Day: April 8, 2025

Tron DAO fueling growth for young innovators at Yale Blockchain Conference 2025

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Share this article Geneva, Switzerland, April 8 2025 — TRON DAO participated in the Yale Blockchain Conference as a proud sponsor of the Happy Hour Reception on April 4. The event brought together blockchain innovators, students, and thought leaders from top universities—including NYU, Harvard, MIT, BU, Columbia, and Fordham—fostering cross-campus dialogue and collaboration in the Web3 space. This year’s conference, themed “Blockchain Applications Across Industries,” focused on blockchain’s transformative role in sectors such as healthcare, finance, supply chain, AI, art, law, gaming, and more. Attendees explored how blockchain is reshaping…

RedStone targets trading latency with new oracle on MegaETH

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RedStone, a blockchain oracle provider, has introduced a push-based oracle on MegaETH to tackle latency issues that challenge the efficiency of onchain trading. According to a spokesperson for RedStone, the new oracle can push new prices onchain every 2.4 milliseconds. Initially debuting on MegaETH, an Ethereum layer-2 network, the product may be rolled out to additional chains in the future. RedStone said its oracle sources prices from centralized exchanges and delivers them directly to applications or smart contracts via nodes that operate natively on the MegaETH chain. This “co-location” strategy…

Bitcoin price could rally even as global trade war rages on — Here is why

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Crypto and equities traders were hopeful for a last-minute solution that would prevent the US from enacting 104% tariffs on Chinese goods entering the United States, but in a press conference, the White House confirmed that the tariffs would start on April 9. Markets deteriorated when Peter Navarro, trade adviser to US President Donald Trump, stated that tariffs were “not a negotiation.” As a result, the S&P 500 index closed on April 8 with a 1.6% loss, reversing earlier gains of 4%. This downturn has left traders wondering whether Bitcoin…

Kraken Partners With Mastercard To Bring Bitcoin Payments To Over 150 Million Merchants

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Mastercard has announced a landmark partnership with Kraken to enable real-world Bitcoin and crypto payments at scale across the UK and Europe. The collaboration aims to allow Kraken’s users to spend their digital assets at over 150 million merchants worldwide that accept Mastercard, marking a major step forward in the integration of Bitcoin into everyday commerce. “Mastercard is committed to driving innovation and expanding the possibilities of digital payments,” stated Scott Abrahams, Executive Vice President of Global Partnerships at Mastercard. “Our partnership with Kraken is a concrete demonstration of this,…

Why Mempools Are Important For Censorship Resistance

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While attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo in Boston over the weekend I was lucky enough to get a chance to sit down and talk with Bitcoin Core contributor and maintainer Gloria Zhao.  Gloria began contributing to Bitcoin Core in 2020 shortly before she graduated from UC Berkeley at the end of the year. Giving up a chance to work full time at Google after a college internship, she decided to jump into contributing to Bitcoin Core full time thanks to funding from Brink with contributions from the Human Rights Foundation…

Cboe BZX files to list Canary’s SUI ETF

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Cboe BZX Exchange has asked United States regulators for clearance to list an exchange-traded fund (ETF) backed by Sui (SUI), the native token of the Sui Network, public filings show.  The request submitted on April 8 must be reviewed and approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before the exchange can list any shares of the fund. If approved, the ETF — issued by asset manager Canary Capital — would be the first in the country to hold SUI. The token has a market capitalization of roughly $6.5…

Support The Victims Of The Myanmar Earthquake With Bitcoin

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Follow Frank on X. On March 28, 2025, one of the most severe earthquakes of the 21st century devastated Myanmar (Burma). The death toll from the 7.7 magnitude tremor is now over 3,600, while more than 5,500 have been injured and 17.2 million are currently living in the affected areas. To make matters worse, the country is under military rule and the leaders of the junta are both restricting humanitarian aid from reaching some of the most affected areas of the country and bombing war-torn regions of the country to…

Bitcoin weekly RSI hits bull market low as trader sees $70K BTC price bottom

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Bitcoin (BTC) has a new $70,000 reversal target as a leading indicator sets new bull market lows. In X analysis on April 7, popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital predicted that BTC/USD could find its floor near old all-time highs from 2021. History suggests $70,000 should end BTC price dip Bitcoin can dip as low as $70,000 before recovering and still keep within historical norms, Rekt Capital says. Considering where the current bull market correction might end up, the analyst used the relative strength index (RSI) indicator to calculate the…

Weaker yuan is ‘bullish for BTC’ as Chinese capital flocks to crypto — Bybit CEO

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With US President Donald Trump imposing 104% tariffs on Chinese imports, Beijing is responding by letting the yuan weaken against the dollar — a move that analysts say could spark the next leg of the Bitcoin bull market. On April 8, the yuan-to-US dollar exchange rate fell to its lowest level since 2023, signaling the Chinese central bank’s readiness to let its currency fluctuate more freely.  The US dollar-to-yuan exchange rate on April 8. Source: Bloomberg With the trade war ratcheting up, “expectation for China to eventually devalue the currency…

Gaming NFT maker Aavegotchi votes to ditch Polygon for Base

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Aavegotchi, a non-fungible token (NFT) protocol focused on Web3 gaming, has opted to abandon blockchain network Polygon and “go all-in” on Base, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling chain, according to the results of an onchain vote.  On April 8, Aavegotchi’s community members voted 93.5% in favor of a proposal to “Make Aavegotchi Based Again” by deprecating the protocol’s smart contracts on Polygon and re-deploying on Base, according to Aavegochti’s governance page.  “Given our close relationship with the Base team, as well as recent developments in the Base ecosystem […] we believe…