BTC squeezed shorts above $77K but absent spot demand and low long leverage are capping the move. Why this rally lacks the fuel for a sustained breakout.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-77k-surge-shorts-squeezed-spot-leverage-cap-may-2026/

Bhutan's state mining program shifted roughly $287M of BTC as Bitcoin reclaimed $77,000, extending a quiet but persistent sovereign sell pattern.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bhutan-government-sells-287m-bitcoin-april-2026/

Tether Investments has pitched a three-way merger of Twenty One Capital, Bitcoin payments firm Strike, and miner Elektron Energy, consolidating its BTC empire.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tether-twenty-one-capital-strike-elektron-merger-april-2026/

Gemini just secured a CFTC Derivatives Clearing Organization license, letting the exchange clear its own regulated perps and prediction market contracts.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/gemini-cftc-dco-license-prediction-markets-perps-april-2026/

Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered US crypto bank, partners with stablecoin platform M0 to power the next wave of regulated dollar tokens.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/anchorage-digital-m0-regulated-stablecoin-partnership-april-2026/

xStocks, the Backed Finance tokenized equities platform, has gone live on BNB Chain with more than 50 US stocks tradable onchain alongside its Solana deployment.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/xstocks-bnb-chain-50-tokenized-us-stocks-april-2026/

US banking groups are pressing Congress to delay stablecoin rulemaking while Agora pushes ahead with a federal charter application of its own.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/banks-slow-stablecoin-law-agora-charter-april-2026/

Canada's $195B AIMCo pension fund disclosed a $219M position in Strategy, its first ever Bitcoin-linked exposure, according to BitcoinNews.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/alberta-pension-fund-strategy-219m-first-bitcoin-bet-april-2026/

The US has seized close to $500M in Iranian crypto assets under Operation Economic Fury, marking the largest disclosed action against Tehran's onchain flows.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/us-seizes-500m-iran-crypto-operation-economic-fury-april-2026/

MARA Holdings is acquiring Long Ridge Energy for $1.5 billion to power an AI data center buildout, marking the bitcoin miner's biggest move beyond mining.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/mara-holdings-long-ridge-energy-15b-ai-data-center-april-2026/