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Alameda Triggers $17M Solana Unstaking As Creditor Liquidations Resume

Alameda Research has unstaked approximately $17 million worth of SOL and moved the tokens to its bankruptcy-controlled accounts, as part of ongoing efforts to liquidate assets and distribute funds to creditors. The firm, which collapsed alongside FTX in November 2022, still holds around $321 million in SOL, making it one of the largest known holders tied to the FTX estate. These movements are closely monitored due to the potential market impact, as periodic distributions could introduce selling pressure. Despite this, Solana maintains strong on-chain activity and developer engagement, which continue to support long-term interest in the asset.

bitcoinist03/13 05:01

Alameda Triggers $17M Solana Unstaking As Creditor Liquidations Resume

bitcoinist03/13 05:01

Crypto Morning Brief: TRUMP Team to Host Banquet for Holders, Backpack Plans TGE This Month

Crypto Morning Brief: Key updates from March 13 include a speech by SEC Commissioner Atkins advocating for streamlined regulation and innovation exemptions for tokenized equities. BlackRock launched its first staked Ethereum ETF (ETHB), offering both ETH exposure and staking rewards. The TRUMP token team announced a summit and banquet for top token holders in April 2026. Backpack confirmed its TGE is scheduled for March 23. Avantis introduced a token buyback and burn program using 30% of daily trading fees. In AI and tech, Perplexity unveiled "Personal Computer," an AI-integrated Mac mini, while Tencent responded to data scraping allegations related to ClawHub. Funding highlights include Cryptio raising $45M for crypto accounting software, Oro Labs securing $100M for AI procurement automation, and Eightco Holdings completing a $125M round with investments in OpenAI and Beast Industries. Market analysis and opinion pieces covered topics like AI narrative arbitrage, the evolution of crypto exchanges, Bitcoin treasury strategies, and talent polarization in AI.

marsbit03/13 01:07

Crypto Morning Brief: TRUMP Team to Host Banquet for Holders, Backpack Plans TGE This Month

marsbit03/13 01:07

$50 Million Gone with One 'Confirmation'! The Most Expensive Slip in DeFi History is Born

An anonymous crypto "whale" accidentally lost nearly $50 million in what is being called DeFi's most expensive "fat-finger" error. The user attempted to swap 50.43 million USDT for AAVE tokens via the Aave mobile app interface. Due to extremely low liquidity for AAVE tokens, the massive trade caused catastrophic slippage of over 99%, resulting in the user receiving only 324 AAVE (worth ~$36,000) instead of the intended amount. Aave's founder Stani Kulechov confirmed the user manually confirmed a risk warning checkbox on the high-slippage transaction before proceeding. The protocol functioned as designed, but the incident sparked intense debate: some argue users bear full responsibility in DeFi, while others criticize the UI/UX for inadequate safeguards for such large transactions. The wallet has been linked by analysts to a Bitcoin whale address holding ~80,000 BTC, suggesting the user may be a wealthy early adopter. Aave has pledged to refund the $600,000 in fees from the trade and improve safety measures like stricter slippage limits. The event highlights critical DeFi challenges: amplified risk from user errors, urgent need for better UX safeguards, MEV exploitation, and user education gaps.

比推03/13 00:38

$50 Million Gone with One 'Confirmation'! The Most Expensive Slip in DeFi History is Born

比推03/13 00:38

Ripple Just Shared Its Major Achievements As XRP Continues To Dominate Payments

Ripple has published a report detailing major achievements of its payments platform and XRP. The report highlights Ripple Payments' expansion into a global end-to-end platform that supports fiat, stablecoins, and digital assets like XRP. Operating under over 75 financial licenses in key markets, the platform simplifies cross-border transactions, reduces costs, and improves efficiency compared to traditional systems like SWIFT. Recent acquisitions, including Palisade and Rail, have enhanced custody, wallet, and treasury services. Ripple Payments now supports payouts in over 60 markets and has processed over $100 billion in transactions. Additionally, Ripple's stablecoin, RLUSD, surpassed a $1 billion market cap within a year of launch.

bitcoinist03/13 00:02

Ripple Just Shared Its Major Achievements As XRP Continues To Dominate Payments

bitcoinist03/13 00:02

Bybit Pay Integrates Mastercard Crypto Credential for Alias-Based Crypto Transfers

Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has integrated its payment service, Bybit Pay, with the Mastercard Crypto Credential network. This integration enables users to send and receive digital assets using simple, verified aliases like an email address or phone number, eliminating the need for long, complex wallet addresses. Mastercard Crypto Credential verifies that both sender and receiver are registered, compliant, and that their wallets are technically compatible with the chosen asset and blockchain before any transaction occurs. This pre-transaction validation reduces the risk of errors, misdirected funds, and failed transfers. Key features include alias-based transfers, pre-transaction verification, global multi-chain interoperability, and built-in trust assurances. The partnership aims to make crypto transactions as simple and secure as traditional payments, furthering the adoption of digital assets in everyday life.

TheNewsCrypto03/12 23:30

Bybit Pay Integrates Mastercard Crypto Credential for Alias-Based Crypto Transfers

TheNewsCrypto03/12 23:30

Corporate Ethereum Demand Drives ETH Treasury Holdings To All-Time High

Corporate demand for Ethereum is driving institutional ETH treasury holdings to an all-time high of over 7.4 million ETH, representing 6.6% of the circulating supply. Despite recent price decline, companies are increasingly treating ETH as a strategic reserve asset rather than a speculative investment. Bitmine Immersion Technologies, for example, holds $9.21 billion worth of ETH, with a significant portion staked. Meanwhile, technical analysis suggests ETH's price could drop to $1,600 if it fails to hold the $2,000 support level, based on Stochastic RSI indicators.

bitcoinist03/12 20:32

Corporate Ethereum Demand Drives ETH Treasury Holdings To All-Time High

bitcoinist03/12 20:32

Ethereum Treasury Companies Still In The Game? Here’s What They’ve Been Up To

Despite the crypto market downturn, Ethereum treasury companies Bitmine and Sharplink continue advancing their ETH strategies. Bitmine purchased an additional 60,976 ETH last week, bringing its total to 4.535 million ETH (3.76% of supply) and is over 75% toward its goal of holding 5%. The company has staked over 3 million ETH, with its chairman, Tom Lee, stating their staking rewards could reach $259 million annually. Sharplink, holding over 863,020 ETH, outlined its 2025 strategy to compound ETH per share and generate yield above native staking rates, though it has paused purchases. Both companies are sitting on significant unrealized losses. The Ethereum Foundation also plans to stake 70,000 ETH. ETH price was trading around $2,000 at the time of writing.

bitcoinist03/12 19:02

Ethereum Treasury Companies Still In The Game? Here’s What They’ve Been Up To

bitcoinist03/12 19:02

Binance.US Eyes DeFi And Tokenized Assets Under New CEO

Binance.US is charting a new strategic direction under its newly appointed CEO, Stephen Gregory, who brings a strong compliance background from previous roles at Gemini and CEX.IO. The company plans to expand into decentralized finance (DeFi) and tokenized assets, signaling ambitions beyond recovery from past legal challenges. This shift follows the dismissal of a 2023 SEC lawsuit against the exchange in May 2025, which had previously forced the platform to suspend dollar transactions and scale back operations. Since restoring banking services a year ago, Binance.US has introduced new rewards, staking, and referral programs to regain user trust. The move into tokenized assets—digital representations of stocks and other instruments—aligns with industry trends, as major exchanges compete to offer more diverse financial products.

bitcoinist03/12 17:31

Binance.US Eyes DeFi And Tokenized Assets Under New CEO

bitcoinist03/12 17:31

Firecrawl Launches Web Scraping Tool for Agents, NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Super: What's the English Community Discussing Today?

Over the past 24 hours, key discussions in the English-speaking crypto and AI communities centered on several major developments. Firecrawl launched a CLI toolchain specifically for AI agents, enabling efficient web scraping and data extraction, though its pricing drew some criticism. Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, raising both excitement and concerns over latency and safety. Google introduced Nano Banana 2, a high-speed image generation model, though its naming was met with mixed reactions. In AI agent infrastructure, Base44’s Superagent entered the cloud-based agent automation space, intensifying competition with local solutions like OpenClaw and raising debates over security and centralization. Ramp’s AI Index suggested Anthropic is gaining traction as the preferred enterprise AI vendor over OpenAI. In crypto, Solana continued to strengthen its infrastructure with DoubleZero Edge’s real-time market data via multicast technology and led in stablecoin transfer volume after filtering wash trading. Jupiter launched its Season 2 rewards program with a $2M JupUSD pool. Ethereum saw progress in L2 interoperability with on.eth addressing cross-chain identity fragmentation. Base ecosystem projects like Noise.xyz and rip.fun attracted significant attention, while Circle experimented with AI agents autonomously managing a hackathon using USDC. Perp DEX Lighter introduced a revised market structure to improve fairness, and prediction market platform Kalshi noted growing institutional engagement, with Marco Rubio emerging as an early favorite for the 2028 U.S. presidential election. Overall, themes included the shift toward cloud-based AI agents, model capability races, enterprise AI adoption, and the maturation of on-chain trading and prediction markets.

marsbit03/12 15:41

Firecrawl Launches Web Scraping Tool for Agents, NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Super: What's the English Community Discussing Today?

marsbit03/12 15:41

Open Interest in Options Exceeds Futures for the First Time: How Are On-Chain Derivatives Approaching the Eve of an Explosion?

The cryptocurrency options market is experiencing significant growth, with Bitcoin options open interest reaching $65 billion in mid-2025, surpassing futures open interest for the first time. This shift highlights increasing institutional demand for defined-risk tools like options over pure leverage instruments. While centralized platforms like Deribit (acquired by Coinbase) and CME’s IBIT options dominate, on-chain derivatives are gaining traction but remain nascent. DeriveXYZ leads in on-chain options with over $700 million in notional trading volume, having evolved from an AMM to a gas-free central limit order book on its own Layer 2. Its portfolio margin system and cross-margin support appeal to institutional users. Similarly, KyanExchange combines order book matching with on-chain portfolio margins and partial liquidation mechanisms. Structured products and hedging needs are driving adoption, as evidenced by the success of options-based yield strategies in TradFi. Regulatory clarity is improving, with recent SEC-CFTC joint statements and legislative progress reducing uncertainty. CME’s planned 24/7 crypto options trading further signals maturation. Though on-chain options are still early, infrastructure and regulatory developments suggest potential for expansion.

比推03/12 14:05

Open Interest in Options Exceeds Futures for the First Time: How Are On-Chain Derivatives Approaching the Eve of an Explosion?