🆙Bitcoin Surges To $91,000 As Broader Market Recovers

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The crypto market continued recording gains on Tuesday with Bitcoin surging to $91,000 as investor sentiment returned.

In other news, Unichain’s total value locked (TVL) surged over 2,500% following a liquidity incentive going live.

Meanwhile, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

✍️ In today’s newsletter:

BTC tops $91K for the first time in weeks
Unichain’s TVL soars 2,500%
Bittensor's subnets surge in market cap
Ethereum co-founder proposes switching EVM to RISC-V

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🆙Bitcoin Soars Above $91,000 as Global Markets Rebound

The crypto market extended its rally for a second day, fueled by a $555.8 million Bitcoin purchase by Strategy and a rebound in global equities.

Bitcoin climbed to $91,000, Ethereum rose to $1,687, and total crypto market cap hit $2.94 trillion.

💸Top AI Blockchain Bittensor's Subnets Surge Past $500M Market Cap

Bittensor’s TAO token has surged over 40% in the past week, fueled by the growth of its subnet ecosystem and February’s launch of dynamic TAO (dTAO).

With subnet market caps soaring past $500 million as of Monday, TAO is now one of the top-performing altcoins.

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Stablecoins are exploding, projected to hit $230 billion in 2025, bridging traditional finance and blockchain. Leaders like Tether and Circle, alongside innovations like Ethena’s yield-generating USDe, are driving adoption. They’re slashing cross-border payment times and costs, and powering DeFi’s growth. But are they a valuable inroad for institutions or a Trojan horse? As on-chain finance continues to grow and innovate, banks and other established financial institutions face a choice: adapt or risk obsolescence. Will stablecoins empower traditional finance to capitalize on the new value being generated by Web3, or serve as the seed for decentralization? Platforms like Stellar that enable compliant issuance may offer a middle path.

📈Unichain TVL Surges 2500% to $318 Million After Liquidity Incentives Go Live

Unichain, Uniswap’s Layer 2 network, has recorded a massive spike in activity following the launch of a $21 million liquidity incentive campaign on April 15. TVL surged over 2,500% in a week, making it the fifth-largest L2.

🗣️Vitalik Proposes Replacing EVM With RISC-V to Scale Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin has sparked debate with a proposal to replace the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with the open-source RISC-V architecture to improve scalability and simplicity on Ethereum’s Layer 1.

While he argues it would “greatly improve the efficiency of the Ethereum execution layer,” the idea has drawn mixed reactions from the community