Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

The Bank of Korea and nine commercial lenders began phase two of a digital won pilot, testing bank-issued deposit tokens backed by central bank infrastructure to determine whether the system can support government subsidy payments and consume transfers and payments nationwide.The second phase of Pro...

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader opened a long position on HYPE and closed it just 15 minutes later, incurring a loss of $44,000. The trader previously went long on ASTER following the launch of its mainnet yesterday, then closed the position with a loss of ...

Odaily Planet Daily reports that over 20 DeFi projects have jointly issued an open letter urging major U.S. universities to integrate DeFi and cryptocurrency education into the core curricula of their business and law schools. This initiative is framed under the "1inch Forward" campaign led by 1inch...

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Tempo, a payment-focused blockchain developed jointly by Stripe and crypto investment firm Paradigm, has announced its mainnet launch, officially moving its stablecoin payment system from testing into live application. Tempo is designed for high throughput and low-cost t...

According to Decrypt, Canada’s financial intelligence unit, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), launched a coordinated enforcement action on Tuesday against 23 money services businesses (MSBs) offering cryptocurrency-related services, revoking all of their registrations...

Payments-focused blockchain Tempo, developed by Stripe and Paradigm, announced the launch of its mainnet today, March 18. Also today, Stripe and Tempo revealed a new open standard for AI agent payments, Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), per a separate X post.Today's mainnet launch opens public RPC en...

ChainCatcher report: Influenced by higher-than-expected U.S. inflation data, Bitcoin has retreated to around $72,000. The data showed that the U.S. PPI rose 0.7% month-over-month and 3.4% year-over-year in February, both exceeding market expectations and continuing the recent upward inflation trend....

ChainCatcher report, according to Decrypt, on Tuesday, Canada’s financial intelligence unit, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), launched a coordinated enforcement action against 23 money services businesses (MSBs) offering cryptocurrency-related services, rev...

According to Cointelegraph, a joint institutional survey by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon found that 74% of surveyed institutional investors expect cryptocurrency prices to rise within the next 12 months, and 73% plan to increase their allocation to digital assets by 2026. The survey, conducted in Janua...

According to The Block, more than 20 decentralized finance (DeFi) projects have jointly issued an open letter urging top U.S. universities to integrate DeFi and cryptocurrency education into the core curricula of their business and law schools. This initiative is framed under the "1inch Forward" c...

According to ChainCatcher, citing Cointelegraph, a joint institutional survey by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon found that 74% of surveyed institutional investors expect cryptocurrency prices to rise in the future, and 73% plan to increase their allocation to digital assets by 2026. The survey, conducted...

TL;DRBitcoin steadied near $74,000 after reaching a six-week high around $76,000, as traders turned more cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting.Ethereum held above $2,300 and XRP stayed north of $1.50, while Bitcoin dominance hovered near 56.7% and crypto market capitalization remained above ...

The GENIUS Act, passed in 2025, created a regulatory framework for U.S. stablecoins. However, clear rules for the rest of the crypto market are still missing.That may soon change, as the recent data from Santiment suggested the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act is moving closer to the final stage of ...

At the beginning of this year, sentiment in global financial markets was relatively positive.Although the Federal Reserve itself remained cautious at its final meeting late last year, suggesting only a symbolic rate cut for the year, Wall Street clearly has its own assessment system. Major instituti...

BlockBeats news: On March 18, CoinShares announced a strategic partnership with Kiln to launch its first on-chain asset management strategy using the Railnet protocol. This strategy will expand to six distinct yield sources, combining DeFi protocol yields with tokenized real-world asset (RWA) yields...