A dormant crypto whale just bet $7 million on the Trump memecoin after a new Mar-a-Lago gala was announced, sparking a 60% rally for the struggling token.
The feature allows users to verify and sign every transaction generated by an AI agent using a Ledger hardware device, ensuring private keys never leave the hardware signer.
The document comes at a point of transition for the organization, following shifts in the blockchain's technical roadmap and the resignation of a co-executive director.
Bitcoin's resilience amid economic uncertainty suggests a potential shift in its role as a hedge, but market sentiment remains cautious.
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The billionaire investor said stablecoins could become the whole payment system in 10-15 years, and reiterated that crypto might replace the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency.
Japanese investment bank Mizuho remains neutral on Circle, but lifted it price target to $120 from $100.
One trader who previously lost about $15.7M on MELANIA is sitting on a multi-million-dollar unrealized gain from a recent TRUMP purchase.
Wall Street’s biggest gold fund saw something unusual recently — a single-day outflow of $3 billion from SPDR Gold Shares, a number that dwarfed any comparable daily exit over the prior two years by more than 200%. The $3 billion single-day outflow from SPDR Gold Shares — a US gold-backed ETF trading under the ticker GLD — was flagged by the Kobeissi Letter as exceeding any comparable daily exit over the prior two years by more than 200%. Related Reading: Ghana’s Crypto Push Begins As 11 Companies Enter SEC Sandbox On the same side of the ledger, Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded over $900 million in net inflows over the 30 days ending March 11, swinging from close to $2 billion outflow the month before. BREAKING: The largest US gold-backed ETF, $GLD, posted a record -$3.0 billion outflow on Wednesday. This surpasses any previous large daily outflow seen over the last 2 years by +200%. At the same time, silver ETFs recorded small outflows, while Bitcoin ETFs saw modest inflows.… pic.twitter.com/XF8y99cPSV — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) March 6, 2026 A Ratio To Watch The Bitcoin-to-gold ratio has pulled back to a support zone near 12-13 — a level that blocked further gains in 2017, then flipped to support in 2022 and 2023. Analysts say that history gives the current price level added weight. Michaël van de Poppe, founder of MN Capital, points to a bullish divergence forming between the ratio and the relative strength index on the daily chart. In plain terms, that means selling pressure appears to be fading even as prices have stayed under stress. Whether that signal holds is another matter, but it has drawn attention from traders tracking Bitcoin’s long-term standing against gold. #Bitcoin vs. Gold is currently breaking upwards after a confirmation of the bullish divergence. This should indicate that we’re about to see significantly more strength in Bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/vwIpwJ82qz — Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) March 11, 2026 The shift in ETF holdings reinforces the picture. Bitcoin ETF balances improved by roughly 12,900 BTC in the last monthly timeframe, while gold ETF holdings fell by nearly 800,000 ounces during a similar window. Capital appears to be moving, even if slowly. Institutions Are Coming, Just Not Yet In Full Binance Research flagged the current stretch of market volatility as what it called an “opportunity within risk” for Bitcoin. Bitcoin has traded in step with oil and US equities recently, moving alongside broader macro assets as the US-Israel and Iran conflict has kept global markets on edge. Despite that turbulence, institutional interest has not dried up. US spot ETFs now account for roughly 9% of total Bitcoin trading volume. That sounds modest — and it is. In US equity markets, ETFs account for 30-40% of total trading volume. The gap tells its own story about how much room remains for institutional participation to grow. Related Reading: Bitcoin Crosses 20 Million Coins Mined — And Only 1 In 20 Remains History Offers A Cautionary But Compelling Pattern Midterm election years have not been kind to risk assets. The S&P 500 has averaged a peak-to-trough drop of 16% during those cycles. Bitcoin’s drawdowns have been steeper, averaging around 56%. But the 12 months after midterm elections have, without exception since 1939, produced positive returns for the S&P 500, averaging 19% gains. Bitcoin, with only three post-midterm years on record, has averaged 54% gains across all three. Reports from Binance Research also identified $78,000 as the level Bitcoin would need to reclaim to signal a broader trend reversal. BTC was trading around $71,500 at the time of publication. The distance between the two numbers is not enormous, but in a market moving this quickly, it is not small either. Featured image from Incrementum, chart from TradingView
Bitcoin bulls squeezed the market toward $74,000 again as promising US inflation data buoyed risk assets, but BTC price forecasts stayed mixed.
If 2024 was about “trying to figure it out,” 2026 is the year staking officially became a cornerstone of the modern digital wallet. At its simplest, staking is the crypto-native version of putting your money to work. Instead of your assets sitting idle, you’re essentially “hiring” them out to help secure and run a blockchain …
Crypto is having one of its best days in weeks. Bitcoin has pushed above $73,000, Ethereum has cleared $2,180, and the total crypto market has added $90 billion in value in the past 15 hours alone. Here is what is actually driving it. The Numbers First Bitcoin: Up 4.80% to $72,867, adding $60 billion to …
The US economy grew just 0.7% in Q4 2025. That number, revised down from 1.4% by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, is already trending on X and CNN is calling it “far weaker than previously reported.” With the FOMC meeting four days away on March 17-18, crypto traders have one question: does this change anything …
The US Treasury (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities tied to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) IT‑worker schemes that allegedly generated nearly $800 million in 2024. US Vs. DPRK Over Crypto Fraud Crypto is once again at the center of Washington’s latest sanctions push. On an official press release on March 12, the US Treasury announced that they have blacklisted a North Korean IT‑worker network accused of routing nearly $800 million through digital assets to fund weapons programs in 2024. The Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, quoted on the announcement, warned that “The North Korean regime targets American companies through deceptive schemes carried out by its overseas IT operatives, who weaponize sensitive data and extort businesses for substantial payments”. Related Reading: Binance Warning? Leverage Explodes As Crypto Tracks A World On Edge How The North Korean Crypto Scheme Worked According to the OFAC’s statement, these North Korean IT networks relied on front companies in Vietnam, Laos and Spain to move IT‑worker revenue into cryptocurrency, convert it, and route funds back to Pyongyang. As the statement claims: DPRK-facilitated IT teams commonly rely on fraudulent documentation, stolen identities, and fabricated personas to conceal their true identities and gain employment with legitimate companies, including those in the United States and allied countries. The DPRK government reportedly appropriates the majority of the wages earned by these overseas IT workers, generating hundreds of millions of dollars to support the regime’s WMD and ballistic missile programs, in violation of U.S. and United Nations sanctions. In certain instances, DPRK-affiliated workers have also covertly introduced malware into company networks to extract proprietary and sensitive information. Amongst the companies signaled by Washington are Amnokgang Technology Development Company, that manages overseas DPRK IT delegations and other illicit procurement and Vietnam‑based partner (Quangvietdnbg) whose CEO converted around $2.5 million into crypto for North Koreans between mid‑2023 and mid‑2025, with $800 million in 2024 alone. Other facilitators opened bank accounts, enabled crypto transactions, and laundered IT‑worker proceeds on behalf of North Korean procurement figures, like Kim Se Un. The OFAC warns that both US and foreign financial institutions face secondary‑sanctions risk if they keep touching flows linked to the newly designated actors, which effectively isolates their remaining fiat and crypto on‑ramps. Related Reading: Hyperliquid Rockets as Oil Touches $100: Arthur Hayes Reveals Why What This Means For The Crypto Market This is but the newest chapter on a long saga of North Korean cyber and IT operations repeatedly leaning on crypto, mixers and OTC brokers to launder billions in stolen or fraudulently earned funds, which regulators now say directly supports its weapons programs. Even as Treasury has recently acknowledged that mixers and privacy tools can have legitimate uses, the new designations show that they are still ready to aggressively sanction any intermediaries that route significant illicit crypto flows for state actors like the DPRK. Despite episodes like this usually not moving Bitcoin’s price on their own, they do add to the regulatory overhang that can cap risk appetite around privacy coins, mixer‑adjacent protocols and lightly regulated offshore venues. For majors like BTC and ETH, stricter enforcement against DPRK‑linked networks tends to be framed as “cleaning up the rails,” which can support institutional adoption over time even if it generates headline risk in the near term. The regulatory tail risk remains highest around privacy‑focused tools, offshore venues and tokens that depend on opaque liquidity paths. At the same time, every DPRK‑linked enforcement wave nudges more volume toward KYC’d exchanges and transparent stablecoin and BTC pairs, which is where long‑term liquidity and institutional flows are likely to concentrate. BTC’s price trends to the upside on the daily chart. Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview Cover image from Perplexity, BTCUSD chart from Tradingview
Falling oil prices are helping, but a bounce seemed in the cards after some of the worst sentiment in bitcoin's history.
Olivier Janssens’ Destiny project offered Nevis residents $100 a month if the government approves the development, triggering sharp local criticism, the Financial Times reported.
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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The Treasury Department said North Korea infiltrated IT workers into U.S. businesses and channeled their wages back to the country to fund weapons of mass destruction programs.
Law enforcement agencies seized 34 domains, 23 servers and froze $3.5 million in crypto linked to SocksEscort, a proxy service that hijacked 369,000 devices.
Yield-bearing stablecoins are growing faster than the broader market as US lawmakers remain divided over how crypto yield should be regulated.
The postponement underscores the impact of geopolitical instability on global events, highlighting the need for adaptive planning in volatile regions.
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A crypto pundit has outlined what the XRP circulating supply could look like if the cryptocurrency is adopted as a global settlement asset. According to him, the effective float available for real-time payments could be significantly smaller than XRP’s total supply, a factor he argues may play a central role in determining the cryptocurrency’s price at full operational capacity. XRP Supply To Shrink With Global Settlement Adoption A new discussion about the future supply of XRP has caught the attention of the crypto community following a brief commentary by XRP advocate @UnknownDLT on X. The crypto expert examines how XRP’s circulating supply could evolve if it were to operate as a global settlement asset within the financial sector. In the post, @UnknownDLT stated that the likely XRP float available for global settlement would range from 15 billion to 30 billion tokens. This projection is based on the expectation that a significant portion of the overall supply could become locked within institutional structures. Related Reading: Dogecoin Descending Channel Shows Where It Is In This Cycle According to the XRP advocate, large amounts of the cryptocurrency could be held as institutional collateral, strategic reserves, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). As a result, only a small portion of the total supply would remain actively available for transactions across payment networks. Within this framework, @UnknownDLT stated that the remaining XRP float would be used to facilitate real-time settlement across financial systems. These transactions would function within Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) style payment environments that process transfers instantly between institutions. Notably, RTGS systems are widely used in modern financial infrastructure for high-value payments between banks and clearing institutions. Another important element @UnknownDLT highlighted in his post is how price dynamics could be evaluated based on his proposed global settlement framework. He explained that the value required for XRP to operate at full settlement capacity should be determined by the available float rather than the total token supply. Following @UnknownDLT’s post, members of the crypto community on X responded with their own thoughts on the topic. One member noted that while circulating supply plays an important role in market dynamics, it does not fully determine XRP’s ultimate value. They noted that other factors, such as market demand, technological development, and practical application, also shape and drive the cryptocurrency’s price. XRP To Target Wall Street And DTCC Settlement In more recent posts, @UnknownDLT further discussed the potential expansion of XRP into traditional financial markets. He stated that XRP could be used for Wall Street settlement activity as early as 2026. Related Reading: Will XRP Reach $4 In 2026? Analyst Predicts How Far Price Can Go Additionally, the crypto pundit also referenced Ripple, the crypto payments company and its digital asset spot brokerage platform, Ripple Prime. According to @UnknownDLT, Ripple Prime could help accelerate the absorption of transaction volume generated by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Notably, the DTCC is known to process a large share of securities transactions within the United States financial system. Based on this, @UnknownDLT suggests that if XRP is used as institutional collateral, it could help handle transaction volumes associated with DTCC settlements, potentially creating upward pressure on its price. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
The Bank of England is open to fixes on its proposed stablecoin framework, but one official said it needs better feedback from crypto industry participants.
Sui (SUI) gained 6.7% and Cardano (ADA) rose 5.8%, leading the index higher.
Ammalgam combines lending, borrowing, and trading into a liquidity system, providing a platform for creating unlimited trading strategies.
The surge in TRUMP meme coin highlights the volatile influence of high-profile events on cryptocurrency markets, impacting investor behavior.
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XRP price edged higher today, gaining around 2%,as analyst points to a massive breakout structure forming on the monthly chart. After weeks of downward pressure, the modest rebound has caught traders’ attention as new derivatives data suggests demand may slowly be returning to the XRP market. At press time, XRP price was trading near $1.42, …
Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, is now expanding its focus on the U.S. market. Recently, the firm has launched a new stablecoin called USAT and is now seeking funding that could value the company at $500 billion. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said digital dollars like Tether may play a bigger role if …
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TOKEN2049 postponed its Dubai conference to April 2027 after Iranian strikes disrupted travel, security, and logistics in the UAE.
Most traders are still waiting for Bitcoin to drop further. But the on-chain data is telling a very different story from what most people read during the crash. According to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, Bitcoin’s long-term holders did not sell as aggressively as the charts suggested. In the 2025 cycle, LTHs spent 15.1M BTC in total, …