Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

ChainThink reports that on March 18, at 2:00 AM Beijing time, the Federal Reserve will announce its interest rate decision. The market currently fully expects no change in rates and is now focusing on statements from Fed Chair Powell during the monetary policy press conference. Institutional outlook...

BlockBeats news, on March 18, Bloomberg reported that Meta Platforms stated its Meta Quest headset users will no longer be able to access Horizon Worlds—a virtual space where users meet and play games using cartoon avatars. This marks another step in the company’s ongoing reduction of its “metaverse...

ChainThink reports that on March 18, according to the Financial Times, Microsoft (MSFT.O) is considering taking legal action against Amazon (AMZN.O) and OpenAI over a $50 billion deal, as it may violate its exclusive cloud services agreement with the developer of ChatGPT.

ChainThink reports that on March 18, Alibaba Cloud announced on its official website that, due to surging global AI demand and rising supply chain costs, prices for Alibaba Cloud's AI computing, storage, and other products have increased by up to 34%.Among these, the computing cards such as Pingtoug...

BlockBeats news: On March 18, Alibaba Cloud announced on its official website that, due to surging global AI demand and rising supply chain costs, prices for Alibaba Cloud's AI computing power, storage, and other products have increased by up to 34%.Among these, the computing cards such as Pingtouge...

ChainCatcher reports that ZKsync has announced a collaboration with five U.S. regional banks to develop the Cari Network, a tokenized deposit network. Built on Matter Labs’ Prividium platform, the network utilizes a privacy-preserving, permissioned blockchain infrastructure. Participating banks incl...

ChainCatcher report, according to Arkham data, at 12:21, 40 BTC (valued at approximately $29.8 million) were transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 15MJ3j...) to another anonymous address (starting with 1M7Ss1...). Subsequently, the address transferred the 40 BTC to Cumberland DRW.

PANews, March 18: According to SoSoValue data, the total net inflow into spot Ethereum ETFs yesterday (March 17, Eastern Time) was $138 million. The spot Ethereum ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was BlackRock’s ETHA, with a net inflow of $816.99 million; ETHA’s cumulative net ...

ChainCatcher report: CFTC Chair Mike Selig posted on X in support of the prediction market Kalshi, stating that the Arizona Attorney General’s criminal charges against an exchange already registered with the CFTC constitute a jurisdictional dispute and that elevating it to a criminal prosecution is ...

PANews, March 18: Shield, a privacy-first wallet built on the privacy-focused blockchain Aleo, is now available on iOS. The wallet supports private transfers, private stablecoins, and cross-chain swaps, allowing users to access it directly on their iPhones. Shield encrypts transaction records by def...

Original author: Sanqing, Foresight NewsOn March 17, global payment leader Mastercard announced the acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK. The transaction is valued at up to $1.8 billion, including $300 million in contingent payments. Mastercard expects to complete the transaction b...

ChainCatcher report, according to Arkham data, at 11:29, 595.85 BTC (valued at approximately $38.76 million) were transferred from the Royal Government of Bhutan (Druk Holdings) to an anonymous address starting with 39ScsU6D...

BlockBeats news, on March 18, according to Lookonchain monitoring, PIPPIN's price plunged 85% from its peak. An address that purchased 8.16 million PIPPIN tokens for $180,000 five months ago still holds them, with its unrealized profit shrinking from over $7 million to less than $1 million.

According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), yesterday’s total net inflow into spot Ethereum ETFs was $138.28 million. BlackRock’s ETHA led with a net inflow of $81.72 million, followed by BlackRock’s staked version ETHB with a net inflow of $67.18 million, Grayscale’s mini ETH with a net inflow of ...

ChainCatcher report: According to market sources, the stablecoin cross-border payment platform TransFi has completed a $19.2 million funding round, comprising $14.2 million in Series A equity financing and $5 million in committed liquidity financing. The round was led by Turing Financial Group, a st...