The company behind the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ universal basic income (UBI) program using a US dollar-pegged sovereign financial instrument has attracted some significant crypto-tied backers. In a Tuesday notice shared exclusively with Cointelegraph, M1X Global announced that it had launched following a $3 million angel investment round by current and former executives connected
European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Tuesday that the ECB expects by this summer to announce the European standards it will use for a potential digital euro, a step aimed at helping payment providers and merchants prepare their systems ahead of any issuance decision. Cipollone told European Union lawmakers that, once
Bitcoin’s potential to reach $500,000 remains a long-term topic of discussion, with Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude offering detailed analyses as of March 2026. Grok: ETF Flows and Market Structure Drive Price Grok’s analysis centers on Bitcoin’s market structure and the growing role of institutional capital. Bitcoin trades at $71,226, a 0.4% rise in the past
Bitcoin ($BTC) has climbed above $72,000 in the last few hours, and on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has analyzed the current state of $BTC. CryptoQuant stated that Bitcoin has been trading around $70,000 in recent days, and that the cost price for short-term investors (STH) is currently above the spot price. At this point, approximately 8%
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2063.87, up 2.9% (+58.76) since yesterday’s close. All 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: XLM (+6.0%) and AAVE (+5.8%). Laggards: DOT (+0.6%) and BCH (+0.8%). The CoinDesk 20 is
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), led by Fundstrat Global Advisors’ co-founder Thomas “Tom” Lee, is rolling out its MAVAN staking solution after months of infrastructure preparation, the company announced Wednesday. MAVAN, short for Made-in-America Validator Network, is a proprietary staking platform built to dominate institutional Ethereum staking and expand into broader blockchain infrastructure services. It was first
OpenAI plans to shut down its Sora AI video generator just months after launching a standalone app, as the company moves to simplify its product lineup and redirect resources toward core AI systems. We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you.
The conflict in the Middle East and statements from the US and Iran continue to affect Bitcoin ($BTC) and oil prices. While this situation has fueled speculation about a correlation between Bitcoin and oil prices, Binance Research states that there is no significant correlation between $BTC and oil prices. According to a recent report by
Monument Bank said it plans to tokenise up to 250 million pounds ($335 million) of retail customer deposits on the Midnight network in what it described as the first such move by a U.K.-regulated bank on a public blockchain. The London-based challenger bank said the deposits will remain interest-bearing, fully backed by Monument and redeemable