Umbra has opened its private wallet to the public, enabling shielded transfers, encrypted swaps, and compliance tools for Solana users.
The model could significantly heighten cybersecurity risks by rapidly finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, potentially accelerating a cyber arms race.
Today, the crypto market suddenly dropped by 3.4% within just a few hours, wiping billions from the total market value. At the same time, Bitcoin price fell to a two-week low and is now trading around $66,510. Other major cryptocurrencies like ETH, XRP, Solana, and AVAX also followed the drop, each falling around 5%. As …
Bitcoin is trading at $66,553, down 3.94% on the day, with the Coinpedia technical analysis gauge reading Strong Sell and the fear and greed index sitting at 23. For anyone confused about what is driving today’s move specifically, two significant events converged at once. The Largest Options Expiry of 2026 At 08:00 UTC this morning, …
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis puts the number at close to $20 billion — the estimated volume of dirty money that flowed through Xinbi, a Chinese-language crypto marketplace, between 2021 and 2025. Now the UK government wants to shut it down. Related Reading: Ethereum Supply Tightens As Staking And Outflows Hit Record Highs Scam Hubs At The Center Of It All Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced Thursday that it has imposed sweeping sanctions on Xinbi, a platform accused of providing crypto-based services, scam tools, and other criminal resources to bad actors across Southeast Asia. The move freezes any UK-linked assets tied to the platform and bans British banks, crypto firms, and citizens from doing any business with it — financial or otherwise. Xinbi is not just a payment processor for criminals. Reports indicate the platform sits at the center of a web of interconnected illicit operations, many of them tied to scam compounds scattered across Southeast Asia — operations that have drawn global attention for their use of trafficked workers to run large-scale fraud schemes targeting victims worldwide. Those who exploit vulnerable people, abuse human rights and defraud innocent victims will face serious consequences. Today we have: ❌ Targeted largest known scam compound in Cambodia. ❌ Sanctioned an illicit crypto marketplace. ❌ Frozen more London properties. pic.twitter.com/0PFp0h8Uyt — Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (@FCDOGovUK) March 26, 2026 Two individuals were also sanctioned in the action. Thet Li is accused of running the international financial network of the Prince Group, a Cambodia-based company tied to large-scale crypto fraud. Hu Xiaowei is alleged to have worked within that same financial network and to have links to #8 Park, a scam compound connected to the Prince Group. Cutting Off The Money Pipeline Chainalysis, which provided blockchain data supporting the sanctions, described the move as targeting the scam ecosystem’s on- and off-ramps — the critical pathways that allow criminal operators to move money in and out of the legitimate financial system. According to the firm, Xinbi acted as a commercial hub, offering payment processing and marketing services to fraud operators who needed reliable infrastructure to run their schemes. The FCDO said the sanctions are designed to isolate Xinbi from the broader crypto system, disrupting its ability to send and receive transactions. In practice, that means cutting the platform off from the exchanges, wallets, and financial services it depends on to function. Related Reading: Bitrue Says XRP Should Already Be At $10, Traders Are Betting It Gets There A Line Between Legal And Illegal Crypto What stood out in the UK government’s statement was its language. Officials drew a clear line between legitimate crypto activity and criminal misuse of the technology — a distinction regulators have not always been quick to make publicly. That framing matters to the industry. For years, critics have pointed to crypto’s role in fraud and money laundering as evidence the entire sector needs to be reined in. The Financial Action Task Force estimates that between two and 5% of global GDP passes through traditional financial networks as laundered funds each year. Data from Chainalysis puts illicit crypto transactions at below 1% of total activity on-chain — a figure the industry frequently cites in its defense. Featured image from Pixabay, chart from TradingView
If betting markets are to be believed, the chances of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried getting a presidential pardon this year aren’t looking good.
The ONDO price is on a level that’s eerily familiar and if you’ve been around since early 2024, you know exactly why that matters. The $0.20–$0.30 range isn’t just another support zone. It’s the same demand pocket that previously fueled a run past $2.00. Now? It’s lighting up again, and quietly, accumulation is picking up. …
Bitcoin Cash (BCH), up 0.8% from Thursday, was the only gainer.
Friday, 27 March, The Cryptocurrency market turned red amid the ongoing geopolitical uncertainties over risky assets. Bitcoin lost its $70,000 strong region and slipped below to the $67,000. Ethereum, Solana, and major cryptocurrencies face decline. In this bearish crypto trend, a few altcoins, Stargate(STG), Ondo Finance, Canton, LayerZero, and Chillz network moved bullish. Their price …
BlackRock's crypto move amid market volatility highlights institutional interest and potential stabilization effects on digital asset markets.
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XRP price analysis shows the market entering a critical phase as conflicting signals begin to emerge beneath the surface. With XRP price trading around $1.33, derivatives data reflects a sharp increase in open interest, pointing to growing trader participation. At the same time, liquidation heatmaps reveal clearly defined liquidity zones, suggesting that price is now …
Prediction markets have surged past $20 billion in monthly volume, driven by geopolitics, U.S. politics, and macroeconomic event trading.
Bitcoin fell to its lowest level in over two weeks as traders adopted a more cautious stance after the year’s biggest options expiration, Bloomberg reported. At the moment of writing, BTC trades for the highs $66k. Related Reading: GameStop Didn’t Sell Bitcoin — What It Did Instead Will Anger BTC Maxis Bitcoin Options Market Turns Defensive The drop followed the largest Bitcoin options expiry of 2026 so far, with roughly $14 billion in notional contracts rolling off on Friday. Around 30–40% of open interest in front‑month Bitcoin options was wiped out in a single session, leaving a “cleaner” positioning landscape. Spot volumes picked up versus the previous session (e.g. +10–20%), suggesting the move was driven by more than just options mechanics. Positioning shows traders are bracing for a drawn‑out conflict, Griffin Ardern, co‑founder of multi‑asset manager Primal Fund, said. The risk of stagflation, and even “forced rate hikes” has sharply deepened bearish sentiment. Post‑expiry, more people were buying protection than betting on upside. Options flows skewed toward puts, with put volumes outpacing calls: over the past 24 hours, the put/call ratio has climbed to 1.3, signaling that traders are loading up on downside protection as they head into the weekend. Derivatives Positions Hold The Key According to Fortune, market participants view derivatives positioning going a long way toward explaining the recent still. James Harris, CEO of asset manager Tesseract, believes institutional players spent much of the first quarter selling upside calls, essentially betting that prices wouldn’t rip higher, to harvest premium in a quiet market. That flow pushed risk onto market makers, who in turn have been buying dips and fading rallies to keep their books roughly hedged. Traders say this setup has effectively smoothed out volatility, with Bitcoin’s price repeatedly drifting back toward the so‑called “max pain” zone around $75,000, where the most options expire worthless. In practice, those hedging flows have worked like a magnet, pulling BTC higher on dips but also putting a lid on how far rallies can run. Related Reading: Bitcoin Rangebound At $70K While Macro Cracks Deepen – Why Analyst Says It’s Too Early To Call A Bottom What Traders Should Look For Next The shift in positioning comes after a powerful Q1 run, with Bitcoin still up double‑digit % year‑to‑date even after the latest pullback. If defensive positioning in options persists (elevated put/call, negative skew, higher near‑term IV), it may signal traders are bracing for another leg lower rather than a quick “buy‑the‑dip” rebound. For active traders, the setup favors disciplined risk management: tighter stops on leveraged longs, selective hedging via short‑dated puts, and watching whether defensiveness eases or intensifies into the next major macro/data catalyst. At the moment of writing, BTC’s price has crashed under $67k. Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview Cover image from Perplexity, BTCUSD chart from Tradingview
Bitcoin grabbed downside liquidity as oil-supply pressure sent BTC price action below $66,500 to its lowest levels since March 9.
Bitcoin fell back toward $65,000 on Friday as investors cut exposure to risk assets after another round of Middle East tensions kept oil prices elevated, pushed Treasury yields to their highest levels in months, and lifted the dollar. According to CryptoSlate's data, BTC dumped nearly 5% to around $66,484, its lowest price since the beginning […]
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Bitcoin long-term holders continued to expand their holdings, while increased withdrawal from exchanges flashed a classic supply shock warning.
XRP holders have spent years waiting for the kind of breakout that turns patience into confidence. But a recent message from XRP analyst Bird cuts through the usual price talk with a more uncomfortable point: tokens do not go on a price rally by themselves. Holders who do not understand this may be waiting for a rally driver that they themselves are failing to build. The Lesson Every XRP Holder Must Understand Blockchain history does not leave much room for debate on the point of price appreciation. The chains that generated the most price appreciation in the past few years, Solana, BNB, and even Ethereum in its various breakout phases, shared a common precondition. Their ecosystems were alive before their price actions went vertical. Related Reading: The Bitcoin Price Bottom Is Close, But There Is Still A Crash Below $60,000 Left Memecoins built on those blockchain networks spread across social media, NFT collections traded hands constantly, and decentralized applications accumulated real users. The native token, in each case, was not leading the activity. It was responding to it. According to Bird, this is what every XRP holder must understand clearly. XRP has been treated as something to hold and wait on, with the bigger story based on regulation, Ripple partnerships, and acquisitions. Bird is pushing a different idea: that being bullish on XRP should also mean being bullish on the XRP Ledger itself. In other words, memes, NFTs, swaps, builders, dApps, and actual onchain activity are part of how a blockchain ecosystem proves that its native asset has real economic gravity. Bird noted that this has been proven over and over, and we saw it on XRPL in Nov ’24 too. Interestingly, Ripple’s own Q1 2025 XRP Markets Report said XRPL went through a clear cooldown after its strong Q4 2024 run, with transactions down 37.06% quarter over quarter and new wallets down 40.28%. How Does This Affect XRPL’s Infrastructure? The irony of the current moment is that the XRP Ledger is, by many technical measures, more capable than it has ever been. XRPL developers and validators have recently pushed some institutional DeFi building blocks, including permissioned domains, credential-based access, the token Escrow (XLS-85) amendment, and the XLS-65/66 lending protocol, all of which are designed to make the network viable for regulated financial activity. Related Reading: Analyst Who Predicted Bitcoin $125,000 Top Reveals What To Expect Next Holding, for many XRP holders, is seen as the primary act of support, a vote of confidence in the asset expressed through patience and conviction. But holding alone does not lead to activity on the XRP Ledger, and it does not create the kind of explosive price movement these same holders are expecting. Analysts like Bird believe that real engagement matters more, encouraging users to interact with the network by moving XRP onchain, swapping, minting, trading, and exploring all the offerings of the XRPL ecosystem. As he puts it, “you don’t understand XRPL until you use it.” Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
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NYSE parent ICE has invested another $600 million into Polymarket as prediction markets attract growing institutional interest.
The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange is cementing its bet on the future of prediction markets, bringing its total commitment to nearly $2 billion.
ICE's substantial investment in Polymarket signals a growing institutional interest in prediction markets, potentially reshaping financial landscapes.
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The Solana price is plunging and appears to be approaching the crucial $80 support as broader market sentiment turns bearish. The price has dropped by more than 4.88% in the past 24 hours, reaching $83.42 with a slight rise in the trading volume. As the token heads into the Q1 close at a critical point, …
Glassnode data shows distribution across cohorts as BTC falls below $67,000, with whales remaining largely neutral.
Charles Hoskinson has sparked fresh buzz around Midnight after calling it a “next-generation cryptocurrency,” as the project continues to gain traction. The attention comes after Midnight secured a major deal with UK-based digital bank Monument to tokenize £250 million in customer deposits. The move marks a milestone, as it’s the first time a UK-regulated bank …
Bitcoin price has again been knocked lower by an oil shock, higher Treasury yields, erased rate-cut expectations, and a massive Deribit expiry now due to land on top of that already-weakened market. Roughly $14.1 billion in BTC options were set to expire today, Mar. 27, with another $2.2 billion in Ethereum contracts clearing the same […]
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Bitcoin is trading at $66,636 at the time of writing, down 3.82% on the day, with the Coinpedia technical analysis gauge firmly in Strong Sell territory. The move lower hasn’t caught everyone off guard, but the speed of it has. Over $115 million in BTC long positions were liquidated in a single hour as the …
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Anchorage Digital has introduced custody support for the TRON blockchain, giving U.S. institutions a regulated way to hold and manage TRX. The firm also plans to support TRC-20 tokens and native staking later, expanding access to one of the most active networks for stablecoin transfers. Anchorage Digital Adds TRON for Institutional Access According to the …
While most of the crypto world is focused on Bitcoin and Ethereum, one investor is making the case that Zcash could be one of the most undervalued assets in the entire market. Will McEvoy, Chief Investment Officer at Cypherpunk Holdings, sat down with CoinDesk to lay out exactly why he believes ZEC could reach $4,000, …
Bitcoin dropped below $67,000 and ether under $2,000 as ETF outflows resumed and the dollar strengthened amid macro and geopolitical tension.