Trust Will Become Crypto’s Real Currency In The AI Economy

Opinion by: Kirill Avery, founder and CEO of Alien AI-generated voices are already being used in ransom scams. Synthetic agents now trade, vote and interact on blockchain networks. In this environment, the greatest threat to crypto is no longer scalability or regulation; it is the collapse of trust. As deepfakes, bots and synthetic agents saturate every corner of the internet and as scams increased by 1,400% in 2025, authenticity is becoming a scarce resource. Scarcity produces markets. Every major technological shift has centered on what becomes hard to fake and…

What Every XRP Holder Must Understand As Activity Wanes

XRP holders have spent years waiting for the kind of breakout that turns patience into confidence. But a recent message from XRP analyst Bird cuts through the usual price talk with a more uncomfortable point: tokens do not go on a price rally by themselves. Holders who do not understand this may be waiting for a rally driver that they themselves are failing to build. The Lesson Every XRP Holder Must Understand Blockchain history does not leave much room for debate on the point of price appreciation. The chains that…

Australia Fines Binance $6.9 Million Over Client Misclassification – Crypto News Bitcoin News

Binance Hit With $6.9 Million Fine in Australia Case Binance’s Australian derivatives arm has been ordered to pay $6.9 million (A$10 million) after a federal court found serious failures in how it classified customers. The ruling marks one of the most significant enforcement actions against a crypto exchange in the country. The case stems from a lawsuit filed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in 2024. Regulators alleged that Binance Australia Derivatives misclassified a large portion of its users, exposing them to complex and high-risk crypto products without…

Bitcoin whales add 61,568 BTC as price slips again

Bitcoin (BTC) remained under pressure on Friday as on-chain data showed large holders were still adding to their positions.  Summary Santiment said wallets holding 10 to 10,000 BTC added 61,568 Bitcoin over the past month. Bitcoin fell below recent highs as Bhutan-linked transfers and Middle East tensions added pressure again. Retail wallets with under 0.01 BTC kept buying, matching whale accumulation and delaying breakout signals. The move came as retail wallets also kept buying, while market sentiment stayed weak amid fresh geopolitical risk and renewed selling activity from Bhutan-linked wallets.…

JPMorgan Says Bitcoin Is Beating Gold, Silver During The Iran War

JPMorgan says the Iran war has produced an unusual market split: bitcoin is showing signs of safe-haven demand while gold and silver, the traditional geopolitical hedges, have weakened under the pressure of outflows, profit-taking and deteriorating liquidity. In a report dated March 26, Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou and his team said bitcoin has held up better than precious metals since the conflict escalated. Gold is down about 15% this month, according to the bank, while gold ETFs recorded nearly $11 billion in outflows in the first three weeks of March. Silver has…

ARK Invest Integrates Kalshi Prediction Market Data Into Investments

ARK Invest has announced it will incorporate Kalshi prediction market data into its investment process, using real-time probability signals to inform macroeconomic research, monitor performance indicators, and support risk management and hedging strategies. The move positions ARK among a small but growing cohort of institutional managers treating event contract markets as a legitimate alternative data source rather than a speculative sideshow. ARK founder and CEO Cathie Wood framed the adoption as a logical institutional step. “Bringing prediction markets into institutional workflows is a natural next step for innovation in financial…

Enlivex Announces $21M Debt Financing and Prediction Markets Treasury Expansion – News Bytes Bitcoin News

Enlivex Ltd. announced the completion of a $21 million debt financing (DF) agreement with The Lind Partners in Nes-Ziona, Israel. The transaction, which closed on March 23, includes notes convertible into ordinary shares at a 264% premium to recent Nasdaq closing prices. The company exercised an option to acquire over 3 billion RAIN tokens at a 62% discount and extended its option to purchase additional tokens through December 31, 2027. This strategy reinforces their treasury built on the Rain decentralized prediction markets protocol, alongside a new $20 million share repurchase…

Vietnam Arrests Suspects in ONUS Crypto Scheme Probe

Vietnamese authorities have detained multiple ONUS-linked suspects after alleging they used false promotions and manipulated token trading to misappropriate investor funds through the crypto platform. The Ministry of Public Security said Thursday that the investigation targeted a group accused of selling digital tokens through the Onus platform, using misleading promotions and coordinated trading activity to attract users. Authorities claim the group manipulated supply and demand and adjusted token prices, presenting the assets as legitimate investment opportunities while maintaining centralized control over their markets.  Investigators named several suspects in the case,…

GameStop says Bitcoin position remains in place under Coinbase deal

GameStop said it did not sell the 4,709 Bitcoin tied to its January balance sheet change.  Summary GameStop pledged 4,709 BTC with Coinbase Credit and kept economic exposure instead of selling outright. The covered-call strategy generated premium income but capped upside if Bitcoin rises above strike prices. GameStop reclassified the pledged Bitcoin and recorded digital asset receivables on its balance sheet. Instead, the company used the holdings in a covered-call arrangement with Coinbase Credit, according to its latest annual filing. GameStop’s latest 10-K filing showed that the company still kept…

Filing Dispels $368M Sell-Off Rumor

GameStop (GME) has confirmed it retained all 4,710 Bitcoin in its treasury, valued at approximately $368.4 million as of January 31, 2026, ending two months of sell-off speculation triggered by an onchain transfer to Coinbase Prime. The disclosure, contained in the company’s 10-K annual report filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, formally closes the overhang that had shadowed GME’s Bitcoin position since January. The confirmation removes 4,710 BTC from the pool of coins the market had priced as potential sell-side supply — a distinction that carries structural weight…