▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷Eric Trump's "American Bitcoin" (ABTC) now holds 6,000 BTC worth over $400 million
🔷Michael Saylor's Strategy has acquired 592 BTC for ~$39.8 million at ~$67,286 per bitcoin
- now holds 717,722 $BTC acquired for ~$54.56 billion at ~$76,020 per bitcoin
🔷Tom Lee's Bitmine Has Added Additional 51,162 ETH, and Now Holds 4,422,659 ETH
🔷BGD Labs (DeFi service provider) to cease Aave contributions after four years as governance tensions grow
🔷"Lobstar Wilde," an automated AI crypto trading bot created by an OpenAI employee, "accidentally" sent its entire stash of its own memecoin — about 5% of the total supply — to an X user who had requested only 4 SOL
- The recipient quickly sold the 53 million Lobstar tokens for about $40,000 due to limited liquidity, though that same amount later rose in value to more than $400,000 as attention boosted the token
🔷Hyperliquid 'SuperApp' Based raises $11.5 million Series A led by Pantera
- with Coinbase Ventures and Wintermute Ventures participating, structured as an equity investment with token warrants
- the app combines perpetual trading, prediction markets, wallet services, and crypto-linked payments into a single consumer-facing platform
- Based said it has surpassed 100,000 registered users, generated about $40 billion in cumulative trading volume, and produced nearly $14 million in revenue
🔷Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets Announce Shutdown Following January Hack
🔷Eric Trump's "American Bitcoin" (ABTC) now holds 6,000 BTC worth over $400 million
🔷Michael Saylor's Strategy has acquired 592 BTC for ~$39.8 million at ~$67,286 per bitcoin
- now holds 717,722 $BTC acquired for ~$54.56 billion at ~$76,020 per bitcoin
🔷Tom Lee's Bitmine Has Added Additional 51,162 ETH, and Now Holds 4,422,659 ETH
🔷BGD Labs (DeFi service provider) to cease Aave contributions after four years as governance tensions grow
🔷"Lobstar Wilde," an automated AI crypto trading bot created by an OpenAI employee, "accidentally" sent its entire stash of its own memecoin — about 5% of the total supply — to an X user who had requested only 4 SOL
- The recipient quickly sold the 53 million Lobstar tokens for about $40,000 due to limited liquidity, though that same amount later rose in value to more than $400,000 as attention boosted the token
🔷Hyperliquid 'SuperApp' Based raises $11.5 million Series A led by Pantera
- with Coinbase Ventures and Wintermute Ventures participating, structured as an equity investment with token warrants
- the app combines perpetual trading, prediction markets, wallet services, and crypto-linked payments into a single consumer-facing platform
- Based said it has surpassed 100,000 registered users, generated about $40 billion in cumulative trading volume, and produced nearly $14 million in revenue
🔷Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets Announce Shutdown Following January Hack
▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷Former Ethereum treasury-themed company ETHZilla has dropped the “Ethereum treasury” label after a sharp share-price decline
- announcing it will rename itself Forum Markets and begin trading on Nasdaq under the new ticker FRMM starting March 2, formally shifting from an “ETH-on-balance-sheet” strategy to tokenized real-world assets (RWA)
🔷Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake released a “strawmap” proposed by the EF protocol team
- outlining roughly seven planned forks through 2029 with an assumed cadence of one upgrade every six months
- The document sets five long-term goals: faster L1 targeting finality in seconds, 1 gigagas/sec throughput, high-throughput L2 via data availability sampling, post-quantum cryptography, and native privacy-preserving ETH transfers
🔷Tether made a strategic investment in online marketplace Whop
- which plans to integrate Tether’s Wallet Development Kit to support self-custodial stablecoin payments in USD₮ and USA₮
🔷Meta is reportedly planning a stablecoin comeback in the second half of 2026
- exploring partnerships with third-party firms to manage stablecoin-based payments and a new wallet
🔷ZachXBT names Axiom in investigation into alleged employee insider trading
- The report claimed a senior business development employee known as "Broox" was using internal dashboards to track users by referral code, wallet address, and user ID
- Broox and other Axiom-linked associates discussed using the privileged access to execute trades, including outlining a plan to help another employee profit $200,000
🔷Wallet in Telegram unveils yield for Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT holdings
- The feature connects users to third-party DeFi strategies, with its USDT vaults claiming to offer up to 18% blended annual yield
- Morpho, TAC, and Re7 are helping facilitate the integration
🔷Magic Eden will shut down its Bitcoin and EVM marketplaces and discontinue support for its multi-chain wallet
- The company will continue to support Solana NFTs and assets
🔷Decibel, a perpetuals exchange incubated by Aptos Labs, announced its official launch
- it plans to add spot markets, multi-collateral accounts, and tokenized RWA, expanding its business beyond crypto derivatives
🔷MetaMask has partnered with Mastercard to launch a payment card in the U.S. featuring on-chain rewards
- The card is enabled by fintech firm Baanx and CompoSecure
🔷Former Ethereum treasury-themed company ETHZilla has dropped the “Ethereum treasury” label after a sharp share-price decline
- announcing it will rename itself Forum Markets and begin trading on Nasdaq under the new ticker FRMM starting March 2, formally shifting from an “ETH-on-balance-sheet” strategy to tokenized real-world assets (RWA)
🔷Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake released a “strawmap” proposed by the EF protocol team
- outlining roughly seven planned forks through 2029 with an assumed cadence of one upgrade every six months
- The document sets five long-term goals: faster L1 targeting finality in seconds, 1 gigagas/sec throughput, high-throughput L2 via data availability sampling, post-quantum cryptography, and native privacy-preserving ETH transfers
🔷Tether made a strategic investment in online marketplace Whop
- which plans to integrate Tether’s Wallet Development Kit to support self-custodial stablecoin payments in USD₮ and USA₮
🔷Meta is reportedly planning a stablecoin comeback in the second half of 2026
- exploring partnerships with third-party firms to manage stablecoin-based payments and a new wallet
🔷ZachXBT names Axiom in investigation into alleged employee insider trading
- The report claimed a senior business development employee known as "Broox" was using internal dashboards to track users by referral code, wallet address, and user ID
- Broox and other Axiom-linked associates discussed using the privileged access to execute trades, including outlining a plan to help another employee profit $200,000
🔷Wallet in Telegram unveils yield for Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT holdings
- The feature connects users to third-party DeFi strategies, with its USDT vaults claiming to offer up to 18% blended annual yield
- Morpho, TAC, and Re7 are helping facilitate the integration
🔷Magic Eden will shut down its Bitcoin and EVM marketplaces and discontinue support for its multi-chain wallet
- The company will continue to support Solana NFTs and assets
🔷Decibel, a perpetuals exchange incubated by Aptos Labs, announced its official launch
- it plans to add spot markets, multi-collateral accounts, and tokenized RWA, expanding its business beyond crypto derivatives
🔷MetaMask has partnered with Mastercard to launch a payment card in the U.S. featuring on-chain rewards
- The card is enabled by fintech firm Baanx and CompoSecure
▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷NYSE parent ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at $25 billion valuation
🔷John Daghita, a suspect in the alleged theft of more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from U.S. Marshals Service wallets, was arrested in Saint Martin in a joint operation between the FBI and French authorities
• son of the president of CMDSS — a U.S. government contractor that manages seized crypto
🔷Kraken's banking arm has secured a Federal Reserve master account
• gaining direct access to the Fedwire real-time gross settlement system for immediate, final payments between participating institutions
🔷The Aave Chan Initiative, a major Aave DAO delegate and service provider founded by Marc Zeller, said it will leave the DAO by July
The departure follows BGD Labs' recent decision to step away in April
🔷MARA revised its 2026 digital asset management strategy to allow sales of bitcoin held on its balance sheet
• The miner held 53,822 BTC worth $4.7 billion at the end of 2025
🔷Michael Saylor's Strategy bought another 3,015 BTC for $204.1 million at an average price of $67,700
• pushing its total holdings to 720,737 BTC
🔷Tom lee’s BitMine last week purchased 50,928 ETH at an average price of $1,976 per coin
• BitMine holds 4,473,587 ETH (worth approximately $8.84 billion), as well as 195 BTC, $868 million in cash, a $200 million investment in Beast Industries, and a $14 million investment in Eightco Holdings
🔷The "Aave Will Win" proposal's temp check passed with 52.6% support, backing a plan to route 100% of Aave Labs' product revenue to the DAO treasury and anchor development around V4
• The framework proposes new initiatives, including an Aave App, Aave Card, and a potential AAVE ETP, while transitioning V3 into maintenance as V4 matures
🔷South Korea's National Tax Service published an unredacted wallet recovery phrase in a press release photo, after which 4 million PRTG tokens
— theoretically worth about $4.8 million at prevailing prices — were transferred to an unidentified address in a suspected breach, according to local media
🔷The SEC has dismissed the claims it brought in 2023 against Justin Sun, the Tron Foundation and the BitTorrent Foundation
Meanwhile, Rainberry, formerly BitTorrent Inc., agreed to pay a $10 million civil penalty to the SEC
• The case had alleged unregistered securities sales of TRX and BTT and market manipulation
🔷Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, a16z crypto, is raising its fifth crypto fund with a target of about $2 billion and aims to close the raise in the first half of 2026
🔷Crypto-focused venture firm Paradigm is expanding its investment mandate to include artificial intelligence, robotics and other frontier technologies
🔷Sui blockchain’s native stablecoin, USDsui, has officially launched
• the yield will be used to repurchase and burn SUI tokens or deployed to DeFi protocols and automated market-making to incentivize trading
• USDsui is issued by stablecoin firm Bridge, which was acquired by payments giant Stripe last year
🔷Predict fun, an onchain prediction market on BNB Chain, has completed the strategic acquisition of Probable, a platform originally incubated by PancakeSwap and YZi Labs
🔷ARQ, a Latin American financial application focused on stablecoins, has raised $70 million in funding, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund
🔷Kalshi is partnering with luxury watch marketplace Bezel to launch event contracts tied to high-end watches
🔷Bitcoin miner Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ) expects to sell roughly all of its 2,500 BTC holdings in Q1 2026 to boost liquidity and fund capital expenditures tied to its AI colocation expansion
🔷X user Sillytuna was targeted in a real-world attack by thieves who stole $23.6M of AAVE USDC from him
• “Involved violence, weapons, kidnapp and rape threats”
🔷ZKsync has set May 4, 2026 as the official deprecation date for ZKsync Lite, the original payment-focused ZK-rollup, as the project consolidates development around newer chains and the broader zkSync ecosystem
🔷NYSE parent ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at $25 billion valuation
🔷John Daghita, a suspect in the alleged theft of more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from U.S. Marshals Service wallets, was arrested in Saint Martin in a joint operation between the FBI and French authorities
• son of the president of CMDSS — a U.S. government contractor that manages seized crypto
🔷Kraken's banking arm has secured a Federal Reserve master account
• gaining direct access to the Fedwire real-time gross settlement system for immediate, final payments between participating institutions
🔷The Aave Chan Initiative, a major Aave DAO delegate and service provider founded by Marc Zeller, said it will leave the DAO by July
The departure follows BGD Labs' recent decision to step away in April
🔷MARA revised its 2026 digital asset management strategy to allow sales of bitcoin held on its balance sheet
• The miner held 53,822 BTC worth $4.7 billion at the end of 2025
🔷Michael Saylor's Strategy bought another 3,015 BTC for $204.1 million at an average price of $67,700
• pushing its total holdings to 720,737 BTC
🔷Tom lee’s BitMine last week purchased 50,928 ETH at an average price of $1,976 per coin
• BitMine holds 4,473,587 ETH (worth approximately $8.84 billion), as well as 195 BTC, $868 million in cash, a $200 million investment in Beast Industries, and a $14 million investment in Eightco Holdings
🔷The "Aave Will Win" proposal's temp check passed with 52.6% support, backing a plan to route 100% of Aave Labs' product revenue to the DAO treasury and anchor development around V4
• The framework proposes new initiatives, including an Aave App, Aave Card, and a potential AAVE ETP, while transitioning V3 into maintenance as V4 matures
🔷South Korea's National Tax Service published an unredacted wallet recovery phrase in a press release photo, after which 4 million PRTG tokens
— theoretically worth about $4.8 million at prevailing prices — were transferred to an unidentified address in a suspected breach, according to local media
🔷The SEC has dismissed the claims it brought in 2023 against Justin Sun, the Tron Foundation and the BitTorrent Foundation
Meanwhile, Rainberry, formerly BitTorrent Inc., agreed to pay a $10 million civil penalty to the SEC
• The case had alleged unregistered securities sales of TRX and BTT and market manipulation
🔷Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, a16z crypto, is raising its fifth crypto fund with a target of about $2 billion and aims to close the raise in the first half of 2026
🔷Crypto-focused venture firm Paradigm is expanding its investment mandate to include artificial intelligence, robotics and other frontier technologies
🔷Sui blockchain’s native stablecoin, USDsui, has officially launched
• the yield will be used to repurchase and burn SUI tokens or deployed to DeFi protocols and automated market-making to incentivize trading
• USDsui is issued by stablecoin firm Bridge, which was acquired by payments giant Stripe last year
🔷Predict fun, an onchain prediction market on BNB Chain, has completed the strategic acquisition of Probable, a platform originally incubated by PancakeSwap and YZi Labs
🔷ARQ, a Latin American financial application focused on stablecoins, has raised $70 million in funding, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund
🔷Kalshi is partnering with luxury watch marketplace Bezel to launch event contracts tied to high-end watches
🔷Bitcoin miner Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ) expects to sell roughly all of its 2,500 BTC holdings in Q1 2026 to boost liquidity and fund capital expenditures tied to its AI colocation expansion
🔷X user Sillytuna was targeted in a real-world attack by thieves who stole $23.6M of AAVE USDC from him
• “Involved violence, weapons, kidnapp and rape threats”
🔷ZKsync has set May 4, 2026 as the official deprecation date for ZKsync Lite, the original payment-focused ZK-rollup, as the project consolidates development around newer chains and the broader zkSync ecosystem
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▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷Michael Saylor’s Strategy has acquired 17,994 BTC for ~$1.28 billion at ~$70,946 per bitcoin
• Now holds 738,731 $BTC acquired for ~$56.04 billion at ~$75,862 per bitcoin
🔷Ethereum Foundation has begun staking part of its treasury using infrastructure from Bitwise Asset Management’s Onchain Solutions
- starting with 2,016 ETH and planning to stake about 70,000 ETH (~$140 million)
🔷Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) announced it has raised over $25 million in seed funding from investors including Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, and Coinbase Ventures
• It amis to support development of Zodl, a self-custodial privacy wallet for Zcash
🔷Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it added 60,976 ETH over the past week, bringing its holdings to 4.53 million ETH
🔷Stablecoin payments firm KAST has raised $80 million in a funding round co-led by QED Investors and Left Lane Capital, valuing the company at about $600 million
• KAST provides accounts for storing, earning and spending stablecoins, and expects its annual revenue run rate to rise to $100 million this year
🔷The total value of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) has reached $24.9 billion, growing nearly 4× over the past year
• U.S. Treasuries and commodities accounted for 58% of the growth, while the share of U.S. Treasuries declined from 59% to 43%, indicating the RWA market is becoming increasingly diversified
🔷Nasdaq has partnered with Kraken's parent company Payward to build infrastructure linking tokenized equity markets with decentralized finance networks
• Kraken's xStocks framework will power the blockchain infrastructure layer connecting tokenized stocks to DeFi networks in eligible jurisdictions
• Nasdaq expects its tokenized equity design and related distributed-ledger services to begin rolling out in the first half of 2027
🔷Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority ordered four entities operating under the KuCoin brand to halt "unlicensed" crypto activities in or from the emirate
• The regulator said KuCoin does not hold authorization under Dubai's virtual asset laws and accused the crypto exchange of misrepresenting its licensing status
🔷Michael Saylor’s Strategy has acquired 17,994 BTC for ~$1.28 billion at ~$70,946 per bitcoin
• Now holds 738,731 $BTC acquired for ~$56.04 billion at ~$75,862 per bitcoin
🔷Ethereum Foundation has begun staking part of its treasury using infrastructure from Bitwise Asset Management’s Onchain Solutions
- starting with 2,016 ETH and planning to stake about 70,000 ETH (~$140 million)
🔷Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) announced it has raised over $25 million in seed funding from investors including Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, and Coinbase Ventures
• It amis to support development of Zodl, a self-custodial privacy wallet for Zcash
🔷Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it added 60,976 ETH over the past week, bringing its holdings to 4.53 million ETH
🔷Stablecoin payments firm KAST has raised $80 million in a funding round co-led by QED Investors and Left Lane Capital, valuing the company at about $600 million
• KAST provides accounts for storing, earning and spending stablecoins, and expects its annual revenue run rate to rise to $100 million this year
🔷The total value of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) has reached $24.9 billion, growing nearly 4× over the past year
• U.S. Treasuries and commodities accounted for 58% of the growth, while the share of U.S. Treasuries declined from 59% to 43%, indicating the RWA market is becoming increasingly diversified
🔷Nasdaq has partnered with Kraken's parent company Payward to build infrastructure linking tokenized equity markets with decentralized finance networks
• Kraken's xStocks framework will power the blockchain infrastructure layer connecting tokenized stocks to DeFi networks in eligible jurisdictions
• Nasdaq expects its tokenized equity design and related distributed-ledger services to begin rolling out in the first half of 2027
🔷Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority ordered four entities operating under the KuCoin brand to halt "unlicensed" crypto activities in or from the emirate
• The regulator said KuCoin does not hold authorization under Dubai's virtual asset laws and accused the crypto exchange of misrepresenting its licensing status
▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷A crypto whale lost nearly $50 million after attempting to swap $50 million in aEthUSDT for aEthAAVE through Aave's swap interface powered by DEX aggregator CoW Protocol
• The trade returned only 324 aEthAAVE — about $36,000 worth — after the user accepted extraordinary slippage warnings
• CoW Protocol said the transaction executed exactly according to the parameters of the signed order and showed clear price impact warnings
🔷The Official Trump memecoin team launched a second promotion on Thursday, offering invitations to a conference and luncheon at Mar-a-Lago for the top token holders
• Eligibility is based on a leaderboard tracking time-weighted TRUMP holdings between March 12 and April 10
• According to the TrumpMeme website, a crypto and business conference will be held on April 25, 2026 at Mar-a-Lago
🔷Aave suffered a temporary oracle malfunction that triggered roughly $26 million in unfair liquidations of wstETH positions across 34 accounts
• The discrepancy led to the liquidation of about 10,938 wstETH, with third-party liquidators earning roughly 499 ETH from the event
• Chaos Labs, Aave's primary risk management provider, said affected users will be compensated using recovered funds and up to 345 ETH from the Aave DAO treasury
🔷Ethereum Foundation said it sold 5,000 ETH via an OTC transaction at an average price of $2,042.96, with Tom Lee’s BitMine as the counterparty, for a total value of approximately $10.38 million
🔷The Dubai TOKEN2049 summit, originally scheduled for April 29-30, 2026, has been postponed to April 21-22, 2027
🔷Starknet launched STRK20, a new privacy token standard providing default anonymity for ERC-20 tokens
• powered by Starknet Privacy Pool and ZK-proofs, the standard obscures sender/receiver addresses and transaction amounts on-chain while maintaining compatibility with DeFi operations like DEX trading and staking
🔷Crypto lender BlockFills files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after weeks of turmoil
• $50-100M assets vs $100-500M debts
🔷A crypto whale lost nearly $50 million after attempting to swap $50 million in aEthUSDT for aEthAAVE through Aave's swap interface powered by DEX aggregator CoW Protocol
• The trade returned only 324 aEthAAVE — about $36,000 worth — after the user accepted extraordinary slippage warnings
• CoW Protocol said the transaction executed exactly according to the parameters of the signed order and showed clear price impact warnings
🔷The Official Trump memecoin team launched a second promotion on Thursday, offering invitations to a conference and luncheon at Mar-a-Lago for the top token holders
• Eligibility is based on a leaderboard tracking time-weighted TRUMP holdings between March 12 and April 10
• According to the TrumpMeme website, a crypto and business conference will be held on April 25, 2026 at Mar-a-Lago
🔷Aave suffered a temporary oracle malfunction that triggered roughly $26 million in unfair liquidations of wstETH positions across 34 accounts
• The discrepancy led to the liquidation of about 10,938 wstETH, with third-party liquidators earning roughly 499 ETH from the event
• Chaos Labs, Aave's primary risk management provider, said affected users will be compensated using recovered funds and up to 345 ETH from the Aave DAO treasury
🔷Ethereum Foundation said it sold 5,000 ETH via an OTC transaction at an average price of $2,042.96, with Tom Lee’s BitMine as the counterparty, for a total value of approximately $10.38 million
🔷The Dubai TOKEN2049 summit, originally scheduled for April 29-30, 2026, has been postponed to April 21-22, 2027
🔷Starknet launched STRK20, a new privacy token standard providing default anonymity for ERC-20 tokens
• powered by Starknet Privacy Pool and ZK-proofs, the standard obscures sender/receiver addresses and transaction amounts on-chain while maintaining compatibility with DeFi operations like DEX trading and staking
🔷Crypto lender BlockFills files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after weeks of turmoil
• $50-100M assets vs $100-500M debts
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🔷Michael Saylor’s Strategy has acquired 22,337 BTC for ~$1.57 billion at ~$70,194 per bitcoin
• Now holds 761,068 $BTC acquired for ~$57.61 billion at ~$75,696 per bitcoin
🔷Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it purchased 60,999 ETH last week, bringing total holdings to 4,595,562 ETH (about 3.81% of supply)
🔷Mastercard to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion
🔷Japanese Bitcoin Treasury company Metaplanet has raised approximately $255 million through a third-party private placement to global institutional investors to advance its goal of acquiring 210,000 BTC, bringing its total funding to a maximum of approximately $531 million
🔷PayPal expanded access to its PYUSD stablecoin to users in an additional 68 markets beyond the U.S. and UK, enabling them to buy, hold, send, and receive the token in-app
🔷OpenSea delayed its SEA token launch tied to a planned March 30 event, with no revised timeline, citing challenging market conditions
🔷Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain co-developed by Stripe and Paradigm, launched its Layer 1 mainnet alongside the Machine Payments Protocol, enabling autonomous machine-to-machine transactions
• The MPP introduces session-based payments that aggregate thousands of microtransactions into a single settlement, enabling continuous agent-driven payments
• The MPP is designed to be rail-agnostic, with partners including Visa and Lightspark extending support across cards, wallets, and Bitcoin Lightning transactions
🔷S&P Dow Jones Indices licensed its S&P 500 brand to XYZ to launch "the first and only officially licensed perpetual derivative contract" tied to the index
• The product will trade on Hyperliquid, enabling 24/7 leveraged exposure to the S&P 500 in a crypto-native format
🔷Kraken parent company Payward has paused its IPO plans due to weakened crypto market conditions
🔷Prediction market platform Polymarket announced the acquisition of Brahma, a startup focused on cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure. The specific transaction amount was not disclosed.
🔷Crypto payments platform Bitrefill disclosed that it suffered a cyberattack on March 1, 2026, suspected to be linked to the North Korean Lazarus Group / Bluenoroff
🔷Tally, a governance tooling platform used by over 500 DAOs including Uniswap, Arbitrum, and ENS, announced it will shut down after six years of operations
🔷Aster, backed by YZi Labs, announced the mainnet launch of Aster Chain, positioning it as a trading-focused Layer 1
🔷Michael Saylor’s Strategy has acquired 22,337 BTC for ~$1.57 billion at ~$70,194 per bitcoin
• Now holds 761,068 $BTC acquired for ~$57.61 billion at ~$75,696 per bitcoin
🔷Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it purchased 60,999 ETH last week, bringing total holdings to 4,595,562 ETH (about 3.81% of supply)
🔷Mastercard to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion
🔷Japanese Bitcoin Treasury company Metaplanet has raised approximately $255 million through a third-party private placement to global institutional investors to advance its goal of acquiring 210,000 BTC, bringing its total funding to a maximum of approximately $531 million
🔷PayPal expanded access to its PYUSD stablecoin to users in an additional 68 markets beyond the U.S. and UK, enabling them to buy, hold, send, and receive the token in-app
🔷OpenSea delayed its SEA token launch tied to a planned March 30 event, with no revised timeline, citing challenging market conditions
🔷Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain co-developed by Stripe and Paradigm, launched its Layer 1 mainnet alongside the Machine Payments Protocol, enabling autonomous machine-to-machine transactions
• The MPP introduces session-based payments that aggregate thousands of microtransactions into a single settlement, enabling continuous agent-driven payments
• The MPP is designed to be rail-agnostic, with partners including Visa and Lightspark extending support across cards, wallets, and Bitcoin Lightning transactions
🔷S&P Dow Jones Indices licensed its S&P 500 brand to XYZ to launch "the first and only officially licensed perpetual derivative contract" tied to the index
• The product will trade on Hyperliquid, enabling 24/7 leveraged exposure to the S&P 500 in a crypto-native format
🔷Kraken parent company Payward has paused its IPO plans due to weakened crypto market conditions
🔷Prediction market platform Polymarket announced the acquisition of Brahma, a startup focused on cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure. The specific transaction amount was not disclosed.
🔷Crypto payments platform Bitrefill disclosed that it suffered a cyberattack on March 1, 2026, suspected to be linked to the North Korean Lazarus Group / Bluenoroff
🔷Tally, a governance tooling platform used by over 500 DAOs including Uniswap, Arbitrum, and ENS, announced it will shut down after six years of operations
🔷Aster, backed by YZi Labs, announced the mainnet launch of Aster Chain, positioning it as a trading-focused Layer 1
Market so bad I have stopped sending "Alt season starts tomorrow 👍" even as a joke 😆
▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷XRP-focused crypto treasury firm Evernorth filed an S-4 with the SEC to go public via a SPAC merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II and list on the Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN
• The deal is expected to raise over $1 billion in gross proceeds, backed by investors including Ripple, SBI, Pantera, Kraken, and GSR
🔷Quantum technology company BTQ Technologies announced that it has successfully deployed the first functional implementation of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-360 on its Bitcoin Quantum testnet (v0.3.0). BIP-360 introduces a new output type called “Pay-to-Merkle-Root”, aimed at minimizing the exposure risk of elliptic curve public keys.
🔷Kalshi has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $22 billion valuation, roughly doubling from about $11 billion in December 2025
🔷Coinbase has launched stock perpetual futures for non-U.S. users, offering 24/7 leveraged synthetic exposure to U.S. equities like Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla, as well as ETFs such as SPY and QQQ, with up to 10x–20x leverage, USDC settlement, and aiming to expand its global derivatives
🔷ResolvLabs’ stablecoin USR appears to have suffered a suspected exploit after an address minted 50 million USR with only about 100k USDC, sending USR down 74.2% to $0.257 before rebounding to around $0.78
• Blockchain security firm PeckShield said roughly $80 million worth of USR has been minted so far
🔷Crypto trading firm GSR expands token advisory with $57 million in acquisitions
• GSR acquired Autonomous and Architech to combine token launch services, trading and treasury management tools
🔷XRP-focused crypto treasury firm Evernorth filed an S-4 with the SEC to go public via a SPAC merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II and list on the Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN
• The deal is expected to raise over $1 billion in gross proceeds, backed by investors including Ripple, SBI, Pantera, Kraken, and GSR
🔷Quantum technology company BTQ Technologies announced that it has successfully deployed the first functional implementation of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-360 on its Bitcoin Quantum testnet (v0.3.0). BIP-360 introduces a new output type called “Pay-to-Merkle-Root”, aimed at minimizing the exposure risk of elliptic curve public keys.
🔷Kalshi has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $22 billion valuation, roughly doubling from about $11 billion in December 2025
🔷Coinbase has launched stock perpetual futures for non-U.S. users, offering 24/7 leveraged synthetic exposure to U.S. equities like Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla, as well as ETFs such as SPY and QQQ, with up to 10x–20x leverage, USDC settlement, and aiming to expand its global derivatives
🔷ResolvLabs’ stablecoin USR appears to have suffered a suspected exploit after an address minted 50 million USR with only about 100k USDC, sending USR down 74.2% to $0.257 before rebounding to around $0.78
• Blockchain security firm PeckShield said roughly $80 million worth of USR has been minted so far
🔷Crypto trading firm GSR expands token advisory with $57 million in acquisitions
• GSR acquired Autonomous and Architech to combine token launch services, trading and treasury management tools
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▶️Crypto News & Updates
🔷Fannie Mae is preparing to accept bitcoin and USDC as collateral for mortgages in a first for U.S. housing finance.
• Fannie Mae plays a central role in the U.S. housing system, backing a large share of the country's mortgages.
• The product, developed with Better Home & Finance and Coinbase, will allow borrowers to pledge crypto when securing a Fannie-backed loan without selling their holdings.
🔷Trust Wallet, which claims to have more than 220 million users, launched a new AI agent toolkit that allows users to automate crypto transactions, including trades, transfers, and recurring buys.
🔷Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings sold 15,133 BTC between March 4 and March 25 for about $1.1 billion to fund the repurchase of roughly $1 billion in convertible senior notes.
• The buybacks reduce MARA's total convertible debt by about 30% to $2.3 billion while capturing an estimated $88.1 million discount.
🔷Tom Lee’s Bitmine increased its holdings to 4,660,903 ETH (3.86% of the circulating supply) after announcing it bought another 65,341 ETH last week.
🔷Michael Saylor’s Strategy acquired 1,031 BTC for ~$76.6 million at ~$74,326 per bitcoin last week. Now holds 762,099 $BTC acquired for ~$57.69 billion at ~$75,694 per bitcoin.
🔷Strategy filed to expand its capital-raising programs, launching new ATM offerings of up to $21 billion in MSTR common stock, $21 billion in STRC preferred stock, and $2.1 billion in STRK preferred stock.
🔷Balancer Labs, the corporate entity behind the DeFi protocol Balancer, is winding down after a $128 million exploit created "real and ongoing legal exposure" for the firm.
🔷Stablecoin issuer Tether has hired a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of USDT reserves, marking a shift beyond quarterly attestations.
🔷Fannie Mae is preparing to accept bitcoin and USDC as collateral for mortgages in a first for U.S. housing finance.
• Fannie Mae plays a central role in the U.S. housing system, backing a large share of the country's mortgages.
• The product, developed with Better Home & Finance and Coinbase, will allow borrowers to pledge crypto when securing a Fannie-backed loan without selling their holdings.
🔷Trust Wallet, which claims to have more than 220 million users, launched a new AI agent toolkit that allows users to automate crypto transactions, including trades, transfers, and recurring buys.
🔷Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings sold 15,133 BTC between March 4 and March 25 for about $1.1 billion to fund the repurchase of roughly $1 billion in convertible senior notes.
• The buybacks reduce MARA's total convertible debt by about 30% to $2.3 billion while capturing an estimated $88.1 million discount.
🔷Tom Lee’s Bitmine increased its holdings to 4,660,903 ETH (3.86% of the circulating supply) after announcing it bought another 65,341 ETH last week.
🔷Michael Saylor’s Strategy acquired 1,031 BTC for ~$76.6 million at ~$74,326 per bitcoin last week. Now holds 762,099 $BTC acquired for ~$57.69 billion at ~$75,694 per bitcoin.
🔷Strategy filed to expand its capital-raising programs, launching new ATM offerings of up to $21 billion in MSTR common stock, $21 billion in STRC preferred stock, and $2.1 billion in STRK preferred stock.
🔷Balancer Labs, the corporate entity behind the DeFi protocol Balancer, is winding down after a $128 million exploit created "real and ongoing legal exposure" for the firm.
🔷Stablecoin issuer Tether has hired a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of USDT reserves, marking a shift beyond quarterly attestations.
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Btc will go to zero only if water stops being wet or an elephant starts to fly
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