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On April 16, LookOnChain monitoring data indicates Abraxas Capital (Alpha Bitcoin Fund) has just deposited 1,993 Bitcoins (valued at $148.32 million) into Kraken. Since March 14, the fund has cumulatively transferred 9,582 Bitcoins (worth $691 million) to the exchange. It currently holds 20,337 Bitcoins, valued at $1.51 billion.

April 16 — CoinGecko’s Q1 2026 Cryptocurrency Industry Report, released today, reveals key market trends: Driven by late-2025 bearish sentiment and global geopolitical instability, the total crypto market cap fell 20.4% (or $6.22 trillion) in Q1, closing at $2.4 trillion — down roughly 45% from its October 2025 peak. Average daily trading volume dropped 27.2% to $117.8 billion. Stablecoin total market cap held steady at $309.9 billion. Tether (USDT) supply saw its first decline since Q2 2022 (-1.6%), while USD Coin (USDC) grew 2.4% to $77.1 billion. U.S.-Iran war-related supply disruptions pushed crude oil up 76.9% — making it Q1’s top-performing asset. Bitcoin fell 22.0%, while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 dropped 7.1% and 4.8%, respectively. **CEX Spot Trading**: Spot volume across the top 10 centralized exchanges fell 39.1% to $2.7 trillion. March alone saw just $0.8 trillion in volume — the lowest since November 2023. **DEX On-Chain Trading**: Solana maintained its Q1 lead

April 16 — Top crypto venture funds including Paradigm, Pantera Capital and a16z have seen portfolio values shrink amid a market downturn and investor distributions, per a Fortune report. a16z Crypto’s four crypto-focused funds saw total assets under management (AUM) plummet nearly 40% to $9.5 billion between 2024 and 2025, driven in part by the firm returning capital to investors from its first three funds. Multicoin Capital’s AUM, meanwhile, has more than halved to roughly $2.7 billion.

April 16: Bitcoin mining firm HIVE Digital Technologies announced a $75 million private placement of 0% convertible senior notes due 2031. Proceeds will fund GPU purchases, data center expansion, and general corporate needs. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has granted conditional approval, and HIVE expects its shares to shift from the TSX Venture Exchange to the main TSX board around April 30. Meanwhile, HIVE is advancing its transition to high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. This March, amid a tax dispute with local Swedish authorities, the company said it would gradually halt ASIC-based Bitcoin mining at its Boden, Sweden facility—and convert the site into a Tier 3 HPC data center to support GPU clusters.

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April 16 — A new survey from financial giant Nomura Securities, the “2026 Digital Asset Institutional Investor Survey,” finds nearly 80% of institutional investors plan to allocate 2% to 5% of their total assets under management (AUM) to cryptocurrencies. Some 65% of respondents view crypto as a diversification tool on par with stocks, bonds and commodities. The survey included institutional investors and family offices overseeing more than $600 billion in combined AUM. On investment priorities: Over two-thirds of respondents are interested in earning returns via decentralized finance (DeFi) mechanisms like staking, 65% are exploring lending and tokenized assets, and 63% are looking into derivatives and stablecoins. Also, 63% see stablecoins as having practical use cases — including cash management, cross-border payments and investing in tokenized assets — with those issued by major financial institutions being the most trusted. Nomura noted regulatory clarity, greater awareness