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CoinGecko says crypto winter is here. Q1 2026 brought a second straight drop in market cap and activity. Total market cap fell 20.4% (~$622B) to...

Drift Protocol unveils a user recovery plan after a $285M exploit. It secures up to $150M in support with Tether and will relaunch with USDT at...

Circle sued in Massachusetts over $280M Drift hack. Plaintiffs say Circle didn’t freeze stolen USDC despite having the tools. A class complaint...

USDT and USDC activity on Ethereum hits multi‑month low. Santiment flags a drop in daily active addresses. Santiment reports a fresh decline in...

Bier teases crypto at X; Bitcoin jumps 6% to $75K; $76.5K in focus X’s product chief Nikita Bier hinted at a crypto launch. Bitcoin popped...

Whales are buying Hyperliquid again. ETF momentum builds. HYPE retakes $40. - Arthur Hayes bought 26,022 HYPE for about $1.1M after a three‑month...

White House economists say allowing stablecoin rewards would barely affect banks. The CEA projects just a $2.1B change in bank lending,...

Bloomberg’s McGlone: Tether to flip ETH in 2026, may top BTC; warns BTC risk to $10k Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone sees Tether (USDT) overtaking...

North Korea-linked operators hit Solana DeFi twice in eight days. Drift lost $285M. Stabble told users to pull liquidity after its ex-CTO was...

Crypto card spending hit $600M in March 2026; Visa handled 97% of volume Monthly card volume tripled year over year to $600M in March 2026, up 211%...

$285M Solana hack, war risk, ‘Extreme Fear’. Bitcoin and Ethereum stay weak. Tensions and hacks hit crypto into the new week. Prices lag, liquidity...

XRP reserves on Coinbase hit record low after boycott XRP balances on Coinbase fell to roughly 101.86M tokens after a community boycott over the...

USDC supply rose by about $2B in Q1 2026 while USDT fell by roughly $3B. The gap is the widest since mid‑2022 amid a contracting crypto market. ...

Circle unveils cirBTC, a 1:1 Bitcoin wrapper for DeFi. The token launches on Ethereum and Circle’s Arc, with more chains to follow. Circle says...

Stablecoin supply hit a record $315B in Q1 2026. USDC gained share as USDT posted its first quarterly drop since 2022 CEX.IO data. ...

Attacker drains $285M from Solana DEX Drift. TVL halves. Funds bridged to Ethereum and split. Drift Protocol on Solana was hit by an exploit of...

Hyperliquid’s tokenized Brent oil perps triggered $46.6M in liquidations in 24 hours. Oil ranked third after Ether at $104.5M and Bitcoin at...

Iran starts charging Hormuz tolls in yuan and stablecoins — Bloomberg Iran has set up a formal toll-and-escort system in the Strait of Hormuz....

Drift Protocol vault drained of ~$270M; deposits paused amid active attack Drift Protocol on Solana saw about $270 million exit its main vault on...

Deloitte verifies RLUSD reserves exceed supply. Ripple shows a surplus and NYDFS‑eligible assets. Deloitte verifies RLUSD surplus; $1.568B vs 1.49B...

World Foundation sold 239M WLD via OTC for ~$65M at $0.2719. Settlements through World Assets, Ltd. began Mar 20, 2026 . The price sits...

Senate’s CLARITY draft adds DeFi yield ring‑fencing. Analysts warn token cash‑flows are in the crosshairs. An industry note shared via BSCN says...

Garlinghouse points to a $13T payments gap. He says XRP and stablecoins can plug in as rails move on-chain. In a FOX Business interview,...

Davinci Jeremie blames the Trump family for the Oct 10, 2025 crypto crash. He rejects the Binance-led liquidation theory. Speaking on The Sujal...

Rep. Ritchie Torres filed a bill to curb insider use of prediction markets by federal officials and staff. The move extends a bipartisan push to...

Circle unfreezes one of 16 blacklisted USDC wallets. The move followed public backlash after the March 23 freeze. On-chain sleuth ZachXBT said...

Coinbase again refused to endorse the updated CLARITY Act. Armstrong says the bill still breaks on stablecoin yield limits and extra DeFi rules. ...

Circle’s CRCL fell 22% to $98 after reports of a Senate draft that would ban stablecoin yield. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan called the selloff...

Bernstein says the market misread the Clarity Act after Circle sold off. The bill focuses on distributors, not issuers. Analysts told DL News...

Tokenized MMFs put money market shares on-chain. They bring 24/7 transfer and near‑instant settlement. They keep fund rules unchanged. NAV stays...