Fund Manager of the Year, a glittering bauble in BeInCrypto’s Institutional 100, is less an award and more a masquerade. A grand charade where experts in pinstripe capes nod solemnly at spreadsheets, all while the real money burns in a liquidity volcano. This category, nestled in Pillar 3 (Access to Digital Assets), is a circus of metrics and mystique.
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BitMine, with a flourish of its cape, crossed the 5 million Ether (ETH) mark on April 27, a feat that places it a modest 84% toward its ambition of hoarding 5% of all ETH. Strategy, meanwhile, clings to its 818,334 Bitcoin (BTC), a paltry 181,666 tokens away from the vaunted 1 million mark. How quaint.
The ceremony, held Monday at K bank’s headquarters, featured CEO Choi Woo-hyung and Ripple’s Fiona Murray, both looking as if they’d just survived a family dinner. Officials from both sides clinked glasses of optimism, though one wonders if the real toast was to the 2024 RLUSD launch-Ripple’s stablecoin, which smells faintly of desperation and ambition.
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Daodu notes that nearly every sober XRP forecast for 2027 rests on the same two prerequisites: the fog of US regulation must clear, and institutional capital must begin to pour in with the gravity of a closing bell, not a polite drizzle. Without both, the upside is hard to justify, even if pieces of the story cling to a favorable wind.
Pi Network’s Protocol 22.1 upgrade deadline is today, April 27. Bitget confirmed that nodes still running v21.2 after the cutoff will be disconnected from Pi Mainnet entirely, unable to process transactions, validate blocks, participate in network consensus, or earn rewards until they complete the upgrade. The Pi Core Team explicitly stated that the upgrade must be completed sequentially, with no node downgrading to an earlier version permitted once the transition is done. (Because nobody wants to relive the 2008 financial crisis, apparently.)
The Stablecoin Edition,” argues that stablecoins have evolved from niche trading tools into a global settlement layer and “banking‑as‑a‑service” stack for programmable dollars. Because who needs actual banks when you have programmable dollars?
As he stood amidst a sea of crypto enthusiasts, Congressman Begich declared his intent to resurrect legislation in the coming weeks aimed at establishing a strategic Bitcoin reserve. His vision? To elevate Bitcoin to the exalted ranks of national reserve assets, ensuring that our government knows how to handle it-because we all know they’ve handled other things so well.
The timing of this revelation is about as subtle as a marching band in a library, arriving just days before the Federal Open Market Committee huddles together to deliberate on interest rates. One can only imagine the amount of popcorn being popped in anticipation of how this vote might send bond prices careening across the market like a toddler on a sugar rush.
