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Majors posted modest gains Friday with BTC hovering near the top of its month-long range even as equities struggle under rising energy prices and geopolitical stress.

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Solana's next major protocol overhaul is edging closer to reality, and developers say it could dramatically reduce transaction confirmation times while simplifying the network's core mechanics.

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XRP price started a recovery wave above $1.40 and $1.4050. The price is now consolidating and might aim for a fresh move above $1.420.

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Rising costs and AI competition are reshaping Bitcoin mining.

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Bitcoin's directional bias still depends on macroeconomic input from traditional financial markets.

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Charles Hoskinson says the Cardano ecosystem has crossed a threshold it had struggled to reach for years: a Binance spot listing for a native asset.

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Long-term holders now control roughly 14.5 million BTC — coins that have not moved in over five months and show little sign of heading back to market anytime soon. Related Reading: Bitcoin Crosses 20 Million Coins Mined — And Only 1 In 20 Remains Coins Keep Moving Off Platforms That deep freeze in holder behavior is part of a larger pattern reshaping how Bitcoin is stored and traded.

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Bitcoin rose even as equities dropped, with analysts pointing to crypto-specific demand alongside geopolitical tensions driving energy markets higher.

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Ethereum price started a recovery wave above the $2,050 zone. ETH is now showing positive signs and might aim for more gains above $2,150.

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BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum ETF (ETHB) pulled $15.5 million in trading volume on its Nasdaq debut, marking the asset manager's first crypto fund with staking.

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TLDR: Mike Alfred highlights Bitcoin's consolidation at $70,000 as a sign of resilience against global market instability. Banks like Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are facing restrictions on private loan funds, which Alfred labels a “new financial monster.

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Bitcoin price started a decent increase above the $70,000 zone. BTC is now consolidating and might aim for more gains if it clears $72,000.

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Polygon gains attention amid a Mastercard integration, driving a surge in transfer counts and exchange outflows.

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CryptoQuant's Bitcoin Bull Score Index has jumped to a value of 30, indicating bearish conditions persist for the asset, but are no longer as extreme. Bitcoin Bull Score Index Has Seen A Small Uptick In a new post on X, CryptoQuant head of research Julio Moreno has talked about the latest trend in the Bull Score Index for Bitcoin.

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Foundry, the operator of the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world, has announced plans for a Zcash mining pool geared at institutions.

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Leading cryptocurrencies rallied on Thursday, but stocks plunged as the Iran war continued to pressure global energy prices. Cryptocurrency 24-Hour Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 9:35 p.m.

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Gold is a good investment for uncertain times, like now. XRP needs to continue adding features and value to its network to succeed over the long term.

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Solana is attempting to stabilize after recent downside pressure, with the $85 level emerging as a key support zone. Price action is beginning to show early signs of base formation as bulls try to defend this area and slow the broader decline.

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Solana is drawing renewed market attention after on-chain data revealed fresh activity from Alameda Research wallets. According to blockchain analytics platform Arkham, Alameda recently unstaked approximately $17 million worth of SOL and transferred the tokens to its bankruptcy-controlled accounts.

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When a $500 billion payments giant puts your name on the list, you pay attention.Mastercard just launched its Crypto Partner Program, a global initiative pulling together more than 85 companies from across crypto, payments, and fintech. Solana is on that list. So are PayPal, Binance, Ripple, Circle, Gemini, and Paxos.

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Bitcoin has spent the past two weeks in a war zone; not literally, but functionally. Since US and Israeli forces launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28, crypto markets have been held hostage by geopolitical shock, energy price chaos, and a global risk-off mood that has kept institutional conviction firmly on the sidelines.

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Corporate finance teams are beginning to view digital assets and stablecoins as practical tools for treasury management, vendor payments, and payroll, signaling a potential shift as Ripple leadership points to CFO offices as drivers of the next phase of blockchain adoption.

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TL;DR: Strategic Alliance: Anchorage Digital integrates Puffer Finance to allow institutional clients to generate yields through the pufETH liquid restaking token. Regulated Security: Institutions can participate in the restaking ecosystem without managing their own infrastructure, keeping assets under the custody of the first federal crypto bank in the U.S.

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A fresh round of XRP speculation is building around an old question: what happens if SWIFT's modernization push ends up intersecting with infrastructure built for blockchain-based settlement? In a post on X on March 10, DropCoin developer Bird argued that the market may be underestimating how ISO 20022, tokenization, and shared-ledger infrastructure could eventually strengthen the case for the XRP Ledger in institutional finance.

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Most founders stay quiet when their asset is down bad. Vitalik Buterin is doing the opposite.Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin laid out 3 fundamental roles for Ethereum going forward. First, a global bulletin board where data can be written permanently and visibly, with nobody able to delete it.