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March 3rd, 2026 – Toronto, Canada Paradex has announced that the Token Generation Event for its native token, $DIME, is expected to take place soon. The launch represents the next phase in the exchange’s development. Institutional Background and Market Growth Paradex was developed by the team behind Paradigm, an institutional crypto derivatives liquidity network that has processed more than $1 trillion in trading volume. That background is reflected in Paradex’s focus on execution quality, capital efficiency, and market structure. Since launching their on-chain perpetuals exchange, Paradex has recorded: Over $250 billion in cumulative trading volume Approximately $550 million in open…

Core Scientific plans to sell nearly all its 2,537 BTC in Q1 2026 to fund AI colocation expansion and boost liquidity.Bitcoin miner Core Scientific is set to liquidate nearly its entire Bitcoin reserve in the first quarter of 2026. According to Wu Blockchain, which reported on the company’s annual SEC filing, the firm sold over 1,900 BTC in January alone, netting roughly $175 million. The company held 2,537 BTC as of December 31, 2025, with a carrying fair value of around $222 million. Core Scientific now expects to sell the remaining 600 BTC before the quarter ends, subject to market conditions. The…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – For years, the crypto industry has searched for its next breakout moment — something on the scale of DeFi summer or the NFT boom. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence has quietly embedded itself into daily life. Developers use ChatGPT as a co-pilot. Consumers rely on AI assistants to draft emails, plan travel, and increasingly manage workflows. Crypto, by comparison, still feels infrastructural.Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, believes that divide is about to collapse — but not in the way many expect.“The users of blockchain will be AI agents,” Polosukhin said in an interview. “AI is going to be…

BlackRock Investment Institute said it remains overweight on US and Japanese equities, citing support from artificial intelligence, corporate earnings strength and structural reforms. In its latest weekly commentary, the firm says traditional static asset allocation “no longer suffices” in a world shaped by mega forces such as digital disruption, geopolitical fragmentation and demographic divergence, favoring instead a scenario-based approach to portfolio construction. “We see the AI theme supported by strong earnings, resilient profit margins and healthy balance sheets at large listed tech companies. Continued Fed easing into 2026 and reduced policy uncertainty underpin our overweight to U.S. equities.” The firm is…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin’s current price structure is prompting a reassessment in how this cycle is being interpreted. The only place to look for clues is the past, and an interesting technical analysis shows that Bitcoin’s current pattern resembles the slower, methodical buildup that defined 2017.  A long-term chart built around a linear regression channel shows that Bitcoin may still be in a preparatory phase, with one major technical barrier separating today’s consolidation from what could become a powerful rally. The Linear Regression Line Holding Back The Breakout Technical analysis…

Brazil’s tax authority recorded R$242 million in XRP transactions last September, with 308,411 entries in hard official on-chain data.Brazil’s own tax authority just handed the XRP community something no price chart can fake. Hard numbers. Official ones.The Receita Federal, Brazil’s federal revenue service, published open on-chain declared activity data. September figures showed 308,411 XRP transactions totalling R$242,096,431.14. That is not a projection. Not an estimate.As WKahneman posted on X, the dataset pulls from three reporting streams: exchange-reported activity, individuals and companies using foreign exchanges, and peer-to-peer transactions where monthly totals cross R$30,000. The figures come straight from Brazil’s Receita Federal…

Yesterday’s modest rally in stocks in response to a new Middle East war breaking out over the weekend — for the moment — appears to have been a headfake.In mid-morning U.S. hours, the Nasdaq is at session lows, down 2.5%. The S&P 500 is lower by 2.3%. European markets are being hit even harder, led by a 5.2% plunge in Italy’s IBEX 35 and a 4.1% fall in Germany’s DAX.Having run up to historic highs in the weeks leading up to the war, precious metals are tumbling as well. Gold is lower by 4.3%, silver by 7.5% and platinum by…

Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are facing backlash following trading activity tied to Iran airstrikes and the reported death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour defended the platform’s handling of a market centered on whether Khamenei would be removed as Supreme Leader, emphasizing that the company does not allow markets that settle directly on someone’s death. “We don’t list markets directly tied to death. When there are markets where potential outcomes involve death, we design the rules to prevent people from profiting from death. That is what we did here.” According to Mansour, the firm settled…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has provided an update on plans for account abstraction. Given the progress they have made so far on this feature, he stated that it could go live within a year under the Hegota upgrade.  Vitalik Buterin Provides Update On Ethereum Account Abstraction In an X post, Vitalik Buterin noted that they have made progress with the account abstraction proposal, which they have been working on since early 2016. There is now the EIP-8141 proposal, which the Ethereum co-founder said solves every remaining problem…

Ripple Prime joins the NSCC directory, linking XRPL to U.S. clearing infrastructure.Hidden Road cleared ~$3T yearly for 300+ institutions before Ripple’s acquisition.Ripple plans to migrate institutional post-trade settlement flows onto XRPL.Ripple expanded the role of the XRP Ledger in traditional finance after the National Securities Clearing Corporation added Ripple Prime to its directory. The move connects Ripple’s prime brokerage unit to key U.S. market infrastructure and sets the stage for post-trade activity to move onto the XRP Ledger.Ripple Prime Added to NSCC DirectoryRipple Prime recently gained regulatory approval and is now listed in the NSCC directory. The NSCC operates under…