gm Bankless Nation, Welcome back to the Citizen Daily Brief. Become a paid member to get all of the alpha! Crypto markets exploded today and there's bullish news everywhere you look.
Today's Issue ⬇️
☀️ Need to Know: Bullish Momentum ETH climbs. Biggest acquisition ever.
✍️ Cheat Sheet: Superstacks Opps, reads, yields, and airdrops.
💸 Stripe Launches 'Stablecoin-Powered' Accounts. The payments giant completed its $1.1B acquisition of Bridge in February.
💰 Coinbase is Buying Deribit for $2.9B in Record Deal. The mostly-stock deal for the derivatives exchange is the largest crypto acquisition ever.
🟠 Bitcoin Crosses $100K for First Time Since February. Juiced by hope of a trade deal, BTC once again crossed the significant barrier.
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Daily Market Snapshot: BTC back above $100K, ETH's best day since 2021, the biggest crypto acquisition of all time, and Meta back to building a stablecoin??? All in a day's work.
Prices as of 6pm ET
24hr
7d
Crypto $3.23T
↗ 7.9%
↗ 7.0%
BTC $102,973
↗ 6.0%
↗ 6.5%
ETH $2,175
↗ 20.6%
↗ 17.8%
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CHEAT SHEET
Superstacks
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Crypto thrives on chaos, and in April, five altcoins stole the spotlight with price swings that were anything but subtle.
From AI-fueled agent economies to penguin-powered memetic machines and scandal-scarred blockchains, the markets didn’t sleep – and neither should you! Whether you’re hunting the next moonshot or dodging the next rug, these five tokens that defined April are worth paying attention to in the month ahead.
Today we’re diving into the biggest winners, the hardest losers, and the wild catalysts behind April’s most explosive altcoin stories. 👇
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