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The macro setup is gradually tilting in favor of the crypto market. At first glance, it might seem like this is just about money flowing into the market due to geopolitical tensions.Especially since $150 billion have flowed in since March alone, supporting the idea that investors are seeking hedges. Meanwhile, the debt angle is back in focus. Analysts are projecting roughly $1 billion in defense payments tied to the ongoing war, which adds pressure to an already growing U.S debt load. Taken together, these factors may suggest that the inflows into crypto are just a “short-term trend,” as investors navigate…
Wallets linked to crypto market maker Cumberland continued withdrawing Ethereum from centralized venues after a large multi-venue drawdown on March 5. Cumberland-linked wallets withdrew 46,620 ETH (about $98.8 million at the time of the post) from Binance, Coinbase, and Copper over a 16-hour window ending March 5, citing Arkham tracking for the two addresses. Today Cumberland withdrew another 14,800 ETH (about $30.8 million) from Coinbase. The address highlighted in the update is tracked on Arkham under this wallet page. A second Cumberland-linked address referenced in the March 5 batch is tracked on Arkham here. Why This Matters for ETH Liquidity…
Core Scientific has secured a $500 million loan facility from Morgan Stanley, with an accordion feature that could extend total commitments to $1 billion, in the most significant institutional endorsement yet of the digital infrastructure company’s transformation from Bitcoin miner to artificial intelligence compute provider. The deal, priced at the Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus 250 basis points, will fund data center development, including equipment procurement, pre-development costs, real estate acquisition, and energy contracting. “This strengthens our liquidity and enhances our financial flexibility as we execute our development and go-to-market strategy,” said Adam Sullivan, chief executive of Core Scientific. “With…
Ethereum price has rejected the $2,200 resistance level after failing to sustain momentum above a key value area high. The rejection increases the probability of a rotational move toward lower support as bearish pressure begins to build. Summary Resistance Rejection: Ethereum rejected the $2,200 level and closed below the value area high. Range Structure: Price remains trapped within a broader consolidation range. Downside Target: A rotational move toward the $1,826 support level is possible if resistance holds. Ethereum’s (ETH) recent price action has shown clear signs of weakness after the asset attempted to reclaim the $2,200 resistance level but failed to hold above…
Ripple Prime, formerly Hidden Road, has partnered with Coinbase to offer institutional clients access to crypto derivatives on the crypto exchange. This comes as the prime brokerage firm continues to expand its crypto offerings, having added support for Hyperliquid as its first DeFi venue last month. Ripple Prime Partners With Coinbase To Offer Crypto Derivatives In a press release, Ripple announced that Ripple Prime clients will now have access to the full suite of Coinbase derivatives cleared by Nodal Clear. The crypto firm has also become a clearing member of Nodal Clear as part of this partnership. Notably, these institutional…
Kraken-backed xStocks has launched a new on-chain trading engine designed to connect traditional equity liquidity with decentralized finance infrastructure. Summary xStocks introduced xChange, an on-chain trading engine for tokenized stocks. Users can trade 70+ tokenized equities across Ethereum and Solana. The platform has already recorded $3.5B on-chain volume, $25B total trading volume, and 80,000 holders. In a March 5 announcement, Kraken said its tokenized equity platform xStocks has introduced xChange, an execution layer that allows users to trade tokenized stocks directly on-chain across Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL). xChange allows trading of more than 70 tokenized equities on-chain while keeping prices aligned with real-world public market data.…
TLDR: Stablecoin volume hit $30T last year, forming the blueprint Armstrong cites for tokenized equity growth. Over $200B in tokenized assets now live on-chain, with Ethereum holding more than 60% of that total. Tokenized equities could unlock 24/7 trading, fractional shares, and smart contract-based governance rules. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon confirmed tokenized equities are a major area of active strategic focus. Wall Street attention toward tokenized equities is gaining momentum as major financial and crypto leaders discuss the concept publicly. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently raised the topic during a discussion with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. The conversation…
The native token of GMX, the decentralized perpetuals exchange built on Arbitrum, is in the middle of a rally after its governing body approved an overhaul of its buyback strategy over “limited effectiveness.” The overhaul follows a public admission that its two years of token buybacks have done little to move the market. The token is trading at $7.61 as of the time of writing, an 18.2% increase over the preceding month, as traders absorbed the implications of one of the more candid self-assessments seen from a decentralized autonomous organization in recent memory. The GMX DAO’s Buy Back and Distribute…
TLDR: Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum has not meaningfully improved freedom, privacy, or digital security for everyday users. He linked global unease to surveillance, wars, and declining trust in social media platforms. Buterin urged Ethereum to support sanctuary technologies instead of focusing only on financial tools. He framed Ethereum as shared digital space for cooperation without centralized ownership or control. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has acknowledged that the blockchain network has fallen short in advancing real-world freedom. In a post on X, he linked global anxiety to rising surveillance, wars, and eroding trust in online platforms. He said Ethereum has played…
The National Tax Service (NTS) of South Korea turned a routine enforcement victory into a historic operational failure this week, leaking private keys in a press release that resulted in the theft of $4.8 million in seized assets. The agency published unredacted high-resolution photos of hardware wallets containing a visible seed phrase leak, allowing opportunistic on-chain actors to drain 4 million PRTG Tokens remotely.It was a preventable catastrophe. Instead of securing the crypto seizure in new government-controlled wallets, authorities displayed the original recovery codes to the public eye. The funds were gone within hours. Key Takeaways: The Leak: The NTS…