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• US court gives Three Arrows nod to increase its FTX claim to $1.53B

  14-03-2025 07:17 via cointelegraph.com
  A US bankruptcy court has authorized liquidators of defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) to increase their claim against collapsed crypto exchange FTX from $120 million to $1.53 billion.Chief Judge John Dorsey rejected FTX’s debtors’ argument that the amended proof of claim (POC) from 3AC liquidators was untimely and an unjust attempt to slow the bankruptcy proceedings.In a March 13 ruling in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Dorsey opined that 3AC
  
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• Polkadot (DOT) Price Stability Fuels Hopes For Short-Term Recovery

  15-03-2025 03:00 via newsbtc.com
  
  Polkadot (DOT) has been quietly building a strong foundation, with its price stabilizing after a period of volatility. This consolidation phase often serves as a launching pad for a potential upward move as buyers step in. Traders are now eyeing key resistance levels, which, if broken, could trigger a short-term rally.
  As the crypto market shows signs of recovery, DOT’s technical setup and fundamentals suggest that a bullish breakout might be on the horizon. Could this be the start of a fr
  
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• Sacks and his VC firm sold over $200M in crypto and stocks before WH role

  15-03-2025 02:08 via cointelegraph.com
  David Sacks and his venture capital firm offloaded over $200 million in crypto and crypto-related stocks before he commenced his role as the White House AI and crypto czar on Jan. 20, according to a White House memorandum.“You and Craft Ventures have divested over $200 million of positions related to the digital asset industry, of which $85 million is directly attributable to you,” the March 5 dated memorandum said.Crypto sell-off in an effort to prevent conflict of interestThe memor
  
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• Dogecoin Recovery In Sight? Key Metrics Predict A Strong Bounce

  15-03-2025 01:30 via newsbtc.com
  
  After months of struggle in gathering momentum, Dogecoin (DOGE) might be about to undergo a dramatic price reversal. Monitoring the movements of the meme coin, analysts believe it has hit a turning point and might thus launch a quick comeback.
  The question at hand is whether Dogecoin can seize this opportunity and emerge from its decline, as key indicators are currently displaying bullish signals.Analysts Spot Signs Of A Bottom
  Some analysts contend that Dogecoin has already reached its lowest p
  
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• Ethereum Consolidates Since ‘The Big Dump’ – Local Trend Reversal Or Continuation?

  15-03-2025 00:30 via newsbtc.com
  
  Ethereum (ETH) has been stuck in a tight range, trading below $1,900 and above $1,750 after days of heavy selling pressure. The broader crypto market remains under stress, with fear dominating sentiment and keeping ETH from regaining momentum.The downturn is largely driven by macroeconomic uncertainty and escalating trade war fears, which have shaken both crypto and the U.S. stock markets. As investors brace for further volatility, some fear that the market is setting up for a deeper correction.
  
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• Hayden Davis Faces Interpol Alert For Role In LIBRA Memecoin

  14-03-2025 23:30 via newsbtc.com
  
  An Argentine prosecutor has requested a judge to issue an Interpol “Red Notice” for Hayden Davis, an American citizen allegedly involved in the launch of the controversial LIBRA memecoin that has entangled Argentine President Javier Milei in a dramatic political scandal. 
  LIBRA Memecoin Scandal
  The request, made by prosecutor Gregorio Dalbón, reviewed by Fortune, accuses Davis of being a key figure behind the LIBRA memecoin. The token gained significant attention after Pr
  
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• Hyperliquid’s mystery 50x ETH whale is now betting on LINK

  14-03-2025 22:45 via cointelegraph.com
  The cryptocurrency trader whose ultra-leveraged Ether (ETH) trade tested Hyperliquid’s limits on March 12 has entered another multimillion-dollar position, this time in Chainlink (LINK), onchain data shows. On March 14, the anonymous whale, referred to on X as “ETH 50x Big Guy,” took out long positions in LINK worth approximately $31 million with 10 times leverage, according to Lookonchain, a Web3 analytics service. He placed the bets on Hyplerliquid and GMX, two popu
  
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• VanEck files for AVAX ETF

  14-03-2025 22:37 via cointelegraph.com
  Global investment manager VanEck has filed for an Avalanche (AVAX) exchange-traded fund (ETF) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeking to offer investors direct exposure to the smart contract platform. A snippet of the S-1 filing was shared on social media on March 14 by Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart, who has been closely monitoring developments in the crypto ETF industry.Source: James SeyffartAs Seyffart noted, the Trust’s registration “was shared widely
  
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• Stablecoins Supply Up By $20 Billion – The Key To Bitcoin’s Next Move?

  14-03-2025 22:30 via newsbtc.com
  
  Early in 2025, there was a significant surge in the stablecoin market, with a $20 billion increase in total supply. With a 10% increase from January, the total supply now stands at almost $205 billion. The spike, according to data from Glassnode, comes after a dip in late 2024, when the supply of stablecoins fell from $187 billion to $185 billion.Stablecoins See A Strong Rebound
  For trading cryptocurrencies, stablecoins—like USDT and USDC—often act as a reserve for investors expectin
  
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• New MassJacker malware targets piracy users, steals crypto

  14-03-2025 22:20 via cointelegraph.com
  A previously unknown type of cryptojacking malware called MassJacker is targeting piracy users and hijacking crypto transactions by replacing stored addresses, according to a March 10 report from CyberArk.The cryptojacking malware originates from the website pesktop[dot]com, where users seeking to download pirated software may unknowingly infect their devices with the MassJacker malware. After the malware is installed, the infection swaps out crypto addresses stored on the clipboard application
  
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• Bitcoin apparent demand reaches lowest point in 2025 — CryptoQuant

  14-03-2025 21:52 via cointelegraph.com
  Apparent demand for Bitcoin (BTC) has hit the lowest level in 2025, dropping down into negative territory, as traders and investors take a cautious approach to risk-on assets due to macroeconomic uncertainty. According to CryptoQuant's Bitcoin Apparent Demand metric, demand for Bitcoin has dropped down to a negative 142 on March 13.Bitcoin's apparent demand has been positive since September 2024, peaking around December 2024 before beginning the slow descent back down.However, demand levels stay
  
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• UK authorizes charges against NCA officer for alleged Bitcoin theft

  14-03-2025 21:26 via cointelegraph.com
  The agency responsible for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales announced that a National Crime Agency (NCA) officer was due to be charged with the alleged theft of Bitcoin worth roughly $75,000 in 2017.In a March 14 notice, the Crown Prosecution Service said it had authorized the Merseyside Police to charge NCA officer Paul Chowles with 15 offenses related to the alleged Bitcoin (BTC) theft “during an investigation into online organized crime.” Authorities said Chow
  
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• Global M2 Tightens Grip On Bitcoin—What’s Next?

  14-03-2025 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin’s tight correlation with global M2 has returned to the spotlight, suggesting that broader monetary conditions remain a key force behind the cryptocurrency’s market trajectory. Recent price action shows Bitcoin converging with M2’s downward drift—mirroring roughly a 70-day lag. This cyclical movement highlights Bitcoin’s ongoing responsiveness to fluctuations in liquidity, even as other fundamental factors, like the newly announced US Strategic Bitcoin Reserv
  
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• Crypto Biz: Is Trump intentionally crashing the market?

  14-03-2025 21:00 via cointelegraph.com
  The odds of a recession are rising, markets are crashing and President Donald Trump is forging ahead with tariffs.This volatile playbook is eerily similar to Trump’s first term, which started with a bang before giving way to one of the biggest bull markets in recent history. However, this time, Trump seems to have dropped the stock market as one of his favorite barometers of success, opting instead to focus on the long-term health of the US economy. Trump has promised to usher in Amer
  
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• XRP flips Ether’s FDV amid change in market dynamics

  14-03-2025 20:16 via cointelegraph.com
  XRP’s fully diluted valuation (FDV) has surpassed Ether (ETH), according to March 14 data from CoinGecko. The FDV flip signifies a reversal of fortune for both layer-1 (L1) blockchain networks behind the tokens, as XRP Ledger’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem gains traction and Ethereum grapples with competition from rival L1s, such as Solana.As of March 14, XRP’s FDV stood at nearly $235 billion, more than $1 billion higher than Ether’s, according to CoinGeck
  
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• ‘Scale or fail’: RLNC technology can boost Web3 adoption — MIT Professor

  14-03-2025 20:13 via cointelegraph.com
  After 15 years of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) is ready for commercialization in the Web3 industry, according to Muriel Médard, an MIT professor and founder of blockchain infrastructure developer Optimum.Optimum emerged from stealth on Feb. 28 as a decentralized memory infrastructure that can be utilized by any blockchain seeking to bring scalability to Web3. It utilizes the RLNC technology that was first formulated by Pr
  
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• US House kills IRS DeFi broker rule, Solana won’t cut 80% inflation rate: Finance Redefined

  14-03-2025 20:00 via cointelegraph.com
  In a significant regulatory development for the crypto industry, the United States House of Representatives voted to nullify a bill that threatened the privacy-preserving properties of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols.In the wider crypto space, one of the Solana network’s most significant governance proposals was rejected; it sought to implement a mechanism to reduce Solana’s inflation rate by about 80%.US House follows Senate in passing resolution to kill IRS DeFi broker ruleT
  
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• BlackRock now holds over 567,000 BTC, valued at over $47 billion

  14-03-2025 19:45 via cointelegraph.com
  BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with approximately $11.6 trillion in assets under management, currently holds over 567,000 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at over $47.8 billion — making the asset manager one of the largest holders of BTC in the world.According to Arkham Intelligence, the asset manager’s most recent BTC acquisition occurred on March 14 when a Coinbase Prime wallet transferred 268 BTC, valued at over $22 million, to the asset manager’s iShares Bitcoin ET
  
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• Growth in Bitcoin and stablecoin adoption could accelerate dedollarization

  14-03-2025 19:30 via cointelegraph.com
  The US dollar has long reigned as the world’s primary reserve currency and the default choice for global trade and international transactions. But its dominance is now facing growing scrutiny as shifting geopolitical and economic forces—and concerns over the potential weaponization of the greenback—push more countries to accelerate efforts to loosen their dependence on the dollar.By almost every measure, the US dollar’s command of the global economy is staggering. Althoug
  
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• Ethereum Could Be Mirroring Bitcoin’s 2018-2021 Cycle Amid Record Selling

  14-03-2025 19:30 via newsbtc.com
  
  Crypto analyst The Cryptagon has raised the possibility of the Ethereum price mirroring Bitcoin’s 2018 to 2021 cycle, which he indicated was bullish ETH. This development comes amid record selling among ETH investors, which continues to exert downward pressure on the crypto. 
  Ethereum Could Be Mirroring Bitcoin’s 2018-2021 Cycle 
  In a TradingView post, the Cryptagon stated that Ethereum has been repeating Bitcoin’s 2018 to 2021 cycle very closely. He remarked that ETH
  
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• Crypto influencer sentenced to 45 months in prison for wire fraud

  14-03-2025 19:20 via cointelegraph.com
  Thomas John Sfraga, also known as “TJ Stone,” received 45 months in prison for wire fraud and was ordered to pay more than $1.3 million in forfeiture as part of a scheme targeting crypto investors.In a March 14 notice, the US Justice Department said Sfraga was sentenced in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) for wire fraud following a May 2024 guilty plea. Court filings stated that the influencer and podcaster claimed he was the owner of businesses &mdas
  
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• Bitcoin bull market in peril as US recession and tariff worries loom

  14-03-2025 18:30 via cointelegraph.com
  In the first three months of his presidency, Donald Trump has ignited trade tensions by announcing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China and the result has been unexpected turmoil in US and global markets.The fallout from the tariffs has been relatively swift, and the impact has been felt across the crypto market. As of March 8, the US president had backed away from some plans to impose tariffs on certain Mexican and Canadian goods—another twist in the rollercoaster of US trade policy that
  
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• Crypto Faces Uncertain Future As Trump’s ‘Short-Term Pain’ Plan Unfolds

  14-03-2025 18:00 via newsbtc.com
  US President Trump’s outspoken acceptance of near-term economic hardship has placed risk assets—including Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader crypto market—under mounting pressure. According to a thread by The Kobeissi Letter on X, President Trump’s strategy revolves around tolerating significant “short term pain” in order to drive down inflation and facilitate the refinancing of over $9 trillion in US debt.
  Will Crypto Survive Trump’s ‘Short-Term Pain&r
  
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• Argentina finalizes rules for virtual asset providers

  14-03-2025 17:55 via cointelegraph.com
  Argentina’s securities regulator has finalized rules for virtual asset service providers (VASPs), which cover general codes of conduct and custody requirements for cryptocurrency exchanges and other platforms facilitating digital asset transactions. The regulations were published on March 13 by the National Securities Commission, also known as CNV, under General Resolution No. 1058. According to a translated version of the announcement, the regulations impose “obligations r
  
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• Bolivia to use crypto to pay for energy imports — Report

  14-03-2025 17:21 via cointelegraph.com
  Bolivia’s state-owned energy firm YPFB is planning to use cryptocurrency to pay for energy imports, according to a March 13 report from Reuters. The move comes as the South American nation faces a shortage of foreign currency reserves and a dwindling supply of domestic gas production.A spokesperson for YPFB said that a system had been put in place to use cryptocurrency to purchase energy imports after the government approved the use of digital assets to meet the country’s demand. Whi
  
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• Price analysis 3/14: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, ADA, DOGE, PI, LEO, LINK

  14-03-2025 17:10 via cointelegraph.com
  Bitcoin (BTC) has risen back above the 200-day simple moving average ($83,754), indicating that the bulls are attempting a comeback. The failure of the bears to capitalize on the drop below the 200-day SMA shows that selling dries up at lower levels.However, Bitcoin may not be out of the woods yet. Crypto analyst Matthew Hyland said in a video posted to X that Bitcoin needs a weekly close above $89,000 to confirm a bottom. A move above $89,000 could liquidate roughly $1.60 billion in short posit
  
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• Is PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) the Best Cryptocurrency Stock to Buy Now? - Insider Monkey

  14-03-2025 17:03 via news.google.com
  Is PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) the Best Cryptocurrency Stock to Buy Now?  Insider Monkey
  
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• Uniswap Bleeds 20%—Is This Whale Behind The Drop?

  14-03-2025 16:30 via newsbtc.com
  
  One crypto exchange’s loss is another crypto exchange’s gain. This holds true with cryptocurrency exchange Uniswap after it recorded a weekly loss of over 20% brought by a large investor offloading a huge number of tokens.
  Uniswap’s loss was Kraken’s gain after the said whale transferred 2.25 million UNI tokens to the cryptocurrency exchange platform in what analysts believed was an attempt to cut losses.Uniswap Down
  Analysts said that UNI, Uniswap’s native token, p
  
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• Watch these Bitcoin price levels as BTC retests key $84K resistance

  14-03-2025 16:19 via cointelegraph.com
  Bitcoin (BTC) circled $83,000 at the March 14 Wall Street open as traders set out requirements to flip bullish.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewBTC price RSI teases key “bullish divergence”Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD gaining up to 5% on the day before consolidating.A characteristic lack of momentum at the start of the US trading session persisted, with risk assets still wary of macroeconomic and geopolitical surprises, nota
  
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• REX launches Bitcoin Corporate Treasury Convertible Bond ETF

  14-03-2025 16:19 via cointelegraph.com
  REX Shares, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider with over $6 billion in assets under management (AUM), launched its Bitcoin (BTC) Corporate Treasury Convertible Bond (BMAX) ETF that invests in the convertible bonds of companies with a BTC corporate reserve strategy.According to the March 14 announcement, the ETF will purchase the convertible notes of companies such as Strategy. Convertible notes are commercial paper that can be converted into equity at a predetermined rate if an investor choo
  
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