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News Roundup
Artificial Intelligence
Supreme Court Declines AI Copyright Case, Upholds Human Authorship Rule (Decrypt)
OpenAI’s Pentagon “Red Lines” Face Backlash Over Contract Wording (Decrypt)
Anthropic’s Claude Tops App Store as Users Protest OpenAI’s $200M Pentagon Deal (Fortune)
Google Nano Banana 2 vs. ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite: Speed vs. Control (Decrypt)
Binance Launches AI Agent Skills for Trading and Wallet Access (Binance)
Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance
Sony Bank and JPYC Explore Instant Yen Stablecoin Purchases (Cointelegraph)
Uniswap Secures Full Dismissal in Scam Token Lawsuit (The Block)
Tether, Anchorage Tap Deloitte for First USAT Stablecoin Reserve Report (Decrypt)
Aave Founder Pledges ‘Structural Improvements’ After Proposal Clears Initial Vote (DL News)
Ethereum Real-World Assets Surpass $15 Billion as Tokenized Gold Booms (The Defiant)
SoftBank-Backed PayPay Targets Up to $13.4B Valuation in U.S. IPO (Reuters)
Bank of Japan to Test Blockchain-Based Reserve Settlement (The Block)
Nexo Returns to the US With Partner-Led Compliance Model (Cointelegraph)
Aave Chan Initiative to Exit Aave DAO Amid Growing Governance Tensions (The Block)
SoFi Technologies and Mastercard Enable SoFiUSD Stablecoin Settlement (The Block)
Visa and Bridge Expand Stablecoin Card Program to 100+ Countries (CoinDesk)
Central Bank of Brazil Mandates Daily Guarantees of Asset Holdings for Crypto Exchanges (DL News)
Ripple Labs Expands Payments Platform With Custody and Automated Payouts (Crypto Briefing)
Abu Dhabi’s Regulator Approves Ondo Finance Tokenized Stocks Platform on Binance (CoinDesk)
Exchanges
Bybit Says AI Monitoring Helped Recover Over $300M and Thwart Millions of Attacks (Bybit)
Chainalysis Reports $10.3M in Iranian Exchange Outflows After Airstrikes (Decrypt)
Coinbase to Suspend 25 Perpetual Contracts on March 16 (Coinbase Markets)
Crypto.com Launches IRA Product With Stocks, Crypto and Staking (The Block)
Exchange-Traded Funds
On March 2, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $458.19 million in net inflows.
U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $38.69 million in net inflows on March 2.
On March 2, U.S. XRP spot ETFs posted $6.97 million in net inflows.
U.S. Solana spot ETFs recorded $17.41 million in net inflows on March 2.
Infrastructure
Markets
Venice AI Tops $600M Valuation as VVV Token Jumps 35% (The Defiant)
Crypto Traders Hedge Iran War Risk With 24/7 Oil and Gold Perpetuals (Bloomberg)
Iran Crypto Volume Drops 80% After Strikes, Infrastructure Holds (The Block)
Circle Stock Surges Another 15% as USDC Growth and Policy Tailwinds Fuel Rally (Decrypt)
Bitcoin Futures Demand Hits 2024 Low, But Institutions Still Present (Cointelegraph)
Bitcoin Supply Nears 20 Million Milestone as Final Coins Stretch Into Next Century (CoinDesk)
U.S.-Israel Strike on Iran Rattles Risk Assets (Wintermute)
Four Headwinds Holding Bitcoin Below $70K (Decrypt)
Rolex Enthusiasts Get Kalshi Contracts to Bet on Watch Prices (Bloomberg)
Meme Coins
Solana Meme Coin SANAE TOKEN Spikes to $27M Before Sharp Pullback (Sanae Takaichi)
Mining
Riot Platforms Posts Record $647M Annual Revenue Amid AI & HPC Push (The Block)
Core Scientific Slides After Q4 Results Disappoint (CoinDesk)
Core Scientific Sells 1,900 BTC in January, Plans to Liquidate Remaining Holdings in Q1 (TheEnergyMag)
Riot Platforms Settles Texas Mining Dispute With SBI Crypto for $20 Million (The Block)
MARA Holdings Shifts Policy to Allow Bitcoin Treasury Sales (The Block)
American Bitcoin Expands Mining Capacity After Q4 Loss (Decrypt)
Administración Nacional de Electricidad Eyes State-Run Bitcoin Mining With Seized Rigs (Bitcoin Magazine)
Politics & Regulation
Senate Advances Housing Bill With CBDC Ban, Secures White House Support (Decrypt)
Nevada Court Ruling Raises Risk of Trading Halt for Kalshi and Polymarket (Decrypt)
Philippines Drops Telegram Ban After Compliance Agreement (Cointelegraph)
United States Department of the Treasury Moves $23K in Bitcoin From Seizure Wallet (The Block)
Treasuries
Northern Trust Raises its Strategy (MSTR) Holdings to 1.58M Shares (Bitcoin Treasuries)
Venture Capital
YZi Labs Commits Additional $100M to Hash Global BNB Yield Fund (Hash Global)
Other News
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