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Brent crude oil, the global benchmark stands at about $107 per barrel at the time of writing. Onchain perpetual futures linked to real-world commodities like precious metals and oil have surged in trading volume, signaling an investor rotation from altcoins to commodity-linked digital assets, according to a report published Thursday by digital asset bank Sygnum. Trading volume for oil and precious metals perpetual futures markets on the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange (DEX) accounts for over 67% of HIP-3 contracts in Q1 2026, also known as “Builder-Deployed Perpetuals,” on the Hyperliquid platform, according to the report. Previously, indexes accounted for about 90% of HIP-3 trading activity, but this has fallen to about 17%, according to Sygnum. Read more

Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, saw its stock plunge 20% this week, erasing $5 billion in market capitalization in its steepest intraday drop since going public. The sell-off happened on the same day Tether announced it had secured a ‘Big Four' accounting firm to undertake a full audit of USDT. According to […] The post A new US rule wiped $5B off Circle — but it may hurt Coinbase more appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP trades at $1.37–$1.41 as Senate stalls on the CLARITY Act. Analysts target $1.11 downside or $1.76 breakout. Full technical breakdown + April catalyst watch. The post XRP Price Prediction: Ripple To Run Once Clarity Act Passes? appeared first on Cryptonews.

From launch milestone to durability test In less than a week, the Playnance story shifted from launch setup to live market read. CryptoSlate’s March 18 coverage framed G Coin as entering its public milestone with more than 200,000 holders already on the tracker and a live entertainment ecosystem behind it. By March 19, the token […] The post Playnance G Coin shifts from breakout launch to utility test appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Aimed at fighting organized crime groups, the new law allows confiscated assets including crypto to be used for ”police re-equipment, training, and special operations.” Brazil’s public security agencies have a new weapon for fighting organized crime after national legislators approved a measure allowing them to use confiscated cryptocurrency in their efforts. On Wednesday, Brazil’s legislative branch published Law No. 15.358, establishing a legal framework for combating organized crime. The law allows authorities to prohibit transactions on crypto exchanges by treating digital assets as instruments in a crime, and confiscate crypto to be used to fund public security. “For the purposes of forfeiture of assets, any asset that has been used to commit a crime shall be considered an instrument of the crime, even if it was not intended exclusively for that purpose,” said a translation of the law, which included: Read more

The Bitcoin lending protocol will allocate 2.25% of its token supply to Aerodrome users as it looks to expand activity for its token and stablecoin. Mezo, a Bitcoin-native lending protocol, will collaborate with Aerodrome Finance to support trading activity for its token and Bitcoin-backed stablecoin on the Base network, as projects look for ways to bring more financial use cases to Bitcoin. In a Thursday announcement, Mezo said it will allocate 2.25% of its MEZO token supply to Aerodrome’s vote-escrow (veAERO) participants — users who lock tokens in exchange for governance rights and rewards. The program is designed to encourage those users to direct funds into MEZO trading pairs, increasing activity around the token and its US dollar-backed stablecoin, MUSD. Aerodrome is a liquidity provider on Base built by the team behind Optimism, a configurable enterprise blockchain infrastructure. Read more

DRW founder Don Wilson says public blockchains conflict with how institutions trade and manage risk, limiting adoption.

A poisoned release of LiteLLM turned a routine Python install into a crypto-aware secret stealer that searched for wallets, Solana validator material, and cloud credentials every time Python started. On Mar. 24, between 10:39 UTC and 16:00 UTC, an attacker who had gained access to a maintainer account published two malicious versions of LiteLLM to […] The post Hackers sneak crypto wallet-stealing code into a popular AI tool that runs every time appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The price target depends on one condition being met: XRP bottoming near $0.87, around its 100-period exponential moving average.

Crypto prices and risk assets remain at the mercy of macro headlines for now, one analyst said.

The UK has targeted a Chinese-language crypto selling stolen personal data to fraudsters operating from scam compounds in Southeast Asia.

The bank said institutional unwinding and weakening liquidity have hit precious metals, while bitcoin shows steadier flows and improving momentum amid geopolitical stress.

A new law in Brazil will allow authorities to seize digital assets like Bitcoin to help combat organized crime and fund public security.

The exchange's chief of product development, Jon Herrick, said blockchain technology will be layered into current systems rather than replace them.

Tether Secures Big Four Firm for Full USDT Audit The post Tether Crypto Secures Big Four Auditor for Full USDT Transparency Review appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bernstein Calls Bitcoin Bottom, Sees 226% Upside for MSTR The post Bernstein Calls Bitcoin Bottom and Sets 226% Upside Target for Strategy appeared first on Cryptonews.

Coinbase and Better Home & Finance launched a structure that lets borrowers pledge Bitcoin or USDC to fund the cash down payment on a conforming mortgage tied to Fannie Mae-backed loans. Crypto exchange Coinbase Global has launched a mortgage structure with Better Home & Finance that lets qualified borrowers pledge digital assets held in Coinbase accounts to fund down payments on standard conforming mortgages designed in accordance with Fannie Mae guidelines. According to Coinbase, the structure enables borrowers to pledge digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) or USDC (USDC) as collateral for a separate loan used to fund the down payment, while the primary mortgage remains a standard, Fannie Mae–backed loan. Better will originate and service the mortgages. When rolled out, the new development could mark a shift in how crypto assets are used in US housing finance, extending their role from qualifying assets in underwriting to a more direct component of mortgage financing. Read more

The crypto industry has framed its quantum reckoning as a single catastrophic “Q-Day” moment when a sufficiently powerful machine arrives, old cryptographic keys shatter, and blockchain history unravels. This week, that moment may have been brought forward into this decade. The Ethereum Foundation's Mar. 24 post-quantum (PQ) roadmap shows that the realistic quantum threat to […] The post As quantum ‘Q-Day’ jumps to 2029, Ethereum faces a new fight over what to do with coins left in old wallets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The term "Active Treasury" misleads everyone. Digital asset treasuries chasing yield via staking and tokens become operators, not holders, demanding fund-grade governance or regulatory reclassification. Opinion by: Abdul Rafay Gadit, co-founder at Zignaly and ZIGChain Digital asset treasury companies (DATCOs) are facing a classification problem that the market can no longer ignore.   DATCOs were built to hold crypto. Increasingly, they’re being forced to decide whether they want to own assets or operate the systems those assets run on. Read more

From niche trading instrument to global financial infrastructure: How stablecoins are extending the US dollar’s reach and what advisors need to know.