In Q1 2026, the main sellers of BTC were individuals, while the primary buyers were corporations and governments, according to River.

Bullish.

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⚡ JUST IN: Drift secured $148 million in funding from Tether and partners as it replaces Circle stablecoin with USDT following a massive exploit.

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⛷️ OnChain: $BTC

A newly created wallet withdrew 1,000 BTC valued at $73.67M from Binance. This large movement may indicate whale activity.

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An unknown trader turned approximately $8.5 into nearly $10,000 on the BELIEF token through staking in 24 hours.

He bought the asset for 0.1 SOL, staked it, and earned about 25 SOL ($2,160) and 2.9 million BELIEF ($7,700) as rewards, growing the deposit by 1,169 times.

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🚨 Trump announces a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel starting at 5 PM ET today.

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⛷️ OnChain: $ETH

A wallet possibly linked to Arthur Hayes deposited 3,000 ETH worth $6.93M into Binance and Bybit 20 minutes ago.

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❌ Easy money in crypto is over

Good post from DeFiIgnas. Most easy money cycles last 3–7 years. Crypto stretched it to ~8. From ICOs in 2017 to DeFi, NFTs, airdrops, points farming, memecoins.

History shows the same pattern:

➡️ Tulip mania lasted ~3 years
➡️ Dot-com bubble ran ~5 years before Nasdaq dropped 78%
➡️ Japan bubble lasted ~6 years, recovery took 34 years
➡️ Gold rush cycles ended once surface deposits were exhausted

Crypto followed this path. Early easy gains attracted more players. Edges got copied and scaled. Airdrops are now farmed by industrial sybils. Memecoins shifted from community experiments to extraction. Mining moved from retail to large operators.

The structure is changing. More regulation. More TradFi involvement. More focus on tokenization and real assets.

For retail, simple opportunities are mostly gone. What remains requires real infrastructure, users, and revenue. That means more specialization and real work.

The game didn’t disappear.
It just stopped being easy.

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Winners are not afraid of losing.

But losers are.

Failure is part of the process of success.

People who avoid failure also avoid success.

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⛷️ OnChain: $HYPE

A Genesis holder unstaked 150,000 HYPE worth $6.52M and placed a TWAP order to sell 100,000 HYPE valued at $4.35M.

The whale still has 354,303 HYPE staked, worth $15.42M.

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Elon Musk says universal high income via checks issued by the federal government is the best way to address unemployment caused by AI.

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Kraken is acquiring the derivatives exchange Bitnomial for $550 million.

This purchase gives Kraken a licensed infrastructure regulated by the CFTC, which would have taken years to develop, as Bitnomial is the only crypto platform in the US holding three licenses: exchange, clearing, and FCM broker, with the deal conducted through the parent company Payward.

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Public miners sold over 32,000 BTC in Q1 2026, surpassing the total sales volume for all of 2025 and setting a new quarterly record.

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⚡ JUST IN: Trump says, "Iran has just announced that the Strait of Iran is fully open and ready for full passage. Thank you!"

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⚡ JUST IN: Trump says the Strait of Hormuz is completely open for business and full passage, but the naval blockade on Iran will remain in full force until their transaction is 100% complete.

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⚡ JUST IN: Chinese AI firm DeepSeek is raising funds for the first time at a valuation exceeding $10 billion.

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$400,000,000 worth of SHORT positions were liquidated in the last 4 hours with Bitcoin at $78,000.

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⚡ JUST IN: $XRP has gone live on the Solana blockchain.

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Pavel Durov listed the biggest scams in the world.

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⚡ JUST IN: Hyperliquid daily revenue reached $5 million for the first time since early February.

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Experts: Robots will replace humans

Meanwhile, robots:

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