Rising real rates and inflation risks weigh on gold, while bitcoin continues to consolidate.
USR issuer Resolv Labs says its collateral pool remains intact after an exploit on Sunday that minted 80 million unbacked tokens and drove the US dollar stablecoin as low as $0.14.
Pi Network’s token is under serious pressure, falling 5.16% to $0.190 in 24 hours. For a coin that once traded at $2.98 over a year ago, the decline represents a 93% collapse from its all-time high, and analysts warn the bottom may still be months away. Three Forces Pushing Pi Lower The immediate trigger was …
The Los Angeles Superior Court is pilot testing whether Learned Hand’s curated AI can help manage rising workloads.
A last-minute compromise between the White House, U.S. banks, and crypto firms over stablecoin yield rules has dramatically improved the odds of the Clarity Act becoming law this year, a development that analysts say could be the most consequential regulatory moment in digital asset history. Prediction market Polymarket now prices the bill’s passage at 72%, …
Bitcoin’s 20-week rolling correlation with the S&P 500 has turned positive, a signal that has historically preceded major BTC price declines.
The price of Bitcoin has continued to hover around the $70,000 level this weekend, establishing a choppy structure above this psychological level. According to the latest on-chain data, a significant buy alarm has gone off for BTC, indicating the potential start of a bull market. Has BTC Price Reached Its Cycle Bottom? On Saturday, March 21, popular market analyst Ali Martinez took to the social media platform X to sound a bullish alarm for Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The crypto pundit posited that the market leader could be at the beginning of a period of extended upward movement. Related Reading: XRP Price Is Maintaining This Multi-Year Trendline, But A Crash Could Be Looming The rationale behind this bullish projection is the recent shift in the Inter-Exchange Flow Pulse (IFP) metric. The Inter-Exchange Flow Pulse is an on-chain indicator that measures BTC flows between spot and derivative exchanges using the Bitcoin exchange flow data. Changes in this on-chain metric are useful in determining whether investor sentiment in the Bitcoin market is bullish or bearish. Typically, the IFP indicator rises when significant amounts of BTC are being moved to derivative exchanges, suggesting a growing risk appetite and the potential imminence of a bullish period. The movement of the IFP (purple line) in relation to its 90-day moving average (broken lines) helps to identify price tops and bottoms while determining the potential long-term trend of the cryptocurrency. When the Inter-Exchange Flow Pulse crosses below its 90-day average, it signals a potential bear market and prolonged price downturn. As observed in the chart above, the IFP trended beneath the 90-day average early last year, suggesting that the current bear market started as far back as the first quarter of 2025. While the Bitcoin price initially ran up to a new all-time high above $126,000, the flagship cryptocurrency has since shaved off nearly 45% in value since the cycle peak. What’s more interesting, the price of Bitcoin appears to have hit its bottom, with the IFP crossing back above the 90-day average in recent weeks. As Martinez mentioned in his post on X, this crossover is a major buy signal that could suggest “big money is getting ready for a rally.” However, investors might want to approach the market with caution, especially considering that the IFP can sometimes be a leading indicator, meaning that the bullish effect on price might not reflect until later. Bitcoin Price At A Glance As of this writing, BTC is valued at around $70,360, reflecting a 0.3% price increase in the past 24 hours. Related Reading: Ethereum Exchange Inflows Signal Shift: Whales Reduce Selling Pressure Featured image by DALL-E, chart from TradingView
Bitcoin drops after Trump’s Truth Social threat turns ceasefire language into renewed escalation Overnight, Bitcoin dramatically fell 2.8% after President Donald Trump issued a Truth Social post threatening to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz was not reopened within 48 hours. The drop ran from roughly $70,400 to $68,200 before a partial […]
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Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX says the fraud complaint is part of a wider impersonation scam, citing more than 1,200 fake sites using its brand.
One economic word could well define 2026: stagflation. It is an ugly word that describes a regime where prices keep rising while growth loses force, labor weakens, and policymakers run short of easy options. That combination changes the texture of daily life fast. Households feel it in food, fuel, insurance, rent, transport, utilities, subscriptions, and […]
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Welsh warned others to stay away from crypto and said that she still does not understand anything about the sector more than a year later.
Prominent market analyst and XRP enthusiast Egrag Crypto has shared another bullish prediction on the fourth-largest cryptocurrency, tipping a potential price surge to $22. This prediction comes amid a calm movement in the XRP market after prices suffered a rejection at the $1.60 price level earlier in the week. Related Reading: The Bear Market Divergence That Shows What’s Really Going On With Bitcoin XRP Set For Price Expansion Despite Pullback – Here’s Why In an X post on March 31, Egrag Crypto outlines a budding bullish pattern in the XRP market, highlighting key factors such as triggers, rationale, probability moves, and invalidation zones. The seasoned market expert shares an analysis of the XRPUSDT monthly chart, indicating that action over the last six years has now completed the formation of a bullish W pattern. XRP is presently in the second phase of this green structure, marked by a breakout that occurred in 2025, followed by the ongoing pullback that has occupied the market since October. During this time, XRP has declined by over 56%. However, Egrag has stated this represents a classic W pattern marked by breakout, pullback, and an eventual expansion. The 1st trigger for this expansion is that XRP must reclaim and hold above the $1.60-$1.80 region, which ensures the bullish structure remains intact. However, a decisive reclaim of $2.00 would represent confirmation of the expected bullish surge, with an initial target of $3.30, which opens the path to higher price levels upon a successful capture. In terms of final price targets, Egrag states a 25%-35% chance the bullish pattern plays out fully, driving XRP’s price to $22. On the conservative side, there is 50%-60% chance XRP peaks within the $3-$8 range, while chances for a failure or deeper reset stand around 10%-15%. Notably, this positive analysis is based on multiple factors, including the historical projection from typical W patterns following breakout from a recognized neckline, combined with macro cycle behavior. Related Reading: XRP Price Is Maintaining This Multi-Year Trendline, But A Crash Could Be Looming XRP Bullish Structure Hinges On Key $1.40 Support According to Egrag, the presented bullish pathway can be invalidated by multiple developments. One of which is the loss of the key support region between $1.40 -$1.20, causing the pullback to translate into a long-term downtrend. Other nullifying factors include a clear failure to reclaim the $2.00 region or a decline in market bullish momentum, creating a fake breakout. At the time of writing, XRP trades at $1.41, reflecting a 2.33% decline in the last 24 hours. Notably, the altcoin has recorded negligible changes on higher time frames, reporting a 0.61% gain and 0.35% loss on the weekly chart and monthly chart. Featured image from iStock, chart from Tradingview
The co-founders of CoinDCX, one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, were arrested and questioned by police this week in connection with an alleged fraud totalling roughly 71 lakh rupees ($85,000) — a case the company says was carried out entirely by scammers impersonating them, not by the founders themselves. Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal were …
Traders are watching support near $1.40 as repeated failures below $1.60 reinforce broader downtrend.
Trump’s Iran ultimatum triggers $232M liquidation cascade; crypto market sheds $45B in 30 minutes Bitcoin dropped nearly $2,000 in under 30 minutes on Sunday after President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran’s power infrastructure unless Tehran reopened the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, sending shockwaves through global risk assets and triggering one of the …
The average production cost was sitting at $88,000 per bitcoin in mid-March, according to Checkonchain's difficulty regression model.
BTC fell 2.2% as $299 million in liquidations hit crypto markets, with long positions accounting for 85% of the damage.
An attacker has exploited the Resolv USR stablecoin to mint 80 million tokens and has reportedly been able to cash out at least $25 million.
The exploit undermines trust in decentralized finance, highlighting vulnerabilities in smart contracts and the need for robust security measures.
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The Bitcoin market commenced an extended bearish phase in October 2025, after an initial flash crash triggered a 19% decline from the present all-time high at $126,000. In the subsequent months, Bitcoin would experience a steady loss combined with major drawdown moments, eventually pulling its price to a local bottom of $60,000, before entering a mid-term consolidation phase. In the last month, Bitcoin has shown a moderate recovery with a net gain of 4.89%, with prices trading as high as $75,000. While this recent performance may be indicative of a stabilizing market, recent data on the correlation between the premier cryptocurrency and the S&P 500 has presented new bearish concerns. Related Reading: Bitcoin Market Caution Rises After Failed Breakout: Glassnode Data Historical Correlation Coefficient Data Hints At Potential Market Crash In an X post on March 21, market analyst Tony Severino reports that recent developments with the BTC-S&P 500 Correlation Coefficient indicate Bitcoin is in danger of another major downswing. Notably, the Correlation Coefficient is a figure between -1 and +1 that measures how strongly and in what direction two assets, i.e., Bitcoin and the S&P 500 in this case, move relative to each other over time. At +1, the coefficient indicates that the assets move exactly together in the same direction, while at -1, a perfect negative correlation occurs, with the assets moving in opposite directions. At 0, movements are considered unrelated, with no identifiable pattern, as both assets trend independently of each other. Amid the bear market that has persisted since late 2025 and early 2026, the 20-day Bitcoin-S&P Correlation Coefficient dipped to around -0.5 as Bitcoin prices fell while equities rose. However, Severino notes that this coefficient had recently rebounded to around -0.10, creating a market sequence that has previously preceded major Bitcoin downturns. According to the seasoned expert, each time the 20-day BTC S&P 500 correlation dropped to -0.5 before sharply reversing, it has triggered stock market crashes that induced a significant sell-off in the Bitcoin market. However, there is usually an initial price bounce lasting 10-17 weeks before the drawdown commences. Severino’s analysis suggests the limited rebound observed since early February represents this preliminary gain, which is now 8-weeks old. As observed in 2018, 2020, and 2022, the resulting correction from this setup threatens a potential price fall of 70-80% from the peak of this initial price bounce. Related Reading: XRP Price Is Maintaining This Multi-Year Trendline, But A Crash Could Be Looming Bitcoin Market Outlook At the time of writing, Bitcoin trades at $68,584 after a 2.41% decline in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the daily trading volume has declined by 41.21%, representing a fall in the traders’ participation as Bitcoin continues to consolidate following its failed breakout above $75,000 in the last week. Featured image from iStock, chart from Tradingview.com
Musk's Terafab could revolutionize AI compute, enabling unprecedented space infrastructure and advancing human expansion beyond Earth.
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A Nevada state judge has sided with local authorities to ban Kalshi’s sports, election and entertainment event contracts in the state for 14 days.
Bitcoin quietly gained ground while gold crumbled. That contrast has become one of the more telling stories to emerge from weeks of escalating conflict in the Middle East, as the two assets — long compared as competing stores of value — have moved in sharply opposite directions since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran in late February. Related Reading: Bitcoin Gains Ground On Gold Even As Both Assets Slide Bitcoin Climbs As Gold Bleeds Since those first attacks, Bitcoin has risen more than 11% to around $70,650. Gold, meanwhile, has shed over 12% from its peak. Reports indicate the cryptocurrency has held up better than expected under the pressure of a widening war — a performance that has drawn attention in financial markets still trying to make sense of the conflict’s economic fallout. Gold’s losses accelerated this week. The metal dropped 3.4% on Friday alone, closing around $4,480 per ounce. For the full week of March 16-20, the decline reached 10% — the steepest weekly fall since 1983, according to data confirmed by TradingView. It surpassed even the sharp drop seen in late January, when gold shed hundreds of dollars in a matter of days and wiped out more than $2 trillion in market value within weeks of hitting $5,500 per ounce. That January plunge shocked investors. This one may have rattled them more. Fed Signals No Rate Cuts, Adding Pressure On Gold The Federal Reserve is adding to gold’s troubles. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that rising energy prices — driven in part by war-related disruptions in the Middle East — are expected to push inflation higher in the near term. Traders have responded by pulling back expectations for rate cuts in 2025. Rates are now widely expected to hold steady through the year. That shift matters for gold. When interest rates stay high, bonds and other yield-bearing instruments become more attractive by comparison. Gold pays no interest. It earns nothing while it sits. Reports note that this dynamic has weighed on demand from institutional investors who might otherwise hold the metal as a hedge. Related Reading: Crypto Adoption No Longer Optional, Survey Finds As 72% Of Finance Leaders Signal Commitment Trump Signals Possible Wind-Down Of Military Push The Iran conflict has also disrupted oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical shipping corridors. That disruption has stoked fears of a prolonged energy crunch, adding more uncertainty to global markets already on edge. US President Donald Trump said Friday he was considering pulling back from military operations in the region. At the same time, the US has deployed thousands of additional troops to the Middle East, and airstrikes have continued. The mixed signals have left markets guessing about what comes next. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff provided answers to frequently asked questions about the agency’s expectations around a crypto collateral pilot.
According to a recent on-chain data evaluation, the Bitcoin price might not be seeing a start to renewed price expansion in the near-term. Interestingly, this hypothesis seems to align with the multiple recovery attempts by the flagship cryptocurrency over the past few weeks. BTC Net Realized Profit Peak At $17M/hr Before Swift Price Downturn In a March 20 post on the social media platform X, on-chain research firm Glassnode revealed what was behind Bitcoin’s recent reversal from what initially looked like an expansion move. This is based on the Net Realized Profit/Loss (NRPL) (24h Moving Average) metric, which reflects whether the market is predominantly realizing profits or losses, by tracking (and comparing) the amount of either that has been realized by holders over 24 hours. Related Reading: Bitcoin Shark & Whale Wallets Jump Despite Bearish Price Action Glassnode highlighted that readings on the NRPL metric recently reached a high of approximately $17 million/hr before the price of Bitcoin started moving downwards again. This trend was outlined as one of the drivers behind the flagship cryptocurrency’s loss of its $70,000 footing. According to the analytics firm, the heightened profit-taking activity among Bitcoin’s investors has continued to absorb bullish momentum, thereby converting it to bearish pressure. Notably, this pattern has repeated itself at multiple moments in the current cycle, specifically as Bitcoin attempts to rally to the upside. Glassnode further explained that the degree of uncertainty currently in the geopolitical world has caused “demand depth” to compress. As a result, realization events like the last one have become too much for the market to absorb, explaining the recent slip below $70,000. Interestingly, this is not a standalone reason behind BTC’s activity. After Bitcoin fell below the $85,000 support, a surge in on-chain activity was observed due to liquidity repositioning by investors. However, the waning market liquidity in recent weeks suggests that BTC price recovery is buoyed by seller exhaustion rather than by strong and consistent demand. Hence, the life of the recovery is truncated whenever sellers enter the market Short-Term Holders Realize Losses As Price Nears $74K For instance, crypto analyst Darkfost highlighted that Bitcoin’s short-term investors are locking in more losses in recent weeks. This is reflected in readings from the Short-Term Holder P&L to Exchanges Sum metric. In their post on X, Darkfost revealed that more than 28,000 BTC have recently been sent to exchanges, with these investors seemingly cutting their losses. These losses, pointed out the analyst, continued to grow as the Bitcoin price went into a steady decline. For this reason, it is safe to expect more bearish pressure from this investor cohort, as additional panic-driven sales would likely contribute more bearish momentum to the Bitcoin market. Thus, rather than a hopeful story of positive expectations, the Bitcoin price seems to be giving warning signs to investors. As of this writing, Bitcoin holds a valuation of about $70,532, reflecting no significant movement in the past day. Related Reading: Bitcoin Just Got A $1 Million Nudge, But Will Morgan Stanley’s MSBT ETF Really Move The Needle? Featured image from iStock, chart from TradingView
Solana is flashing mixed signals as price tightens beneath key resistance while early signs of momentum weakness begin to emerge. A clean breakout above $95 could ignite a swift move toward the $100–$105 zone, but fading RSI suggests underlying strength may be weakening. Pressure Builds As Solana Holds Firm Below Resistance Solana is tightening just beneath a resistance zone, and the pressure is becoming harder to ignore with each passing move. According to crypto analyst Marcus Corvinus, repeated rejections around the $92–$95 range have not triggered any meaningful breakdown so far. That resilience keeps the bullish structure intact despite multiple tests of resistance. Related Reading: Solana Key Indicator Flashes First Bullish Signal Since January – Market Rebound Incoming? An ascending trendline is steadily guiding the price higher. Buyers are stepping in earlier on each dip, preventing deeper pullbacks and gradually compressing prices into the resistance zone. Such action is rarely random; rather, it signals that strength is building beneath the surface as accumulation continues quietly. A clean break and sustained hold above $95 could act as a trigger for momentum to expand rapidly, potentially sending Solana toward the $100–$105 region in a relatively short time. On the flip side, if the ascending trendline gives way, it would open the door for a sharp drop into the $78–$75 demand zone, where buyers may attempt to regain control. Current conditions indicate a classic squeeze setup, where tightening price action often leads to a strong directional move. Once either side gives in, the resulting breakout or breakdown is unlikely to be gradual. Rare Divergence: Momentum Breaks On USDT While BTC Pair Holds In a recent analysis, Umair Crypto highlighted an emerging weakness in Solana’s structure, noting that the RSI on the USDT pair is already fading while the BTC pair has yet to follow. Once the point of control (POC) at $12,573 breaks, both pairs are likely to decline in sync, setting the stage for a broader move lower. Related Reading: Solana (SOL) Loses Critical Support as Crypto Weakness Deepens, Fresh Lows Ahead? Solana is showing a rare divergence, where the RSI trendline has broken on the USDT pair first, but the BTC pair still reflects strength. Under normal conditions, weakness tends to appear on the BTC pair. However, when the USDT pair leads, it suggests that momentum is deteriorating faster than relative strength can conceal. Price recently surged toward $97 and is now retesting the 50 SMA, but the move lacks strong volume support. A push toward $101 remains possible, and such a move could form a bearish divergence. Rather than strength, that scenario would likely act as a setup, hinting that upside may be limited. Once the BTC pair breaks below the $12,573 POC, both pairs are expected to lose structure simultaneously, creating a powerful double-confirmation signal that could accelerate downside momentum. Initial targets sit around $77, with a deeper move toward $67 also in play. Despite the US Securities and Exchange Commission classifying SOL as a digital commodity on March 18, the fading RSI suggests the market is not reacting with strength. Featured image from iStock, chart from Tradingview.com
The SEC and CFTC just gave crypto its clearest and most straightforward regulatory guidance in years. Most crypto assets will no longer be treated as presumptive securities, and the agencies drew a sharper line between open crypto markets and tokenized versions of traditional financial products. Under normal conditions, that kind of clarity should have been […]
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The South American country will hold its presidential election in October 2026, and incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is running for re-election.
Difficulty is now nearly 10% below where it started the year, despite a sharp 14.7% rebound in February after weather-related disruptions subsided.
Crypto analyst X Finance Bull has laid out a detailed theory explaining why XRP’s large token supply, often criticized as a weakness, could actually serve as a powerful mechanism for institutional adoption. His analysis comes as XRP community members continue to burn tokens to help reduce supply. In contrast, others demand that Ripple burn its escrowed holdings to drive scarcity and trigger a price spike. The XRP Supply Is A “Catalyst”, Not a “Problem” In an X post on March 18, X Finance Bull observed that many people tend to look at XRP’s substantial supply of 100 billion tokens and, as a result, become alarmed, often describing it as a problem. He explained that the main concern about XRP’s supply stems from the belief that Ripple still controls a large portion of the tokens, estimated at between 39 billion and 44 billion XRP. Related Reading: Pundit’s XRP Projection For Next Bull Cycle Shows When Rally To $100 Is Coming However, instead of seeing this as a negative, the analyst suggested that XRP’s large supply could actually be a “catalyst.” He argued that Ripple’s current concentration of XRP places the company above a key threshold discussed in the CLARITY Act, which evaluates whether an affiliated group holds 20% or more of a digital asset. X Finance Bull explained that Ripple’s large reserve creates a strategic opportunity to distribute between 20 million and 25 million XRP to institutional partners. Some of these include banks, liquidity providers, payment companies, central bank infrastructure partners, and tokenization platforms. As these tokens gradually move from escrow into operational use, the analyst expects Ripple’s total XRP holdings to drop below 20% eventually. Consequently, this shift could strengthen decentralization, increase regulatory comfort, and open the door to broader institutional participation. Building on this outlook, X Finance Bull outlined what XRP’s supply structure could look like after Ripple completes its distribution. He projected that the crypto company would hold around 18 billion XRP after the transfer. At the same time, banks would own 12 billion, liquidity providers roughly 10 billion, exchanges around 8 billion, payment firms about 6 billion, and public holders retaining approximately 46 billion. The analyst further argued that when institutions receive these tokens, they would not sell them but would instead use them to power real global settlement activities. In a real-world scenario, he said liquidity providers would maintain large pools of XRP, while payment companies would operate live corridors, all of which would sustain operational demand for XRP. At the same time, he expects XRP to function as a bridge asset for cross-border liquidity, tightening its circulating supply and supporting its price growth as demand expands. The Broader Case For XRP’s Projected Institutional Future Beyond supply dynamics, X Finance Bull noted that several real-world developments already support the framework he described. He pointed to XRP’s commodity classification, which he noted is already active, along with approximately $1.4 billion in ETF inflows and around $2.3 billion in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Related Reading: XRP Negative Funding Continues, Crashes To Levels Not Seen Since 2022 The analyst also mentioned the pending national bank charter for Ripple and the company’s continued global expansion and corporate acquisitions as signs that the institutional layer is actively forming around XRP. Furthermore, as the CLARITY Act approaches, the new framework could play a significant role in shaping how institutions view XRP and other digital assets. Featured image from Freepik, chart from Tradingview.com