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03-18

Bitcoin Hovers Near $76,000 Resistance Amid FOMC Meeting and Powell Speech

According to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin is currently trading at approximately $74,230, a decline of about 2.6% from the six-week high of $76,000 reached on Tuesday. The market broadly expects the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates steady at this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. ...

PEPE Coin Surges 17% in 24 Hours Amid Strong Social Sentiment and Sector Gains

Key InsightsPEPE coin price was up 17% in 24 hours. As per LunarCrush, it ranked third by social sentiment, alongside L1s and AI tokens.The memecoin sector outperformed all other crypto sectors, adding to the strength seen in PEPE coin price action.PEPE has had some of the most violent moves to the ...

SEC and CFTC Classify XRP as Digital Commodity, Resolving Long-Standing Legal Uncertainty

SEC and CFTC Officially Recognize XRP as a Digital CommodityIn a landmark decision for the crypto market, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have jointly classified XRP as a digital commodity. The joint interpretation places XRP alongside...

Bitcoin hovers near the $76,000 resistance level amid focus on the FOMC meeting.

ChainCatcher report: According to market sources, Bitcoin is currently trading at approximately $74,230, down about 2.6% from the six-week high of $76,000 touched on Tuesday. The market generally expects the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates steady at this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (...

Bitcoin Price Prediction: Analyst Warns of 'Sell the News' Pattern Ahead of Fed Meeting

Bitcoin price is sitting at $74,100, up 0.4% on the day as markets are holding their breath ahead of Wednesday’s Fed announcement.The Fed is walking into this meeting with oil above $100 and Middle East tensions complicating the inflation picture. A hold at 3.50 to 3.75% is already priced in. What P...

Ethereum Aims to Reduce Bridge Confirmation Time to 13 Seconds with New Rule

Odaily Planet Daily reports: The Ethereum client team is testing an optional fast confirmation mechanism that could reduce the time for L2 networks and exchanges to wait for confirmation of mainnet deposits to approximately 13 seconds.Ethereum researcher Julian Ma wrote on X that the proposed Fast C...

ETH breaking above $2,444 could trigger $985 million in short liquidations on major centralized exchanges.

According to ChainCatcher, data from Coinglass shows that if ETH breaks above $2,444, the total liquidation value of long positions on major CEXs will reach $985 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $2,214, the total liquidation value of short positions on major CEXs will reach $968 million.

Ethereum Team Tests Fast Confirmation Rule to Reduce Cross-Chain Bridge Time to 13 Seconds

ChainCatcher report, according to Cointelegraph, the Ethereum client teams are testing a mechanism called Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR), designed to reduce deposit confirmation times from L1 to L2 networks and exchanges to approximately 13 seconds—a reduction of up to 98% compared to current solution...

Ethereum Team Tests Fast Confirmation Rule to Reduce Cross-Chain Bridge Time to ~13 Seconds

According to Cointelegraph, the Ethereum client teams are testing a mechanism called Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR), designed to reduce confirmation times for deposits from L1 to L2 networks and exchanges to approximately 13 seconds—a reduction of up to 98% compared to current methods. The mechanism...

AppLovin Co-founder: AI is the '1 to Infinity' Era

According to 1M AI News, Furqan Rydhan, co-founder of mobile advertising technology company AppLovin, published a lengthy post on X titled “The Age of Abundance,” arguing that AI agents have crossed the threshold of practicality and we are entering an era of abundance.He believes three things have c...

Pre-market crypto-related stocks rise, COIN up 2.09%

Odaily Planet Daily report: According to data from msx.com, cryptocurrency-related stocks pre-market in the U.S. are generally rising. MSTR is up 0.59%; SBET is up 0.12%; SBET is up 0.24%; BMNR is up 1.08%; CRCL is up 1.5%; COIN is up 2.09%.MSX.com is a decentralized RWA trading platform that has li...

RunSybil Raises $40M for AI-Powered Automated Penetration Testing

PANews, March 18: According to Fortune, AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil has raised $40 million in funding, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from angel investors including S32, Anthology Fund (affiliated with Anthropic), Menlo Ventures, Conviction, Elad Gil, as well as representatives fro...

Polymarket: Probability of Crude Oil Surpassing $100/Barrel Rises 43 Points to 63% Amid Middle East Tensions

ChainCatcher report: On Polymarket, the probability of crude oil breaking above $100 is currently at 63%, up 43 percentage points in the last 24 hours. Additionally, data shows: - The probability of crude oil breaking above $105 per barrel is currently at 42%, down 19 percentage points; - The pr...

Moody's Launches Token Integration Engine on the Canton Network, Expanding Credit Analysis to Blockchain

PANews, March 18: According to The Block, credit rating agency Moody’s has launched its blockchain-agnostic Token Integration Engine (TIE), directly integrating its credit analysis into blockchain workflows. In the initial phase, Moody’s has deployed nodes on the Canton Network, a blockchain designe...

AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil secures $40 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures

ChainCatcher report: AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil has raised $40 million in funding, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from S32, Anthology Fund (affiliated with Anthropic), Menlo Ventures, Conviction, and Elad Gil. Angel investors include Nikesh Arora, Amit Agarwal, Jeff Dean, and nume...

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