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- American Bitcoin Overtakes Galaxy Digital In Bitcoin Holdings Bitcoin mining and treasury firm American Bitcoin (NASDAQ: $ABTC), co-founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., said on Wednesday that its total Bitcoin (CRYPTO: $BTC) holdings hit 6,899 BTC. The Florida based company now ranks 16th place among publicly traded Bitcoin treasury holders, overtaking Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ: $GLXY) by 5 Bitcoins. Two weeks ago, the firm reported holding approximately 6,500 BTC, an accumulation of 399 since then. With Bitcoin trading near $71,000, the company’s strategic reserve is now valued at approximately $490 million. "No company is climbing the ladder faster," said Eric Trump, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer...

- Three companies scale the new Bitcoin financial system Since its release in 2009, Bitcoin has transformed from a peer-to-peer electronic cash system into a major digital store of value. As more people embrace its decentralized nature and limited supply, a new group of companies is building the professional infrastructure needed for the asset to mature. These firms focus on everything from secure custody to programmable applications, moving the ecosystem away from short-term trading toward long-term financial utility. Swan Bitcoin Swan Bitcoin is a financial services platform dedicated specifically to long-term Bitcoin accumulation. The firm offers specialized tools like the "Swan IRA" and "Swan Vault" to help clients hold the...

- Why Bitcoin Was Sinking on Wednesday One of the key market drivers for cryptocurrencies is interest rates. All things being equal, when they're on the way down, investors get more excited about digital coins and tokens. Conversely, when they stay level (or even rise) that sentiment can quickly turn negative. On Wednesday the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) kept its key interest rates unchanged, and the latest economic data suggested there isn't much scope for cuts in the near future. So it wasn't surprising that the No. 1 cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) led the way with a nearly 5% decline over the 24 hours prior to 4 PM Eastern time. Foiled by the Fed The interest rate calculation is a rather simple one; when rates go down, the...

- Bitcoin (BTC) is holding steady near $71,288 after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged. While the decision was widely expected, the confirmation removes a key layer of uncertainty for markets. For crypto, that clarity is often enough to spark renewed optimism. And some analysts believe this moment could mark a turning point. Fed pause gives crypto room to breathe The Federal Reserve’s decision to hold rates steady signals a continuation of the current policy stance, with no immediate tightening pressure on markets. For Bitcoin, that matters. Higher interest rates tend to drain liquidity and weigh on risk assets, while a pause, or eventual easing, creates a more favorable backdrop. With rate cuts now expected...

- Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is trading around $73,500 after one of its roughest stretches since the 2022 crash. The cryptocurrency hit $126,000 in October 2025 and started 2026 above $90,000, then lost a third of its value in roughly three months after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran, causing risk assets to sell off across the board. We gave ChatGPT the full picture—current Bitcoin price, ETF flows, the Fed's rate stance, oil prices, the halving, and the extreme fear reading—and asked: What will Bitcoin be worth by December 31, 2026? ChatGPT returned with a number closer to $100,000, but with a catch. ChatGPT Bitcoin Price Prediction: $98,000 by December 2026 ChatGPT's conservative case for Bitcoin by December 31, 2026, is $98,000, with...

- Wiki Cat (WKC) has been purring loudly on the charts this week, leaving the broader market in the dust. The BNB Chain meme coin has surged by +40% over the last seven days, capturing the attention of retail traders. However, a closer look at the data suggests the WKC crypto rally might be running out of oxygen. Despite the abrupt price climb, on-chain activity reveals a startling divergence. Daily trading volume for Wiki Cat has plummeted to $560,000 over the last 24 hours, a -60% decrease from the previous day. This typically signals that buyer exhaustion is setting in. As the charts begin to cool, profit-takers appear to be rotating capital out of established tokens and into high-leverage presale opportunities like Maxi Doge...

- Polymarket Acquires DeFi Startup Brahma Prediction platform Polymarket says it bought crypto infrastructure startup Brahma. The acquisition was later confirmed in a post on social media by Wu Blockchain. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the integration will see Brahma’s team and technology integrated into Polymarket’s core platform. Brahma, founded in 2021, has processed over $1 billion in transaction volume by providing non-custodial tools that simplify complex DeFi workflows. "With this acquisition, our team and our technology live on, to help scale Polymarket and its ecosystem to even greater heights," Brahma noted in a post on X. Beyond user interface improvements, Brahma’s automated execution systems are...

- Algorand Foundation Cuts 25% of Staff as Crypto Industry Layoffs Grow The organization behind the layer-1 network Algorand has laid off 25% of its staff as a result of crypto’s continued slide and macroeconomic uncertainty. Details about how many individuals were affected were not shared. A representative for the foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “These employees have been best-in-class contributors to this ecosystem and to the Foundation, and this was an incredibly tough decision,” the organization posted on X. “We believe that we now have a more sustainable alignment of Algorand Foundation resources with the protocol’s long-term business, technology, and ecosystem priorities,” it added. The...

- Bitcoin fails to break $75,000 level ahead of FOMC meeting Bitcoin (BTC) currently maintains its position above $70,000, trading at approximately $71,254 as investors prepare for a busy week of global central bank decisions. While the digital asset has recently shown strength with eight consecutive days of gains, a historical pattern suggests that the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision could bring short-term challenges for the price action. Pattern of post-meeting volatility Research from Bitcoin lender Two Prime highlights a specific trend from the 2025 calendar year. During that period, Bitcoin recorded negative returns in the 48 hours following seven out of eight FOMC meetings. Even during months where the...

- Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) Announces $11.5B Crypto Treasury and Alchemy of 5% Milestones Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc. (NYSE:BMNR) is one of the most buzzing stocks to buy with the highest upside potential. On March 16, Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced that its total holdings (including cryptocurrency, cash, and strategic ‘moonshot’ investments) reached $11.5 billion. As of March 15, the company’s Ethereum/ETH treasury has grown to 4.596 million tokens, representing ~3.81% of the total global supply. This rapid accumulation is part of Bitmine’s ‘Alchemy of 5%’ strategy, intended to position the company as a leading institutional ETH treasury. A portion of these holdings, ~3.04 million ETH ($6.6 billion), is...

- From Coinbase to Ripple: The Biggest Crypto Cases Dumped by Trump's SEC The momentum has shifted in the yearslong battle between top crypto companies and protocols and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the new Trump administration. The regulator, which now has a crypto-friendly chairman in Paul Atkins, a crypto task force led by longtime industry advocate Hester Peirce, and an understanding with the CFTC to work together on industry regulation, is moving away from what Pierce and others have called “regulation by enforcement” to less hostile engagements with crypto. Thus far, those words have rung true with the SEC recently backing away from nearly all of its fights with prominent crypto firms and founders. Here...

- Is Core Scientific (CORZ) One of the Best Crypto Stocks with Huge Upside Potential? Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:CORZ) is one of the crypto stocks with huge upside potential. On March 9, Citizens reiterated a Market Outperform rating on Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:CORZ) and a $30 price target. Amid the positive stance, the research firm also revised its estimates for the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 results to reflect the lower contribution from Bitcoin mining. The company is increasingly expanding its footprint in high-performance computing as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Bitcoin mining operations. Citizens views the transition to HPC business as a core driver of long-term value, as the company remains well-positioned to...

- Mapping Out Crypto's Midterms Fate Just how bad are these midterm elections looking for the crypto industry? With increasing likelihood of a Democratic sweep across the House and Senate in the midterm elections, I wanted to take a closer look at what the existing polls are signaling for the crypto industry's future. So, to find answers, I turned to both prediction markets and resources like Stand with Crypto (SWC) – a database for candidate positions on our industry. Putting these together paired well with building a dashboard, so once I had the data, I turned to Cursor to build out the frontend, Claude Code to stitch the logic, and Vercel for final deployment. While I’m still filling in gaps in the data, I've now built out a...

- Canadian Crypto Mogul CZ Brushes Off Iran Charges Levied At Binance Canadian crypto mogul Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has brushed off accusations that the Binance exchange he co-founded helped to finance terror and military groups in Iran. During an appearance at the Digital Chamber's DC Blockchain Summit on March 18, CZ said that the charges being levied against Binance don’t make any sense. “There's no benefit,” said CZ when asked if he thought Binance was complicit in letting Iran funding occur on its cryptocurrency trading platform. CZ, who is now a resident of the United Arab Emirates, added that, “I live in a country that's being attacked by Iran.” The former CEO of Binance, CZ grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, holds a...

- Unichain Adopts Chainlink Data Standard To Scale Institutional DeFi Unichain, the DeFi chain powered by Uniswap, said Wednesday that it integrated the Chainlink Data Standard and officially joined the Chainlink Scale program. The San Francisco based firm says its developers now have access to Chainlink (CRYPTO: $LINK) Data Feeds and the newly launched Smart Value Recapture tool (SVR). Unchain highlighted the integration of Chainlink SVR, noting that it introduces "oracle value recapture" to Unichain’s lending markets. SVR is designed to capture liquidation MEV, value that is often lost to third-party bots. Since its initial rollout, SVR has reportedly recaptured over $16 million in value across various networks. "We're excited to...

- Crypto Exchange Kraken Cancels IPO, Citing Difficult Market Conditions Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has canceled its planned initial public offering (IPO), citing difficult market conditions. Kraken announced four months ago that it planned to go public in 2026. Now those plans have been shelved as cryptocurrency prices remain volatile and the U.S. stock market sinks. According to reports, Kraken is still keen to hold its IPO as soon as possible but will wait until market conditions improve. Kraken’s decision to put off its IPO also comes after the company recently dismissed its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Stephanie Lemmerman for reasons that have not been made public. Kraken was valued at $20 billion U.S. when it raised...

- FOMC Scenarios for Bitcoin: From a $55K Plunge to a $170K Volatility Breakout Bitcoin (BTC) is trading near $72,400, consolidating cautiously as the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) prepares to release its critical policy decision. This monetary pivot point effectively determines the near-term cost of capital, dictating whether risk assets face a liquidity drought or a renewed expansion phase. Traders are currently bracing for a major move, with technical indicators signaling a binary resolution that risks a structural breakdown to $55,000 or a massive crypto volatility breakout targeting $170,000. The market is currently pricing in a high probability that the Federal Reserve will maintain interest rates within the 3.50% to...

- Stripe-backed crypto startup Tempo releases AI payments protocol, launches blockchain The fintech giant Stripe along with Tempo, a blockchain startup incubated by the payments company as well as the venture firm Paradigm, launched a new payments protocol on Wednesday to make it easier for AI actors to send and receive money. Dubbed the “Machine Payments Protocol,” the open-source network supports payments in both fiat and cryptocurrency. The protocol is also compatible with Stripe’s existing AI payments infrastructure. While the new AI payments network currently runs only on top of Tempo, which is also the name of the blockchain developed by the Stripe-backed startup, it’s designed to operate across multiple blockchains and...

- Trump Administration Official Pushes Crypto Into US Banking System The wall between Wall Street and crypto is coming down under the Trump Administration. Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould has reportedly greenlighted major crypto firms including Ripple and Crypto.com to pursue national banking charters. He is actively encouraging payment technology companies to enter the federal banking system. On top of that, Gould is moving to rescind Biden-era guidance that forced banks to seek supervisory approval before touching digital assets. The Chokepoint 2.0 era is effectively over. For traders, this is not just regulatory housekeeping. Access to Federal Reserve payment rails and the ability to hold direct deposits is the single...

- Bitcoin, Ethereum Waver as Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday, maintaining a cautious stance as rising energy costs threaten to complicate its ability to balance persistent price pressures with a cooling job market in the U.S. The federal funds rate remained unchanged at a target range of 3.50% to 3.75%. The decision, which was widely expected, prolonged a pause that began at the conclusion of the Fed’s policy meeting in January, following a series of interest rate cuts late last year. Bitcoin recently changed hands around $71,870, a 3.6% decrease over the past day, according to CoinGecko. Over the same period, Ethereum had fallen 5.3% to $2,215. Still, both...