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The cryptocurrency market is currently at a crucial technical juncture for $ETH. The second largest digital asset is poised for a structural change, with Ethereum testing a critical resistance zone near $2,150 in mid-March 2026. A breakthrough above that level is the main signal technical analysts need to see to potentially spark a fast move toward $2,500. The Battle at the $2,150 Resistance Zone According to technical analysis, Ethereum has been going through a period of consolidation, as it tries to gain adequate energy to break through the strong resistance zone. A strong resistance zone can be defined as an…

A crypto executive has pushed back against claims by the president of a community banking association that any compromise between the banking sector and the crypto industry on the US CLARITY Act would be a mistake. “If community banks and crypto can’t find a way to work together, we already know who the winners are. It’s not the community banks. It’s not consumers. It’s not the crypto industry,” Zero Knowledge Consulting founder Austin Campbell said in an X post on Friday. “It is the big banks,” Campbell said. “There is a very straight line between the value community banks bring,”…

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance TR is organizing a special campaign for users who want to take their first steps into the world of cryptocurrencies. According to the recently launched Spring Campaign, users who register with Binance TR during the event period will receive a reward worth 880 TL when they purchase their first cryptocurrency without any minimum purchase limit. Additionally, users who have previously registered with Binance TR but have not yet made any cryptocurrency purchases can also benefit from the campaign. Users will be rewarded when they complete cryptocurrency transactions using the Buy/Sell, Easy Buy/Sell, Automated Investment, and Convert functions.…

Erik Voorhees, an early figure in the cryptocurrency sector and the founder of ShapeShift, has resumed buying Ethereum ($ETH) after a break of almost a year. According to on-chain data, Voorhees has made noteworthy moves in the market with its recent transactions. According to the data, Voorhees sold 12,886 $ETH approximately a year ago at an average price of $3,324, generating a total of approximately $42.83 million in sales. However, he appears to have recently started accumulating Ethereum again. Having spent a total of 17.75 million $USDT in the last five days to buy 8,576 $ETH at an average price…

Three researchers at the US Federal Reserve argue that prediction market Kalshi can better measure macroeconomic expectations in real time than existing solutions and thus should be incorporated into the Fed’s decision-making process. The “Kalshi and the Rise of Macro Markets” paper was released on Feb. 12 by Federal Reserve Board principal economist Anthony Diercks, Federal Reserve research assistant Jared Dean Katz and Johns Hopkins research associate Jonathan Wright. Kalshi data were compared with traditional surveys and market-implied forecasts to examine how beliefs about future economic outcomes change in response to macroeconomic news and policymakers’ statements. Source: Tarek Mansour “Managing…

Crypto industry executives are combing through US President Donald Trump’s National Cyber Strategy after it was released on Friday, searching for hints about what it could signal for government support of the crypto industry. “Crypto and blockchain are explicitly named as technologies to be ‘protected and secured.’ This is a first for any US cybersecurity strategy,” Galaxy Digital’s head of firmwide research Alex Thorn said in an X post on Friday. Crypto and blockchain were mentioned once in the six-page report: “We will build secure technologies and supply chains that protect user privacy from design to deployment, including supporting the…

Upbit and Bithumb, two of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have seen significant increases in trading volume for some altcoins over the past 24 hours. While volumes were seen rapidly increasing, particularly in assets like $XRP, dKargo, and $TRUMP, major cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum also ranked high on the list. According to the data, $XRP reached one of the highest trading volumes on both exchanges. Upbit recorded a trading volume exceeding $88 million, while Bithumb saw over $33 million in transactions. Thus, the total volume of $XRP across the two exchanges reached approximately $121 million. Here are the altcoins with…

United States Federal Reserve policymakers discussed the possibility of interest rate increases last month, according to newly released comments from a January meeting. The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting from late January were released on Wednesday, revealing that some policymakers were mulling a rate hike due to stubbornly high inflation. Several participants indicated that they would support “the possibility that upward adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate could be appropriate if inflation remains at above-target levels,” the minutes stated. Central bank policymakers voted to keep interest rates unchanged at 3.5% to 3.75% at…

Amanda Fischer, former chief of staff to former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, has sharply criticized the institution’s settlement with Tron (TRX) and cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun. Fischer argued that while the SEC had strong evidence against Sun and the crypto companies, the settlement was far softer than expected. According to Fischer, given the scope and seriousness of the fraud allegations against Sun, the settlement was essentially a “face-saving move to save the company.” Fischer stated that the judge presiding over the case should not have accepted this settlement, and called on the US Congress to launch an investigation into the…

Ledger has added hardware wallet support for MoonPay Agents, allowing human users to verify and sign transactions initiated by their deployed AI agents, MoonPay announced on Friday. The announcement comes as the crypto industry has embraced artificial intelligence in the form of autonomous AI agents. The Ledger integration routes agent-generated trades, swaps, and transfers through a secure signer that requires manual approval on the hardware wallet. “The Ledger integration is just the beginning. We plan to support additional hardware wallets and look forward to collaborating with more partners across the ecosystem,” MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright told Decrypt. “Any developer building…