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The U.S. Department of Justice arrested a master sergeant with the Army on allegations he placed wagers on the raid of Nicolas Maduro ahead of participating in the operation to detain former Venezuelan leader. The DOJ unsealed an indictment Thursday charging Gannon Ken Van Dyke with the unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information and fraud charges, alleging he used his knowledge of the forthcoming raid on Venezuela to place $33,000 in bets, winning about $400,000 after the raid.”The defendant allegedly violated the trust placed in him by the United States Government by…

When a central bank speaks with one voice, markets listen calmly. When a central bank speaks with many voices, all contradicting each other, markets get a little jumpy. That’s exactly the situation unfolding at the European Central Bank (ECB) right now. With the April ECB interest rate decision just days away, a parade of ECB officials has taken to podiums, press conferences, and IMF corridors to share their views, and the resulting picture is anything but unified. For traders watching the euro, this internal debate reveals why central bank communication matters as much as the decisions themselves. The Basics: ECB’s…

A new debate about Ethereum has emerged in the crypto community, as members now argue whether ETH can run the entire financial system. The discussion has caught the attention of pro-crypto lawyer Bill Morgan as well as members of the XRP community who have long advocated the XRP’s use case within global banking systems. Finance Expert Says All Banks Will “Go To Ethereum” Raoul Pal, co-founder and CEO of Real Vision, a US-based financial media company, has sparked widespread reactions in the crypto community after recently commenting on Ethereum’s potential role in the global banking system. Morgan, reacting to Pal’s…

This article previously appeared in the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX) This is the 16th year we’ve been teaching the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. This year, from the first hour of the first class, we realized we were seeing something extraordinary happen. It was both the end and beginning of a new era.  Teams showed up to the first day of class with MVPs (Minimal Viable Products) looking like finished products that previous classes had taken weeks or months to build. After the class, as the instructors sat processing what just happened, we realized there’s no going back.  I’ve been…

TL;DR: Kraken’s API provides real-time and historical market data feeds to different strategy types: L2 order book depth for execution algorithms, OHLCV and trade history for backtesting, funding rate data for carry strategies, and ticker feeds for momentum signals. Systematic traders typically use 2–3 feeds based on strategy type, over-subscribing adds overhead without improving signal quality. Knowing which API endpoints exist doesn’t tell you which feeds to actually use. Execution algorithms commonly use L2 book depth 10 rather than 1,000. Momentum strategies typically don’t need an order book at all. And if you’re backtesting on 6 months of data, you’re…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Most business leaders using AI today are getting results that feel good enough to feel satisfied — and not strong enough to stay competitive. The gap between those two states is invisible until a competitor makes it obvious, and by then it’s often hard to close. This is one of three connected articles designed to close that gap between where you are and where you want to be. The first gives you a diagnostic framework to clearly understand your current position and why it matters. The second shows you how to turn…

Part 3 of 8 in our TGE Readiness Series by Kraken 360. Here’s Part 1, the TGE Checklist, and Part 2, 6 vendors to lock in before mint. It’s 6 hours before your TGE. The exchange listing goes live at 9 a.m. Your vesting contracts are scheduled for 9 a.m. too. Except they’re not. Your distribution platform is running on UTC. Your exchange listing team coordinated in EST. Nobody caught it because nobody owns the gap between those two vendors. By the time anyone realizes, investor unlock wallets are sitting empty while the token is already trading. Sell pressure builds. The…

Ethereum is consolidating just below $2,400, holding in a range that has defined its price action for the past several sessions as the market waits for a catalyst to determine the next directional move. The chart looks patient. The on-chain data is anything but. Related Reading Data from Arkham Intelligence reveals that Bitmine staked another 61,232 ETH — approximately $142 million — just hours ago. Bitmine is not accumulating speculatively and waiting. It is locking its treasury into the network at a pace that has become one of the most significant single-entity supply events in Ethereum’s recent history. Bitmine Ethereum…

Global trading platform Pepperstone has selected Australia as the launch market for its proprietary new spot cryptocurrency exchange, with the explicit aim of triggering a price-reset that both exposes and reduces the true cost of crypto trading for Australians.It chose Australia to launch Pepperstone Crypto Spot Exchange from the 160 countries in which it processes around US$6 billion in monthly crypto CFDs, after identifying several critical market characteristics. Opaque pricing and limited competitionPepperstone analysis showed the Australian market is characterised by opaque pricing and limited fee competition, with total trading costs materially higher than advertised fees once spreads are taken into…

SignalReadingRegimeBTC SpotAbove $74,500 resistanceTransition To LTF UptrendFunding Rate (aggregate)~8–12% APRNeutralExchange Reserves2.21m BTC (7-yr low)Structurally bullishWhale Accumulation (30d)+270,000 BTCHighest since 2013ETF Flows YTD+$2.3bn (flipped positive)Bullish regime shiftStablecoin Supply$320bn (+$2.54bn 7d)Liquidity expansionICD (CME vs Deribit hedge spread)+0.38 (up from +0.22)Institutional cautionDeFi TVL (48h change)-$14bn (KelpDAO exploit)Risk-off pressure24 Apr Options Max Pain$72,000–$73,500Put-heavy, downside skew Bitcoin has moved above  $78,000 and the momentum for price is decidedly towards upside since breaking past earlier range highs near $72k. This move is the product of two simultaneous geopolitical and on-chain shocks landing within 72 hours of each other.  Our thesis remains cautiously positive, driven by three…