Today's Crypto Pulse
Bitcoin slides below $70k as energy‑price worries spark $1.8B in liquidations
Bitcoin fell under $70,000 amid heightened energy‑price uncertainty linked to U.S.–Iran tensions. The dip triggered roughly $1.8 billion in crypto liquidations, while institutional investors pulled more than $4.2 billion from digital‑asset positions.
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By the numbers: Strive acquires 2,500 Bitcoin for $185.2M
On-Chain Rails for Real-World Finance
Modern Treasury has been chosen by the Solana Foundation as a core payments infrastructure partner for the new Solana Developer Platform (SDP). The partnership gives enterprises a single API layer that connects U.S. payment rails—ACH, wire, RTP, FedNow, push‑to‑card—with Solana’s on‑chain fiat and stablecoin flows. SDP’s modular blocks cover issuance of tokenized deposits and GENIUS‑compliant stablecoins, payments, and on‑chain FX trading. Early participation from Mastercard, Western Union and Worldpay signals strong institutional demand for programmable finance at scale.
BNP Paribas AM Expands Its Offering: Six ETNs on Bitcoin and Ether Now Available to French Retail Clients
BNP Paribas announced the launch of six exchange‑traded notes (ETNs) that track Bitcoin and Ether, targeting French retail, private banking and Hello bank! clients. The ETNs are issued by selected asset managers and operate under the MiFID II framework, providing regulated, indirect exposure...
Native Account Abstraction Unlocks New Blockchain Possibilities
ZK is to scale and privacy what Account Abstraction is to flexible, programmable, optimized UX. But there's nuance: you can have AA added to a blockchain, or you can have it baked into the blockchain’s DNA (what we call native AA). Native...
Revolut Surpasses $1 Billion in Onchain Transactions on Polygon as Crypto Adoption Accelerates
Revolut has crossed the $1 billion mark in cumulative on‑chain transactions on the Polygon network, underscoring its aggressive expansion into crypto services. The milestone reflects both the fintech’s growing blockchain footprint and the accelerating shift of retail users toward on‑chain finance....
AI Agents Will Use Crypto, Powered by Ocean Network
I said AI agents will transact in crypto and I stand by it. AI and crypto are joining forces and the next wave of mass adoption will be driven by AI. But where will they get compute? Not AWS. Not Google. Ocean Network...
Morgan Stanley’s First Bank-Issued Bitcoin ETF Is “Imminent” – Will Sell BTC Directly to Clients
Morgan Stanley has filed with the NYSE to list the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) under ticker MSBT, indicating a spot Bitcoin ETF launch is imminent. The bank’s wealth‑management division oversees roughly $8 trillion in assets, and its internal allocation framework...
Blockchain Gaming’s Market Value Plunged 67% in 2025 | Chainplay
Chainplay’s 2025 report shows the blockchain gaming sector’s market value slumped 67% year‑over‑year, marking a sharp reversal from its rapid ascent. Both overall market capitalization and venture funding contracted sharply during the year. The decline coincided with heightened regulatory scrutiny...
MARA's Cash‑flow Failure Forces BTC Dump, Exposing Crypto Scams
Death spiral imminent for $MARA. They've never once had a positive cash flowing year in all of their existence, their mining is pillaging funds and now they're finally selling BTC holdings. They sold their $1.1B of BTC for ~65k. Anyone...
Crypto’s FATCA: Can CARF Close Tax Loopholes If IRS Can’t Keep Up?
The OECD’s Crypto‑Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) will extend automatic exchange of cryptocurrency data to nearly 50 jurisdictions, aiming to mirror FATCA’s offshore‑account transparency. At the same time, the IRS’s crypto‑focused investigative staff fell 33% in 2025, reaching its lowest level...
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Privacy & Institutional Crypto's [Redacted] Future | The Breakdown
The panel discussed how institutional players are demanding robust privacy solutions on blockchain, exploring a spectrum of approaches—from token‑layer confidentiality on Solana, to native privacy baked into networks like Canton, to universal privacy primitives from Commonware, and fully encrypted computation...
Crypto and Overseas Donations: A Threat To Democracy
In this episode of Highline Times, Adrian Goldberg discusses the UK government's rapid response to foreign interference risks, focusing on a new moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to political parties and a £100,000 cap on overseas donations from British citizens abroad....
Property Rights in Bitcoin
A UK High Court case, Ping Fai Yuen v Fun Yung Li, pits Mr Yuen against his ex‑wife over roughly £160‑180 million (about $200‑$230 million) in Bitcoin and related crypto assets. The dispute spotlights the newly enacted Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025,...
Palantir Deploys Vergence AI on Polymarket to Combat Fraud in Prediction Markets
Palantir Technologies has entered a joint venture with Polymarket to embed its Vergence AI engine into the prediction‑market platform’s sports‑betting and event‑driven ecosystem. The partnership aims to detect and prevent fraud in real time, offering regulators and users greater confidence...
U.S. House Financial Services Committee Holds Tokenization Hearing – Details Not Disclosed
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee convened a hearing on tokenization and the future of securities, a development that could reshape investment banking advisory services. No specific figures or participant statements were provided in the available sources.
$1.7 Trillion Just Walked Through Crypto’s Front Door. And It Brought Friends.
Asset manager Franklin Templeton, overseeing $1.7 trillion, has signed a deal with Ondo Finance to issue five of its ETFs on a public blockchain, enabling 24/7 crypto‑wallet trading across multiple regions. The move coincides with the NYSE’s memorandum with Securitize to...
SEC Declares XRP a Digital Commodity, Clearing Ripple's Regulatory Hurdle
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officially recognized XRP as a digital commodity on March 17, effectively ending its securities lawsuit against Ripple. The decision removes a key regulatory barrier for Ripple's cross‑border payments network and could reignite investor interest...
Interactive Brokers' Crypto Transfer Feature Boosts Stock Nearly 4%
Interactive Brokers rolled out a crypto‑linked account feature that lets clients move digital assets into the platform and trade them at 0.12%‑0.18% fees. The announcement sent IBKR shares up 3.9% in one day, underscoring market enthusiasm for broader brokerage‑driven crypto...
Project Crypto’s Sleeper Storyline: Addressing Public Company Pain Points
The SEC is drafting a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrency assets, signaling heightened oversight of digital securities. Cooley’s CapitalXchange blog highlights how tokenization could streamline trading, settlement, and custody for public companies, potentially creating a more direct link between issuers...
The Burner Identity: Funding a Ghost Infrastructure with Bitcoin.
The article warns that Bitcoin’s cryptographic security is undermined by metadata linking a user’s physical identity to their on‑chain activity. It illustrates how everyday services—VPNs, domain registration, mobile phones—create a digital trail that governments can exploit without breaking Bitcoin’s code....
A Classic Bitcoin Market Update
The latest Bitcoin market update examines how recent geopolitical de‑escalation is reducing the crypto risk premium, while pricing models indicate a mean‑reversion target around $28,000. On‑chain data suggests that classic bottom‑formation signals are losing strength, and investor flows are gravitating...
Bitget Wallet Brings Stablecoin Payouts to Bangladesh’s bKash and Nagad
Bitget Wallet has launched its Bank Transfer feature in Bangladesh, enabling users to convert USDT and USDC into Bangladeshi taka and push the funds directly to mobile money platforms bKash and Nagad. The service taps a mobile‑first ecosystem that now...
Ledger Finds Flaw Lets Hackers Steal PINs and Crypto Keys From Powered‑Off Android Phones
Ledger’s Donjon research team demonstrated that attackers can retrieve PINs, encrypted storage and crypto‑wallet seed phrases from Android phones that are turned off. The flaw, present in MediaTek processors paired with Trustonic’s Trusted Execution Environment, impacts roughly one‑quarter of Android...
Bitcoin Community Mobilizes Against Long‑Term Quantum Threat to Crypto Security
Bitcoin developers and governance bodies are racing to harden the network against a future quantum computer capable of breaking elliptic‑curve signatures. Proposals such as Pay‑to‑Merkle‑Root, the Hourglass mitigation, and post‑quantum hash‑based signatures aim to protect millions of BTC that could...
Invesco Acquires Superstate’s $900 Million Tokenized T‑Bill Fund
Invesco has taken control of Superstate’s $900 million tokenized Treasury‑bill fund, USTB, expanding its digital‑asset lineup. The deal keeps Superstate as the technology partner and underscores a broader shift toward real‑world asset tokenization on blockchain.
The Graph Launches Large‑scale On‑chain Search and Analytics Platform
The Graph announced a large‑scale on‑chain search and analytics suite, expanding its indexing infrastructure to deliver real‑time risk metrics, wallet activity feeds and AI‑ready data. The move positions the protocol as the emerging semantic layer of blockchain data.
How Cravin Uses Provably Fair Verification in Mystery Boxes
Cravin integrates provably‑fair verification into its mystery‑box service by locking the outcome with a cryptographic hash before the reveal and publishing the data afterward for user audit. The platform accepts crypto payments via Coinflow but immediately converts them into internal...
Crypto Influencers Claim Bears, but Many Secretly Bullish
If everyone is supposedly bearish then: Why do I get hundreds of comments saying "I can't wait for you to be wrong" on every video I post expressing a bearish view? Why do dozens of influencers tweet about me weekly laughing and...
Bitcoin’s 44% Drop Shows It’s Not a Hedge
BTC ATH: $126,198 (October 2025). BTC now: ~$71,000. That's a 44% drawdown. Everyone said crypto was the hedge. Hedge against what, exactly? $BTC isn't protecting anyone. It's just risk with a better story. $QQQ $SPY https://t.co/krjd4DLS8y
"Russia’s Ticking Time Bomb Strapped to the US Economy"
The episode exposes how Tether, the dominant stable‑coin issuer, holds roughly $184 billion in U.S. Treasury securities—more than the GDP of many nations—through its offshore structure and a network of four non‑American billionaires. It argues that this massive, unaudited reserve pool...
I'd Choose Liquidation Over Watching This Painful Chart
#Bitcoin If you gave me the choice of being forced to only trade this chart for the next week or immediate liquidation, I would choose the liquidation. Much less painful than looking at this chart. https://t.co/6gqbocHa6R
Top Bitcoin Miner Forced to Liquidate $1B Loss
The largest Bitcoin miner balance sheet is now a distressed seller after liquidating over $1B of its Bitcoin at ~$72,000 after making purchases 30-40% higher above $90,000 per BTC. This is just the beginning of a major unwind across the...
🚨Bitcoin + Oil = MEGA CRASH?
The episode examines how rising oil prices and shifting Bitcoin mining costs could trigger a major Bitcoin price correction, potentially pushing the cryptocurrency below $50,000. Host highlights a recent drop in the estimated electricity cost to mine a Bitcoin—from around...
Token Spend per Employee Signals a Cyclical Shift
Hilarious that token spend per employee is the latest bragging metric coming out of Silicon Valley. Tells you something about where we are in the cycle…
Zero‑Knowledge AI Guarantees Human Proof and Uncensored Agents
AI x ZK x Blockchain I wrote something about two use cases I believe in: 1. Proving you're human, over time 2. Ensuring agents aren’t censored Read, comment, share your thoughts (and if you're building this, DM!)
Market Structure Bill Compromise Draws Wide-Ranging Reaction From Fractured Crypto Crowd
A compromise on the market‑structure bill, dubbed the Clarity Act, was presented to crypto and banking stakeholders, sparking mixed reactions. Coinbase publicly expressed dissatisfaction, fearing restrictions on its stablecoin‑reward programs, while other participants were “pleasantly surprised.” The proposal’s language could...
Bitcoin ETF Inflows Rebound After February Outflows
Inflows into Bitcoin ETFs have started to recover after the February outflows, according to CryptoQuant. https://t.co/08lNwqFoPT
ETH Stagnates Between 0.02600 and 0.03250 – No Trade
$ETH remains stuck in a narrow range. No breakout above 0.03250. No breakdown to 0.02600. For me, that's a no-trade zone. I'd be interested to be looking at entries on this one when we're seeing either of the two levels happen. https://t.co/d38AY2rw59
Doubts Swirl Around US Plans for Seized $15bn Prince Group Crypto
The U.S. Justice Department announced a historic seizure of 127,271 bitcoins, originally valued at $15 billion and now worth roughly $9 billion, tied to the Cambodia‑based Prince Group. Victims of the group’s alleged human‑trafficking and crypto scams have filed claims for restitution,...
Bitmine Snaps up $253M Worth of ETH in Two Days
Tom Lee’s company, Bitmine, has acquired an additional 50,000 ETH, worth approximately $108 million. Over the past two days, Bitmine has bought a total of 117,111 ETH, totaling around $253 million. https://t.co/qm8neNIdHw
Big Banks Set to Lead Next Crypto Adoption Phase
🚨 LATEST CEO of the largest custodian bank in the world BNY Global, Robin Vince, says large banks will drive the next phase of crypto adoption, positioning traditional financial institutions as the bridge between digital assets and mainstream finance. https://t.co/T3ACuwzQl0
TRX ( TRON ) - The Setup Before Expansion
Tron (TRX) is positioned at a pivotal point in its nine‑year market cycle, according to a new multi‑timeframe analysis. The author offers a paid‑subscriber video that breaks down Elliott Wave structures and outlines price targets between $0.10 and $0.12. Recent...
Bitcoin Stalled; Potential Drop to $60K Without Liquidity
#Bitcoin remains stuck in the range. Unfortunately, no breakout yet, and no clear direction. If this continues to fall and we drop to the lows, it will probably cascade towards $60K for a low sweep. I suspect that, in that case, liquidity is...
BTC CME Gap Likely to Fill, 95% Historical Rate
The #BTC CME Gap is still present. Historically, about 95% of such Gaps eventually get filled. https://t.co/qkvxNOs2am
Wednesday Crypto Market Check-In with Landy
Market Update with Landy: The Wednesday Check-In 03/25/2026 Brought to you by @davidgokhshtein @gokhshtein and hosted by @CryptoLandy. https://t.co/yPYi8skzQl
Wall Street Meets Crypto: Giants Gather at NYSE
A pleasure to spend the evening at the @NYSE with some industry giants discussing Wall Street x Crypto https://t.co/DBreVhrFhv
Prediction Markets Ignore Legislation About Themselves
Hmmm.... @Kalshi & @Polymarket have dozens of prediction markets on whether or not Congress will pass certain laws.... Yet none on if Congress will advance laws, like the PREDICT Act or The Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act, that regulate prediction markets🤔...
AI Val Kilmer Demands NFT Cameo or Goes Offline
AI Val Kilmer is demanding a "digital walk-on role" for his favorite Bored Ape NFT in his next project. If the monkey doesn't get a SAG card, the AI is staying in sleep mode. Total diva move. 🐒🎥 #ValKilmerAI #NFT...
Banks Fear Profit Flight, Not Deposit Flight, Over Stablecoins
With stablecoins, the banks aren't worried about deposit flight. They're worried about profit flight. These numbers are embarrassing. https://t.co/JZICGB5MWv
Record $14.6B BTC Options Expiry Sparks Friday Volatility
This Friday, the market is expected to be volatile: BTC options worth a record $14.6 billion are set to expire. This is the largest expiry in the past couple of months. The maximum “pain price” is at $75,000. https://t.co/fDAMfSj474
Cryptex ETF to Directly Hold 30
New filing for the Cryptex Digital Market Cap ETF (which has chosen the ticker $BAGZ) structured using Cayman subsidiary and looking to hold 30-ish cryptos directly (which would blow away the curr baskets on mkt) if I'm reading it correctly...