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Bitcoin is hovering near $70K with 92% of short-term holders still underwater, highlighting continued pressure on this cohort. Meanwhile, Trump has tapped the CEOs of Meta and Nvidia to join a White House tech and science council, South Korea recorded $60B in crypto outflows to overseas platforms and private wallets in the second half of 2025, and the UK has imposed a moratorium on political donations in cryptocurrency.
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News Roundup
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Hands Claude Code More Control, But Keeps it on a Leash (TechCrunch)
OpenAI to Shut Down Sora Video App, Derailing $1 Billion Deal with Disney (Decrypt)
Baltimore Becomes the Latest to Sue X and xAI Over Grok Deepfakes (Decrypt)
China Restricts Manus founders from leaving China Amid Meta Deal Review (Bloomberg)
AI Agents to Help Investigators Unearth Crypto Criminals (CoinDesk)
Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance
Ledger Completed a $50 Million Secondary Share Sale (Bloomberg)
Invesco to Manage Superstate's Tokenized US T-Bill Fund (The Defiant)
Swiss Private Bank Dynasty Splits Over Crypto Strategy Clash (Bloomberg)
Lido Revenue Dropped 23% Last Year as Users Withdrew Funds and Yields Declined (The Block)
Wall Street’s Crypto Push Has Been Years in the Making (CoinDesk)
SpaceX Aims to File for IPO as Soon as This Week (The Information)
Pudgy Penguins Launches Pengu Card on Visa in Partnership with KAST (Pudgy Penguins)
Bitcoin Depot CEO Departs Amid Broader Crypto ATM Crackdown (Decrypt)
Ripple Joins Singapore Central Bank Initiative to Test RLUSD Trade Settlements (The Block)
Australia's Central Bank Says Stablecoins, Bank Deposit Tokens Can Coexist (The Block)
kpk Declares ‘Zero Loss to Depositors‘ After $23M Resolv Exploit (DL News)
South Korean Central Bank Embarks on Crypto Expert Hiring Spree (DL News)
Monument Bank to Tokenize 250 Million Pounds of Retail Deposits in UK First (CoinDesk)
Visa and Dune Report Finds Non-USD Stablecoins Increasingly Being Used as Money (The Block)
Obex Spreads $1B Across Credit, Energy and AI Assets to Expand Stablecoin Yield (CoinDesk)
Exchanges
Binance Introduces AI Pro Trading Agent with Streamlined Activation and Multi-Model Trading (Binance)
Robinhood Authorizes $1.5B Buyback as Shares Rise Nearly 80% in Past Year (The Block)
Coinbase Adds CHECK and SIGN to Roadmap While Confirming PRL Listing and ICNT Launch (Coinbase)
Bybit Reserve Report Shows BTC Holdings Drop While ETH and USDT See Modest Gains (Bybit)
Kraken to Roll Out Access to STS Digital's Crypto Option Structured Products (The Block)
Binance’s Market Maker Red Flags and Guidelines for Crypto Projects and Users (Binance)
OKX Reports $25.6B in Assets Across BTC, ETH, and Stablecoins in Latest Reserve Snapshot (OKX)
Indian Court Says ‘No Case’ Against CoinDCX Founders in Impersonation Fraud (Cointelegraph)
Coinbase Pushes Order Book, Perps and Futures Data Onchain with DataLink Bridge (The Block)
Exchange-Traded Funds
Ark Invest Buys $16 Million in Circle as Stock Tumbles 20% (The Block)
U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $74.53 million in net outflows on Mar. 24.
On Mar. 24, U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs posted $40.80 million in net outflows.
U.S. XRP spot ETFs saw $1.40 million in net inflows on Mar. 24.
On Mar. 24, U.S. Solana spot ETFs saw $4.64 million in net inflows.
Franklin Templeton Debuts ETFs That Trade in Crypto Wallets 24/7 (Bloomberg)
Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF Launch Likely 'Imminent' (The Block)
Infrastructure
Ethereum Foundation Estimates 2029 for Quantum Upgrades to $260B Network (DL News)
Bitget Wallet Debuts Stablecoin Payments Infrastructure (The Block)
The Dirty Secret About Quantum Signatures: No One Knows if They Work (Cointelegraph)
Visa Takes on Canton Super Validator Role, Engaging With Blockchain Governance (The Block)
Markets
Crypto Traders Are Turning Into Big Cross-Asset Chasers (Bloomberg)
Hyperliquid Strategies Launches Options Trading on PURR Common Stock (The Block)
Bitcoin Price Holds Steady as Investors Flee Gold (DL News)
Bhutan Offloads $37 Million Worth of Bitcoin as Selling Accelerates (The Block)
South Korea Sees $60B Crypto Outflows to Overseas Platforms and Private Wallets in H2 2025 (The Block)
$14B Bitcoin Options Expiry This Friday, Points to $75,000 as Price Magnet (CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Hovers Near $70K as 92% of Short-Term Holders Remain Underwater (CryptoQuant)
XRP Holds Near $1.41 as Range Tightens, Breakout Setup Builds (CoinDesk)
Binance’s Gold-Backed XAUT Perpetual Hits Record $6.4B Volume, Ranks Top 5 by Activity (CryptoQuant)
Mining
Cipher Digital Adds Third AI Lease, Lines Up $200 Million Credit Facility (The Block)
Politics & Regulation
Trump Names Meta, Nvidia CEOs to White House Tech and Science Council (Decrypt)
U.S. Lawmakers Dig into Tokenizing Securities as Trump Ties Muddy Waters (CoinDesk)
House Financial Services Committee Held a Hearing on Tokenization and Securities Law (U.S. House)
UK Imposes Moratorium on Political Donations in Cryptocurrency (Decrypt)
Trump Rule for More Crypto, Private Equity in 401(k)s Advances (Bloomberg)
Token Generation Events
Airdrops Rewarded Extraction and Ended Real Communities (Cointelegraph)
Treasuries
Bitmine Adds $145 Million Worth of ETH in Latest Buy (The Block)
Metaplanet Unveils Bitcoin Rewards Card Offering Shareholder Cashback Incentives (Metaplanet)
Bitmine Debuts MAVAN Ethereum Staking Platform, Plans to Shift its ETH Activity (The Block)
Venture Capital
Ethereum Block Builder Eureka Labs Raises $6.7 Million (The Block)
OpenAI Set to Raise $10 Billion From MGX, Coatue, Thrive (Bloomberg)
With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI (TechCrunch)
Stablecoin Startup Payy Raises $6 Million in Seed Funding (The Block)
Startale Group Closes $63 Million Series A Round to Scale Layer 1 Network Strium (The Block)
Other News
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