The firm’s application was approved on March 23, three days after it was submitted, appointing Visa the highest Super Validator weight.
The Bitcoin price has started to stabilize around the $70K region after a sharp pullback, with signs of easing sell-side pressure and improving ETF flows. The immediate downside momentum has slowed, but the recovery still lacks conviction. Spot volumes remain muted, and overhead supply continues to cap upside moves. This puts BTC in a familiar …
Tourism-driven stability in the Yucatan highlights Mexico's unique approach to governance and regional safety.
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Franklin Templeton's move to 24/7 tokenized ETF trading signals a shift towards blockchain-based finance, impacting liquidity and market dynamics.
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The long-standing legal saga surrounding XRP is once again under scrutiny after analyst Jesse from Apex Crypto Insights shared views hinting the case may not have been what it seemed. In a recent discussion, Jesse described the lawsuit involving Ripple Labs as potentially strategic rather than purely legal, stating that his initial belief was that …
AI-driven behavioral scoring boosts TitanX's connect rates to 25%, significantly outperforming industry standards.
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The guidelines ban profit-sharing and guaranteed return arrangements, aiming to prevent conflicts of interest and manipulative trading.
The latest draft of the CLARITY Act hit both stocks, but one analyst says the bill could ultimately shift bargaining power toward Circle and away from Coinbase.
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Circle shares fell about 20% on Tuesday amid reports that draft provisions in the CLARITY Act could limit rewards.
The move expands access to U.S. markets as tokenized securities gain traction among digital investors.
Bittensor (TAO) price is starting to build momentum again, with price holding a steady uptrend and recently breaking above the key $310 resistance zone. The move signals renewed strength, especially as the broader AI narrative continues to gain traction. At the same time, activity within Bittensor’s subnet ecosystem is beginning to stand out. Subnets, where …
Ethereum is trading below $2,200. The market is volatile. And yet, quietly, the structural case for ETH has never looked more constrained on the supply side. A new CryptoQuant report reveals that 38.31 million ETH — roughly 31.4% of the total supply — is now locked in staking, an all-time high. That is not a footnote. It is the most significant supply development in Ethereum’s recent history, and the price has not caught up to it yet. Related Reading: Bitcoin Structure Has Changed: UTXO Data Challenges Traditional Cycle Narratives The data is unambiguous: the ETH 2.0 Staking Rate indicator just recorded its highest reading ever, meaning nearly one in three Ether in existence is off the market, unavailable for immediate sale, and contributing nothing to exchange liquidity. Simultaneously, the circulating supply of Ethereum on Binance has fallen to its lowest level since 2020 — a parallel compression that tightens the market from two directions at once. The analysis reveals a market hollowing out from the inside. Sellers have less to sell. Buyers face a thinner book. And volatility, for now, is masking a structural shift that the price has yet to fully price in. A Market Being Drained From Both Ends The report makes the consequence plain: nearly one third of all Ethereum in existence is no longer available for immediate sale. That is not a temporary dislocation. It is the cumulative result of a sustained behavioral shift — investors moving capital out of active trading and into long-term staking, with no indication of reversal. The exchange data sharpens the picture further. Ethereum’s circulating supply on exchanges has fallen to its lowest level since 2016. Not since last cycle. Not since the last correction. Since 2016, a figure that reframes the entire conversation about where this market stands structurally. What that number means in practice is straightforward: the book is thin. When available supply contracts to historic lows, the market loses its buffer. Modest buying pressure — the kind that would barely register in a liquid market — becomes capable of triggering outsized price moves. The mechanism for a supply shock is not theoretical. It is already assembled. Selling pressure is declining because sellers are becoming holders. Holders are becoming stakers. And stakers, by definition, are not selling. The market is not just tightening. It is being restructured in real time. Related Reading: Ethereum Price Divergence Signals Weak US Buying Pressure: Coinbase Premium Stays Negative The Chart Tells a Harder Story Ethereum is currently trading at $2,180, up 6.16% on the week but still navigating one of the more structurally precarious positions it has occupied since the 2022 bear market. The weekly candle opened at $2,053, tapped a high of $2,198, and has not yet reclaimed it — a detail that matters. The longer context is sobering. After peaking near $4,800 in early 2025, ETH has retraced more than 50% over roughly twelve months. The current price sits below all three major moving averages visible on the chart — the short-term blue, the mid-term green, and the long-term red — an alignment that technically defines a market still in distribution, not accumulation. Related Reading: Bitmine Locks 68% of Ethereum Holdings As Staking Position Surpasses $6.75B What the chart also shows is where support has historically lived. The $2,000 level has acted as a structural floor across multiple cycles, and last week’s wick to $1,700 — which was bought aggressively, as the volume spike confirms — suggests that floor is being defended. For now. The critical question is not whether $2,180 holds. It is whether ETH can reclaim $2,500 and put distance between itself and those moving averages. Until it does, every rally is a test, not a trend. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com
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The Vienna-based crypto broker announced its Ethereum layer-2, aimed at helping European banks and fintechs issue tokenized assets under MiCA and MiFID II.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and other tech leaders will advise President Trump on emerging technology policy.
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Bitmine officially launched the MAVAN Ethereum staking platform, targeting roughly $300 million in annual rewards.
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Geopolitical tensions and uncertainty are impacting market stability, affecting Bitcoin's momentum and broader economic outlook.
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Onchain protocols and apps will now be able to stream Coinbase's order book and derivatives trading data directly.
A UK review led by Philip Rycroft recommended a temporary moratorium on crypto political donations until stronger safeguards and statutory guidance are in place.
The Bitcoin price isn’t crashing because miners are dumping. That’s the easy narrative and right now, it’s wrong. Since early 2025, the Miner Supply Ratio has been sliding lower, meaning miners are actually sending less BTC to exchanges like Binance. Normally, that should ease selling pressure. Prices should stabilize… maybe even bounce. But instead? Price …
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Bitcoin’s latest stretch of sideways price action around $70,000 is being read by some traders as a sign that the cryptocurrency is finally settling down. However, technical analysis shows that the structure now forming on the daily chart might not actually be a recovery base at all but a distribution pattern before a new low that has already appeared once before during a bigger decline since late 2025. Bitcoin’s Distribution Mechanism Is Still The Same According to a crypto analyst that goes by the name Ardi on the social media platform X, Bitcoin’s distribution phases keep looking identical because the mechanism never really changes. This is in relation to Bitcoin’s current price action, which has been trading in a range between $63,000 and $72,000 since early February. Related Reading: Breaking Down The $100 XRP Prophecy: Is There A Timeline? The idea behind this technical analysis is that Bitcoin’s behavior in bearish phases tends to follow a recognizable sequence. Price moves into a range, traders begin to treat the consolidation as stability, liquidity builds above local highs, and then a brief breakout above the range pulls in optimism from many crypto traders. However, that optimism does not always last. Once the price fails to hold above the range highs, the structure starts to weaken, and the next breakdown to the range support takes place. The chart attached to the analysis presents two nearly identical subsections. The first distribution range played out between roughly the mid-$80,000 region and the low-$90,000s between November 2025 and January 2026. This move eventually concluded with Bitcoin pushing higher, touching highs around $96,000, failing to accept above the range, and then breaking down towards the lower end of the range. That decline led into a break below the low support level that eventually dragged the price to as low as $63,000 in early February. Bitcoin Price Chart. Source: @ArdiNSC On X Why A Move Below $50,000 Is Now On The Table A sweep of local highs above $76,000 in early March generated headlines about how the Bitcoin price is now recovering. However, the price ultimately failed to hold above the range and began rolling over again. As it stands, price action in the past few days has mostly been bearish candlesticks, which have caused the Bitcoin price to be pushing to the lower end of the current range again. Related Reading: 4 Bitcoin Targets To Be On The Lookout For As Price Retests S/R Zone The most bearish part of the chart is the projected zone that follows the current range. Projecting the previous markdown in late January to the current price action would see the Bitcoin price break below the local $63,000 bottom. Particularly, the chart projected a similar outcome, with the highlighted markdown box extending down to $50,000 and as low as $48,000. This projection follows similar outlooks from multiple analysts that have predicted Bitcoin might break below $50,000 before creating a new bottom. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com