On Mar. 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a staff advisory telling exchanges to tighten surveillance on event contracts. Simultaneously, the regulator opened a 45-day rulemaking process that asks pointed questions about inside information, manipulation, and whether some markets serve the public interest at all. Two weeks earlier, the agency had spotlighted two […]
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February’s CPI report gave markets a reason to relax. Inflation looked soft enough to keep hopes for rate cuts alive, with consumer prices up 0.3% on the month and 2.4% from a year earlier, while core CPI rose 0.2% in the month and 2.5% annually. Shelter kept cooling, and the overall picture looked manageable for […]
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A quiet shift is underway in the stablecoin hierarchy. While Tether’s USDT still dominates the digital dollar market, the gap between the two largest issuers is narrowing as USDC steadily expands its footprint and Tether’s growth shows signs of softening. Additionally, USDC is gaining ground in the places where the next wave of crypto money […]
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Washington is getting ready to potentially make life easier for the biggest US banks. That can sound pretty abstract if you don't strip it down to the mechanics. Regulators decide how much capital banks must keep to absorb losses and how much liquidity they need if funding starts to disappear. More capital and more liquidity […]
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On Mar. 13, the US economy delivered a data dump that landed somewhere between uncomfortable and alarming. The GDP for the 2025 fourth quarter was revised down to 0.7% from an initial estimate of 1.4%, following 4.4% growth in the third quarter. January core PCE rose 3.1% year over year, with a 0.4% monthly increase. […]
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Binance suing the Wall Street Journal is not a new kind of signal, as the exchange has fought what it considered hostile coverage before. However, this time the market may read the move differently. In earlier cycles, a Binance-versus-media clash fit neatly into a larger story of regulatory danger. Now, after a softer US enforcement […]
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A crypto trader lost over $50 million in Aave-wrapped USDT on March 12 after sending a single large order through the DeFi lending protocol's swap interface and clearing a slippage warning on a mobile device. Data from Etherscan shows the wallet swapped $50.43 million aEthUSDT for 327.24 aEthAAVE through CoW Protocol in Ethereum block 24,643,151. […]
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The next big Bitcoin policy fight may have nothing to do with ETFs or government legislation, but with a dry Federal Reserve capital proposal that most investors will never read. The landscape is simple: will big banks continue to treat Bitcoin as a balance sheet hazard, or will US capital rules begin to leave room […]
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BlackRock's new staked Ethereum ETF (ETHB) is easy to misunderstand. This is not the first time ETH staking has finally reached exchange-traded products, as Grayscale has already crossed that bridge. What's interesting about the launch is that BlackRock is now standardizing the way Ethereum is explained to mainstream investors. With ETHB, Ethereum is being repackaged […]
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Bitcoin has outperformed gold, silver, and major US equity indexes since the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, recovering to over $72,000 even as oil surged above $100 a barrel and traders cut expectations for near-term Federal Reserve easing. According to CryptoSlate data, Bitcoin is up 7.3% since the conflict began and even rallied to a […]
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Mastercard’s crypto partner push is really a plan to keep stablecoins inside its network Mastercard is trying to make sure the stablecoin era still needs its card services. On Wednesday, the company launched a program with more than 85 crypto-native firms, payments providers, banks, compliance vendors, custody companies, exchanges, and infrastructure groups. On its face, […]
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Bitcoin held near $70,000 despite oil price briefly trading around $100 a barrel, a move that would once have pushed crypto sharply lower under the usual macro playbook. According to CryptoSlate's data, the flagship digital asset climbed a modest 0.3% over the last 24 hours, reaching as high as $71,337 before retracing to $69,803 as […]
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Wallets linked to the team behind President Donald Trump’s Solana-based TRUMP memecoin sent a large batch of tokens to Binance on March 12, adding a fresh supply overhang to a project that has crashed to an all-time low. On March 12, blockchain data from Arkham Intelligence showed that a BitGo custodial wallet associated with the […]
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AI pressure points in tech labor are real, and Bitcoin will feel them through macro, not mystique After years of claims that AI will cause chaos in the labor market, sentiment seems to be at an all-time low around AI layoffs, with social media accounts surfacing to track how fast white-collar tech work is already […]
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The United States spent in the first six days of its war with Iran an amount equal to nearly half the current market value of the Bitcoin held by the federal government. The administration told lawmakers this week that the war cost at least $11.3 billion through its first six days, Reuters reported on March […]
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The SEC and CFTC have just signed an agreement that turns months of public harmonization talk into a formal operating framework for crypto, derivatives, and hybrid market products. The agreement covers product definitions, clearing and margin rules, dually registered venues and intermediaries, crypto assets, reporting, examinations, surveillance, and enforcement. SEC Chair Paul Atkins admitted that […]
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President Donald Trump's announcement of the first major new US oil refinery in nearly 50 years arrives as gasoline prices have become a political problem and energy has turned inflationary again. The Brownsville project is being pitched as an industrial revival and consumer relief. Still, the sharper question is whether a refinery that won't produce […]
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An Oil Scare Near Hormuz Showed How Fast Bitcoin Reverts to a Risk Trade While Bitcoin has rebounded and held above $70,000 over the last 48 hours, the acute phase of the latest oil shock showed the market’s first instinct: sell crypto when inflation fear rises, and the path to easier money gets harder. Still, […]
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The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners. Anthropic's Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools and data. Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol launched in April 2025 with 50 partners and scaled to more than 100 supporting companies […]
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Washington sent two messages about crypto privacy in the same week. Treasury told Congress that lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to protect personal wealth, business payments, charitable donations, and consumer spending habits from public view on transparent blockchains. Days later, SDNY prosecutors filed a letter proposing to retry Tornado Cash co-founder Roman […]
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Nasdaq's latest tokenization push is another attempt to bring stocks onto blockchain rails. Yet the real significance lies more in the structure. Rather than endorsing the offshore model of stock wrappers and synthetic equity exposure, Nasdaq is trying to build a version where the token is the share. As a result, the token shares the […]
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Cardano's recent updates look unremarkable when read one by one: a ratified long-term vision, a stricter constitution, better governance indexing, a formal-verification push, and new treasury guardrails. However, they point to a larger shift when taken together. At the same time, Europe's MiCA regime is pushing crypto toward greater accountability, while Cardano is positioning itself […]
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Treasury’s mixer language points to a new U.S. line on crypto privacy A new Treasury report says lawful users may use mixers for financial privacy on public blockchains. The language leaves Treasury’s money-laundering case intact, while opening room for privacy tools that can operate inside regulated U.S. crypto markets. In a report to Congress this […]
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America may reject the name “CBDC” while still building the conditions for CBDC-like control through private dollar infrastructure. Washington has ruled out a retail Federal Reserve digital dollar in legal form. At the same time, the stablecoin regime now taking shape can normalize freeze, block, reject, and temporary hold functions across private dollar tokens and, […]
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Bitcoin spent the weekend mostly within a familiar price channel, then slipped lower before recovering as traders reacted to the developing impact of the Iran war. However, while real-world macro events now dictate Bitcoin's movements more than fundamentals or adoption levels, where on the chart it stops to test the waters has not changed. Bitcoin […]
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XRP remains under significant pressure as the latest oil shock and broader market unease push investors toward a more defensive stance. The Ripple-linked digital asset has fallen 26% this year to about $1.34 and is down 54% over the past six months, according to CryptoSlate data. In the latest 24-hour session, XRP slid from about […]
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Bitcoin slid below $70,000 this weekend after a weak US jobs report, and another jump in oil prices revived stagflation concerns and pushed investors out of risk assets. The largest cryptocurrency fell as low as $65,660, according to CryptoSlate’s data, less than a week after reaching a monthly high near $74,000. The move put Bitcoin […]
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Riot case study shows US Bitcoin miners can clear power costs long before they clear full profit Bitcoin mining costs are often reduced to a single number: the “cost to mine one BTC.” In reality, that figure depends on what layer of the business you measure. Electricity determines whether machines should run today, operating expenses […]
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On Mar. 5, Justin Sun reached a $10 million settlement with the SEC to resolve a civil fraud case that alleged he generated $31 million through wash-trading-style transactions and undisclosed celebrity promotions. The settlement, which requires court approval and includes no admission of wrongdoing, moves the case toward dismissal. The same day, US banking regulators […]
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US markets move in seconds when the jobs report hits. February payrolls fell by 92,000 jobs, the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, and prior months were revised down by 69,000. Together, that's 161,000 fewer jobs than the numbers showed at the start of the year. But the number traders react to first often isn't the […]
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