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Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Fira said on Tuesday it was launching with about $450 million in deposits, highlighting demand for fixed-rate onchain credit. Fira said the protocol’s fixed-rate credit market allows users to lock borrowing costs and lending returns for defined periods by organizing lending around maturities rather than floating utilization-based rates, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. The fixed-rate model differs from most DeFi lending protocols, where borrowers annot lock funding costs, and lenders cannot predict returns, making long-term DeFi lending less predictable. Fira’s said its model organizes markets by maturity and determines interest rates by…

The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) published two advisories on Thursday warning that over the counter (OTC) crypto trading desks and payment processors are being used to obfuscate and move funds tied to criminal activity. The group, which is made up of tax bodies from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the U.S. and the UK, said that average daily trading volume for OTC desks totalled $1.44 billion—far higher than its $74.5 million estimated volume for exchanges. “These desks provide clients with anonymity and reliability when moving large sums of money or cryptocurrency, thus potentially functioning as an obfuscation tool…

An initiative to ban the U.S. Federal Reserve from issuing a government-run digital dollar has been approved in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 89-10 vote in the Senate, but it’s tucked inside a housing bill that may run into headwinds in the U.S. House of Representatives. The effort to outlaw a central bank digital currency (CBDC) has long been a favorite of Republican lawmakers, though the U.S. government has never advanced beyond the research stage for establishing a government token that could compete with privately issued stablecoins (and rival other CBDCs pursued by China and other jurisdictions). The 21st Century ROAD to…

The South Korean government is investing 3 billion won (about $2 million) to build an AI-powered tracking system to monitor gains on cryptocurrency ahead of its new tax laws set to take effect on Jan 1, 2027. While the South Korean government is moving ahead with its plans for taxing cryptocurrency, U.S. lawmakers remain divided over de minimis exemptions for small payments, with Coinbase now being accused of attempting to secure the exemption for stablecoins exclusively. How will South Korea track crypto transactions to enforce its new tax laws? The South Korean National Tax Service (NTS) announced that it has…

In today’s newsletter, Joshua De Vos, head of research at CoinDesk, summarizes their latest crypto ETF report covering U.S. adoption, the speed at which it’s happening and asset concentration. In Keep Reading, we link to the U.S. and Global ETF reports for those who want to do a deeper dive. – Sarah Morton Digital assets exchange-traded product landscape: past, present and future Crypto for Advisors – February – Digital Asset ETPs Digital asset Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs) are now one of the clearest signals of how quickly crypto is being integrated into traditional portfolio infrastructure. As presented in CoinDesk’s latest research…

A significant policy step regarding Bitcoin’s position within the US banking system has emerged. The Fed announced that next week it will release a new draft of publicly available regulations on how the country’s largest banks should implement Basel risk weighting rules. Under current Basel banking regulations, Bitcoin is classified as a very high-risk asset for banks. The 1250% risk weighting assigned to $BTC in the regulations means a stricter capital requirement than almost all other asset classes. This makes it significantly more difficult for banks to hold $BTC on their balance sheets or provide financial services to Bitcoin-related companies.…

Meta said Tuesday it is partnering with Arm to develop a new class of CPUs designed to support growing AI workloads and general-purpose computing across its expanding data center footprint. The first product, called the Arm AGI CPU, is being positioned as a more efficient alternative to legacy server processors for AI-optimized infrastructure. Meta said the chip is meant to improve performance per rack and support large gigawatt-scale AI deployments, which the company sees as central to its push toward more advanced AI systems. The Arm AGI CPU will work alongside Meta’s custom MTIA silicon, adding another layer to the…

Bitcoin BTC$66,988.52 has fallen back to the low end of its recent trading range during late-morning U.S. trading hours on Thursday as the tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbles 1.6%. Trading at $65,700, bitcoin is now lower by 1.5% over the past 24 hours, while ether ETH$1,961.10, just above $1,900, is down more than 2%. The bitcoin price action — uncorrelated with the Nasdaq when that index is headed higher, but perfectly correlated when it heads lower — has become all too familiar for the crypto sector. And the failure to hold any sort of sustained bounce from last week’s panicky plunge has…

Key Highlights: Binance announced that it has sued Wall Street Journal for defamation. Austin Campbell, founder of Zero Knowledge, thinks that the lawsuit is a “terrible decision.” Back in 2022, the exchange had also sued Bloomberg Businessweek’s Chinese edition. A legal fight is brewing between crypto giant Binance and major newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). But according to the founder of Zero Knowledge, Austin Campbell, the exchange is probably making a “terrible” mistake with this particular lawsuit. Campbell posted his views on social media platform X today, March 11, 2026, and stated all the reasons why he thinks that…

New York — Bitcoin BTC$65,503.53 isn’t just a hedge against inflation, according to ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood, but against something more disruptive: deflation driven by technological acceleration. In a conversation with Anthony Pompliano at Bitcoin Investor Week in New York, Wood argued that traditional financial systems are unprepared for a coming “productivity shock” powered by artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and other exponential technologies. That shock, she said, will push prices down rapidly, upend legacy business models, and create what she called “deflationary chaos.” “If these technologies are so deflationary, it’s going to be tough for the traditional world —…