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• Crypto In Spotlight As OFAC Targets North Korean IT Worker Network
  Crypto moved to the center of Washington’s latest North Korea sanctions action on March 12, after the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated six individuals and two entities tied to DPRK-run IT worker schemes. For the digital asset industry, the significance was not only the sanctions themselves, but how explicitly the case framed […]
• HSBC, Standard Chartered To Receive First Stablecoin Licenses In Hong Kong – Report
  Hong Kong is expected to grant the first batch of stablecoin issuer licenses within two weeks, reportedly choosing HSBC and Standard Chartered as the first companies to obtain the long-awaited approval. Related Reading: Bank Of England Open To Review Stablecoin Ownership Cap Proposal Following Backlash HSBC, Standard Chartered Lead Hong Kong’s Stablecoin Race On Friday, […]
• BlackRock’s Staked Ethereum Fund Debuts With $107M In Assets, Monthly Yield For Investors
  Three institutional-grade validator firms — Figment, Galaxy Digital, and Attestant — will run the Ethereum network nodes that power BlackRock’s newest crypto product, the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust. Related Reading: JPMorgan Hit With Lawsuit Tied To $328 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme The fund launched Thursday on Nasdaq under the ticker ETHB, giving everyday investors a […]
• Smart Money Still Selling Ethereum? Futures CVD Shows $5.7B Bearish Pressure
  Ethereum is currently testing key resistance levels as the broader cryptocurrency market attempts to recover from the recent period of volatility and downward pressure. After weeks of corrective price action, ETH has begun to stabilize, with buyers gradually pushing the asset higher as traders reassess market conditions and liquidity flows across digital assets. Related Reading: […]
• Vitalik Buterin’s SHIB Gift Backfires? Warns Of “Authoritarian” AI Push From A Nonprofit
  Ethereum’s co-founfer, Vitalik Buterin, has publicly distanced himself from the Future of Life Institute (FLI), the AI-security driven nonprofit he helped supercharge with a massive SHIB donation in 2021. Vitalik Buterin Clears The Record If there is something that Vitalik Buterin values most of all is clarity against misinformation. That’s why he doesn’t take lightly […]
• Is Bitcoin Undervalued? MVRV Ratio Mirrors Post-FTX Stress Levels
  Bitcoin is attempting to climb above the $72,000 level as the market searches for direction following weeks of volatile and largely sideways price action. While buyers have recently pushed the asset higher, the $72K zone continues to act as a key resistance level, limiting upward momentum as traders evaluate both macroeconomic conditions and on-chain signals. […]
• Binance Is Suing The Wall Street Journal — And Now Congress Wants Answers Too
  The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Binance. Just as the exchange filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal this week, three US senators turned around and publicly announced they’d be watching any related Justice Department probe like hawks. Related Reading: SBF Retrial Bid Meets Resistance From US Prosecutors For a company […]