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Trump showed the world his “beautiful” tariffs yesterday—interestingly, they leave out Canada and Mexico—and the markets reacted downwards.

On paper, China had it worse. But it must have hurt Israel’s Netanyahu to scrap off all tariffs to the US a day before—only to get slapped with 17% tariffs. Ouch.

In Today’s edition

🌕Market Watch Post Tariffs
🌕OnlyFans and HBAR Team for TikTok
🌕Solana’s Reinvention
🌕Justin Sun Depegs  Stablecoin

To today’s stories ==>

Market Watch🔍: Mood Swings

Bitcoin’s rollercoaster week took another stomach-churning dip as President Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs sent shockwaves through global markets. 

Mixed signals had the coin flirting with a two-week high of $89K before retracing to as low as $81K

The broader crypto market felt shocks, too—more than $450 million in futures liquidations rattled traders on both sides of the bet. 

Yet, the sell-off wasn’t just crypto’s problem. 

Wall Street futures plunged after-hours, with tech bellwethers like Apple and Amazon shedding up to 7%. 

Meanwhile, gold hit another record high as investors scrambled for safe-haven assets. Trump’s tariffs—ranging from 10% on general imports to a staggering 50% on select Chinese goods—sent Asian equities tumbling and sparked renewed fears of a yuan devaluation.

For Bitcoin miners, the policy shift is more than a market scare. Higher costs for ASIC hardware, mostly sourced from China, could squeeze U.S. mining profitability. 

However, some analysts see a silver lining: less efficient miners may exit, lowering network difficulty and improving margins for more prominent players.

XRP traders are also on edge. A looming head-and-shoulders pattern threatens a major breakdown unless bulls push the price above $3. 

Meanwhile, Ripple’s USD-pegged stablecoin RLUSD is gaining “more demand than anticipated”, with over $100 million issued since April 1.

With tariffs in play and uncertainty rising, the crypto market faces a new test of resilience. Will Bitcoin reclaim its bullish footing, or is this just the beginning of a prolonged shakeout? 

Stay tuned—this cycle is anything but predictable.

OnlyFans 💛 TikTok 

TikTok’s ownership drama has taken an unexpected crypto twist. 

OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely and the HBAR Foundation, the non-profit behind the Hedera blockchain, have teamed up to bid for the wildly popular social media platform. 

According to Reuters, their bid was formally submitted to the White House. ByteDance faces an April 5 deadline to sell or risk a U.S. ban.

The pitch? 

A Web3-powered TikTok where creators and communities earn directly from their content, challenging Big Tech’s ad-driven revenue model. 

Stokely’s new startup, Zoop, and HBAR say they aim to “disrupt the traditional big tech model where platforms capture up to 90% of revenue while creators get a fraction.”

But the competition is fierce. Amazon has also reportedly entered the fray, adding serious firepower to the bidding war. 

While it’s unclear how competitive Zoop-HBAR’s offer is financially, the consortium of investors backing the bid suggests there's real interest in a blockchain-powered alternative to TikTok’s current structure.

HBAR, Hedera’s native token, has barely budged on the news, ticking up just 1.5% in the last 24 hours. 

Whether TikTok’s next chapter will be written on-chain or in Big Tech’s walled gardens remains to be seen—but if this pulls through, it could very well be SocialFi’s heaven. 

Solana Wants To Be Useful

Solana’s red-hot memecoin frenzy is cooling, but that doesn’t mean the chain is fading. 

The network, which saw a speculative explosion in Q1, has entered a quieter phase of “recomposition,” shifting from meme-driven hype to real-world utility.

Network fees have plummeted 97% from their January peak, and transaction volumes have followed suit. 

Even pump.fun, the playground for degen traders, is showing fatigue. 

Its latest attempt is a feature that allows traders to “ape” into coins and pay later—a move watchers are interpreting as desperate clutches for numbers.

In place of meme mania, new protocols are proving that blockchains are indeed created for useful products.

Enter Zeta Market’s trading layer Bullet, BlackRock’s tokenized $BUIDL fund, and Solana-based Zebec Network’s crypto debit card. 

They’re not flashy, but they’re functional. And functionality is how you remain relevant in a fast-paced industry such as this

Meanwhile, institutions are circling. Fidelity and Franklin Templeton are advancing Solana ETF filings, institutional futures are live, and BlackRock is onboarding real-world dollars. 

Validator diversity remains intact. Uptime is solid. The infrastructure is holding up—it’s just missing the speculative froth that once drove parabolic gains.

The next Solana wave may not be fueled by blind hype but by something trickier: making utility feel as irresistible as the last cycle’s chaos. 

The tools are here. Now, someone just needs to turn function into fun.

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What The Coin Is Going On? 🪙 

1. An overwhelming majority of lawmakers in the House Financial Services Committee voted to advance the STABLE bill to regulate stablecoins. The next step? Regulating crypto as a whole.  

2. When tariffs boom, crypto may go down—but you know what ALWAYS benefit from market uncertainty? GOLD. The yellow metal is riding the tariff wave to new ATHs.

3. Who is better positioned to scam an exchange user? A random scammer or a staff? Coinbase’s staff was caught proving the latter.

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That’s all for today, folks.    

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