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MARA Holdings may be poised to test the current BTC treasury meta. Major miners have been accumulating BTC as a strategic treasury rather than treating it as working capital. A shift could have implications that extend well beyond a single company.The company’s March 2 filing authorizes balance-sheet sales of its entire 53,822 BTC treasury, representing a complete reversal of its 2024 “retain all mined and purchased Bitcoin for the foreseeable future” policy.Bitcoin trades around $68,000, down nearly 46% from late-2025 highs, while market depth has thinned to levels where modest selling creates an outsized impact.The timing raises a question: what…

A Los Angeles jury convicted former LAPD officer Eric Halem of kidnapping for ransom and home invasion robbery on March 2. Halem and his accomplices posed as police officers to enter the victim’s high-rise apartment, used LAPD-issued handcuffs to restrain the victims, and stole a hard drive containing Bitcoin private keys. Physical attacks on cryptocurrency holders surged 75% in 2025 with confirmed losses exceeding US$40.9 million (AU$62 million), according to blockchain security firm CertiK. A Los Angeles jury on March 2 convicted former LAPD officer Eric Halem of kidnapping for ransom and home invasion robbery after prosecutors said he led…

XRP served as the proof of concept in an assembly manual for altcoin ETFs.In a Mar. 2 post, Bitnomial argued that the real crypto-ETF shift isn’t the SEC’s faster timelines, but that regulated futures on CFTC-designated contract markets have become the practical prerequisite for new crypto ETF listings.XRP has moved from the centerpiece of the SEC’s “unregistered securities” enforcement agenda to having the regulated-futures rails and US-listed ETF wrappers that the new rulebook rewards.What looked like a courtroom battle became an infrastructure checklist.What actually changedThe SEC’s generic listing standards, approved in September 2025, let exchanges list qualifying Commodity-Based Trust Shares…

Ripple upgraded Ripple Payments into an end-to-end stablecoin settlement suite powered by RLUSD. The platform operates across more than 60 markets on 51 real-time payment rails and holds more than 75 regulatory licences. Ripple backed the upgrade with two acquisitions, Palisade and the US$200 million Rail purchase. Ripple Labs has upgraded its Ripple Payments platform into an end-to-end stablecoin settlement suite, and will now span management, custody, conversion, and payout across more than 60 markets, according to a press release. This puts Ripple in direct competition with correspondent banking networks on settlement speed and capital efficiency. The appealing part is…

Leading Bitcoin miners Core Scientific and MARA Holdings are looking to offload more Bitcoin to fund their pivots into AI infrastructure and high-performance computing. Their moves reflect a broader trend of Bitcoin miners looking to capitalise on opportunities in AI as the crypto markets slump following the October 2025 liquidation cascade. One Bitcoin mining firm, Trump-linked American Bitcoin Corp, appears to be doubling down announcing the addition of almost 12,000 Bitcoin miners to its existing fleet of over 89,000. Several of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining companies have indicated they plan to increase their Bitcoin sales and pivot their focus…

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said investors without access to traditional stock markets instead turned to crypto markets to trade the news of President Donald Trump’s announcement of “major combat operations” in Iran on Sunday (US time). Hougan describes the situation as “the weekend that changed finance” due to 24/7 crypto rails proving their worth for investors looking to react in real-time. He argued onchain finance systems change will happen more urgently as a result. An American military strike on Iran that began in the early hours of Sunday morning, US time, has shocked the world and raised concerns over heightened…

A dispute over stablecoin rewards has delayed crypto legislation, with banks warning unequal rules could shift risk outside the regulated system. Coinbase’s withdrawal from the CLARITY Act vote highlights tensions over whether stablecoin yield products resemble insured deposits. Dimon says firms paying interest on token balances must meet bank-level capital, liquidity and compliance standards. As US lawmakers struggle to advance a crypto market structure bill, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has issued a pointed warning over proposals that would allow crypto companies to pay yield on stablecoin holding. He argued that permitting such programmes without equivalent banking regulation could create…

Melbourne-based Cortical Labs has trained living human neurons to play Doom using its CL1 biological computing platform. The achievement builds on a 2021 Pong experiment that required 18 months of development. Gameplay is translated into electrical signals and decoded from neural spikes, though the cells do not understand the game. Cortical Labs has advanced its biological computing research by teaching living human neurons to play Doom, a title long used as an informal benchmark for new systems. The Melbourne firm shared video of the 1993 game being controlled by neural activity generated within its laboratory-grown cell cultures. The project follows…

Washington’s push for a federal crypto rulebook reignited a long-running industry debate over what “regulatory clarity” actually delivers and who it helps.At the center of the debate is H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, a bill that supporters present as a long-awaited replacement for years of regulation by enforcement.The legislation is designed to clarify boundaries around digital assets, define oversight responsibilities, and establish a framework for how tokens and intermediaries are treated under federal law.But as the bill moves through Washington, it is producing two sharply different readings of what happens next.Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has…

On Feb. 28, coordinated strikes hit Iranian nuclear facilities while most benchmark commodity markets sat dark.Traditional gold futures on CME’s COMEX exchange wouldn’t reopen until Sunday evening Central Time, leaving a 48-hour window where macro risk had nowhere obvious to express itself.Except it did: on venues that never close.By the time COMEX gold futures flickered back online Sunday at 5:00 PM CT, perpetual futures contracts tracking gold and silver on always-on derivatives platforms had already written the first draft of Monday’s gap.Traders didn’t wait for permission. They repriced geopolitical risk in real time, using whichever venue accepted their orders, and…