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In brief Visa announced it will join Canton Network as the first major global payments company to serve as a Super Validator. The company will be one of 40 Super Validators helping banks and financial institutions bring payment flows on-chain. Canton Network is designed to address privacy concerns that have kept many banks from adopting public blockchains. Visa announced Wednesday that it will join Canton Network as the first major global payments company to serve as a Super Validator, helping extend privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure to banks and financial institutions worldwide.The payments giant will be one of 40 Super Validators on…

Morgan Stanley’s long‑awaited spot Bitcoin exchange‑traded fund, the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), has taken a major procedural step toward trading after the New York Stock Exchange confirmed an official listing notice for the product.  Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas says the listing typically signals a launch is “imminent.” If approved by regulators, MSBT would mark the first spot Bitcoin ETF issued directly by a major U.S. bank rather than an asset manager. Existing U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have been launched by firms such as BlackRock and Fidelity. Morgan Stanley’s wealth management division oversees one of the largest networks…

Cardano is attempting to turn the imminent mainnet launch of the Midnight network, a privacy-focused sidechain, into a repair job as market data signals extreme negative sentiment toward its native ADA token.Data from Santiment shows that the average wallet active on the Cardano network over the past year has earned a negative 43% return on its investment.At the same time, Binance funding rates currently show the largest short position ratio against ADA since June 2023.Cardano’s Weekly Short Position Hits Record High (Source: Santiment)These data points, coupled with a 71% price decline since September, have pushed ADA into a zone that…

In brief The largest corporate holder of Ethereum, BitMine, debuted its U.S.-based staking platform that’s aimed at institutions. Chair Tom Lee said the staking platform would soon become the world’s largest because BitMine plans to leverage its holdings. Companies like Coinbase have offered access to staking for years, with $22 billion in assets on its platform across eight cryptocurrencies in December. BitMine Immersion Technologies debuted its staking platform for institutions on Wednesday, underscoring efforts to bridge the gap between Wall Street and digital assets.The leading Ethereum treasury firm, which unveiled its “Made in America Validator Network” (or MAVAN) last year,…

In brief Cipher Digital signed a 15-year lease agreement with an “investment-grade hyperscale tenant” for a new data center development. The company closed a $200 million revolving credit facility with an additional $50 million accordion option, maturing in March 2030. The firm rebranded from Cipher Mining in February, with the latest moves furthering its pivot away from Bitcoin mining. Cipher Digital, a publicly traded developer and operator of industrial-scale data centers for high-performance computing workloads, announced Wednesday that it has signed a 15-year lease for its third data center campus, furthering its recent pivot from Bitcoin miner to powering the…

In brief President Trump appointed the first members of his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The council will be co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios, with appointees including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison. PCAST will advise on “opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies present to the American workforce.” President Donald Trump has named tech leaders including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), joining a group of other prominent AI and tech industry founders…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin has been making higher highs and higher lows at least twice this month — a pattern that technical traders watch closely as a sign that selling pressure may be fading and a new direction could be forming. Exchange Outflows Dominate March For most of March, more Bitcoin has been leaving crypto exchanges than entering them. The exception was a brief spike in inflows just before Bitcoin touched a six-week high of $76,000 on March 17, according to data from CryptoQuant. Since then, the outflow trend resumed.…

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 million revenue generators in the next five years.”For at least one of those categories, the runway may be shorter than that timeline suggests.BlackRock’s crypto ETF business has already generated enough fee income in its first two years that Fink’s five-year target, when viewed on a cumulative basis,…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes or less, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors gring higher as U.S. lays out path to end war; BTC +1% at $71.4k TAO leads all top movers, jumps 15%; Intel co-authors whitepaper with subnet team Circle stock drops 20% over new yield language in Clarity Act Tether announces first ever audit by Big 4 firm CFTC…

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.A fork visualization shows Foundry USA’s chain winning over a competing AntPool-ViaBTC branch at Bitcoin block height 941,880. Source: b10cThe heuristic nobody labeledThe six-confirmation rule is one of the pieces of received wisdom that have traveled so far from their origins that most people who repeat it can’t reconstruct why…

Bitcoin ETFs have pulled in nearly $2.5 billion over the past month, erasing almost all year-to-date outflows and displaying what Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric Balchunas calls “incredible fortitude” amid Bitcoin’s 40% price drawdown.The March streak has been underscored by nine days of inflows exceeding $150 million, including a $458.19 million day on March 2 and back-to-back $200 million days on March 16 and 17, according to SoSoValue data. Yeah bitcoin ETFs now $2.5b for month and one good day away from completely digging out of their YTD flow hole. $IBIT is already there and then some, in top 2% among…

On Mar. 24, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) launched its Innovation Task Force, tasked with developing frameworks for crypto assets, blockchain technologies, AI systems, and prediction markets.Alongside everything else Washington has done in the past three months, it reads as the moment when a provisional, enforcement-heavy posture toward crypto began to harden into something more permanent.The asset class became too financially embedded, too politically contentious, and too jurisdictionally tangled for the federal government to keep handling on a case-by-case basis.A timeline that argues for itselfThe pace since Chairman Michael Selig’s swearing-in in December 2025 is the clearest evidence available.On…

In brief Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau has reportedly accessed a wallet containing 500 Bitcoin worth $34 million (€30 million), the first of 12 wallets seized in 2019. The wallets hold 6,000 Bitcoin now valued at $418 million (€360 million), originally seized from cannabis cultivator Clifton Collins. Europol provided technical expertise and decryption resources to crack the wallet after Collins claimed to have lost the seed phrases in a break-in. Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has gained access to a Bitcoin wallet containing around 500 BTC, worth approximately $34 million (€30 million), marking the first successful breach of 12 wallets seized…

For years, the shortest line of attack against Tether was the demand for a full independent audit.The audit never came, and the company absorbed the reputational cost without visible damage to its position. USDT crossed $184 billion in market capitalization, reached more than 550 million users, and became the dominant liquidity layer across global crypto markets.On Mar. 24, Tether announced it had formally engaged a Big Four firm for its first full independent financial statement audit.This came after Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino told CryptoSlate’s Editor-in-Chief almost 2 years ago that he was actively trying to get a ‘Big Four’ firm on…

March 25th, 2026 – Victoria, Seychelles Global crypto trading platform BYDFi is participating as a sponsor of Next Block Expo 2026, held March 24–25 in Warsaw, Poland. Now in its sixth edition, NBX positions itself as one of the largest crypto and blockchain gatherings in Central and Eastern Europe, with the 2026 event expanding into a larger venue and bringing together thousands of attendees, more than 140 speakers, and dozens of Web3 brands, builders, investors, and regulators for two days of networking, dealmaking, and industry discussion. BYDFi at Next Block Expo 2026 Next Block Expo 2026 brings together keynotes, panels,…