After rallying to a multi-week high of $1.60, XRP price crashed amid a market-wide downtrend triggered by escalating geopolitical and macroeconomic tensions. Summary XRP fell over 8% from its weekly high to $1.46 amid a broader crypto market downturn driven by geopolitical tensions and hawkish Fed signals. Network fundamentals strengthened, with XRP wallet addresses hitting…
The Algorand Foundation said Wednesday it is reducing its workforce by 25% in response to what it described as an uncertain global macro environment and a broader downturn in crypto markets, marking one of the latest cost-cutting moves across the digital asset sector. Today, the Algorand Foundation made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce…
The window to pass the most significant crypto law in US history is closing fast. If Congress cannot move the CLARITY Act by late April, the effort likely dies until after the midterm elections. For retail investors, this means another year of guessing which tokens the SEC might sue next. Legislators are currently deadlocked over…
Crypto markets have wiped out recent gains amid hawkish sentiment from the US central bank. Total market capitalization has declined by almost $100 billion in less than 24 hours before and after the Federal Reserve’s meeting on Wednesday. The metric is now at around $2.52 trillion after falling from just below a six-week high…
Pi has morphed from a hyped IOU into a battered $0.18 L1; 2026’s open mainnet will decide whether it earns real usage or just fuels another round of unlocked sell pressure. Summary Pi now trades near $0.18 with a roughly $1.7–1.8 billion market cap after an 80–90% rally toward $0.30 faded, as unlocks and miner…
At least four Block employees have rejoined the company after being cut during the firm’s sweeping workforce reduction in February. Chane Rennie, who leads creative strategy at Block, is among them. He has returned to the role just a week after announcing he had been laid off, according to a LinkedIn post. Another case is…
The BTC USD price just slammed into a massive resistance wall at $75,000. And right on cue, the on-chain alarm bells started ringing. A sudden spike in exchange inflows, coins moving from private wallets to trading platforms, hit a four-week high this week. Hourly data from March 16 showed over 6,100 BTC moved onto exchanges…
Bitrefill said hackers drained hot wallets and exploited gift card supply flows after gaining access through stolen credentials from an employee’s device. Bitrefill disclosed that it was targeted in a cyberattack on March 1, which resulted in the theft of cryptocurrency funds, and said its investigation found multiple indicators linking the incident to tactics…
The Bank of Korea has kicked off Phase 2 of Project Hangang, expanding its digital won pilot to nine banks and, for the first time, using CBDC-linked deposit tokens for real government subsidy payments. Summary The BOK’s Project Hangang Phase 2 extends its wholesale CBDC and deposit-token pilot from seven to nine banks and introduces…
Erik Voorhees’ Venice has rolled out new encrypted AI interface models designed to make privacy verifiable rather than trust-based. Venice AI just released End-to-End Encryption Verifiable by any external party Vires in numeris Here’s how it works 🧵 pic.twitter.com/VZLWarvAUC — Venice (@AskVenice) March 18, 2026 The update adds Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and End-to-End Encrypted…
