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  • VC Roundup: Funding surge targets confidentiality, tokenization and Web3 infrastructure
    by Sam Bourgi on April 30, 2025 at 7:30 pm

    Unto Labs, Optimum, Octane, Inco, Towns Protocol, and Colb highlight the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s venture capital roundup. After months of volatility and extreme fear, crypto markets turned a positive corner in the second half of April, highlighting the industry’s big sentiment shift. For venture capital, it was business as usual, with investors continuing to pour money into promising startups across layer-1 blockchains, infrastructure, real-world asset tokenization (RWA), and Web3 social media.This edition of VC Roundup highlights six notable funding deals from April.Read more

  • Ethereum Pectra upgrade goes live next week — Will ETH price rally?
    by Marie Poteriaieva on April 30, 2025 at 7:01 pm

    Ethereum charts point to a price bottom. Will next week’s Pectra upgrade spark an ETH rally? Key takeaways:ETH price has underperformed its peers during the current bull market, but gas sponsorship could lure developers and traders back to the network.Ethereum’s upcoming Pectra upgrade promises to improve staking efficiency, potentially increasing demand for ETH.Read more

  • Ripple $4B-$5B bid to purchase Circle rejected — Report
    by Turner Wright on April 30, 2025 at 6:57 pm

    Blockchain firm Ripple made a multibillion-dollar bid to acquire the USDC issuer, but the offer was rejected, according to Bloomberg. Blockchain payments firm Ripple has reportedly bid up to $5 billion in an effort to acquire stablecoin issuer Circle, but the offer was rejected.According to an April 30 Bloomberg report, Ripple put in a bid of $4 billion to $5 billion as part of an attempted takeover of Circle, which was rejected as being too low. Ripple hasn’t considered whether to make another bid to purchase the stablecoin issuer.The reported acquisition attempt came less than 30 days after Circle applied for an initial public offering (IPO) in the US. Cointelegraph reached out to representatives of Circle and Ripple for comment, but had not received a response from either at the time of publication.Read more

  • Price predictions 4/30: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, SUI, LINK, AVAX
    by Rakesh Upadhyay on April 30, 2025 at 6:30 pm

    Bitcoin’s low 7-day volatility could be a sign that a range expansion is in the making. Cointelegraph checks the altcoin charts to see which could follow. Key points:Bitcoin’s 7-day volatility is the lowest in 563 days, signaling an impending range expansion.Bitcoin’s breakout above $95,000 could swiftly take it to $100,000 and above.Read more

  • Global demand grows for non-dollar stablecoins, says Fireblocks exec
    by Christopher Tepedino on April 30, 2025 at 6:29 pm

    According to Fireblocks policy chief Dea Markova, more countries are pushing for alternatives to US dollar stablecoins: “It’s all about sovereignty.” Governments outside the US, including Singapore, are increasingly interested in stablecoins not tied to the US dollar, despite their currently limited liquidity, Fireblocks director of policy Dea Markova told Cointelegraph at Token2049.In an exclusive interview, Markova described the competition with dollar-pegged stablecoins as “all about sovereignty.” She compared the situation to earlier tensions between governments and US payment giants like Visa and Mastercard. “Now we’re seeing the same dynamic with stablecoins — on a smaller scale for now — but they’re definitely emerging as a new arena for sovereign concerns,” she said.According to Markova, dollar-pegged stablecoins operating in the European Union are already “having a massive headache,” particularly from central banks. “Even though they’re compliant and regulated, they’re having a fixed push back.”Read more