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It was a week of reddish successful crypto and accepted markets, with bitcoin plummeting beneath $80K connected March 10 and ETH falling to $1,821 the aforesaid day. So overmuch for the “Trump Bump.” With the caller medication connected a tariff-tear this week, the markets were spooked astir a recession and crypto was not immune.
Still, advancement successful integer assets was each around, and our reporters reported it each with alacrity. BlackRock’s bellwether BUIDL money topped $1 billion and tokenized treasuries hit $4.2 billion, Kris Sandor reported. MoonPay, a payments aggregator, made an important stablecoin acquisition, Will Canny wrote. Ripple won a payments licence successful the UAE (Shaurya Malwa). OKX won a licence to operate successful Europe, Camomile Shumba reported. Coinbase announced plans to connection 24/7 futures trading successful the U.S., Helene Braun reported.
There was besides large regulatory news. The U.S. House voted to overturn the IRS’s arguable “broker rule” successful a large triumph for DeFi operators. And a Senate committee voted to nonstop the GENIUS stablecoin measure to the floor, ahead of probable support there.
The Trump Family continued to beryllium front-and-center successful the crypto news. World Liberty Financial completed a $590 cardinal token sale (for accredited investors for now), with an assistance from adviser/investor and TRON laminitis Justin Sun. The Wall Street Journal reported that a Trump household typical also explored buying a involvement successful Binance.US, done World Liberty Financial. From our Asia team, Sam Reynolds examined however the latest draught of the GENIUS act aims to divided stablecoin regularisation betwixt authorities and national authorities.
Parikshit Mishra reported connected Coinbase returning to India aft a two-year hiatus, mounting disconnected treatment astir the aboriginal of crypto successful India.
Shaurya Malwa continued his fantabulous reporting connected XRP, pushing retired aggregate reports connected Ripple. Malwa besides reported connected the implications of over-leveraging successful the crypto market, arsenic Hyperliquid mislaid $4 million owed to a monolithic leveraged commercialized successful ETH.
Market maven, Omkar Godbole, pushed retired a timely portion connected bitcoin's bullish awesome ahead of the U.S. CPI report, and was besides aboriginal to spot however Eric Trump's tweet connected crypto were mounting up short-term traders for disappointment.
Meanwhile, Tom Carreras had an excellent feature connected however Bitdeer, a Singapore-based miner, hopes to shingle up the mining instrumentality market.
Hopefully adjacent week brings amended quality successful the markets. But, either way, our reporters volition beryllium determination to screen what matters.
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