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US President Donald Trump formally sent the nomination of pro-Bitcoin Kevin Warsh to the US Senate on Wednesday, beginning a process that could replace Jerome Powell when his term ends in May. Related Reading: US Moves Bitcoin During Iran Strikes — Market Watches Closely Reports say the White House ...

Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya says Bitcoin has hit a structural limit that many market participants still do not want to confront: in his view, it lacks the qualities needed for central bank adoption. That matters because, in his framing, sovereign adoption is the missing ingredient for the next ...

Earlier this week, the Executive Chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), Michael Saylor, announced that the company had made another major Bitcoin purchase. The announcement, which was made on Monday, showed that despite the bearish market headwinds, the company has not given up on its Bitcoi...

Morgan Stanley is moving forward with its plans to enter the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) market, submitting an amended registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission as it seeks regulatory approval. On March 4, the Wall Street firm filed an updated Form S-1 for the p...

Binance continued to be the spot volume leader in the crypto sector during 2025, according to CryptoQuant’s annual report on exchanges. Binance Saw $7 Trillion In Spot Crypto Trading Volume In 2025 In a new thread on X, on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has shared insights from its 2025 Annu...

The Federal Reserve’s (Fed) decision this Wednesday to grant its first-ever master account to a crypto-focused institution has triggered swift opposition from major banking groups, intensifying tensions between traditional finance and the digital asset sector at a pivotal moment for US crypto legisl...

Shiba Inu is approaching a pivotal moment, and the latest derivatives data suggests that while top traders still lean bullishon the meme coin, their conviction is steadily fading. Rather than signaling a strong directional move, current positioning reflects a market that is active but cautious. Shib...

The crypto industry took a significant step deeper into the traditional financial system on Wednesday after Kraken Financial, a Wyoming-chartered digital asset bank, was granted a Federal Reserve (Fed) master account. According to one expert, Ripple may follow suit. The approval makes Kraken Financi...

Ethereum is attempting to regain the $2,000 level as the broader crypto market shows early signs of relief after weeks of persistent volatility. The recent stabilization in price action has helped ease short-term selling pressure, allowing ETH to approach a key psychological and technical threshold ...

Kraken, the US’s second-largest crypto exchange, has reportedly secured access to the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) core payment systems, marking a significant milestone as the first crypto firm to operate on the same infrastructure utilized by thousands of banks and credit unions. Related Reading: South ...

XRP has remained under sustained pressure as it struggles to reclaim the $1.50 level, reflecting a broader slowdown in market participation across several major altcoins. In recent weeks, price action has lacked momentum, with rebounds proving short-lived as liquidity conditions remain fragile and i...

Coinbase’s chief publicly accused big banks of trying to choke off parts of a law meant to clear the rules for stablecoins and other crypto products. Brian Armstrong said banks were pushing terms that would make the law less useful to crypto firms, a charge that has widened into a political spat tha

South Korean authorities and the ruling party agree on a 20% ownership ceiling for “major shareholders” in crypto and virtual assets exchanges, with a three‑year implementation delay. From A Strict Proposal To Compromise After months of friction, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Democ...

Data shows the Bitcoin Open Interest witnessed its largest daily spike since July 2025 as the cryptocurrency’s price neared the $70,000 mark. Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Open Interest Shot Up Recently In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Glassnode has highlighted how the Bitcoin Open Inte...

Evernorth CEO Asheesh Birla is laying out an ambitious roadmap for institutional XRP adoption, with crypto analysts predicting that the positive results from this development could fuel a price surge to $100. With plans spanning treasury accumulation, on-chain yield strategies, and a potential Nasda...

Blockstream Research says it has deployed post-quantum signature verification on Liquid, marking what it describes as the first time real transactions on a production Bitcoin sidechain have been signed with a post-quantum scheme. For Bitcoin infrastructure, the significance is less about an immediat...

The US government shifted seized Bitcoin on Monday just as military strikes on Iran sent crypto markets into a sharp sell-off. Related Reading: Stablecoins Pose Fresh Risk To Eurozone Lending, ECB Says On-chain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence tracked three transfers totaling roughly 1.23 Bitc...

Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has issued one of his starkest warnings yet: if the network continues to limit itself to DeFi, obsessing over yields and political meme coins, it will betray Ethereum’s original mission. Ethereum Beyond DeFi In a post on social network X on March 3, Buterin shar...

The future of the CLARITY Act — widely referred to as the crypto market structure bill — remains uncertain after the March 1 deadline set by the White House passed without the expected breakthrough between the banking industry and crypto representatives. Key Hurdle In Crypto Bill Negotiations Despit...

Ethereum saw a brief bounce, which pushed its price above the $2,000 mark, but this upward move seems lost its momentum and has fallen below the level. Amid this, ETH’s price bounce on Tuesday comes a notable spike in the network’s on-chain activity and the creation of new wallet addresses. Ethereum...