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Bitcoin price retraces from $69K ATH as BTC hodlers take profit

A dormant whale from 2010 woke up to sell 1,000 BTC at $69,000 ATH, racking in $68 million in profits.

How to set up and create an Ethereum wallet

Find out how to set up CEX, DEX and hardware Ethereum wallets that are essential for efficiently traversing the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Nexo puts recent woes behind it with Middle East license approval

The company must now navigate through the subsequent phases — obtaining a preparatory license followed by the final operating license — to fully offer its crypto services to regional clients.

Coinbase asks court to reject SEC’s ‘empty chair’ securities judgment

Coinbase lawyers have requested that a U.S. court throw out a previous default judgment that deemed the secondary sales of crypto assets as “securities transactions.”

Restaking protocol EigenLayer flips Aave with $10.4B total value locked

EigenLayer is now the second-largest DeFi protocol behind Lido after taking Aave’s spot.

Bitcoin flash crash wipes $1B in ‘speculative excess’ from markets

Billions of dollars in leverage was wiped from the crypto market as Bitcoin plunged 14% in a few hours after briefly notching a new all-time high.

Cryptoqueen’s brother is freed after 3 years jail over OneCoin scheme: Report

After spending 34 months in prison, Konstantin Ignatov walked free after cooperating with prosecutors and agreeing to hand over $118,000 in ill-gotten gains.

Millions in BTC, XMR possibly stolen after reports of darknet market ‘exit scam’

Incognito Market, a darknet marketplace for narcotics trading, has reportedly exit-scammed its users of their BTC and XMR.

Bitcoin analysts say BTC price correction is just ‘healthy consolidation’

Traders say Bitcoin’s sell-off was needed, and dips are likely to be viewed as buying opportunities.

SEC claims Binance.US ‘unwilling’ to give info, requests court intervenes

Binance.US isn’t answering important questions, the SEC claims, but the crypto exchange says further requests exceeded the regulator’s bounds.

Astar Network launches Astar zxEVM on Polygon AggLayer

The new zero-knowledge layer-2 chain is the first to be integrated into AggLayer.

Lotte subsidiary partners with Aptos to build Web3 hub

The partnership is aimed at creating a Web3 hub for Lotte, a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation that oversees roughly 90 business units.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs set trading volume record amid BTC price high

U.S.-based Bitcoin ETFs saw $10 billion in trading volume on March 5, beating last week's $7.7 billion record.

OrdiZK bridge vanishes in alleged $1.4M rug pull: CertiK

The team allegedly sold hundreds of millions of tokens into the market and then disappeared from social media.

Osprey ready to sunset its OTC Bitcoin trust by sale, merger or liquidation

Once the tiny competitor to Grayscale’s GBTC, Osprey is trading at a discount and ready to take extreme measures for recovery.

Pro Bitcoin traders are cautiously bullish despite BTC’s 14% correction

Bitcoin surprised investors with a sharp sell-off today, but derivatives metrics are still neutral-to-bearish despite the 14% intraday correction.

3 reasons why Ethereum (ETH) price could hit $4K in the short-term

Despite Bitcoin’s sell-off at $69,000, ETH continues to show strength, and bulls appear to be targeting the $4,000 level.

Fetch.ai announces GPU rewards for tokenholders after $100M infrastructure investment

The incentive program will be available to FET stakers starting March 7.

Facebook, Instagram go down on Super Tuesday, take Meta stock price with them

The price for Meta had just hit an all-time record when its biggest social media was hit with a major outage.

Institutional investors execute AVAX loan

The crypto lending market has largely stagnated since the collapse of FTX.

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