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Hacker steals $8.4M from RWA restaking protocol Zoth

Hacker steals $8.4M from RWA restaking protocol Zoth

Real-world asset (RWA) re-staking protocol Zoth suffered an exploit leading to over $8.4 million in losses, leading the platform to put its site on maintenance mode.  On March 21, blockchain security firm Cyvers flagged a suspicious Zoth transaction. The security firm said that the protocol’s deployer wallet was compromised and that the attacker withdrew over […]

Bitcoin speculative appetite declines as investors seek safety

Bitcoin speculative appetite declines as investors seek safety

Speculative appetite is vanishing from the crypto markets, as investors are looking for safer digital asset investments following the recent wave of memecoin scams and macroeconomic uncertainty. Bitcoin’s hot supply metric, which measures the Bitcoin (BTC) aged one week or less, is down over 50%, from 5.9% at the end of November to just 2.3% […]

Bitcoin NFTs, layer-2 and restaking hype ‘completely gone’

Bitcoin NFTs, layer-2 and restaking hype ‘completely gone’

A Bitcoin layer-2 executive explained how Bitcoin narratives that were “overhyped” have now wholly vanished while the ecosystem develops.  In a Cointelegraph interview, Bitlayer co-founder Charlie Hu laid out three Bitcoin narratives that he believed were overhyped. This included narratives that surrounded Ordinals, layer-2s and re-staking.  According to Hu, one of the overhyped narratives in […]

XRP price chart hints at 75% gains next as SEC ends lawsuit against Ripple

XRP price chart hints at 75% gains next as SEC ends lawsuit against Ripple

XRP (XRP) price has recovered by almost 30% in the last two weeks, led by a crypto market rebound, and Ripple’s long-running legal battle against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comes to an end. XRP/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingView The cryptocurrency’s rebound is also occurring inside the confines of a classic bullish […]

South Korea eyes KuCoin, BitMEX in crypto exchange crackdown

South Korea eyes KuCoin, BitMEX in crypto exchange crackdown

South Korean authorities are reportedly looking into blocking crypto exchange platforms that may have operated without adhering to the requirements set by the country’s financial regulator.  On March 21, local media Hankyung reported that the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Financial Services Commission is considering sanctions against crypto exchanges for allegedly operating in the […]

Trump’s crypto czar meets UAE’s national security adviser on crypto, AI

Trump’s crypto czar meets UAE’s national security adviser on crypto, AI

White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks was among a number of Trump administration officials who recently met with United Arab Emirates officials to discuss emerging technologies and UAE’s potential plans to increase its investment in the United States.  Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Gulf nation’s national security adviser and brother of […]

Australia outlines crypto regulation plan, promises action on debanking

Australia outlines crypto regulation plan, promises action on debanking

Australia’s government, under its ruling center-left Labor Party, has proposed a new crypto framework regulating exchanges under existing financial services laws and has promised to tackle debanking. It comes ahead of a federal election slated to be held on or before May 17, which current polling shows is shaping up to a dead heat between […]

Here’s why Bitcoin price can’t go higher than $87.5K

Here’s why Bitcoin price can’t go higher than $87.5K

Bitcoin (BTC) is being capped at $87,500 thanks to manipulation by one or more whales, new analysis says. The latest market coverage by trading resource Material Indicators on March 20 reveals why BTC/USD is stuck in its current range. “Spoofy the whale” gets blame for BTC price range Bitcoin has managed to sustain $80,000 as […]

44% are bullish over crypto AI token prices: CoinGecko survey

44% are bullish over crypto AI token prices: CoinGecko survey

Nearly half of crypto pundits in a recent survey are bullish over crypto AI tokens prices — which could bode well for the $23.6 billion crypto market sector.  Of the 2,632 respondents surveyed by CoinGecko between February and March, 25% were “fully bullish,” and 19.3% indicated they were “somewhat bullish” for crypto AI tokens in […]

ETH mega pump coming? Ether on exchanges falls to near-decade low

ETH mega pump coming? Ether on exchanges falls to near-decade low

Ether’s supply on crypto exchanges has dropped to its lowest level since November 2015, leading some analysts to predict a major price rally despite recent bearish sentiment. “Ethereum’s holders have now brought the available supply on exchanges down to 8.97M, the lowest amount in nearly 10 years (November, 2015),” crypto analytics platform Santiment said in […]

Bad news Bitcoin bulls, the long-hoped-for retail is already here: CryptoQuant

Bad news Bitcoin bulls, the long-hoped-for retail is already here: CryptoQuant

Bitcoin bulls who still think the cycle peak has yet to come as retail investors haven’t piled in yet might be using an outdated playbook, according to a crypto executive. “The idea that the cycle isn’t over just because onchain retail activity is absent needs reconsideration,” CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju said in […]

SMS scammers posing as Binance have an even trickier way to fool victims

SMS scammers posing as Binance have an even trickier way to fool victims

Australian federal police have alerted over 130 people of a new text message scam aimed at crypto users that copies the same “sender ID” as legitimate crypto exchanges such as Binance.  The impersonation scam involves the fraudsters sending out messages through text and encrypted messaging platforms by impersonating a Binance representative, telling users of a […]

Inside ‘eccentric’ Ripple founder’s multibillion-dollar space station plan

Inside ‘eccentric’ Ripple founder’s multibillion-dollar space station plan

The serial entrepreneur who founded the Mt. Gox crypto exchange and co-founded Ripple has shared new details about his ambitious space station company Vast, which he hopes will help expand the human race into a multi-planetary species. In a March 20 interview with Bloomberg, Jed McCaleb confirmed that Vast is on track to launch Haven-1 […]

Biopharma exec says Bitcoin could help industry through ‘biotech winter’

Biopharma exec says Bitcoin could help industry through ‘biotech winter’

NASDAQ-listed biopharmaceutical firm Atai Life Sciences says cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin could be key to survival for biotech startups as they wade through years of regulatory approvals.  Atai, which is developing mental health treatments using psychedelics like DMT and MDMA, has become the latest public company to announce plans to buy Bitcoin. It plans to buy […]

Eric Trump joins Metaplanet strategic board of advisors

Eric Trump joins Metaplanet strategic board of advisors

Bitcoin-stacking firm Metaplanet has appointed US President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, to its newly established Strategic Board of Advisors to further Metaplanet’s mission to become a “global leader in the Bitcoin economy.” ”His business acumen, love of the Bitcoin community and global hospitality perspective will be invaluable in accelerating Metaplanet’s vision of becoming one […]

Bitcoin price thaws after Trump statement — Trader says ‘stay nimble and cashed up’

Bitcoin price thaws after Trump statement — Trader says ‘stay nimble and cashed up’

Bitcoin (BTC) price rallied to an intraday high of $87,453 in the early hours of the NY trading session but quickly retraced its gains to $83,655 shortly after US President Donald Trump made a video appearance at the Digital Asset Summit in New York. Prior to the video statement, rumors circulated on X, suggesting that […]

Crypto campaign donations are democracy at work — former Kraken exec

Crypto campaign donations are democracy at work — former Kraken exec

Former chief legal officer of the Kraken exchange, Marco Santori, praised the political campaign donations made by crypto industry firms during the 2024 election as “democracy at work.” In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright, the former Kraken executive argued that crypto voters tilted the election in favor of then-candidate Donald Trump and the […]

Bitcoin volatility hits 3.6% amid heightened market uncertainty

Bitcoin volatility hits 3.6% amid heightened market uncertainty

Bitcoin (BTC) volatility climbed to 3.6% on March 19 — the highest point since August 2024, according to data from CoinGlass. The volatility reflects heightened market uncertainty amid structural unknowns in the US economy, according to Uldis Tearudklans, chief revenue officer at UK-based cryptocurrency exchange Paybis. “The policy landscape is becoming more complex with the […]

DTCC to promote ERC3643 token standard

DTCC to promote ERC3643 token standard

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) — the US’s primary clearinghouse for securities transactions — has committed to promoting Ethereum’s ERC-3643 standard for permissioned securities tokens, according to a March 20 announcement.  DTCC is joining the ERC3643 Association, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the standard’s adoption with the goal of “promoting and advancing the […]

Bitfinex Bitcoin longs hit 6-month high — Will BTC price follow?

Bitfinex Bitcoin longs hit 6-month high — Will BTC price follow?

Bullish Bitcoin (BTC) positions using leverage on the Bitfinex exchange surged to their highest level in nearly six months, reaching 80,333 BTC on March 20—equivalent to $6.92 billion. The 27.5% increase in Bitcoin margin longs since Feb. 20 has fueled speculation that the 12.5% BTC price gain from the $76,700 low on March 11 is […]