Bitcoin has steadied near $66,500, down from last week’s level around $71,000.Analysts said the prolonged U.S.-Iran conflict keeps inflation fears elevated, weighing on crypto investor sentiment.

A massive cryptocurrency whale linked to F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang has executed a strategic $17.86 million withdrawal from Binance, moving 9,000 ETH directly into the decentralized lending protocol Aave..

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The Senate Banking Committee hearing for the Fed chair nominee is expected around mid-April. Senator Elizabeth Warren has pushed back against the proposed Fed appointment.

Google is expected to help finance Anthropic’s Texas campus as AI infrastructure demand keeps rising.The Nexus site could deliver 500 megawatts by late 2026 and expand to 7.7 gigawatts.A federal judge blocked the Pentagon from branding Anthropic a supply-chain risk during litigation now.

The wallet unveiled a new toolkit that lets AI agents automatically execute crypto transactions, including trades and transfers.Compatible across over 25 chains, the agents can handle cross-chain swaps across several networks, including Solana and Bitcoin, in addition to managing recurring buys.

Gnosis leadership and Zisk founder Jordi Baylina unveiled the Ethereum Economic Zone, or EEZ (“easy”), a rollup framework that promises synchronous composability between Ethereum’s L1 and connected L2s.The Ethereum Foundation is co-funding the initiative, which was announced at EthCC in Cannes.The EEZ builds on months of public governance discussion within GnosisDAO about evolving Gnosis Chain into a natively integrated Ethereum L2.Founding members include Aave, block builders Titan and Beaver Build, real-world asset platform Centrifuge, and tokenized equities project xStocks.

RLUSD activity is on the rise as Ripple continues to expand utility for the stablecoin token.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick requesting documents and communications related to Bitmain, the Beijing-based company that manufactures most of the world’s bitcoin mining hardware, Bloomberg reported.The letter follows Bloomberg’s November 2025 report on “Operation Red Sunset,” a Department of Homeland Security-led probe into whether Bitmain’s machines could be exploited for espionage or to compromise the U.S. power grid.Warren asked specifically about communications between Bitmain, Commerce officials and the Trump family, whose mining venture American Bitcoin purchased 16,000 Bitmain rigs for $314 million.

Lido’s ecosystem operations team has proposed spending up to 10,000 stETH (roughly $20 million) from the DAO treasury to buy LDO tokens at what it calls a historically depressed valuation.At current prices, the buyback could absorb around 8% of LDO’s circulating supply.The proposal is separate from Lido’s still-pending NEST automated buyback program, which has not activated under present market conditions.LDO hit a new all-time low of $0.27 on Mar. 7, and currently trades near $0.31.

Shiba Inu shows stalled futures activity, with its open interest showing a flat movement over the last 24 hours, sparking curiosity about its next price move.

X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom said in an interview that he wants to keep evolving the brand and building alongside “the Gen Zs, the middle school kids, the high school kids, and college kids.”Crypto companies eager to attract new users, and MoonPay in particular, have been sponsoring sports teams across various leagues for years.

The LDO token is down 95.9% from its all-time high, with a $255 million market cap, even as Lido’s staking protocol still accounts for the largest share of staked Ether at 23.2%.