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Gold prices crashed last week after a record-setting rally, and Scott Bessent blamed it on reckless trading in China. Speaking live on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Scott said, “The gold move thing, things have gotten a little unruly in China. They’re having to tighten margin requirements. So gold looks to me kind of like a classical, speculative blowoff.” That was his way of saying the spike and sudden fall had little to do with demand and everything to do with panic buying by leveraged traders. The rally in precious metals had been driven by fears about global conflicts, loose…

Congress just confirmed a dedicated tokenization hearing for March 25. The CLARITY Act’s biggest obstacle in months was just resolved “in principle” by two key senators. Senator Moreno has warned that if this bill doesn’t pass by May, crypto legislation may not move again for years. Two things happened in Washington this week that the crypto industry has been waiting years for and they arrived at the same time. The House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing titled “Tokenization and the Future of Securities: Modernizing Our Capital Markets” for Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 10AM EST. Blockchain Association CEO…

Nexo has more than doubled its private client base since the start of 2025, citing rising demand among high-net-worth individuals and family offices for tailored digital asset solutions. Zero-Interest Crypto Credit and Custom Borrowing Fuel Nexo Private Expansion Nexo, the digital asset wealth platform, which manages over $8 billion in assets, reported a 136% increase in Nexo Private clients year-over-year. The expansion pushed language support from 9 to 17, extending the service’s reach across global markets. Nexo Private targets clients with portfolios of $100,000 or more. The platform pairs relationship managers with individual clients and offers priority access, personalized onboarding,…

DeFi is addressing a key inefficiency as protocols move to reclaim value once captured by external Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bots during liquidations. For years, bots exploited liquidation windows, extracting profits while value leaked from users and weakened protocol sustainability over time. As this leakage grew too large to ignore, Ethereum’s [ETH] lending markets started holding about $2.16 billion in liquidatable positions. Within this, Compound accounted for $1.23 billion, while Sky held around $801 million, highlighting persistent extraction opportunities during volatility. Source: DeFiLlama However, protocols are redesigning mechanisms through auctions and controlled liquidations to retain value internally rather than letting…

The US Federal Reserve is entering into a “gradual” era of money printing that will stimulate asset prices “mildly” but will not be as dramatic as the “big print” that many in the Bitcoin ($BTC) community anticipated, according to economist and Bitcoin advocate Lyn Alden. “My base case is roughly in line with what the Fed expects: to grow its balance sheet approximately at the same proportional pace as total bank assets or nominal gross-domestic product (GDP),” Alden said in her Feb. 8 investment strategy newsletter, adding: “Overall, it means I continue to want to own high-quality scarce assets, with…

The recent guidance from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission establishing a taxonomy for digital assets put a “final nail” in the coffin of SEC policy under former Chairman Gary Gensler, according to Alex Thorn, the head of firmwide research at investment firm Galaxy. The SEC guidance, published on Tuesday, established a taxonomy for digital assets, dividing them into five categories, including digital commodities, digital collectibles like non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital tools, stablecoins, and tokenized securities. The SEC guidance published on Tuesday establishes which digital assets qualify as securities. Source: SEC Under…

In a significant on-chain transaction monitored globally, Cumberland, a prominent institutional crypto trading firm, withdrew a substantial $15.7 million in PAX Gold ($PAXG) from the OKX exchange. This move, detected by on-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa, highlights ongoing strategic positioning within the gold-backed cryptocurrency sector. The transaction involved 3,477 $PAXG tokens and occurred amidst a complex landscape for digital assets. Furthermore, the associated wallet address reveals a holding of $13.5 million in XAUT, another leading gold-backed token. This activity provides a critical lens into institutional behavior and the evolving role of commodity-backed stablecoins in digital finance. Cumberland’s $PAXG Withdrawal: Analyzing the On-Chain…

Prominent crypto venture capitalists are clashing online about whether non-financial use cases in crypto, Web3, and blockchain have failed due to a lack of investor demand and product-market fit or if the best days for non-financial applications still lay ahead. The debate started on Friday when Chris Dixon, a managing partner at venture capital firm a16z crypto, published an article arguing that years of “scams, extractive behavior and regulatory attacks” were the reason that non-financial use cases in crypto have not taken off. These use cases include decentralized social media, digital identity management, decentralized media streaming platforms, digital rights platforms,…

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is asking U.S. lawmakers to act fast. He wants Congress to pass the CLARITY Act. He says, Stablecoins should offer both value and safety. Right now, most stablecoins give users no returns. We must unleash the yield, safely.We’re at a momentous turning point for our industry. If Congress passes the CLARITY Act, we finally get the regulatory certainty we’ve been advocating for.So what’s the hold up? Deciding if customers should earn yield from their stablecoin… — Vlad Tenev (@vladtenev) March 20, 2026 Tenev believes this must change. He argues that users should earn yield, just like…

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is focused on integrating blockchain technology into existing market infrastructure rather than replacing it, according to chief product officer Jon Herrick. The exchange is “striving for interoperability” and “building on top of what exists,” as it explores how tokenized assets could function within current systems, Herrick said. That approach reflects a broader stance on market evolution. “You have to be mindful of the inherent good things of the market that has developed up to now … it’s this balance of both things,” he said on stage at the Digital Asset Summit in New York…