Elon Musk’s X has hired crypto-native product designer Benji Taylor as its new head of design, ahead of a wider rollout of the platform’s X Money payments product next month. Taylor announced the move on X on Wednesday, saying he was “honoured” to join the company and looking forward to working closely with Musk and …
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PRESS RELEASE. The French head of state will address stablecoins, the digital euro and Europe’s role in the new global financial architecture. PARIS, March 2026: President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a special address at Paris Blockchain Week 2026, taking place April 15–16 at the Carrousel du Louvre, becoming the first sitting G7 head of state …
STS Digital, a derivatives trading firm, announced the launch of its global Structured Products platform on 25 March 2026 in Hamilton, Bermuda. The platform serves banks, institutional investors, and family offices by providing risk-managed exposure to a subset of 400 digital asset tokens. This initiative follows a recent collaboration where Kraken launched Dual Investment, leveraging …
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On March 25, 2026, Bitgo and Zksync announced a strategic partnership to integrate institutional custody and wallet services with Prividium, a privacy-preserving blockchain platform. This collaboration enables regulated financial institutions to manage digital representations of traditional bank liabilities within a secure framework. The partnership provides banks with a unified technology stack to modernize treasury operations …
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Startale Group announced on March 26, 2026, the second close of its Series A round, securing $50 million from SBI Group, Inc. to total $63 million. This follows an initial $13 million investment from Sony Innovation Fund in January 2026 to bolster onchain infrastructure for finance and entertainment. The funding accelerates the development of Strium, …
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Irish authorities have successfully accessed millions in previously locked Bitcoin, marking a major breakthrough in a long-running criminal asset seizure case. According to the Irish Times, Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), with support from Europol, managed to open one of 12 cryptocurrency wallets seized in 2019. The wallet contained roughly 500 Bitcoin worth about $35.5 …
Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen believes Bitcoin (BTC) will face another significant leg down. In a new video, Cowen challenges the popular comparison between Bitcoin’s current price action and its March recovery patterns, suggesting a more bearish parallel to 2022. “You could argue that we’re more like right here rather than in March… Bitcoin didn’t go …
Investigators have frozen about $1.2 million as efforts continue to trace funds lost in a wallet breach linked to a seed phrase compromise. Bo Shen, the co-founder of venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital, offered a bounty to recover about $42 million in digital assets stolen from his personal wallet in a 2022 hack. Shen said …
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The UK government is advancing plans for a moratorium on political donations made through cryptocurrencies, following an independent review and pressure from multiple high-ranking politicians. Cointelegraph reported on Wednesday that the Rycroft Review, an independent inquiry into foreign financial interference in the UK’s political and electoral systems, recommended a moratorium on crypto donations to political …
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Crypto exchange Coinbase is reportedly against the latest compromise over stablecoin yields that the Senate is looking to include in its crypto market structure bill. Coinbase representatives told Senate lawmakers in a meeting Monday that they had concerns over the language around stablecoin yields in the new compromise version of the bill, Punchbowl News reported …
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US lawmakers have introduced a bill aiming to ban members of the US Congress, the president and other high-ranking government officials from wagering on prediction markets. The proposed bill, a bipartisan effort from US Representative Adrian Smith and Representative Nikki Budzinski, was introduced on Tuesday and is called the Preventing Real-time Exploitation and Deceptive Insider …
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Crypto entrepreneur Nic Carter has urged Bitcoin developers to catch up on quantum resistance or risk losing out to Ethereum, which already has a post-quantum roadmap. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is the math that keeps Bitcoin (BTC) secure. Users pick a secret number (private key) and, using a special curved line and simple multiplication rules …
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Project Acacia Findings The Reserve Bank of Australia has officially moved past the “trial phase” of digital finance, signaling a major shift toward the real-world implementation of tokenized assets and wholesale digital currencies. In a key speech delivered March 25, RBA Assistant Governor Brad Jones made it clear: The question is no longer if Australia …
PRESS RELEASE. Victoria, Seychelles, March 25, 2026 – Bitget, the world’s first Universal Exchange (UEX), today launched the UEX Switch Campaign, a market-wide call to action for traders to move away from fragmented, single-asset platforms to a single account that captures opportunities across crypto and global markets. The campaign follows Bitget’s app upgrade, which places …
Multi-City Surveillance and Arrest The Spanish Civil Guard arrested a fugitive in Benalmádena, Málaga, wanted by French authorities for his alleged role in the violent kidnapping of a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and his wife. The arrest was carried out under a European Arrest Warrant and required a large-scale security operation due to the suspect’s dangerous profile …
