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Crypto markets slid back into “extreme fear” territory after Bitcoin failed to hold its move above $75,000, with prices now wavering around $70,000 amid persistent macro pressure. Meanwhile, an S&P 500 contract has gone to Hyperliquid as the tokenization race heats up, Major League Baseball has signed prediction market agreements with the CFTC and Polymarket, and Nasdaq has won SEC approval to trade tokenized securities in a pilot program.
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News Roundup
Artificial Intelligence
OpenClaw Developers Lured in GitHub Phishing Campaign Targeting Crypto Wallets (Decrypt)
Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance
Visa Bets on Agentic Commerce With CLI Payment Tool for AI Agents (The Defiant)
S&P 500 Contract Comes to Hyperliquid as Tokenisation Race Heats Up (DL News)
Fold Reports $69.6M Net Loss for 2025 as it Launches Bitcoin Credit Card (The Block)
TradeXYZ Lands Official S&P 500 License for On-Chain Perpetual (The Defiant)
FTX to Distribute Another $2.2 Billion to Creditors Starting March 31 (The Block)
Bank of Japan Keeps Interest Rate Unchanged at 0.75% (Nikkei)
Here’s What The CFTC’s Phantom Letter Really Means For DeFi (DL News)
ECB Seeks Experts to Help Integrate Digital Euro into ATMs and Payment Terminals (CoinDesk)
Amundi Launches Tokenized Fund on Ethereum and Stellar (Crypto Briefing)
Celo Floats One-Time 160 Million Token Grant to Opera (The Block)
Exchanges
Aster Deepens WLFI Partnership With USD1 Perpetual Markets (The Defiant)
Upbit to List ETHFI/KRW Trading Pair (Upbit)
Crypto.com Slashes Workforce by 12% in 'Enterprise-Wide AI' Pivot (Decrypt)
Exchange-Traded Funds
On Mar. 18, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $163.52 million in net outflows.
U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $55.70 million in net outflows on Mar. 18.
On Mar. 18, U.S. XRP spot ETFs posted no flows.
U.S. Solana spot ETFs logged $295.73K in net outflows on Mar. 18.
Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust to Trade as MSBT on NYSE Arca (Bitcoin Magazine)
Infrastructure
Tempo Mainnet Goes Live With Machine Payments Protocol For AI Agents (The Block)
Polymarket Acquires Brahma to Scale Blockchain Trading Infrastructure (CoinDesk)
The RWA Yield Infrastructure Trade (CoinDesk)
Quantum-Ready Bitcoin Prototype Debuts, but Adoption Hurdles Loom (Decrypt)
Can Bitcoin Really Do DeFi? A New Protocol Aims to Find Out (Decrypt)
Apex Group Unit Tokeny Taps Polygon For its Interoperable Tokenization Platform (The Block)
Zenith Links Canton and Ethereum Through Atomic Swaps (The Block)
LayerZero, Centrifuge Team Up to Expand Multichain Access for Tokenized Funds (The Defiant)
A New Era of Bitcoin-Based Finance Begins: Meet Hashi on Sui (Sui Foundation)
Markets
Fed Holds Rates Steady Amid Inflation and Geopolitical Risks (FRB)
Crypto Market Sheds $100B as Bitcoin Price Drops 5% Amid Fed Caution (The Block)
Whale Investor Buys $111 Million Worth of Ethereum (The Block)
Why Bitcoin Is Falling Despite $1.1 Billion in ETF Inflows (Decrypt)
Bitcoin OG Sells $72 Million in BTC as Whales Flood Exchange Deposits (The Block)
Crypto Market Maker Flow Traders Enters Tokenized Assets Via 24/7 OTC Desk (The Block)
Bitcoin Wobbles Around $70,000 as Macro Headwinds Weigh on Crypto (The Block)
XRP Hits $1B in Tokenised Assets But Price is Stalling (DL News)
Animoca Brands Invests in AVAX Token, Aims to Expand Avalanche in Asia and Middle East (The Block)
Major League Baseball Signs Prediction Markets Pacts With CFTC, Polymarket (CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Tests Old 2021 Top as Gold Falls to Six-Week Lows Under $4.7K (Contelegraph)
‘Extreme Fear' Hits Crypto Markets After Bitcoin Gives Up $75K Spike (Decrypt)
Politics & Regulation
SEC and CFTC Declares Most Digital Assets Non-Securities (The Block)
The Biggest Crypto Cases Dumped by Trump's SEC (Decrypt)
Fairshake Hit its Biggest-Ever Campaign Loss at $10 Million in Illinois (CoinDesk)
Coalition Urges OpenAI to Scrap AI Ballot Measure Over Child Safety Concerns (Decrypt)
Kenya Seeks Public Comment on Draft VASP Rules for Crypto Firms (The Block)
Nasdaq Wins SEC Approval to Trade Tokenized Securities in Pilot Program (Decrypt)
South Korean Lawmakers Push to Abolish Upcoming 22% Crypto Tax (The Block)
UK to Dissolve Crypto Exchange Accused of Aiding Iranian Sanctions Evasion (Decrypt)
Treasuries
BitMax Denies Bitcoin Sale as Financial Woes Mount (DL News)
American Bitcoin's BTC holdings overtake Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital (CoinDesk)
XRP Treasury Firm Evernorth Files S-4 Registration for $1 Billion SPAC Deal (The Block)
Strive Adds 317 BTC, Enters Top 10 Public Treasury Holders (The Block)
Forward Industries Buys Back $27 Million in Stock Using Galaxy Loan (The Block)
DDC Adds 200 Bitcoin as Corporate Treasuries Lean Into BTC Price Weakness (The Block)
Venture Capital
Prediction Market Myriad Closes ‘Milestone’ Seed Round Investment (Decrypt)
Other News
Libra Scandal: Argentine Forensics Reveal Years of Payments from Lobbyist to President Milei (DL News)
Polymarket is Opening a News-Watching Bar in DC Called The Situation Room (Crypto Briefing)
Algorand Foundation Cuts 25% of Staff as Crypto Industry Layoffs Grow (Decrypt)
Netflix is Developing a Series The Altruists About Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison (Netflix)
Jack Dorsey’s Block Laid Off 4K Employees Last Month, Some Are Already Back (Cointelegraph)
LA Rideshare Driver Charged With Using $2M in COVID Relief Funds to Buy Crypto (Decrypt)
CZ on Crypto's Turning Point: Can the U.S. Become Crypto Capital? (Wu Blockchain)
Crypto Hacks Average $25 Million as Largest Exploits Skew Industry Losses (The Block)
Thugs Slashed Crypto Worker’s Mother With Box Cutter. Demanded $9M to Stop (DL News)
Crypto Scammer Who Duped Movie Star and Professional Fighter Out of Over $3M Jailed For Six Years (DL News)
Check This Out!
Tokenized assets surged past $4B as real-world asset adoption accelerates, signaling growing institutional interest and expanding use cases across tokenized financial assets.
Source: DeFiLlama
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Source: Crypto Tea
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