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Bitcoin's 'fear gauge' surges nearly 20%, its biggest jump since Feb. 5 crash
The jump signals return of fear after two months of calm market sentiment.

XRP price news: Ripple-linked token drops 5% even as bullish signals pile up
XRP lost another major support level on heavy selling, with traders now focused on whether buyers can defend the $1.20 area after a 15-week low.

Bullish crypto bets lose $1.6 billion as ETH, SOL, DOGE drop 9%
The single biggest unwind was a $59.67 million BTC-USDT long on HTX.

BTC price news: What next as Bitcoin falls below $66,000
BTC plunged 6.4% to a 24-hour low of $65,708 and ether broke below $1,900 in Asian trading on Wednesday, just hours after the MSCI All Country World Index set a fresh all-time high on the AI rally.

Mastercard expands on-chain settlement in bet on stablecoins and always-on finance
The company plans to offer stablecoin, weekend and holiday settlement as demand grows for real-time movement of money.

Bitcoin's slide to $67,000 is accelerating a shift into digital dollars
The crypto market is seeing a capital flight into dollar-linked stablecoins even as stocks and the Dollar Index remain calm.

Bitcoin’s compute power dwarfs top 100 supercomputers by 600k times, says Bittensor co-founder
Ala Shaabana explains how using Bitcoin network’s coordinate-and-reward playbook can bust open corporate monopolies on AI.

UK House of Lords committee calls on Bank of England to reconsider proposed stablecoin restrictions
The Bank of England proposed limits of 20,000 pounds per coin for individuals and 10 million pounds for businesses.

U.S. sanctions Nobitex, other Iranian crypto exchanges amid ongoing war
OFAC said it was blacklisting Nobitex and three other Iranian exchanges, as well as a few executives, citing links to terror and other crimes.

Coinbase (COIN) backs Ethena (ENA) ahead of savings product launch for 100 million users
Coinbase Ventures, the exchange's venture arm, bought Ethena tokens as the protocol is set to roll out a Coinbase integration next week.

Galaxy enters institutional prediction markets with $10 million Arca trade
The digital asset firm launched OTC prediction markets trading for institutions and completed a $10 million trade tied to U.S. crypto legislation with hedge fund Arca.

Tom Lee predicts ETH will hit $250,000 as corporate validators take over network control
The Bitmine chairman said DeFi and AI could push the Ethereum network's value into the multi-trillion range, making current prices “future optionality at a discount”.

Bitcoin price news: BTC may face deeper losses as capital chases AI stocks, K33 says
The firm still views bitcoin as undervalued relative to equities, but says investors are rotating into AI stocks as the opportunity cost of missing gains by holding BTC is too high.

Bitcoin (BTC) faces an 'identity crisis' and DeFi devs need to stop acting like tech bros
Solstice Labs CEO Ben Nadareski says developers must act like financial managers to win back institutional trust amid ongoing security exploits.

Hyperliquid predicted 80% of an oil market move before traditional exchanges even opened, says TD Securities
TD Securities says "perpetual futures" are exploding beyond crypto as platforms like Hyperliquid outpace traditional Wall Street exchanges on everything from pre-IPO tech stocks to weekend oil trading.

Titan Network hits 4 million devices on its crowdsourced AI-compute network
Titan Network built its crowdsourced computing infrastructure on a slim $1 million seed round, signing up tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba.

Gary Vaynerchuk says AI is creating the biggest opportunity ever for entrepreneurs
AI is reshaping business faster than most leaders realize, and Gary Vaynerchuk argues the biggest winners will be creative builders willing to adapt.

Hyperliquid is beating ethereum in trading volume on some days as big money rotates, says FalconX
Institutional investors are ditching range-bound bitcoin and ether for Hyperliquid as the decentralized platform wins over hedge funds with massive liquidity and early access to hot markets, according to Joshua Lim, head of markets at FalconX.

How to better understand bitcoin’s perpetual identity crisis
Here, Bailey unpacks the uncertainty surrounding the original cryptocurrency’s nature, which creates inconsistent market behavior.

Franklin Templeton is teaming up with MoonPay to let big investors swap stablecoins for yields 24/7
The Wall Street giant is integrating its tech platform with MoonPay's infrastructure, allowing eligible institutions to seamlessly swap stablecoins for yield-generating tokenized funds without ever leaving the blockchain.

Bitcoin, Ethereum price news: MSTR's BTC sale could kickstart ETH outperformance
ETH could outperform BTC by 40% from current levels as bitcoin treasuries may sell assets to cover obligations, the bank's digital asset research head said.

Ethereum (ETH) news: Movement pivots to stablecoin payments as the layer-2 boom loses momentum
The team behind Movement said it plans to leverage licensed payment partners alongside blockchain settlement rails to target the roughly $685 billion remittance market serving low and middle-income countries.

Bitcoin price news: BTC appears set for re-test of February's lows
Google overnight set an $80 billion capital raise, including $10 billion from Berkshire Hathaway, reflecting the continuing flood of money headed into AI (and not crypto).

Stellar CEO says Clarity Act would help, but tokenization isn't dependent on It
DTCC’s decision to connect its tokenized securities platform to Stellar marks a new phase of institutional adoption for public blockchains.