Day: March 19, 2026

Animoca Brands Invests in Ava Labs to Expand Avalanche in Asia, Middle East

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Animoca Brands has made a strategic investment in Ava Labs and entered a partnership to support projects building on the Avalanche blockchain, focusing on capital deployment, advisory support and expansion in Asia and the Middle East. According to Thursday’s announcement by the Hong Kong-based Web3 company, the collaboration will target sectors including real-world assets, digital identity and entertainment, with Animoca providing business development support and access to regional networks to help Avalanche-based projects scale and reach institutional users. Projects pursued under the partnership may also tap into the broader ecosystem…

Apyx expands Strategy’s STRC stake to $29M, targets top-holder position

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Apyx, a dividend-backed stablecoin protocol, acquired an additional 33,888 shares of Strategy’s preferred stock instrument STRC, bringing its total holdings to 288,888 shares valued at approximately $29 million. We just bought more $STRC ❗️ After purchasing an additional 33,888 shares, Apyx now holds 288,888 $STRC. Enhanced digital credit yield is now onchain.And it’s coming for stablecoins & yield farming. pic.twitter.com/Irfxw3HydJ — Apyx (@apyx_fi) March 18, 2026 The accumulation is part of the protocol’s stated ambition to become the largest STRC holder. The purchase comes one week after Apyx added 200,000…

Bitcoin Rally to $76K Shows Strength but Lacks Confirmation

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Bitcoin’s (BTC) rally to $76,000 revived market optimism for investors, but onchain data suggested that the move may still be part of an early-stage recovery defined by frequent periods of price volatility. According to Glassnode, BTC price has entered a relatively “open” zone between $72,000 and $82,000, where there’s less resistance. This range is particularly defined by the UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD), which highlights where the investors accumulated their coins. This means BTC may move more freely in the short term within this range, if the momentum holds. Bitcoin…

Avalanche gains Animoca Brands backing in push across Asia and the Middle East

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Animoca Brands has made a strategic investment in Ava Labs and entered a partnership aimed at accelerating growth across the Avalanche ecosystem, with an initial focus on entertainment, real-world assets, and digital identity. The companies said the collaboration will center on capital deployment, product integrations, and strategic advisory support for projects building on Avalanche. The partnership will initially target Asia and the Middle East, where Animoca has been building regional infrastructure and institutional ties. Animoca opened its first Middle East office in Dubai in April 2025 and said at the…

Carpool and Ride Sharing Company Ryde Adopts Crypto Treasury Model

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Ryde Group, a Singapore-based ride-sharing and carpool platform, similar to Uber or Lyft, said Wednesday that it has adopted a crypto treasury strategy for its corporate reserve. The company said it will invest a portion of its corporate reserves into Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Sol (SOL), with specific allocations and time of purchase to be determined by a governance team at Ryde, according to its announcement. Ryde cited the “evolving macroeconomic environment” as the reason for adopting a crypto treasury, and said that the option to invest portions of…

Google brings vibe coding to production apps with new AI Studio upgrade

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Google has introduced a major upgrade to its AI Studio platform, rolling out a new coding experience powered by its Antigravity agent aimed at turning simple prompts into fully functional, production-ready applications. The update expands AI Studio from a prototyping environment into a more complete development stack. Developers can now build applications with backend infrastructure, user authentication, and persistent storage directly inside the platform, removing the need to rely on external tools. A key component of the upgrade is the Antigravity coding agent, which is designed to understand entire project…

Major League Baseball Inks Deals with US Regulator, Polymarket

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Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that it had signed an “integrity protection” agreement with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as it separately inked a deal with prediction markets platform Polymarket.  In a Thursday announcement, MLB said that its commissioner, Robert Manfred, signed a memorandum of understanding with CFTC Chair Michael Selig following the league’s request for “strong integrity protections in the rapidly evolving prediction market space.” In a separate deal, the league said it had reached an agreement for predictions market platform Polymarket to be its Official Prediction…

TRX/USDC trading pairs now available on Aerodrome, fueling cross-chain liquidity for TRON’s ecosystem

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Geneva, Switzerland — March 19, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced the launch of the TRX/USDC trading pair on Aerodrome, the leading decentralized exchange (DEX) on Base. This brings TRX, the native utility token of the TRON network, into Base’s rapidly expanding decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem through LayerZero’s cross-chain infrastructure. The integration connects TRON’s established blockchain network with one of the fastest-growing DeFi environments, unlocking new opportunities for traders and liquidity providers…

Bitcoin Faces Little Chance of Holding Its 200-Week Moving Average for Long

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Bitcoin (BTC) price support could “fail” by the weekly close in a major blow to Bitcoin bulls, analysis warns. Key points: BTC price downside versus local highs at $76,000 nears 10%. Bitcoin brings its 200-week trend line back into focus, but little hope remains that it will rescue price. A trader warns of “months” of ranging at current levels. 200-week BTC price trend line “unreliable” In his latest X update on Thursday, crypto trader and analyst Rekt Capital brought a long-term BTC price trend line back into focus. The 200-week…