Day: March 18, 2026

Roche deploys 3,500 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs to supercharge drug discovery

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Roche just made the biggest GPU flex in pharmaceutical history. The Swiss drugmaker announced it now operates more than 3,500 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs dedicated to drug development — a deployment that dwarfs anything its competitors have publicly disclosed. In English: Roche is betting that brute-force AI computing power can shave years off the notoriously slow process of discovering and developing new medicines. And it’s backing that bet with serious silicon. The numbers behind the compute arms race Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture represents the chipmaker’s most advanced GPU platform, purpose-built for AI…

Fold posts $69.6M net loss but doubles down on bitcoin credit card expansion

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Fold just finished its debut year as a public company. The report card is… mixed. The bitcoin-focused financial services firm reported a net loss of $69.6 million for the full year 2025, according to its annual filing released Tuesday. Revenue climbed 34% year-over-year to $31.8 million, but operating losses ballooned from $5.8 million to $27.7 million — nearly a fivefold increase that makes the top-line growth feel like a consolation prize. The numbers behind the red ink Fold’s adjusted EBITDA loss came in at $17.2 million, translating to an adjusted…

Bitcoin Chases $72K After Fed Decides To Hold Rates: Is BTC Selling Over?

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Bitcoin’s (BTC) bullish start to the week faced a halt on Wednesday, as BTC dropped 3.4% to $70,900 alongside an overarching sell-off in US stocks.  The correction followed a hotter-than-expected Producer Price Index (PPI) report, which was 0.7% higher than the 3.4% year-on-year estimate. Despite the selling, data shows BTC spot market demand holding steady, with buyers stepping in to absorb the selling pressure and proof of this appetite being reflected by Bitcoin reclaiming $72,000 after Federal Reserve minutes highlighted their decision to leave interest rates unchanged. While the market…

Fed holds rates steady as sticky inflation and geopolitics pressure markets

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The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged, maintaining the federal funds rate at 3.5% to 3.75% as markets turned cautious ahead of the decision. Attention now shifts to Chair Jerome Powell for guidance on how policymakers view the path of inflation and growth through the rest of the year. In a statement issued on March 18, the Fed projected US GDP growth to ease slightly from 2.4% in 2026 to 2.1% in 2028, with the unemployment rate gradually falling from 4.4% to 4.2%. PCE inflation is forecast to decline from…

S&P 500 Perpetual Futures Launch on Hyperliquid with Official Licensing

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S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed its S&P 500 Index to Trade[XYZ] for the launch of a perpetual futures contract on Hyperliquid, in what the company described as the first officially licensed onchain product offering continuous, leveraged exposure to the index for eligible non-US users. According to Wednesday’s announcement, contract allows eligible non-US traders to take long or short positions on the index without an expiry date, with markets operating continuously outside traditional exchange hours using official index data from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The contract also brings equity index…

Robert Kiyosaki Says Bitcoin Will Hit $750K After Financial Bubble Bursts

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Key takeaways: Robert Kiyosaki’s $750,000 Bitcoin target implies a 95% discount versus gold, which is lower than the 2024 peak. $750,000 Bitcoin might not be that significant if daily expenses, housing and energy rise in like kind. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” series, stated in a social media post on Monday that a massive financial “bubble burst” is imminent. The financial educator suggests this unprecedented economic crisis will eventually lead to a $750,000 Bitcoin (BTC) rally within one year of the crash.  While Kiyosaki’s estimate seems…

Coinbase competes for Cloudflare deal to build an AI stablecoin

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Coinbase is reportedly in the running to partner with Cloudflare on issuing a stablecoin purpose-built for AI transactions. The deal, first reported by The Information, would position both companies at the intersection of two industries that can’t stop talking about each other. If that sounds like a corporate Mad Libs combining every buzzy term of 2025 — AI, stablecoins, agents — well, it kind of is. But there’s a real problem being solved here, and the companies chasing it aren’t exactly startups running on vibes. What we know about the…

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token flips Cardano’s ADA in market cap

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Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token has surpassed Cardano’s ADA in market capitalization, a milestone that would have sounded absurd six months ago. A decentralized perpetual exchange token just leapfrogged a blockchain that has been in the top ranks since 2017. The numbers behind the flip HYPE’s market cap has climbed to roughly $10.2 billion, while ADA sits around $10.0 billion, making the lead extremely narrow. Cardano, a project that raised $62 million in its 2017 ICO and has spent years building out a proof-of-stake ecosystem, now trails a token that did…

‘We are so Close this Time‘ — Senator Lummis on Market Structure Bill

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Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the main proponents of a digital asset market structure bill in the US Congress, has said that the legislation is getting closer to passage despite “things that [she] did not expect” in 2025.  Speaking at the DC Blockchain Summit hosted by the Digital Chamber on Wednesday, Lummis said she had thought that the crypto industry would already be celebrating a “victory lap” for the market structure bill, which passed the US House of Representatives in July 2025. She said that “the main thing” that…

Bhutan Continues Selling Bitcoin Stash, As Reserve Falls to 4,400 BTC

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The Kingdom of Bhutan has transferred over $72.3 million in Bitcoin (BTC) from its wallets over the last 24 hours, as it continues to sell portions of its holdings. Druk Holding and Investments (DHI), a state-owned investment company that manages the country’s Bitcoin mining operations and crypto investments, has moved more than 973 BTC over the past 24 hours, in six separate transactions, according to Arkham Intelligence.  DHI also moved more than 175 BTC, valued at $11.8 million, on March 10. “Bhutan periodically sells portions of its Bitcoin in clips…