Month: March 2026

Opera Proposes CELO Token Deal, Replacing Cash Payments With Crypto Stake

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Opera, a Nasdaq-listed web browser company, is proposing to change how it is compensated by the Celo ecosystem, opting to receive native tokens instead of cash as it deepens its involvement with the network. The company said Thursday it has proposed restructuring its commercial agreement, moving from US dollar-denominated quarterly payments to an allocation of 160 million CELO (CELO) tokens, subject to approval by Celo’s onchain governance community. If approved, the shift would more directly align Opera’s financial incentives with the network’s performance and make it one of the largest…

Listings And On-Ramps Are Ending, As Intent Protocols Make Access Native

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Opinion by: Jason Dominique, co-founder and CEO of ONCHAIN® Labs For years, whenever we explain what we’re building, the reaction is familiar. There’s curiosity, some skepticism, and then the question that almost always follows: “If this is such a big problem, why hasn’t it been fixed already?” The answer is not that the industry failed to notice it, nor that the technology was too immature to address it. Access remained broken because fixing it correctly required rearchitecting how coordination, execution and settlement work together, while leaving it broken was both…

€2.3 trillion asset manager Amundi launches tokenized fund on Ethereum and Stellar

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Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager with more than €2.3 trillion in client funds, has launched the Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund, SAFO, a tokenized fund aimed at treasury and collateral management for corporates and financial institutions. The product is structured as a sub-fund of SPIKO SICAV under French law and is designed as a cash equivalent instrument with around-the-clock transferability, launching with $100 million in committed AUM. SAFO uses fully collateralized total return swaps with top-tier banks to deliver yields above risk-free benchmarks while keeping overnight liquidity. The fund is…

Record XRP Withdrawals From Upbit Exchange Boost 20% Rally Odds

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Korean traders are pulling XRP off exchanges at a rapid pace, while whale flows signal accumulation seen ahead of past rallies. XRP (XRP) has dropped by 10.5% in the past three days, but the decline may be a typical breakout retest within a broader bullish setup, coinciding with a surge in withdrawal activity on Korea’s Upbit exchange. XRP/USD daily chart. Source: TradingView Key takeaways: XRP bull flag breakout underway XRP broke out of its prevailing bull flag pattern last week and was pulling back on Thursday to retest the former…

Prediction Markets Bet Bitcoin Will Drop Below $55K in 2026

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Bitcoin (BTC) may go as low as $55,000 in 2026 as the market lacks bullish catalysts amid macroeconomic uncertainties.  Key takeaways: BTC price has a 65%-71% chance of dropping below $55,000 before Dec. 31, according to prediction markets. Bettors don’t expect Strategy to sell its BTC holdings in 2026.  Whale selling and negative ETFs flows add to Bitcoin’s sell-side pressure.  Prediction markets see BTC bear market continuing The majority of traders on Polymarket and Kalshi expect Bitcoin to resume its downtrend throughout 2026, with targets as low as $40,000.  Related:…

Crypto trader goes long on 33 tokens then beefs with $TRUMP

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A crypto trader has taken long positions on 33 digital assets but has chosen to short only TRUMP, the meme coin backed by President Donald Trump that has dropped 95% from its peak, according to data tracked by Lookonchain. This guy is long almost the entire market (33 tokens), except for $TRUMP, which he is short.https://t.co/E6QEMXG7DV pic.twitter.com/Seaa5XeCyA — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) March 19, 2026 TRUMP, which debuted days before Trump’s January 2025 presidential inauguration, is trading at around $3.4 at press time, down 4% in the last 24 hours, per CoinGecko.…

Bitcoin Dips to $69,500 But Avoids Six-Week Lows Seen on Gold

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Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded from weekly lows into Thursday’s Wall Street open as inflation targeted BTC price strength. Key points: Bitcoin price action preserves its new local trading range between 2021 highs and 2025 lows. Gold leads a macro asset sell-off after the Federal Reserve continued a hawkish stance on interest-rate policy. Fed Chair Jerome Powell says that the next rate cut depended on inflation “progress.” Bitcoin struggles after hawkish Fed meeting Data from TradingView showed a drop to $69,500 on the day, with BTC/USD reaching the area of its old…

Coinbase Subdomain Prompts Users to Enter Seed Phrases

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Security researchers have raised concerns about a Coinbase-associated Commerce page that appeared to prompt users to enter wallet recovery phrases, warning that such a flow could normalize behavior commonly exploited in phishing scams. The page has circulated widely on social media after being flagged by the founder of the blockchain security platform SlowMist, Yu Xian, widely known as Cos. “I’m really puzzled why Coinbase would have a page like this, directly asking users to input their plaintext mnemonic phrases for asset recovery,” Yu wrote in an X post on Wednesday,…

Crypto Hack Losses Driven by a Handful of Major Exploits: Immunefi

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A new security report from Immunefi finds that crypto hacks continue at a steady pace while losses are becoming more concentrated in a small number of massive exploits. Analyzing 425 publicly known incidents between 2021 and 2025, the report estimates that the average hack now results in about $25 million in stolen funds. In 2024 and 2025 alone, 191 hacks led to $4.67 billion in losses, with just five incidents accounting for 62% of the total. Despite representing fewer incidents, centralized exchange breaches drove the majority of losses. Twenty exchange…

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive acquires 317 Bitcoin, moving into top 10 BTC holders

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Strive has expanded its Bitcoin position by 317 coins, taking total holdings to about 13,628 BTC and entering the top 10 corporate holders, said CEO Matt Cole in a statement. Strive has acquired 317 BTC for $23 million at an average cost of ~$72,555 per bitcoin. As of 3/18/2026 we hodl 13,627.9 $BTC.$ASST $SATA pic.twitter.com/oiSJ9FTeeC — Matt Cole (@ColeMacro) March 19, 2026 The company now ranks ahead of Tesla and CleanSpark in Bitcoin holdings, though it is not the first time it has ranked among the 10 largest holders. The…