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Another Friday is here again, and another batch of Bitcoin and Ethereum options contracts is expiring as spot markets retreat from their recent rally.   Around 24,600 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Mar. 20, with a notional value of roughly $1.7 billion. This event is smaller than last week’s, which was also quite negligible, so it is unlikely to affect spot markets. Crypto prices have been in decline over the past few days following the Federal Reserve’s hawkish outlook for the rest of the year. Total capitalization has declined by $75 billion since Monday, and volatility and volumes have…

The quantum risk to Bitcoin investors is real, but not all wallets are vulnerable, and the people best positioned to address it are working on it, says Galaxy Digital research analyst Will Owens.Owens said in a report on Thursday that, in theory, a quantum computer could derive private keys from public keys, allowing an attacker to impersonate the owner, forge a signature and steal coins. However, he argued that not all wallets are equally vulnerable to this risk.“In fact, most wallets are not vulnerable today. Funds are at risk only when public keys are exposed on-chain,” he said.Owens said that created…

📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote Kalshi got crushed Monday. A Nevada appeals court denied the trading platform’s bid to stop a restraining order that could kill its sports-related contracts, according to gaming lawyer Daniel Wallach who confirmed the ruling. The decision puts Kalshi in a pretty tough spot since sports contracts make up a big chunk of their business model. Users basically bet on game outcomes through these contracts, and now that revenue stream faces a potential shutdown. Kalshi’s legal team didn’t see this coming – they thought they had solid grounds for the appeal. But…

In brief The Bitcoin Policy Institute urged the Kentucky Senate to remove Section 33 of HB 380, calling it “technologically impossible” for non-custodial wallets. The provision was buried as a floor amendment in a kiosk regulation bill that passed the House 85-0 and could clear the Senate within days. An expert told Decrypt that hardware wallet providers would likely exit the Kentucky market entirely rather than redesign products in ways that undermine self-custody. A last-minute amendment requiring hardware wallet providers to help reset user credentials, tucked into Kentucky’s sweeping crypto ATM bill, is facing mounting backlash, with experts saying it…

Bitcoin’s push to $74,000 demonstrated strength, but heavy profit-taking and low futures activity suggest the rally may lack long-term sustainability. Bitcoin has broken above the upper boundary of its February-March trading range after climbing past $70,000 to touch $74,000 briefly. On-chain data indicates that the asset has moved beyond a dense accumulation cluster formed between $59,000 and $72,000. However, it has recently returned below the upper boundary, even though the daily closure is not here yet. Is $82K Next? According to the latest findings by Glassnode, the UTXO Realized Price Distribution shows that this zone contained a significant share of…

Decentralized compute has a usability problem. It’s been holding the whole sector back. Everyone knows the GPU shortage is real. AI demand is through the roof. Centralized cloud providers like AWS and GCP charge a premium for it. And there’s a mountain of idle GPU capacity sitting around the world doing nothing. The obvious solution is a decentralized compute market. The problem? Most of those solutions are painful to use. Developers don’t want to manage SSH keys. They don’t want to wrestle with unreliable nodes. They want to write code and run jobs. And lots of us trying AI now…

Circle, the firm behind the widely-used stablecoin USDC, has seen its stock, trading under the ticker CRCL, rise above $123 for the first time since October of last year.  This surge was accompanied by a new upgrade from Clear Street, which upgraded Circle’s stock from a “Hold” to a “Buy” and raised its price target from $92 to $136 in a research note released on Monday. USDC Adoption Soars Amid Increased Demand Since the beginning of February, adoption of Circle’s USDC stablecoin has increased significantly, indicating a growing interest from financial institutions and consumers in stablecoins.  This uptick contributed to…

Bitcoin prices have reached their highest level since early February in a crypto market relief rally as analysts eye $80,000. Bitcoin prices tapped $76,000 on Coinbase in early trading on Tuesday morning, according to TradingView. It is the highest the asset has traded since the Feb. 6 crash. Bitcoin did it. It just closed the daily candle above the $74,500 April 2025 low, said analyst ‘Sykodelic’ on Tuesday. “To me, this daily close is a signal that the market wants higher,” they added. “Hold at these levels for a little longer, and $80k should come in short order. Acceptance back…

Bitcoin’s power law enters a 2026 stress test as Giovanni’s new chart shifts the debate from price targets to regime signalsBitcoin Power Law chart creator Giovanni Santostasi has added a new layer to one of crypto’s most durable valuation models.The chart shifts attention to Bitcoin’s movements away from the trend line, with a field of green and red rays that track Bitcoin’s 10-day local growth rate in log-log space against the long-run power-law curve.For years, the Bitcoin Power Law was mostly shown as a time-based price corridor, with attention fixed on whether spot traded above, below, or near the trend…

XRP just reclaimed a ranking it hasn’t held in weeks, and the derivatives market suggests traders are positioning for more.The token surged to $1.53 on Tuesday, up 11% on the week, overtaking BNB to become the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap at $93.4 billion. The move broke through $1.40 resistance, per CoinDesk analytics, with trading volume exploding 125% to $3.22 billion.Coinglass data shows XRP open interest on Binance has climbed to 353.49 million XRP as of March 17, up from 222.79 million on Oct. 24, 2025, when XRP was trading at $2.39. That’s a 59% increase in open interest while…