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Tether spent early 2026 expanding into gold. By the end of March, it had already cut the senior hires behind that push, turning what looked like an ambition story into a test of how the company wants to look before

With the first quarter of 2026 over, Bitcoin’s weak showing looks less like a single crypto-specific break and more like the product of a market that spent the past months under growing macro and geopolitical pressure. As Q1 closed out on

Bitcoin is no longer responding to rising global liquidity the way it did in the last cycle. Even as money supply expands, a stronger dollar is tightening financial conditions faster than liquidity can lift prices. Bitcoin traders love one chart more

Senate Banking is targeting the second half of April for a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with Easter recess running through Apr. 13. Senator Cynthia Lummis publicly confirmed the timetable, and Senator Bernie Moreno put the deadline plainly:

Bitcoin rose back above $68,000 on March 31 after markets began to bet on a resolution to the Iran-US-Israel War and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran was prepared to end the war under certain conditions. Data from CryptoSlate showed the

America holds roughly 38% of global Bitcoin mining capacity, and the specialized hardware powering that position comes overwhelmingly from Chinese manufacturers. Senators Bill Cassidy and Cynthia Lummis introduced the Mined in America Act on Mar. 30 to address that gap, proposing

The Midnight Foundation declared its network live on Mar. 29, with the genesis block dated Mar. 17. That launch gives Cardano's community its first production test of Charles Hoskinson's argument that public blockchains cannot reach regulated finance, identity, and business use

Bitcoin price is entering a pivotal week with several on-chain models pushing the market’s floor lower just as investors brace for fresh signals from the Federal Reserve and the US labor market. The shift has sharpened a debate that is no

Bitcoin reclaims $67k after a weekend spent below support, while $68k sets the first test for the new week Bitcoin price opened the new week with a modest structural improvement after spending most of the weekend below one of its most

Ripple is trying to reshape the institutional case for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) around two issues that have long limited the use of public blockchains in mainstream finance: privacy and software risk. The company’s argument is that banks, payment firms, and

Washington is building a cleaner lane for digital dollars, and the consequence for Bitcoin is becoming easier to map. Over the past year, U.S. lawmakers, regulators, and the White House have moved in the same direction. The GENIUS Act framework advanced

Bitcoin's price dropped below $67,000 this weekend, after a brutal slide that left it more than 40% below its October 2025 peak. In February, BTC had fallen about 47% from its high near $126,000. In an earlier version of this market,

Even the safest corners of the market can start to look uneasy when oil jumps, war drags on, and investors begin to wonder whether inflation is heading back in the wrong direction. That was the message we got from Tuesday’s sale

Marco Rubio sat down with G7 foreign ministers and told them privately that the war with Iran could continue another two to four weeks, handing Washington's closest allies and the market a countdown. Reports noted that Rubio publicly said the operation

Bitcoin price has never finished a year positive after a start this bad Bitcoin seasonality is one of those market narratives that stays alive because the average is easy to screenshot. The problem is that the average often hides the only

Bitcoin has never finished a year positive after a start this bad Bitcoin seasonality is one of those market narratives that stays alive because the average is easy to screenshot. The problem is that the average often hides the only thing

The crypto industry has framed its quantum reckoning as a single catastrophic “Q-Day” moment when a sufficiently powerful machine arrives, old cryptographic keys shatter, and blockchain history unravels. This week, that moment may have been brought forward into this decade. The

A poisoned release of LiteLLM turned a routine Python install into a crypto-aware secret stealer that searched for wallets, Solana validator material, and cloud credentials every time Python started. On Mar. 24, between 10:39 UTC and 16:00 UTC, an attacker who