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Overview Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to approximately $73,753 on April 19, 2026 — a roughly 2% decline in 24 hours — after Iran rejected a second round of U.S.-led peace talks, stalling Strait of Hormuz diplomacy and wiping an estimated $83 billion from total crypto market capitalization. The move pushed BTC below its recent $74,000–$77,000 consolidation range as oil prices climbed back above $100 per barrel, tightening Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations and triggering a broad risk-off rotation. Th

Overview On April 18, 2026, decentralized finance suffered its most expensive hour yet. An attacker exploited Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, draining 116,500 rsETH — worth approximately $293 million and representing roughly 18% of the token's entire circulating supply. The stolen tokens were immediately deployed as collateral on Aave V3 and V4, allowing the attacker to borrow over $236 million in real wrapped ETH before anyone could stop it. The incident is now the largest sing

Overview North Korea is the only regime on earth that has turned cryptocurrency theft into an explicit national strategy. Since its first on-chain heist in 2017, the regime's infamous Lazarus Group has stolen an estimated $6.75 billion in digital assets — capping 2025 with a record-breaking single-event theft of $1.5 billion from Bybit. This is not opportunistic cybercrime. It is a systematic, state-directed campaign by a sanctions-isolated regime that has found in crypto's irreversibility and b

Published: April 10, 2026Author: MEXC Crypto Pulse Team Overview Two major macro signals collided this week, sending shockwaves across global financial markets. A fragile US-Iran ceasefire — celebrated briefly with a historic single-day oil crash — is already unraveling, pushing crude prices back toward the $100 level. Simultaneously, China's Producer Price Index (PPI) turned positive for the first time in over four years, ending a 41-month deflation streak. For crypto traders, both developments

Published: April 10, 2026Author: MEXC Crypto Pulse Team Overview Less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump announced a fragile two-week ceasefire with Iran, the Middle East is back on the brink. Israeli forces struck Hezbollah positions across Lebanon in the early hours of April 10. Hezbollah retaliated with rockets toward northern Israel — the first offensive against a U.S. ally since the ceasefire was declared. Meanwhile, Trump publicly lambasted Iran for doing a "very poor job" of reope

Published: April 10, 2026Author: MEXC Crypto Pulse Team Overview In April 2026, a single geopolitical event reshaped the global narrative around Bitcoin: Iran announced that oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz during a two-week ceasefire with the United States must pay a toll of approximately $1 per barrel of oil — in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. For the first time in history, a sovereign nation formally required Bitcoin as payment for access to one of the world's most critical str

For over 17 years, the true identity of Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator has remained the single greatest mystery in financial history. On April 8, 2026, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou published a landmark 10,000-word investigation in The New York Times, pointing to British cryptographer Adam Back — CEO of Blockstream and inventor of Hashcash — as the most credible Satoshi Nakamoto candidate to date. Back denied it. And with that, the mystery endures. Whether you're a long-time h

Overview On March 24, 2026, Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) — the issuer behind the USDC stablecoin — recorded its largest single-day stock decline since going public, plunging over 20% to close at $101.17. The selloff wiped out billions in market value in a matter of hours and sent shockwaves through the broader crypto-adjacent equities market. The trigger: a leaked Senate draft of the CLARITY Act, proposing a sweeping ban on passive yield payments for simply holding stablecoins. For a compa

Overview In one of the most dramatic geopolitical reversals of 2026, the United States and Iran struck a two-week ceasefire deal on April 7 — less than two hours before President Trump's self-imposed deadline for military escalation expired. The agreement, brokered by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, hinges on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway through which roughly 20% of the world's seaborne oil normally transits. The immediate market reaction was swift and viol

Overview On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated military campaign — codenamed Operation Epic Fury — targeting Iran's military facilities, nuclear infrastructure, and political leadership. The strikes killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, triggering one of the most severe geopolitical crises since the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war. Iran's immediate retaliation: shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries roughly 20% of the world's daily oil supp