Day: April 1, 2026

New Hampshire to Issue $100M Bitcoin-Backed Bond With Speculative Moody’s Rating

The New Hampshire Business Finance Authority (BFA) is set to issue $100 million in Bitcoin-collateralized bonds carrying a provisional Ba2 rating from Moody’s Investors Service – a speculative-grade designation that places this instrument two notches below the lowest investment-grade threshold and marks the first known instance of a U.S. public authority issuing debt fully backed by Bitcoin. For municipal bond markets accustomed to state-level paper rated Aa or above, a Ba2 on a crypto-collateralized structure is not merely a footnote – it is a signal that the conventional muni buyer…

Crypto Policy Enters ‘New Phase,’ According to Solana Policy Institute

The Solana Policy Institute, a Washington-focused nonprofit launched in late 2025 to advance blockchain-specific legislative and regulatory strategy, has characterized the current U.S. crypto policy environment as entering a materially new phase – one defined by implementation rather than survival, and by legislative specificity rather than existential debate. Kristin Smith, President of the Institute and former executive director of the Blockchain Association, stated the shift plainly: ‘For a long time we were playing defense,’ adding that the industry’s posture has now moved toward establishing durable rules of the road. We…

Bitfarms Shares Jump Despite $285M Net Loss as Miner Expands AI Pivot

Bitfarms (BITF) shares climbed 6.6% on Tuesday despite reporting a $284.5 million net loss for full-year 2025 – a result driven by falling Bitcoin prices, elevated cost of revenue, and digital asset impairments that collectively erased the company’s gross margin. The market’s reaction was not irrational. It was a deliberate forward-price of something the income statement cannot capture: an infrastructure business that no longer exists in the same form it did twelve months ago. Call it the Pivot Premium. When institutional investors look past a nine-figure GAAP loss to bid…

Ripple Brings Crypto Capabilities to Treasury Management Systems

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Ripple has added digital asset capabilities to its treasury management platform, allowing corporate finance teams to hold, track and manage cryptocurrencies and fiat balances within a single system, the company said. According to a company announcement, the update introduces Digital Asset Accounts and a unified dashboard that aggregates balances across bank accounts, custody providers and onchain wallets, giving treasury teams real-time visibility into both cash and digital assets. The system supports assets including XRP (XRP) and Ripple USD (RLUSD), with balances updated in real time and recorded alongside fiat transactions.…

Google Cuts Quantum Cracking Timeline 20x, Renewing Bitcoin and Crypto Security Debate

A new paper from Google Quantum AI has compressed the estimated hardware requirements for breaking elliptic-curve cryptography – the signature scheme underpinning Bitcoin and crypto transactions – by roughly 20-fold, moving a long-running theoretical threat measurably closer to an engineering problem. The research, co-authored by Google researchers, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, and Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh, revises the physical qubit threshold downward from prior estimates exceeding 10 million to fewer than 500,000, a compression that forces institutional risk models to treat Q-Day as a medium-term rather than generational concern.…

BTC USD Nearing Buy Zone: Best Opportunity in 3 Years?

BTC USD is trading at approximately $68,200, down roughly +2.2% in the past 24 hours, as a key on-chain metric quietly signals something analysts haven’t flagged since the 2022 cycle bottom. The question isn’t whether a buy zone exists; it’s whether the market has actually reached it yet. According to CryptoQuant data, Bitcoin’s realized price, the aggregate cost basis of all coins weighted by their last on-chain movement, currently sits at $54,286, while spot trades near $68,774. That places Bitcoin approximately 21% above its realized price, a gap that has…

US Senators Float Reserve-Backed Bitcoin Mining Bill, Raising Nationalization Prospect

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Senators Bill Cassidy and Cynthia Lummis introduced the Mined in America Act on March 30, 2026, a bill that would establish a voluntary federal certification program for domestic Bitcoin mining facilities, codify the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into statute, and create a direct Treasury procurement channel through which certified miners sell newly mined BTC to the federal government in exchange for a capital gains tax exemption. The legislation, which carries no new fiscal authorizations, designates the Department of Commerce as the administering certifying body and directs the National Institute of Standards…

Can the Price Break Above $1.50?

XRP USD is trading near $1.34, up +2.6% over the last 24 hours, yet the chart doesn’t quite align with the on-chain data beneath it. Exchange outflows are running at record levels, a pattern historically associated with accumulation phases, but the price refuses to confirm. That disconnect is the tension driving XRP markets right now, and how it resolves could matter considerably for positioning. According to exchange flow data, large volumes of XRP are being withdrawn from trading platforms, shrinking the liquid supply available to sellers. When supply tightens, and…

Hong Kong Misses March Deadline for Stablecoin Licences

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Hong Kong’s first stablecoin licences failed to materialize by the expected end of March target, with the HKMA saying only that it is still advancing the process. Hong Kong has missed an earlier end of March target for awarding its first stablecoin licences, with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority saying only that the licensing process is advancing and decisions will be announced shortly. A spokesperson for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) told Cointelegraph that the HKMA is “actively taking forward the licensing matter and will announce further details in…