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Solana price remained under pressure this week, continuing a downward trend that started in September last year when it peaked at $252. Summary Solana price continued its strong downward trend this week. Key network metrics like active addresses and transactions continued soaring. Its ETF inflows continued rising and is beating Ethereum. Solana ($SOL) token dropped for eight consecutive weeks and is now hovering near its lowest level since January 2024. It has dropped by over 73% from its highest level in January last year. The ongoing Solana price crash continued even as the network growth gained momentum and beat Ethereum…

Shanghai’s benchmark index surged to its highest close in a decade on Monday, as Chinese investors piled into energy, gold, and defense stocks in the wake of the Iran conflict — further underscoring why Chinese capital continues to flow away from crypto markets. The rally, combined with Beijing’s tightening grip on domestic liquidity ahead of this week’s National People’s Congress, narrows the already slim chances that Chinese capital will find its way into crypto anytime soon. A Tale of Two Markets The Shanghai Composite Index closed up 0.5% at 4,182.6 points on March 2, its highest since June 2015, even…

The White House set a March 1st deadline for the banking industry and crypto firms to reach a deal on stablecoin yield, clearing the way for the Clarity Act, the market structure legislation meant to put the industry on a solid legal foundation in the U.S. Clarity was passed by the House seven months ago. The Senate has set many deadlines to move it, and they have all gone unmet. The latest deadline also blew by with no deal. The crypto industry has been fixated on legislation as the next catalyst, as if it is the only path toward the…

TL;DR Brazil’s federal tax authority reported R$242 million in declared $XRP transactions during September, covering 308,411 entries. The figures come from mandatory reporting rules for exchanges, foreign platforms, and peer-to-peer transfers above R$30,000. Because this data comes directly from official filings rather than estimates, it provides one of the clearest government-backed snapshots of $XRP activity in a major Latin American economy. Brazil may have delivered one of the clearest adoption signals yet for $XRP. Official data tied to tax filings shows hundreds of thousands of transactions in a single month, giving the market something more concrete than exchange dashboards or…

Barclays, the British multinational banking giant, is exploring building a blockchain platform for payments and deposits, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing people with knowledge of the exploration. The bank is evaluating technology providers and aims to select partners as early as April. The initiative could encompass both stablecoin integration and tokenized deposit capabilities. Barclays has shifted from a cautious approach to active infrastructure investment to keep pace with industry peers like JPMorgan and HSBC, which have deployed distributed ledger technology in financial services. In October 2025, the London-based lender joined a bank-led consortium to explore a reserve-backed digital currency on public…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a new blog post on X outlining his latest vision for scaling the blockchain, arguing the network can boost capacity in the near term while laying the groundwork for a longer-term shift to advanced cryptography and>in which much of the ecosystem’s scaling strategy centered on layer-2 rollups. The plan comes on the heels of the Ethereum Foundation publishing a ‘strawmap’ aimed at making the network more efficient in the long term. In the short term, Buterin says Ethereum can safely increase throughput by making blocks easier and faster to check. Upcoming upgrades will allow…

Northern Trust Asset Management has launched a tokenized share class of its NIF Treasury Instruments Portfolio, marking its entry into the digital assets market, according to the company. The structure uses distributed ledger technology to maintain a digital mirror of share ownership, while the underlying portfolio continues to invest in short-term US Treasurys. According to Monday’s announcement, the shares will initially be offered through BNY’s LiquidityDirect platform, which operates on Goldman Sachs’ Digital Asset Platform. The fund itself does not use blockchain technology or invest in crypto assets. Instead, authorized intermediaries are expected to maintain a blockchain-based mirror of ownership…

As discussions continue in the cryptocurrency sector regarding the future of the regulatory framework in the US, former Ripple CTO David Schwartz responded to comments made by Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson about the CLARITY Act. Schwartz stated that a constructive discussion was needed, arguing that even flawed regulation could be better than a completely unregulated environment. Hoskinson had previously stated that he was abandoning the CLARITY Act. This bill was expected to pave the way for crypto innovation in the US and provide a clearer regulatory framework for the sector. However, criticisms had been raised that the bill, in its…

Binance is looking to deepen its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. SB Seker, the company’s regional head, told Nikkei Asia that they plan to obtain five additional licenses in Asia this year, which would bring its global regulatory footprint to more than 20 jurisdictions. The largest crypto exchange by trading volume currently holds approvals in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, and Thailand across the Asia-Pacific region. South Korea is expected to join that list once the firm completes its acquisition of local exchange Gopax. Seker, who joined the firm last September after previous roles at Crypto.com, Ant Group, and…

The Ethereum Foundation today unveiled Project Odin, a 12-month initiative designed to help public goods teams achieve lasting financial stability. The program targets infrastructure builders working on open-source tools, node software, and security protocols that underpin the broader network but lack commercial revenue models. The Foundation for Verified Software, which maintains the Vyper programming language, will serve as the pilot participant. Vyper currently secures more than $2.3B in total value locked across roughly 8,000 deployed contracts. Project Odin unfolds in three stages: mapping available funding sources, validating potential business approaches with external input, and executing strategies to generate recurring income.…