{"id":148476,"date":"2026-04-08T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=148476"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:28:18","slug":"crypto-news-of-the-week-april-1-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=148476","title":{"rendered":"CRYPTO NEWS OF THE WEEK | April 1\u20138, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u20bf <strong>BITCOIN: HOLDING ITS GROUND<\/strong> BTC traded between $68,000-$70,000 all week, driven by US-Iran ceasefire tensions. When Trump announced a two-week truce, BTC jumped to $72,700. ETH held around\u00a0$2,107.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe6 <strong>MORGAN STANLEY ENTERS THE GAME<\/strong> The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) launched today on NYSE Arca\u200a\u2014\u200athe first spot Bitcoin ETF from a major US bank, with a market-beating fee of just 0.14%, undercutting BlackRock\u2019s 0.25%.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe2 <strong>SAYLOR BUYS THE DIP\u200a\u2014\u200aAGAIN<\/strong> Strategy added 4,871 BTC ($329.9M) between April 1\u20135 at $67,718 average. Total holdings: 766,970 BTC worth ~$58\u00a0billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2694\ufe0f <strong>IRAN WAR KEEPS CRYPTO ON EDGE<\/strong> Trump\u2019s Strait of Hormuz deadline rattled markets all week. Brent crude above $107\/barrel fuelled inflation fears. The ceasefire relief rally proved crypto\u2019s sensitivity to geopolitics is at an all-time\u00a0high.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdc <strong>CLARITY ACT STILL STUCK<\/strong> The landmark US crypto market-structure bill remains deadlocked. Passage\u200a\u2014\u200aexpected late April\u200a\u2014\u200ais seen by institutions as the key regulatory unlock for digital\u00a0assets.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>NORTH KOREA STEALS $286M FROM DRIFT PROTOCOL<\/strong> After a 6-month undercover operation\u200a\u2014\u200aattending conferences and depositing $1M to build trust\u200a\u2014\u200aNorth Korean hackers drained Solana\u2019s Drift Protocol in under a minute on April 1. The Solana Foundation launched emergency security measures on April\u00a07.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude02 <strong>FUN FACT<\/strong> Drift\u2019s warning to users on April 1 had to include: <em>\u201cThis is NOT an April Fools joke.\u201d<\/em> The biggest crypto heist of 2026 happened on the one day nobody believed the\u00a0news.<\/p>\n<p><em>NordFX\u200a\u2014\u200aTrade Smart. Stay Informed.<\/em> \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/crypto-news-of-the-week-april-1-8-2026-baec6d8ab04c\">\ud83c\udf10 CRYPTO NEWS OF THE WEEK | April 1\u20138, 2026<\/a> was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\">Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u20bf BITCOIN: HOLDING ITS GROUND BTC traded between $68,000-$70,000 all week, driven by US-Iran ceasefire tensions. When Trump announced a two-week truce, BTC jumped to $72,700. ETH held around\u00a0$2,107. \ud83c\udfe6 MORGAN STANLEY ENTERS THE GAME The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) launched today on NYSE Arca\u200a\u2014\u200athe first spot Bitcoin ETF from a major US bank, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":148477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}