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Lombard taps Bitwise to offer Bitcoin yield, lending to institutions
Lombard, a project building Bitcoin-based lending rails, is joining forces with Bitwise Asset Management to give institutions a way to earn yield and borrow against Bitcoin without m...

Spain arrests Ledger cofounder kidnapping suspect; crypto risk up
Spanish authorities have taken a significant step in a high-profile, crypto-linked abduction case by detaining a suspect in Benalmádena, Málaga province, under a European arrest warrant...

Trump Gives Hormuz Ultimatum in 48 Hours as Oil Surges
Strategic Waterway at Risk The Strait of Hormuz is also one of the most important routes of oil transit in the world, and its interruption has already attracted international attention. The US sta...

Bitcoin ETFs Roar Back as Balchunas Revives Gold Debate on Wall St
Bitcoin spot ETFs posted March inflows, signaling durable demand as Balchunas notes. The piece also revisits the Bitcoin-versus-gold debate and the role of Wall Street filings in shapi...

BitMine Overtakes Strategy as Tom Lee Expands Ethereum Holdings Further
BitMine outpaced Strategy in weekly Ethereum buying, pushing its Ethereum treasury toward $10 billion while expanding staking and signaling rising institutional demand.

Geopolitical Tensions With Iran Leave Bitcoin Hovering Near $69.5K
Bitcoin slipped below the $70,000 mark as macro risk assets came under pressure amid renewed Middle East tensions, renewing questions about BTC’s sensitivity to broader markets. The Se...

Bitcoin to Monero Swaps Surge as Privacy Demand Climbs
Monero's network strength grows as private crypto conversions gain traction, with regulatory tightening and privacy concerns rising.

Fixed-Rate DeFi Lending Arrives as Fira Lures $450M in Deposits
Ethereum-based DeFi lending protocol Fira has kicked off its fixed-rate on-chain credit market with roughly $450 million in deposits, signaling strong appetite for predictable borrowing c...

DeFi Rules Set to Guide Wall Street as Crypto Matures
Regulation is poised to reshape Decentralized Finance into a tightly interconnected network of ecosystems, each with its own risk, compliance and access profile. It won’t carve DeFi into two isolat...

Seven Methods for Finding and Closing AI Services Clients When You're Starting from Zero Followers and Zero Case Studies
Seven practical methods to find and close AI services clients from zero followers, including local meetups, direct outreach, quick...

ECB: Central-bank money needed to scale stablecoins, tokenized deposits
European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone warned that tokenized deposits and stablecoins in Europe will only scale if they rest on tokenized central bank money ...

Cryptocurrency fraudsters gain ground as panic over the war fills social media
Fraud networks work by using X accounts ZachXBT determined that there was a group of X accounts on the network that shared updates related to war to gain some credibility a...

Aave DAO Advances V4 Mainnet Upgrade With Near-Unanimous Support
Aave’s decentralized autonomous organization has signaled broad consensus on advancing the V4 upgrade onto Ethereum’s mainnet. In a near-unanimous Snapshot vote, the DAO backed the deplo...

Trump's Iran Pause Pulls Bitcoin Back From the Edge: But the $3 Billion Liquidation Risk Hasn't Gone Away
Bitcoin briefly jumped above $71k on news of a five-day pause in strikes against Iran, but a $3 billion long-position risk below $65k remains ami...

SEC Enforcement Chief Quits After Trump Clash, Crypto Rules in Focus
The former top enforcement official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly clashed with the regulator’s leadership before stepping down last week, with part of the...

Balancer Labs shutters 4 months after $100M+ exploit; protocol persists
Balancer Labs, the corporate backbone behind the Balancer DeFi protocol, is winding down after years of pressure and a devastating $116 million hack in November. Executives say th...

Kalshi, Polymarket tighten user bans to deter insider trading
Two leading prediction-market platforms have rolled out tighter guardrails on Monday to curb insider trading and suspected market manipulation in event-based contracts, as lawmakers in Wash...

Institutional Strategy Targets $44.1B to Accelerate Bitcoin Buying
Strategy, the Bitcoin-focused vehicle led by Michael Saylor, is intensifying its capital-raising efforts to fund ongoing BTC purchases. In a recent 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities ...

Bitcoin Stalls at $70K as Traders Ditch Bullish Bets
Bitcoin rose about 4% in minutes after news that U.S. President Donald Trump signaled a temporary de-escalation of the Iran conflict and a path toward negotiations. The move in traditional markets w...