Month: March 2026

Stablecoins Key Role in Agentic AI, Despite Limited Adoption: Bernstein

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Stablecoins could benefit from the rise of AI-driven payments over time, even as early adoption remains limited and contested, according to a new report from Bernstein. In a Monday note shared with Cointelegraph, the broker said stablecoins could help unlock machine-to-machine payments by making microtransactions viable and enabling programmable, conditional payments between software agents without a human in the loop. But Bernstein said traction so far has been limited. The note said Stripe and Tempo’s machine payments protocol recorded about $5,000 in stablecoin volume in its first week, while Coinbase’s…

Airdrops Rewarded Extraction And Ended Real Communities

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Opinion by: Nanak Nihal Khalsa, co-founder of Holonym Foundation For most of the last cycle, crypto teams convinced themselves that airdrops were community building. In practice, they became something else entirely: a large-scale training program that taught people how to extract value as efficiently as possible and leave. That outcome was not an accident. It was a predictable result of how token launches were designed between 2021 and 2024. Low float, high fully diluted valuations and points programs that rewarded activity over intent and eligibility rules that could be reverse-engineered…

Bitcoin rises, Ether, XRP advance as Trump orders halt to strikes on Iran

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Bitcoin jumped after President Donald Trump said he had instructed the Department of War to postpone planned military strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days. The order was the result of recent diplomatic talks between the US and Iran, which both sides described as productive and constructive, Trump wrote on Truth Social. While the pause is limited in scope, the announcement was enough to send a wave of relief through risk markets that had been beaten down by weeks of escalating conflict in the Middle East.…

Mt. Gox moves Bitcoin after months of inactivity ahead of repayment deadline

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Mt. Gox, the defunct crypto exchange that collapsed in 2014, moved around $500 worth of Bitcoin from wallets it still controls today, its first Bitcoin transfer in four months, according to data from Arkham Intelligence. MT GOX JUST MOVED… $500 Mt. Gox has moved a total of $500 of BTC today, their first move in over 4 months. They still hold over $2 BILLION of BTC that was originally held by users of the now-defunct exchange. At current prices, Mt. Gox is up over $10 BILLION on their remaining… pic.twitter.com/Dpz2cJidl3…

Bitcoin Traders See New Lows Coming as Gold Enters Bear Market

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Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week facing fresh macro risks as gold plummets and traders wait for $50,000. BTC price action ends the week below a key trend line, and traders see little more than an early-week bounce for bulls. Price looks more and more like it is repeating January’s bear flag — and targets now call for new multiyear lows. Gold enters a technical bear market and oil returns to $100 as Iran tensions continue. Traders start to consider Fed rate hikes in 2026, but history could still offer…

ZachXBT Exposes Fake Accounts Driving Crypto Scams on X

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Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT said Monday he uncovered a coordinated network of accounts on X using exaggerated or fake war and geopolitical posts to lure users into crypto scams. The investigation identified more than 10 linked X accounts allegedly purchased with follower bases that pushed sensational content and scam links, according to an X thread and screenshots shared by ZachXBT. The fake accounts used AI to impersonate prominent social media influencers such as Mario Nawfal, flooding X with “doomposts” and driving engagement before promoting fake crypto giveaways and pump-and-dump token schemes.…

Sweden’s H100 to Buy Two Bitcoin Treasury Companies, Surpass 3,500 BTC

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Sweden-listed health-tech and Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company H100 Group has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with the shareholders of privately-held Norwegian Bitcoin companies Moonshot and Never Say Die to acquire all shares of the target companies in exchange for newly issued H100 stock. The proposed transaction would be completed with newly issued H100 shares and no cash consideration, a structure intended to preserve the sellers’ Bitcoin exposure while moving the assets into a larger listed vehicle, according to a Monday press release. A definitive agreement is expected by…

Bithumb Aims to Reappoint CEO Lee Jae-won Amid Recent Regulatory Pain

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Bithumb, South Korea’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is reportedly seeking to reappoint CEO Lee Jae-won despite recent alleged anti-money laundering failures and other controversies, according to the Korea Times. The exchange will convene its regular shareholders’ meeting on March 31, and a proposal to keep Lee in the top job will be put to shareholders, the Korea Times reported on Sunday, citing industry sources. His current term expires at the end of the month, and a successful renewal would keep Lee as the exchange’s CEO for another two…

Blockchain Messaging Adoption Rising in Line With Global Unrest

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Decentralized, blockchain-based messaging and social media apps saw a surge of interest over the last year amid civil unrest and communication blackouts in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.  Search interest in decentralized social media has grown 145% over the last five years, according to Exploding Topics, while decentralized peer-to-peer messaging service Bitchat saw a spike in downloads during protests in Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia and Iran in recent months. Search interest in decentralized social media has spiked in the last five years. Source: Exploding Topics “I think people are…

Hong Kong Web3 Gaming Company Eyes $70M Crypto Expansion

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Boyaa Interactive International is the 23rd-largest Bitcoin treasury and the third-largest in Asia, behind Japan’s Metaplanet and China’s Next Technology Holding. Hong Kong-based Web3 gaming firm Boyaa Interactive International said it is seeking shareholder approval to expand its crypto treasury, planning up to $70 million in purchases over the next year. In a statement on Sunday, the Hong Kong-listed company said it is looking to use its “idle cash reserves during periods of weakness in the cryptocurrency market” to increase its existing positions and to support the research and development…