Category: Bitcoin News

STRC May Help Strategy Get to 1 Million Bitcoin Faster, Beating BlackRock

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Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) may reach the 1 million Bitcoin (BTC) milestone faster than expected, potentially overtaking BlackRock in total holdings. Key takeaways: STRC share sales have generated cash to acquire over 3,500 BTC so far this week. Strategy’s implied buying power could rise to roughly 5,700 BTC per day at Tuesday’s record pace. Strategy’s BTC holdings over time. Source: BitBo.IO Rising STRC demand implies 1,940 BTC of daily buying power Strategy currently holds 738,731 BTC, including the 17,994 BTC purchase announced on Monday. Meanwhile, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)…

SlowMist Introduces Security Framework for Autonomous AI Agents in Crypto

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Cybersecurity company SlowMist has introduced a five-layer security framework for AI and Web3 agents, pitching it as a way to reduce the growing risks that come with autonomous systems handling onchain actions and digital assets. In a Wednesday blog post, the company said the framework centers on a user’s AI agents and combines governance controls through its AI Development Security Solution, or ADSS, with execution-layer tools including OpenClaw, MistEye Skill, MistTrack Skill and MistAgent. The company said the system is designed to create a closed-loop process of checks before execution,…

XRP Is Forming a Chart Pattern That Last Led to a 1,500% Price Rally

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XRP’s (XRP) weekly price chart is starting to resemble a technical pattern that previously marked a major cycle low and preceded a sharp upside reversal. Key takeaways: XRP’s weekly chart fractal resembles the 2017 cycle low before a 1,577% surge. An XRP price breakout requires a sustained move above the $2 resistance zone. Declining exchange balances indicate XRP accumulation. XRP fractal hints at a massive price rally ahead A long-term fractal comparison between the 2017-2018 and 2024-2026 cycles suggests that XRP’s sharp sell-off from $3.66 multi-year highs mirrors a pattern…

Scaling AI Makes It Riskier

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Opinion by: Mohammed Marikar, co-founder at Neem Capital Artificial intelligence has consistently been defined by scale, so far — bigger models, faster processing, expanding data centers. The assumption, based on traditional technology cycles, was that scale would keep improving performance and, over time, costs would fall and access would expand. That assumption is now breaking down. AI is not scaling like other software. Instead, it is capital-intensive, constrained by physical limits, and hitting diminishing returns far earlier than expected. The numbers make this clear. Electricity demand from global data centers…

Wells Fargo Files Trademark for ‘WFUSD’ Crypto Services Platform

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US banking giant Wells Fargo has filed a trademark application covering a wide range of cryptocurrency trading, payments and blockchain software services. A filing submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Tuesday seeks protection for the name “WFUSD.” The application is currently awaiting assignment to an examining attorney, according to official trademark records. The filing outlines a broad list of potential products and services linked to digital assets, including “cryptocurrency trading services; cryptocurrency exchange services; cryptocurrency payment processing; financial brokerage services for cryptocurrency trading; electronic transfer of…

ECB Launches Appia Project to Shape Tokenized Markets

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The European Central Bank (ECB) on Wednesday published its Appia roadmap, setting out a long-term plan for building tokenized wholesale financial markets in Europe anchored in central bank money. The roadmap is built around two linked initiatives. Pontes is the Eurosystem’s distributed ledger technology settlement solution, while Appia is the broader strategic framework for developing a future tokenized financial ecosystem. The ECB said Pontes is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2026. “With Appia, we are building a road from today’s financial system to tomorrow’s tokenized markets, firmly…

Aave-Linked Capo Oracle Glitch Triggered $27 Million in Liquidations

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A configuration error in a risk-oracle system used by crypto lending platform Aave triggered the liquidation of about $27 million in wrapped staked Ether (wstETH) positions, prompting the protocol to move to compensate affected users. In a post-mortem published Tuesday, Aave said about 10,938 wstETH worth around $27.1 million was liquidated after the protocol applied an exchange rate that was 2.85% below the live market rate for wstETH and Lido staked Ether. The issue stemmed from a misalignment between a snapshot ratio and a snapshot timestamp in the Capo risk-oracle…

XRP ETFs Outflows Slow as Goldman Sachs Tops Holdings

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US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw increased inflows on Tuesday, even as BTC dipped below $70,000. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $251 million in inflows, building on Monday’s $167 million in gains, according to SoSoValue data. The inflows continue a positive trend in March, with cumulative monthly gains now at $1.56 billion versus $576.6 million in outflows. The inflows came despite Bitcoin briefly falling to $69,400 on Tuesday, according to CoinGecko. It traded at $69,810 at the time of writing, down 0.7% over the past 24 hours. Daily flows…

Bitcoin Battles Its Latest Key Reclaim Target With $80,000 on the Radar

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Bitcoin open interest sparked a prediction of high BTC price volatility to come as $70,000 remained the bulls’ key reclaim level. Bitcoin (BTC) waited for cues on Wednesday as the market priced in geopolitical instability. Key points: Bitcoin traders are waiting for the end of rangebound price action, with the focus on $70,000. An optimistic forecast says that the low $80,000 zone could come back into play by the end of March. Open interest trends suggest heightened BTC price volatility next. Bitcoin struggles to cement key springboard level Data from…

Crypto Bill Can Advance, but Lobbyists Will Be Unhappy: Senator

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A US Senate Democrat says crypto and banking lobbies will both have to accept compromises amid a new proposal to move the crypto market structure bill forward. Senator Angela Alsobrooks, a key Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said at an American Bankers Association event on Tuesday that she and Republican Senator Thom Tillis are working on a compromise proposal, but crypto and banking interests can’t let “perfect be the enemy of good.” “All of us will probably walk away just a little bit unhappy,” she said. “What we don’t…