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Bitcoin is charging toward $73,000 amid a fresh decoupling from the stock market. The surge in BTC price comes despite fears around escalating oil prices. Ethereum, XRP, and Solana are also eyeing momentum as traditional assets falter. Bitcoin climbed past $72,500 on Friday, extending gains ahead of the Wall Street open. The cryptocurrency had earlier broken above $72,000 after buyers pushed it out of a consolidation range below $70,000. The move came as digital assets appeared to shrug off a broader sell-off in equities. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading around $72,518, up roughly 4% over the past…

Bitcoin has outperformed gold, silver, and major US equity indexes since the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, recovering to over $72,000 even as oil surged above $100 a barrel and traders cut expectations for near-term Federal Reserve easing.According to CryptoSlate data, Bitcoin is up 7.3% since the conflict began and even rallied to a one-month high of over $73,000. The flagship digital asset has since retraced to around $72,200 as of press time.Over the same stretch, gold fell to $5,091, about 4% below the level it stood before the first strikes hit Iran. Silver dropped more than 10%, falling from…

Mastercard’s crypto partner push is really a plan to keep stablecoins inside its networkMastercard is trying to make sure the stablecoin era still needs its card services.On Wednesday, the company launched a program with more than 85 crypto-native firms, payments providers, banks, compliance vendors, custody companies, exchanges, and infrastructure groups. On its face, that reads like another ecosystem announcement.However, let’s look at what the list implies. Mastercard is assembling the counterparties it needs so that if stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and other digital-dollar instruments become meaningful payment rails, those flows can still pass through Mastercard’s acceptance, trust, and settlement layers rather…

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recorded inflows of about 1.5% of assets since the Iran conflict began on Feb. 27, while SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) shed roughly 2.7% in outflows. US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted approximately US$1.1 billion in net inflows across three trading sessions from March 2–4, led by BlackRock’s US$306.60 million contribution. JPMorgan reiterated a long-term Bitcoin price target of US$266,000, noting that Bitcoin’s declining volatility relative to gold signals growing institutional maturity. In an interesting twist, investors are now moving from gold funds into US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds since the Iran war escalated, reversing a trend…

Vitalik Buterin argues Ethereum’s main function may simply be providing a censorship-resistant public data layer rather than complex applications. He suggests many secure digital systems require a neutral space where information can be posted and verified by anyone. Ethereum upgrades such as PeerDAS are expanding data capacity, potentially supporting governance, identity and coordination tools. Ethereum’s original purpose may be more straightforward than many in the cryptocurrency sector believe, according to comments from Vitalik Buterin. He observed that discussions outside the traditional crypto environment can shift the focus away from building applications around Ethereum and toward understanding what types of infrastructure…

A class action filed in California accuses JPMorgan Chase of aiding a US$328 million crypto Ponzi scheme run by Goliath Ventures, alleging the bank ignored clear warning signs. Approximately US$253 million flowed through a single JPMorgan account, with US$123 million, transferred directly to Coinbase wallets. Goliath Ventures CEO Christopher Delgado was arrested in February on federal wire fraud and money laundering charges carrying up to 30 years in prison. Investors have filed a proposed class action against JPMorgan Chase, alleging the investment bank enabled a US$328 million (AU$460 million) cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme run by now-defunct Goliath Ventures by allowing suspicious…

Crypto ATM fraud losses reached US$333 million in the first 11 months of 2025, with over 12,000 complaints filed with the FBI, a 33% year-over-year increase. AI-enabled scams proved 4.5 times more profitable than traditional methods, with criminals deploying real-time deepfakes and hyper-personalised social engineering to target victims, 85% of whom are aged 60 or older. Senator Dick Durbin introduced the Crypto ATM Fraud Prevention Act to impose daily transaction limits of US$2,000 and mandate operator registration, while 17 states have passed comprehensive protective legislation. Crypto ATM fraud losses in the United States reached US$333 million (AU$470 million) in the…

VeryAI secured US$10 million in seed funding led by Polychain Capital, with backing from Berggruen Institute, Anagram, and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. The palm-scan system claims a false acceptance rate of 1 in 10 million per hand  and works on 98% of US smartphones without special hardware. Built on Solana with zero-knowledge proofs, the platform lets users verify their humanity across services without exposing personal biometric data, positioning it as a privacy-focused rival to World’s iris-scanning approach. VeryAI has raised US$10 million (AU$14 million) in seed funding to build a palm-scan identity verification system aimed at separating real users from…

President Donald Trump’s Solana-based meme coin, TRUMP, briefly jumped more than 10% on the news of an exclusive token holder event to be held at Mar-a-Lago in April 2026. The top 297 $TRUMP token holders can earn invitations to a business conference and luncheon with the President and other unspecified speakers.  Although $TRUMP spiked to $3.08, the token quickly pulled back and remains about 96% below its all-time high. Despite his last exclusive event being a dud night out, Donald Trump’s memecoin $TRUMP spiked by over 10% on the news that top token holders would be invited to join the…

A trader attempting to swap roughly US$50.4M (AU$71.06M) in USDT for AAVE confirmed a warning about extreme slippage and completed the trade through Aave’s interface. The transaction was routed via CoW Protocol and multiple DeFi pools, ultimately hitting a SushiSwap pool with only about US$73K in liquidity. The trade returned only 324 AAVE tokens, prompting Aave to attempt contacting the user and offer to refund about US$600K in fees. A cryptocurrency trader attempting to execute a US$50 million (AU$70.5 million) token swap has instead received just a few hundred AAVE tokens after confirming a warning about severe slippage during the…