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Bitcoin's current pullback from its all-time high looks painful on paper. A nearly 40% drop from the October 2025 peak of approximately $126,000 would shake most investors. But on-chain data from CryptoQuant is raising a different question — not whether this hurts, but whether it hurts enough to mark a genuine cycle bottom.
The short answer, according to CryptoQuant analyst @_Crypto_glass, is that current conditions do not yet match the damage that preceded past recoveries.
Bitcoin's three major cycle lows each came after extreme selloffs. The 2015 bottom followed an 86% decline from peak. The 2018 crash ended after an 83% wipeout. Even in 2022, when crypto contagion from FTX collapse was at its worst, Bitcoin did not bottom until after a 76% drawdown. The current pullback sits at around -39%. That gap is significant.
This does not mean Bitcoin is heading to those depths again. CryptoQuant's note is careful on that. More recent bear markets have produced shallower losses overall, a pattern consistent with a maturing asset class drawing in institutional capital through regulated products. Spot ETFs, treasury companies, and financial advisor channels have all expanded the buyer base since 2022.
Still, the data is clear on one thing. The on-chain signals that defined past capitulation phases — prolonged miner stress, large-scale long-term holder losses, and forced selling visible in exchange flows — have not fully shown up at current price levels. That leaves the question genuinely open.
For holders and long-term observers, this matters. Historically, buying into genuine capitulation has produced some of the best returns across Bitcoin's cycles. The current setup, sitting in an ambiguous zone too shallow for classic capitulation but too deep for a healthy correction, makes that calculation harder.
CryptoQuant's full analysis of this drawdown data is available at CryptoNewsLive.org, where the team tracks on-chain developments and cycle data as they develop. For anyone watching the current Bitcoin price action closely, this is one of the more useful data points in circulation right now.

Die Zahlen von April 2026 sind schwer zu ignorieren. Laut DefiLlama wurden im Laufe des Monats mehr als 629,7 Millionen Dollar aus DeFi-Protokollen abgezogen. Zwei Angriffe machen grob geschätzt 92 % davon aus. Das Drift Protocol auf Solana verlor am 1. April 285 Millionen Dollar, nachdem staatlich unterstützte Hacker aus Nordkorea eine sechsmonatige Social-Engineering-Kampagne gegen das Team gestartet hatten. KelpDAO verlor am 18. April 293 Millionen Dollar, als ein Single-Point-Bridge-Verifizierungssystem ausgenutzt wurde, um 116.500 rsETH über mehr als 20 Chains abzuziehen.

Südkoreas erste rein internetbasierte Bank wartet nicht länger am Rand. Kbank hat am 30. April 2026 offiziell die MPC-basierte Wallet-Infrastruktur von Ripple Custody eingeführt und ist damit die erste koreanische Internetbank, die ein institutionelles digitales Asset-Management auf diesem Niveau betreibt.
Der Schritt ist bemerkenswert für das, was er nicht ist. Dies ist kein Pilotprojekt. Es ist kein Proof-of-Concept, das in einer Testumgebung sitzt. Kbank setzt eine Live-Wallet-Infrastruktur auf Bankniveau ein, die für das Management von Multi-Blockchain-Assets ausgelegt ist, mit den Sicherheitskontrollen, die regulierte Finanzinstitute benötigen, um tatsächlich in diesem Bereich zu operieren.

Pi Network has been building something quietly inside its own ecosystem, and on April 28, 2026, it made the offer official. The network is now inviting AI companies to use its verified human workforce for model training, data labeling, inference quality improvement, and evaluation tasks.
The headline number is 526 million. That is how many validation tasks were completed by over one million Pi KYC validators across more than 200 countries. Those tasks were part of Pi's own identity verification system. Contributors were paid directly in Pi tokens. The entire operation ran through Pi's blockchain payment infrastructure, not through fiat channels.
What makes this more than a standard crypto announcement is what it solves. Human-in-the-loop AI is expensive and messy. Companies need real people, not bots. They need those people verified. They need to pay them efficiently across borders. And they need them at a scale that most platforms cannot reach.
Pi says it has already done all of that inside its own network. The 526 million tasks are not a projection. They happened. The workforce is real and active.
There is also a payments angle worth understanding. Pi Launchpad, currently on Testnet, lets AI companies pay contributors in their own project token rather than in cash or Pi. That turns a labor cost into a user acquisition tool. Workers receiving a company token for completing tasks become natural candidates to use that company's product. For startups trying to stretch budgets across both growth and operations, that structure is different from anything Mechanical Turk-style platforms offer.
The Pi Core Team made the announcement directly on X, flagging the offer to AI companies that need authentic human input at scale. With over 18 million identity-verified Pioneers already in the network, the potential contributor pool is large and ready.
Pi Network's full announcement and contact details for interested AI companies are available at the official Pi blog.
For the full breakdown of what this means for AI development and the global human labor market, read the complete analysis at CryptoNewsLive.org.

A DeFi protocol on Sui just had $1.14 million drained from its perpetuals vault. Then the attacker did something unusual. They sent the stolen funds directly to KuCoin.
Aftermath Finance confirmed the exploit on April 29, 2026. The attack ran through eleven transactions over thirty-six minutes, targeting a flaw in how the protocol handled builder code fees. The system was designed to reward third-party developers who route trading volume through the platform. Someone found that negative fee values could be set, reversing the payout direction and pulling USDC out of the vault instead.
The protocol's swaps, staking, and all other products stayed untouched throughout. Only the perpetuals product was hit. Total confirmed damage: 1.14 million dollars.
What drew immediate attention from the crypto security community was where the funds went after the exploit. Crypto commentator FabianoSolana flagged on X that the attacker routed everything to KuCoin, a centralized exchange that requires full identity verification and can freeze accounts on request. He tagged KuCoin executives and on-chain investigator ZachXBT in the same post.
Aftermath confirmed it is now working with zeroShadow, Seal, Blockaid, and OtterSec on fund tracing and has opened every available law-enforcement channel. A patch for the affected contracts is already in development.
The recovery side of this story is also worth noting. Mysten Labs and the Sui Foundation stepped in within hours and committed to covering all user losses. Every person with funds in the affected protocol will be made whole. Zero losses confirmed by the team.
Aftermath also clarified the flaw was not a Move contract-language issue, meaning the vulnerability was specific to their fee configuration rather than anything foundational to the Sui network itself.
For the full breakdown of how the exploit worked, what the negative builder fee flaw actually means, and how the recovery is being structured, read the complete report at CryptoNewsLive.org.
The attacker's wallet address has been made public and is under active monitoring by multiple security firms.

Ripple's stablecoin RLUSD went live on OKX on April 29, 2026. That single sentence sounds routine. It isn't.
OKX has over 120 million users worldwide. It runs a Unified Order Book that pools compliant USD stablecoins, including USDC and USDG, into one shared liquidity layer. RLUSD now sits inside that same pool. That means a trader on OKX can use RLUSD to open a spot trade, then cross-margin a derivatives position, all from one balance, without moving funds between interfaces or paying conversion fees.
What makes this different from a standard listing is the Ripple Prime layer. Ripple Prime is Ripple's institutional prime brokerage, and it plugs directly into OKX's trading environment. Every RLUSD trade on OKX is executed through that infrastructure. That is not how most exchange listings work.
RLUSD launched in December 2024 under a New York Department of Financial Services trust charter. BNY Mellon holds the reserves. It is backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents. Those details matter because they are what lets OKX classify RLUSD as institutional-grade margin collateral, the same status USDT and USDC hold on the platform.
The stablecoin crossed $1.5 billion in market cap since launch. USDT sits at $184 billion. The gap is large, but RLUSD is now in the same operational category at one of the three largest exchanges by volume.
Jack McDonald, SVP of Stablecoins at Ripple, confirmed that deposits and withdrawals on OKX run through the XRP Ledger directly. Minting and redemption are built in. OKX U.S. CEO Roshan Robert and McDonald are scheduled to speak on institutional stablecoin adoption at XRP Las Vegas on April 30, the day after the listing went live.
If you want the full breakdown of how Ripple Prime executes inside OKX's Unified Order Book and what the NYDFS trust charter means for institutional use, the complete article is on CryptoNewsLive.org.

For years, cryptocurrency firms across the United States have struggled to open and keep basic bank accounts. Not because they broke any law. But because their lenders feared what regulators might think.
That is what reputational risk did inside the U.S. banking system. Bank examiners had the power to flag a financial institution's ties to crypto companies as a concern, with no measurable standard and no formal definition. Banks responded by quietly cutting off clients rather than facing supervisory pressure.
The Federal Reserve proposed a rule in February 2026 to formally remove that concept from its supervisory programs. The rule, identified under Docket No. R-1884, would bar the Fed from pushing banks to deny services to customers based on their political views, religious beliefs, or involvement in legal industries regulators viewed as politically unpopular.
The Digital Chamber, Washington's largest digital asset advocacy group, filed a comment letter on April 27, the final day of the comment period, backing the proposal. The group's position is straightforward: changing guidance is reversible. A formal rule is not. Any future administration that wants to revive the practice would have to go through the full rulemaking process again.
The FDIC and OCC already went further. On April 7, both agencies finalized a joint rule banning reputational risk from their supervisory programs entirely. That rule takes effect June 6, 2026.
The Federal Reserve's version is still pending. With the comment period now closed, the Board will review submissions before deciding next steps.
For crypto businesses, particularly smaller firms in markets like Africa and Southeast Asia trying to access U.S. correspondent banking, this rule carries real weight. A policy shift built into regulation is harder to undo overnight than one sitting in examiner guidance.
CryptoNewsLive.org has full coverage of the Digital Chamber's comment letter and what codifying this rule means for digital asset firms seeking fair banking access.

Ethereum is at a turning point. In late April 2026, ETH is trading directly at its realized price, a key on-chain metric that tracks the average acquisition cost across every wallet holding ETH on the network. That number, $2,335 right now, has acted as a dividing line between bull and bear phases in multiple past cycles.
On-chain data from Glassnode shows the full picture through MVRV pricing bands. These bands map Ethereum's price against its network-wide cost basis. The 2.4 MVRV band sits at $5,604. The 0.80 band sits at $1,868. ETH is currently testing the line that sits directly between those two levels.
Crypto analyst Ali Charts, who tracks Glassnode data closely, has pointed to this level as a structural test. The setup is not complicated. ETH either defends $2,335 and builds toward $5,600, or it loses the level and opens the door to $1,868. Both outcomes are mapped directly from the same on-chain framework that has guided ETH analysis across multiple market cycles.
What makes this moment worth watching is the timing. ETH dropped below its realized price earlier in 2026, the first time that had happened in two years. The subsequent recovery brought price back to this exact level. That recovery is now being tested as the month closes out.
The on-chain structure is clear. The next move is not.
For a full breakdown of the MVRV bands, what each level means, and how past cycles played out at the same decision point, the full analysis is available at CryptoNewsLive.org. The site covers Ethereum on-chain data with a focus on the metrics and levels that actually drive price structure, not generic forecasts.
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Der Rallye von Bitcoin im April 2026 war eine der saubersten Erholungen des Jahres. Der Preis stieg von den niedrigen $60.000 zurück in Richtung $77.000, die ETF-Zuflüsse erreichten 2,1 Milliarden Dollar über acht Tage, und die Börsenreserven fielen auf ein siebenjähriges Tief. Gute Zahlen überall.
Aber On-Chain-Daten erzählen eine kompliziertere Geschichte.
Der CryptoQuant-Beitragende Darkfost hat drei aufeinanderfolgende Handelssitzungen markiert, in denen Wallets von kurzfristigen Haltern 65.000 BTC, dann 54.600 BTC und dann 39.000 BTC zu den Börsen gesendet haben. Das summiert sich auf fast 150.000 BTC in 72 Stunden, während der Preis von Bitcoin nach oben ging. Das sind keine kleinen Zahlen. Dieses Volumen in drei Tagen ist genug, um die kurzfristige Preisbewegung zu beeinflussen, wenn es nicht von institutionellen Käufern absorbiert wird.

Most crypto holders assume that revoking permissions after a phishing event closes the door. A post going viral on X this week proves otherwise, and the details are worth reading carefully.
User 0x_abu shared that he clicked a fake Discord giveaway link back in October 2023. At the time his wallet held about $5 in BNB. It got drained. He revoked all approvals, disconnected every site, and continued using the wallet for nearly two years without incident. Small deposits passed through. Nothing happened.
In April 2025 he deposited $400. It disappeared the moment it hit the wallet. No signing prompt. No interaction. Just gone.
What had been sitting on that wallet the whole time was a sweeper bot, an automated script that monitors a compromised wallet address and transfers any incoming funds to the attacker instantly. These bots operate directly from the stolen private key. They do not need user approval. They beat every manual attempt to move funds out because they are faster than any human response.
The specific detail that surfaced in the replies came from another user, OxNonso, who explained the bot was set with a minimum deposit condition. It would not trigger below $200. That is why two years of small transactions went untouched. The $400 deposit crossed the line and the bot executed.
A third user, JaviBlackcrow, added that the same thing happened to him on Solana, losing $50,000 worth of tokens from a wallet used four years prior, after the original protocol it was connected to was hacked years after going offline.
The takeaway is straightforward but uncomfortable. If a wallet was ever involved in a phishing event, even one that seemed minor at the time, it should be considered permanently compromised. No amount of permission revoking fixes a stolen private key. A new wallet with a fresh seed phrase on a clean device is the only safe move.
For the full breakdown of how these threshold-triggered sweeper bots work, what chains are affected, and what options exist for holders in this situation, visit CryptoNewsLive.org.

Die Commodity Futures Trading Commission hat gerade eine Klage gegen Wisconsin eingereicht, und das ist nicht das erste Mal, dass so etwas passiert. Dieselbe Behörde hat bereits Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois und New York in nahezu identischen Streitfällen verklagt. Das Muster ist klar: Die Bundesstaaten versuchen, die Plattformen für Vorhersagemärkte abzuschalten, und die Bundesregierung verklagt sie ständig, um das zu stoppen.
Wisconsin hat am 23. April Zivilklagen gegen Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood und Coinbase eingereicht. Der Bundesstaat erklärte, dass diese Unternehmen illegale Sportwettenoperationen nach dem Recht Wisconsins betrieben. Die CFTC reagierte innerhalb von Tagen und reichte eine Klage ein, um die Durchsetzung durch den Bundesstaat zu blockieren und die föderale Autorität über diese Märkte wiederherzustellen.

A researcher just broke a Bitcoin-style encryption key using a publicly accessible quantum computer and walked away with 1 Bitcoin as a prize. That sentence alone is enough to make any crypto holder pause.
Giancarlo Lelli, an independent Italian researcher, broke a 15-bit elliptic curve cryptographic key on IBM quantum cloud hardware. Post-quantum security startup Project Eleven awarded him its Q-Day Prize bounty for the effort. The firm called it the largest public quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography to date. That is the same type of cryptography protecting Bitcoin wallets, Ethereum wallets, and most blockchains in existence today.
Now, before anyone sells everything, here is the context. Bitcoin runs on 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography. The key Lelli cracked was 15 bits. The gap between those two numbers is enormous. Bitcoin developers and cryptographers were quick to point out that the quantum circuit used in the demonstration produced outputs statistically similar to classical random guessing, meaning the quantum hardware may not have added meaningful advantage here.
But the direction of travel is hard to ignore. Seven months ago, the public record was a 6-bit break. Now it is 15. Estimates for the number of physical qubits needed to threaten a real Bitcoin wallet have dropped from millions to around 500,000, with one Caltech and Oratomic paper suggesting as few as 10,000 in newer architectures.
Approximately 6.9 million Bitcoin sit in wallets with exposed public keys on-chain. That includes addresses tied to Satoshi Nakamoto. A future quantum machine powerful enough to run Shor's algorithm at real scale could target those wallets without warning.
Some blockchain networks are not waiting. TRON's founder Justin Sun announced plans to launch a quantum-resistant network on testnet in Q2 2026 and on the mainnet in Q3 2026. Bitcoin developers are still working through proposals like BIP-360. The Ethereum Foundation has a post-quantum security team in place.
This is not a panic story. It is a preparation story. The question is not whether quantum computing will eventually threaten current encryption. The question is how fast and whether the industry moves in time.
For deeper coverage of how this is unfolding across Bitcoin, TRON, and the broader crypto market, visit CryptoNewsLive.org.

A classic technical warning sign has appeared on Ethereum's daily chart, and traders are paying close attention to a single price zone that could determine where ETH goes next.
Crypto trader CGT_Trader flagged the setup on X on April 26, 2026. Ethereum has formed a head and shoulders top pattern, one of the most recognized bearish reversal structures in technical analysis. The pattern includes a left shoulder, a higher peak called the head near $2,450, and a right shoulder that came in lower. What makes this particular setup stand out is the neckline. Instead of sitting flat, it slopes downward, sitting between $2,300 and $2,330. A descending neckline shows that buyers are defending support at lower and lower levels each time price tests it. That is not strength.
ETH was trading around $2,332 at the time the pattern was flagged. That puts price directly on top of the neckline zone. The pattern has not confirmed yet. According to CGT_Trader, a strong daily close below the blue box support is required before the setup becomes active. Until that happens, the bearish case remains conditional.
If the pattern confirms, the measured downside target lands near $2,000. That is calculated by taking the height from the head to the neckline and projecting it downward from the break point. Ethereum previously found strong support in the $2,100 zone earlier in 2026, so the $2,000 to $2,100 range is not random. It is a zone that has already held once.
Bulls still have a clear path out. A close above the head high near $2,460 completely invalidates the pattern and puts Ethereum back in bullish territory. That level is the line in the sand for anyone holding long positions.
Ethereum's MACD is currently negative, the Fear and Greed Index sits at 31, and ETH has been underperforming Bitcoin in recent sessions. The technical backdrop is not favoring bulls right now.
For the full breakdown of the pattern, the neckline levels, and what traders should watch this week, read the complete analysis at CryptoNewsLive.org.

Most XRP analysis right now focuses on whether price holds above $1.40 or breaks toward $1.80. That is the short-term picture. The two-week chart is telling a longer story.
ChartNerdTA, a technical analyst on X, published a detailed breakdown of XRP's macro structure this week using 13 years of Gaussian channel data. The finding is straightforward: in every single XRP bear market across three full cycles, price has come back down to the lower band of the two-week Gaussian channel before any real recovery began. That lower band currently sits near $0.96.
This cycle has not touched it. The bearish trend flip on the two-week Gaussian has not appeared yet either. In 2019 and 2022, that trend flip marked the actual cycle low. Without it, ChartNerdTA's read is that the bear market structure is still intact.
His base case puts the cycle low forming between $0.70 and $0.90 in 2026. That range aligns with the multi-year symmetrical triangle floor already identified by independent chart analysis, which you can read about in detail at CryptoNewsLive.org.
Beyond the Gaussian channel, ChartNerdTA identified three converging structures on the two-week chart pointing at the same zone: a six-year ascending support trendline, a descending resistance line not retested since late 2024, and a falling wedge. All three meet at the same area.
He also addressed the common assumption that a 69% correction means the bottom is near. Prior XRP bear markets ran 96% and 85% from peak. A proportionally smaller drawdown this cycle, around 76%, still puts the potential low near $0.84. A relief rally to $1.80 or $2 would not change the structure. It would still be a lower high inside a downtrend.
The levels that matter are $1.80 and $2.40. XRP needs to reclaim both and hold them before the trend reversal is real.
After the cycle low forms, ChartNerdTA's Fibonacci targets run $8, $13, and $27 in sequence. But those belong to the next cycle, not this one.
For the full technical breakdown of both the Gaussian channel signal and the triangle setup behind the $0.90 floor, visit CryptoNewsLive.org.

Bitcoin handelt innerhalb eines Preisbereichs, der die Aufmerksamkeit von On-Chain-Analysten auf sich gezogen hat, die Daten zur Angebotsverteilung verfolgen. Der Bereich von $75,000 bis $83,000 zeigt sich als eine Zone mit geringer Aktivität auf den Heatmap-Charts, was bedeutet, dass dort im Vergleich zu den darüber und darunter liegenden Ebenen weniger historische Transaktionen stattgefunden haben.
Dieses technische Detail ist wichtig, weil es etwas über die Liquidität aussagt. Wo wenig historische Käufe und Verkäufe stattgefunden haben, neigen die Preise dazu, schneller in beide Richtungen zu schwanken. Es gibt weniger Angebot, das als natürliche Bremse fungieren kann. Wenn Bitcoin sich einer solchen Zone nähert, verschiebt sich die Frage schnell von "Wird es getestet?" zu "Was passiert, wenn es getestet wird?"

A DeFi lending protocol called Purrlend lost its entire TVL on April 25, 2026. The total taken was $1,522,037.82 across two separate blockchain networks, HyperEVM and MegaETH. The exploit drained stablecoins, wrapped tokens, and native ecosystem assets from both chains within hours.
The biggest red flag in this case is not the exploit itself. It is the eight-hour window before the drain. On-chain records show that Purrlend's admin multisig, a 2-of-3 configuration with no timelock, added the attacker's wallet address as a "bridge" role hours before any funds moved. That bridge role came from an inherited Aave permission structure still embedded in the protocol's code. It allowed the address to mint tokens without actual collateral backing them. Then the drain happened.
Purrlend paused the protocol after the attack and posted an update saying they had detected irregular activity and were investigating. The community's response was sharp. Multiple users on X pointed to the transaction record and called it an inside job outright. The exploiter's addresses are public on both HyperEVM scan and MegaETH's explorer, and as of reporting, the funds had not moved.
This is happening during what is turning into the worst month for DeFi security in recent memory. April 2026 has already recorded over $600 million in protocol losses across more than a dozen separate incidents. KelpDAO and Drift Protocol account for most of that figure. Purrlend is smaller in scale but harder to explain away structurally. A timelock on that multisig would have given the community at least a window to flag the suspicious transaction before any funds moved.
The full breakdown of the Purrlend exploit, including the exact on-chain transactions, stolen asset list, and community response, is covered in detail at CryptoNewsLive.org.
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On April 25, 2026, Litecoin's network ran into something that most crypto users never expect from one of the oldest proof-of-work chains still running. A zero-day bug in its MimbleWimble Extension Block layer knocked major mining pools offline, opened the door for double-spend attempts on cross-chain swap protocols, and triggered a 13-block chain reorganization that took more than three hours to play out.
The story picked up fast on X. Aurora Labs CEO Alex Shevchenko flagged the reorg early, noting that attackers were actively targeting cross-chain swapping protocols during the disruption window. NEAR Intents, one of the affected protocols, reported exposure of around $600,000 and said its team would cover any user losses directly.
What made this different from a standard 51% attack is the entry point. Attackers did not overpower the network with hashrate. They used something simpler — nodes that had not applied recent software updates. Those unpatched nodes processed an invalid MWEB transaction, which allowed coins to be pegged out to third-party decentralized exchanges. The rest followed from there.
Litecoin's team confirmed the full picture later in the day. The 13-block reorg was the network's own correction mechanism rolling back those invalid transactions before they could settle on the main chain. All valid transactions during that period remain unaffected. The bug has since been fully patched, and the network returned to normal operation on the same day.
For DEX operators that accept LTC as a settlement asset, this is a live case study in counterparty chain risk. A vulnerability on one side of a cross-chain swap can move losses downstream to protocols on the other end — protocols that had no part in the bug and no control over the outcome.
The full breakdown of what happened, what NEAR Intents' actual settled losses look like after the reorg, and why the node update gap was the real attack surface is covered in detail over at CryptoNewsLive.org.
If you follow crypto security, protocol risk, or just hold LTC, this one is worth reading in full.

Ethereum hat in letzter Zeit nicht viel gemacht. Der Preis schwebt um $2.300, das Volumen ist ausgetrocknet, und die meisten Schlagzeilen haben sich auf andere Assets verlagert. Diese Stille spiegelt sich jedoch genau in den Velas wider, die ein Setup zeigen.
Der Krypto-Analyst CryptoPatel hat diese Woche auf X ein 2-Wochen-Zeitrahmen-Diagramm geteilt, das Ethereum zeigt, das sich in dem befindet, was er als die beste Akkumulationszone des aktuellen Zyklus beschreibt. Diese Zone reicht von etwa $1.850 bis $2.318, und der Preis hat sie dreimal getestet, ohne unter die untere Grenze zu brechen.

Bitcoin is hovering near $77,500 and the price alone is not the most important part of the picture. What is happening underneath the surface in the derivatives market has been building quietly for almost two months, and it is the kind of signal that has preceded upside moves in this entire cycle.
The metric in focus is called Net Taker Volume. It measures the difference between buy volume and sell volume in Bitcoin derivatives order books. When buyers are more aggressive than sellers, the reading goes positive. When sellers dominate, it goes negative. Simple. But the detail that matters here is not just that it is positive. It is that it has stayed positive since March 7.
Crypto analyst Darkfost published data on X showing the monthly-smoothed Net Taker Volume sitting at $145 million. At that time frame, the figure removes noise and shows the actual trend. Two months of sustained positive reading means buyers have been absorbing sell pressure consistently, not just for a day or a week.
Every time this cycle saw a shift from negative to positive Net Taker Volume, price followed to the upside. That is the historical pattern. The current reading has lasted longer and at higher values than most prior positive stretches, which points to continued upward pressure rather than a quick reversal.
On the technical side, Bitcoin is also sitting at the bottom of a channel that has defined the entire recent uptrend. Technical trader ZordXBT flagged on X that this is the sixth touch of the lower trendline. Every single prior touch produced an immediate bounce. The key upside level is $78,200. Holding and closing above it opens a path to a new high. The downside level if the channel fails is $72,200.
Both signals, derivatives and technicals, are pointing the same direction at the same time.
For a full breakdown of what these data points mean for Bitcoin's next move, including the exact levels traders are watching and what a channel break would actually signal, head over to the full analysis on CryptoNewsLive.org.
The data is there. The levels are set. What happens next at that trendline will tell a lot about where this market is going.

Steht XRP kurz davor, unter $1 zu fallen, bevor es zu seinem nächsten großen Rallye kommt? Zwei unabhängige technische Analysten deuten nun auf dieselbe Antwort hin.
Stand April 25, 2026, wird XRP bei etwa $1.42 gehandelt und rangiert viertens nach Marktkapitalisierung. Auf den ersten Blick sieht das stabil aus. Aber ein Chartmuster, das sich seit fast einem Jahrzehnt bildet, zieht jetzt ernsthafte Aufmerksamkeit von Analysten auf sich, die den monatlichen Zeitraum beobachten.
Das Setup ist ein mehrjähriges symmetrisches Dreieck auf dem monatlichen Candlestick-Chart von XRP. Der Preis wurde zwischen einer abwärts gerichteten Widerstandslinie, die die Höchststände von 2017-2018 verbindet, und einem aufsteigenden Unterstützungsboden eingeengt. Dieser aufsteigende Boden war der Schlüssel. Er hat mehrere Korrekturen überstanden und die Struktur intakt gehalten.