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Valkyrie amends Bitcoin Fund S-1 filing with enhanced custody and valuation rules

Valkyrie Investments refiled an amended Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday for its Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund, adding more precise rules around custody, valuation, seed investments, and risks as the cryptocurrency investment vehicle awaits regulatory approval to trade on Nasdaq. The new filing updates the index used to value the fund’s Bitcoin from Lukka Prime to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate – New York Variant, which calculates the reference rate as of 4 PM Eastern

Latam Insights: Paraguay Adds Stringent Crypto Reporting Rules, Argentina Blocks Peso Stablecoin

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Paraguay strengthens its crypto reporting requirements, Argentina blocks operations for a peso stablecoin, and new revelations surge in the case against Libra in Argentina. Paraguay Strengthens Mandatory Reporting Requirements for VASPs and Individuals […]

Major Crypto Assets Remain Far From Peaks as Crypto Market Sheds $540 Billion in 2026

With two weeks left in the first quarter, 2026 has already handed the crypto economy a proper drubbing, and since Jan. 1, 2026, the sector has coughed up $540 billion. Moreover, the cryptocurrency market is still nursing a wide spread of pullbacks from its respective all-time highs (ATHs). Bitcoin Over 40% Below Record as Crypto […]

$700M in Iran war bets and $1.2M in suspicious profits push Washington toward prediction-market crackdown

Polymarket and Kalshi are trying to raise money at valuations that put them in the top tier of consumer-fintech names, even as Washington moves closer to writing new rules for the product they sell. Both companies are reportedly in early fundraising talks that could value each at around $20 billion.That fundraising chatter is taking place in the middle of a political storm.Iran-related contracts turned prediction markets from a quirky forecasting niche into a question about insider information a

Nvidia Powers Nebius AI Factory Plans With Massive $2 Billion Investment

The artificial intelligence (AI) arms race just got another shot of rocket fuel after Nvidia dropped a cool $2 billion on AI cloud builder Nebius, signaling that the next frontier of computing won’t be fought with clever code alone—it’ll be fought with gigawatts of electricity and warehouses full of silicon. Nvidia’s AI Bet: $2B Investment […]

Ethereum Foundation Sells $10.2M in ETH to Bitmine as New Mandate Redefines Network Stewardship

The Ethereum Foundation paired a $10.2 million ether sale with a sweeping new manifesto this week, signaling that while it still helps fund the network’s development, it no longer sees itself as Ethereum’s central authority. The $10.2M Ethereum OTC Deal On March 14, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) confirmed it completed an over-the-counter (OTC) sale of […]

Bitcoin Hashrate Slips Below 1 Zettahash as Miner Revenue Remains Thin

Bitcoin’s hashrate has slipped beneath the 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s) mark as miner income remains painfully thin, with the hashprice daily rate parked at $31 per petahash per second (PH/s). Weak Hashprice and Lower Compute While Bitcoin’s hashrate briefly clawed its way back above 1,000 exahash per second (EH/s)—the neat mathematical twin of 1 […]

Coinbase’s $70B Bitcoin move made it look like investors were selling — but no one actually did

Some of Bitcoin’s most trusted bottom signals rest on the simple assumption that when old coins move, something meaningful has changed.Traders and analysts often interpret that as renewed selling, fresh distribution, or signs that the market hasn't bottomed. That logic helped turn HODL Waves, Coin Days Destroyed, and long-term holder supply into some of the most widely used metrics in Bitcoin cycle analysis.The problem with that is that Bitcoin’s blockchain records movements and has no way of sh

Who are the six senators who just opposed a US plan to block a digital dollar through 2030?

Washington has spent years talking about a US CBDC as a distant possibility. It was an abstract policy idea, safely contained inside white papers and partisan messaging. But then the Senate put a number on it and made it very real.On March 2, senators voted 84-6 to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 6644, a broad housing and banking package that would bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC until the end of 2030.Only six senators voted no. Cory Booker voted present, and nine sen

$75K or Bust? Prediction Markets Reveal Where Traders Think Bitcoin Is Headed

Prediction markets have a funny habit of saying the quiet part out loud, and right now the betting pits of the internet are whispering, shouting, and occasionally cackling about one thing: just how high bitcoin might climb before 2026 is done with us. Crypto Crystal Ball: Prediction Markets Reveal Bitcoin Price Odds for March and […]

Suspected $3.7M Exploit Hits Venus Protocol After Attacker Uses Illiquid Token as Collateral

Venus Protocol, a decentralized finance ( DeFi) lending platform on BNB Chain, is investigating unusual activity after an address allegedly used the illiquid $THE token as collateral to extract roughly $3.7 million in digital assets before large-scale liquidations began. Suspected $3.7M Venus Protocol Exploit Hits BNB Chain Lending Markets Onchain and social media alerts first […]

Bitcoin’s $71k rally has a problem most traders aren’t watching

Bitcoin entered the weekend hovering near $71,000, well off the previous week's spike above $74,000, but far below the highs it touched at the beginning of the year. On price alone, the market looks pretty composed.However, underneath, its structure looks much less comfortable.Data shows spot activity fading while derivatives keep doing more of the work. Almost every day this month saw derivatives trading at roughly nine times the spot volume, and that's not the profile of a market pushed forwar

‘Stretch the Orange Dots’: Saylor’s Signal Ignites Massive Bitcoin Buying Expectations

Expectations for another major bitcoin purchase from Strategy are building after Michael Saylor highlighted the firm’s growing treasury, reinforcing investor speculation that the company’s aggressive accumulation campaign is far from finished. Bitcoin Buying Machine: Saylor Post Ignites Expectations of Massive Strategy BTC Purchases Investor attention around corporate bitcoin accumulation intensified after Strategy Executive Chairman Michael […]

Bitcoin Market Update: BTC Trades Sideways Near $72K as Breakout Setup Forms

At 8:30 a.m. EST on Sunday, bitcoin traded near $71,754 on March 15, 2026, consolidating within a narrow $70,540 to $71,893 intraday range while the broader technical picture leaned mildly constructive. With a market cap of $1.44 trillion and 24-hour trading volume above $22.5 billion, the world’s largest cryptocurrency continued to hover inside a well-defined […]

The CFTC starts crackdown on the growing insider problem in prediction markets

On Mar. 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a staff advisory telling exchanges to tighten surveillance on event contracts.Simultaneously, the regulator opened a 45-day rulemaking process that asks pointed questions about inside information, manipulation, and whether some markets serve the public interest at all.Two weeks earlier, the agency had spotlighted two Kalshi disciplinary cases involving traders who appeared to hold decisive informational edges.One is a California

Ark Labs Raises $5.2M Seed Round to Advance Bitcoin Programmable Finance

Ark Labs secured $5.2 million in seed funding led by Tether to scale its Arkade infrastructure for programmable bitcoin transactions. Ark Labs announced on March 12, 2026, the closure of a $5.2 million seed round in Lugano, Switzerland, to expand its Bitcoin-based financial infrastructure. The round features prominent investors including Tether, Ego Death Capital, and […]

Prediction Markets Anticipate Blue Sweep in Upcoming Congress Midterm Elections

Kalshi and Polymarket anticipate that the Democratic Party will sweep both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections slated for November. There is a close to 50% chance of this outcome, while the second option, where Democrats win the House but lose the Senate, reaches 37%. Blue Sweep: Prediction Markets Anticipate a Democrat […]

Metaplanet Announces Strategic Investment in JPYC Stablecoin Through New Venture Arm

Metaplanet Inc. executes a Letter of Intent to invest up to $2.5 million (JPY 400 million) in JPYC Inc. to bolster Japan’s digital settlement infrastructure. Metaplanet Inc. announces on March 12, 2026, that it has executed a Letter of Intent to invest up to $2.5 million (JPY 400 million) in JPYC Inc., the issuer of […]

Pharos Network Expands RealFi Alliance to Tackle RWA Transparency Gap

Pharos Network’s RealFi Alliance expands with the intelligence partners cohort, introducing Dune, Alchemy and Anchorage Digital to provide the transparency and data-backed research required for institutional real-world assets ( RWA) adoption. Solving the Trust Gap Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, announced the addition of a specialized group of research, data, and institutional infrastructure […]

Balaji Srinivasan Advocates for Crypto in Wartime Mode to Support Global Refugees

Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan calls for the development of robust cryptocurrency infrastructure to serve refugees and stateless individuals. Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State and former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Coinbase, issued a social media call to action regarding digital tools for displaced populations. He argues that the crypto industry must prioritize […]