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Investment in the digital asset sector within the global fintech market nearly doubled last year, rising to $19.1 billion from $11.2 billion the previous year, Financial News reported, citing a Samjong KPMG report. The report attributed the growth to a rapid recovery in investor sentiment driven by increased regulatory clarity and improved market stability. It also described last year as a turning point that saw digital assets re-emerge as a key investment area in global fintech.

Sky (SKY), formerly MakerDAO, has released a governance proposal to allocate approximately 70 million USDS to support its early-stage agent ecosystem. According to the proposal, the funds would be distributed as follows: 10 million USDS to Keel, a Sky ecosystem capital distribution project; 25 million USDS to new execution agent Amatsu; and 25 million USDS to new execution agent Ozone. The proposal is scheduled for a governance vote on March 26.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of 'Rich Dad Poor Dad', announced on X that he used millions of dollars in cash last week to purchase additional Bitcoin, gold, silver, and oil wells. He explained that cash is not trash during a market crash, noting that figures like Warren Buffett hold cash to buy assets at a discount after a downturn. Kiyosaki expressed confidence that the prices of gold, silver, and Bitcoin will rise following a crash, though he acknowledged his prediction could be wrong. He also stated his belief that Texas oil prices will increase as long as Iran continues to attack tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, adding that even if his forecasts are incorrect, he has cash flow from real estate and business ventures. He advised everyone to make the safest and best choices for themselves. The move comes after Kiyosaki stated on Nov. 15 of last year that he would buy more BTC if its price fell. However, he faced criticism when, about a week later on Nov. 22, he sold approximately $2.25 million worth of the cryptocurrency at an average price of $90,000.

Sui-based DeFi project Scallop (SCA) announced on its official X account that it has completed a comprehensive security audit from Asymptotic, an official code audit partner for the Sui Foundation and its developers. Scallop stated that the verification mathematically proves the core logic of its lending protocol is functioning correctly, including its accounting, access control, liquidation logic, and precision calculation methods. The project added that it has also established clear verification standards for all security-critical functions—such as balance management, collateral valuation, parameter changes, and liquidations—and has completed a 100% API-standard verification coverage for all externally callable functions.

Cryptocurrency lending protocol Aave (AAVE) is introducing a protection feature called Aave Shield to block high-risk swaps that have a significant price impact, Cointelegraph reported. The move follows a major swap loss incident. When the feature is active, any swap that would execute at a price more than 25% worse than expected will be automatically blocked. To proceed with such a transaction, a user must manually disable the function. This development comes after an anonymous trader swapped 50 million USDT for approximately 325 AAVE, worth about $36,000, on Aave's Cow Swap.

A South Korean court has dismissed the Flow Foundation's request for an injunction to halt the delisting of its token (FLOW) from major domestic exchanges, Digital Asset reported exclusively. The Seoul Central District Court's 50th Civil Affairs Division rejected the application on March 13, citing that FLOW remains tradable on other exchanges, a future relisting is possible, and the move is necessary to prevent greater losses for other investors. FLOW is scheduled to be delisted from Upbit, Bithumb, and Coinone at 6:00 a.m. UTC on March 16. The token remains available for trading on Korbit and Binance.

Erik Voorhees, an early Bitcoin supporter and founder of the crypto exchange Shapeshift, purchased 13,986 ETH ($29.44 million) over the past 24 hours, Onchain Lens reported.

According to data from Tokenomist, the major token unlocks scheduled for this week (March 16–22) are as follows: - ARB: 92.65 million tokens ($9.48 million), representing 1.78% of circulating supply, at 1:00 p.m. UTC on March 16 - BARD: 30 million tokens ($32.46 million), representing 11.09% of circulating supply, at 12:00 a.m. UTC on March 18 - YZY: 20.83 million tokens ($6.8 million), representing 4.90% of circulating supply, at 3:00 a.m. UTC on March 19 - ZRO: 25.71 million tokens ($54.76 million), representing 5.64% of circulating supply, at 11:00 a.m. UTC on March 20 - KAITO: 17.6 million tokens ($6.43 million), representing 5.19% of circulating supply, at 12:00 p.m. UTC on March 20 - RIVER: 1.11 million tokens ($25.94 million), representing 2.39% of circulating supply, at 12:00 a.m. UTC on March 22

The following are the key global macroeconomic events scheduled for the third week of March. All times are in UTC. - March 18, 12:30 p.m. UTC: U.S. February Producer Price Index (PPI) - March 18, 6:00 p.m. UTC: U.S. interest rate decision - March 18, 6:30 p.m. UTC: U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) press conference - March 19, 3:00 a.m. UTC: Bank of Japan interest rate decision - March 19, 12:00 p.m. UTC: Bank of England interest rate decision - March 19, 12:30 p.m. UTC: U.S. initial jobless claims - March 19, 1:15 p.m. UTC: European Central Bank interest rate decision - March 21, 2:30 p.m. UTC: Speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

The 'Fear & Greed Index' from cryptocurrency data provider Alternative registered 15, down one point from the previous day. The index shifted from the 'Fear' to the 'Extreme Fear' stage on Jan. 30 and has remained in the latter category since. The index indicates extreme market fear as it approaches zero and extreme optimism as it nears 100. The Fear & Greed Index is calculated based on several factors: volatility (25%), trading volume (25%), social media mentions (15%), surveys (15%), Bitcoin's market cap dominance (10%), and Google search volume (10%).

CME Bitcoin futures opened today at $72,245, creating a $750 gap from the previous trading day's close of $71,495. This phenomenon occurs because the CME market is closed on weekends, while the underlying Bitcoin spot market operates 24/7. The larger the spot price fluctuation over the weekend, the larger the resulting gap. Traders often monitor these gaps on the expectation that futures prices may eventually move to fill them.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $73,000. BTC is trading at $73,012.82 on the Binance USDT market.

The finalization of a unified government-ruling party bill for South Korea's Digital Asset Basic Act, which covers stablecoins, is expected to be delayed, Edaily reported. A key party-government consultation session will not be held this week due to stock market instability caused by the war in the Middle East. This creates an unavoidable setback for the national agenda to finalize the stablecoin legislation by March. The Digital Asset Basic Act is a comprehensive bill covering the entire virtual asset ecosystem, including issuance, circulation, disclosure, and listings.

Conflict within the Bitcoin community is intensifying over Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 110, which seeks to limit the recording of data from protocols like Ordinals and Runes on the blockchain, U.Today reported. Blockstream CEO Adam Back has voiced strong opposition, arguing that consensus-level transaction censorship poses a greater threat than spam. He warned that such a measure could render existing UTXOs unusable, effectively freezing user funds, and also pointed to the risk of a network split. According to Back, activating a soft fork with a lower threshold of 55% instead of the traditional 95% could cause the blockchain to fragment. The debate over BIP-110 is now seen as a crucial test for the future of Bitcoin's censorship resistance and decentralized governance.

Address poisoning scams have seen a sharp increase since Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade in December 2025, CryptoPotato reported. This type of attack involves scammers planting a fake address, nearly identical to a user's real one, in the victim's transaction history to trick them into copying and pasting it for a future transfer. Etherscan analysts noted that the Fusaka upgrade improved network scalability and lowered fees. This has reduced the cost of dust transfers—sending minuscule amounts of crypto—allowing attackers to execute address poisoning attacks with much greater frequency.

Gnosis co-founder Dr. Friederike Ernst has warned that the Clarity Act risks handing control of the cryptocurrency sector to large financial institutions, Cointelegraph reported. She pointed out that the bill is currently designed with a structure that prioritizes centralized intermediaries. While acknowledging positive aspects, such as clarifying jurisdiction between the SEC and CFTC and protecting peer-to-peer transactions and self-custody, Ernst argued that the legislation fails to sufficiently protect open, permissionless blockchain rails and DeFi protocols. This, she cautioned, could lead to importing the same points of failure from the traditional financial system into the crypto space. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has previously voiced his opposition to the bill, arguing that having no legislation is better than passing a bad one. Meanwhile, Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy, has stated that if the Clarity Act is not passed by April, its chances of becoming law this year are extremely low.

Venus Protocol lost $3.7 million over the weekend in a supply cap attack involving the THE token, Cointelegraph reported. The attacker first acquired 84% of THE's total market capitalization and then used the tokens as collateral to borrow large quantities of CAKE, USDC, BNB, and BTC. In response, Venus Protocol has suspended borrowing and withdrawals for THE and has also temporarily halted these functions for other low-liquidity tokens on the platform.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $72,000. BTC is trading at $72,026.96 on the Binance USDT market.

Ledger has integrated with MoonPay Agents, launching a feature that allows users to approve cryptocurrency transactions executed by AI agents directly from their hardware wallets. The feature supports major chains including Ethereum, Solana, Optimism, Avalanche, and Base, according to Decrypt.

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Veteran trader Peter Brandt has analyzed that a channel pattern similar to one seen in the past is re-forming on the Bitcoin chart. Sharing a relevant chart, he noted that a familiar pattern is taking shape once again. According to Brandt, the same channel pattern previously formed before BTC's price fell to around $60,000. The emergence of a similar structure now raises the possibility of significant volatility, either to the upside or downside.

Strategy would need to purchase approximately 6,158 BTC every week to reach its goal of holding 1 million BTC by the end of 2026, CoinDesk reported. Assuming a Bitcoin price of $85,000, this would require a weekly expenditure of around $523 million, totaling approximately $22.2 billion. The company currently holds 738,731 BTC and needs to acquire an additional 261,269 BTC to meet its target. Strategy purchased 17,994 BTC last week alone and has already secured about 64,948 BTC since the start of 2026. Since initiating its Bitcoin accumulation strategy in 2020, the company has bought an average of roughly 10,700 BTC per month.

A Chainlink (LINK) whale that had been dormant for over a year has deposited approximately 200,000 LINK to Kraken, according to analyst ai_9684xtpa. The analyst noted that the deposit is worth $1.8 million, based on an average price of $8.98 per token. This whale reportedly accumulated the LINK between March 2018 and June 2019 at an average price of $0.3283. A sale at current prices would represent a profit of about $1.73 million, a return of approximately 2,635%. On-chain data suggests that this deposit has nearly cleared out the wallet's entire LINK holdings.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has introduced a new crypto transaction reporting form, 1099-DA, starting this year, which could complicate the tax season for 2025 transaction earnings, The Block reported. The new form establishes a reporting system where exchanges submit user crypto transaction data to both investors and the IRS. However, exchanges are only required to report gross proceeds from asset sales and will not provide cost basis information, which is the actual purchase price. This means investors must calculate their own cost basis to report their actual profits and losses. Lawrence Zlatkin, vice president of tax at Coinbase, explained that the tax filing process this year could be confusing for many investors because the 1099-DA only reports gross proceeds. The reporting burden is expected to be particularly heavy for investors using multiple exchanges and wallets, as well as for users who have engaged in DeFi transactions or received staking rewards, as they will need to reconstruct their transaction records themselves. Shehan Chandrasekera, head of tax strategy at CoinTracker, said it is nearly impossible for DeFi investors using multiple wallets and exchanges to settle their taxes manually. The tax filing process is expected to become simpler for transactions starting in 2026, as the system will be expanded to require exchanges to report both gross proceeds and cost basis to the IRS.