Ethereum is trading below $2,200. The market is volatile. And yet, quietly, the structural case for ETH has never looked more constrained on the supply side. A new CryptoQuant report reveals that 38.31 million ETH — roughly 31.4% of the total supply — is now locked in staking, an all-time high. That is not a footnote. It is the most significant supply development in Ethereum’s recent history, and the price has not caught up to it yet. Related Reading The data is unambiguous: the ETH 2.0 Staking Rate indicator just…
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Company Partnering with Marshall Islands to Boose Digital Sovereign Bond
The company behind the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ universal basic income (UBI) program using a US dollar-pegged sovereign financial instrument has attracted some significant crypto-tied backers. In a Tuesday notice shared exclusively with Cointelegraph, M1X Global announced that it had launched following a $3 million angel investment round by current and former executives connected to crypto and financial services companies. According to the company, the funding will support the development and adoption of the USDM1 digital sovereign bond which allows citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to…
Bitcoin Distribution Mechanism Has Not Changed, All Roads Point To Crash Below $50,000
Bitcoin’s latest stretch of sideways price action around $70,000 is being read by some traders as a sign that the cryptocurrency is finally settling down. However, technical analysis shows that the structure now forming on the daily chart might not actually be a recovery base at all but a distribution pattern before a new low that has already appeared once before during a bigger decline since late 2025. Bitcoin’s Distribution Mechanism Is Still The Same According to a crypto analyst that goes by the name Ardi on the social media…
Bitcoin Rallies After Iran Strikes but Safe Haven Role Unproven
Before the Iran war broke out, Bitcoin spent months trading sideways while gold rallied to record levels. At the time, gold was seen as the go-to safe haven; inflation concerns remained persistent and geopolitical tensions continued to build, while Bitcoin (BTC) failed to live up to that role. Nearly a month after the US and Israel launched the first strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, that view is being challenged. Bitcoin initially fell to $63,176 on the news of the attacks but has since risen about 12% to $71,012, as…
Nobody knows if quantum secure cryptography will even work
Why upgrade if PQ signatures are not yet proven? The dirty secret of efforts to upgrade blockchains to post-quantum cryptography is that no one is sure if any of them work. None of the signatures being considered by major blockchains as quantum-resistant upgrades have been 100% proven to work. Until a quantum computer is invented, we won’t know for certain if they can successfully protect against an attack. Some may fall to an attack even before Q Day using existing computer technology. The National Institute of Standards and Technology tested…
Governments Need CBDCs To Improve Financial Inclusion Among Citizens
Opinion by: Xin Yan, co-founder and CEO of Sign. Financial exclusion remains one of the most persistent challenges for national governments. World Bank data highlights how more than 1.3 billion adults remain unbanked, without access to a financial account. These people rely on cash, creating a ‘cash-digital divide’, which excludes them from the formal economy. To bridge the divide, governments need to promote CBDCs actively. As a trusted, risk-free alternative to physical cash, CBDCs are ideal instruments for the financially excluded demographic. With a seamless entry point to the financial…
XRP Could Be Building A Major Short Squeeze, Analyst Says
XRP may be setting up for a large upside liquidation event even as price action remains fragile in the short term, according to Cryptoinsightuk analyst Will Taylor, who argued in a March 24 video that leverage positioning, funding data, and broader market structure still point to a higher move later in the cycle. Taylor’s core claim is not that XRP has bottomed cleanly or that downside risk has disappeared. It is that the balance of leverage, sentiment, and liquidity remains skewed in a way that could eventually force price higher,…
Bhutan Moves 519 Bitcoin as Sovereign Wallet Drawdown Continues
Bhutan moved more Bitcoin from its state-linked wallet on Wednesday, extending a March drawdown in its sovereign holdings. Arkham data showed a Bhutan government-linked wallet transferred about 519.7 BTC, worth roughly $36.7 million, to two wallets on Wednesday. Onchain Lens said one of the destination wallets was linked to trading firm QCP Capital. The move marked the Bhutan-tagged wallet’s third large Bitcoin transfer in March, following the $72 million moved in six separate transactions in the 24 hours leading up to March 18, and the $11.8 million moved on March…
Bitcoin Mirrors The 30% Crash Setup But Order Flow Is Different
Bitcoin traders are again staring at a chart structure that resembles the setup that preceded the market’s roughly 30% drop from late January into early February. But several order-flow analysts argue the comparison is incomplete, because the underlying spot-book picture looks materially stronger this time. Will The 30% Bitcoin Crash Repeat? That debate picked up on March 24 after analyst Exitpump (@exitpumpBTC) posted a chart comparing the current range with the earlier breakdown zone. The visual similarity is hard to miss: in both cases, BTC traded inside a defined consolidation…
Indian Court Says ‘No Case’ Against CoinDCX Founders
A magistrate court in Thane, India, has granted bail to CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Surendra Gupta and Niraj Ashok Khandelwal, ruling that no prima facie case was made out against them in a 71 lakh Indian rupees ($75,000) cheating complaint linked to a fake trading platform posing as the Indian crypto exchange. The court’s common order on March 23 on their bail applications concluded that they were entitled to bail because no case was made out against them, even on an initial look at the available evidence. The founders were taken…