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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared up longstanding ambiguity about how crypto assets should be treated.  The SEC issued an interpretation on Tuesday clarifying how federal securities laws apply to certain crypto assets and transactions involving cryptocurrencies. This is a “major step in the Commission’s efforts to provide greater clarity regarding the treatment of crypto assets,” it stated. The guidance also “complements Congressional endeavors to codify a comprehensive market structure framework into statute.” The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) also joined the interpretation, confirming that it will apply the Commodity Exchange Act to crypto assets. SEC: Cryptos Are…

Within minutes of the first U.S.-Israeli missiles striking Tehran on Saturday morning, a different kind of exodus was already underway.  Crypto outflows from Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, surged 700%, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The spike was capital flight, executed in real time, by Iranians racing to move money out of a country suddenly under full-scale military bombardment. Nobitex processed $7.2 billion in crypto transactions in 2025 and serves more than 11 million users, Elliptic said. It allows Iranians to convert rials into crypto and withdraw to external wallets which is a direct pipeline around the country’s crippled…

In brief Circle shares rose another 15% Monday, extending gains to roughly 60% since last week’s Q4 earnings. Analysts point to short covering, accelerating USDC growth, and regulatory clarity under the GENIUS Act. The rally comes as Bitcoin steadies near $68,000 amid the rising U.S.–Iran tensions. Stablecoin issuer Circle’s shares jumped another 15% Monday, extending gains to roughly 60% since last week’s fourth-quarter earnings release, as investors poured into stablecoin-linked equities while broader crypto markets held firm.The move follows the company’s announcement of 72% growth in its stablecoin USDC to $75.3 billion and 77% revenue growth to $770 million, despite…

Bitcoin traded near $68,000 on Tuesday as U.S. spot ETFs pulled in $458 million, according to data curated by SoSoValue, marking one of the quarter’s strongest inflow days despite the ongoing conflict with Iran.The inflows suggest institutional investors are treating bitcoin’s recent volatility stemming from the war as contained rather than systemic.Singapore-based trading firm QCP Capital said in a recent note that the roughly $300 million in long liquidations triggered by the weekend headlines were “notable but contained,” arguing that positioning had already been materially lightened in recent weeks.Options markets told a similar story, QCP wrote, with one-day implied volatility…

Shares in Core Scientific moved lower on Monday after the Bitcoin miner and artificial intelligence compute provider’s fourth-quarter earnings missed analyst expectations amid a late-year drop in crypto markets.Core Scientific reported Q4 revenues of $79.8 million, down 16% from the year-ago quarter and missing Wall Street expectations of $90.4 million. Its crypto mining revenue fell by nearly half compared to Q4 2024, to $42.2 million.The company posted a net income of $216 million for the quarter, largely boosted by a fair value gain of $330.3 million in its non-cash holdings. Its adjusted EBITDA showed a loss of $42.7 million. Shares…

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following US-Israeli strikes on Iran has triggered an unprecedented energy supply crisis, with Asian economies bearing the heaviest burden as tanker traffic through the world’s most critical oil chokepoint grinds to a halt.Japan and South Korea face the greatest risk, with both nations being overwhelmingly dependent on fossil fuel imports that transit the Strait.Tanker Traffic at a StandstillThe cost of hiring a supertanker to ship oil from the Middle East to China surged to an all-time high of over $423,000 per day on Monday, doubling from Friday’s levels, according to LSEG data.…

Hidden Road, now Ripple Prime, has been added to the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) directory.The development has fueled optimism within the XRP community. Many suggest that it marks a major milestone for XRPL’s institutional adoption.Hidden Road Listed in NSCC MPIDs A notice from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) confirmed Hidden Road Partners CIV US LLC was included in the NSCC Market Participant Identifiers (MPIDs) Directory as of March 2, 2026.Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happensRipple first announced its intent to acquire Hidden Road, a global prime brokerage platform, in April 2025.…

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A brief Sunday rally didn’t survive contact with Monday.Bitcoin slid to $66,702 in early Monday trading, down 1.1% over the past 24 hours, as traditional markets reopened and began pricing the U.S.-Iran conflict that crypto had been trading in isolation since Saturday. Sunday’s bounce to $68,000 on the Khamenei confirmation has now been mostly unwound, with the market settling back into the mid-$66,000 range that preceded the strikes.The broader crypto picture was mixed. Ether fell 2.5% to $1,967, solana dropped 4.1% to $84, and XRP lost 3.6% to $1.36. The weekly numbers paint the real damage, with solana down 8.1%…

The U.S.-listed spot bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have seen record outflows over the past four months, confirming that a full-blown crypto market is underway.Investors have pulled $6.39 billion from bitcoin ETFs over four straight months of outflows, the longest monthly losing streak since the funds launched in January 2024, according to data source SoSoValue data.Ether ETFs have also fallen out of favor, bleeding $2.76 billion over the past 4 months.These huge outflows indicate that institutional appetite for digital assets has collapsed, which explains the price losses in the two tokens. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, peaked…