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Brazil’s data watchdog upholds ban on World crypto payments

Brazil’s data watchdog upholds ban on World crypto payments

Brazil’s data protection agency has upheld its decision to restrict cryptocurrency compensation tied to the World ID project, citing user privacy concerns.  The National Data Protection Authority (ANDP) rejected a petition by World ID developer Tools For Humanity to review its ban on offering financial compensation to users who provide biometric data through iris scans, […]

Bitcoin sets sights on 'spoofy' $90K resistance in new BTC price boost

Bitcoin sets sights on 'spoofy' $90K resistance in new BTC price boost

Bitcoin (BTC) passed $88,000 after the March 25 Wall Street open as risk assets stayed highly sensitive to US trade tariffs. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView BTC price gains anticipate classic April comeback Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD tightly clinging to the daily open. US stocks opened modestly higher, building on […]

History suggests that digital gold can rush in an economic revolution

History suggests that digital gold can rush in an economic revolution

Opinion by: Michael Amar, co-founder of Chain of Events and general partner at v3nture Once upon a time, in 1848, a man could walk into the wilderness on the brink of poverty and emerge, caked in mud, dust and days-old sweat, a multimillionaire. The discovery of gold in California in the mid-19th century ignited a […]

Tax season vs tax year: What’s the difference?

Tax season vs tax year: What’s the difference?

What is the tax year? When filing taxes, understanding the tax season and year is crucial for staying compliant and avoiding penalties. A tax year is the 12-month period in which your income, deductions and credits are recorded for tax purposes.  This period is essential because it defines the timeframe for calculating all your earnings […]

BlackRock’s BUIDL expands to Solana as tokenized money market fund nears $2B

BlackRock’s BUIDL expands to Solana as tokenized money market fund nears $2B

BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund has expanded to the Solana blockchain as its market capitalization approaches the $2 billion mark. On March 25, Carlos Domingo, the founder and CEO of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform Securitize, welcomed the Solana network to the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL). This marked the tokenized money market […]

Bitcoin mining supplier Auradine sees opportunity in Trump policies

Bitcoin mining supplier Auradine sees opportunity in Trump policies

US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China and efforts to ramp up on-shore Bitcoin mining will be a boon for US mining rig manufacturers, which currently only hold a small sliver of market share compared to their major Chinese counterparts.  The United States accounts for over 40% of the Bitcoin network’s global hashrate but […]

Abracadabra.Money’s GMX pools hacked, $13M lost

Abracadabra.Money’s GMX pools hacked, $13M lost

About $13 million worth of cryptocurrency has been drained from decentralized lending protocol Abracadabra.Finance following an exploit targeting pools using GMX tokens. In a March 25 X post, crypto cybersecurity firm PeckShield reported that contracts related to GMX and Abracadabra.Money had been compromised, resulting in the loss of about 6,260 Ether (ETH), worth around $13 […]

CME Group to pilot tokenization technology for capital market efficiency

CME Group to pilot tokenization technology for capital market efficiency

US derivatives exchange operator CME Group is piloting solutions for tokenized assets using Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), a new distributed ledger that was designed for traditional financial institutions. According to a March 25 announcement, CME has already begun integrating GCUL to improve capital market efficiency and wholesale payments.  CME Group chairman and CEO Terry […]

Timeline: How Trump tariffs dragged Bitcoin below $80K

Timeline: How Trump tariffs dragged Bitcoin below $80K

Since US President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Bitcoin (BTC) has swung from a record high of $109,000 to below $78,000 as major tariff announcements from the US and retaliatory moves from trade partners shaved off chunks of cryptocurrency market value and rattled global markets. “The back-and-forth on tariffs, with Trump sometimes tough and […]

Tokenized real estate trading platform launches on Polygon

Tokenized real estate trading platform launches on Polygon

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform DigitShares is bringing tokenized real estate trading to Polygon with the launch of RealEstate.Exchange, also known as REX. According to a March 25 announcement, REX is designed to offer retail investors a compliant venue for fractional property investments in a secondary market, potentially addressing the industry’s existing liquidity constraints. As […]

Friday’s US inflation report may catalyze a Bitcoin April rally

Friday’s US inflation report may catalyze a Bitcoin April rally

Traditional and cryptocurrency investors eagerly await Friday’s Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) release in the US, which may provide some relief to inflation-related concerns and increase investor appetite for risk assets including Bitcoin. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will release on March 28 the next PCE report, which measures the inflation of prices US […]

ETH price to $1.2K? Ethereum's PoS 'deflation' ends with fees at all-time lows

ETH price to $1.2K? Ethereum's PoS 'deflation' ends with fees at all-time lows

Ether’s (ETH) price printed a bear flag on the daily chart, a technical chart formation associated with strong downward momentum. Could this bearish setup and decreasing transaction fees signal the start of the second leg of ETH’s drop toward $1,200? Ethereum’s network activity slumps The market drawdown, fueled by US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, […]

eToro trading platform publicly files for US IPO

eToro trading platform publicly files for US IPO

Cryptocurrency-friendly trading platform eToro has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States following several previous attempts. The company said in a March 24 announcement that it had submitted a registration statement on Form F-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission related to the IPO of its Class A common shares. […]

Pump.fun’s new DEX reaches $1B volume a week after launch

Pump.fun’s new DEX reaches $1B volume a week after launch

Memecoin launchpad Pump.fun’s new decentralized exchange (DEX), PumpSwap, has surpassed a cumulative trading volume of over $1 billion just one week after its launch, according to blockchain analytics platform Dune. On March 19, Pump.fun launched its own Solana DEX to create a “frictionless environment” for memecoin trading. Memecoins launched on Pump.fun previously needed to migrate […]

BlackRock launches Bitcoin ETP in Europe

BlackRock launches Bitcoin ETP in Europe

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, launched a Bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) on multiple European stock exchanges. The iShares Bitcoin ETP began trading on March 25 on Xetra, Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Paris, according to BlackRock’s product page. The launch follows the success of its iShares Bitcoin Trust exchange-traded fund (ETF), which dominates the US […]

Security concerns slow crypto payment adoption worldwide — Survey

Security concerns slow crypto payment adoption worldwide — Survey

Security concerns remain the biggest obstacle to the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency payments, as hacks and phishing scams continue to damage the industry’s legitimacy. More than 37% of investors identified security risks as the main barrier to using cryptocurrency for payments, according to a survey of 4,599 users conducted by Bitget Wallet as part of […]

Bitcoin flips 'macro bullish' amid first Hash Ribbon buy signal in 8 months

Bitcoin flips 'macro bullish' amid first Hash Ribbon buy signal in 8 months

Bitcoin (BTC) traders are celebrating as one of the best-known BTC price metrics finally flipped bullish again. The popular Hash Ribbon tool, created by quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments, printed a first buy signal in a “macro bullish” event. Hash Ribbon sparks $100,000 Q2 BTC price target Bitcoin miners look set to […]

Movement Network to buy back tokens with $38M recovered from rogue market maker

Movement Network to buy back tokens with $38M recovered from rogue market maker

The organization behind the Movement Network said it will use $38 million recovered from a market maker to buy back MOVE tokens over the next three months. On March 24, the Movement Network Foundation said it recovered about $38 million in assets from a market maker tasked with providing liquidity on buy and sell orders […]

How to bridge to Solana

How to bridge to Solana

Key takeaways Bridging assets to Solana allows you to diversify digital assets across chains and access Solana’s Web3 benefits, which include DApps, DeFi and NFTs. Decentralized bridging platforms like Portal provide an efficient way to bridge to Solana from multiple blockchains. You can connect your wallets and transfer in minutes. Centralized platforms like OKX and […]

Onchain sleuth ZachXBT accuses Crypto.com of CRO supply manipulation

Onchain sleuth ZachXBT accuses Crypto.com of CRO supply manipulation

Crypto.com is facing criticism from the crypto community after reissuing 70 billion Cronos tokens burned in 2021. Critics said the move undermines the principles of decentralization and transparency in the cryptocurrency space. The controversy erupted on March 25 after onchain investigator ZachXBT posted on X, accusing Crypto.com of reissuing Cronos (CRO) tokens that had been […]