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Druk Holding and Investments transferred 175 BTC worth approximately US$11.85 million on March 10, bringing Bhutan’s total 2026 bitcoin sales to roughly US$42.5 million across BTC and USDT transactions. Bhutan’s holdings have dropped from approximately 13,000 BTC at their late-2024 peak to about 5,400 BTC, a 58% decline conducted without public explanation through institutional counterparties. Blockchain analytics platform Arkham characterised the selling pattern as periodic clips of US$5 million to US$10 million per transfer. Bhutan might be one of the smallest countries in South Asia, but it surely had a large stack of Bitcoin. And I say had because Bhutan’s…
Less than two-year-old crypto neobank KAST, led by Australian founder Raagulan Pathy, has raised US$80 million in funding, with the fintech platform valued at over US$600 million. The stablecoin-based payments company already has more than 1 million global users, and plans to use the backing from leading US venture firms to expand further into the US market. An Australian-led, stablecoin-based digital bank called KAST, which supports cross-border payments in over 190 countries and has attracted over one million users in less than two years, has raised US$80 million (AU$112m) in Series A funding. KAST was founded by Aussie Raagulan Pathy,…
US prosecutors have asked a federal court to set an October retrial for Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm after a jury deadlocked on two charges in his earlier trial. Storm was convicted of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business but jurors could not agree on money-laundering and sanctions conspiracy counts. Storm criticised the retrial push, arguing authorities are attempting to criminalise writing open-source code. US prosecutors have moved to schedule a retrial for Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm after two charges in his previous case ended without a verdict. In a letter filed in the Southern District of New York, officials…
Polymarket is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to deploy an AI-driven system monitoring sports prediction markets. The platform uses the Vergence AI engine to detect manipulation, monitor trades, and screen prohibited users in real time. Prediction markets face growing competition and regulatory scrutiny, with DraftKings expanding and the CFTC asserting jurisdiction. Polymarket has announced a partnership with Palantir Technologies and TWG AI to develop a system intended to monitor activity across its sports prediction markets. The project will use the Vergence AI engine, a technology jointly created by Palantir and TWG AI, to improve surveillance and integrity standards within…
Strategy has found a new gear in its Bitcoin accumulation engine, and its STRC preferred stock equity is doing a growing share of the driving.The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, held 738,731 BTC as of March 8, up from 672,500 at the end of 2025. This represents an addition of 66,231 coins in 68 days, already surpassing its full-year net purchases in 2021, 2022, or 2023.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) Pace of Bitcoin Purchases Over Past Years (Source: Adam Argo)The pace of these acquisitions is striking by any measure, and what makes 2026 different is where the capital is coming from.For years,…
Bitcoin climbed back above $70,000 Tuesday as crude oil staged a sharp reversal, easing near-term fears of accelerating inflation and giving digital asset markets room to recover.According to CryptoSlate’s data, the largest digital currency jumped over 5% in the last 24 hours, peaking at around $71,164 after slipping below $68,000 earlier in the session.Brent crude fell more than 6% to around $90 a barrel, retracing much of the previous day’s surge that had briefly pushed the international benchmark to nearly $120. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the US benchmark, fell by a similar margin as traders reassessed how long a geopolitical…
Nasdaq’s latest tokenization push is another attempt to bring stocks onto blockchain rails. Yet the real significance lies more in the structure.Rather than endorsing the offshore model of stock wrappers and synthetic equity exposure, Nasdaq is trying to build a version where the token is the share. As a result, the token shares the same legal status, a direct link to the issuer’s ownership record, and a path to voting, governance, and corporate actions.That makes this less a crypto-adoption story than a control story. If tokenized equities are going to scale, someone will decide whether investors own a legally equivalent…
Jupiter (JUP) price hovered near $0.17 amid a 6% intraday gain. The bounce coincided with Bitcoin’s spike to above $70,000. The move was also supported by a key Chainlink integration. JUP, the governance token of Jupiter, has bounced off recent lows as top cryptocurrencies record intraday gains. The DEX protocol’s token traded around $0.17 on Tuesday, with 24-hour gains of nearly 6% pushing it above a key support level. Jupiter Exchange taps Chainlink for prediction markets JUP’s uptick coincided with the DEX platform’s strategic adoption of Chainlink technology to power its newly launched prediction markets. JUST IN: The largest decentralized…
Exchange outflows reduce available Bitcoin, tightening the market. Easing Iran tensions boosts investor confidence and trading activity. Traders and institutions step in, supporting the price during dips. Bitcoin (BTC) has rebounded above $70,000 amid easing impact from the ongoing war between Iran, the United States and Israel. At the start of the war, the cryptocurrency dipped below $66,000 within days, but it has now stabilised and started to rise, though sluggishly. At press time, BTC was trading at $71,033, up 4.1% in 24 hours and 7% over the past week. Exchange outflows tighten available supply The decline in Bitcoin reserves…
Cardano’s recent updates look unremarkable when read one by one: a ratified long-term vision, a stricter constitution, better governance indexing, a formal-verification push, and new treasury guardrails.However, they point to a larger shift when taken together.At the same time, Europe’s MiCA regime is pushing crypto toward greater accountability, while Cardano is positioning itself as one of the most governable chains in the market.The ecosystem is assembling rules that are harder to bend, treasury flows that are easier to monitor, governance data that are easier to index, and smart contracts that are easier to verify.In a market still obsessed with growth,…