
Ethena Capital Plunges 60% in a Month, Signaling Historic Low in Long Demand
Capital deployed by Ethena in market-neutral strategies collapsed from $2 billion to $800 million, pointing to historically weak demand for leveraged long positions.
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Capital deployed by Ethena in market-neutral strategies collapsed from $2 billion to $800 million, pointing to historically weak demand for leveraged long positions.

Sonic Labs has introduced US Sonic Dollar (USSD), a native stablecoin backed 1:1 by U.S. Treasury bills from BlackRock, Superstate, and WisdomTree, built on Frax Finance infrastructure.

Daily trading volume for oil perpetual contracts on decentralized exchange Hyperliquid surged from $21 million to $1.2 billion, pushing Ethereum out of the second spot by popularity.

Bitcoin bounced back from a $63K crash as Iran tensions sent oil past $120 and gold to record highs. Here's what comes next.

Coinbase has rolled out regulated futures trading for Advanced platform users across 26 European countries, while Nasdaq and Kraken are jointly building a tokenized stock issuance and trading platform.

BTC briefly fell to ~$65,700 on March 9 amid surging oil prices and U.S. stock market pressure. Analysts are split on what comes next — some warn of a drop to $50,000, others highlight long-term adoption drivers.

Bitcoin's brief surge above $74,000 was quickly reversed, with the price sliding to $68,000 amid geopolitical tensions and heavy selling from short-term holders and whales.

Startup Utexo raised $7.5M led by Tether, Big Brain Holdings, and Portal Ventures to enable native USDT transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain via Lightning Network channels.

Binance's perpetual futures on traditional assets surpassed $130 billion in cumulative trading volume and 90 million trades. Gold and silver account for the vast majority of activity.

CryptoQuant analysts view Bitcoin's recent push above $73,000 as a short-lived relief rally. The firm's Bull Score Index sits at 10/100, with major resistance at $79,000 and $90,000.

Ethereum Foundation is abandoning on-chain neural network computation in favor of building a decentralized trust environment for autonomous AI agents, powered by the new ERC-8004 identity protocol.

BTC briefly surpassed $74,000 on March 4, yet derivatives data and on-chain metrics suggest sellers remain in control of the market.

The Sui layer-1 blockchain has launched its native stablecoin Sui Dollar (USDsui), issued through Stripe's Bridge platform and designed to comply with the U.S. Genius Act.

K33 head of research Vetle Lunde declared that bitcoin's five-month selloff is nearing its end, with the weekly RSI dropping to 26.84 — one of the lowest readings in the asset's history.

Analyst Yashu Gola identified several technical factors — including a symmetrical triangle breakout and an unfilled CME gap — suggesting Bitcoin could reach $80,000 in March.

Investors withdrew 31.6 million ETH from centralized exchanges in February — the highest monthly outflow since November 2025. Meanwhile, Vitalik Buterin urged developers to build 'sanctuary technologies' instead of chasing Big Tech success.

BTC climbed above $71,800 on March 4 backed by $1.4 billion in spot ETF inflows over five days. Yet the average cost basis for ETF investors sits around $79,000, leaving them deep in the red.

Visa and Stripe's Bridge platform are expanding their stablecoin-backed card program to over 100 jurisdictions by the end of 2026. Stablecoin transaction volume already surpassed $10.5 trillion in January.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $458.19 million in net inflows on March 2, led by BlackRock's IBIT with $263.19 million. However, Wintermute analysts warn that macro risks continue to weigh on the crypto market.

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic detected a 700% surge in outflows from Iran's largest crypto exchange Nobitex within minutes of the joint US-Israeli military strikes.

BitMine purchased 50,928 ETH in a single week, bringing its reserves to 4.47 million ETH. Meanwhile, Strategy added 3,015 BTC worth ~$204.1 million to its treasury.

BTC dipped just 0.3% to trade near $66,666 while Asian stock indices fell 2–3% and Brent crude surged over 8%. Analysts highlight growing crypto market resilience amid macroeconomic turbulence.

As the US-Israel-Iran conflict escalated over the weekend, crypto traders turned to decentralized exchange Hyperliquid, driving hundreds of millions in volume for tokenized commodity perpetuals.
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