Solana-based exchange Backpack now offers retail investors direct IPO share allocations on-chain, bypassing traditional brokerages, through infrastructure partner Superstate. Backpack is known for managing fee-free FTX creditor claims and acquiring FTX EU’s assets to restore licensed trading in Europe. Retail investors can access pre-listing IPO allocations that were previously

Members of the House of Lords pressed Coinbase’s top international policy executive on whether stablecoins would drain bank deposits and create new risks for the UK financial system. Tom Duff Gordon argued fully reserved, regulated stablecoins are safer than uninsured bank deposits because they are backed one‑to‑one

MYX Finance has plunged about 95% over the past month as sustained selling left the token’s outlook overwhelmingly bearish. Large investors have bought in an attempt to stabilize the market, but those purchases have not altered the broader downward trajectory. The Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) has stayed deep in

Crypto markets became the first outlet for investor reaction after US and Israeli strikes on Iran rattled global sentiment over the weekend. At around 7:30 am (UTC) on Saturday, US President Donald Trump posted a video announcing the attacks, and Bitcoin immediately dropped to around $63,000. Traders rushed

Solana price has been under pressure for weeks and remains down roughly 13% over the past month, yet a potential reversal is forming. Between January 28 and March 1 the price made a lower low while the RSI printed a higher low, creating a bullish divergence, and long-term holders increased

Mantra (MANTRA) rallied 37% after its launch following the completion of the OM token swap at a 1:4 ratio. The new token went live on major centralized exchanges, including Binance. The total supply stands at 7.055 billion MANTRA, with 67.51%—about 4.763 billion tokens—currently in

South Korea’s KOSPI fell more than 12% on Wednesday, marking its largest single-day drop on record, as fears tied to the widening US–Israel–Iran conflict rattled markets. KOSDAQ declined over 10%, and the Korean Stock Exchange imposed a temporary trading halt after both indices fell more than 8%

The Democratic Party of Korea’s digital asset task force and the Financial Services Commission agreed to set the maximum shareholding limit for major shareholders in domestic crypto exchanges at 20% after discussions. Regulators may allow exceptions of up to 34% for new businesses through an enforcement decree, a threshold

Kraken has become the first digital asset company granted a master account at the Federal Reserve, securing direct access to the Fed’s core payments system. Kraken Financial, the exchange’s Wyoming-chartered banking arm, can now settle U.S. dollar transactions on the same payment rails used by thousands of

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Kraken Financial has become the first company to secure a master account with the US Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City oversaw the application. Kraken’s banking unit, trading as Payward, will gain access to the Fed’s key payment

Ethereum is trading near $1,960, up 2.7% over the past seven days but down 1.8% in the last 24 hours. ETF flows have turned positive for two consecutive weeks after a stretch of outflows — the same flip that previously preceded an 11.6% surge and a 7.

Lightning has long promised fast, cheap Bitcoin payments, but using it has often meant choosing between an easy custodial wallet and a self-custodial setup that requires managing channels, inbound liquidity and staying online. Cake Wallet’s latest update aims to remove that friction by rolling out self-custodial Lightning support for

XRP has traded sideways over the past month, consolidating between $1.34 support and $1.47 resistance as the downtrend that began at the start of the year remains intact. The range-bound action signals the token is struggling to break free from the pressure behind its current consolidation; at the

US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw mixed trading flows on Tuesday, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) offsetting redemptions. Data from SoSoValue show net inflows of $225.2 million. Farside data put IBIT’s inflows at $322.4 million, which offset $89.3 million in outflows from Fidelity Wise

Ethereum has traded sideways around $2,000 since the start of the year, a pattern that has strengthened accumulation sentiment and driven investors to move assets off exchanges. Withdrawals from exchanges reached about 31.6 million ETH in February, the highest level since November; Binance led outflows with roughly 14.

Power Protocol’s POWER token plunged more than 90% in 24 hours after hitting an all-time high of $2.46 on March 2, wiping out its February gains. BeInCrypto Markets data showed an intraday low of $0.15 and a trade price of $0.18 at press time. The move

A Los Angeles County jury found former LAPD officer Eric Halem guilty of kidnapping and robbery after a two-week trial, convicting him for a 2024 home invasion in which $350,000 worth of cryptocurrency was taken and a 17-year-old was seized. Prosecutors said Halem and three others posed as police

Visa and Bridge plan to roll out stablecoin-linked cards to more than 100 countries by the end of 2026. The product is currently live in 18 countries and the expansion targets Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure platform acquired by Stripe, enables businesses and

Ripple has expanded Ripple Payments into a fully integrated end-to-end platform. The platform now lets customers collect, hold, convert, and pay out in both fiat and stablecoins within a single unified system, eliminating the need to coordinate across multiple vendors. The expansion draws on Ripple’s recent acquisitions of Palisade

OKX has introduced a native AI layer on OnchainOS, its developer-focused onchain platform, to enable AI agents to act autonomously on blockchain networks. The layer links traditional decentralized tooling with machine-native automation for trading, wallet management, payments and market data access. OnchainOS is an onchain toolkit and execution environment built

Bitcoin is holding its ground while much else is mixed: BTC is up roughly 3.5% over the past seven days, while gold sits nearly flat on the week at -0.05%. That divergence is unfolding even as the US Dollar Index and Brent crude climb, conditions that typically weigh

Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan said he drastically cut his estimate of when on-chain finance would take off after investors piled into crypto platforms such as Hyperliquid during the US‑Israel attack on Iran. Hougan said that for most of Sunday onchain finance was the center of the financial

When airstrikes hit on February 28, Iran’s Central Bank directed exchanges to halt trading in the USDT–toman pair overnight to slow a rapid repricing of the currency, highlighting how deeply stablecoins have been woven into the country’s financial plumbing. In the weeks before the strikes, analytics firms

David Bailey, a former crypto adviser to the Trump administration and now CEO and chairman of KindlyMD, told attendees at the Bitcoin Investor Week conference in New York that political support for Bitcoin must go beyond rhetoric. “At the end of the day, liking Bitcoin is not enough,” he said,

Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, publicly disavowed a Solana-based memecoin bearing her name and likeness, and the token’s price plunged 58% within hours. The Financial Services Agency has opened a probe into the issuer amid questions over whether the operation required a crypto exchange license. SANAE TOKEN launched