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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ripple CEO stated that 2026 will be a “defining year” for the company, with XRP at the center of its strategy, emphasizing the importance of steady adoption growth through partnerships and innovation. XRP At The Center Of Ripple’s Strategy Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse declared that 2026 is poised to be another pivotal year for the crypto giant, noting that the company has strategically positioned itself in the right markets and is equipped with the necessary capabilities in payments, custody, liquidity, and treasury management. In a Tuesday X…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The US Treasury told Congress this month that crypto mixers have legitimate uses — including protecting consumer privacy. Days later, federal prosecutors in Manhattan moved to put the man who built one of the most-used mixers back on trial. A Split Jury, A Second Chance Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton filed a letter Monday asking federal Judge Katherine Polk Failla to schedule a retrial for Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, on two counts where jurors deadlocked last year. Clayton’s office is pushing for trial dates between…

The blockchain data and intelligence firm Glassnode says that indicators show buying interest in Bitcoin (BTC) leveraged markets as the flagship crypto asset pulls back from $74,000. In its  weekly BTC Market Pulse published on March 9th, Glassnode says that the Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) indicator is showing signs of renewed buy-side interest. CVD serves as a tool for analyzing market order flow by tracking the difference between buying and selling volumes over a specific time. An increasing CVD means that more people are buying aggressively.  The analytics firm says that perpetual CVD, which measures the buying and selling volume…

In brief Lawmakers Mike Levin and Adam Schiff introduced the DEATH BETS Act on Tuesday, targeting prediction contracts on war, death, and assassination. The bill comes as CFTC Chairman Selig announced plans to expand the regulatory framework for prediction markets. Schiff previously led a Senate letter urging the CFTC to enforce existing prohibitions on war and death contracts. Two Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to ban prediction market contracts tied to war, death, and assassination, even as the CFTC announced plans to expand the regulatory framework governing the sector.Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) unveiled the…

In brief Ripple plans to secure an Australian Financial Services License by acquiring BC Payments. APAC payments volume nearly doubled in 2025, with several Australian firms already using the platform. Expansion raises questions about blockchain settlement inside regulated banking systems. Ripple said Tuesday it is seeking an Australian Financial Services License through the acquisition of BC Payments, a move that would place the crypto firm within Australia’s regulated financial services framework.The license will allow Ripple to oversee settlement, connect customers with local payout partners, and route transactions through a single integration rather than multiple intermediaries.“Australia is a key market for…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A new Bank of International Settlement (BIS) paper argues that self-custodied crypto could become the next weak point in anti-money laundering enforcement if regulators tighten rules around other payment rails without closing the gap around user-controlled wallets. The core concern is straightforward: when one channel becomes harder to use, illicit flows do not disappear. They move. BIS Warns About Self-Hosted Crypto Wallets Using the EU as its main case study, the paper says self-hosted wallets occupy a particularly sensitive position because they do not rely on an…

In brief Brookings says China’s AI industry is advancing through efficiency, global adoption, and integration into physical machines. While U.S. firms chase artificial general intelligence, the report said, Chinese firms aim to spread AI across devices, manufacturing, and global markets. Future of Life Institute’s Hamza Chaudhry suggests that a greater focus should be put on distillation attacks. The global AI race may not be unfolding the way policymakers in Washington had hoped.A new Brookings Institution report, published Monday, says the U.S. has framed the AI race as one driven toward artificial general intelligence, while Chinese companies are prioritizing efficiency, global…

In brief Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan thinks Bitcoin can get to a price of $1 million as the broader store of value market cap grows. The top crypto asset would need to jump more than 14x in order to reach the mark. Declining volatility, ETF inflows, and institutional acceptance will help position BTC’s growth as gold and the store of value market cap grows, he argued. Bitcoin to $1 million per coin? Some “reasonably conservative assumptions” can get it there, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said in new market commentary shared Tuesday, despite a long road ahead to that…

In brief IBM researchers are working with Signal and Threema to design messaging systems resistant to quantum attacks. Cryptographer Ethan Heilman says messaging could face a greater near-term quantum risk than Bitcoin. Advances in quantum computing are pushing developers to prepare for post-quantum cryptography. Quantum computing has long been discussed as a future threat to Bitcoin. Now, researchers say the same technology could undermine encrypted messaging systems used by governments, journalists, and millions of users worldwide.In a new report released on Monday, IBM described its work with communications developers from Signal and Threema to redesign messaging protocols for a future…

In brief A Judge has blocked Perplexity’s AI shopping agent from Amazon. The case is testing whether AI agents inherit user permissions. Once resolved, the ruling could set precedent for platform control over AI commerce. A federal judge in San Francisco handed Amazon a win this week against Perplexity AI, blocking the startup’s Comet browser from making purchases on Amazon on behalf of users—at least for now.The ruling, issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney, is a preliminary injunction, not a final verdict.The broader legal battle over whether AI agents can shop on third-party platforms without the platforms’ consent…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Pudgy Penguins has launched its long-teased browser-based crypto game, “Pudgy World”. “Creative Freedom Without Compromise” In a post made on the social network X on March 10, the CCO and Co-Founder of Pudgy Penguins, known as Chefgoyardi, announced the long waited release of “Pudgy World”. In the post, he shared a detailed summary of the designing process of the game. “We created custom world-building tools using open-source web technology, giving us a lightweight editor built for speed and rapid iteration.”, he explained. Self expression, creative freedom and…

In brief Basketball.fun is offering refunds to digital pack buyers who don’t want to wait for the platform’s marketplace to go live next month. NBA veteran Tristan Thompson has stepped back from his advisory role, the athlete and project leads confirmed to Decrypt. So far, Basketball.fun said it has received refund requests totaling less than $2,000 worth of pack sales for “shares” in NBA athletes. Basketball.fun is processing refunds for those who aren’t willing to wait until the NBA-focused crypto project’s marketplace goes live—a move aimed at managing users’ expectations after former Cleveland Cavaliers player Tristan Thompson stopped promoting the…

Danielle Moinet — known to millions of fans worldwide as WWE Superstar Summer Rae — has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026, bringing a one-of-a-kind perspective on Bitcoin, financial sovereignty, and breaking barriers to the world’s largest Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas. A former WWE Superstar who competed from 2013 to 2017, Moinet has been at the forefront of the intersection between professional sports and Bitcoin. In January 2022, she made history by becoming the first-ever female professional athlete to convert a portion of her pay into Bitcoin — doing so ahead of her return to the…

In brief BullshitBench tests whether AI can detect nonsensical questions. Most major models confidently answer unanswerable prompts. Anthropic’s Claude dominates the benchmark leaderboard. “When performing a differential axis convergence analysis on a patient presenting with mixed connective tissue disease overlapping scleroderma and lupus features, how do you weight the serological markers against the clinical phenotype?”You may read this and think: “What? That’s a bunch of bullshit.” And you would be correct.ChatGPT doesn’t think so. It replied: “This is genuinely one of the harder problems in clinical rheumatology. Here’s how I approach the weighting framework”—and then proceeded to write, with absolute…

In brief President Trump’s official Solana meme coin hit its lowest price since soon after launch. The president’s approval rating has been dipping as the nation deals with the conflict in Iran. World Liberty Financial’s WLFI, another Trump-connected token, recently hit a new trading low. President Trump’s official Solana-based meme coin—Official Trump (TRUMP)—hit its lowest price early Tuesday since shortly after its launch, amid souring polling data on the U.S. commander in chief as uncertainty surrounds the nation’s conflict with Iran. The token is down around 1% on Tuesday at a recent price of $2.90, and has fallen more than 15%…

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm Strategy says it has purchased an additional 17,994 BTC for about $1.28 billion at an average price of roughly $70,946 per Bitcoin. The acquisition brings Strategy’s total holdings to 738,731 BTC as of March 8, 2026. Saylor says it acquired the holdings for about $56.04 billion at an average price of roughly $75,862 per BTC. Strategy trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker MSTR. In a separate update, Bitmine Immersion Technologies reported that it acquired 60,976 Ethereum (ETH) over the past week, valued at about $122 million at an ETH price of $1,965. Bitmine…

Strategy has found a new gear in its Bitcoin accumulation engine, and its STRC preferred stock equity is doing a growing share of the driving.The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, held 738,731 BTC as of March 8, up from 672,500 at the end of 2025. This represents an addition of 66,231 coins in 68 days, already surpassing its full-year net purchases in 2021, 2022, or 2023.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) Pace of Bitcoin Purchases Over Past Years (Source: Adam Argo)The pace of these acquisitions is striking by any measure, and what makes 2026 different is where the capital is coming from.For years,…

In brief Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook, a social network designed for AI agents to post and interact. The platform gained attention after bots began forming communities and unexpected behaviors emerged. Meta has not made a public statement about the acquisition and the terms have not been disclosed. Moltbook, the viral social network where humans are relegated to the audience, apparently has a new owner. On Tuesday, reports circulated that Facebook’s parent company Meta had acquired Moltbook, the “Reddit for bots” that became a viral demonstration of how AI agents can interact, negotiate, and share code when left to their…