LATEST: Digital Asset Funds See Strongest Weekly Inflows of $1.4 Billion Since January

Digital asset investment products recorded US$1.4 billion in inflows, marking the strongest weekly total since January and the third straight week of positive flows. This coincided with Bitcoin breaking above $76,000 mid-week, its highest since the February crash, amid US-Iran ceasefire extension talks. March CPI came in at 3.3% year-on-year, with benign core at 2.6%.

The US led regionally with US$1.5bn inflows, while Germany saw $28 million. Switzerland bucked the trend with $138 million outflows. Bitcoin attracted $1,116 million (YTD $3.1 billion), Ethereum $328 million (YTD $197 million), with outflows in XRP and Solana. Short-Bitcoin products had modest US$1.4m inflows.

Polymarket In Negotiations To Raise New Money At $15 Billion Valuation: Report – Intercontinental Exchang

Prediction market giant Polymarket is exploring a capital raise, valuing it at around $15 billion, according to a report published Sunday.

New Funding Secured?

The cryptocurrency-based platform is in talks to raise $400 million in new funding, The Information reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Benzinga reached out to Polymarket to confirm the capital raise. The article will be updated once they respond.

Polymarket Trails Kalshi

Polymarket’s reported valuation came in significantly below that of rival Kalshi,  which raised more than $1 billion last month at a $22 billion valuation.

Prediction Market Boom

The prediction markets industry has witnessed rapid growth…

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Lydian Launches Visa Platinum Crypto Card To Enable Everyday Spending Of Digital Assets

Lydian has launched the Lydian Card, a co-branded Visa Platinum card issued by Rain that allows users to spend more than 300 supported digital assets, including stablecoins and major cryptocurrencies, across Visa’s global merchant network.

The card is available in both physical and instant-issue virtual formats and can be used wherever Visa is accepted, giving cardholders access to more than 150 million merchants worldwide, according to a release seen by Bitcoin Magazine. Users will be able to fund, manage, and track transactions through an app or online dashboard, aiming to streamline the conversion of digital assets into everyday purchasing power.

The launch comes amid rapid…

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Bank Of Central Banks Top Executive Flags Stablecoins As Double-Edged Sword—Sees Faster Cross-Border Paym

Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, said Monday that stablecoins present both “opportunities and challenges,” urging coordinated efforts to move forward.

The Pros And The Cons

In a speech at a Bank of Japan seminar, Hernández de Cos highlighted the potential of stablecoins to improve cross-border payments and provide “convenient access” to the dollar and other foreign currencies. He also praised their instant settlement and simultaneous settlement capabilities.

“On the other hand, stablecoins pose significant macroeconomic and financial challenges, including their potential effects on credit supply, financial stability and monetary…

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Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Slide As Iran Claims ‘Ceasefire Violations’ Amid Middle-East Tensions: A

Leading cryptocurrencies fell alongside stock futures Sunday evening as tensions between the U.S. and Iran increased dramatically over the weekend.

Crypto Market In Red

Bitcoin sharply retreated from $76,000 as trading volume spiked 20% over the last 24 hours. Ethereum dipped below $2,300, while XRP and Dogecoin also traded in the red.

Over $415 million was liquidated in the past 24 hours, with $335 million in long positions alone wiped out, according to Coinglass data.

Open interest in Bitcoin futures fell 3.76% over the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, sentiment among whale and retail traders on Binance flipped “neutral.”

“Fear” sentiment persisted in the market, according to the Crypto Fear &…

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Crypto Whale Moves $225 Million USDC Before Pulling $77.52 Million Ethereum

A crypto whale tracked as 0xeCE7 shifted $225 million in USDC onto Binance, Bybit, and Deribit and then pulled 32,007 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)—valued at about $77.52 million—off Binance after buying. The burst of activity arrives as a long-dormant Bitcoin whale has resurfaced, moving roughly $469.8 million in BTC after more than 14 years of silence and reminding traders how closely markets watch big wallets.

In a post on X, Lookonchain reported that the same address funneled the USDC to multiple venues over about 10 hours before withdrawing the 32,007 ETH from Binance. The post pegged the ETH haul at $77.52 million.

Mysterious Whale Activity Sparks Market Speculation

The Ethereum move…

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Congresswoman Bought Bitcoin Dip In March: Here’s How Much Her Trade Was – iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ:

The trading activity of members of Congress continues to draw attention from retail investors, with potential conflicts of interest based on timing of trades and committee assignments signaling red flags around the transactions.

One member of Congress is drawing attention for the purchase of an ETF, not for a potential conflict, but for the size of the trade.

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Congresswoman Buys Bitcoin ETF Again

Congresswoman Sheri Biggs (R-S.C.) recently disclosed several transactions made in March, according to the Benzinga Government Trades page.

This marks the second time Biggs has disclosed buying…

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What Classical Property Law Says Happens Next

Bitcoin’s quantum debate keeps slipping sideways because people keep arguing about two different things at once.

One question is technical: if quantum computing gets good enough to break Bitcoin’s signature scheme, the protocol can respond. New address types, migration rules, soft forks, deprecations, key rotation. That is a real engineering problem, but it is still an engineering problem.

The other question is legal: suppose someone uses a quantum computer to derive the private key for an old wallet and sweep the coins. What, exactly, just happened? Did he recover abandoned property, or did he steal someone else’s bitcoin?

In April 2026, BIP-361 proposed freezing more…

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The Whole Entire Universe: 21 Million, One Painting

There are 21 million bitcoin. That number is fixed, coded into the protocol, finite. It is one of the most consequential design decisions in the history of money, and yet for most people it remains an abstraction. Green digits cascading down a black screen like something out of The Matrix, or a talking point tossed around on a podcast.

The Japanese artist On Kawara spent nearly fifty years hand-painting a date onto a canvas every day — if he didn’t finish by midnight, he destroyed it. Anik Malcolm spent 900 hours painting 21 million beads. The impulse is the same: make the abstraction physical, make the counting matter, let the labor carry the meaning.

“The Whole Entire…

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Bitcoin Surges To $77,000 As Market Flips To Greed On Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Jumping 3%

Bitcoin climbed to $77,000 on Friday, coinciding with nearly $1 billion in liquidations of mostly shorts.

Notable Statistics:

Coinglass data shows 182,798 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $818.97 million.

SoSoValue data shows net inflows of $26.05 million from spot Bitcoin ETFs on Thursday. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw net inflows of $18.02 million.

In the past 24 hours, top gainers include RaveDAO, Ethena and Aerodrome Finance.

Notable Developments:

Trader Notes:

Ted Pillows noted heavy sell walls forming between $78,000 and $80,000, creating a strong resistance zone. He also warned that downside liquidity is thin until around $73,000, meaning a sharp pullback could occur…

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