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On Mar. 5, Justin Sun reached a $10 million settlement with the SEC to resolve a civil fraud case that alleged he generated $31 million through wash-trading-style transactions and undisclosed celebrity promotions.The settlement, which requires court approval and includes no admission of wrongdoing, moves the case toward dismissal.The same day, US banking regulators announced that banks won’t face additional capital charges for tokenized securities compared to traditional ones. This technology-neutral framing represents another brick removed from crypto’s regulatory wall.Sun’s settlement lands a year into the President Donald Trump administration’s regulatory retrenchment.In May 2025, the SEC dismissed its civil lawsuit against…
US markets move in seconds when the jobs report hits. February payrolls fell by 92,000 jobs, the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, and prior months were revised down by 69,000.Together, that’s 161,000 fewer jobs than the numbers showed at the start of the year.But the number traders react to first often isn’t the one that lasts, because even bigger revisions can arrive months later.The Bureau of Labor Statistics has already marked down US job growth by 862,000 for the year through March 2025, raising the possibility that markets and the Federal Reserve are reacting to a labor market that looks…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A federal judge in Manhattan has thrown out a civil lawsuit accusing Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, and its founder Changpeng Zhao, popularly known as CZ, of facilitating financing for multiple terrorist attacks globally. This development represents a significant win for the Seychelles-based exchanges, whose commitment to AML/CFT principles has recently come under serious scrutiny. Binance Not Accomplice To Terror Attack Despite Illicit Transactions, Court Rules According to a Reuters report on March 7, around 535 plaintiffs, consisting of victims and relatives of certain terrorist attacks…
Bitcoin’s derivatives market gave us the best explanation of this week’s macro stress.Funding rates turned sharply negative, open interest stayed elevated, and then the US jobs report landed. Put together, that showed a market leaning hard into downside hedges just as a real macro catalyst arrived.That sequence is worth understanding because it explains how macro volatility shows up in crypto.It usually appears first in perpetual futures, where traders hedge fastest and use the most leverage.Funding tells you which side is paying to stay in the trade, open interest tells you how much positioning is still in the system, and liquidations…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin holdings risk getting stolen as the quantum threat becomes more of a possibility. BTC developer Hunter Beast has notably proposed the Hourglass V2 proposal amid debates on the best way to handle Satoshi’s supply, to mitigate the impact of sell pressure that Bitcoin could face if these coins get stolen. BTC Dev Provides Solution On How To Handle Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Holdings Beast has proposed version 2 of the Hourglass proposal, which aims to reduce the Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) output that can be included in…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The price of Bitcoin seemed to have broken into a fresh rally after making a run towards $75,000 during the week. However, the premier cryptocurrency has been on a steady decline since hitting a new one-month high around $74,000. According to a prominent blockchain firm, this decline may not be over yet for the price of BTC. Whales Offload 66% Of BTC Purchase After $74K High In a Friday report, Santiment revealed that the price of Bitcoin could even fall lower from its current level due to…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In a positive development for the crypto industry, the Florida State Senate has passed a bill to create a regulatory framework for stablecoins at the state level. This move comes amid the struggles to enact a broader crypto market structure bill in the United States. Florida Creates Stablecoin Framework With New Bill In a Friday, March 7 post on X, Samuel Armes, founder of the Florida Blockchain Business Association web3 advocacy group, announced that a bill establishing a regulatory framework for stablecoins has passed the state legislature.…
Log in to Coinbase next tax season, and your tax documents might no longer arrive by mail.Under a new IRS proposal, crypto exchanges could be required to file Form 1099-DA electronically. This form reports digital asset trades, and could refuse to do business with customers who decline to provide it.The comment period closes May 5, and if finalized, the rule would shift crypto tax reporting from the mailbox to the platform.This is not a tax cut or a rollback of reporting requirements. Brokers still send identical information to the IRS regardless of how they deliver forms to customers. The proposal…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum is facing renewed scrutiny after Culper Research released a sharply critical report outlining its bearish stance on the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The reporter argues that the key aspects of the ETH ecosystem and long-term narrative may be weaker than widely believed, prompting the firm to disclose that it has taken a short position against the asset. Culper Research Outlines Key Risks Facing Ethereum’s Ecosystem Investment research firm Culper Research has released a critical report, revealing it has taken a short position on Ethereum. The…
A large volume of US commercial real estate (CRE) debt is rolling into a very different market from the one that produced it.The Mortgage Bankers Association says $875 billion of commercial and multifamily mortgages are scheduled to mature in 2026, equal to 17% of the roughly $5 trillion of outstanding balances it tracks.While that’s below the $957 billion that was due in 2025, it’s still a massive refinancing event landing in a world where borrowing costs are far higher than they were when many of these loans were made. Related ReadingReal estate’s quiet crash: your home is worth less than…
The following is a guest post and guest post from Thomas Pratter, Founder and CEO at Renesis.Liquid crypto funds are having a moment. The number of actively managed vehicles keeps growing, DeFi strategies are gaining legitimacy, and regulatory clarity is slowly catching up. Institutional allocators are paying closer attention than ever.But behind the optimism sits a less glamorous truth: most fund managers are still running their operations on duct tape.The Spreadsheet ProblemAsk any emerging fund manager how they track their portfolio across five exchanges, three chains, and a handful of DeFi protocols. The honest answer is usually some combination of…
Headlines about Bitcoin ETF outflows often mix two things: Bitcoin’s price move and actual share redemptions.If BTC drops, ETF AUM drops in dollars even if nobody sells a single share. That mark-to-market drop gets read as money leaving, and it can look like an institutional exit when the wrapper’s Bitcoin holdings and shares outstanding barely move.To understand whether investors are actually leaving, you have to separate the USD thermometer from the BTC and share-count thermometer. Related ReadingForget CPI and ETFs — oil prices may now be the biggest signal for BitcoinBitcoin’s macro tell right now isn’t a CPI print or…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In their latest post on CryptoQuant, XWIN Research Japan explores how developing affairs in the United States could affect the trajectory of Bitcoin and other risk assets in the near-term. According to the education institute, concerns of a potential stagflation period have begun to come up, which could potentially boost or mar Bitcoin’s growth. Unemployment Rate Rises To 4% As Inflation Builds Up For context, stagflation is a rare economic condition that combines two concerning events at the same time: high inflation and high unemployment. In their…
In brief Colossus is attempting to bypass Visa and Mastercard by building its own sovereign credit card rail using an Ethereum layer-2 network. The company is leveraging its interpretation of the GENIUS Act to operate without the traditional KYC or AML requirements. The startup’s launch follows the total collapse of UnCash, which was shut down by a “corporate guillotine.” Joseph Delong’s desk looks less like a developer’s workstation these days and more like an electronics repair shop, littered with technology that crypto was pioneered to replace.That’s because the veteran Ethereum developer and former SushiSwap CTO has accumulated what he describes…
When crude starts leading the headlines, crypto people tend to ask the wrong questions, like what it is that oil actually does to Bitcoin.While it’s the simplest and easiest way to explain what you don’t know, it’s a pretty bad question. A better one is what oil actually does to the cost of money, because Bitcoin is now trading like a live chart of liquidity expectations.Oil is one of the fastest ways to force that repricing, especially when the move comes from geopolitics and shipping risks rather than a slow increase in demand for BTC.That’s basically the backdrop right now.…
In brief The #QuitGPT backlash erupted after OpenAI’s Pentagon AI deal, triggering mass ChatGPT deletions and a surge of users switching to Claude. Canceling ChatGPT does not erase your data from OpenAI’s server. This step-by-step guide shows how to permanently delete your OpenAI account without giving away your data. On the evening of February 27, Sam Altman posted a brief announcement on X. OpenAI had signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of War to deploy its AI models on classified military networks—hours after Anthropic refused the same terms and was stripped of its Pentagon contract for declining to permit…