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Today — 21 March 2026Main stream

Kiyosaki sees Bitcoin at $750k, Ethereum at $95k in post-crash world

21 March 2026 at 02:00
Robert Kiyosaki says an imminent “biggest financial bubble in history” will end in a crash that sends Bitcoin to $750k and Ethereum to $95k within a year, even as critics doubt his methods. Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor…

Yesterday — 20 March 2026Main stream

Gold slides below $4.5k, crypto is bleeding, and “store of value” myths are cracking

20 March 2026 at 23:18
Gold has slipped from above $5,200 while crypto bleeds and silver dumps, exposing “store of value” as a question of volatility, leverage and time horizon, not memes. Spot gold is trading just below $4,600 today, down roughly 10–15% from its…

Bitcoin rebound lacks conviction as open interest signals range-bound market

20 March 2026 at 21:43
Bitcoin’s latest recovery toward $69,700 is unfolding with almost no change in futures open interest, a pattern CoinGlass says fits a range-bound, leverage-heavy market rather than the start of a durable bullish trend. Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent price recovery is showing…

FBI and Thai police freeze $580m in crypto in cross-border fraud raid

20 March 2026 at 21:34
The FBI and Thai police froze about $580m in crypto and seized 8,000 phones in a joint strike on Southeast Asian pig butchering gangs targeting American victims. United States federal law enforcement and Thai authorities have jointly frozen approximately $580…

UK shuts down crypto exchange Zedxion after sanctions probe ties platform to Iranian networks

20 March 2026 at 12:23
Britain’s company register has moved to dissolve cryptocurrency exchange Zedxion, accused of processing funds for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. According to a notice published on its website, Britain’s company register, Companies House said Zedxion has been shut down due…

Trump pressures Powell to cut rates as Fed holds line on inflation

20 March 2026 at 00:00
Trump ramps up pressure on Powell to slash rates to 1% even as the Fed holds at 3.50%–3.75%, lifts inflation forecasts, and warns the Iran oil shock risks stagflation. U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his public pressure campaign on Federal…

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Hyperliquid whale wiped out as $458 million in crypto longs vanish

19 March 2026 at 23:00
Crypto saw $458m in liquidations in 24 hours as Iran’s Gulf strikes and $110 oil triggered a brutal flush of overleveraged BTC and ETH longs led by a Hyperliquid whale. The cryptocurrency derivatives market absorbed another brutal session on Thursday,…

Crypto hacks drained $1.5b from industry in 2024 — and 2025/26 is already worse

19 March 2026 at 19:23
Immunefi’s 2024 report finds $1.5b lost across 232 incidents, with CeFi key compromises driving a handful of mega-hacks while early 2025 losses already race past last year. The blockchain security industry is sounding the alarm after another year of devastating…

BTQ deploys first working BIP 360 implementation on Bitcoin Quantum Testnet

19 March 2026 at 19:14
BTQ Technologies Corp. announced Thursday the completion of the first functional implementation of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 360 (BIP 360) on its Bitcoin Quantum Testnet v0.3.0 — marking the first time a quantum-resistant transaction format derived from a formal Bitcoin improvement…

Dollar drops below 100 as Fed shock, BOJ risk and oil fears hit FX

19 March 2026 at 19:06
The dollar index fell below 100 as traders sold the greenback after the Fed meeting, with USD/JPY sliding on rising BOJ hike and intervention risks and mixed signals for emerging markets and Bitcoin. The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) fell below…

Coinbase Commerce seed phrase page alarms security community ahead of March 31 shutdown

19 March 2026 at 18:59
Coinbase Commerce’s seed phrase withdrawal page is drawing fierce criticism from security researchers, who warn it normalizes typing 12-word recovery phrases into a website just days before the March 31 shutdown deadline. A subdomain page belonging to Coinbase Commerce —…

Bank of Korea launches Phase 2 of digital won pilot with real subsidies

19 March 2026 at 02:00
The Bank of Korea has kicked off Phase 2 of Project Hangang, expanding its digital won pilot to nine banks and, for the first time, using CBDC-linked deposit tokens for real government subsidy payments. The Bank of Korea (BOK) officially…

CoinEx introduces high-yield dual investment amid volatile and sideways crypto markets

19 March 2026 at 01:10
CoinEx launches Dual Investment product to help traders earn rewards during volatile market conditions. CoinEx has launched a product called dual investment, which allows traders to earn rewards even during times of high market volatility. CoinEx’s dual Investment is a…

Lummis says CLARITY Act must pass this year as Senate eyes April markup

19 March 2026 at 00:00
Sen. Cynthia Lummis says the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act “must be completed by the end of the year,” with Republicans planning a late‑April Banking Committee markup after months of delay. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) delivered her clearest deadline yet…

Polymarket acquires DeFi startup Brahma to deepen its onchain stack

18 March 2026 at 23:00
Polymarket has acquired DeFi infrastructure startup Brahma, folding its smart-account execution layer into a prediction market now eyeing a $20B valuation and an AI‑driven, onchain future. Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction market platform currently eyeing a valuation of approximately $20 billion,…

Canada’s FINTRAC revokes registrations of 23 crypto MSBs in AML crackdown

18 March 2026 at 19:30
Canada’s FINTRAC has yanked 23 crypto MSBs from its registry in a single sweep, escalating an AML crackdown that now targets exchanges, ATMs and offshore operators alike. Canada’s financial intelligence agency delivered its most sweeping single-day enforcement action against the…

Fed day puts inflation — and crypto liquidity — back under the microscope

18 March 2026 at 18:42
With oil surging and inflation sticky, the Fed is set to hold rates, but a hawkish tilt on 2026 cuts could drain dollar liquidity and push Bitcoin toward key support. The Federal Reserve walks into today’s policy meeting with inflation…

Vanity Fair dresses down crypto’s elites — and exposes a deeper identity crisis

18 March 2026 at 18:15
Vanity Fair’s “crypto true believers” cover sparks backlash on X, reviving an old question: can an anti‑establishment movement win mainstream respect without losing its soul? A glossy magazine profile of crypto’s power class has set the industry’s social media circles…

Stripe and Paradigm’s Tempo mainnet goes live for machine payments

18 March 2026 at 17:43
Stripe and Paradigm launch Tempo’s mainnet and the Machine Payment Protocol, targeting high-speed, stablecoin-based payments for AI agents and global enterprises. After months of anticipation following a public testnet deployment in December 2025, Tempo — the payments-focused Layer 1 blockchain…

USA₮ Turns Times Square Green With St. Patrick’s Day Brand Activation Introducing Digital Dollar Payments

17 March 2026 at 21:34

Lugano, Switzerland, March 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire   On St. Patrick’s Day, as 2 million spectators flood the streets of New York City, USA₮, a digital dollar issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, is taking over Times Square. The brand activation combines synchronized digital […]

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Tether’s QVAC pushes multi‑billion‑parameter AI models onto phones and consumer GPUs

18 March 2026 at 02:00
Tether’s QVAC Fabric integrates BitNet LoRA to fine‑tune and run multi‑billion‑parameter AI models on consumer GPUs and flagship phones, pushing serious AI work to the edge. Tether’s AI division has quietly shipped one of its most aggressive non‑stablecoin bets to…

China hacker group leaks $7M crypto theft operation targeting wallet supply chains​

18 March 2026 at 01:00
A hacker group from China posing as a cybersecurity firm has allegedly stolen 7 million dollars via wallet supply‑chain attacks, targeting Trust Wallet and other clients before an internal dispute triggered a whistleblower leak. A Chinese hacker group posing as…

Robinhood venture fund backs Stripe and ElevenLabs in $35M private markets push​

18 March 2026 at 00:00
Robinhood Ventures Fund has invested about 35 million dollars across Stripe and ElevenLabs, buying optionality on stablecoin payments and AI‑powered media rails that could plug directly into future trading products. Robinhood is quietly extending its reach beyond retail trading and…

GSR spends $57M to build one-stop capital markets platform for crypto projects

17 March 2026 at 23:30
GSR is buying its way into the underwriting layer of crypto, spending 57 million dollars to turn itself from a market maker into a full‑stack capital markets and treasury platform for token issuers. Crypto market maker GSR is moving aggressively…

Is Hyperliquid’s $3.64B whale book about to pick a side?

17 March 2026 at 22:25
Hyperliquid whale positioning hits $3.64B as leverage splits evenly between longs and shorts. Leverage on decentralized derivatives venue Hyperliquid (HYPE) has reached eye‑watering levels, with on‑chain data showing whale positions almost perfectly balanced between longs and shorts even as individual…

Tether stablecoin whale moves $500M USDT into Binance as market liquidity concentrates​

17 March 2026 at 19:07
A Tether whale just moved 500 million USDT from an unknown wallet to Binance, concentrating stablecoin firepower as BTC and ETH sit on dense liquidation bands. A massive 500 million USDT transfer has been spotted moving from an unknown wallet…

Bitcoin derivatives flash red as $1.79B long liquidation cluster forms below key resistance​

17 March 2026 at 18:52
Bitcoin’s derivatives market is pinned between billion‑dollar long and short liquidation bands, leaving BTC one clean breakout away from a violent, forced‑flow volatility spike. Bitcoin’s (BTC) derivatives market is coiled around a narrow price band that could unleash billions of…

US Spot crypto exchanges nearly double market share as ETF era reshapes liquidity

17 March 2026 at 18:36
U.S. spot crypto exchanges have nearly doubled market share to 15% as ETF-driven flows and institutional venue consolidation pull liquidity back onshore. U.S. crypto exchanges have almost doubled their share of the global spot market in the past year, underscoring…

Lido’s community staking module sharpens its edge with DVT clusters

17 March 2026 at 02:00
Lido’s new IDVTC design lets verified solo stakers form DVT clusters, slashing collateral needs while hardening Ethereum validator risk and sustaining staking yields. Lido’s community staking module is about to stop pretending this is still a game for whales only.…

Polymarket’s Iran surge helps trigger Washington’s crackdown bill

17 March 2026 at 01:00
After billions in bets on a U.S.–Iran strike and an insider scandal on platforms like Polymarket, Democrats push the DEATH BETS Act, targeting prediction markets that trade on war, terror and death. Prediction markets just ran into Washington’s moral panic.…

Streamex bets on ex‑Coinbase CFO to make tokenized gold scalable

17 March 2026 at 00:00
Streamex just hired ex‑Coinbase and Morgan Stanley veteran Christine Plummer as CFO, betting a Wall Street‑grade balance sheet can turn GLDY tokenized gold into real institutional plumbing. Tokenization is getting a real CFO, not another web3 mascot. Nasdaq‑listed Streamex Corp.…

BTC traders brace for $2B liquidation risk as market hovers near key levels

16 March 2026 at 19:26
Coinglass liquidation data is sketching out a brutal risk corridor for Bitcoin (BTC), with billions in leveraged positions sitting just above and below spot. According to figures summarized by Jinshi Finance, if BTC drops below roughly $70,346, cumulative long liquidations…

French Hill says CLARITY Act could fix gaps left by GENIUS Act

14 March 2026 at 02:27
French Hill, chair of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, said the CLARITY Act could help address unresolved issues in the GENIUS Act. French Hill remarks on CLARITY and GENIUS Acts Hill discussed concerns raised by banks about how crypto…

Token2049 Dubai pushed to 2027 over security concerns

14 March 2026 at 00:27
The Dubai edition of Token2049 has been postponed until 2027 after organizers cited safety concerns linked to rising geopolitical tensions due to the Iran-Isreal-US war. The decision follows the cancellation of another major industry gathering, the TON Gateway event, which…

On Polymarket and Kalshi, five‑minute crypto bets now dominate prediction flows

13 March 2026 at 23:13
Ultra‑short crypto bets on Polymarket and Kalshi now drive most crypto volume, blurring hedging and gambling as AI bots, HFT firms and retail chase five‑minute wins. Ultra-short-term crypto bets have exploded on prediction platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, turning markets for…

Robinhood crypto volume jumps to $25b as equities, options and events fade

13 March 2026 at 21:07
Robinhood’s February data show crypto notional volumes up 9% to $25b while equity, options and event contracts shrink, proving speculative energy has rotated back into coins. Robinhood’s February numbers are clear: crypto is where the life is, everything else is…

Ethereum Foundation publishes formal mandate to hard‑lock censorship resistance and privacy

13 March 2026 at 18:42
The Ethereum Foundation’s new “EF Mandate” formalizes its role as steward of a censorship‑resistant, privacy‑first, open‑source base layer, signaling zero appetite for surveillance‑chain compromises. The Ethereum Foundation has moved from vibes to written doctrine, publishing an “EF Mandate” that spells…

Ethereum price surges 5% as derivatives just lit up and open interest blows past $30b

13 March 2026 at 18:10
Ethereum price surges as derivatives open interest jumped nearly 9% to above $30b, concentrating leverage on Binance, Gate, Bybit and OKX and priming Ethereum for sharper liquidations. Ethereum (ETH) derivatives just lit up. Here’s a clean crypto.news-style piece on the…

Bitcoin price above $73k as Iran war, oil shock and Fed bets fuel risk-on mood

13 March 2026 at 18:02
Bitcoin’s brief jump above $73k shows bulls still in control, but Iran war risks, oil shocks and crowded leverage leave BTC vulnerable to a violent flush. Bitcoin (BTC) price briefly cleared the $73,000 mark in the last trading session, signaling…

ETHDenver 2026: fewer side events, more AI agents and builder focus

13 March 2026 at 02:00
ETHDenver 2026 saw side events collapse, prize pools slashed, and AI × crypto dominate the floor, leaving a leaner, builder‑driven conference with prediction markets in focus. ETHDenver 2026 saw side events crater from 668 in 2025 to roughly 215 this…

Saylor hints MicroStrategy’s BTC buys front‑run future supply squeezes

13 March 2026 at 00:00
Michael Saylor says MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin purchases impact price with a delay, arguing that steady corporate and ETF accumulation tightens supply long before markets notice. MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor says there is a lag between when his firm buys Bitcoin (BTC)…

SEC chair backs “minimum effective dose” disclosure and targeted tokenization pilots

12 March 2026 at 19:48
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is signaling support for streamlined “minimum effective dose” disclosure rules and tightly scoped equity‑tokenization pilots via an innovation exemption, according to new remarks from Chair Paul S. Atkins. The U.S. Securities and Exchange…

CFTC warns prediction markets: event contracts must follow DCM rulebook

12 March 2026 at 19:41
The CFTC has issued a new advisory on prediction‑market event contracts, telling designated contract markets to apply full Part 38 oversight, especially for sports and other sensitive bets. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a new consultation…

Circle stock jumps 120% as USDC cements role as core stablecoin rail

12 March 2026 at 19:35
Circle shares have surged over 120% since early February as William Blair says USDC’s market share, cross‑chain reach, and payments moat are being repriced as core settlement infrastructure. Circle’s stock has surged more than 120% since early February, with analysts…

Binance adds four new AI agent Skills for trading and asset management

12 March 2026 at 19:26
Binance has rolled out four new AI agent Skills for USD‑margined futures, margin trading, Alpha market data, and asset management, wiring automated strategies deeper into its stack. Binance has rolled out four new AI agent Skills designed to plug automated…

Vitalik says Ethereum’s real value is a global shared data bulletin board

12 March 2026 at 18:59
Vitalik Buterin reframes Ethereum as censorship‑resistant “global shared memory,” with PeerDAS scaling its data layer for voting, identity, and on‑chain coordination. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the network’s real value lies in acting as a globally shared “bulletin board”…

Strive hikes SATA yield to 12.75%, doubles down on Bitcoin and preferred stock bets​

11 March 2026 at 23:00
Strive has raised the dividend on its SATA preferred stock to 12.75% while tying more of its balance sheet to Bitcoin and high‑yield preferred equity bets. Strive (NASDAQ: ASST) has raised the dividend yield on its SATA preferred stock to…

Mastercard onboards 85+ crypto firms in bid to lock In Stablecoin payments rail​

11 March 2026 at 22:00
Mastercard is enlisting more than 85 crypto firms, fintechs, and banks into a new partner program designed to keep stablecoin payments running over its own rails. Mastercard is recruiting more than 85 digital asset companies, payment providers, and financial institutions…

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