Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), a new development group formed by the former core team of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), has raised more than $25 million in seed funding to continue building the privacy-focused cryptocurrency ecosystem. The round drew support from Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Cypherpunk Technologies, Chapter One, Balaji Srinivasan
Aon (AON), which advises on $5 trillion in assets as one of the world’s largest insurance brokers, said it carried out a proof-of-concept using stablecoins to settle insurance premium payments, an early sign that dollar-pegged tokens may start moving deeper into corporate finance. The London-based company worked with crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) and blockchain infrastructure
The VIX and bitcoin often move in opposite directions, with sharp spikes in the volatility index frequently coinciding with bitcoin local bottoms. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), which measures expected volatility in the S&P 500 based on options pricing and is widely viewed as Wall Street’s “fear gauge”, jumped to its highest level in nearly
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1948.46, up 0.1% (+2.05) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Nine of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AVAX (+2.0%) and ICP (+1.4%). Laggards: AAVE (-4.5%) and HBAR
Tech investor Imran Khan says cryptocurrency does not play a meaningful role in his AI investment strategy, arguing the asset class operates on a fundamentally different thesis than the AI-driven productivity boom. Despite the growing narrative that AI and crypto will converge, Khan said he largely views them as separate investment themes. “Crypto is a
ClearToken Group, founded in 2022, now an FCA-authorized digital financial market infrastructure (FMI) provider, has added three institutional DAPs to the market. This comes in partnership with Canton Network. According to the official announcement, the launch adds CT Register, CT Pay, and CT Settle to the crypto ecosystem, which remains in a market downturn. According
Samson Mow, a Bitcoin maximalist and the CEO of the JAN3 company focused on Bitcoin nation-state adoption, has stepped forward with a prediction about Michael Saylor and his treasury firm, Strategy. Mow has changed his opinion on the future scale and prospects of Saylor’s further Bitcoin acquisitions, saying that he might actually lead his regular
Bitcoin traded at $67,618 on March 9, 2026, with a market capitalization of $1.35 trillion and 24 hour trading volume of $44.47 billion. Price action remained contained within a $65,726 to $68,354 intraday range as technical indicators across multiple timeframes continued to signal a broadly neutral market structure. Bitcoin Chart Outlook On the daily chart,
A significant $1,315 opening gap in CME Bitcoin futures has captured the attention of institutional and retail traders, underscoring the persistent volatility between traditional finance hours and the 24/7 crypto market. This event, recorded on Monday morning, saw futures open at $67,085 after a Friday close at $68,400. Consequently, this price dislocation provides a critical
R3E Network has shipped a live API indexer for Neo N3, giving developers structured access to on-chain data through a new service at n3index.dev. The release is one of several infrastructure deliveries from Jimmy Liao, R3E Network founder and Neo core developer, in the span of two weeks, alongside a free domain name system and