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Bitcoin price has fallen over 30% from its yearly high, largely impacted by geopolitical and economic concerns that deteriorated investor appetite for risk assets. After rallying nearly 12% to a yearly high of $97,538 on Jan. 15, the bellwether crypto has fallen by nearly 31% to $67,525 at the time of writing. This came amid several geopolitical and macroeconomic concerns that have largely risen due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff drama that has extended into the beginning of this year, followed by the start of a war in the Middle East against Iran that has led to repercussions in…

GameStop (GME) is aiming for a major expansion with a proposed $55.5 billion acquisition of online marketplace eBay (EBAY), raising fresh questions about whether its bitcoin holdings could help fund the deal. The video game retailer, which holds about $368 million worth of $BTC, submitted a non-binding offer Sunday to buy eBay for $125 per share in cash and stock. The bid represents a 46% premium to eBay’s share price in early February, when GameStop began building a position. The company said it now holds a 5% economic stake through shares and derivatives. A deal of this size would likely…

Shiba Inu has started off the new week with strong network performance despite ongoing price volatility, signaling a potential shift in investor sentiment. On Monday, March 23, data from Shibburn, a blockchain tracker that monitors $SHIB’s deflationary activities, showed a significant surge in the asset’s burn metric. Per data provided by the tracker, the Shiba Inu burn rate has surged by 637.44% over the past day, with a total of 8,063,851 $SHIB permanently removed from circulation over a 24-hour period. While the $SHIB community remains keen on deflationary activity, the decision to continually reduce its circulating supply has continued to…

The main market for stocks in Russia, the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), will launch indices for another four cryptocurrencies this month, including those of Ripple and Binance. The platform already publishes indices for Bitcoin and Ethereum and plans to expand the list further by adding altcoins like Dogecoin and Cardano. It uses the indices to issue crypto derivatives. Moscow Exchange to offer more indices for major cryptocurrencies Russia’s leading trading venue for equities, bonds, and derivatives will introduce indices for Solana ($SOL), Ripple’s $XRP, Tron ($TRX), and Binance’s BNB. They will reflect the performance of the digital currencies and will have…

K Wave Media, a Nasdaq-listed media and entertainment company, said it is redirecting up to $485 million in remaining financing capacity from a Bitcoin treasury strategy into an artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, according to a Monday 6-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The capital will be deployed into data centers, graphics processing unit (GPU) compute operations and related AI infrastructure investments under an amended securities purchase agreement with Anson Funds, the structured equity financing counterparty to the company. The amendment revises a prior $500 million equity purchase facility, which had been structured to support a Bitcoin…

General Updates Neo signed an integration agreement with LayerZero, the omnichain messaging protocol, to bring cross-chain communication to Neo X. TestNet integration is expected to be completed by the end of March, with MainNet integration to follow. Neo engaged a Hong Kong-based CPA firm to conduct an independent Agreed-Upon Procedures review of its financial position. The engagement marks the first known independent external examination of Neo’s finances and follows the finalization of the Neo Financial Report & Insights for Fiscal Year 2025. Neo X released v0.5.3 “Quenchation,” a patch update introducing incremental improvements and bug fixes. The team recommended the…

$BILL-USD pair to launch once liquidity is ready. According to Coinbase’s latest listing update, the exchange “will launch $BILL (Billions) spot trading” and expects to open the $BILL-USD order book later today in supported trading regions, contingent on sufficient liquidity and market-maker support. The company has already enabled users to generate deposit addresses for $BILL on its website, mobile app, and Coinbase Exchange, but has stressed that “deposits of $BILL will not be available until the asset issuer unlocks transfers,” meaning on-chain deposits and trading will only begin after the project lifts transfer restrictions. Third-party coverage notes that once $BILL…

Warren Buffett, Executive Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK), cautioned investors about the surge in speculative activity, especially in the crypto market. Buffett stated that investors have never been in a more gambling mood than right now, according to a CNBC interview recorded at the 2026 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. The 95-year-old American investor likened today’s markets to a church with a casino attached when asked about his view on current macro valuations. “If you’re buying one-day options, or selling them, I mean that is not investing, it’s not speculating, it’s gambling … So we’ve never had people in a…

The $XRP Ledger (XRPL) network, which uses the native token ($XRP), has more than half of its transactions focused on payments, as of March 23, 2026. A recent study of 5,000 XRPL blocks shows that 53.20% of the more than 1 million transactions sampled involved payments. Notably, a period of 5,000 blocks is about 4 hours due to the network’s high throughput and finality. As for the OfferCreate transfers, a transaction type that shows the way users place orders on the XRPL’s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX), was the second largest with about 371,895 transactions, representing 34.2%. The NFTokenBurn transaction type…

Machi Big Brother, a prominent crypto trader, has recently regained market attention with significant gains. In this respect, Machi Big Brother has reportedly collected a total of $2.15M in profit over the past 24 hours. As per the data from Arkham Intelligence, the trader has remained effective in getting such a huge profit following hefty losses over the months. So, this impressive rebound could denote the commencement of a significant comeback. Machi is Back: Up $2 Million in 24 HoursMachi Big Brother is up $2.15 million trading crypto perps, now up to a total balance of $4 Million.Machi is up…