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Ethereum price dips about 1–2% near $1.95k, nearing a 7‑month losing streak as whales trim holdings on macro pressure. Summary $ETH trades around $1.94k–$1.97k today, down roughly 1–2% in 24h, with 24h volume near $21–23b and a 24h range around $1.94k–$2.06k. Coinglass‑based data show $ETH has logged six straight monthly declines, its longest losing streak since 2018, and has closed lower in 12 of the past 15 months. On‑chain data highlight selling from 100k–1m $ETH wallets over 90 days while RSI sits in historically oversold territory and funding plus open interest have normalized, suggesting reduced leverage risk into key support.…

Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week: Martin Gaspar on how bitcoin looks to overcome quantum fears, echoing past climate backlash Top headlines institutions should pay attention to by Francisco Rodrigues Aave’s revenue multiples hit 2024 lows despite higher prices in Chart of the Week Thanks for joining us! -Alexandra Levis Expert Insights Why bitcoin’s quantum fears will pass just like the climate panic By Martin Gaspar, senior crypto market strategist, FalconX Quantum has become a major theme for crypto the past few months, in part because of technological developments in that space, but also as…

Indiana has become the first state in the United States to authorize the inclusion of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies into state-managed retirement and savings plans. Governor Mike Braun signed the landmark legislation, known as House Bill 1042, into law. The enrolled House Bill, which is titled “Regulation and investment of cryptocurrency,” was authored by Representative Kyle Pierce. Mandatory crypto options Under the new law, state-managed retirement and savings plans are required to provide at least one cryptocurrency investment option. This access will be provided through a self-directed brokerage account offered as a regular investment program. According to the bill’s digest,…

Algorand is building a cross-chain account abstraction system that lets users directly control their accounts using EVM wallets like Metamask or Rainbow. The feature is built on Ethereum’s EIP-8141, which makes programmable smart accounts a native protocol-level feature. Algorand is opening up its ecosystem to the Ethereum network with a new feature that allows users of EVM wallets to sign transactions on Algorand directly. The network announced that it’s shipping cross-chain account abstraction that lets Metamask, Rainbow and any other wallet built on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) plug directly into its dApps. You won’t need a new wallet to…

PancakeSwap, a multi-chain decentralized exchange, has introduced PancakeSwap AI. PancakeSwap AI’s launch delivers a package of AI-led Skills to redefine the consumer interaction with DeFi. As PancakeSwap’s official press release discloses, the development will permit large language model (LLM) agents to research and examine DeFi operations within the PancakeSwap network. Agents have entered the chat.PancakeSwap AI is live 🥞🤖Introducing Skills, tools for agents to plan swaps, liquidity positions, and farming strategies.https://t.co/WDkUgqO1ZB pic.twitter.com/Mse71SC2XM — PancakeSwap (@PancakeSwap) March 4, 2026 These operations include swapping, yield farming, and liquidity provisioning, enabling smarter strategic execution. Additionally, the exclusive AI integration spans 8 chains, providing…

Ethereum traded near $1,986 as traders focused on a long running support band that has framed price action since 2020. A TradingView chart created by StoicTraderXBT on March 1 showed $ETH sliding back toward the lower edge of a rising “macro range” zone, with the latest candles testing the same area that previously acted as a floor after major selloffs. Macro range lows become the level to watch In a post on X, Columbus said Ethereum remains in a “five year accumulation phase” as long as the macro range lows hold, and he argued that a break below that band…

CoreWeave (CRWV) saw its shares surge nearly 6% in premarket trading on Wednesday after announcing a multi-year agreement to support inference operations for Perplexity, an emerging AI-driven search engine backed by Jeff Bezos and Nvidia. As part of the deal, CoreWeave will become a key backend cloud partner for Perplexity AI. The company will run its next-generation inference tasks on dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 clusters operated by the cloud provider. The platform will serve as a foundation for Perplexity’s Sonar and Search API products as they expand, as noted by the companies. “AI applications running in production require more than…

Eric Trump, one of the sons of U.S. President Donald Trump and a co-founder of crypto firm World Liberty Financial, went after the banking industry Tuesday over their opposition to allowing stablecoin yield in crypto market structure legislation. “Big Banks (think JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc.) are lobbying overtime to block Americans from getting higher yields on their savings—while trying to block any rewards or perks from being given to customers,” he said in a post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. He said banks pay a marginal interest in comparison to the interest paid…

Bitcoin mining at one point was a hobby. Citizens drove mini machines in their houses, saw their computers working all night, and gradually were earning coins. That phase is long gone. Bitcoin mining has become a very competitive process where efficiency is the key to success and scale the scale is the key to survival. To the majority of users nowadays, the question is not how to comprehend Bitcoin what matters is how to be able to engage in mining in a realistic manner. The reason that traditional bitcoin mining is not basic anymore Bitcoin mining continues to take the…

The Canton Foundation has formalized its relationship with Fireblocks as a “Super Validator” (SV) for the Canton Network. This official partnership represents a significant advancement in the integration of enterprise custody solutions and privacy-enabled settlements that meet regulatory requirements onto the blockchain (CIP-0072, Weight 5). With the global financial industry increasingly moving towards decentralized infrastructures, this new collaboration provides further evidence that the blockchain ecosystem is developing into one that can sustain the increasing demands of the global financial system. Strengthening Network Security and Governance Fireblocks has been identified to act as a Super Validator designed to provide the foundation…