Day: 4 March 2026

Bitcoin ($BTC) surged to a one-month high on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, reaching the $71,000 mark as bulls prepare for a final push toward the psychological resistance of $72,000. The rally, which saw the premier digital asset climb 5.4% over the last seven days, is largely attributed to a massive ...

White House advisor Patrick Witt publicly challenged JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon regarding the regulatory classification of yield-bearing stablecoins. Witt argued that paying interest does not automatically make a stablecoin a bank deposit, provided the issuer does not engage in fractional-reserve lending.  This pushback highlights a growing rift between traditional ...

South Korea’s government and ruling party are pushing forward a proposal that could dramatically reshape the ownership structure of domestic cryptocurrency exchanges. Officials have reportedly agreed to introduce a 20% cap on the shareholding of major investors in local trading platforms, a move that would directly impact dominant players like ...

US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has broken new ground after securing a coveted master account from the Federal Reserve, becoming the first digital asset firm in the country to gain direct access to the central bank’s payment infrastructure. According to a Wednesday report by The Wall Street Journal, Kraken’s banking arm, ...

Morgan Stanley has unveiled fresh details of its proposed spot Bitcoin investment vehicle, filing a prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that outlines how the firm intends to safeguard client assets. According to the Form S-1, the planned Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust will rely on Coinbase’s custody arm ...

Following intense public and expert criticism, Polymarket has officially halted all betting contracts concerning the potential use of nuclear weapons. Ethicists and global policy experts condemned the markets as morally indefensible for profiting from existential threats.  this is worse than any dystopia we couldve imagined https://t.co/9chaYHhOGc — hasanabi (@hasanthehun) March ...

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest is leaning further into crypto-linked equities, seizing on recent market weakness to expand its stakes in Coinbase and Robinhood Markets. According to Tuesday’s trade disclosures, Ark acquired 22,452 Coinbase shares across three of its flagship exchange-traded funds: the ARK Innovation ETF, ARK Next Generation Internet ETF ...

Asian stock markets reeled on Wednesday as escalating conflict in the Middle East triggered a sharp risk-off wave, forcing South Korea’s exchange to halt trading after double-digit losses. The benchmark Kospi and the tech-heavy Kosdaq both plunged more than 10% during morning trade in Seoul, activating a circuit breaker and ...

The future of finance may have arrived sooner than expected, and it showed up over a weekend of geopolitical turmoil. Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, says he has dramatically revised his timeline for the rise of on-chain finance after investors flooded crypto platforms during the recent ...

A policy tweak on X has sparked debate across the crypto community and drawn a tongue-in-cheek response from Ripple’s chief technologist. Less than 24 hours after X updated its paid partnership rules and briefly appeared to restrict crypto and financial promotions, the platform clarified that the change was made in ...