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The team associated with the launch of the memecoin Melania Meme (MELANIA) has withdrawn tokens worth approximately $30 million from community funds and started their sell-off. This was reported by the platform Bubblemaps on April 7, 2025. Analysts stated that the operations were conducted without public comments from the developers.

The top spot in the ranking of the largest USDT holders is held by Vitaliy Brovko, head of the department of the Office of the Prosecutor General, who declared over 847,000 USDT. At the same time, the asset is listed under his wife's name, who also received 2.4 million hryvnias in income from the sale of cryptocurrencies.
In second place was the director of the State Enforcement Service of the Ministry of Justice, Maksym Kyseliov. His assets in USDT in 2024 remained unchanged and still exceed 647,000 USDT. By the way, Kyseliov was the leader of the previous ranking.

In 2024, the most common digital asset listed in the declarations of Ukrainian officials was not Bitcoin, but the stablecoin USDT, according to an analysis by Incrypted. Despite the plummet in interest in other cryptocurrencies, Tether proved to be the main choice for storage and savings among civil servants.
Fresh data from the Unified State Register of Declarations showed that officials are increasingly choosing "stable" digital assets pegged to the US dollar.

Lookonchain noted that an unknown whale sent 4.52 million USDC to Hyperliquid to open a long position on Ethereum. They executed a trade with a 20x leverage at a price of $1459. The current position volume is 47,253 ETH ( around $70 million ), and the liquidation price is $1391.7.

The UPCX team confirmed unauthorized access, suspended deposits and withdrawals, assuring that users' assets were not affected. In the wake of the incident, the price of the UPC token fell from $4.02 to $3.77, according to CoinMarketCap.

The payment platform UPCX suffered a network attack, resulting in an attacker stealing $70 million in UPC tokens. According to the company Cyvers, the hacker gained access to the ProxyAdmin contract, allowing him to withdraw funds from management accounts.

FTX will begin compensating large creditors at the end of May. According to Bloomberg, lawyer Andrew Dietderich told the judge that the exchange plans to make the first tranche of the funds distribution to the main group of creditors on May 30, 2025. This group includes institutional clients, large holders, as well as other organizations that deposited cryptoassets on the platform.
The lawyer also noted that the distribution of funds will take a lot of time. The reason for this is the large number of "false" claims, Dietderich noted.

The company MARA (, formerly Marathon Digital), which is engaged in Bitcoin mining, plans to issue and sell shares worth $2 billion. The firm will use these funds to purchase the first cryptocurrency, as well as for deposit of working capital.
The press release states that on March 28, 2025, MARA entered into an agreement for the placement of shares on the open market with a number of financial institutions, including Barclays, BMO Capital Markets, Cantor Fitzgerald, and others.

It should be noted that in December, bitcoin reacted to the decrease in the interest rate with a plummet. In January, when the President of the United States Donald Trump officially took office, the first cryptocurrency showed positive dynamics, although the Fed left the rate unchanged.
This time, Bitcoin also reacted to the news with an increase. At one point, its value rose to $87,453, after which it retraced.

On March 19, 2025, a regular meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee of the US Federal Reserve (FOMC) took place. As a result, the regulator decided to keep the interest rate at the previous level — 4.25%-4.5%.
The Fed keeps the rate unchanged for the second consecutive time. The last interest rate decrease was in December 2024.

Ethereum
There is also an entry into the zone of interest. We recommend cautious and small purchases on the spot market. We anticipate swings in one or two weeks.

Bitcoin
No significant changes are observed - here we see local strength. At the same time, we expect a correction to the area of interest, after which we no longer look at the market.
The end of the week looks good. With the appropriate news background, there is a potential impulse for movement towards $90,000, but it is not worth the risk for now.

After a sharp drop on March 16, 2025, the bitcoin exchange rate partially recovered, with the asset trading in the range of $82,700 to $83,000. Ethereum, for its part, is trying to stay near the $1900 level. Cryptology Key experts shared their analysis of the situation and provided a forecast for the further price movement of these assets.

Earlier, experts from the analytical company CryptoQuant announced a significant influx of stablecoins on the crypto exchange.
In addition, in early February 2025, we reported that Tether and Circle had issued $8.5 billion worth of stablecoins since the beginning of the year. In particular, Circle authorized 6.5 billion USDC for issuance, and Tether — 2 billion USDT.

On-chain activity with the stablecoin USDT is rapidly increasing, according to Santiment, adding that on March 11, 2025, over 143,000 wallets made transfers of 'stable coins'. Experts noted that this is the highest level in the last six months.

On the night of March 4, 2025, the price of Bitcoin sharply dropped to around $82,500. The Ethereum rate and other cryptocurrencies also decreased. Cryptology Key analysts assessed the current market situation and made a forecast for the further trajectory of cryptocurrency movement.
Bitcoin
We received the closing of the month - it is generally terrible, but nothing critical happened to the structure. So if you are a spot investor willing to hold positions until the end of 2025, you are all good. Perhaps the price may fall to $74,000, and this would be quite logical, so we are not making a be