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Overview Ethereum's available supply on centralized exchanges has dropped to the lowest level since the network launched in 2015. On-chain data confirms a sustained, multi-year outflow of ETH into staking contracts, cold wallets, DeFi protocols, and institutional treasuries. With spot ETFs continuously absorbing liquid supply and over 33% of all ETH now locked in staking, the structural picture is tightening fast. What does this mean for investors — and is a supply shock already underway? Key Ta

Overview On April 19, 2026, Elon Musk formally replied to the handwritten bucket list left behind by 15-year-old Liv Perrotto — a young space enthusiast who passed away from cancer in January — and confirmed that Asteroid, the Shiba Inu plush she designed, would become SpaceX's official mascot. That single reply triggered an explosive move in the Ethereum-based meme coin ASTEROID: its market cap rocketed from roughly $16 million to a peak of approximately $164 million within hours, with a 24-hou

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