JPMorgan: Since the start of the Middle East war, the largest spot gold ETF (#GLD) has seen capital outflow of about 2.7%, while the largest spot Bitcoin ETF (#IBIT) has seen an inflow of 1.5%.
📲Ledger researchers found a bug in Android that allows seed phrases to be stolen.
👥Binance, PayPal, and Ripple have joined Mastercard's new blockchain-based payments project.
🇬🇪The National Bank of Georgia has legalized the issuance of stablecoins for local companies. Issuers are required to obtain regulatory approval and hold 100% of their reserve assets.
🇵🇱The President of Poland signed a law on the transfer of crypto transaction data to tax authorities.
👨💻Analyst: Seven major central banks will announce their interest rate decisions next week, which could increase Bitcoin volatility.
👨💼Coinbase CEO Declares Bitcoin "Anti-Inflation Money"
📊Santiment: Trump's Statements Increase Positive Sentiment Around Bitcoin
🐶Analyst: Dogecoin Rising Amid X Money Launch Announcement in April
🏦The cryptocurrency arm of French bank Société Générale, SG-FORGE, has launched its euro-pegged stablecoin EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) on the Stellar blockchain.
🇰🇷South Korean prosecutors liquidated 320 recovered bitcoins, converting the seized funds into cash instead of storing them as state assets.
ARGENTINA ACCELERATING CRYPTOCURRENCY ADOPTION - WAGES IN $BTC, $USDT, AND $USDC
President Milei just signed the new Labor Law Modernization Act (Law 27.802) on March 6th, explicitly authorizing the payment/denomination of wages and employment contracts in foreign currencies, including $BTC, $USDT, and $USDC.
Combined with the 2023 freedom of contract reforms, Argentines are rapidly adopting dollar-pegged stablecoins for wages, rent, savings, payments, and remittances amid chronic inflation, providing one of the strongest real-world applications in all of Latin America!
❌ Aave experienced an oracle failure, resulting in liquidations of approximately $26 million worth of wstETH positions.
The error occurred in the CAPO (Correlated Asset Price Oracle) mechanism, a protective oracle that limits sharp price movements. As a result, 10,938 wstETH ($26 million) were liquidated.
Aave has already announced that affected users will receive compensation.
📲Elon Musk announced that early public access to "X Money" will launch next month.
🐳Analysts have recorded active accumulation of PUMP and LINK tokens by large holders.
💸Michael Saylor's Bitcoin Treasury Company, Strategy, used proceeds from a stock sale to purchase Bitcoin.
🔐Trust Wallet has implemented protection against address spoofing fraud.
📊Sharplink posted an annual loss of over $730 million amid the Ethereum crash. Sharplink remains one of the largest corporate holders of the asset, holding approximately 867,000 ETH.
👨💻Analyst: Crypto Market Has Stopped Responding to Threats from Chinese Regulators.
📉Korean Companies Face Crisis Due to Attempts to Copy MicroStrategy's Strategy.
📈BitMine predicts the end of the "mini-winter" in the crypto market and is increasing its Ethereum purchases
🇺🇸US Treasury: Crypto mixers can be used legally
📑Aon (AON), one of the world's largest insurance brokers, used USDC on Ethereum and PayPal USD on Solana to pay insurance premiums, testing how stablecoins can change the payment system.
🇺🇸🏦 Major US banks may sue over crypto banking licenses. Banking giants such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and American Express are considering filing a lawsuit against the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over its decision to grant domestic trust bank licenses to crypto firms. The banks argue that issuing such licenses to crypto firms could pose risks to Americans and the financial system as a whole. Companies approved include BitGo, Ripple, Paxos, and Fidelity, as well as Cryptocom, Bridge, and Stripe, which were granted conditional licenses.
🔍🐳 Whale and institutional transactions: 1. Bitmine transferred 5,300 ETH (~$10.75 million) to Coinbase Prime; 2. An address associated with the Bhutanese government transferred ~$11 million in BTC. A similar transfer occurred about a month ago, when ~$7 million in BTC was sold through QCP Capital.
🚀Strategy purchased an additional 17,994 BTC for $1.28 billion
🐳XRP whales have purchased 210 million tokens since March 5th, worth approximately $283.5 million.
🏦The CEO of an American bank expects Ethereum to reach $15,000.
📄Media: Nasdaq, in partnership with Kraken, will launch trading of tokenized stocks.
👨💻Analysts at the trading company QCP Capital stated that, thanks to the escalating war in the Middle East, Bitcoin has assumed a new role – that of a "digital emergency exit."
📊A 30% rise in oil prices triggered a mass liquidation of short positions on Hyperliquid
👥B CryptoQuant called the rise in oil prices an unfavorable factor for Bitcoin
🇰🇷South Korea will allow companies to invest in cryptocurrencies, with restrictions on stablecoins
🇺🇸The US Treasury proposed giving crypto platforms the right to freeze suspicious funds
📑Ripple notes regulatory successes in the UK and EU
📊👀 CoinShares crypto financial flows report for the past week: - Total inflows for the past week were $619 million; - #BTC inflows were $521 million; - #ETH inflows were $88.5 million; - #SOL inflows were $14.6 million.
🇺🇸 US oil prices are falling - down 15 cents a barrel in less than 2 hours, now trading below 104 cents a barrel, on reports that G7 countries are considering releasing 400 million barrels of crude oil inventories.
🤔 According to NYDIG, Bitcoin's recent parallel movement with US software stocks is more likely the result of general exposure to macroeconomic events than any structural convergence. Only a quarter of #BTC's price movements are explained by correlation with the stock market, while at least 75% of its movements are driven by factors outside traditional stock indices.
EXCLUSIVE: Visa launches stablecoin cards in over 100 countries by the end of 2026. Spend digital dollars (USDC) from your crypto wallet at any Visa merchant. The merchant receives payment instantly in local currency. Now available in 18 countries. Expanding to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Cryptocurrency is no longer just for commerce. It's becoming everyday money.