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In brief A new GI-TOC report has revealed that illicit Amazonian gold is being sold in Venezuela in exchange for the USDT stablecoin. Use of USDT in the illicit gold trade has been observed within the past year, while the Venezuelan economy in general has become more reliant on the stablecoin. Experts suggest that a new bill working its way through Congress could reduce the flow of illicit gold, but that it would also have to include sections related to gold to be effective. Tether’s USDT stablecoin has become a means of payment in the illicit trade of gold into…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana ETFs are breaking records even as SOL prices are in a downtrend. While bearish sentiment dominates the crypto market, billions of dollars continue to flow in, painting a contrasting picture between price action and institutional demand. As the cryptocurrency attempts a recovery, analysts are once again eyeing a return to the $100 level. However, the question remains whether the current ETF momentum could be the catalyst that drives a price recovery.  Solana ETFs Hit Record Levels Amidst Price Decline Solana has been experiencing a rough stretch…

Bitcoin held near $70,000 despite oil price briefly trading around $100 a barrel, a move that would once have pushed crypto sharply lower under the usual macro playbook.According to CryptoSlate’s data, the flagship digital asset climbed a modest 0.3% over the last 24 hours, reaching as high as $71,337 before retracing to $69,803 as of press time.Oil prices climbed sharply, with WTI crude rising 4.79% to $92.04 and Brent crude jumping 5.24% to $97.22.The rally followed escalating shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, which deepened concerns about a sustained supply shock. Notably, Iran had warned the world to prepare…

In brief A trader swapping $50 million in USDT for AAVE received only 324 tokens after confirming a slippage warning. At AAVE’s current price of $111.52, the tokens received are worth roughly $36,100. Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the protocol will attempt to return about $600,000 in fees from the trade. A crypto trader lost almost the entire value of a $50 million transaction on Thursday after executing a large swap for Aave’s governance token through the decentralized finance protocol’s trading interface.The user attempted to buy AAVE with $50 million worth of the stablecoin USDT through the Aave interface, according…

Strategy appears to have purchased more than 4,000 bitcoin on Thursday, according to estimates derived from real-time trading data and community tracking dashboards monitoring the firm’s preferred equity sales. Data from STRC.live and market trackers suggests the purchases were funded through heavy issuance of the company’s Variable Rate Series A Preferred Stock (STRC), a perpetual preferred instrument that Strategy has increasingly used to raise capital for bitcoin accumulation. By end of day in New York, trading activity implied the firm had already raised enough capital to acquire more than 4,000 BTC, marking the largest single-day bitcoin purchase funded through STRC…

The SEC and CFTC have just signed an agreement that turns months of public harmonization talk into a formal operating framework for crypto, derivatives, and hybrid market products.The agreement covers product definitions, clearing and margin rules, dually registered venues and intermediaries, crypto assets, reporting, examinations, surveillance, and enforcement.SEC Chair Paul Atkins admitted that years of “regulatory turf wars,” duplicate registrations, and overlapping rules helped push activity to other jurisdictions. That turns a procedural announcement into a concrete claim: part of the U.S. crypto problem came from the U.S. regulatory structure itself, not only from the firms trying to navigate it.The…

In brief Google built the largest-ever flash flood dataset by using Gemini to mine two decades of global news reports. The dataset now powers an AI model that predicts urban flash floods up to 24 hours in advance. The system fills a major data gap that long blocked flash flood forecasting. Flash floods kill thousands of people every year. They strike fast, hit cities hardest, and for decades there was almost nothing scientists could do to see them coming, because the data to train prediction models simply didn’t exist.On Thursday, Google said it found a way around that problem—by reading…

In brief A new Ark Invest and Unchained report says quantum computing poses a long-term risk to Bitcoin, not an immediate threat. Roughly 35% of the Bitcoin supply could be exposed to quantum attacks under certain conditions. Bitcoin may eventually require post-quantum cryptography through a consensus upgrade. The crypto industry is becoming increasingly aware that quantum computing could eventually challenge the cryptographic systems that secure Bitcoin and other prominent networks. However, the threat is likely years or decades away, according to a new report by Ark Invest—the investment management firm of tech investor Cathie Wood—and Bitcoin-focused financial services firm Unchained.The…

Wallets linked to the team behind President Donald Trump’s Solana-based TRUMP memecoin sent a large batch of tokens to Binance on March 12, adding a fresh supply overhang to a project that has crashed to an all-time low.On March 12, blockchain data from Arkham Intelligence showed that a BitGo custodial wallet associated with the TRUMP team transferred 5 million TRUMP tokens, valued at about $14.4 million, to Binance, the largest crypto trading platform globally.The movement followed a similar transfer in late February, when 5 million TRUMP tokens, valued at around $17.3 million, were sent to Binance via BitGo-linked custody flows.Taken…

In brief TRUMP jumped as much as 10% in one hour after the team announced a new exclusive event for top holders of the meme coin. The event will be hosted at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on April 25. 18 additional “influential guests” will also be in attendance, though details have not yet been provided. President Donald Trump’s official Solana-based meme coin—TRUMP—jumped more than 10% in an hour Thursday before retracing, following news that top token holders can earn an invite to an exclusive event featuring the president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on April 25. Recently changing…

David Bailey has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026, returning to the conference he helped build to share his perspective on Bitcoin’s expanding role across media, capital markets, and corporate strategy. As the Chairman and CEO of Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA), Bailey has executed one of the most ambitious consolidation plays in Bitcoin’s history — bringing together BTC Inc., and UTXO Management under a single publicly traded Bitcoin operating company. His vision extends far beyond media: Nakamoto is positioned as a diversified Bitcoin enterprise spanning asset management, advisory services, and institutional infrastructure, with Bitcoin accumulation at its…

March 12th, 2026 – LODZ, Poland BTCC, the world’s longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, has reported its highest-ever single-day trading volumes in gold and oil, driven by rising demand for safe-haven assets as Middle East instability rattles global markets. On March 6, 2026, BTCC posted its highest single-day trading volume in both gold and oil. Total gold trading volume across all gold tokens (PAXGUSDT, XAUTUSDT, GOLDUSDT, and XAUUSD) surpassed $60 million in a single day, with XAU on TradFi alone accounting for $34.89 million. Crude oil trading also reached a milestone, with combined USOIL and UKOIL volume hitting $33.19 million on the…

The United States spent in the first six days of its war with Iran an amount equal to nearly half the current market value of the Bitcoin held by the federal government.The administration told lawmakers this week that the war cost at least $11.3 billion through its first six days, Reuters reported on March 11.According to the report, the $11.3 billion estimate came from a closed-door briefing for senators on Tuesday and did not include the full cost of the conflict.Meanwhile, the US officials also told lawmakers that $5.6 billion in munitions was used in the first two days of…