Zama and T-REX Network introduced a confidentiality layer for tokenized real-world assets, aiming to enable broader institutional adoption.
The company's customer base grew to 68.3 million, with total balances up 66% to $67.5 billion and transaction volume reaching $1.7 trillion.
Cryptography startup Zama is plugging its privacy tech into T‑REX in a bid to let banks and asset managers trade sensitive assets on public blockchains without losing confidentiality.
Altcoins have seen a sharp decline in trading activity, with volumes dropping nearly 80% to 85% as market volatility remains concentrated in a few major tokens. Interest has also cooled, reflected in a notable drop in Google searches for “altcoin.” This suggests traders are shifting focus toward Bitcoin and a handful of top assets. At …
Onchain analyst EmberCN warned that Siren’s rally may stem from one party cornering spot supply to profit via derivatives.
Past oil-war shocks lifted inflation and hurt risk appetite, which raises the risk of Bitcoin falling below $50,000 in 2026.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that stablecoins and tokenized deposits need to be tied to central bank money if Europe wants digital markets to grow safely. The plan aims to improve crypto-related financial infrastructure, allow faster and safer settlement, and ensure deposits have a trusted anchor to reduce risks. ECB Pushes Tokenized Finance …
Resolv Labs gave the exploiter 72 hours to return 90% of $25 million in stolen funds, offering a 10% settlement bonus.
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) widened its at-the-market fundraising capacity on March 23, filing new programs for common stock and two preferred securities, bringing the company's total active issuance capacity to over $60 billion. The 8-K filing, which added fresh ATM lines while terminating one older program, signals a reconfiguration of the capital stack behind the firm's […]
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BTC climbs despite escalating Middle East tensions, outperforming gold as altcoins rally and derivatives data signals cautious but improving market sentiment.
Bitcoin Yardstick data confirmed a new record for BTC price "deep value" in February as miners battled the lowest price levels in 15 months.
Bitcoin on Tuesday confirmed its impact on the ongoing US-Iran War. The Flahship cryptocurrency surged nearly 4% from the $68,000 USD region to $71,000 USD, showing increased buyer interest after a 19 March close. Currently trading at $70,900, the Bitcoin trading volume surged 41%. This happened when Trump started talks toward a ceasefire, though there …
Over $44 million in short positions were wiped out on Binance in a single hour Monday — the largest one-hour short liquidation since February 6 — yet the price surge it helped trigger drew little enthusiasm from actual buyers. Related Reading: Shiba Inu Flirts With $0.0000052 Support As Exchange Supply Swells Futures Chaos, Not Fresh Money, Lifted BTC Bitcoin climbed to a weekly high of $71,801 on Binance during the US market session, pushed higher largely by forced closures of short positions rather than new capital entering the market. Aggregated open interest across Bitcoin futures fell by roughly 9,700 BTC — a 3.5% drop — over 13 hours while prices rose. When open interest falls during a rally, it typically means traders are exiting positions, not adding them. That’s not the signature of a confident bull run. The Coinbase premium, which tracks whether US buyers are paying above or below the global average price, stayed negative throughout the move. Reports indicate limited spot demand from US participants during the entire rally window. Binance Volumes Sink To Bear Market Levels The broader picture looks just as thin. According to crypto analyst Darkfost, March is on pace to record the lowest Binance spot volume since the third quarter of 2023 — around $52 billion, compared to $88 billion that September. That September figure itself came during a period widely characterized as a bear market. Exchange flow data tells a similar story: seven-day cumulative flows on Binance hit their lowest point since 2024, based on data reported by analyst Arab Chain. Coinbase flows held relatively steady by comparison, suggesting longer-term holders are maintaining activity while shorter-term traders pull back. The trigger for Monday’s price action was a news report that US President Donald Trump had paused plans for military strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure, citing diplomatic progress. Iran’s foreign ministry quickly denied that any such talks had taken place. BTC still rallied on the headline. Whale Activity Flashes An Unusual Signal One data point stands apart from the rest. A market analyst identified a record spike in what’s called whale inflow momentum — a measure of how fast large amounts of Bitcoin are being moved onto exchanges. The current reading of 74 is higher than any point in the past 11 years. The last time it exceeded this level was in 2015, when it hit 124. Related Reading: Bitcoin Holds As Gold Posts Worst Week Since 1983 Amid Iran War High whale inflows don’t automatically signal selling. But reports note the elevated pace points to aggressive capital rotation and hedging among large holders, which could make Bitcoin’s price more sensitive to short-term swings in the weeks ahead. For now, the rally stalled around the $71,000 to $72,000 range, with no clear indication that the demand needed to push meaningfully beyond it has arrived. Featured image from zoranm/Men’s Health, chart from TradingView
Apex will tokenize the Omnes Mining Note “OMN,” an institutional-grade structured note backed by Bitcoin hashrate.
Hyperliquid is having some of its more important weeks in history, across separate fronts simultaneously. On March 18, S&P Dow Jones Indices licensed its flagship index to Trade[XYZ] for the first officially approved S&P 500 perpetual futures contract on the Hyperliquid blockchain. The product hit $100 million in daily volume within days of launch. Unlike …
ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said private digital money cannot scale Europe’s tokenized markets on its own, pointing to Pontes and broader legal reform as next steps.
Delaware lawmakers filed two bills Monday to license stablecoin issuers and allow state banks to manage digital assets.
Top pairs on the largest HIP-3 market platform mainly involve tokenized real-world assets, such as crude oil and silver.
Nasdaq is wiring its collateral and surveillance systems into Talos’s institutional trading stack to target a $35 billion “trapped” collateral problem.
The derivatives give users synthetic exposure to major U.S. equities while using Bitcoin and other crypto holdings as collateral, with plans to expand into tokenized assets later this year.
Cardano may be flashing the kind of contrarian setup that traders tend to watch closely near exhausted selloffs. According to on-chain and derivatives data shared by Santiment, ADA’s 365-day MVRV has fallen to -43% while Binance funding shows the highest imbalance toward shorts since June 2023, a combination the analytics firm argues has historically aligned with bottoming conditions. Is The Cardano (ADA) Bottom Near? Santiment’s core thesis is that Cardano holders who have been active over the past year are now deeply underwater, which changes the risk-reward profile for new buyers. “Average wallets that have been active on the Cardano network over the past year are netting a return of -43% on their investments,” the firm wrote on X. “Memes aside about the altcoin’s major -71% price decline since September, this extreme negative MVRV value is generally an indicator of $ADA being in an ‘opportunity’ or ‘buy’ zone.” Related Reading: Cardano Chop Nearing End? Here’s The Key Resistance To Watch That argument rests on how Santiment interprets MVRV, or the gap between market value and realized value, across a 365-day window. In its framing, when the average participant is sitting on severe unrealized losses, downside risk begins to compress because weaker positioning has already been flushed out. The chart shared by the firm marks sub-zero MVRV territory as an “opportunity” zone and places ADA’s current reading well inside it. Santiment pushed that point further with a more explicit contrarian read. “In a zero-sum game, when average returns are severely negative, this is an indication of a looming turnaround with coins always averaging 0% on MVRV’s (average trading returns) across any timeframe. So when other traders are in severe pain, key stakeholders and professional traders are intrigued by this due to the lowered risk of buying or adding on to their positions.” That does not mean a rebound is guaranteed, but it does clarify the logic behind the call. The signal is less about immediate momentum and more about market structure: if most recent participants are already trapped at a loss, marginal selling pressure can start to weaken while value-focused buyers step in. Related Reading: Cardano Could Rocket 1,000% From Extended Accumulation Area, Analyst Says The second piece of the setup comes from the perpetual futures market. Santiment said Cardano’s funding rate on Binance is now showing the largest ratio of shorts to longs since June 2023, indicating that traders are leaning heavily toward further downside. In crowded positioning regimes, that can matter as much as the spot chart itself. “Cardano’s funding rate on Binance is seeing the largest ratio of shorts (compared to longs) since June, 2023,” Santiment wrote. “Traders are clearly expecting that the #12 market cap will continue to decline in value. This historically is another bottom signal, as funding rates are always prone to liquidate and send prices in the direction that traders are expecting the least.” That last point is the real crux of the analysis. Santiment is not simply saying ADA looks cheap after a 71% slide since September. It is arguing that Cardano now sits at the intersection of two classic reversal ingredients: deeply negative holder returns and an overcrowded bearish derivatives trade. At press time, ADA traded at $0.2666. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
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The Bitcoin network recently underwent an uncommon two‑block reorganization near block height 941,880, when competing chains briefly formed among major mining pools including Foundry USA, AntPool, and ViaBTC. In Bitcoin’s proof‑of‑work system, short reorganizations like this can occur when blocks are found nearly simultaneously, creating a temporary fork that’s resolved once one branch becomes longer …
Aave founder Stani Kulechov says the proposal will move to a binding onchain vote to formalize V4’s deployment on Ethereum.
The Santiment data suggests fading interest in memecoins, with social engagement shifting toward AI-driven narratives. As attention declines, Shiba Inu (SHIB) appears to be losing momentum, remaining stuck in a persistent downtrend since the start of the year while holding support near $0.000005. Despite showing short-term strength in recent sessions, the SHIB price continues to …
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has placed tokenization at the center of his 2026 outlook, comparing it to the internet’s early days and arguing it could open up investing in the same way the internet opened access to information. Crypto today = Internet in 1996. He described in his letter that blockchain-based assets are a turning …
Mass adoption risks crypto’s cypherpunk roots. Privacy as a permissionless foundation must reclaim DeFi from surveillance, TradFi and memecoin casinos.
A new U.S. proposal to restrict stablecoin yield and rewards is drawing mixed reactions from the crypto industry. The draft aims to stop interest-like returns on stablecoins while still allowing limited user incentives, as lawmakers move closer to finalizing stablecoin regulations.The draft law is already creating debate across the crypto industry, as Bank reps are …
Treasury yields and swap spreads could eventually pressure the Trump administration to moderate the conflict, analysts argue.
Bitcoin has now spent four consecutive months under the $100,000 mark for the first time since it crossed the milestone back in 2024. This move signaled a return to the bear market, and the trend has persisted since then. Even now, sellers are more than likely still dominating the market, despite the market recovery. One crypto analyst notes an interesting trend concerning Bitcoin, suggesting that participation from smaller investors might be dying out. Retail Investors Are Gone, And Bitcoin Could Be In Trouble The recent Bitcoin downtrend has suggested a drying up of liquidity in the crypto market, and this is represented by the data showing a decline in participation from retail trades. In a chart shared by crypto analyst Crypto Tice, it showed that retail investment has plummeted since Bitcoin price hit its all-time high. Related Reading: Altcoin Trading Volumes Hit Multi-Month Lows, Market Interest Waning The analyst highlights that transactions below $10,000 specifically have accounted for the majority of the decline. This means that retail investors, or smaller investors who are not institutions, are no longer putting money into the digital asset at the rate at which they were before. This trend, the analyst explains, is a demand destruction and is often a predecessor of major Bitcoin bear markets in history. The trend has always been similar: first, retail leaves, and next, the volume begins dropping, and these are bear market signals. If the analyst is right, then it means that the Bitcoin decline is far from over. As the crypto analyst explained, the data is “screaming” right now that a bear market is coming. Crypto Tice warns that this is the time to be cautious and not the time for “blind optimism”. When Will The Bull Market Return? Bull markets are often driven by an influx of liquidity, triggering a buying spree, and this is no different. Naturally, retail investors play a huge role in this, meaning their absence from the market often spells doom. As the analyst explains, until these retail investors return, then the Bitcoin price recoveries are likely to remain capped, meaning it has limited upside in the meantime. Related Reading: Why The XRP Supply In The Billions Is Not A Problem Going by the shared chart, retail investment will have to rise above 10% again in order to trigger another sustained run. In the last year, the highest level has been 30% at the start of 2025, which was a precursor to the Bitcoin price hitting multiple all-time highs. Thus, a return to this level could trigger the next major run, possibly move $100,000. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com