Brokerage clients in the European Economic Area can now trade 11 cryptocurrencies alongside traditional assets within a single account.
America holds roughly 38% of global Bitcoin mining capacity, and the specialized hardware powering that position comes overwhelmingly from Chinese manufacturers. Senators Bill Cassidy and Cynthia Lummis introduced the Mined in America Act on Mar. 30 to address that gap, proposing certification, domestic manufacturing support, and the codification of President Donald Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve […]
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The asset manager says innovation can proceed under current SEC rules as the Clarity Act faces debate in Congress.
There are now over 47 million cryptocurrencies in existence. That number alone may explain a lot of what is happening to prices of altcoins right now. Related Reading: Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $56B As CEO Pitches Crypto Over Gold Altcoins: A Market Spread Too Thin Blockchain networks have become token factories. Solana hosts more than 22 million tokens. Base accounts for over 18 million more. BNB Smart Chain adds another 4 million on top of that. With that much supply chasing a limited pool of investor money, most of these assets simply cannot attract enough buyers to hold their value. Analysts call it liquidity dilution — capital spread too thin to support the crowd. That structural problem is now showing up in the numbers in a dramatic way. Data from CryptoQuant shows that over 40% of all altcoins are currently trading at or near their all-time lows. More than 40% of Altcoins near All-Time Lows “This is even higher than during the previous bear market, which peaked at ~38%… However, when such extreme underperformance appears, it can also create very attractive opportunities.” – By @Darkfost_Coc pic.twitter.com/XvAmKiKyyQ — CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) March 30, 2026 That figure surpasses the previous bear market peak of around 38%, making this cycle the worst on record for altcoin performance. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost put it bluntly. Altcoins, he said, have never faced this kind of pressure in the current cycle. Staggering Losses The losses across individual coins are staggering. Bitcoin has fallen roughly 45% from its all-time high — painful, but modest compared to what has happened further down the market cap rankings. XRP has shed 60% from its peak. Solana sits 70% below its high. Cardano has collapsed 90% from where it once traded. Some smaller assets are in even worse shape. VeChain is down approximately 98% from its record price and is hovering just above an all-time low. Ethena hit a new all-time low recently, last trading around $0.09. Arbitrum and SUI are both sitting at levels where a further drop would push them into all-time low territory. Macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions have added weight to an already fragile market. Risk assets across the board have taken hits, and crypto — altcoins above all — has absorbed some of the heaviest blows. Related Reading: 8.25M XRP Exit Long-Term Holders As Whales Buy $1.20–$3 Bitcoin Holds Up. Most Altcoins Don’t. Bitcoin’s relative steadiness compared to the rest of the market has drawn attention. While it is not immune to the selling pressure, its decline has been far less severe than what altcoins have experienced. That gap between Bitcoin and the broader crypto market is a defining feature of this particular downturn. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
Futures market activity continues to drive Bitcoin price, while insufficient buy-side spot demand shortens the length of bullish breakouts and pins BTC in a $10,000 range.
USA expansion to Celo signifies the first move beyond Ethereum, leveraging regulated digital dollars on a high-volume network.
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Bitcoin rose back above $68,000 on March 31 after markets began to bet on a resolution to the Iran-US-Israel War and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran was prepared to end the war under certain conditions. Data from CryptoSlate showed the broader crypto market added about $40 billion in value after the remarks. Bitcoin climbed […]
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Algorand price has gained fresh momentum, rising over 10% in the past 24 hours and drawing attention from traders watching for a potential trend reversal. The altcoin, which has been stuck in a prolonged downtrend, is now testing a critical resistance zone near $0.09. This move comes as broader market sentiment stabilizes, raising the key …
Google’s new research potentially puts the entire bitcoin supply – and the very foundation of digital trust – at risk, explains Pruden.
Google researchers recently warned that quantum computing may break bitcoin earlier than originally thought.
Claude Code exposed: Anthropic is scrambling to contain the leak, but the AI coding agent is spreading far and wide and being picked apart.
Base outlines its 2026 roadmap focused on global markets, stablecoins, and builders as it expands its onchain economy strategy.
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Macro investor Jordi Visser is arguing that Bitcoin’s original purpose is coming back into focus as the Federal Reserve faces a new macro trap shaped by debt, oil, slowing growth and weakening employment. In a note published March 30 under the banner “D.O.G.E. 2.0,” Visser says that mix could leave policymakers unable to impose the kind of economic pain a traditional inflation fight would require. His framework repurposes the acronym into four pressures: debt as the structural constraint, oil as the inflation shock, growth as the casualty of tighter conditions, and employment as the side of the Fed’s mandate that may soon take precedence. The broader claim is not simply that inflation could return, but that it could return in a form monetary policy cannot easily fix. Why Bitcoin Could Be The Big Winner Visser’s argument starts with supply-side stress. He points to oil prices rising after the war with Iran disrupted flows through the Strait of Hormuz, while import-price pressures and higher memory-chip costs linked to AI demand were already feeding through global supply chains. “That is what makes this moment dangerous,” he writes. “The inflation problem may be returning, but it is returning for reasons the Fed cannot easily solve, all while affordability remains a major political issue. Rate hikes do not reopen Hormuz. They do not create more DRAM.” Related Reading: OG Bitcoin On-Chain Models Could Hint At $46,000-$54,000 Floor: Analyst From there, he shifts to what he sees as the crucial difference between today and the 1970s. Back then, Visser notes, federal debt stood near 35.5% of GDP in 1970 and around 31.6% by 1979. Today, he says, the comparable figure is about 122.5%. That changes the amount of pain the system can absorb. In his telling, the United States is confronting the possibility of a second inflation wave with a debt burden roughly four times heavier than at the end of the last major oil-driven inflation era. He makes the same point through asset valuations. The stock-market-capitalization-to-GDP ratio, he argues, is now above 200%, versus roughly 42% in 1975 and 38% in 1979. In practical terms, that means a determined inflation fight would not only hit a more indebted fiscal structure and a more fragile Treasury market, but also a far more financialized economy. “This is not just a replay of the 1970s,” Visser writes. “It is the 1970s problem inside a far more levered system.” The labor side of the equation is equally important in his thesis. Visser points to a February 2026 employment report showing nonfarm payrolls down 92,000, unemployment at 4.4%, and payroll employment having changed little on net in 2025. Wage growth, he says, has also eased materially from its 2023 peak. That backdrop matters because it makes a renewed inflation offensive harder to justify politically and economically than it was during the post-COVID tightening cycle. Related Reading: JPMorgan Says Bitcoin Is Beating Gold And Silver During The Iran War Visser argues the Fed has already begun preparing markets for that distinction. He cites Chair Jerome Powell’s March 18 press conference, where Powell acknowledged higher energy prices could lift inflation in the near term while reiterating that central banks often try to “look through” energy shocks if inflation expectations remain anchored. Visser also notes Vice Chair Philip Jefferson’s warning that persistently higher energy prices could weigh on both inflation and spending, intensifying the Fed’s dual-mandate dilemma. That is where Bitcoin enters the story. Visser ties the current setup back to Bitcoin’s creation during the 2008-09 financial crisis, arguing that Satoshi Nakamoto’s design was a direct response to a monetary system dependent on bailouts, intervention and expanding guarantees when stress becomes intolerable. “Bitcoin was born as a response to a system in which governments and central banks could always create more money, extend more guarantees, and socialize more losses when the structure became too fragile to endure discipline,” he writes. “Whether you view that as protest, timestamp, or both, the message was unmistakable.” His conclusion is that Bitcoin does not require hyperinflation to validate that thesis. It only requires markets to believe that each inflation fight will be shorter, each easing cycle will arrive sooner, and each downturn in a debt-heavy system will push policymakers back toward accommodation. At press time, Bitcoin traded at $66,466. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
Analysts expect Bitcoin’s price consolidation to tilt toward $60,000, but technical charts favor a liquidation rally toward $82,000.
Looking to streamline collateral management, the platform has enabled borrowing and lending against liquid, staked and locked assets within a single custody account.
World launches MiniKit 2.0 with faster transactions, gas sponsorship, and stablecoin support to streamline app development on World Chain.
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Block says it wants to rebuild as a mini-AGI weeks after cutting over 4,000 jobs in an AI driven overhaul led.
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Haverhill City Council, following other jurisdictions, is set to consider an ordinance banning crypto ATMs viewed as enabling financial fraud and money laundering.
One of the world’s largest commercial payments companies just tied itself to Ripple’s blockchain infrastructure, and the announcement is already dividing opinion before the ink has dried. Convera, which operates across 140 currencies and 200 countries, confirmed a strategic partnership with Ripple today to offer stablecoin-enabled cross-border payment and treasury solutions for business clients. The …
Over the past few days, the Solana price has been trading range-bound, strongly defending the $80 support while failing to reach $95. This has prevented the token from securing the $100 range, which could have attracted significant buying pressure. In times when the broader crypto market remains uncertain and Bitcoin shows signs of structural pressure, …
Senate Banking is targeting the second half of April for a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with Easter recess running through Apr. 13. Senator Cynthia Lummis publicly confirmed the timetable, and Senator Bernie Moreno put the deadline plainly: missing the Senate floor by May could push serious digital asset legislation beyond the […]
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Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said the country is prepared to end the conflict if it receives security guarantees.
Anthropic exposed Claude Code source on npm, revealing internal architecture, hidden features, model codenames, and fresh security risks.
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WhiteBIT Coin (WBT), the token of the WhiteBIT exchange, has reached a market capitalization of $15 billion, according to CoinDesk. This represents a 50% increase from its previous $10 billion valuation and places WBT among the ten largest tokens by market cap on the platform. The increase follows recent developments in the token’s structure and …
GalaxyOne adds Solana staking with variable rewards and zero-fee incentives, extending institutional validator infrastructure to retail users.
A sharp drop in Ether’s realized volatility could result in significant ETH price moves if history repeats, making $2,000 a key support level to keep an eye on.
The BlackRock-backed firm has a clear path toward pressuring financial incumbents, according Benchmark’s Mark Palmer.
Crypto analyst Sweep has revealed that 20 Bitcoin indicators have flashed bullish at the same time, providing a bullish outlook for the leading crypto. Based on this development, the analyst has predicted that BTC could rally to $150,000, marking a new all-time high (ATH). 20 Bitcoin Indicators Hint At Rally To $150,000 In an X post, Sweep stated that 20 independent indicators are bullish at the same time. He noted that this has only happened three times in Bitcoin’s history, and each time was followed by a 300% rally. The first of this indicator is the Global M2 money supply, which just hit an all-time high (ATH) while BTC is still lagging. Related Reading: None Of The 30 Bitcoin Market Peak Indicators Have Been Hit, So Why Did The Price Crash? Sweep further revealed that the Dollar Index is at 100, the exact level that preceded 500% rallies twice before. Another bullish indicator is that BTC’s exchange reserves have fallen to a 7-year low, with only 2.1 million BTC remaining across all crypto exchanges. The drop in these exchange reserves has come as whales bought 270,000 BTC over 30 days, the largest accumulation wave since 2013. Another bullish indicator is that the Fear and Greed index has been stuck at extreme fear for 46 straight days, currently at 12. Bitcoin’s weekly RSI has printed 27.48, the third time in history that it has been this low. Furthermore, funding rates have been negative for weeks, with traders paying fees to short BTC. Meanwhile, Sweep also mentioned that the stablecoin supply has hit an all-time high of $320 billion, with supply sitting on the sidelines. Miners have been in capitulation for 4 months straight, the longest stretch this cycle. At the same time, the hash rate is recovering from a 22% decline. The Macro Angle For BTC Sweep mentioned bullish macro indicators, such as the Fed ending quantitative tightening, draining the reverse repo from $2.5 trillion to nearly zero, and resuming purchases of Treasury bills. Furthermore, Consumer confidence is in the second-lowest zone ever recorded in 70 years of data, while the ISM manufacturing is back in expansion for the first time in 40 months. Related Reading: The Last Time Bitcoin Sentiment Was This Bad Was 2022, But There Was A Silver Lining Another bullish indicator is that the Bitcoin ETF flows have turned positive in March, with $2.5 billion in inflows. SoSoValue data shows that the BTC ETFs are on course to end a streak of four consecutive months of outflows. Sweep mentioned that BTC has just printed 5 consecutive red monthly candles, which has happened only once and led to a 308% rally afterwards. Lastly, 92% of short-term holders are underwater. The analyst noted that the last time this many signals aligned was in November 2022, when Bitcoin was trading at $16,000. Since then, BTC has pumped to a new ATH of $126,000. At the time of writing, the Bitcoin price is trading at around $67,500, down in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com
The Cardano founder says post-FTX politics, flawed design and a narrow U.S.-only approach risk stifling new crypto projects while benefiting established players
The crypto bill, or the Clarity Act, remains stuck in the Senate, and Congress is now on a two-week Easter break.