Bitcoin heads into the March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting with strong momentum, trading above $74,000 after eight consecutive daily gains. However, data compiled by bitcoin lender Two Prime suggests this strength may mask a recurring pattern, FOMC meetings have historically acted as short term bearish catalysts for BTC. Looking at 2025, bitcoin posted…
U.S. regulators’ first joint guidance on applying securities laws to different types of crypto tokens failed to provide enough impetus to lift bitcoin BTC$74,223.94, the largest, above $75,000. The interpretive guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which doesn’t carry the weight of a formal rule, classified…
The CEO of crypto’s largest Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) governance platform says the Biden administration was better for his industry than its successor — and is shutting down his company to prove the point. Tally, which powered on-chain governance for Arbitrum, Uniswap, ENS, and more than 500 other DAOs, will wind down operations after six…
Cryptocurrency payments and gift card platform Bitrefill has blamed the North Korea-linked hacking group Lazarus for a cyberattack on March 1, 2026, that compromised parts of its infrastructure and cryptocurrency wallets. The attackers gained access to production keys, transferred funds from hot wallets, and exposed 18,500 purchase records containing emails, payment addresses, and IP addresses….
XRP (XRP) is trading just above a level heavily targeted by derivative traders, making it a critical zone for near-term price action. The payments-focused cryptocurrency changed hands at around $1.50 at press time, placing just above a notable concentration of options activity at $1.40 on crypto exchange Deribit. XRP is used by Ripple to facilitate…
Robinhood’s (HOOD) newly launched venture fund has added stakes in Stripe and ElevenLabs, marking its first disclosed investments since beginning trading earlier this month. Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI), a closed-end fund designed to give retail investors exposure to private companies, said it purchased roughly $14.6 million in Stripe shares and $20 million in ElevenLabs…
Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton is poised to become the next Senator from the state after winning the Democratic primary Tuesday night, defeating Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi. Krishnamoorthi had received close to $10 million in backing from crypto super-political action committee (PAC) Fairshake, among other entities, while Stratton was backed by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. Illinois’…
Vietnamese firms are racing to secure licences for the country’s first domestic cryptocurrency exchanges as Hanoi moves to restrict trading on foreign platforms. A government resolution issued in February calls for a pilot program for locally run digital asset exchanges, with a rollout possible as soon as March. A March 12 Finance Ministry document showed…
As AI agents increasingly transact, shop, and act autonomously online — a market that can reach $3 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030 — a key issue comes into focus: how to verify that a real person is behind the activity. Sam Altman–backed identity project World (formerly WorldCoin) says it has the solution. On Tuesday,…
For the first time, the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission has sought to clearly define different types of crypto assets and how the regulator will approach them, issuing those new standards Tuesday alongside its sister agency that’s responsible for commodities. The SEC’s interpretive guidance, which doesn’t yet carry the weight of a formal new rule, has…
