Franklin Templeton isn’t just acquiring a CoinFund spinoff, it’s launching Franklin Crypto:
• Building an end-to-end crypto asset management platform across VC, liquid strategies, and global distribution
• Scaling active management
• Using BENJI tokens for deal consideration, an early step toward on-chain M&A
“This positions us among a small group of global asset managers with a dedicated, institutional-grade crypto investment management team.” — CEO Jenny Johnson
The intersection of crypto and asset management is red hot anon

BREAKING: FRANKLIN TEMPLETON AGREES TO BUY COINFUND SPINOFF AS PART OF DIGITAL-ASSET EXPANSION — WSJ

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The most visible bitcoin buyers in the world are buying at near-record pace. It is not enough.
A CryptoQuant weekly report showed overall 30-day apparent demand at negative 63,000 $BTC as of late Marc...

Five data sources say the same thing about bitcoin market. It's thinning from the inside

Boris Cherny, head of the Anthropic Claude Code, announced that starting in April 2026 [...]
The article, "Anthropic Subscribes to Claude Code and Bans OpenClaw Lobster! From Now On, Third-Party Tools Will Only Be Available with Paid Quotas," was originally published on BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain ABMedia media.

Anthropic's subscription to Claude Code has banned OpenClaw! From now on, third-party tools will only be available with a paid subscription.

The current crypto market is in a crucial transitional phase. After months of correction, Bitcoin has recently rebounded slightly and retested a key support level it had previously breached. However, overall, the market recovery remains fragile, and the trend remains vulnerable. Accumulating macroeconomic pressures, weakening liquidity, and approaching key policy events are causing a shift in market pricing logic. Entering April, while there are seasonally stronger expectations, historical performance has been highly divergent, suggesting that market movements are more likely to be driven by liquidity, positioning, and macroeconomic catalysts, rather than simple cyclical repetition.

Support repeatedly validated: Trend fragile...