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1 May 2026, 02:14
Exponent Finance Secures $5M Seed Investment on SOL
Solana-based Exponent Finance is expanding its yield platform with a $5M seed investment. The fund, led by Multicoin, is for on-chain interest ledger and strategy vaults. SOL price $83.59, strong s...
1 May 2026, 02:07
Ethereum eyes $2,275 as accumulation surges after sharp drop
📈 ETH is accumulating around $2,259 after last week’s sharp drop. Investors now watch $2,275 as the key resistance for a breakout in $ETH. Continue Reading: Ethereum eyes $2,275 as accumulation surges after sharp drop The post Ethereum eyes $2,275 as accumulation surges after sharp drop appeared first on COINTURK NEWS .
1 May 2026, 02:00
US Rep. Calls Bitcoin A ‘Geopolitical Weapon Used By Multiple Adversaries’
Top US officials have increasingly placed Bitcoin (BTC) at the center of national security discussions, and Representative Lance Gooden says the change is more than just political rhetoric. In comments reported Thursday, the Texas Republican argued that the largest cryptocurrency has become a “geopolitical weapon” being used—simultaneously, in his view—by multiple adversaries. Multi-Front Security Use Of Bitcoin Gooden’s remarks follow confirmation from Pentagon leadership. According to reporting by the TFTC agency, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told him that the Department of Defense is actively involved with Bitcoin in classified operations designed to counter what Hegseth described as “China’s digital authoritarianism.” Gooden quoted Hegseth directly, saying: “I am a long enthusiast of Bitcoin and crypto potential, and a lot of the things we are doing, enabling it or defeating it, are classified efforts that are ongoing inside our department, which do provide us a lot of leverage in a lot of different scenarios.” Related Reading: Hyperliquid Jumps Into The Betting Boom With New ‘Outcome Tokens’ For Real-World Events In recent Senate testimony, Admiral Samuel Paparo—commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command—described Bitcoin as having “incredible potential” as a tool with cybersecurity and wider strategic uses. Paparo told the Senate, “We have a node on the Bitcoin network right now. Bitcoin has direct implications for power projection.” Within that context, Gooden laid out what he sees as a multi-front national security landscape for Bitcoin. He argued that Iran is demanding Bitcoin as a toll for transit through the Strait of Hormuz. BPI Numbers Fuel Gooden’s Claim The Republican also claimed that North Korea-linked hackers are using Bitcoin in ransomware campaigns. And he said China is “believed to be stockpiling substantial holdings as part of its strategic reserve.” Gooden framed his conclusion plainly: “Over the past decade, Bitcoin has evolved from a fringe asset into a matter of national security.” The geopolitical angle is supported by estimates from advocacy and policy groups in the industry. According to the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), China holds approximately 194,000 BTC, while the United States holds approximately 328,000 BTC. Related Reading: A Stealth Force In Derivatives—Why Bitcoin Can’t Punch Past $80,000 Yet For Gooden, those figures underscore the shift he says is underway: Bitcoin is no longer treated as a speculative sideshow in finance committees. Instead, he described the market’s leading cryptocurrency as an instrument that can show up in armed services hearings—as an asset relevant to power projection, economic conflict, and reserve accumulation. As of this writing, BTC is trading at approximately $76,384, marking modest gains of 1% within the last 24 hours after probing the $75,000 support level on Wednesday. The key level to watch for the cryptocurrency is currently around $80,000 — a level that has been elusive for BTC since early February. Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
1 May 2026, 02:00
New Ledger Scan Shows How Much XRP Is Quantum-Exposed
A full-history scan of the XRP Ledger has put fresh numbers on one of crypto’s more uncomfortable long-term security questions: how exposed current accounts may be to a future quantum-computing threat. The analysis, shared by dUNL validator Vet on X, examined all 7,810,364 XRP Ledger accounts and found that 76.82 billion tokens is currently held in accounts whose public keys have already been exposed through signed transactions. The thread does not argue that quantum-capable attackers are an immediate operational risk. Instead, it frames the issue as a future migration and governance problem. Once quantum-resistant cryptography is implemented , active users can move funds to new quantum-safe accounts. The harder question is what happens to accounts that cannot move. “What’s the problem with the Quantum threat that is so difficult to agree on how to solve?” Vet wrote. “We’ll need Quantum proof encryption eventually. That is most likely outcome. This means, once we implement such encryption, everyone can transfer their funds to a Quantum threat proof XRP account.” The difficulty, he argued, starts where user agency ends. Dormant accounts may belong to people who lost keys, forgot about holdings, died, or are temporarily unable to act. In a future where quantum computers can exploit exposed public keys, those funds could become vulnerable while the owner remains silent. “Here is already the Problem though,” Vet wrote. “People who can’t move their funds to a Quantum threat proof XRP account are at risk to have their funds stolen in a future with capable enough Quantum computers.” Why Exposed Public XRP Keys Matter Vet’s analysis rests on a key distinction: an account is considered “quantum exposed” only if it has submitted a signed transaction that revealed its public key on-ledger. Accounts that have never signed a transaction have not exposed that public key and are therefore treated as quantum safe under the framework used in the scan. That distinction creates a split across the ledger. According to Vet, 5.6 million accounts holding 76.82 billion tokens are quantum exposed when dormancy is not considered. However, he said 96% of that exposed XRP is held by active accounts, meaning those users would be expected to migrate once a quantum-resistant account model becomes available. The more contentious slice is dormant supply. Accounts that are both quantum exposed and dormant for at least five years hold 3.83% of all quantum-exposed XRP supply. Against total XRP supply, that represents 2.94%. The oldest dormant category, accounts dating back to the ledger’s 2013 genesis year, represents 0.03% of exposed XRP supply and 0.024% of total supply. The account count follows the same pattern. Vet identified 1.33 million accounts in the five-year dormant and exposed bucket, while the 2013 dormant group contains roughly 15,000 accounts. A Smaller Dormant Risk Than Bitcoin? Vet positioned the XRP Ledger’s dormant exposure as materially smaller than Bitcoin’s most discussed quantum-risk edge case: early unmoved BTC, including coins attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto. “Massively lower than Bitcoin, where genesis accounts alone aka Satoshi BTC are about 5% of supply,” he wrote. “That’s supply that is expected to not move to quantum safe addresses. This is not even including BTC sitting in P2PK accounts outside of Satoshi holdings.” The comparison is important because the quantum debate in crypto is not only technical. It is social. If a network introduces quantum-resistant account types, active users can rotate. Dormant users cannot. That raises a difficult governance question: should untouched funds remain exposed, should protocol rules somehow protect them, or should the network accept the risk that future attackers may drain accounts whose owners never migrated? Related Reading: XRP Sentiment Tanks To A 2-Year Low—But History Hints At Major Bullish Comeback Vet described the dormant-account issue as a “litmus test for blockchains social layer,” noting that the XRP Ledger community faces the same type of question Bitcoiners have debated around early wallets. Multi-Sig Is Not Automatically Safe The scan also found that around 27% of XRPL accounts are already quantum safe, collectively holding approximately 23.16 billion XRP. Vet said these accounts either never signed a transaction, meaning their public key never appeared on the ledger, or they disabled their master key and now sign through a fresh RegularKey or SignerList that has not been exposed. But the analysis also cautions against assuming that more sophisticated wallet setups are protected by default. Vet said 242 multi-signature wallets hold 36.60 billion XRP, equal to 36.6% of total supply, in a state where a quorum of signer public keys is already visible on-ledger. The largest examples, he said, include Ripple’s escrow distribution wallets. “So even sophisticated multi-sig setups aren’t automatically safe — they require disciplined signer-key rotation,” Vet wrote. The key nuance is operational. A single-key account can remain safe until it needs to spend, but spending reveals the relevant public key. Multi-signature setups can preserve safety if the quorum threshold is not yet exposed. Vet gave the example of a 4-of-8 SignerList with the master key disabled and only three signers’ keys visible on-ledger: the account can remain quantum safe because the exposed keys are still below the signing threshold. At press time, XRP traded at $1.3758.
1 May 2026, 02:00
STABLE tests KEY imbalance zone after 10% drop – Reversal ahead?
STABLE is nearing a key imbalance zone as rising holder growth and market cap suggest the current pullback may reverse soon.
1 May 2026, 01:56
CAKE Technical Analysis May 1, 2026: Support Resistance Levels
CAKE is testing the critical 1.4430$ support around 1.45$, a breakdown could lead to 1.3910$. Upper resistance at 1.4870$ is a strong supply zone, BTC correlation will be decisive.
