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USOIL: Tokenized WTI Crude OilDeFi lobby drops airdrop lawsuit against SEC, citing crypto shift Texas-based apparel company Beba and crypto lobby group DeFi Education Fund have withdrawn a 2024 lawsui

DeFi lobby drops airdrop lawsuit against SEC, citing crypto shift
Texas-based apparel company Beba and crypto lobby group DeFi Education Fund have withdrawn a 2024 lawsuit against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its approach to airdrops, citing a recent shift in the regulator’s approach to crypto.

Beba launched a free token airdrop in March 2024 and, together with the DeFi Education Fund, filed a pre-enforcement challenge against the SEC that year.

The lawsuit alleged the regulator had adopted its digital asset enforcement policy without a formal notice-and-comment rulemaking process, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.

The voluntary dismissal, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Friday, cites the SEC Crypto Task Force’s work and statements by Commissioner Hester Peirce in several speeches last year suggesting airdropped tokens are not securities.

The filing also flags Peirce’s suggestion in May that the SEC is considering an exemption framework for airdrops, and a White House executive action from January encouraging the regulator to establish a “safe harbor for certain airdrops.”

“Given the good work done by the SEC Crypto Task Force and recent speeches that suggest a change in the Commission’s position regarding free airdrops, we decided continuing was unnecessary for the time being and we can re-file if we need to later on,” the DeFi Education Fund said in an X post on Friday.

“The DEF team expects that the SEC Crypto Task Force will address airdrops soon—the foundational issue at hand in this lawsuit,” it added.

Case dismissed without prejudice, for now

The dismissal was filed without prejudice, preserving Beba’s and the DeFi Education Fund’s right to refile if needed.

“Should the expected guidance fail to materialize or be insufficient, Plaintiffs preserve their right to refile their claims,” lawyers acting for the pair wrote in the court document.

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Bitcoin’s underlying structure continues to strengthen. In the early hours of Tuesday, the asset briefly reclaimed $76,000, a level last seen on the 4th of February, extending its recovery momentum.

At the core of this move is a shift in supply dynamics. On-chain data shows a sustained slowdown in Bitcoin inflows to centralized exchanges—key venues where sell pressure typically materializes. This trend points to reduced intent to sell across the market.

Long-term holders tighten supply at key levels

Long-term holders have emerged as the dominant force behind Bitcoin’s [BTC] improving fundamentals.

Data from Alphractal tracking Coin Days Destroyed (CDD)—a metric used to measure whether older coins are being spent—shows that long-term holders have remained largely inactive. In effect, older supply is staying off the market.

More notably, this inactivity has pushed holding behavior to a four-year extreme, last observed in 2022, a period that preceded a strong bullish phase.

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Source: Alphractal

This reflects a clear shift in conviction: investors are opting to hold rather than distribute, typically a signal that expected returns outweigh current selling incentives.

The Binary CDD, a supply-adjusted variant of the metric, confirms this trend. It continues to show minimal distribution from long-term holders, reinforcing the view that structural sell pressure remains limited.

This tightening supply backdrop has coincided with a 12.84% price increase since the 9th of March, supporting the broader upward trend.

Supply conditions remain supportive despite ESR rise

From a supply standpoint, market conditions remain constructive, though not without nuance. The Exchange Supply Ratio (ESR) has risen to 0.13 after trending upward over the past two days.

Under normal conditions, a rising ESR—indicating a higher propo

Bitcoin’s underlying structure continues to streng

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Grayscale’s Head of Research, Zach Pandl, has stated that crypto assets like XRP could see a repricing once the CLARITY Act provides regulatory clarity. The analyst indicated that the altcoin could be among the tokens that benefit the most, especially if it becomes less inflationary.

Pundit Agrees XRP Could See Repricing With CLARITY Act
In an X post, crypto pundit Archie drew attention to an interview Pandl had on the Paul Barron podcast in which the Grayscale executive agreed that XRP could see a repricing once the CLARITY Act passes. Barron specifically questioned Pandl about Section 205 of the Act, which could make Ripple restructure its XRP holdings in a bid to make the token more decentralized.

Pandl noted that this could boost XRP’s value, especially if future inflation is reduced. This could come in the form of Ripple potentially reducing its token unlocks. Archie commented on Pandl’s remarks, highlighting how reduced inflation could unlock value across the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The Grayscale executive had also noted that their XRP ETF was already seeing huge investor demand, which could increase once there is regulatory clarity.

Commenting on this, Archie stated that people are positioning early because they know what is coming, and that institutions are seeking exposure. He also noted that the popularity of these XRP ETFs is “off the charts” even before the passage of the CLARITY Act. The pundit predicts that the crypto market will see the largest liquidity injection ever once the long-awaited clarity arrives.

Archie also mentioned that trillions in sidelined capital will flood in, ETFs will go “nuclear,” and that XRP will lead the charge into mainstream adoption. He affirmed that this is not hype or any sort of manipulation but simply seeing everything they had predicted become reality.

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One of the largest South Korean financial conglomerates has partenerd up with a major UK-based global bank to deepen cooperation in global finance and crypto assets.

A Transnational Crypto Deal
Incumbents are keen not to be left behind on the crypto curve, so much so that some of them are now joining forces. That seems to be the case for Hana Financial Group and Standard Chartered Group as on March 15th they announced the signing of a MOU (memorandum of understanding). By teaming up, the two lenders aim to turn stablecoins and other digital assets into a new growth engine alongside their existing international banking business.


Chairman Ham of Han Financial Group and Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered Group, at the signing ceremony in Seoul. Source: Seoul Economic Daily.
According to The Korea Times, the signing ceremony took place at Hana’s Bank’s headquarters on March 13th. It was attended by Ham Young-joo, Chairman of Hana Financial Group, and Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered Group. Seoul Economic Daily reports that Ham and Winters exchanged views on cooperation in global and digital assets. Chairman Ham stated that:

The partnership between Hana Financial Group and Standard Chartered Group, leveraging their extensive global networks and diverse financial know-how, will serve as a strong competitive edge in the global financial sector. We will create new growth opportunities by generating synergies in future financial domains, including digital assets.

Winters emphasized on the capital importance that South Korea has in Asian financial markets, regarding the country as a “key hub”.

Shared Goals
The MOU covers stablecoins, deposit-token experiments, and future tokenized instruments, tying in Hana’s domestic stablecoin plans and pilots.

The Seoul Economic Daily contextualizes this move with Chairman Ham views of stablecoins as “

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Almost nine out of 10 underwater internet cable failures over the past decade caused little to no disruption to the Bitcoin network, according to new academic research.

Random Failures Vs. Targeted Cuts

The study, published in February by researchers Wenbin Wu and Alexander Neumueller of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, tracked 68 confirmed cable fault events between 2014 and 2025.

Data shows 87% of those incidents knocked fewer than 5% of Bitcoin nodes offline. Price impact was essentially nonexistent — the correlation coefficient between cable failures and Bitcoin’s market value came in at -0.02, a figure researchers describe as statistically insignificant.

The study is the first of its kind to look at Bitcoin’s exposure to physical internet infrastructure over a long stretch of time.



Source: Wenbin Wu, Alexander Neumueller

Using a country-level cascade model built on peer-to-peer network data, the researchers set out to answer a question that has circled the crypto community for years: what would actually happen to Bitcoin if the internet took a serious hit?

Their answer, at least for random failures, is: not much. Between 72% and 92% of all submarine cables connecting countries worldwide would have to fail before more than 10% of Bitcoin nodes go dark.

Subsea cables carry roughly 99% of international internet traffic. Getting to that failure threshold would require a catastrophic, near-total collapse of global internet infrastructure.But the picture changes sharply when the failure is deliberate.



Image shows map of the world's undersea cable network. Source: SubmarineCableMap

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On March 16, 2026, Solana celebrated its sixth anniversary, marking its transformation from a pandemic-era experiment into a cornerstone of the digital asset industry. Since its mainnet beta launch in 2020, the network has demonstrated remarkable resilience, overcoming technical outages, high-profile exploits, and the systemic shock of the FTX collapse.
Today, Solana stands as a leader in decentralized exchange (DEX) activity, processing over 496 billion transactions with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $2.58 trillion. This recovery has been fueled by critical infrastructure upgrades, such as the Firedancer validator client and the Alpenglow consensus upgrade, which aims to reduce transaction finality to a lightning-fast 100 milliseconds.
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