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Led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the U.K. government has announced an immediate moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to political parties, citing concerns that digital assets could be used to hide the origins of foreign money in British politics, according to the Press Association. The move puts crypto at the centre of a wider crackdown on foreign interference, signaling that regulators are increasingly treating anonymous digital payments as a democratic risk rather than just a financial one. The ban, triggered by the government-commissioned Rycroft review, covers donations of any size and takes effect today. Parties have 30 days from now to…

The bitcoin mining industry is undergoing the most fundamental transformation in its history, and the clearest sign isn’t the hashrate or the difficulty adjustments. It’s the balance sheets. CoinShares’ Q1 2026 mining report, published this week, reveals that the weighted average cash cost to produce one bitcoin among publicly listed miners rose to approximately $79,995 in Q4 2025. Bitcoin has traded in the $68,000 to $70,000 band, with a CoinDesk report last week estimating losses of $19,000 per $BTC mined. These numbers aren’t sustainable, and the industry knows it. The response has been a wholesale pivot toward artificial intelligence infrastructure…

Wall Street’s rapid migration to blockchain is unfolding now, but most investors may miss it until it’s complete, as institutions race to secure faster liquidity, lower friction, and dominance in the next era of global markets. Why Major Financial Institutions Are Racing On-Chain A structural shift in global finance is accelerating as major market institutions move core operations onto blockchain networks. Exchanges, clearinghouses, and trading platforms are adopting tokenized systems to increase transaction speed and expand access, according to commentary shared March 25, 2026. Momentum behind this transition stems from expectations that on-chain infrastructure will raise the velocity of money…

A cryptocurrency trader has narrowly missed out on a potential $4 million payout after placing a bet on a U.S. military strike against Iran. Indeed, the investor missed out after the attack failed to materialize by the market’s deadline. Particulars of the trade indicate that a bet placed on Polymarket shows the trader operating under the username thesecondhighlander committed roughly $100,000 to a contract predicting that the United States would strike Iran by February 9, 2026. The position, accumulated at an average price of just $0.20 per share, briefly surged in value as geopolitical tensions escalated, lifting the trader’s unrealized…

President Donald Trump has named tech leaders including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), joining a group of other prominent AI and tech industry founders and executives. The council, established by executive order and announced by the White House on Wednesday, will be co-chaired by entrepreneur David Sacks—previously the White House AI and crypto czar—and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios. The 13 initial appointees also include Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell,…

Cardano-based UTXO platform FluidTokens completed the first atomic swap between Bitcoin and Cardano on the mainnet. The transaction, which exchanged a small amount of $BTC for $ADA, demonstrates that assets on both networks can now be traded directly without wrapping, bridging, or relying on centralized platforms. Key Points FluidTokens has executed the first atomic swap between Bitcoin and Cardano on mainnet, exchanging 0.0001 $BTC for 50 $ADA. The transaction used a structured process enabling participants to fund and complete swaps seamlessly with both $BTC and $ADA. This breakthrough builds on earlier Cardano ecosystem efforts to integrate Bitcoin, including a demo…

On-chain data revealed that non-$USDC/$USDT stablecoins on Solana have surged by more than 10x since January 2025. The expansion of non-$USDC/$USDT stablecoins shows that the stablecoin landscape on Solana has become a lot more diversified over the past year. At the time of publication, the stablecoin market cap is $14.227 billion, up 3.47% over the past 7 days. $USDC still dominates the stablecoin space, accounting for around 57.43% of the entire stablecoin market. Stablecoin supply on Solana increases by 75% YTD BREAKING: Non-$USDC/$USDT stablecoin supply on @solana is up by ~10x since Jan 2025. pic.twitter.com/yKJrdzUQqQ — Token Terminal 📊 (@tokenterminal)…

A new draft law regarding stablecoin yields in the cryptocurrency sector has sparked significant disagreements among industry leaders. A new regulatory document drafted in the US proposes prohibiting platforms from offering direct or indirect returns to users through “passive stablecoin balances,” while allowing reward mechanisms tied to specific activities only to a limited extent. This draft has sparked intense debate among both industry representatives and financial circles. A heated debate erupted yesterday during an industry conference call between representatives from cryptocurrency exchanges, fintech companies, and venture capital firms. According to sources who attended, the meeting turned into a “shout-out” atmosphere.…

Nebulai has formed an alliance with zCloak Network; thus, a new strategy will help to tackle the challenge of trust in automated systems. The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain is quickly developing from being an idea into being a genuine foundation layer where AI will gain more power to do transactions and create decisions without direct human intervention. As these developments happen, there is an urgency for the industry to resolve the critical bottleneck of trust through the combination of Decentralized AI compute and Identity solutions that are built using zero-knowledge. The goal of this partnership is to…

By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin $BTC$68,689.78 slipped to $68,500 on Tuesday, having failed to reclaim $70,000 after trading above that level for a while over the weekend. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) dropped 0.23% over the past 24 hours. The market appears to be stabilizing after last week’s decline to $60,000, which erased all the cryptocurrency’s gains since Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in November 2024. The slide prompted over $2.7 billion in liquidations, flushing out leveraged positions. It may not, however, have reflected a fundamental change in the crypto market. Rather, it might have…