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There’s a hole in Russia’s finances, and it’s becoming too big for the Kremlin to ignore.In September, the government set a budget deficit cap of $46 billion for 2026.The problem? The deficit already stood at 91% by the end of February, Russian media outlet Vyberu wrote, with pundits blaming a 50% drop in oil and gas revenues.Rising oil and gas prices may help alleviate some of the pain. But belts clearly need to be tightened in Moscow. That’s why the Ministry of Finance has made preventing capital from leaking overseas its major priority this year, starting with crypto.“[The Moscow Exchange]…

ORBS offers public market exposure to the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries ORBS bridges a critical gap between public investors and transformative technologies OpenAI represents approximately 30% of ORBS’ total treasury position The Company is supported by a group of strategic and institutional investors including: Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), MOZAYYX, ARK Invest, Payward, World Foundation, Coinfund, Discovery Capital Management, FalconX, Pantera, GSR, and more EASTON, Pa., March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“ORBS” or the “Company”) today announced an update on its total holdings, highlighting its expanding position across digital assets and…

Victoria, Seychelles, March 31st, 2026, Chainwire Global crypto trading platform BYDFi will mark its 6th anniversary with a month-long celebration beginning on April 1, 2026, highlighting BYDFi’s evolution into an all-in-one crypto trading platform built on a CEX + DEX dual-engine model. Over the past six years, BYDFi has continued to strengthen product infrastructure, user safeguards, and market access, shaping a platform built for reliability. BYDFi’s Evolution: From Core Trading to Broader Market Access Over the past six years, BYDFi has expanded into a global crypto trading platform serving more than 1 million users across 190+ countries and regions. Since…

Bitmine has 3,142,643 staked ETH, representing $6.3 billion at $2,005 per ETH MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) launched staking solution on March 25, 2026 MAVAN is the premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors, with a focus on security, performance, and resilience Bitmine now owns 3.92% of the ETH token supply, over 78% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 8 months Bitmine owns $102 million of ORBS, now one of the only publicly listed equities in the world to give investors direct exposure to OpenAI Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots”…

Since Bitcoin’s all-time high of $127,000 in October 2025, the first quarter of 2026 has gotten off to a shaky start, with Bitcoin crashing to a $60,000 floor in under five months. While this whiplash may be painful, it looks worse than it really is: the market is actually doing exactly what it needs to do to build a stronger cycle ahead.Crypto tends to bear the brunt of the selloff when macro conditions, geopolitical tensions and traditional markets turn south. Several converging factors are currently driving immense pressure on crypto markets: elevated counterparty risk, global liquidity tightening, weak technical trends,…

Bitcoin’s recent price action confirms a clear structural breakdown, ending weeks of compression and shifting momentum to the downside. While a short-term bounce remains possible as price fills nearby imbalances, the broader outlook stays bearish. Unless key resistance levels are quickly reclaimed, any upside move is likely to be temporary, with further downside pressure expected. Rising Channel Breakdown Signals Shift In Structure According to a BTC update by crypto analyst Columbus, the market structure has finally broken down after weeks of compression. Price had been coiling within a rising channel, forming higher lows that pressed into overhead resistance. Instead of…

Measured in ETH rather than dollars, Lido’s total value locked fell from 9.63 million ETH to 8.81 million ETH. Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, closed 2025 with total revenue of $40.5 million, down 23% from $52.4 million the year before, according to an execution report published by the Lido Foundation. The DAO is now reviewing an automated LDO token buyback mechanism, with the deployment targeted for Q2 2026, as part of a broader effort to align the governance token’s value with the protocol’s financial performance. A Difficult Year for Staking Revenue In the report, Lido noted that…

Goods offered on Xinbi included stolen personal data, money laundering tools, and satellite equipment to contact fraud victims. Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has sanctioned the Chinese-language crypto marketplace Xinbi, which blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says processed nearly $20 billion in volume between 2021 and 2025. The designation means that the UK government isn’t just targeting individual scammers but has taken aim at the financial infrastructure that keeps Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale fraud operations running. The Platform’s Role in the Scam Supply Chain According to Chainalysis, Xinbi is a peer-to-peer marketplace, mostly on Telegram, where criminals can buy and…

A new working paper from the European Central Bank examined four major protocols and found that a small number of actors control the bulk of governance token holdings.A European Central Bank working paper challenges the notion that decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) deliver on their promise of distributed governance, finding that token holdings and voting power across four major DeFi protocols are heavily concentrated among a handful of actors.The study examined governance structures at Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth, and Uniswap using data from late 2022 and mid-2023. The researchers analyzed the top 100 token holders and top 20 voters for each protocol,…

As the global cryptocurrency mining industry pushes the absolute boundaries of computational physics, a highly critical, undeniable truth has rapidly emerged in 2026: raw processing power is no longer the sole determining factor of mining profitability. You can engineer the fastest microchip in existence, but if you cannot efficiently control the massive physical environment it operates in, that chip will inevitably fail. The undisputed, number one enemy of modern ASIC mining hardware is not network difficulty or volatile energy prices—it is extreme, highly destructive thermal output. For the everyday investor looking to purchase hashpower, a very serious operational question must…