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Stockholm, 4th of March 2026 – Virtune AB (Publ) (“Virtune”) today announces that it has completed the monthly rebalancing of the Virtune Crypto Altcoin Index ETP, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Nasdaq Helsinki and Xetra (ISIN code SE0023260716).
In addition to the Virtune Crypto Altcoin Index ETP, Virtune’s product portfolio includes:
Virtune Bitcoin ETPVirtune Staked Ethereum ETPVirtune Stellar ETPVirtune Staked Solana ETPVirtune Staked Polkadot ETPVirtune XRP ETPVirtune Avalanche ETPVirtune Litecoin ETPVirtune Chainlink ETPVirtune Arbitrum ETPVirtune Polygon ETPVirtune Staked Cardano ETPVirtune Crypto Top 10 Index ETP SEKVirtune Crypto Top 10 Index ETP EURVirtune Bitcoin Prime ETPVirtune…
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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun has signed legislation allowing bitcoin and cryptocurrency investments in the state’s public retirement and savings plans, opening the door for state employees to gain exposure to digital assets through self-directed accounts.
The measure, House Bill 1042, requires Indiana’s public retirement boards, deferred compensation committees, and annuity savings programs to offer self-directed brokerage accounts that include at least one cryptocurrency investment option by July 1, 2027.
The accounts will allow participants to allocate a portion of their retirement savings to bitcoin, crypto assets, or crypto-linked exchange-traded funds, subject to…
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A Los Angeles County jury has found former Los Angeles Police Department officer Eric Halem guilty of kidnapping and bitcoin robbery in a 2024 home invasion that targeted a teenage cryptocurrency holder.
The verdict followed a two-week trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, where prosecutors argued that Halem, 38, and three alleged accomplices posed as police officers to gain entry to a high-rise apartment in Koreatown.
Once inside, they restrained a 17-year-old and his girlfriend and stole a hard drive containing private keys to roughly $350,000 in bitcoin.
The victim, who testified under his first name, Daniel, told jurors that the men threatened to kill him if he…
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Fundstrat’s Tom Lee says crypto could be in its final stages of weakness, or may have already bottomed, despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.
In a Monday interview on CNBC, Lee described recent volatility as a typical “risk-premium expansion,” not a structural breakdown. He expects markets to rebound into late March and potentially strengthen through April.
While “crypto winter” sentiment lingers, Lee remains bullish on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), pointing to strong network fundamentals and accelerating tokenization activity. He argues that long-term price action should ultimately track usage growth.
Lee also highlighted that Bitmain Immersion Technologies (NYSE:BMNR) has been accumulating…
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Bitcoin trades around $68,000, showing relative stability even as broader geopolitical tensions keep risk sentiment fragile.
Notable Statistics:
Coinglass data shows 111,700 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $370.30 million.
SoSoValue data shows net inflows of $458.2 million from spot Bitcoin ETFs on Monday. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw net inflows of $38.7 million.
In the past 24 hours, top gainers include River, XDC Network and Mantle.
Notable Developments:
Trader Notes: Trader Dom noted that Bitcoin’s order books on Binance are heavily skewed toward bids, the strongest imbalance seen in years.
He says a structural shift may be near, suggesting that any dip into the…
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Bitcoin is the largest pool of pristine collateral in the world.
It is scarce, globally settled, politically neutral, and cannot be diluted. Few assets combine monetary premium and liquidity at this scale. Yet borrowing against bitcoin remains expensive, fragmented, and short-term.
That mismatch is not primarily about volatility. It is about market structure. BTC-backed lending exists. But BTC-backed credit markets, in the mature sense, largely do not.
Loans Are Not Markets
If you post BTC as collateral and borrow dollars, the mechanics are simple.
Bitcoin is locked. Cash is advanced. If the loan deteriorates, the BTC is liquidated. That is origination.
In mature…
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Arthur Hayes, one of the most provocative and incisive minds in Bitcoin, has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026, returning to the world’s largest Bitcoin conference to deliver his signature blend of macroeconomic analysis, geopolitical insight, and unfiltered conviction on where the global financial system is headed — and why Bitcoin is the only rational response.
As the co-founder of BitMEX and the founder of Maelstrom, Hayes has built a reputation as one of the sharpest macro thinkers in the space, consistently ahead of the curve on the forces driving Bitcoin’s role in the broader monetary landscape. His widely-read essays have become essential reading…
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Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) on Tuesday announced a major expansion of Ripple Payments with managed custody and virtual accounts capabilities, positioning itself as the only licensed end-to-end platform for fiat and digital money movement.
The End-to-End Platform
Ripple has integrated recent acquisitions of Palisade for custody and treasury automation and Rail for virtual accounts and collections.
The platform now allows customers to collect, hold, exchange, and payout in both fiat and stablecoins within a single unified system.
The managed custody capability enables secure collection at scale, facilitating high-speed transaction signing and efficient fund sweeps to operational accounts.
Unified…
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Segregated Witness (BIP by Pieter Wuile, Eric Lombrozo, and Johnson Lau) and Taproot (BIPs by Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, and Anthony Towns) are the two largest changes ever made to the Bitcoin protocol.
The former fundamentally changed the structure of Bitcoin transactions, and in the process Bitcoin blocks, to address inherent limitations of the previous transaction structure. The latter rearchitectured some aspects of Bitcoin’s scripting language, how complex scripts are structured and validated, and introduced a new scheme for creating cryptographic signatures.
Those are both massive changes in comparison to say, adding a single opcode like…
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