Month: March 2026

Polymarket is opening a news-watching bar in DC called The Situation Room

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Polymarket, the crypto-native prediction market that conquered the 2024 election cycle, is doing something no one had on their bingo card: opening a bar in Washington, DC. Called “The Situation Room,” the venue is scheduled to open its doors on March 21, 2026. It’s being billed as the world’s first bar dedicated to monitoring live events, outfitted with Bloomberg terminals, flight radar feeds, X streams, and — naturally — Polymarket screens displaying real-time odds on everything from geopolitics to interest rate decisions. Think sports bar, but for people who get…

Qatar evacuates Ras Laffan energy hub after Iran threatens Gulf facilities

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Qatar is evacuating its Ras Laffan Industrial City — the single most important liquefied natural gas facility on the planet — after Iran threatened to strike Gulf energy infrastructure, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. If that sentence didn’t make your stomach drop, here’s some context: Ras Laffan handles roughly 77 million tonnes of LNG per year. That’s about a third of global seaborne LNG trade flowing through one coastal complex north of Doha. What we know so far Details remain thin, which is itself part of…

Pundit’s XRP Projection For Next Bull Cycle Shows When Rally To $100 Is Coming

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Popular crypto pundit TARA has published a five-cycle Fibonacci roadmap for XRP on X, projecting that the crypto’s price will eventually surpass $100 in the long term.  The projections, which are based on 0.618 extension targets applied to XRP’s 12-month candlestick chart, trace a sequence of progressively higher cycle peaks, each one separated by corrections and extended accumulation periods, that culminate in a Cycle 5 top of $153. Macro Targets For XRP TARA’s projection framework begins with a pricepoint that is already settled history. Cycle 1, which she noted as…

Institutional Investors Plan More Crypto Exposure in 2026: Survey

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The crypto market sell-off since October hasn’t deterred institutional investors, with a new survey showing most plan to increase exposure to digital assets in the coming year. According to a January survey of 351 institutional investors conducted by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon, 73% of respondents said they plan to increase their allocations of digital assets in 2026, while 74% expect crypto prices to rise over the next 12 months. Two-thirds of respondents said exchange-traded products (ETPs) and other regulated vehicles have become their preferred way to gain exposure, reflecting growing familiarity…

Tempo debuts mainnet and machine payments layer for autonomous agents

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Tempo has launched its mainnet, positioning itself as infrastructure for real-world payments at internet scale, as stablecoins move deeper into global commerce. The network, developed by payments giant Stripe and crypto investment firm Paradigm, is designed to deliver instant settlement, predictable low fees, high throughput, and continuous availability, addressing limitations in existing blockchains that struggle with payment-heavy workloads. Alongside the launch, Tempo introduced the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard for programmatic payments co-authored with Stripe. The protocol enables machines and services to request, authorize, and settle payments automatically, removing…

Elon Musk’s X suffers major outage as thousands report service disruptions

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Elon Musk’s social media platform X experienced a major service outage today, leaving users worldwide unable to access core features of the site. The disruption, which began around 10:30 a.m. ET, affected users’ ability to load timelines, publish posts, and navigate essential platform functions. Real-time complaint tracking service Downdetector recorded more than 12,500 user reports at the peak of the outage. The disruption affected users across multiple regions, with complaints spanning North America, Europe, and other major markets. Disclosure: This article was edited by Vivian Nguyen. For more information on…

SBI VC Trade Launches USDC Lending Service for Japan Users

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SBI Holdings’ digital asset arm, SBI VC Trade, said it will launch a USDC lending service in Japan on Thursday, allowing retail users to lend stablecoins to the platform under fixed-term agreements in exchange for returns. On Wednesday, the company said users will be able to lend Circle’s USDC (USDC) stablecoin to the platform and receive interest payments, with a maximum application of 5,000 USDC per offering. The product is structured as a loan to SBI VC Trade rather than a deposit, meaning users take direct counterparty risk. SBI said…

XRP Trend Exhaustion Says Price Is About To Jump, Here’s The Target

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XRP is beginning to show the kind of price behavior that traders usually watch for when a downtrend starts running out of steam. A technical setup of XRP’s price action shows a cryptocurrency that has already absorbed months of selling pressure and is now trying to build a base above a key support zone.  Although the analysis does not suggest that XRP has already broken into a full bullish trend, it does show that the decline has slowed down, and price is starting to stabilize where buyers are stepping in.…

Crypto Ties a Liability in Illinois Primary

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Not all voters are sold on crypto, and in Illinois, the crypto industry lobby failed to secure a victory, despite spending millions.  On Tuesday, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton won a primary election for a rare open US Senate seat in her state. She is expected to win in the general election and take the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Dick Durbin. In the primary, she won over two other candidates, Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, who currently represents Illinois’ 8th Congressional district, and Representative Robin Kelly from Illinois’ 2nd.      The crypto…

UK Has Unique Opportunity to Merge EU, US Crypto Regimes: Circle Exec

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Circle’s policy chief Dante Disparte told a United Kingdom House of Lords committee that the UK has a chance to build its crypto regime by combining the clarity of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) with elements of the new US stablecoin framework. “The model is clear: take the best of both and make it distinctly British,” Disparte said during a Wednesday meeting of the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee. “From Europe, take clarity, definitions, licensing, governance and strong consumer protection from the US and the…