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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – For years, the crypto industry has searched for its next breakout moment — something on the scale of DeFi summer or the NFT boom. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence has quietly embedded itself into daily life. Developers use ChatGPT as a co-pilot. Consumers rely on AI assistants to draft emails, plan travel, and increasingly manage workflows. Crypto, by comparison, still feels infrastructural. Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of $NEAR, believes that divide is about to collapse — but not in the way many expect. “The users of blockchain will be AI agents,” Polosukhin said in an interview. “AI is going…

Almost four months have passed since the devastating disassembly of a DeFi daisy chain, which saw the value of the so-called “yield vault” sector drop by over $4 billion. Since then, many of the “risk curators” involved have kept a low profile, while others are keen to rebuild confidence. Last week, it became clear that one such curator hadn’t managed to weather the storm. MEV Capital dissolves Last week, The Big Whale reported that MEV Capital would be taken over by one of its partners, Belem Capital. Citing DeFiLlama figures, the article highlights an 80% drop in MEV Capital’s assets…

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…