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The Federal Reserve’s March meeting minutes show that “some” officials supported raising interest rates, with hawkish language noticeably upgrading from January’s “several” officials, putting the crypto market under pressure from tighter interest-rate expectations.

Circle launched USDC payout services in Singapore, enabling automated cross-border payments for fintechs and enterprises. Payouts API reduces manual processes, improves transparency, and supports high-volume stablecoin transactions. Expansion aligns with regulations, offering compliant in

Pundi X and PROM have partnered to merge AI data with a financial infrastructure, promoting autonomous AI transactions and monetization. This collaboration aims to create a machine economy, enabling decentralized AI data ecosystems and seamless micropayments.

Polymarket is launching a new collateral token, Polymarket USD, replacing USDC.e to enhance transaction speed and reduce costs amidst regulatory challenges. The upgrade includes the CTF Exchange V2 for improved order matching and anticipates a potential POLY token introduction.

Cango sold 2,000 bitcoins in March to repay a collateralized loan, reducing its holdings to 1,025.69 BTC, with debt of $30.6 million. This move is part of a comprehensive financial restructuring and strengthens the balance sheet through a $65 million equity investment and a $10 million convertible bond. Multiple miners in the industry are facing liquidation pressure, and are re-evaluating their strategies due to competition for AI resources, with expectations that by the end of 2026 AI revenue will account for 70% of miners’ revenue.

Brag House Holdings announces its merger with House of Doge Inc., approved by shareholders with more than 98% of the vote. After the merger, it will focus on digital infrastructure for sports finance, enabling crypto payments, asset tokenization, and the creation of an interactive digital platform through Dogecoin—signaling the arrival of Dogecoin’s institutional era.

TKResearch Trading points out that the token circulating supply of “Binance Life” has an abnormal structure; among the 1 billion coins claimed by the official, the actually tradable amount is only about 184 million coins. The analysis also reveals that the behavior of large holders is concentrated, which could affect market liquidity. Large-holder concentration implies significant market risk, but at the same time it may reduce selling pressure. The analysis is based on on-chain data and has not yet received official confirmation.

SHIB price rose 2.37% while futures activity and trader participation declined. Traders reduced exposure as outflows exceeded inflows across SHIB derivatives markets. Wallet growth hit record levels, signaling strong long-term holder confidence. Shiba Inu posted a modest price increase a

According to data from crypto analyst Andrey Sergeenkov, on Polymarket only 0.015% of traders are able to generate monthly income exceeding $5,000 for four consecutive months. Most traders stop trading after turning a profit in the short term; the number of people who are truly consistently profitable is extremely small. Among 840 cumulative wallets with over $100k in profit, the proportion of retail traders is unknown, and most successful cases are the result of institutional trading, indicating that it is extremely difficult to profit from prediction markets.

_South Korea moves to formalize RWAs and stablecoins, tightening rules while enabling regulated adoption._ South Korea is moving closer to formal rules for digital assets tied to real-world value. Lawmakers are now outlining how tokenized assets and stablecoins should operate within existing

The decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid’s liquidity vault HLP suffered an estimated loss of about $1.5 million. The attacker used the low-liquidity token FARTCOIN to carry out a “suicide liquidation” attack, systematically triggering the ADL mechanism and forcing HLP to absorb the losses. On the surface, the vault’s books show a loss of $3 million. This incident reveals weaknesses in the ADL mechanism in low-liquidity markets; the attacker could also be profiting by hedging at the same time, indicating that the operation looks more like arbitrage than sabotage.

Due to disruptions to Middle Eastern oil supplies amid the Iran war, the U.S. crude oil export volume is expected to hit a new high in April, with daily exports possibly reaching 5.2 million barrels, mainly driven by a surge in Asian demand. As strong purchases from Asia boost the U.S.’s position in the global energy market, it also raises concerns about rising domestic oil prices and worsening inflation.

ENI, a high-speed Layer-1 blockchain network designed for powering scalable enterprise Web3 applications, today announced a strategic partnership with Delphi AI, a decentralized, intelligent platform specializing in Web3 and DeFi. This collaboration enabled ENI to combine its

This week, XRP recorded a $119.6 million capital inflow, setting the highest mark since 2025 and becoming a major beneficiary in the crypto market. This round of funds returning was mainly driven by greater clarity in regulatory policy and XRP’s real-world use in cross-border payment infrastructure. Technically, it shows an initial recovery, but overall it is still in a downward channel. The support and resistance levels are $1.31 and $1.40, respectively; if it breaks through, it is expected to reach $1.50.