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2026-04-22：Geopolitical De-Escalation Forces a Historic Short Squeeze While DeFi Bleeds from the Kelp DAO Contagion
What happens when the Pentagon suddenly calls Bitcoin a weapon of national power, just as a nine billion dollar phantom liquidity crisis quietly guts the decentralized finance ecosystem? In today’s episode, we unpack a crypto market tearing itself apart. On one side, we track a historic short squeeze fueled by geopolitical de-escalation and massive corporate accumulation from the likes of BlackRock and MicroStrategy. On the other, we analyze the chilling fallout of the Kelp DAO exploit that is testing the very foundations of cross-chain infrastructure. We also expose a glaring volume anomaly…
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