Ledger's strategic US expansion and leadership change could significantly enhance its market position, paving the way for a successful IPO.
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A former Ripple employee, William Sculley, an early Ripple insider, laid out a detailed case for why the next wave of institutional money entering crypto will not be chasing price. It will be chasing yield, and XRP sits right in the middle of that story. “Price Doesn’t Matter” The headline claim sounds controversial, but the …
A 70% oil spike could nearly double US inflation, slash rate-cut hopes, and deepen downside risks for Bitcoin prices in the coming months.
Market volatility persists as inflation and geopolitical tensions disrupt economic stability, challenging investor strategies and risk assets.
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XRP is sitting at a make-or-break level, and the signals are turning hard to ignore. The weekly chart shows price once again testing a long-standing ascending trendline, a zone that has repeatedly acted as a strong buying opportunity in past cycles. At the same time, momentum is quietly building beneath the surface. ETF inflows are …
PHA price just did what most altcoins dream of waking up from a nearly doomed stage, even get listed, and immediately rip higher. A fresh KRW trading pair listing on Bithumb lit the fuse, and the reaction wasn’t subtle. We’re talking a sharp intraday move, backed by aggressive on-chain activity and a sudden shift in …
The cost of mining bitcoin has climbed substantially over the past year, and miners are looking for steadier revenue streams.
Ledger, the crypto hardware wallet maker, has appointed John Andrews, a former Circle executive, as its new CFO. Andrews, who oversaw capital markets and investor relations at Circle and played a role in its IPO, will help Ledger prepare for a possible public listing valued above $4 billion. The company is expanding its U.S. presence, …
The Bitcoin price has broken below a legendary support level that had stood strong for 14 years, marking a major moment for the cryptocurrency. Market expert Crypto Tice has released a new analysis detailing the significance of this breach, warning of potential risks and a possible price shift. The recent downturn follows BTC’s latest surge after it cleared previous resistance levels, which pushed its price back toward the $75,000 region. Bitcoin Price Falls Below 14-Year Support Level Sharing a price chart clearly illustrating the 14-year support on X, Crypto Tice emphasized that this trendline was far more than just another technical level, underscoring its strong significance. He explained that this line has historically defined every major Bitcoin bull market, consistently separating periods of robust price growth from phases with sharp declines. Furthermore, he noted, it has never broken without triggering major consequences. Related Reading: Pundit Who Predicted Ethereum Price Bottom Reveals What To Expect Next The analyst went on to highlight that Bitcoin’s recent break below the support signals that the market can no longer rely on the patterns that once guided investor behavior. Once a support level of this magnitude fails, market volatility typically spikes as traders reassess their positions and liquidity shifts in search of new equilibrium zones. He also observed that weaker hands are often forced out as more experienced investors take a patient stance, waiting for stability before making their next move. Crypto Tice further explained that while Bitcoin could eventually reclaim the long-term trendline support, the market remains in risk-management mode until that happens. He warned that ignoring a broken macro-support is not a sign of conviction but a form of denial. Moreover, history shows that overlooking these foundational levels often leads to sharp sell-offs and accelerated Bitcoin repricing. The analyst noted that this reinforces the need to respect these types of structural chart signals rather than merely holding for a price rebound. While the overall implications of Crypto Tice’s analysis point to further declines and increased volatility in Bitcoin, some members of the crypto community view the latest trendline break differently. One market analyst argued that rather than a signal of imminent collapse, breaking a 14-year support mark is an evolution in Bitcoin’s market structure. He explained that when historic levels like this fail, it often reflects the exhaustion of old patterns, not the start of a recession. The analyst concluded that new frameworks tend to emerge from those that have broken. Related Reading: XRP Trend Exhaustion Says Price Is About To Jump, Here’s The Target Bitcoin Sheds Over $5,000 With New Crash In just one day, the Bitcoin price has crashed, losing roughly $5,000 after its recent rebound above $75,000. CoinMarketCap data shows the decline is ongoing, with no immediate signs of stabilizing. Notably, the latest decline has been driven primarily by a hawkish Federal Reserve (FED) outlook amid rising geopolitical tensions. Reports indicate that investor sentiment shifted sharply, turning risk-off following the latest FED warning. In addition, a surge in whale sell-offs and a wave of leveraged long liquidations have put significant pressure on the Bitcoin price. Featured image created with Pixabay, chart from Tradingview.com
For now, surging oil prices and persistent geopolitical tensions are driving inflation fears and weakening traditional safe-haven assets.
UBS's national bank conversion enhances its US growth strategy, enabling broader client services and potential expansion into digital assets.
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The KITE price just caught a sharp bid and no, it’s not random. A sudden 20% jump from the $0.18 support level has traders scrambling for explanations, but the trigger is surprisingly straightforward: narrative meets timing, and the market eats it up. AI Narrative Sparks KITE Price Surge It all kicked off with a well-timed …
Lin examines the role of the Consensus event in providing founders with structured access to the sector’s most influential decision-makers.
Ethereum treasury, Bitmine Immersion Technologies' Chairman Tom Lee recently joined Eightco's board of directors.
Bitcoin investors are buying protection around $50,000 even as the flagship digital asset holds near $70,000 and has recently outperformed gold, the S&P 500, and the US dollar during the ongoing Iran war. According to CryptoSlate’s data, Bitcoin was trading at about $70,688 at press time, which means hedging around the $50,000 level means investors are […]
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Bitcoin miner BitFuFu decreased its revenue from self-hosted mining operations by 60% in 2025 in a push to cloud mining.
A global Asian food platform and digital asset firm’s holdings are worth more than twice what the entire company trades for on the stock market — a gap that has quietly widened as the firm keeps buying week after week. Related Reading: XRP Still In Danger Zone Without This Key Breakout: Analyst Reports show DDC Enterprise Limited‘s 2,383 BTC stash is valued at roughly $165 million. Its stock market cap sits at just $66 million. That spread is not a typo. The Bitcoin in DDC’s treasury is worth more than two and a half times the company’s publicly traded value. A Steady Drip Of Weekly Purchases DDC did not get here overnight. Since January 2026, the Hong Kong-based firm has added around 1,200 BTC to its holdings — more than doubling what it owned at the start of the year. Early in January, it was buying about 200 BTC per week. That pace slowed to roughly 100 BTC weekly through February. The latest purchase, announced March 19, adds another 200 BTC at an average price of $79,969 per coin. ???? Scoreboard Update NEW: 200 BTC TOTAL: 2383 BTC #Bitcoin #BTC #BTCTreasuries #DAT $DDC pic.twitter.com/WVclStdKMW — ddcbtc (@ddcbtc_) March 19, 2026 The company’s year-to-date BTC yield — a metric measuring Bitcoin growth per share — stands at close to 50%. It now ranks 32nd among publicly traded companies holding Bitcoin worldwide. CEO and founder Norma Chu has been direct about the strategy. “Every additional Bitcoin we add is a statement about where we think long-term value is heading,” she said in the announcement. Original Target Still Out Of Reach DDC set an ambitious goal of holding 10,000 BTC by the end of 2025. It didn’t come close. The company closed out last year with 1,183 BTC — well short of the mark. To fund purchases, DDC has relied on stock sales and equity raises rather than cash from its food operations. In mid-2025, it filed with the SEC to raise $528 million, most of it earmarked for Bitcoin buying. Bitcoin itself has had a rough stretch recently. The token dropped briefly to $68,800 during early trading Thursday before recovering to around $70,244 — a far cry from its all-time high of $126,000 reached in October 2025. DDC has continued buying through the slide. Related Reading: Bitcoin Stalls Near $75K As Traders Move Coins To Exchanges Company Eyes Long-Term Hold Through Market Swings Chu has described Bitcoin as one of the most valuable assets of the coming decades, one that complements rather than competes with the company’s food business. DDC operates as a global Asian food platform alongside its growing digital asset arm. The purchases are being watched. Corporate Bitcoin accumulation has picked up among smaller listed companies following the playbook made famous by larger holders. DDC is not in that league yet, but at its current rate, the gap between its crypto holdings and its stock price is becoming the more defining number. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
The crypto security firm is expanding its U.S. footprint and strengthening its leadership team as it prepares for a potential public listing.
The crypto industry has seen a number of regulatory changes over the past year, with the Canadian government taking a risk-management, rules-first approach.
Bitcoin RSI signals approached a key moment as analysis said that a higher low was needed next to allow bullish BTC price continuation.
A Bitcoin wallet that has sat untouched since 2012 has suddenly sprung back to life, moving just $56 worth of BTC from a stash now valued at roughly $147 million.
The reactivation of dormant Bitcoin wallets could signal increased market volatility and influence investor sentiment amid economic shifts.
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TradFi is taking another step into fully embracing bitcoin as an asset. Morgan Stanley is creating its own Bitcoin investment fund that will trade on the stock market like a regular exchange‑traded fund (ETF) share. To get it started, the lender is putting in about $1 million of its own money as seed capital. Related Reading: Legendary Bitcoin Trader Says HYPE Will Soar To $150, Here’s Why A TradFi Bitcoin Trust Morgan Stanley has filed another amended S‑1/A for the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), confirming ticker MSBT on NYSE Arca. The bank outlined the ticker symbol in a new submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, revising the Bitcoin fund proposal it first filed in January. The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust would be the first spot Bitcoin ETF not just distribute but directly issued by a major U.S. bank. It would also mark the first time that the seed basket cash will be used to acquire spot BTC before trading begins. We are talking about a 50,000‑share seed basket and roughly $1 million in initial capital. The trust is set to hold bitcoin via custodians (Coinbase Custody and BNY Mellon under the broader ETF plan), with assets stored primarily in cold storage, and shares reflecting the underlying BTC held. Once it launches, regular investors (especially Morgan Stanley clients) will be able to buy and sell MSBT through their normal brokerage accounts, getting regulated, brokerage‑account exposure to bitcoin’s price without touching self‑custody or spot exchanges directly. The trust will also to support both cash and in‑kind creations/redemptions, giving authorized participants (APs) flexibility, just like the main spot Bitcoin ETFs that launched in 2024 Trading And Risk Assessment However, it is worth noting custodians are not FDIC‑insured. This means that if something goes wrong (hack, theft, failure), you don’t have the government safety net that protects U.S. bank deposits up to a certain amount. Besides that, insurance is through private policies, and the ETF still faces market, regulatory and operational risk, especially in a crowded field dominated by BlackRock’s IBIT and other early movers. Related Reading: Hyperliquid Breaks Crypto Wall? Fiat On-Ramp Lets Anyone Trade With Bank Card Morgan Stanley already holds hundreds of millions in existing BTC ETFs and is building a broader crypto stack (Ethereum and Solana filings, trust‑bank application for custody, advisor access to BTC products). A bank‑issued MSBT product could normalize bitcoin exposure for traditional wealth‑management clients, strengthen the “Bitcoin as strategic asset” narrative, and extend the institutional ETF cycle. MSBT’s launch timeline, fee level and early inflows will be key sentiment catalysts. Strong demand could reinforce BTC’s ETF‑driven structural bid, while a lukewarm debut would signal saturation in the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF trade. At the moment of writing, BTC trades on the highs $70k. Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview Cover image from Perplexity, BTCUSD chart from Tradingview
The new $1 billion investment round indicates that interest in the embattled prediction market remains.
Leading crypto and fintech companies are competing to capture growing revenue from stablecoin payments by launching their own settlement infrastructure.
The move builds on earlier reports that Ledger is exploring a New York IPO that could value it at more than $4 billion.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH), up 2.5% from Thursday, joined Aptos (APT) as a top performer.
Bittensor’s TAO ripped higher on Thursday and topped in early European trading on Friday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the project on the All-In podcast, pushing the token from $243.5 to $310.6 before it cooled to $298.1 by press time. The move put one of crypto’s most closely watched AI-linked assets back in focus, not because Huang endorsed the token directly, but because he treated the underlying technical milestone as meaningful in a much bigger debate over open AI infrastructure. The moment came when Chamath Palihapitiya pointed Huang to what he called a “pretty crazy technical accomplishment” inside “this crypto project called Bittensor.” He described a recent training run on Subnet 3 in which participants used distributed excess compute to train a Llama model “totally distributed” while still managing the process statefully. Nvidia CEO Responds To Bittensor’s Accomplishment Huang’s immediate reaction was brief but memorable: “Our modern version of Folding@home.” That line mattered because it effectively reframed Bittensor’s latest milestone in language traditional tech audiences already understand. Folding@home was one of the most recognizable examples of decentralized volunteer computers; Huang’s comparison suggested he viewed Bittensor’s experiment less as crypto theater and more as a legitimate expression of distributed coordination. Related Reading: Austin Arnold Unveils His Top 6 Crypto Altcoin Picks For 2026 In the context of TAO’s price action, traders appeared to read that as external validation from one of the most influential executives in AI hardware. Huang then widened the discussion beyond Bittensor itself and into the structure of the AI market. “I believe we fundamentally need models as first-class products, proprietary products, as well as models as open source. These two things are not A or B, it’s A and B. There’s no question about it,” he said. He followed that with an even sharper distinction: “Models are a technology, not a product. Models are technology, not a service.” Related Reading: Is Dogecoin About To Repeat NVIDIA’s Run? Here’s What The Chart Says He spent the next stretch explaining why that dual-track model matters. For general-purpose consumer use, Huang said most people will continue to prefer turnkey services rather than fine-tuning their own systems. “I would really, really love not to go fine-tune my own. I would really love to keep using ChatGPT. I love to use Claude. I love to use Gemini. I love to use X,” he said, arguing that this horizontal layer of AI products “is thriving” and “is going to be great.” On the @theallinpod this week, @chamath asked @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about decentralized AI training, calling our Covenant-72B run “a pretty crazy technical accomplishment.” One correction: it’s 72 billion parameters, not four. Trained permissionlessly across 70+ contributors… pic.twitter.com/BN0tWG66e8 — templar (@tplr_ai) March 19, 2026 But he drew a hard line when it came to industry-specific deployment, saying domain expertise “has to be captured in a way that they can control,” and that “it can only come from open models.” That distinction goes to the heart of why Bittensor reacted so violently. While Huang didn’t make a token call, or presented Bittensor as the winner of open AI, he did endorse the coexistence of proprietary and open model ecosystems, while acknowledging that specialized industries will need more controllable, open foundations. At press time, TAO traded at $297.0 Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The contracts trade 24/7, are cash-settled in USDC and allow for up to 10-times leverage on single-stock contracts and 20-times on ETF products.
In a major international law-enforcement operation, the FBI and Royal Thai Police raided scam compounds in Thailand, seizing more than 8,000 phones, 1,300 hard drives, and freezing $580 million in cryptocurrency linked to frauds targeting U.S. victims. These compounds, also located in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos, forced trafficked workers to run “pig butchering” scams that …