CRYPTO BREAKING NEWS! (April 17, 2026)

✦ Anthropic CEO will meet the White House Chief of Staff to discuss AI and technology policy.

✦ Investor Huang Licheng increased holdings in ETH, BTC, and HYPE, holding a large 25x leveraged ETH long and planning profit-taking around $2,365–$2,425.

✦ Singapore Gulf Bank launched stablecoin minting and redemption services for high-net-worth clients, starting with USDC.

✦ Bitcoin long-term holders accumulated 3.06 million BTC over three months, though it doesn’t necessarily indicate a bullish trend.

✦ CryptoQuant data suggests the market is in a correction phase rather than at a late-cycle peak.