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Crypto promised diversification beyond Bitcoin. For years, the pitch was simple: spread risk across blockchains, decentralized applications, and layer-1 protocols.In practice, that diversification often collapsed when Bitcoin stumbled. Ethereum, Solana, and other major altcoins routinely fell harder than BTC during drawdowns, leaving portfolios concentrated on the same directional bet, just with different branding.Now, the institutions that process trillions in traditional securities trades are sketching a different path. On this path, diversification comes not from more crypto tokens but from tokenized versions of the assets investors already want.DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear released a joint white paper with Boston Consulting Group outlining…
In brief Illicit cryptocurrency addresses received at least $154 billion in 2025. Sanctioned entities accounted for about $104 billion of those flows. Activity tied to Iran, Russia, and North Korea drove much of the volume. Iran’s use of cryptocurrency to move money under sanctions is expanding, with more than $3 billion tied to networks linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2025, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.The figure comes from the company’s 2026 Crypto Crime Report, which estimates that illicit cryptocurrency addresses received at least $154 billion in digital assets last year. That’s a 162% year-over-year increase, the…
Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen says Bitcoin could see a short-term rally through March if historical patterns play out. In a new YouTube update, Cowen outlines a recurring structure in Bitcoin’s yearly performance. Historically, BTC tends to decline into January and February, rally into March, and then weaken again in April and May. “It seems reasonable to have a rally into a lower high, which we tend to get in March… There’s no guarantee. But historically, weakness into February, strength into March and then weakness into April and May – that’s typically how the Bitcoin cycle works.” Cowen cautions that March…
Wall Street is pouring billions into public Bitcoin mining companies, but the investment thesis has little to do with the emerging industry’s future.Instead, the financial institutions are treating these crypto firms as critical power-and-permitting infrastructure, a scarce asset in an artificial intelligence boom that is increasingly constrained not by a lack of advanced semiconductors, but by a severe shortage of available electricity.Over the last several months, a string of massive financing and leasing deals has accelerated a structural shift across the sector.Investors and mega-bank lenders are pitching a straightforward arbitrage: Many large-scale Bitcoin miners already control coveted grid interconnections, sprawling…
In brief Dogecoin (DOGE) is down about 8% in the last 24 hours, the biggest fall among top 100 crypto tokens in that time. The token’s slide has helped pull down the entire meme category, which is one of the only net losers in the last 24 hours according to CoinGecko. Other popular memes like Pepe, Fartcoin, and Official Trump have also fallen in the last day. A day after leading the crypto market’s top tokens in gains, leading meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE) is atop the pack of losers on Thursday as Bitcoin slides to nearly $71,000 after nearly touching…
In brief Roblox’s new AI-powered feature rewrites profanity in chat instead of replacing messages with “####.” The system aims to keep conversations readable during gameplay while enforcing Roblox’s community standards. The company is also upgrading its chat filters to detect profanity and attempts to gain players’ personal information. The massively popular online gaming platform, Roblox, is replacing the strings of hashmarks that appear when its chat filters catch profanity with AI-rephrased versions of flagged messages, the company announced on Thursday.The feature, called real-time chat rephrasing, modifies profanity in messages so conversations remain readable instead of appearing as blocked text.“For example,…
Built on Bitcoin’s ethos and technology, Satlantis is an event organizing platform designed for “real-world maxxing”, a Gen Z term for enjoying the real world with real people. As AI fills social media, confusing and distorting whatever signal it once had, an exodus to real-world experiences has begun to take place. Some statistics show that social media usage peaked in 2022, a saturation induced by the COVID lockdowns that accelerated digital adoption of everything, only to remove its shine. Being online all the time is now ‘passé’. Jordi Llonch, Head of Growth at Satlantis, told Bitcoin Magazine in an exclusive…
Authorities say they’ve seized more than $584.7 million in cryptocurrency tied to Southeast Asian scam compounds run by Chinese transnational criminal organizations. The Scam Center Strike Force, launched in 2025 and led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Secret Service, and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, has focused on dismantling cryptocurrency investment fraud operations commonly known as “pig butchering” schemes. Authorities say the criminal networks operate out of large-scale scam compounds in Cambodia, Laos, and Burma, using US-based internet…
Ripple is sharpening its argument that it can help institutions move value across traditional rails, stablecoins, and blockchain networks.On March 2, DTCC’s National Securities Clearing Corporation updated its MPID directory to add Ripple-owned “Hidden Road Partners CIV US LLC” for its first trade. The entry appears under the OTC column.A day later, Ripple said its payments business is now “end-to-end,” covering the full lifecycle “from collection to payout” for both fiat and stablecoin flows.Ripple said it added managed custody and collections powered by virtual accounts, and linked the expansion to two acquisitions, Palisade (custody and treasury automation) and Rail (virtual…
In brief The settlement would require Rainberry, the company behind BitTorrent, to pay a $10 million civil penalty. The SEC would dismiss remaining securities and market-manipulation claims against Justin Sun and affiliated entities. The move comes amid a broader shift in U.S. crypto enforcement following leadership changes at the SEC. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission moved to partially resolve its long-running enforcement case against crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and several related entities, according to a proposed final judgment filed Wednesday in federal court in New York.Under the proposed order, Rainberry Inc., the company behind the BitTorrent protocol, would pay…