Kalshi Margin Trading Approved The NFA filing lists Kinetic Markets as both an FCM and swap firm. Bloomberg was the first to report on the NFA filing. Kalshi Inc. holds a 10% or greater financial interest in the entity. Co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara are named as indirect owners, with Lior Samuel Hirschfeld serving as CEO of Kinetic, Sam Rosner as CFO, and Joshua Andrew Beardsley as chief compliance officer. Until now, Kalshi operated on a fully collateralized model, requiring traders to post 100% of a contract’s value…
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97 Million Downloads and Growing Crypto Infrastructure From Bitgo to Coingecko – Crypto News Bitcoin News
AI Tool Integration Just Got Standardized — MCP Downloads Cross 97 Million in March 2026 Anthropic open-sourced MCP on Nov. 25, 2024, alongside reference servers for Google Drive, Slack, Github, and Postgres, with native support built into Claude Desktop. Early adopters included Block and Apollo; IDEs such as Zed, Replit, Codeium, and Sourcegraph began integration within weeks. The protocol defines how AI models connect to external tools, databases, APIs, and workflows. An MCP host, such as Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, or VS Code Copilot, communicates with an MCP server, a lightweight…
Bitcoin Erases March Gains as Q1 Losses Top 25% Amid Geopolitical Friction – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
Crypto and Wall Street Diverge From Global Indices After kicking off March with a bullish surge, bitcoin now appears destined for a round trip back to its opening levels. The top cryptocurrency tumbled below the $66,000 psychological floor Friday, hitting a multi-week low of $65,505. This price action suggests the “war hedge” resilience that characterized the early days of the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict has finally buckled under the weight of prolonged uncertainty. The sell-off was not isolated to bitcoin. Bitcoin’s 4.5% intraday slide—which wiped nearly $10 billion off its market capitalization—acted…
Trump Touts Iran Operation While Ceasefire Falls Apart and Oil Climbs Past $108 – Bitcoin News
Hormuz Crisis Deepens: Iran Rejects Peace Plan, Crude Oil Climbs Tehran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, dismissed the plan as “one-sided” and “maximalist,” calling U.S. claims of productive negotiations “fake news.” Iranian state media rejected the proposal outright, with officials saying Iran would “end the war when it decides to.” The Trump administration transmitted the 15-point framework to Tehran via Pakistani intermediaries on or around March 24. The plan included a 30-day ceasefire, sanctions relief, civilian nuclear cooperation, curbs on Iran’s ballistic missile program, enhanced IAEA monitoring, and guaranteed shipping access…
Altcoins Tumble as Total Market Capitalization Falls Below $1 Trillion Mark – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
ETH and SOL Spearhead the Retreat The altcoin market endured a brutal session on Friday, March 27, as investors aggressively unwound positions in a frantic flight to liquidity. The safe haven narrative, which briefly flickered to life when the U.S., Israel and Iran began striking each other on Feb. 28, all but collapsed under the weight of a broader risk-off sentiment. According to market data, the intensified sell-off forced the total altcoin market capitalization to breach the psychological $1 trillion floor for the first time since early March. As of…
California Governor Bars Policymakers From Insider Betting on Prediction Markets – Bitcoin News
California Bans Gubernatorial Appointees From Betting on Prediction Markets With Non-Public Information The order takes effect immediately. It extends California’s existing conflict-of-interest statutes directly to prediction markets, which allow users to wager real money on outcomes ranging from elections to military strikes to economic decisions. Appointees are prohibited from using confidential or non-public information obtained through their official duties to profit personally on these platforms. The ban also covers helping family members, spouses, business partners, or associates place profitable bets using such information. “Public service should not be a get-rich-quick…
174 Registered CASPs, but Only 14 Can Operate a Centralized Crypto Exchange (CEX)? – Legal Bitcoin News
MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises crypto and FinTech companies on MiCA licensing, CASP and VASP applications, and regulatory structuring across Europe and beyond. If the EU has already issued 174 MiCA licenses, why are there only 14 actual crypto exchanges on the list? To demystify this, we need to decode what the public registers are really telling us about how crypto businesses are setting up in Europe. That contrast,…
How ChangeNOW’s Crypto Swap API Helped Bitcoin.com Drive a 25% Increase in User Activity – Branded Spotlight Bitcoin News
Expanding crypto swap infrastructure within a live, high- volume product is one of the more technically demanding decisions a crypto platform can make. For Bitcoin.com – a platform with over a decade of history in the crypto industry, offering a wallet, swap, news, and educational resources to millions of users worldwide – the stakes were high. The integration of ChangeNOW as a key crypto wallet swap integration partner delivered measurable results across performance, stability, and user engagement. The Challenge: Scaling Beyond a Single-Provider Crypto Swap Infrastructure For platforms serving millions…
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…
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