🔍 Bitcoin's Weekend Correction: Insights from Analyst Michaël van de Poppe

📉 Cryptocurrency markets are showing signs of the typical weekend correction, a recurring pattern noted by analyst Michaël van de Poppe. In his post, he pointed out that investors often reduce risks before Monday's trading begins, leading to short-term declines at the start of the week.

Every weekend there is a sell-off... on Sunday the markets are likely to bounce back and continue to rise,

he wrote.

🌐 The analyst identified the $72,000 level as a key support zone, with staying above it helping to maintain bullish momentum. His chart shows that after a price drop from $77,000, Bitcoin is consolidating. However, the market is almost out of the consolidation phase and has formed higher lows in its trading activity.

He noted that the price level of $71,400 is a crucial support level. A break below this level would mean a cancellation of the recovery, while holding above it would promote short-term growth.

⚠️ Additionally, the cryptocurrency faces resistance in the price range of $76,600–$79,100. Further upward movement could lead to testing the $86,500 level, which is likely to trigger significant selling pressure.

📊 According to CoinGecko, on the evening of April 18, Bitcoin was trading at $75,655, down 2.2% over the last 24 hours. Trading volume remains moderate, indicating that the recent rally did not receive sufficient support from market participants.

🚫 Tennessee Bans Cryptocurrency ATMs Amid Fraud Concerns

🗓 This week, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a law prohibiting the installation of cryptocurrency exchange ATMs across the state, making Tennessee the second U.S. state to implement such a ban after Indiana.

🔔 On April 23, 2026, Governor Lee approved bill HB 2505, which mandates the removal or closure of all cryptocurrency kiosks in Tennessee by July 1, 2026, the law's effective date. The House of Representatives passed the bill unanimously with a vote of 94-0 on March 16, 2026, followed by the Senate's support on the same day with a vote of 32-0.

🔍 The law defines a cryptocurrency exchange kiosk as any electronic terminal that allows the exchange of virtual currency for cash, bank credit, or other virtual currencies. This includes machines connected to external exchanges as well as those that store digital assets directly.

🚨 Operating, installing, or permitting a kiosk on controlled property will be classified as a Class A misdemeanor once the law takes effect. This applies to owners, operators, and property managers, with no exceptions made for existing machines or licensed financial institutions.

📉 CryptoQuant: April's Bitcoin Surge Driven by Speculation

📊 CryptoQuant analysts have labeled the recent surge in Bitcoin's price from $66,000 to $79,000 as speculative, attributing it primarily to perpetual futures rather than spot demand, which remained negative throughout the month.

The divergence between price growth and declining spot interest indicates a speculative nature of the movement,

the analysts noted.

🔍 They drew parallels between the current demand structure and the beginning of the bearish phase in 2022, when a similar increase in derivatives volume was accompanied by a contraction in spot activity, leading to a prolonged correction for Bitcoin. As of now, Bitcoin's price has retreated from its local peak of around $79,000 to approximately $77,000, marking a nearly 12% increase for April—the best performance since the beginning of the year, according to CoinGlass.

📉 CryptoQuant's Bull Score has also dropped from 50 to 40, indicating a return to the "bearish zone." Analyst Ignacio Moreno de Vicente highlighted the STH MVRV metric, which reflects the position of short-term Bitcoin holders. He pointed out that this indicator is forming a descending resistance line connecting three peaks: March 2024 at $72,000, November 2024 at $106,000, and July 2025 at around $120,000.

🌐 Upcoming Review of the CLARITY Act by the Banking Committee

🗓 The U.S. Senate Banking Committee is set to review the CLARITY Act on May 14, 2026. This marks the second attempt to pass this framework bill after a previous attempt failed in January. The CLARITY Act aims to establish a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency market in the U.S., defining the powers of regulatory bodies, classifying crypto assets, and setting requirements for service providers.

📊 The House of Representatives approved the initiative in July 2025, after which it was sent to the Senate. However, progress stalled at this stage. The Banking Committee and the Committee on Agriculture are expected to prepare their versions of the bill, which will then be combined into a unified document for approval.

🔄 The review process was initially scheduled for January 2026 but was postponed due to criticism from the cryptocurrency community, particularly from Coinbase. The main concern was a proposed ban on rewarding stablecoin holders for asset control, akin to deposit interest payments, which was pushed by banking lobbyists.

🛡 Charles Hoskinson's Quantum Concerns: A Response from Adam Back

🔔 Charles Hoskinson recently claimed that there is over a 50% chance that by 2033, commercial quantum systems capable of threatening current digital security systems will emerge. He argued that the cryptocurrency sector should begin preparing for potential quantum threats to existing cryptographic methods. According to Hoskinson, sufficiently advanced quantum computers could reach a level where they can decrypt the mathematical structures protecting private keys and transaction signatures used in modern blockchain networks.

Methods such as Shor's algorithm are potentially capable of breaking traditional cryptographic systems, which could pose a long-term security threat to Bitcoin and other blockchain networks,

he emphasized.

🛠 Hoskinson asserted that Cardano is working on "post-quantum" security solutions to counter these risks, stating that the network is moving towards lattice-based cryptographic technologies. He also mentioned plans to integrate U.S. FIPS 203-206 standards into the Cardano ecosystem to enhance the security of private keys, transaction signatures, and consensus mechanisms.

🔔 Brian Armstrong says finance must move on-chain or fall behind

❗️ His list covered RWA tokenization, 24/7 global trading, stablecoin payments, AI tools, self-custody wallets, easier capital formation, sound money, and better regulation.

⚠️ Armstrong said the future system will become more global, more automated, and more on-chain. He wrote that the work is not complete until these systems serve more users, adding, “Jobs not done until we get these working for all.”Armstrong placed tokenization of real-world assets at the top of his list. He said real estate, stocks, bonds, and funds can move on-chain to support faster settlement, wider distribution, and fractional ownership.

🔖 The comment comes as tokenization remains a leading crypto theme in 2026. Related reports said the tokenized RWA market grew 263% year over year in 2025 and about 30% in the first quarter of 2026. Coinbase has also tied its public strategy to this shift. In its Q1 2026 earnings call, the company said stablecoins had passed $300 billion in market value, while tokenized real-world assets were expected to reach $16 trillion by 2030.

🔔 Zcash slides to $572 as emergency patch exposes consensus fragility, can it become a top ten token?

➡️ Zcash is trading around $572.12 after the Zcash Foundation rushed out Zebra 4.5.1, an emergency consensus security fix that underlines how brittle the network’s infrastructure still is. The Zcash Foundation has pushed out Zebra 4.5.1, an emergency security update for its Rust-based node client, to patch a critical consensus vulnerability that could cause fork conditions with the legacy zcashd implementation, just as ZEC trades around $572.12 with a market capitalization near $9.48 billion. According to the Foundation, the bug, tracked as GHSA-2prc-cj5x-4443, stems from a statistical error in counting signature operations (sigops) in P2SH scripts, meaning Zebra could accept blocks that zcashd rejects, a classic recipe for a consensus split.

🔗 In its forum advisory, the Zcash Foundation “strongly recommend[s] all Zebra node operators upgrade to 4.5.1 as soon as possible, due to the consensus vulnerability described above,” stressing that the new release is a hotfix for a flaw “not correctly addressed in 4.5.0”. PANews reported that Zebra 4.5.0, which shipped just before 4.5.1, already bundled fixes for “a sigop counting error caused by P2SH script parsing (which may lead to a fork with zcashd consensus), a defect in NU5 block verification cache logic, a risk of crash due to transparent address balance overflow, and multiple crashes and resource exhaustion vulnerabilities in RPC interfaces and memory pool processing”.

⚠️ Zodia Custody secures Luxembourg licence to expand EU stablecoin services

➡️ Zodia Custody has secured a Payment Institution licence from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, adding a second key European authorization that allows the firm to offer regulated custody and transfer services for stablecoins across the European Union.

⚠️ According to a press release shared with cryptonews, the new approval enables Zodia Custody (Europe) S.A. to extend its institutional custody platform to Electronic Money Tokens (EMTs), the category of stablecoins recognized under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation.

🔖 The licence builds on the company’s existing MiCA Crypto-Asset Service Provider licence, which Zodia received in December 2025. Together, the two authorizations allow institutions to custody crypto assets and transfer EMTs within a regulated framework across the bloc.

🔔 Congress proposes DOJ crypto theft task force a year after NCET shutdown

❗️ Congress has proposed a new Justice Department task force focused on cryptocurrency theft after the FBI received 181,565 crypto-related complaints and more than $11 billion in reported losses during 2025.

🔖 According to legislation introduced by Representatives Lance Gooden and Josh Gottheimer, the Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Enforcement and Coordination Act would create a Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Task Force within the Department of Justice and place it under the Attorney General or a designated official.

⚠️ If approved, the task force would become the federal government’s main coordination body for preventing, investigating, and prosecuting cryptocurrency theft and related crimes. The proposal arrives only months after the Justice Department dissolved its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, or NCET, as part of a policy overhaul that reduced enforcement pressure on the digital asset industry.

⚠️ EU lawmakers advance digital euro framework with committee approval

🔖 The European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has approved its position on the digital euro package, advancing legislative work on a proposed central bank digital currency that the European Central Bank wants ready for potential issuance by 2029.

🌐 The committee said on Tuesday that lawmakers backed the proposal in a 43 to 14 vote. The draft legislation sets out rules for how a digital euro would operate, who could distribute it, and what safeguards would apply to users and financial institutions. Fernando Navarrete Rojas, a member of the European Parliament, said the proposal preserves consumers’ ability to choose their preferred payment method and described the digital euro as a complement to cash rather than a replacement.

➡️ The draft states that online transactions would rely on an account-based model, while offline payments would use value stored locally on a device. Lawmakers said the offline function would operate similarly to cash because users would permanently lose funds stored on a lost device.

➡️ Solana price eyes breakout after tokenized stock boom fuels 18% rally

🌐 Solana price has extended its recovery to nearly 18% over the past week as record tokenized stock activity and growing institutional adoption helped the token outperform a crypto market still weighed down by macroeconomic uncertainty. According to data from cryptonews, Solana climbed from a local low near $64 on June 25 to an intraday high of $75.8 on June 30 before easing back toward the $73 region. Its rebound came while Bitcoin remained below 60.000$ following another failed breakout attempt, allowing SOL to stand out as one of the few large-cap cryptocurrencies to post a strong weekly gain.

🔗 One catalyst behind the move came from Solana’s tokenized asset ecosystem. The network processed a record $1.36 billion in weekly tokenized equity volume, accounting for roughly 96% of all on-chain stock trading during the period. The surge in real-world asset activity increased on-chain transactions and demand for SOL as the network’s native gas token, adding a source of organic spot buying beyond speculative trading.

‼️ Institutional adoption also continued to build. Spot Solana exchange-traded funds managed by firms including Bitwise and Fidelity surpassed $1.06 billion in combined assets under management. Unlike spot Bitcoin ETFs, several Solana products distribute staking rewards to shareholders, giving investors an additional yield component alongside price exposure.

🔖 Ethereum is about to replace itself: Inside the Lean Rebuild

🔔 Vitalik Buterin says almost every major piece of Ethereum will be replaced over the next three to four years: the cryptography, the execution engine, the storage model, the verification itself. The plan lands with ether down 60 percent from its peak and the Foundation fresh off cutting a fifth of its staff. This is the most ambitious bet in crypto, made from the weakest position Ethereum has occupied in years.

⚡️ On July 4, while American markets slept, Vitalik Buterin published a post that would have dominated a bull-market news cycle for a month. Ethereum, he wrote, is preparing its third major iteration, a rebuild he ranks with the network’s two founding epochs: the original proof-of-work launch and the 2022 Merge. Over the next three to four years, under a program called Lean Ethereum, almost every major piece of the protocol will be replaced.

⚠️ The list reads less like an upgrade roadmap than a rewrite. How nodes verify transactions: replaced, with recursive cryptographic proofs instead of re-execution. The cryptography securing the chain: replaced, with quantum-resistant schemes across signatures, commitments, and data. The storage model: split into two tiers, with a new format designed to hold fifty times more data than the old one. The virtual machine that runs every application: eventually replaced, with the EVM demoted to a compatibility layer atop a new engine. Privacy: promoted from application-layer afterthought to what Buterin calls a first-class goal, down to validators that re-anonymize themselves daily.

🔔 Here’s why MemeCore price is breaking out today

⚡️ MemeCore price has surged more than 20% to an intraday high of $1.46 on July 14, breaking out of a two-week consolidation range after buyers defended support near $1.20. As per data from cryptonews, MemeCore opened near $1.21 before climbing to $1.468, placing it among the day’s strongest-performing large-cap crypto assets. The move has occurred despite weakness across Bitcoin and Ethereum, indicating that token-specific trading flows, rather than a market-wide rally, are driving the advance.

❗️ Buyers appear to have entered after MemeCore spent much of July trading between approximately $1.15 and $1.45. Repeated failures to push the token below the lower end of that range reduced immediate selling pressure, while the latest move through its recent highs likely triggered momentum orders and forced some bearish traders to reduce their exposure.

➡️ The timing may have renewed attention around M one day before its breakout, although the update did not identify a specific announcement responsible for the rally. On the daily chart, MemeCore’s moving average convergence divergence indicator has produced a bullish crossover, while its histogram has moved into positive territory. The pattern indicates that downside momentum from June’s collapse is fading, even though both MACD lines remain below zero and have not confirmed a complete trend reversal.