The correlation between Bitcoin and gold in March is showing rare signals suggesting Bitcoin may have already formed a bottom. As the market enters the final week of March, gold has recorded its fourth consecutive weekly decline. Meanwhile, Bitcoin continues to consolidate around $70,000. This divergence is drawing increasing attention from analysts. $BTC/Gold Ratio Signals
Traditional banks will not dominate the crypto market. Stijn Vander Straeten, CEO of Deutsche Börse subsidiary Crypto Finance, revealed why crypto-native platforms are moving faster on innovation. The assessment is notable given Vander Straeten leads a firm owned by one of the world’s largest traditional exchange operators. His company is FINMA-regulated in Switzerland and was
Israeli authorities indicted IDF reservist Raz Cohen on March 20 for passing classified Iron Dome air defense secrets to Iranian intelligence in exchange for approximately $1,000 in crypto. The Shin Bet and police’s Lahav 433 unit filed charges at Jerusalem District Court after a joint investigation conducted during Operation Roaring Lion. He Had Access to
Retail trading activity as a share of total US stock volume has fallen to 8.1%, its lowest level since Q3 2024. According to The Kobeissi Letter, the figure has nearly halved from its November 2025 peak of 15.0%, marking a sharp pullback. Current participation now sits below the 11.5% high reached during the 2021 meme-stock
Apex Group, the fund services giant with over $3.5 trillion in assets under administrative care, extended its tokenization range with a structured product offering institutions exposure to bitcoin BTC$71,199.87 mining, to be issued and managed on U.S. exchange Coinbase’s Ethereum overlay platform, Base. Since buying real-world asset (RWA) specialist Tokeny last May, Apex has been
While Bitcoin has come under scrutiny for its performance during periods of geopolitical tension, recent data suggests otherwise. Recent data from Bitcoin-only brokerage exchange River Financial shows that $BTC has actually performed better than most legacy assets, contrary to popular belief. This emphasizes its dual nature as a risk asset and a proper store of
Bitcoin could be approaching its next major market bottom in late May 2026 if historical cycle patterns continue, according to an analyst tracking post-halving trends. That outlook comes from JA Maartun, a community analyst at blockchain data firm CryptoQuant. Writing on X, he noted that Bitcoin is now 703 days past its most recent halving.
Ethereum, Ripple, Solana, Circle, TON, TRON and PayPal are among 21 organizations that have teamed up to back the launch of the Open Wallet Standard (OWS). OWS was open-sourced by MoonPay for local wallet storage and signing, and it’s designed to enable AI agents to capitalize on agentic payments systems like x402. Some of the
Story Highlights Bitcoin has outdone both the S&P 500 and gold over the four-week US-Iran war. The cryptocurrency has also seen significant adoption among institutions and war afflicted nations. Several reasons favor the digital gold over traditional assets. Bitcoin ($BTC) has excelled over gold and the S&P 500 ($SPX) in terms of returns in the
In a noteworthy development in the cryptocurrency market, financial journalist Michelle Makori commented on Morgan Stanley, one of the largest investment banks in the US, applying for its own spot Bitcoin ETF product. According to Makori, this product, expected to be codenamed “MSBT,” marks a significant shift in the company’s strategy for cryptocurrency investment products.