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U.S. and Israel strike Iran, raising questions about costs, legality, and motive
U.S. and Israel strike Iran, raising questions about costs, legality, and motive. Last weekend, the United States and Israel launched significant military attacks against Iran. The fallout was immediate, not just in the Middle East but also in Washington, where politicians and commentators started questioning whether the Trump administration had considered its next course of […]
Mon, Mar 2
Kalshi led prediction markets with $9.8B in total volumes for February
Prediction markets posted a lower total trading volume in February, the first monthly downturn since August 2025. Individual markets like Kalshi posted new records, while Opinion Labs shrank its volumes by 90% from the peak.
Mon, Mar 2
Amazon data center fire disrupts AWS services in Middle East
A fire at an Amazon data center affected by tensions in the Middle East has disrupted operations for major technological products like Claude and ChatGPT, hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Multiple Availability Zones in the Middle East (ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1) are facing severe disruptions after a fire caused by external objects striking a data […]
Mon, Mar 2
KuCoin Enhances Lite Mode With Earn and Feed, Supporting Confident Entry Into Crypto and Broader Adoption
KuCoin, a leading global crypto platform built on trust, today announced an upgrade to KuCoin Lite Mode with the integration of Earn and Feed. The update brings together an intuitive entry experience, low-friction earning options, and actionable market content in a single streamlined interface—helping first-time users reduce complexity without sacrificing capability at the start of […]
Mon, Mar 2
Strategy buys 3,015 bitcoin in largest weekly addition since January
Strategy added 3,015 BTC, with a mixed raise based on STRC preferred stocks and a new MSTR raise, still causing dilution.
Mon, Mar 2
Crypto exchanges activate emergency plans as Middle East conflict escalates
Crypto exchanges, such as Binance, Bybit, and Bitget, have started to issue shelter-in-place, organizational restructuring, and emergency succession plans for their Middle East operations as missiles blow up overhead and tensions escalate since conflicts erupted over the weekend. The Middle East, especially the UAE, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, has gained prominence in the crypto sector […]
Mon, Mar 2
DEX activity defy February pessimism to set new monthly volume record
DEX volumes in February were the best monthly performance since 2020. Despite this, activity slowed down against January's performance with over $402B in DEX trading.
Mon, Mar 2
South Korean regulators commit to custody policy reforms amid mounting losses
South Korea's Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Koo Yoon-cheol announced plans to reform crypto custody policies.
Mon, Mar 2
Russia's Buryatia and Transbaikal to wind down crypto mining ban this month
Crypto mining operations are set to resume in two Russian regions with seasonal restrictions on the activity that may eventually become permanent. The positive development, at this point, comes amid growing uncertainty for Russia’s coin minting industry that recently saw its top player, Bitriver, getting into trouble over debt and taxes. Buryatia and Transbaikal to […]
Mon, Mar 2
Has Bitcoin Failed? The $1 Trillion Identity Crisis, Examined
The headlines have been brutal: Is this Bitcoin’s $1 Trillion identity crisis? Bloomberg, CoinDesk, analysts across the spectrum, all asking the same question: Has Bitcoin fundamentally failed? It’s a fair question Bitcoin has failed the test Bitcoin is down 48% from its October 2025 peak of $126,500 to below $66,000 this week. Hedge funds report […]
Mon, Mar 2
Expect Bitcoin boost and fiat weakness when Fed adjusts to US-Iran conflict, Hayes argues
Arthur Hayes, a co-founder of BitMEX, is using geopolitical flashpoints as a crypto macroplay once more. In his most recent Substack essay, “iOS Warfare,” he makes the argument that a prolonged military invasion of Iran by the United States will almost certainly compel the Federal Reserve to implement aggressive monetary accommodation, with Bitcoin positioned to […]
Mon, Mar 2
RAIL falls behind privacy rally despite Railgun's value locked record in February
Railgun expanded its value locked to a new peak in February, holding over $113M in deposits. The mixer is mostly used to disguise WETH origins for DeFi activity.
Mon, Mar 2
X allows crypto ads again as X Money beta rollout approaches
X lifts its ban on paid crypto promotions, allowing influencers to monetize posts as the X Money beta launch approaches.
Mon, Mar 2
Stocks crash while Bitcoin holds above $66,000 as strikes in Dubai kill 3 people
Iranian strikes hit the UAE, and three people were killed in Dubai after the U.S. and Israel killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials. Markets are getting smoked, with Dow futures -571 points (-1.2%), S&P 500 futures -1%, Nasdaq 100 futures a bit over -1%, while oil jumps and gold futures +2% on the […]
Mon, Mar 2
Market odds tighten on Iran’s next supreme leader
Iran reacted swiftly by forming a temporary ruling body right after Trump announced on that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed.
Sun, Mar 1
Prediction markets draw scrutiny as 'insiders' cash in on Iran weekend attacks
After placing some amazingly accurate bets that the United States would strike Iran, six anonymous accounts on Polymarket won almost $1.2 million. All of this occurred just hours before real bombs began to fall on Tehran and other locations in Iran on February 28. Bubblemaps, a blockchain analytics company, investigated and located those six accounts. […]
Sun, Mar 1
Vitalik Buterin embraces possibility of AI speeding up Ethereum’s 2030 roadmap
Vitalik Buterin said AI helped create Ethereum’s 2030 roadmap in just 2 weeks, rather than years.
Sun, Mar 1
I Almost Got Hacked on a Microsoft Teams Call — Here’s How the Scam Works
Let me tell you how I came within steps of becoming a victim in an elaborate social engineering scheme designed to exploit something so routine and apparently harmless as a Microsoft Teams call earlier today. For most of the interaction, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Someone who I thought was an industry contact reached […]
Sun, Mar 1
Crypto losses from hacks fall to lowest level since March 2025
February 2026 ended with the lowest recorded figure in monthly losses from cryptocurrency scams since March 2025 at $37.7 million
Sun, Mar 1
Bitcoin Dev Martin Habovštiak tests network limits targeting BIP-110 claims
Bitcoin developer Martin Habovštiak stored a 66KB image on the Bitcoin blockchain to challenge the proposed BIP-110 anti-spam rules.
Sun, Mar 1
