The debt train does not stop and will mark the end of the fiat era: Lyn Alden

The United States financial system has crossed a threshold that threatens to alter the rules of the global economic game. This is something that macroeconomist Lyn Alden defines as an era of “fiscal dominance.” In this scenario, the magnitude of public deficits eclipses the traditional tools of the Federal Reserve (FED), making interest rate policies … Read more

A loan system without traditional intermediaries is viable

The Bank of Canada concluded that a lending system without traditional intermediaries can be technically and operationally viable, after analyzing the operation of the Aave V3 protocol, one of the main credit systems within the digital asset ecosystem. According to the report“credit without traditional intermediaries is viable in a technical and operational sense”, since these … Read more

The price of USDT falls in Venezuela and the exchange gap closes

The price of USDT reached a peak of 682 bolivars on March 28. The reduction of the exchange rate differential can modify the dynamics of the Venezuelan internal market. The price of USDT in Venezuela has fallen more than 6.5% in the last 7 days. In that period, it went from 682 bolivars (Venezuelan national … Read more

Riot sold more than $280 million worth of bitcoin in the first quarter of 2026

Riot Platforms, an American company specialized in bitcoin (BTC) mining, reported that it sold 3,778 units of the asset during the first quarter of 2026, an operation that generated net income of $289.5 million. According to the quarterly report of production and operations published on April 2 by the company, The average sales price was … Read more

Taproot Assets introduces key improvements in its new version

Lightning Labs presented this April 2 the release of Taproot Assets v0.7.2, an update focused on improving how payments work with assets such as stablecoins on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network (LN). According to the team, the changes aim to optimize the general functioning of the Taproot Assets protocol, which is the technology that allows … Read more

Inflation in the eurozone will exceed 3% by June 2026: ECB projection

Against this backdrop, the European Central Bank has decided to keep interest rates unchanged. This is bad news for the price of bitcoin, which benefits from rate cuts. The European Central Bank (ECB) published its inflation projection for the eurozone in the second quarter of 2026. The organization indicated that, in this period, inflation is … Read more

Tokenized shares broke all-time high of transfers in March 2026

The volume of transfers was a total of USD 2.87 billion. Ondo concentrated most of the activity, with more than USD 2 billion in transfers. In March 2026, tokenized stocks showed strong momentum and reached a new all-time high in transfer volume, with $2.87 billion moved in a single month, according to data from the … Read more

“The longer bitcoin lateralization lasts, the bigger the breakout will be”: van de Poppe

“If bitcoin exceeds $71,000 we would be happy,” says the analyst. Next week, after Easter, volatility would return in either direction. Michaël van de Poppe, trader and market analyst, published this Friday, April 3, 2026, two messages on once again leaned towards a potentially bullish breakout scenario for bitcoin (BTC). «Bitcoin remains stuck in this … Read more

Coinbase calls for action against the quantum threat in Bitcoin

Coinbase CSO convened Bitcoin Core developers to a quantum working group. Samson Mow pointed out that Armstrong’s last intervention in BTC led to the Block Wars. Quantum computing is no longer an abstract threat to Bitcoin. The recent Google Quantum AI report, which reduced the resources needed to break the cryptography that protects Bitcoin and … Read more

neither pure stablecoin nor CBDC direct to the end user

The IMF rules out issuing CBDC directly to the end user in its preferred model. The document warns that private stablecoins are vulnerable to runs due to loss of trust The International Monetary Fund published a technical note on April 1 in which it discards the two extremes of the debate on digital money and … Read more