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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has issued one of his starkest warnings yet: if the network continues to limit itself to DeFi, obsessing over yields and political meme coins, it will betray Ethereum’s original mission. Ethereum Beyond DeFi In a post on social network X on March 3, Buterin shared an essay‑like reflection on how his worries, and the worries of people around him, highlight the fact that Ethereum is not doing enough to be an active force for change amid world‑class threats such as “government control and…
Key takeaways:Derivatives and onchain data show a lack of bullish conviction, as 43% of Bitcoin holders remain at a loss despite recent price gains.Surging AI energy demand is squeezing miner profits to record lows, forcing major listed firms to offload BTC and pivot to computing.Traders face a psychological hurdle at $76,000, the average cost basis for major corporate holders like Strategy.Bitcoin (BTC) surged to a four-week high on Wednesday, potentially clearing a path for a recovery toward the $78,700 monthly close recorded in January. Despite a 22% rally from the $60,000 local bottom on Feb. 6, several onchain and derivatives…
Eric Trump, one of the sons of U.S. President Donald Trump and a co-founder of crypto firm World Liberty Financial, went after the banking industry Tuesday over their opposition to allowing stablecoin yield in crypto market structure legislation. “Big Banks (think JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc.) are lobbying overtime to block Americans from getting higher yields on their savings—while trying to block any rewards or perks from being given to customers,” he said in a post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.He said banks pay a marginal interest in comparison to the interest paid to…
Peer-to-peer transfers made through self-custody crypto wallets are a key weak point in the stablecoin ecosystem because they can take place without a regulated intermediary, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said in a new report urging countries to tighten oversight as stablecoins spread into payments and cross-border transfers.In its report on stablecoins, unhosted wallets and P2P transactions, the global anti-money laundering watchdog said transactions conducted directly between users through unhosted wallets can occur without regulated intermediaries such as exchanges or custodians.The FATF said this structure can create gaps in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) oversight because the transactions occur outside the…
Ripple’s push into traditional finance appears to have taken another step forward after its institutional brokerage platform, Hidden Road, was listed in the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) directory under the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). The implications of this development, which recently went live, are massive for both Ripple and XRP. Members of the XRP community are seeing the development as a signal that Ripple is steadily positioning itself inside the infrastructure that powers conventional financial markets. Hidden Road’s DTCC Listing Places Ripple Inside Wall Street’s Infrastructure On March 2, 2026, a quiet but seismic event occurred in…
Offline use of a central bank digital currency could pose more criminal risks than the use of cash, according to researchers at the Bank for International Settlements. In a report this week, BIS authors Andrea Minto, Anneke Kosse, Takeshi Shirakami and Peter Wierts wrote that each variant of central bank digital currency — or CBDC — needs regulation appropriate to its specific risk profile. “Offline digital euro payments could, all else being equal, pose greater anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism risks compared with online digital euro payments or payments made using commercial bank deposits or hosted cryptoasset wallets,” the…
Built on Bitcoin’s ethos and technology, Satlantis is an event organizing platform designed for “real-world maxxing”, a Gen Z term for enjoying the real world with real people. As AI fills social media, confusing and distorting whatever signal it once had, an exodus to real-world experiences has begun to take place. Some statistics show that social media usage peaked in 2022, a saturation induced by the COVID lockdowns that accelerated digital adoption of everything, only to remove its shine. Being online all the time is now ‘passé’. Jordi Llonch, Head of Growth at Satlantis, told Bitcoin Magazine in an exclusive…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum saw a brief bounce, which pushed its price above the $2,000 mark, but this upward move seems lost its momentum and has fallen below the level. Amid this, ETH’s price bounce on Tuesday comes a notable spike in the network’s on-chain activity and the creation of new wallet addresses. Ethereum Activity Spikes to Historic Levels Even though the broader cryptocurrency market appears highly volatile, Ethereum investors are moving against the current trend and exhibiting renewed bullish sentiment. This renewed euphoria toward the leading altcoin is shown…
US President Donald Trump reportedly met with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just hours before issuing a statement criticizing banks for holding a market structure bill “hostage.”According to a Tuesday Politico report, Trump met privately with Armstrong after a group of Coinbase representatives went to the White House. The details of the reported meeting were unclear, but the president posted to his Truth Social channel afterwards, that “the US needs to get Market Structure done, ASAP.”“The banks are hitting record profits, and we are not going to allow them to undermine our powerful Crypto Agenda […],” said Trump in his Tuesday…
As artificial intelligence reshapes everything from finance to cybersecurity, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is carving out a strategy for how the world’s second-largest blockchain fits into that future.Instead of trying to fuse blockchains and AI at the level of raw computation — something Ethereum was never designed to handle — the EF sees the network playing a different role: acting as a coordination and verification layer in an increasingly AI-mediated world.Davide Crapis, the AI lead at the EF, argues that the motivation is as philosophical as it is technical. More and more digital activity is being handled by AI systems,…