSK): closed astatine $6.72 (-6.54%), up 3.13% astatine $6.93
CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed astatine $12.77 (-2.74%), down 2.51% astatine $12.80
Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed astatine $36.20 (-1.79%)
Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed astatine $45.74 (-4.39%), up 2.25% astatine $46.77
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs:
Daily nett flow: -$60.6 million
Cumulative nett flows: $36.27 billion
Total BTC holdings ~ 1.12 million.
Spot ETH ETFs
Daily nett flow: $6.4 million
Cumulative nett flows: $2.43 billion
Total ETH holdings ~ 3.41 million.
Source: Farside Investors
Overnight Flows
Chart of the Day
Tron, BNB Chain and Celo are the past year's apical 3 blockchains by the fig of progressive stablecoin addresses.
Ethereum lags adjacent though the stablecoin proviso connected the smart-contract blockchain precocious surged to all-time precocious implicit $132 billion.
While You Were Sleeping
China Kicks Off Military Drills Near Taiwan, Warns Island’s ‘Independence’ Means War (CNBC): China said its subject actions were punishment for Taiwan’s leadership, simulating multidirectional encirclement and coordinated strikes connected cardinal areas to show combat readiness.
Ethereum Reclaims No. 1 Spot arsenic Leading DEX Chain for First Time Since September, Overtakes Solana (CoinDesk): Bearish marketplace sentiment, peculiarly wrong the memecoin sector, led to a important diminution successful enactment connected Solana-based platforms Raydium and Pump.fun.
Democrats Sue Trump Administration Over Election Executive Order (Reuters): The suit says requiring elector citizenship impervious and cutting funds for noncompliant states would unlawfully fto presidents reshape predetermination rules to support their ain governmental interests.
Gold Hits Record arsenic Trump’s Trade Threats Fan Haven Demand (Bloomberg): Spot gold, up 19% successful the archetypal quarter, deed $3,149 arsenic investors braced for retaliation implicit Trump’s reciprocal tariffs plan, which volition beryllium unveiled Wednesday.
RBA Keeps Rates connected Hold arsenic It Points to Trade War Threat (The Wall Street Journal): Australia's cardinal slope warned that stiffer U.S. tariffs and rising geopolitical tensions could resistance connected planetary maturation by undermining assurance and prompting households and firms to hold spending decisions.
Metaplanet Ups Bitcoin Holding to Over 4K BTC, Adds Another 696 BTC (CoinDesk): The Japanese steadfast paid astir $97,500 per bitcoin, raising the mean outgo of its holdings to astir $86,500 per coin.
In the Ether
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