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🇺🇸👀 Massive fire erupts at oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas following reported explosion.
🇦🇺🤔 According to Bloomberg, Australia's $105B pension fund Hostplus is considering adding crypto investment options. CIO Sam Sicilia noted the fund is exploring offering $BTC and other digital assets to members via its Choiceplus product, which accounts for approximately 1% of its total assets and allows self-managed retirement portfolios.
🔮 Polymarket will update its fee structure on March 30, 2026, expanding from crypto and sports to additional categories including finance, politics, economics, culture, weather, and tech.

Peak effective rates vary by market, with crypto up to 1.80% and most other categories roughly in the 0.75%–1.50% range. Fees peak at around 50% probability and decline symmetrically toward the extremes.

The changes apply only to markets deployed after the activation date, while existing markets remain unaffected.
🕵️ After 2 years, Blockchain Capital staked another 6,400 $ETH ($13.82M) 3 hours ago.
🐳 A whale who opened a $BRENTOIL long position got fully liquidated due to a sudden price dump, losing $3.08M. Overall, the whale has lost over $4.4M.
🕵️ This gambler (0x9657) opened a 50x long on 1,236 xyz:SP500 ($8.09M) and a 25x long on 2,346 $ETH ($5.01M).

Liquidation prices:
xyz:SP500: $6,525.59
$ETH: $2,095.89
🕵️ #ETH #L1 #L2 The Ethereum Foundation published an article outlining its future vision for the L1 and L2 ecosystem. L1 will continue as the global settlement and DeFi hub, while L2s are encouraged to evolve from pure scaling to providing differentiated services.

The Foundation advises L2s to meet at least Stage 1 security standards and aims for them to progress toward Stage 2, synchronous composability, and "native rollups." Additionally, the EF is committed to further scaling L1 and Blobs, which are currently only ~30% full, while prioritizing solutions to address cross-chain experience fragmentation within the multi-chain ecosystem.
🏦 In the latest text of the Clarity Act, payments in the form of income for simply holding a stablecoin are prohibited. Any approach that equates the program to a bank deposit is restricted. #stablecoin
🇺🇸📊 According to Axios, Kalshi will ban athletes, coaches, and political candidates from trading on markets related to their own events, partnering with IC360 for registration screening. Polymarket has also introduced new rules prohibiting the use of non-public information. These actions come amid increasing regulatory pressure, with U.S. senators proposing a ban on sports-related prediction markets and Arizona prosecutors filing criminal charges against Kalshi for unlicensed operations. #regulation
😱🤑 Fear & Greed Index for #BTC
🕵️ Someone created a new wallet "propescia" and spent $159K betting that:

• US x Iran will not ceasefire by March 31
• US forces will not enter Iran by March 31
• US forces will enter Iran by April 30
🕵️ Eight months ago, trader 0x44a1 bought 2,500 $ETH for $9.42M at an average price of $3,766. He has now sold all remaining 2,250 $ETH for $4.81M, resulting in a total loss of $4.07M (-43%).
📊 According to SoSoValue data, on March 23 (ET), U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $167 million, ending a three-day streak of net outflows.

Meanwhile, Ethereum spot ETFs saw a total net outflow of $16.18 million, marking a four-day streak of net outflows.
🐳 A mysterious whale (0x04d8) withdrew ~$16.06M worth of altcoins from Binance 8 hours ago, including:

- 43.49M $ENA ($4.07M)
- 32,872 $AAVE ($3.64M)
- 249,741 $AVAX ($2.37M)
- 595,886 $UNI ($2.13M)
- 8.07M $ONDO ($2.05M)
- 1.49M $PENDLE ($1.81M)
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🥷 #BAL Balancer Labs, the creator of Balancer, is shutting down following a $116 million hack in November. Balancer Labs' management insists that the protocol will be managed by the Balancer Foundation and the Balancer DAO. #hack
⚖️ According to The Times of Israel, Raz Cohen, a 26-year-old Israeli Iron Dome reservist, has been indicted for allegedly leaking sensitive military secrets to Iranian agents and receiving approximately $1,000 in cryptocurrency as payment.

He could face life imprisonment or the death penalty. The investigation revealed that over several months he passed on details of the Iron Dome air defense system's operation, air base locations, and lists of Israeli officials to Iranian intelligence personnel.
🧑‍💻 #SOL Solana Foundation offers institutions a new privacy-preserving system with cutting-edge technologies, such as zero-knowledge proofs.
💰 ParaFi, a digital asset management firm, has raised $125 million for a new venture fund.
🗽 #TRX #AI TRON DAO increases artificial intelligence fund to $1 billion amid intensifying competition in the agent economy sector
📊 Binance Dominates BTC Spot Trading With $1.43B

Despite rising geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, as indicated by the FRED World Uncertainty Index reaching record levels, Binance continues to maintain BTC Spot volume above the $1 billion threshold.
🇺🇸🥷 According to U Today, the Bitcoin network recently experienced a rare two-block reorganization.

Around block height 941,880, mining pools Foundry USA, AntPool, and ViaBTC formed two temporary competing chains. Foundry USA subsequently mined consecutive blocks, establishing its chain as the main one. Researchers noted that such events are a normal part of Bitcoin's consensus mechanism, rather than an attack or system failure. #hack