MicroStrategy bought another 2,530 $BTC($243M) at an average price of $95,972 last week!

On April 14, cryptocurrency journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that Federal Reserve Chair nominee Jerome Powell’s financial disclosure reveals he holds early-stage investments via employment-related investment vehicles—covering a broad range of assets, including some tied to cryptocurrency infrastructure projects. The projects in question include Compound (a decentralized lending protocol), Optimism and Blast (Ethereum Layer 2 networks), and Solana. Additionally, the investments span transaction infrastructure, cryptocurrency investment firms, and platforms across sectors like artificial intelligence and biotechnology. These positions appear relatively small in scale, illiquid, and have not generated reportable income—indicating a preference for indirect, venture capital-like exposure rather than direct, tradable liquid assets.

April 14: Two vessels departed Iran and successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz despite U.S. sanctions, maritime traffic monitoring firm Kpler announced (local time that day), per CCTV News.

On April 14, crypto startup Nava closed an $8.3 million seed round to build a "trust layer" for its autonomous payment system, per Fortune. The funding was led by venture firms Polychain Capital and Archetype. Nava CEO and co-founder Vyas Krishnan noted in an interview: “As more such tools hit the market, AI agents will naturally begin autonomously executing transactions, originating deals, and managing economic activity. We aim to position ourselves as a trusted system for real funds in financial workflows.” Nava’s core fix for AI agent “misbehavior” is a custody system: funds are temporarily locked before an agent proposes a transaction. Once the agent submits a transaction, Nava uses a verification framework to check if the outcome matches user intent. If validated, the transaction executes; if not, funds stay in the custody account. Nava records and publishes the approval/rejection decision logic for every transaction on-chain, creating a public decision ledger for other A

[Forex] On April 14, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted the Federal Reserve can hold off on cutting interest rates, adding the critical point is that rate cuts remain necessary.

On April 14, Bitcoin rebounded to touch $76,000, per HTX market data. The cryptocurrency was last trading at that level, posting a 5.98% gain over the past 24 hours.

April 14th: Markets see reduced odds of ECB rate hikes, with a 56-basis-point increase still on tap for later this year. (FXStreet)