🗞 24-HOUR NEWS CATCH-UP – March 31, 2026
🚨 Over $195M liquidated in the past hour as Bitcoin fell below $65K.
🚨 US officials & Wall Street analysts weigh oil hitting $200/barrel if Strait of Hormuz crisis deepens (Bloomberg/Macquarie).
🇺🇸 Senate Banking Committee plans Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh confirmation hearing as early as week of April 13 (Punchbowl).
🔥 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse: Crypto has gone from “rat poison” to rewiring the financial system as companies race to adopt stablecoins & digital assets.
🚨 Global uncertainty hit an all-time high on the World Uncertainty Index last year — surpassing Covid, 2008 crisis & every major event since 1990 (FRED).
🔥 BlackRock hiring Managing Director of Digital Assets in NYC — up to $350K base to lead crypto & tokenization strategy.
🚨 Crypto Fear & Greed Index at 8 (Extreme Fear) — stuck in the zone for 59 consecutive days.
🚨 Ethereum +1.33% in March, snapping two months of double-digit losses.
📊 Digital asset funds saw $414M outflows — first in 5 weeks — amid Iran tensions & rate fears.
⚡️ Michael Saylor’s Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases last week.
🇺🇸 POWELL: “We will get inflation back to 2%.”
🇺🇸 Senators Bill Cassidy & Cynthia Lummis introduced the “Mined in America Act” to boost U.S. crypto mining, cut foreign hardware reliance & codify Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
🚨 S&P 500 fell 0.71% to 6,323; Nasdaq dropped 1.15% as markets shrugged off Powell’s no-hike signals.
🚨 David Bailey’s Nakamoto Inc. sold 284 $BTC for ~$20M in March at avg. $70,422 (per 10-K).
🔥 Ripple Prime expanded HyperLiquid integration with HIP-3 symbols — giving institutions on-chain perps access to Gold, Silver & Oil.
🚨$XAU (Gold) posts worst monthly decline since October 2008, down 15% in March despite Iran war entering week 5, oil-driven inflation shock crushes safe-haven trade.
