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French authorities are investigating a kidnapping attempt involving the daughter of a prominent crypto company CEO and her two-year-old child in central Paris https://wedoweb.org/. The attack occurred Tuesday morning on Rue Pache in the 11th arrondissement, where three masked men tried to force the woman and child into a van disguised as a Chronopost delivery vehicle.
Another expected headline in the top crypto news this week is Jupiter Exchange’s product announcements. In a post last week, the Solana-based DEX teased a major product announcement by a Jupiter executive.
Initially enjoying bipartisan support, the GENIUS Act has encountered resistance from Senate Democrats following revelations about former President Donald Trump’s involvement in digital asset ventures.
Cryptocurrency market news april 2025
📈 Analysts anticipate Bitcoin’s potential surge to $100,000, fueled by institutional demand and favorable macroeconomic conditions. ⚠️ However, excessive optimism could trigger short-term corrections, making risk management essential.
DOJ announces shift in digital asset enforcement priorities. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memorandum to departmental employees on April 7 that disbands the DOJ’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and states that the DOJ “is not a digital assets regulator.” The memorandum shifts DOJ enforcement priorities from “regulation by prosecution” by “target virtual currency exchanges, missing and tumbling services, and offline wallets for the acts of their end users.” The shift changes the priorities to “investigations and prosecutions that involve conduct victimizing investors, including embezzlement and misappropriation of customers’ funds on exchanges, digital asset investment scams, fake digital asset development projects…, hacking of exchanges and decentralized autonomous organizations resulting in the theft of funds, and exploiting vulnerabilities in smart contracts,” and the use of digital assets in furtherance of unlawful conduct, such as human trafficking, cartels, fentanyl production, terrorism, and smuggling. The memorandum orders all ongoing investigations inconsistent with this directive to be closed.
Before mid-June, there won’t be much market action, with a high probability of range-bound fluctuations to form a bottom. April’s market may first decline, then fluctuate and rebound. For the next two months or more, don’t have expectations of getting rich quickly; take profits when possible, securing gains is the best strategy!
US February CPI data was: year-on-year increase of 2.8%, core CPI year-on-year increase of 3.1%, persistently higher than the Fed’s target level. If this data is higher than expected (e.g., core CPI ≥2.8%), it may trigger market concerns about “stagflation,” the crypto market may experience short-term selling, Bitcoin may test key support levels, even touching a new low of $76,000.
Wyoming stable token enters testing phase. On March 26, Wyoming Stable Token Commission Executive Director Anthony Apollo announced that the Wyoming Stable Token (WYST) entered its testing phase across several blockchain networks. Executive Director Apollo notes that the testing is “a key step towards launching the first fiat-backed and fully reserved stable token issued by a public entity in the United States.” Testing is expected to occur throughout the second quarter of 2025, with a potential launch in July 2025. These announcements were made during a fireside chat with Governor and Commission Chairman Mark Gordon at the DC Blockchain Summit. Governor Gordon also highlighted the benefits of WYST for both the state and its users, including a statutory requirement to over-collateralize the stable token’s backing with cash and US Treasuries to mitigate the risk of de-pegging, and the deposit of interest derived from those treasuries into the state’s school foundation fund.
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.
Cryptocurrency news april 2025
Throughout April 2025, Bitcoin exhibited significant price swings, fluctuating between $76,000 and $95,000. After hitting a low of $76,000 on April 8, BTC rebounded to $88,500, then peaked at $91,740 on April 22—its highest level since March.
FinCEN notes FATF identifies jurisdictions with AML/CFT deficiencies. On February 26, FinCEN announced that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) updated its lists of jurisdictions with strategic anti-money laundering (AML), countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), and countering the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (CPF) deficiencies at the conclusion of its plenary meeting this month. FinCEN informed US financial institutions to consider FATF’s stance toward these jurisdictions when reviewing their obligations and risk-based policies, procedures, and practices. FATF added Laos and Nepal to its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring and removed the Philippines from that list. Additionally, FATF’s list of high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action remains the same (Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Burma).
Ethereum has shown strong price action in recent days by reclaiming key levels above $1,950 and $2,000. A surge in its volume supports the bullish momentum but caution is necessary due to high leverage driving the volatile price movement. A stable Bitcoin price is also crucial for Ethereum’s bullish momentum and all other altcoins as well.
Nebraska enacts law to prevent fraud associated with Controllable Electronic Records. On March 11, Nebraska enacted LB 609 adopting the Controllable Electronic Record Fraud Prevention Act (CERFPA), which requires operators of kiosks for controllable electronic records (CERs) such as virtual currency to obtain a state money transmitter license. It also requires clear and conspicuous disclosures of all terms and conditions associated with the operator’s activities, with an acknowledgment of receipt, and specifies certain content that must be included in the disclosures and the receipt. The CERFPA requires kiosk operators to take specified measures to protect against fraud, including the use of blockchain analytics, the adoption and implementation of a written antifraud policy, caps on daily transactions, the provision of live customer service by telephone, and designation of a compliance officer. Further, the CERFPA also requires the kiosk operator to refund consumers fraudulently induced to enter into a CER transaction if certain conditions are met.
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