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Stablecoin issuers should be restricted from providing yield-bearing opportunities to protect the legacy banking system, which issues home mortgages and small business loans, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said at a summit in Washington, DC.Speaking at the 2025 DC Blockchain Summit on March 26, the Democratic senator from New York praised her state for having some of the most robust financial regulations in the world,...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Wyoming's planned stablecoin—first proposed in 2022—will work across Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and multiple ETH scaling networks.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Bernstein believes Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, could amass more than 1 million Bitcoin (BTC) by 2033 in a bullish market cycle, Benzinga reported on March 26, citing a research note. The projection issued by Bernstein analysts, outlines two vastly different paths for the company depending on macroeconomic conditions and Bitcoin’s long-term price trajectory. Bull […] The post Strategy could own over 1...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Ronin Network game Forgotten Runiverse is now available to the public in early access, with rewards for playtest veterans.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:A coalition of 34 crypto industry organizations has sent a joint letter to congressional leaders urging them to address the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) “unprecedented and overly expansive” interpretation of the federal statute governing unlicensed money transmission. The letter, signed by firms including Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap Labs, Ledger, Consensys, Paradigm, and the DeFi Education Fund, […] The post Crypto...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Update (March 26 at 8:48 PM UTC): This article has been updated to include commentary from Benchmark stock analyst Mark Palmer.Bitcoin (BTC) mining stocks are down after tech giant Microsoft reportedly scrapped plans to invest in new artificial intelligence data centers in the US and Europe, citing a potential oversupply, according to a report by Bloomberg and data from Google Finance.Shares of crypto miners Bitfarms,...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Fidelity is reportedly in advanced testing phases of its own stablecoin as part of its digital asset expansion, the Financial Times reported on March 26. However, a company spokesperson told Reuters that the firm does not have plans to launch the stablecoin in the near term. Earlier this month, a Fidelity unit filed to launch […] The post Fidelity confirms stablecoin testing but no plans to launch yet appeared first on...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:XRP (XRP) price continues to underperform the broader crypto market this week, even though multiple altcoins turned green as Bitcoin (BTC) rallied to $88,800.XRP 1-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewThe altcoin is down 4.7% over the past seven days, putting a pause to the 11% rally seen on March 19, when the Ripple’s SEC “lawsuit ending” news made headlines. XRP trading volumes have also dropped from around $4...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Several sectors of decentralized finance are poised for growth in 2025, including special-purpose decentralized exchanges (DEXs), stablecoins, and tokenized assets, according to Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov.Growth in decentralized exchanges will be driven by new purpose-tailored platforms, such as exchanges for stablecoins pegged to different underlying fiat currencies, thus solving the foreign exchange problem...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:The launch of the Solana futures ETF on CME was highly anticipated but failed to sustain investor enthusiasm. Data from CME showed that volume started relatively strong on launch day, with 225 contracts traded, but declined quickly over the following days to just 73 contracts, with a slight recovery by March 25. Open interest started […] The post CME’s Solana futures ETF struggles with low interest and declining volume...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:The gaming retailer will spend some of its $4.8 billion cash holdings to buy bitcoin and stablecoins, sparking discussions around how much it will actually buy.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Global banks held $367 billion in crypto assets under custody in Q2 last year, data from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision showed.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:More than 30 crypto firms and foundations have asked Congress to have the US Department of Justice to clarify a key enforcement matter.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Dogecoin (DOGE) price has rallied 18% over the past three days, and it is currently the best-performing crypto among the top 30 by market capitalization over the past week. Data also shows DOGE producing its highest weekly returns of 2025, a feat not seen since the final week of 2024. Dogecoin weekly chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView7% of DOGE supply is clustered around $0.20According to the onchain data from...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Optimism around a potential spot XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) is rising as Ripple edges closer to the end of its long-standing legal clash with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On March 26, Nate Geraci, President of the ETF Store, sparked fresh discussion around the possibility of an XRP ETF. He suggested that regulatory […] The post Ripple-SEC dispute resolution sparks hope for a BlackRock XRP ETF...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:The asset management giant's initiative comes as it also explores the tokenized U.S. Treasury market.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance executive who was held in Nigeria for eight months in 2024 on tax and money laundering charges, provided additional details about his experience and what led to his release.Speaking at the DC Blockchain Summit on March 26, Gambaryan, the head of financial crime compliance at Binance said the Nigerian government had held him hostage, suggesting the criminal charges were a pretext to “get...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Memes lead bounce, Saylor to burn BTC keys, BlackRock expands to SOL - FOMO HOUR EP321 BTC rallies to $88k+, altcoins outperform. Fear & Greed Index close to ‘Neutral’. Strategy sells $711m pref. shares to buy BTC. Saylor to burn keys to 17k BTC on his death. North Carolina could invest 5% funds in BTC. GameStop establishes BTC reserve. KULR buys $5m BTC. Coinbase premium highest level in 1 month. XRP to drop...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:At least one analyst questioned why GameStop's plan to buy bitcoin was necessarily a good thing.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:The president's son, Donald Trump Jr., connected to a Washington crypto event via video to talk up crypto and to back the family's link to World Liberty.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:How does the IRS define a crypto broker? The definition of the term “broker” includes individuals or entities that regularly provide services to carry out digital asset transfers. This definition ensures that only those truly “in a position to know” transaction details are subject to Form 1099-DA reporting requirements.These US Internal Revenue Service rules are built on prior rulemaking (T.D. 10000) from July 2024 and...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Money managers in crypto are able to use trading strategies that stopped working in TradFi more than a decade ago.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:HyperLiquid ended the dispute by delisting JELLY and forcibly closing all positions.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Raydium's team lead believes the majority of asset issuance will occur on Solana. "We want Raydium to play a central role in that," he said.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Binance Futures has listed USD-margined perpetual contracts for Jelly (JELLYJELLY) amid ongoing concerns surrounding alleged market manipulation linked to HyperLiquid. Binance’s listing of jelly perpetuals occurs in a tense market environment. Concerns intensified after reports emerged implicating wallets associated with “Hyperliquid attacks” related to suspicious, highly leveraged trades funded via Binance on the...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:DeFi’s ethos — permissionless access, composable assets and real-time settlements — are a perfect solution to private credit’s most significant pain points.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Celo, the blockchain network launched in 2020, has officially transitioned from a layer-1 chain to an Ethereum layer-2 protocol.Celo announced the successful transition in a March 26 X post, stating that “Celo is officially an Ethereum layer 2” protocol. In the thread, the organization claimed the new protocol features one-second blocks, sub-cent transaction costs, and Tether’s USDt (USDT) and USDC (USDC) as gas.Celo...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:The upgrade is the last of three tests, and developers previously agreed they would schedule Pectra 30 days from Wednesday if the test ran smoothly.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:A better user experience can be created by having fintech at the front and DeFi at the back, also known as a “DeFi mullet.”
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Bitso Business, an arm of the Mexican crypto exchange Bitso, will launch a Mexican peso-pegged stablecoin on the Ethereum layer-2 network Arbitrum.The stablecoin, MXNB, will be issued and managed by Bitso’s newly established subsidiary Juno and will be fully fiat-backed by Mexican pesos on a one-to-one basis, Bitso Business said in a March 26 statement.Bitso Business’ head of stablecoins, Ben Reid, said a primary use...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Opinion by: Paul Delio, chief business officer at CARVMarket movements come and go, naturally taking up a lot of crypto oxygen, but something far more remarkable has been happening beneath the surface in recent cycles. The past few years have generally been great for new tokens, and with their launches come significant opportunities for wealth creation, such as airdrops.I recently sat down with Animoca Brands...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Trump family’s crypto project, is planning to release a stablecoin, raising concern over the US president’s exposure to the digital asset industry.The project released a memecoin immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the price of which skyrocketed and crashed soon after, causing many to accuse WLFI of a pump-and-dump scheme.WLFI also made multimillion-dollar...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:USDC set a new all-time high market capitalization above $60 billion as adoption grows and its issuer, Circle, is rumored to be eyeing an IPO.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Update March 26, 2:36 pm UTC: This article has been updated to include quotes from Brickken CEO Edwin Mata.BlackRock’s Ethereum-native tokenized money market fund has more than tripled in value over the past three weeks, nearing the $2 billion mark amid rising demand for safe-haven digital assets.BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) saw an over three-fold increase over the past three weeks, from...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Key takeawaysExit liquidity traps occur when new investors unknowingly provide liquidity for insiders to cash out, leaving them with devalued assets.FOMO drives impulsive trades, often leading to costly mistakes and becoming exit liquidity for early movers.Beware of projects with exaggerated claims, low liquidity, anonymous teams or sudden price surges.Investing in high-market-cap coins, avoiding hype-driven projects...
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