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U.S. inflation data is the major catalyst to watch this week, as it could move the needle on market sentiment and Federal Reserve interest-rate expectations.The war in the Middle East and other geopolitical risks have kept commodity markets volatile, with bitcoin BTC$68,153.83 last week failing to remain above the $70,000 mark.The U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran is escalating, and the odds of a near-term ceasefire on prediction markets appear slim. Traders will be monitoring the price of crude oil for potential signs of its impact on inflation.Against that background, there are some specific crypto events to catch the eye. Solstice and…

A US bank teller allegedly used the lender’s cash vaults to launder over a million dollars in drug money. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has issued an Order of Prohibition against Georgina Banuelos, who worked as an employee of The Fountain Trust Company between October 6th, 2008, and May 17th, 2024. The FDIC alleges that while working as a teller at Indiana-based Fountain Trust, Banuelos exchanged low-denomination drug proceeds for larger bills taken from the bank. In total, the FDIC accuses Banuelos of laundering $1.612 million in drug money. Says the regulator, “On September 18, 2025, Respondent pleaded guilty…

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, invested 215,000 pounds ($286,000) in Stack BTC (STAK), a U.K.-listed bitcoin BTC$67,250.88 treasury company, in a fundraising round that also involved Blockchain.com.In total, the company raised 260,000 by selling 5.2 million new shares at 5 pence each, it said on Monday. The new shares are expected to begin trading on the Aquis Growth Market on March 12. Farage invested through his Thorn In The Side Ltd. company and will hold 6.31% of Stack following admission of the new shares. Farage said he has long supported bitcoin and believes the U.K. should position…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Traders watching Bitcoin climb alongside US software stocks last week may have drawn the wrong conclusion. According to NYDIG, a financial services company focused on Bitcoin, the visual parallel is misleading. Only about 25% of BTC price movement can be traced back to its relationship with equity markets. The remaining 75% is driven by forces that have nothing to do with the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq. Greg Cipolaro, head of research at NYDIG, made the case in a Friday note. His argument: when Bitcoin and software…

The banking industry has more to gain from the stalled U.S. Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a bill aimed at regulating digital assets, than the crypto industry, according to Christopher Giancarlo, a former chairman of the country’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).”The banks need this more than crypto,” Giancarlo told Scott Melker on Sunday’s Wolf Of All Streets podcast. “Their general counsels are telling their boards: You can’t invest billions of dollars to build these digital rails unless you’ve got regulatory certainty. Banks can’t afford regulatory uncertainty.”The bill has been deadlocked since January, with crypto companies, including Coinbase CEO Brian…

A widely followed crypto analyst says that the most severe part of Bitcoin’s (BTC) correction is now over. Dave the Wave tells his 158,000 followers on X that Bitcoin has entered the “buy zone” of his logarithmic growth curve (LGC), a range that BTC will likely chop around within until a bullish reversal based on historical precedence. The LGC is a model that aims to forecast Bitcoin’s market cycle highs and lows while filtering out short-term volatility. “As we can see by the chart, there is good reason to think the worst of the correction is behind us. That said,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Charles Hoskinson says Cardano’s Pentad initiative is dealing with a roughly $40 million funding gap after ADA fell from around $0.83 at the time of the original proposal to roughly $0.25. In a March 6 video update, the Cardano founder said the plan was initially working with the equivalent of about $58 million in value from 70 million ADA, but that figure has since dropped to about $18 million. That repricing, he argued, has fundamentally changed the economics of the program. “The reality is that there’s a…

Oil’s war rally just hit its first real obstacle.Tokenized crude futures on Hyperliquid’s CL-USDC contract fell sharply from a high of $118 to $102.83 on Monday after the Financial Times reported that G7 finance ministers would discuss a coordinated release of emergency oil reserves through the International Energy Agency.Bitcoin rose above $67,300, reversing a move to under $66,900 from earlier in the day.Three G7 countries, including the U.S., have expressed support for the plan. The ministers and IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol are expected to hold a call to discuss the impact of the Iran war on energy markets.The reversal…

The week-long war between Iran, the U.S., and Israel has pushed oil prices on both sides of the Atlantic past $100 a barrel, threatening to inject inflation into the global economy. Asian markets are taking a hit, bond yields are climbing, and yet bitcoin BTC$67,316.44 has barely budged, hovering around $67,000, where it was 24 hours ago.A likely reason? Bitcoin’s strong links to Wall Street. Since the conflict started last week, U.S. stocks have held up relatively well compared to Asian and European equities, probably benefiting from America’s position as a net oil exporter. Bitcoin, which closely tracks U.S. tech…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin, being referred to as digital gold, is nothing new, as proponents have, for the longest time, expected the digital asset to replicate gold’s growth. Currently, the market cap of gold is more than 20 times that of BTC, but that has not changed the expectations that BTC will eventually be the bigger asset. This time around, it is Bitcoin proponent Samson Mow who is once again making the comparison and predicting what could happen between the two assets. Betting On Bitcoin To Overtake Gold In an…