Vietnam Authorities Launch Probe Into Multi-Billion Dollar Crypto Fraud – Crypto News Bitcoin News

Rapid Response and Formal Charges Authorities in Vietnam have launched a sweeping investigation into one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency fraud cases to date, detaining several high-profile figures accused of a multiyear scheme to misappropriate assets. From March 20 to 21, coordinated task forces across multiple provinces summoned more than 140 individuals for questioning and seized computers, phones, and financial records. According to local reports, investigators acted swiftly to prevent suspects from destroying documents or concealing assets. On March 23, the Security Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security…

XRP To Enter This $100 Trillion Custody Pool And This Is How It Will Happen

Crypto pundit X Finance Bull has explained how XRP is positioned to absorb a share of the $100 trillion in assets that the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has in custody. He notably mentioned Ripple and the role the crypto firm is playing in making this possible for XRP.  How XRP Is Positioned To Take A Share of DTCC’s $100 Trillion Assets In an X post, X Finance Bull noted that in 2025, DTCC filed patents that named Ripple and the XRP Ledger as compatible infrastructure for tokenized finance.…

Ethereum Loses $2K as Traders Expect a Deeper Correction in ETH Price

Ether’s (ETH) drop below the $2,000 on Friday put it at risk of a deeper correction in the coming weeks or months. Key takeaways: Ether’s price shows structural weakness as it fails to hold above the $2,000 psychological support. Analysts say ETH price may drop further toward the $1,750-$1,850 support zone. Ether’s demand stays negative, increasing its downward potential.  Ether traders anticipate a deeper correction Data from TradingView showed ETH/USD trading at $1,975, down 5% over the last 24 hours. This drop was accompanied by more than $111 million in…

Incentive Design Could Change Retail Investors’ Fortunes

Opinion by: Ilya Tarutov, founder of Tramplin Crypto hasn’t struggled because the technology was flawed. Instead, it faltered as a result of the incentive structures the industry created, which have quietly turned it into something that works against the very people it was supposed to serve. Since 2017, every crypto market cycle has followed the same pattern. Each cycle started with excitement, followed by retail inflows, a velocity trap and catastrophic drawdowns, and ended in an erosion of trust that takes months, if not years, to rebuild. Each cycle begins…

XRP Breaks Lower as Liquidations Deepen and Macro Risks Intensify Across Crypto Markets – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

XRP Downtrend Deepens as Key Support Faces Pressure At 9:11 a.m., XRP is trading at $1.33247, extending its recent decline as the price presses toward the lower end of its intraday range. The asset is down 3.07% over the past 24 hours, with the session high at $1.38237 and the low at $1.32559. Recent candles show a steady drift lower, with only brief attempts at stabilization failing to shift the broader short-term direction. From a 4-hour chart, XRP has formed a clear sequence of lower highs and lower lows following…

Bitcoin ETFs See $171 Million Outflow as Ether Extends Losing Streak – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

Crypto ETFs Slide Again: Bitcoin, Ether ETFs Deepen Losses While Solana Also Slips Confidence continues to erode across crypto ETFs. What began as a mild pullback has now turned into a more persistent wave of outflows, with little sign of immediate reversal. Bitcoin ETFs recorded a sharp $171.22 million in net outflows, marking another difficult session for the asset class. The selling was broad and consistent. Seven funds posted redemptions, highlighting the depth of the pullback. Blackrock’s IBIT led the decline with $41.92 million in outflows, followed by Bitwise’s BITB…

Bitcoin Preps Sixth Red Month in a Row as Oil Fears Surge

Bitcoin (BTC) neared $66,000 at Friday’s Wall Street open as analysis called US inflation trends “objectively unsustainable.” Key points: Bitcoin drops further on oil-supply woes as Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz. BTC price performance is set to seal its sixth straight month of losses at the March close. Traders eye the lows with $70,000 back as resistance. Oil squeeze creates US bond-market havoc Data from TradingView captured ongoing BTC price losses, which approached 4% on the day and threatened to turn March into Bitcoin’s sixth consecutive “red” month. BTC/USD…

ICE Adds $600M to Polymarket Investment Despite US Regulatory Scrutiny

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), said Friday it completed a new $600 million direct cash investment in Polymarket, deepening its bet on prediction markets as a new area of growth for exchange operators. The company also said it expects to purchase up to $40 million of Polymarket securities from existing holders, adding to its previously announced investment commitment made in October 2025. In that earlier deal, ICE said it would invest up to $2 billion in Polymarket, marking one of the largest institutional…

ECB Study Questions How Decentralized DeFi Governance Really is

The European Central Bank published a working paper on March 26, finding that governance in four major DeFi protocols was heavily concentrated. The staff paper looks at Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth and Uniswap, and finds that while governance tokens are held across tens of thousands of addresses, the top 100 holders control more than 80% of the supply in each protocol. Based on holdings snapshots from November 2022 and May 2023, the authors found that a large share of governance tokens could be linked either to the protocols themselves or to…

UK Slaps Sanctions On $20B Crypto Black Market Tied To Southeast Asia Scam Rings

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis puts the number at close to $20 billion — the estimated volume of dirty money that flowed through Xinbi, a Chinese-language crypto marketplace, between 2021 and 2025. Now the UK government wants to shut it down. Related Reading Scam Hubs At The Center Of It All Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced Thursday that it has imposed sweeping sanctions on Xinbi, a platform accused of providing crypto-based services, scam tools, and other criminal resources to bad actors across Southeast Asia. The move freezes any UK-linked…