cryptocurrency news april 2025
Cryptocurrency news april 2025
If a cryptocurrency meets the criteria to be an investment contract, the SEC requires it to be registered as an investment. It will therefore come under SEC regulation winport. If it is offered to institutional investors, it is considered an investment contract and must also be registered.
“I think the industry sees regulators willing to work across the table from them,” says Coy Garrison, a partner at law firm Steptoe and a former SEC attorney. “That’s the difference. Four years ago, the other side of the table was just the enforcement arm.”
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“This undertaking will take time, patience, and much hard work. It will succeed only if the Task Force has input from a wide range of investors, industry participants, academics, and other interested parties. We look forward to working hand-in-hand with the public to foster a regulatory environment that protects investors, facilitates capital formation, fosters market integrity, and supports innovation,” stated Commissioner Peirce.
In 2022, the SEC increased the size of its Cyber Unit by 66%, from 30 to 50 officials, and renamed it the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit as it expanded its crypto enforcement efforts. The many cases brought after this expansion suggest the unit has its work cut out for it. Notoriously a crypto-sceptic, Gensler has repeatedly told interviewers since the January 2024 launch of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that “the whole field is rife with abuses and fraud.”
Ada cryptocurrency news
Bitcoin (BTC) price stabilizes at around $105,200 at the time of writing on Tuesday, just 4% shy of its record peak. The positive narrative builds as JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank will let clients buy Bitcoin on Monday.
In ADA’s case, Daily Active Addresses fell to 23,644 on Tuesday from 35,696 on May 14, extending a downtrend that started in early March. This indicates that demand for ADA’s blockchain usage is decreasing, which doesn’t bode well for Cardano’s price.
Bitcoin (BTC) price stabilizes at around $105,200 at the time of writing on Tuesday, just 4% shy of its record peak. The positive narrative builds as JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank will let clients buy Bitcoin on Monday.
In ADA’s case, Daily Active Addresses fell to 23,644 on Tuesday from 35,696 on May 14, extending a downtrend that started in early March. This indicates that demand for ADA’s blockchain usage is decreasing, which doesn’t bode well for Cardano’s price.
One indicator supporting this is the outflow of ADA seen from centralized exchanges. Data from CoinGlass reveals that over $932 million worth of ADA was withdrawn from exchanges in 2025 alone. This points to an increase in investors’ confidence in ADA.
Santiment’s Daily Active Addresses index, which tracks network activity over time, paints a bearish picture for Cardano. A rise in the metric signals greater blockchain usage, while declining addresses point to lower demand for the network.
Cryptocurrency market news april 2025
After the April tariff policy is implemented, the optimistic scenario is that Trump’s tariff policy doesn’t trigger large-scale trade retaliation, and the Fed releases dovish signals (such as hints at rate cuts), BTC could break through the $90,000 resistance level and test the $100,000 mark; but the pessimistic scenario is, if tariff conflicts escalate and PCE data exceeds expectations, BTC may test the $75,000-$80,000 support range, and the altcoin market may accelerate its collapse.
DOJ disrupts Garantex crypto exchange. On March 7, the DOJ announced charges against two administrators operating a crypto money laundering service in a “a coordinated action with Germany and Finland to disrupt and take down the online infrastructure used to operate Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange that allegedly facilitated money laundering by transnational criminal organizations – including terrorist organizations – and sanctions violations.” The DOJ alleged that Garantex has processed at least $96 billion in cryptocurrency transactions, and the indictment filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia charged Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov and Russian national Aleksandr Mira Serda with money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to violate sanctions, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. The coordinated action resulted in law enforcement seizing Garantex servers and freezing $26 million in funds.
In the short term, the Fed’s slowing of balance sheet reduction coupled with rate cut expectations may drive Bitcoin to maintain an upward trend with fluctuations in April, but caution is needed regarding risks of correction triggered by inflation data exceeding expectations or geopolitical conflicts. In the medium to long term, if the US economy achieves a soft landing (avoiding recession) and inflation is controllable, cryptocurrencies may benefit from improved liquidity; if stagflation risks intensify, market volatility will significantly increase.
After the April tariff policy is implemented, the optimistic scenario is that Trump’s tariff policy doesn’t trigger large-scale trade retaliation, and the Fed releases dovish signals (such as hints at rate cuts), BTC could break through the $90,000 resistance level and test the $100,000 mark; but the pessimistic scenario is, if tariff conflicts escalate and PCE data exceeds expectations, BTC may test the $75,000-$80,000 support range, and the altcoin market may accelerate its collapse.
DOJ disrupts Garantex crypto exchange. On March 7, the DOJ announced charges against two administrators operating a crypto money laundering service in a “a coordinated action with Germany and Finland to disrupt and take down the online infrastructure used to operate Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange that allegedly facilitated money laundering by transnational criminal organizations – including terrorist organizations – and sanctions violations.” The DOJ alleged that Garantex has processed at least $96 billion in cryptocurrency transactions, and the indictment filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia charged Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov and Russian national Aleksandr Mira Serda with money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to violate sanctions, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. The coordinated action resulted in law enforcement seizing Garantex servers and freezing $26 million in funds.
In the short term, the Fed’s slowing of balance sheet reduction coupled with rate cut expectations may drive Bitcoin to maintain an upward trend with fluctuations in April, but caution is needed regarding risks of correction triggered by inflation data exceeding expectations or geopolitical conflicts. In the medium to long term, if the US economy achieves a soft landing (avoiding recession) and inflation is controllable, cryptocurrencies may benefit from improved liquidity; if stagflation risks intensify, market volatility will significantly increase.