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Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced an immediate freeze on crypto donations to political parties, following the independent Rycroft review.

Decentralized crowdfunding supports NFT artists through market crashes. Onchain purchases deliver direct capital and visibility when centralized platforms fail. Opinion by: Joshua Kim, CEO and founder of DonaFi. Traditional crowdfunding has always been pitched as a lifeline for creators. For non-fungible token (NFT) artists, most centralized models feel out of sync with reality. Fees are high, visibility is inconsistent and platforms increasingly optimize for momentum rather than need. During a market downturn, when liquidity dries up dramatically, the deck is stacked even higher against artists. Decentralized crowdfunding ensures a more direct, transparent capital flow onchain from collectors who care about art, as opposed to quick flips. The recent effort led by longtime collector Batsoupyum and curator Lanett Bennett Grant makes the case very well. Read more

Cipher Digital revealed a 15-year lease deal and a $200 million revolving credit facility, continuing its shift away from Bitcoin mining.

The Vienna-based crypto broker announced its Ethereum layer-2, aimed at helping European banks and fintechs issue tokenized assets under MiCA and MiFID II. Bitpanda said Wednesday it is building Vision Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 that the Vienna-based broker said is aimed at helping European banks and fintechs issue and manage tokenized assets using infrastructure designed for compatibility with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. Bitpanda is pitching Vision Chain as a layer-2 for tokenized assets, combining Optimism’s OP Stack with institutional custody and compliance tooling so that regulated companies in Europe can tokenize and trade traditional assets such as stocks, bonds and funds on an Ethereum-based rollup.  Bitpanda argued that this positioning, along with its existing bank partnerships in Germany and Austria, will make it easier for traditional institutions to go onchain than building their own infrastructure f...

BitMine is the world's largest ETH holder, with over 100,000 staked tokens.

The government halted crypto political donations over concerns about foreign interference, as the Rycroft review warns that anonymity risks undermine democratic transparency.

Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and other tech leaders will advise President Trump on emerging technology policy.

BlackRock's Chief Executive Larry Fink told shareholders this year that digital assets, alongside private markets, insurance, and active ETFs, could each become $500 million revenue generators for the firm within five years. According to him: “Private markets to insurance, private markets to wealth, digital assets, and active ETFs, we think these can all be $500 […] The post BlackRock Bitcoin ETF empire surging past $100 billion was fastest ever hinting at a $200B tipping point appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Despite an IMF warning regarding the potential risks, the Marshall Islands is proceeding with a partnership which could expand its digital sovereign bond to institutional markets. Update (March 25 8:22PM UTC): This article has been updated to clarify the role of M1X Global in the first paragraph. The technology provider building the infrastructure for the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ universal basic income (UBI) program which will use a US dollar-pegged sovereign financial instrument has attracted some significant crypto-tied backers. In a Tuesday notice shared exclusively with Cointelegraph, M1X Global announced that it had launched following a $3 million angel investment round by current and former executives connected to crypto and financial services companies. Read more

Bitcoin remains under sustained selling pressure, trading around $71.5K as the market continues to digest one of the sharpest corrections since the 2022 bear cycle. With key moving averages still sloping downward and no major structural level reclaimed, the probable path remains to the downside until proven otherwise. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart BTC […]

A UK review led by Philip Rycroft recommended a temporary moratorium on crypto political donations until stronger safeguards and statutory guidance are in place. Philip Rycroft, a former senior civil servant, recommended that the UK government impose a temporary moratorium on political donations made in crypto assets in an independent review published on Wednesday. “The government should legislate in the Representation of the People Bill to introduce a moratorium on political donations made in cryptoassets,” Rycroft wrote in the report, which was commissioned by the government in December 2025. The review said crypto assets could provide a route for foreign money to enter the UK political system because of incomplete regulation, the difficulty of tracing the “ultimate ownership” of some assets, and the possibility of breaking larger donations into smaller transfers. It noted that donations below 500 British pounds ($669) fall outside the normal permissibility test, while formal reporting thresholds for politi...

STS Digital said the platform offers institutional clients access to options-based strategies through predefined crypto investment products. Crypto derivatives firm STS Digital said on Wednesday it had launched a structured products platform for digital assets, with Kraken as its first distribution partner. STS Digital said the platform allows clients to access options-based strategies packaged into predefined payoff structures. Kraken has integrated the platform via an API and is using it to power its Dual Investment product, which offers eligible clients fixed returns on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).  The launch reflects a broader trend of firms packaging derivatives into structured products that can offer yield or downside protection in crypto markets. Read more

XRP is trading around $1.43, still deep in a correction that has erased the majority of its bull market gains. With both moving averages trending downward and the price trapped inside a descending channel, the altcoin continues to underperform against broader market expectations as Q1 2026 draws to a close. Ripple Price Analysis: The USDT […]

Aave (AAVE), up 5.8% from Tuesday, joined Stellar (XLM) as a top performer.

Bitcoin is beating gold during the Iran war, but its dependence on liquidity cycles keeps the safe haven narrative in question. Before the Iran war broke out, Bitcoin spent months trading sideways while gold rallied to record levels. At the time, gold was seen as the go-to safe haven; inflation concerns remained persistent and geopolitical tensions continued to build, while Bitcoin (BTC) failed to live up to that role. Nearly a month after the US and Israel launched the first strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, that view is being challenged. Bitcoin initially fell to $63,176 on the news of the attacks but has since risen about 12% to $71,012, as of Wednesday. Read more

The trouble with upgrading Bitcoin and Ethereum with quantum secure digital signatures is that no one knows for certain if they’ll even work.

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[PRESS RELEASE – Areuse, Switzerland, March 25th, 2026] The SanTerris One project has announced the launch of S1, a utility token designed to reward real-world sustainable actions within a connected Pro Planet ecosystem. The platform unifies a curated marketplace, social engagement tools, and an education and affiliate engine under a shared incentive logic—aiming to turn […]

The Bitcoin network experienced a rare two-block reorg on Mar. 23, at block height 941,880. Foundry mined six consecutive blocks, AntPool and ViaBTC briefly extended a competing branch. The chain resolved the fork as designed, following the path with the most hash rate. Bitcoin performed exactly as designed and validated its assumptions. The heuristic nobody […] The post Bitcoin miner concentration just exposed a gap in Bitcoin’s “six confirmations” rule appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin traders agreed that BTC price action needed to retake $72,000 to open up the odds of further upside as gold and US stocks gained. Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $72,000 on Wednesday as gold continued its rebound from four-month lows. Key points: Bitcoin price performs a support retest of its 50-day moving average before hitting $72,000. Read more