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Bitcoin's mining difficulty fell 7.76% to 133.79 T on March 21, marking the second-largest drop this year. Meanwhile, BitFuFu reported record revenue of $475.8M for FY2025 but posted a $57.4M net loss.
The head of Thai crypto platform 1000X has fled to the UAE amid $42M fraud allegations, while scammers distributed fake TRC-20 tokens posing as the FBI — key cybersecurity incidents of the week.
Circle, Tether, Stripe and other major players are launching dedicated L1 blockchains for payments, competing for control over stablecoin settlement infrastructure. Delphi Digital describes the trend as a full-scale "war" of stablecoin networks.
The US Department of Justice charged Super Micro Computer co-founder Steve Liau with orchestrating a $2.5 billion scheme to illegally export AI chip-equipped servers to China through Southeast Asian intermediaries.
Gemini investors have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the exchange's founders and executives of misleading shareholders during and after the company's IPO, alleging the leadership concealed a radical pivot in business strategy.
Immunefi reports that the average crypto protocol hack causes approximately $24.5 million in damages, while 84% of affected tokens fail to recover their pre-hack prices within six months.
Daily altcoin trading volumes on Binance have collapsed 80% from their highs to $7.7 billion. Analysts at CryptoQuant and Glassnode are spotting early signs of a potential market bottom.
Prediction market platform Kalshi has closed a funding round exceeding $1 billion, doubling its valuation to $22 billion and overtaking rival Polymarket.
Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett received the 2025 Turing Award for foundational contributions to quantum information science, including the BB84 quantum cryptography protocol and quantum teleportation.
The number of active Ethereum Layer 2 solutions with TVS above $100,000 has dropped from 108 to 100 since June 2025. Analytics platform growthepie reports the beginning of a major consolidation wave in the sector.
BTQ Technologies released v0.3.0 of the Bitcoin Quantum testnet featuring the first working implementation of BIP-360, a P2MR standard designed to protect transactions from quantum computer attacks.
BinanceBusinessBinance has significantly reduced BNB balance and futures volume thresholds for VIP levels 1–3, extended holder qualification up to VIP 9, and launched a new VIP Rising Star tier with a $30,000 entry point.
The OP_NET protocol launched on Bitcoin mainnet on March 19, enabling DeFi tools without cross-chain bridges or wrapped tokens. All operations run through native BTC transactions.
Algorand Foundation lays off 25% of its workforce citing macro uncertainty, while Crypto.com eliminates 180 jobs to integrate AI. Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey's Block is quietly rehiring employees it just let go.
Galaxy Digital's head of research Alex Thorn argues that fears about quantum computers breaking Bitcoin are exaggerated, while developers are already preparing countermeasures.
Retail investors tripled their gold ETF buying pace, accumulating $70 billion since Q2 2025, while institutional players recorded net outflows. The divergence coincided with a sharp crypto market decline.
Scammers are exploiting the rising popularity of AI project OpenClaw to run phishing campaigns and steal cryptocurrency from developers via fake GitHub accounts and cloned websites.
Tempo has activated the mainnet of its L1 blockchain alongside an open Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) co-developed with Stripe.
Canadian miner HIVE has launched a GPU cluster for artificial intelligence in Asunción, Paraguay. The infrastructure is already handling real workloads for Columbia University researchers.
BTC fell to $69,917 following the Fed's rate decision. Futures liquidations exceeded $558M while retail traders sent $131.8M to Binance in a single hour.
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