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
How a Crypto ‘Insider’ in Thailand Sold Deals that Never Existed
Thai corporate VC arm KXVC’s former associate Kampanat “Jom” Vimolnoht posed as a crypto insider and sold nonexistent token‑sale allocations to investors in Bangkok, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States. Investigations traced roughly $1.71 million in transfers between July and October 2025, with individual losses ranging from $20,000 to over $1 million. KXVC issued a public warning, stating it never raised external funds nor authorized Vimolnoht to act on its behalf, and confirmed his departure in March 2025. The case highlights how reputation‑based networking can be weaponised in opaque private‑crypto markets.
Decentralized Crypto Will Shape Kids' Financial Future
Crypto, not the individual assets but the truly decentralized, own-your-life way of doing things, will be how our children manage money.
Fantium CEO Jonathan Ludwig Says Sports Tokenization Needs Utility, Alignment, and Real Access
Fantium CEO Jonathan Ludwig explained that the company’s sports‑token strategy prioritizes utility, financial alignment, and genuine fan access rather than pure speculation. The platform lets athletes, primarily tennis players, tokenize a share of predictable prize‑money earnings through direct peer‑to‑peer contracts...
Crypto’s Wake-Up Call: How a Stronger Dollar and US$113 Oil Are Crushing Risk Assets
The crypto market slipped 0.67% to a $2.29 trillion valuation as oil surged past $113 per barrel and the U.S. dollar strengthened, triggering a macro‑driven risk‑off wave. Bitcoin fell 2.03%, accounting for more than half of the market‑cap loss, while Bitcoin‑ETF...
Binance Announces Changes to Its Advertising Policy
Binance announced a policy change effective March 9, 2026 at 03:00 UTC. The exchange will cancel referral commissions when referrals are generated via prohibited advertising methods, including search‑engine ads and impersonating third‑party sites. Prohibited tactics cover URLs mimicking Binance’s domain, fake social media...
How to Avoid Sanctions Using Crypto
A new Henry Jackson Society report reveals that cryptocurrency has become a major conduit for sanctions evasion and money laundering, estimating $350 billion laundered between 2005 and 2025. Russia, Iran and North Korea are highlighted as prolific users, with the Russian...
Binance Aims to Enhance Operational Resilience in Crypto Trading with ISO 22301 Certification
Binance has secured ISO 22301 certification for its Business Continuity Management System, confirming robust plans to keep trading, wallet and support services running during disruptions. The standard requires third‑party audited, tested processes, marking a step beyond generic risk policies. This achievement...
Policy Moves Bitcoin. Rails Grow Quietly.
Bitcoin rallied to roughly $74,000 after President Trump endorsed the CLARITY Act, a bill that seeks to define crypto assets under securities or commodities law. The endorsement reduces regulatory uncertainty, encouraging institutional participation. Simultaneously, Visa, together with Stripe‑acquired Bridge, announced...
UTEXO – Native USDT Comes Home to Bitcoin
In this episode, Andy Pickering talks with Victor, co‑founder and CEO of Utexo, about the company’s Bitcoin‑native stablecoin settlement network that brings USDT onto the Lightning Network using RGB. Victor explains how Utexo enables instant, zero‑fee, private USDT payments while...
New Raise Model Guarantees Exit Options in Bear Markets
Understanding @flyingtulip_ new raise model; TLDR; Market Cap: $2k FDV: $175m Volume: $33.5m 2 weeks in (and brutal markets) and yet the token looks boring (by design). Volume is tiny (by design). Comparative projects that raised and TGE'd in the same time-frame are on average significantly...
Bitcoin Is Still a Great Way to Diversify Portfolio Even if It Trades Like a Tech Stock, Analyst Says
Bitcoin’s price has begun moving in tandem with U.S. equities, pushing its 90‑day correlation with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 to roughly 0.5. NYDIG research head Greg Cipolaro notes that this level means only about a quarter of Bitcoin’s price swings...
Record Low NVT Z-Score Signals Imminent Crypto U‑Turn
The markets are seeing the lowest NVT Z-Score ever. The lowest. In 2022, during a period of maximum turmoil with the collapse of centralized parties & FTX, the Z-Score became low. Now, without any massive collapse in the #Crypto ecosystem, we're seeing even...
Bitcoin Funding Rates Just Flashed One of the Bleakest Signals in Months Before One Macro Number Changed Everything
Bitcoin perpetual futures funding plunged to about -6% on Feb. 28, the most negative level in three months, while BTC‑denominated open interest climbed to roughly 120,260 BTC, indicating a crowded, leveraged short bias. The sharp negative funding signaled that traders...
Tokenized Assets Exceed $25 Billion After Nearly Quadrupling in a Year
Tokenized real‑world assets have surpassed $25 billion in on‑chain value, nearly quadrupling from $6.4 billion a year earlier. Growth is led by U.S. Treasuries, private credit and commodities, with major managers such as BlackRock, Fidelity and WisdomTree launching tokenized funds. The number...
Canton’s Yuval Rooz Says Smart Contract Blockchains Face a Reckoning over Value Gap
Yuval Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset and co‑founder of the Canton Network, warned that most smart‑contract blockchains are over‑valued because they generate little real‑world financial throughput. He argues that token designs copied from Bitcoin reward validators without tying value to...
Rising Global Liquidity Fuels Bitcoin Amid Crypto Pessimism
I can see how despondent everyone is about crypto and the pure chartists are telling you it's all over, but I don't agree... Global Liquidity is the most dominant macro factor in history with a 90% correlation to BTC and 97%...
Ethereum's Stablecoin Supply Soars as ETH Halves
The stablecoin supply on $ETH is hitting new ATHs. Price is still not making a new all-time high. As a matter of fact, it's down more than 50% since the previous all-time high. Stablecoin supply since then: +200%. Irrational valuations. https://t.co/bRfWk50CQW
Crypto Coin Minute for March 8th, 2026 at 05:15 AM Pacific Time.
Bitcoin slipped to $67,213, down 1.13% while Ethereum, Binance Coin, XRP and Solana each fell between 1% and 2.5% on March 8. South Korea announced a ban on corporate use of the major stablecoins USDT and USDC, signaling tighter regulatory...
Bitcoin's $60K Zone Repeats as Price Magnet
💥FACT: Bitcoin was the same price five years ago as it is now The $60,000 region has been like a magnet for Bitcoin since 2021 It has acted as resistance in 2021, and now works as demand for the price......
PSKY Stands Out as the only Sensible Deal
Everything is terrible… except PSKY. Ha. I disagree and am much more concerned about PSKY, but I am open to the argument. Picking sides and then pretending to be objective is… well… don’t matter now. But…
FROM NFTS TO REAL TRIPS: HOW DIGITAL PROOF IS TRANSFORMING TRAVEL EXPERIENCES
In early 2026 travel brands began replacing traditional key cards with non‑fungible tokens that act as smart access passes, linking a guest’s digital wallet directly to physical entry points. The NFT‑backed system automates room entry, VIP lounge access, and on‑site...
ETH‑Silver Ratio Hits Bottom‑Predicting Level Again
Everytime $ETH has hit this level vs. Silver, we've seen a bottom since then on the #Crypto markets. It's quite clear that we're again in that situation. History has proven this. Current markets will prove this as well. https://t.co/YPBmLQEBjN
Geopolitics, Oil, and AI Boost Bitcoin Outlook
Oil is now over $100 per barrel VCs warn AI is taking all crypto liquidity Bitcoin still seems to be operating on a 4-year cycle. Market-wise, geopolitical issues, oil prices, and AI taking the spotlight are GOOD for Bitcoin and crypto....
Liquid Crypto Funds Have a DeFi Problem Nobody Talks About
Liquid crypto funds are expanding rapidly, with DeFi strategies gaining legitimacy and institutional interest. Yet most managers still rely on spreadsheets, custom scripts, and manual reconciliation to track assets across multiple exchanges, chains, and protocols. This fragmented approach makes calculating...
Top Crypto Projects Driving Development This Month
According to Santiment: Crypto projects with the highest developer activity over the past 30 days. https://t.co/2LpWKpptWM
Bitcoin Poised for $1,400 CME Gap at Open
🚨 BITCOIN CME GAP Current price: $67,000 CME open: $68,400 As it stands, Bitcoin will open a sizeable gap tonight https://t.co/rOL85QHEJw
US Treasury Report Acknowledges Legitimate Uses of Crypto Mixers
The U.S. Treasury’s congressional report acknowledges that crypto mixers can be used for legitimate privacy purposes, such as shielding personal wealth, business payments, and charitable donations. It differentiates between custodial mixers, which retain user data and could aid compliance, and...
XRP Poised as Bridge for BlackRock’s ETF Tokenization
Analyst Breaks Down Theory On BlackRock's XRP Play Context: 1,700 iShares ETFs globally, $3.6T in US alone. If BlackRock tokenizes even 5-20% of ETF assets on-chain, that's hundreds of billions needing settlement rails. XRP positioned as "killer bridge for TradFi and...
Unprecedented MA‑price Gap Signals Strong Upward Momentum
Looking at this from a 'mean reversion' perspective, the gap between the MA's and the current price are insane. This gap hasn't been seen before, and is a significant sigma-outlier that wasn't seen since the existence of #Bitcoin. That, itself, is another...
Best Crypto Presale February 2026: Bitcoin ETFs Record $145 Million in Inflows While Fear Sits at 10 as Pepeto Builds...
US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $145 million of inflows in a single day while the Fear and Greed Index lingered at an extreme 10, echoing patterns that preceded past rally cycles in 2015, 2019 and 2020. The influx signals institutional investors...
DeFi's Future: Autonomous Agents, No DAO Politics
The future of DeFi isn't DAO governance debates It's autonomous agents: • Trading on-chain • Managing treasuries • Executing strategies • Settling instantly Zero humans in the loop Zero meetings Zero politics Just code and capital
Bitcoin Will Thrive in the Upcoming Hard‑money Era
Bitcoin thrived during an era of easy money, but Wartime Bitcoin will thrive in the era of hard money to come
Best Crypto Presale 2026: Ark Invest Rotates $19 Million Out of Coinbase Shares as Institutional Portfolios Reposition and Pepeto Offers...
Ark Invest sold about 119,000 Coinbase shares worth $19 million in early February 2026 and simultaneously increased its position in Bullish, a crypto‑linked equity. The trade was described as a tactical rotation aimed at managing near‑term price risk rather than abandoning its...
Current Bitcoin Bear Market Halfway to Shortest Record
#BTC The shortest Bitcoin Bear Market lasted 365 days Bitcoin is currently just over ~150 days into its current Bear Market $BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin
Stablecoins Enable $68M Transfer in 30
A corporate treasury transfer just happened at blockchain speed. Circle shifted $68 million between its own entities in about 30 minutes using its stablecoin infrastructure, replacing bank wires that usually take days. Programmable money is starting to change how companies move capital....
Best Crypto to Buy Now 2026: Tokenized Real-World Assets Surge 13.8 Percent to $24.9 Billion Despite the Market Drawdown as...
Tokenized real‑world assets (RWA) on public blockchains grew 13.8% in the last thirty days, pushing total on‑chain value to $24.9 billion despite a broad crypto market downturn. Ethereum led the expansion with $1.7 billion of net inflows, followed by Arbitrum and Solana,...
Future Finance Chains Must Embed Privacy, Security, Scale
Privacy, security, scale, global connectivity. The building blocks for these features must be baked into the foundation of any chain that aims to be part of the world's new financial rails.
Chart Pattern Signals Potential New Bitcoin Low
Will Bitcoin Crash Again to New Lows? (the chart pattern is a clue) https://t.co/hdfg3HpG1Q [VIDEO] #bitcoin #btc
Best Crypto Presale March 2026: SoFi Bank Launches a US Dollar Stablecoin With BitGo as LINK Powers a Visa Cross-Border...
SOFI Technologies and BitGo launched SoFiUSD, a U.S. dollar‑pegged stablecoin issued directly by the federally insured SoFi Bank. In parallel, Visa completed a cross‑border settlement pilot with ANZ, ChinaAMC and Fidelity, using Chainlink’s oracle to settle tokenized assets on multiple...
Pixel Pod Lets Users Reshape Tokenized Art
The new PIXEL POD works by @kimasendorf are truly spectacular. The pieces are interactive and following on from PXL DEX, every pixel is a token, allowing you to add or remove pixels in the work itself to change its density...
Bitcoin Undervalued, Gold Overvalued: Bullish Divergence Persists
The valuation of $BTC vs. Gold isn't changed. It's still the lowest RSI in history of that particular metric, which is still: - Gold is overvalued in the short term. - #Bitcoin is undervalued in the short term. Given that there's a lower amount...
Latin America’s Crypto User Growth Outpaced U.S. by 3x in 2025, Report Shows
Latin America’s crypto market surged to $730 billion in transaction volume in 2025, a 60% year‑over‑year rise and roughly 10% of global activity. Monthly active crypto‑app users grew 18% YoY, outpacing the United States by a factor of three. Brazil led...
Predicting Short Rally, but Bulls Ignore and Fall
When you tell people a month in advance that BTC will rally in the 1st week of March, but that it will be short-lived and to fade it. And this is the response on the day of the lower high. And every...
ZK Chains Require ZK-Optimized Languages and VMs
Everyone agrees ZK-STARKs are top-tier for building blockchains. This wasn't always the case and it's good that it became consensus. What’s not consensus yet and I predict will become so: if your chain relies on ZK-tech, your programming language and VM...
Bitcoin Purist Jack Dorsey Says that His Firm Is Reluctantly Giving in to Stablecoin Craze
Block CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company will support stablecoins, marking a pragmatic shift from its long‑standing Bitcoin‑only stance. Dorsey emphasized that the change reflects customer demand rather than a personal belief transformation. Block currently holds about 8,888 BTC...
Buy the Dip: Bitcoin Likely to Test $60‑65K
The markets aren't looking great, yet. #Bitcoin faced the first resistance test and immediately sold off. Now, there's a lot of liquidity beneath us ready to be taken before going back up. In that case, ideal moments to be accumulating positions. Some levels that...
Polymarket Hits Election-High Volume, Outpaces Kalshi
Polymarket has come a long way since the '24 election, where volume was concentrated 90+% in politics It's basically back to the peak '24 election volume, with many more unique traders, and a healthier distribution of market categories Onwards https://t.co/Hm3vt1aaRt
Nearly 50M SKY Tokens Distributed via Staking Rewards
Since starting SKY>SKY staking rewards last November where users stake SKY to get more SKY, almost 50m in SKY tokens have been distributed to Stakers https://t.co/2SGMRm5TY1
Aave Governance Turmoil: Protocol Solid, Token Value Unclear
I've been watching the Aave governance crisis closely. The protocol is fine, maybe better than fine. But does that make the token a buy? That's the harder question. This article breaks it down. https://t.co/2fqkWEczVv
DeFi Needs AI-Friendly Execution Rails, Not Token Governance
DeFi isn't broken It's just built for the wrong species Every protocol assumes humans are making decisions But AI agents don't need governance tokens They need execution rails