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Crypto analyst Cyril has predicted that altcoin season could be on the horizon as Bitcoin dominance cools off. Crypto analyst Mark also flagged that the business cycle remains in an expansion stage, which could be bullish for altcoins. 

Altcoin Season On The Cards If Bitcoin Dominance Cools Off

In an X post, Cyril noted that the altcoins vs BTC chart (Total market cap excluding top 10 to BTC) shows that altcoins are still historically compressed against Bitcoin. He further stated that these coins are sitting near long-term support similar to prior pre-altcoin season zones, like in 2020. 

As to what to expect, the analyst stated that Bitcoin stabilizes and dominance cools off, this setup favors an altcoin season rotation phase. Meanwhile, if BTC continues to outperform, then altcoins stay suppressed longer. As such, he declared that this is early-stage positioning and not peak euphoria. 

Crypto analyst Mark also made a case for how the altcoin season could play out. He alluded to the dollar index chart, which he claimed makes it obvious that crypto is about to explode. The analyst noted that when the business cycle turns, liquidity improves, and then the Bitcoin price runs before altcoins outperform. 

Mark also noted that the business cycle has just printed back-to-back expansion months above 50 for the first time since early 2022. He claimed that these runs have lasted for 12 to 24 months. Alongside this bullish catalyst, the analyst highlighted other positives in the market. One is that altcoins are seeing multiple green monthly candles. 

Furthermore, these altcoins have seen the first bullish monthly MACD crossover in six years. The crypto market, led by Bitcoin, has been able to absorb the geopolitical shock without breakdown. Mark added that liquidity is quietly turning at the short end while regulatory clarity is approaching. As such, altcoin season could be on the horizon with these bullish catalysts. 

The analyst noted that what is playing out is a “rational, objective, historically consistent macro-cycle data.” He warned that it will all seem so obvious when it is too late. 

Social Volume Toward Altcoin Interest Is At An Extreme Low

On-chain analytics platform Santiment revealed that social interest in altcoins is currently at an extreme low. They noted that historically, the rallies begin when social volume toward altcoin interest is at extreme lows. As such, Santiment mentioned that this is typically a buy signal as altcoin season occurs when market participants do not expect it. 

Notably, altcoins have begun to pick up again as Bitcoin rallied to $74,000 yesterday. Santiment specifically pointed to Dogecoin’s 15% gains over the last 24 hours, noting that it is no coincidence the pump began just after the crowd went historically bearish on altcoins. “It’s wise to be a contrarian to the echo chamber that is crypto social media,” the platform added.

Data shows the Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index has remained inside the extreme fear zone despite the asset’s recovery back above $72,000.

Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index Still Has An Extremely Fearful Value

The “Fear & Greed Index” is an indicator created by Alternative that tells us about the average sentiment present among traders in the Bitcoin and wider cryptocurrency markets.

The index determines the investor mentality using the data of these five factors: trading volume, market cap dominance, volatility, social media sentiment, and Google Trends. To represent the sentiment, it makes use of a numerical scale running from zero to hundred.

All values above 53 on this scale correspond to greed among the investors, while those below 47 to a state of fear. Naturally, levels between these cutoffs imply a net neutral mentality.

Besides these three main zones, there are also two ‘extreme’ regions called the extreme fear (25 and under) and extreme greed (above 75). Historically, the extreme sentiments have held significance for Bitcoin and other digital assets: they have been where market reversals have tended to be the most probable to occur.

The relationship between market trajectory and sentiment has been an inverse one, however, meaning that extreme fear is where bottoms have often formed, while extreme greed has led to tops.

Recently, the Fear & Greed Index has been trapped inside the former of the two zones, as the chart below shows.

The indicator fell into the extreme fear zone at the end of January as the Bitcoin price witnessed a crash. The bearish continuation in February drove the metric deeper into the region, hitting a low at a value of 5, which is an extremely rare level by historical standards. In March so far, the investor mood has marked an improvement, owing to the recovery that the asset has observed. The price surge during the past day, in particular, has induced a notable uplift in sentiment.

Despite the surge in the Fear & Greed Index, though, it continues to reflect an extremely fearful market, with its value sitting at 22.

Thus, it would appear that the bullish price action hasn’t yet been enough to move the market sentiment into the normal fear region. With this latest value, the Fear & Greed Index has been signaling extreme fear for the 35th consecutive day.

As mentioned earlier, extreme fear has tended to form major bottoms in the past. Considering this, the current streak could facilitate such a formation once more. It should be noted, however, that the previous bear market saw the index spend an extended period in the zone before Bitcoin and other assets turned around.

BTC Price

Bitcoin rose toward the $74,000 level during its latest rally before observing a small pullback to the current $72,300 mark.

Eric Trump lashed out against Big Banks for targeting Crypto and stablecoins, essentially not letting Americans make as much money as they could be.

An “Anti-American” Crypto Agenda

In a post on social network X on March 4, following his father Donald Trump’s message accusing banks of “undermining” the GENIUS Act, Eric Trump subsequently called out big banks like JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America.

He claims these banks are actively blocking Americans from “getting higher yields on their savings” and preventing “any rewards or perks from being given to customers,” arguing this is happening because they are “desperately targeting crypto/stablecoins, where platforms plan to offer 4–5% yields or rewards.” He goes as far as saying this stance betrays America’s freedom ideals:

The ABA and other lobbyists are spending millions trying to ban or restrict those yields via bills like the Clarity Act, crying “fairness” and using words like “stability”—when it’s really about protecting their low-rate monopoly and preventing deposit flight. his is anti-retail, anti-consumer, and straight-up anti-American.

The Greatest Hypocrites

In a different post from the same day, Eric Trump doubled down, accusing Big Banks of “doing everything they can to block the crypto industry” and branding them institutions that have “held a monopoly and screwed their customers for years.”

As Eric Trump sees it, this comes as a sort of tantrum, the last-ditch effort of a scared institution to keep control of Americans’ savings:

They are the greatest hypocrites and are in mass panic given they know they are losing the digital finance race!

The GENIUS Act vs. The Clarity Act

Both Donald and Eric Trump’s rants respond to a broader context: two flagship Trump-era bills are being weaponized against each other by the TradFi institutions.

The GENIUS Act, last year’s “big win” for payment stablecoins, legalized fully‑backed dollar tokens while explicitly banning issuers from paying interest on customer balances, a compromise that pushed yield into exchanges, fintech apps and DeFi protocols instead of killing it outright.

Now the banking lobby wants the CLARITY Act to finish the job: they are demanding a blanket prohibition on “yields, rewards or inducements” for stablecoin holders, closing the GENIUS loophole that still lets platforms compete with near‑zero bank accounts.

This is the fight the Trumps are now front running: an active opposition against those that are trying to make sure digital dollars can never pay ordinary savers more than the legacy system does.

BTC’s price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview

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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act could end up giving established tokens like XRP a cleaner regulatory lane, although the bill would set a damaging default rule for the next generation of US-based crypto projects.

During a recent livestream, Hoskinson complained that the framework treats everything as a security first. This could then force projects to fight their way out of that label through a process he says the SEC could easily weaponize. In the same breath, he suggested XRP may be among the assets that get grandfathered into safer treatment under the bill’s structure

Hoskinson Says XRP Gets A Pass

The Clarity Act is a proposed piece of US legislation designed to create a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and digital assets. This bill has been advancing with US lawmakers and there are claims that it may be passed anytime in April. In a most recent livestream on YouTube, the Cardano co-founder interpreted the CLARITY Act as a line between legacy networks and future launches.

Interestingly, Hoskinson noted the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act could end up sparing established tokens like XRP and maybe Cardano from being treated as securities, essentially rolling XRP into a grandfather status and placing it among the networks most likely to benefit from the bill’s structure.

However, the same bill would leave decentralized finance with no real protections or path forward. He said “there’s nothing in this for Defi; nothing,” then pointed to Uniswap and prediction markets as examples of what he believes the legislation ignores.

He also used the stablecoin yield fight as proof that important parts of crypto’s products still don’t have a seat at the table. In his words, even Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong “can’t even get his yield-bearing stablecoins.” This is related to stablecoin yield regulations included in the Act.

Totally Against The Clarity Act

The comments in this livestream did not come out of nowhere. Hoskinson has been publicly negative on the CLARITY Act for the past few weeks, calling it a bill that looks like progress on paper but leaves loopholes for regulators to keep projects trapped under securities treatment. 

The friction has also spilled into a high-profile industry divide because Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has taken the opposite posture in public comments, pushing the idea that the sector should accept a workable framework and then keep improving it through amendments. 

Notably, Garlinghouse’s comments can be seen as confident the bill can pass on a fast timeline, even as leaders like Hoskinson call it flawed. Another industry name who has expressed concern is Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who noted that the bill is giving way for banks to come in and get to do regulatory capture to ban their competition.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says the firm’s XRP spot ETF has moved into the top slot in the US market, edging out rivals on assets as the category’s liquidity and asset base continue to expand.

“The Bitwise XRP ETF (ticker: XRP) is now the largest XRP ETF in America. $10,000,000 inflows so far this week. Grateful to investors entrusting Bitwise to steward their assets,” Horsley wrote on X.

The Bitwise XRP ETF (ticker $XRP ) is now the largest XRP ETF in America.

$10,000,000 inflows so far this week.

Grateful to investors entrusting @Bitwise to steward their assets.

Onward — https://t.co/b9OENfcreD

— Hunter Horsley (@HHorsley) March 4, 2026

XRP ETF Market: By The Numbers

SoSoValue’s US XRP spot ETF dashboard shows Bitwise’s fund at $289.00 million in net assets. That places it just ahead of Canary’s XRPC at $285.79 million, a gap of roughly $3.21 million, or about 0.3% of the category’s $1.08 billion total.

The rest of the pack sits a tier below the leaders. Franklin’s XRPZ shows $247.27 million in net assets, 21Shares’ TOXR has $179.34 million, and Grayscale’s GXRP stands at $78.18 million. On the fee front, SoSoValue lists XRP at 0.34%, XRPC at 0.50%, XRPZ at 0.19%, TOXR at 0.30%, and GXRP at 0.35%.

Category-level flow data shows the group took in $4.19 million of net inflows on March 4, pushing cumulative net inflows to $1.26 billion. Trading activity also picked up yesterday: total value traded hit $56.03 million that session, while aggregate net assets rose to $1.0796 billion — about 1.21% of XRP’s market cap.

Meanwhile, the flow history paints a very front-loaded launch. From Nov. 13, 2025 through March 4, 2026, the category logged 62 sessions with net inflows, versus six outflow sessions (with another six flat days).

The single biggest creation day was Nov. 14 with $243.05 million of net inflows; the largest redemption day came much later on Jan. 29, when the group posted -$92.92 million.

That early surge matters because it still dominates the tape: roughly 77% of the $1.26 billion cumulative net inflow in your file arrived within the first four weeks after inception, and average daily net inflows fell sharply after that initial ramp (about $48.5 million/day over the first ~20 sessions versus ~$5.3 million/day in subsequent sessions).

Weekly aggregates tell the same story: the first month repeatedly printed nine-figure weeks, including the strongest week starting Nov. 24 at roughly $243.95 million net inflow. By contrast, the most recent four weeks average single-digit millions per week, and there were two net-outflow weeks overall — with the worst week starting Jan. 26 at about -$52.26 million.

Put differently, the “Bitwise is now the largest” milestone is happening in a market that appears to have moved from launch-phase allocation to maintenance-phase churn, where rankings can flip on marginal flow differences and NAV moves.

At press time, XRP traded at $1.42.

Федеральное бюро расследований США сообщило об аресте Джона Дагиты (John Daghita), которого подозревают в краже $46 млн криптовалютой с кошельков, находившихся под контролем американских властей.

US President Donald Trump formally sent the nomination of pro-Bitcoin Kevin Warsh to the US Senate on Wednesday, beginning a process that could replace Jerome Powell when his term ends in May.

Reports say the White House filed paperwork to seat Warsh as chair for a four-year term and as a governor for a longer term on the central bank’s board.

Nomination Sent To The Senate

According to multiple outlets, the nomination now moves to the Senate Banking Committee for review. The committee will decide whether to hold hearings and then whether to send the nomination to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.

The timing is uncertain. Some senators have already signaled they may slow the process until a separate Justice Department inquiry is resolved.

Bitcoin Proponent: Warsh’s Record And Views

Warsh served at the Fed in earlier years. Reports note he has talked openly about Bitcoin, calling it a kind of “new gold” for younger investors and saying it does not make him nervous.

Markets reacted quickly when the nomination was announced earlier: Bitcoin, at the time of writing, climbed past the $70,000 level, and some short positions were liquidated as traders digested the news.

Warsh’s background mixes public service and private finance. He was on the Fed’s board during turbulent times and later worked in the private sector and at a policy research center. That mix is part of what makes him attractive to some senators who favor lower rates, and worrisome to others who worry about the Fed’s independence.

How Markets Read The Move

Reports say traders see a Fed chair who favors rate cuts as friendly to risk assets. Bitcoin’s price moves reflected that view in the hours after the filing reached the Senate.

Some analysts cautioned that a faster shift in policy would depend on data, not headlines, and that inflation and global events complicate any easy return to lower borrowing costs.

Political Hurdles Ahead

Opposition is already forming. A Republican member of the Banking Committee has said he may block nominations until outside investigations are cleared, and leading Democrats have voiced concerns about Warsh’s alignment with the administration.

Those objections mean a smooth confirmation is far from certain, even with a friendly Senate majority.

Reports note the next formal steps are committee hearings, written questionnaires, and witness appearances. The committee could vote to advance Warsh, or it could stall the nomination.

If the committee approves him, the full Senate would then take up the matter. If hearings proceed, senators will ask about his views on inflation, interest rates, and the role of cryptocurrencies in financial stability.

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Хакер взломал криптоплатформу BC.Game и похитил стейблкоины USDC на сумму около $4,377 млн. Однако вместо того чтобы сразу вывести средства, злоумышленник решил стать трейдером и из-за этого потерял часть украденных средств, сообщила пострадавшая площадка.

Недавнее падение первой криптовалюты не вызвало паники среди крупных инвесторов. Они продолжили вкладывать капитал в биткоин, просто делают это незаметно, заявили эксперты европейской управляющей цифровыми активами компании CoinShares.

Группа разработки финансовых мер борьбы с отмыванием денег (FATF), созданная странами «Большой семерки» (G7), заявила, что пиринговые переводы в стейблкоинах между физлицами создают риски отмывания денег, финансирования терроризма и обхода санкций.

Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya says Bitcoin has hit a structural limit that many market participants still do not want to confront: in his view, it lacks the qualities needed for central bank adoption. That matters because, in his framing, sovereign adoption is the missing ingredient for the next major expansion in Bitcoin’s total market value.

Speaking in a March 3 conversation with Nikhil Kamath, Palihapitiya argued that the “value maximizing function” for a Bitcoin seeking broad adoption is not retail enthusiasm or ETF demand, but whether it can satisfy the requirements of a central bank reserve asset. On that test, he said, Bitcoin comes up short.

“The structural failing is that it is not, so if you think about like, what is the value maximizing function right now for a crypto asset to be broadly adopted? It needs to have the features that allow a central bank to adopt it,” Palihapitiya said. “And there are two things that it lacks, you know, one is fungibility and two is privacy. And so Bitcoin fails on those two dimensions.”

He pushed the argument further, saying those weaknesses are not peripheral design tradeoffs but hard constraints on where Bitcoin can go next. “So it can never be a structural holding of a central bank. And that simple thing will keep it in the realm of ETFs and humans,” he said, before contrasting Bitcoin with gold.

Palihapitiya’s reasoning rests on transparency as a liability rather than a strength. In his telling, a public ledger makes holdings legible in a way that discourages state-level reserve management. He pointed to the traceability of coins and transaction history as a direct hit to fungibility, arguing that market participants can inspect “the history and the provenance of that exact token,” including where it has been used and which wallets it has touched.

“That lack of fungibility and privacy is a huge deterrent for broad structural adoption,” he said. “That’s what you need to then add another 10x of market cap.”

He also suggested there may be room for another crypto asset to solve the problem, though he did not name one as a clear contender. “Are there projects right now? Yes. But they’re very small scale. There’s huge issues with them. Those are even more volatile. So Bitcoin’s interesting.”

Reactions From The Bitcoin Community

The reaction on X was swift and openly dismissive. Vijay Boyapati argued: “The truth is gold suffers more privacy constraints for central banks than Bitcoin does or ever will. Many countries literally keep their gold with the New York Fed, which knows *exactly* how much gold they have AND keeps possession of that gold – a huge geopolitical risk.”

Prominent Bitcoin educator Dan Held rejected the fungibility critique outright, calling Bitcoin “perfectly fungible” and saying there is “no pricing differential between coins.” On privacy, he argued the issue can be handled at other layers, writing that users seeking more privacy can rely on “L2s or ETF.”

ProCap CIO Jeff Park’s response went in a different direction. Rather than debating whether central banks need privacy, he challenged the premise that opacity is desirable at all. In his view, the only way to repair a system defined by growing distrust is “to build trust with radical transparency,” a line that turns Palihapitiya’s critique into a case for BTC rather than against it.

“This take-and yes Dalio too-fundamentally fails to understand why central banks are broken and why they need bitcoin. In an age where there is growing distrust everywhere, the only way – and i really mean the ONLY way- to fix the system is to build trust with radical transparency,” he wrote.

Bloomberg senior analyst Eric Balchunas compressed the pro-Bitcoin rebuttal into a simpler market structure answer: “ETF fixes this. Totally private. Next question.”

At press time, BTC traded at $72,493.

Разработчик игр Алекс Амсель (Alex Amsel), известный как блогер с ником Sillytuna, сообщил, что подвергся жестокому нападению — злоумышленники заставили его перевести им стейблкоины AUSD на $24 млн.

Earlier this week, the Executive Chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), Michael Saylor, announced that the company had made another major Bitcoin purchase. The announcement, which was made on Monday, showed that despite the bearish market headwinds, the company has not given up on its Bitcoin strategy. Following the announcement, though, a community member known as Lindsay on X pointed out an interesting fact about Strategy’s massive BTC holdings and the asset’s price movements.

Strategy Makes Bank Every time Bitcoin Moves $1,000

Strategy’s latest Bitcoin purchase of 3,015 BTC, despite being worth $204.1 million at the time of its purchase, now looks like a tiny blip on its over 700,000 BTC holdings. At the time of the last purchase, the company now holds 720,737 BTC, maintaining its position as the public company with the largest BTC holdings in the world.

Amid this revelation, Lindsay’s post pointed to the fact that Strategy was actually making a lot of money each time the Bitcoin price moved. For example, every time the Bitcoin price moved upward by $1,000, the company’s position would add a whopping $720 million.

What this means is that the company is in a position where even a small recovery could mean a massive profit margin for the company. However, the reverse is also the case, because if the Bitcoin price drops $1,000, then the company loses $720 million on its BTC holdings.

Another interesting fact about the company’s holdings is that its latest purchase was made at an average price of $67,700 for 3,015 BTC. As a result, the average price of the company’s total BTC holdings has now moved to $75,985 per BTC.

With the Bitcoin price trading below $74,000, it means that the company is currently underwater on its BTC investment. The company has spent $54.77 billion to buy 720,737 BTC, starting in 2020. But presently, the entire stack is worth around $52.49 billion, representing an over 4% loss on its holdings, according to data from Bitcoin Treasuries.

The company’s stock has not been spared from the onslaught as it is down 14.77% year-to-date, falling in line with the 24% BTC price decline during this time period. Saylor also announced that the company’s STRC dividend rate has now been increased from 11.25% in February to 11.50% in March, as the company makes plans to switch from using common stock to preferred share issuance for its Bitcoin purchases.

Morgan Stanley is moving forward with its plans to enter the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) market, submitting an amended registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission as it seeks regulatory approval.

On March 4, the Wall Street firm filed an updated Form S-1 for the proposed Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, providing additional details about how the fund would operate. 

Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF Filing Details

The amendment outlines key structural elements, including how the trust’s Bitcoin holdings would be stored and who would be responsible for safeguarding them.

According to the filing, Coinbase Custody, a subsidiary of crypto exchange Coinbase, and The Bank of New York Mellon, or BNY Mellon, would serve as custodians for the fund’s Bitcoin. 

The digital assets would be stored in offline cold storage vaults, meaning the private keys controlling access to the Bitcoin would remain disconnected from the internet. This approach is designed to reduce exposure to cyber threats and unauthorized access.

However, the filing also makes clear that the custodians are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Instead, they maintain insurance coverage through private carriers. 

ETF Revival Lifts Bitcoin To $73,000

The timing comes as the spot Bitcoin ETF sector shows signs of renewed momentum, contributing to Bitcoin’s ascent to $73,000 earlier on Wednesday. 

BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF recorded approximately $322 million in inflows in a single trading day, helping offset outflows from rival products offered by Fidelity and Grayscale. In total, the sector has attracted about $683.3 million in inflows so far this week.

Bitwise’s advisor, Jeff Park, previously said that launching a Bitcoin ETF would strengthen MorganStanley’s role in the crypto infrastructure sector, adding that such an initiative could create opportunities beyond the ETF itself, particularly in areas linked to tokenized assets.

Park also pointed out that establishing a presence in the Bitcoin ETF market could help Morgan Stanley attract professionals with expertise in blockchain markets and digital asset trading. 

Earlier this year, during Morgan Stanley’s fourth-quarter earnings call, Chairman and CEO Ted Pick emphasized the firm’s growing engagement in digital assets. 

He told analysts that the bank is “well positioned now in the crypto and tokenized asset space,” and noted that there is “a lot for us to do there,” signaling broader ambitions within blockchain-based finance.

As of this writing, Bitcoin was trading at $73,445, a one-month high following its February return to the $60,000 support floor. According to CoinGecko data, this amounts to a 7% increase for BTC over the 24-hour time frame. 

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Binance continued to be the spot volume leader in the crypto sector during 2025, according to CryptoQuant’s annual report on exchanges.

Binance Saw $7 Trillion In Spot Crypto Trading Volume In 2025

In a new thread on X, on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has shared insights from its 2025 Annual Exchange Leader Report. This report compares the various centralized exchanges in the crypto sector in terms of various metrics.

First, here is a chart showing how exchanges compare against each other in terms of the spot trading volume:

As displayed above, Binance was by far the largest exchange in terms of the total amount of crypto involved in spot trading activities in 2024, and the same remained true in 2025 as well. In total, Binance observed a spot volume totaling to $7 trillion in 2025, about the same as the figure from 2024.

Bybit and Crypto.com followed in second and third, respectively. While the latter observed a volume jump of 4.5% during 2025, the former actually saw a decline of over 14%. The platform that most stands out for its volume change between 2024 and 2025 is MEXC, witnessing an increase of a whopping 90%.

Like the spot market, Binance was once again the market leader when it came to derivatives volume.

Binance saw a total of 25 trillion in crypto derivatives volume during 2025, up 20% compared to 2024. Nearly all of the platforms listed in the chart observed an year-over-year increase in the metric, indicating that speculative activity as a whole shot up in the sector over 2025. “In terms of growth, Gate stands out, having increased its perpetual futures trading volume by 468%,” noted the analytics firm.

Many exchanges saw a balanced derivatives volume composition, but Bitget, Coinbase, and Crypto.com stood out for their Bitcoin-heavy volumes. Coinbase in particular saw the original digital asset dominate, making up for 81.5% of all futures trading on the platform.

Based on some key exchange-related categories, CyrptoQuant has defined an “Exchange Score Index” that ranks the various crypto platforms. “These categories are designed to evaluate the overall market position, transparency, growth and trading profile of each exchange,” explained the analytics firm.

As is visible in the below chart, MEXC ranked the highest in this indicator during 2025. CryptoQuant noted that the exchange’s position is backed by “strong derivatives scale and solid year-over-year growth momentum.”

BTC Price

Bitcoin has seen a breakout during the past day that has taken its price to the $73,100 level.

Аналитики компании Arkham обнаружили бездействовавший около десяти лет адрес Эфириума с рекордной доходностью. В 2015 году владелец адреса купил ETH на $30, и теперь его активы выросли примерно до $295 000, а прибыльность инвестиций превысила 983 000%.

Сын президента США и сооснователь эмитента стейблкоина USD1, компании World Liberty Financial, Эрик Трамп раскритиковал крупные американские банки, которые хотят запретить держателям стейблкоинов получать доходность, подобную процентам по банковским вкладам.

Сооснователь и бывший директор криптобиржи BitMEX Артур Хейс (Arthur Hayes) заявил, что недавний рост биткоина выше $70 000 не сигнализирует о смене медвежьего тренда на бычий, и котировки главной криптовалюты снова могут пойти вниз.

The Federal Reserve’s (Fed) decision this Wednesday to grant its first-ever master account to a crypto-focused institution has triggered swift opposition from major banking groups, intensifying tensions between traditional finance and the digital asset sector at a pivotal moment for US crypto legislation.

Opposition From US Banking Groups

Kraken Financial, the Wyoming-chartered banking arm of the exchange, announced that it had secured a Federal Reserve master account—becoming the first digital asset bank in American history to gain direct access to the central bank’s payment infrastructure. 

However, the account comes with limitations. Under the so-called “skinny” master account framework outlined by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, Kraken is permitted to hold reserves and settle transactions in central bank money. 

At the same time, it does not receive full banking authority. The firm cannot issue loans, tap into the Fed’s discount window, or function as a conventional commercial bank. In essence, it gains access to payment systems without the broader powers afforded to insured depository institutions.

Even with those restrictions, the move has drawn sharp criticism from the traditional banking industry. The backlash arrives as banks are already engaged in a broader fight over crypto-related legislation. 

Industry groups have been pushing to remove the stablecoin rewards provision from the GENIUS Act—legislation that was signed into law by President Donald Trump last year. 

That dispute has contributed to delays surrounding the passage of the wider crypto market structure bill known as the CLARITY Act. Now, leading US banking associations are publicly opposing the Federal Reserve’s approval of Kraken’s master account. 

Alleged Risks In Expanding Crypto Access

According to Eleanor Terrett from Crypto In America, banking lobbyists argue that the Kansas City Federal Reserve “violated policy” by approving Kraken’s application without going through the customary public comment process.

The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) has expressed strong objections, stating it is “very concerned” about granting crypto firms access to master accounts because it views the sector as a potential risk to financial stability. 

Meanwhile, the Bank Policy Institute has accused the Kansas City Fed of effectively front-running the Federal Board’s public comment period and failing to follow established procedures when implementing what they characterize as a significant change to the US payments system.

In their view, granting nonbank entities and crypto institutions access to master accounts—historically limited to highly regulated, insured banks—introduces new vulnerabilities. 

At the same time, President Trump has entered the debate. Addressing the legislative impasse surrounding the CLARITY Act, also known as the crypto market structure bill, Trump posted on Truth Social, expressing clear support for the crypto industry in its ongoing dispute with banks over stablecoin yield provisions. 

He urged Congress to move swiftly in passing comprehensive crypto market structure legislation. Despite the President’s backing, banking groups remain unconvinced. 

According to a banking source involved in negotiations who spoke to Crypto In America, concerns persist that “ambiguous legislative language” could enable crypto companies to bypass a prior agreement not to offer interest or yield on idle stablecoin balances.

“We want to continue negotiating, and what we’re trying to do is defend the agreement in-principle of no interest on balances, making sure no holes are punched in that,” the source said, adding that banks had sent proposed legislative revisions to the White House several days earlier but had not yet received a response.

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Банк России предлагает внести в законодательство поправки, которые позволят банкам и брокерам становиться криптообменниками без дополнительной лицензии, то есть просто в уведомительном порядке. Об этом сообщила председатель ЦБ Эльвира Набиуллина.