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Visa and Bridge to Bring Stablecoin-Linked Cards to 100+ Countries

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Visa is accelerating stablecoin adoption across global payments, unveiling a plan to expand onchain settlement and crypto-linked card programs to more than 100 countries as institutional momentum builds around blockchain-based fund transfers. Visa Expands Stablecoin Card and Onchain Settlement Push With Bridge Global payments firms are deepening their push into stablecoin-based settlement. Visa (NYSE: V) […]

$100 Oil Incoming? Energy Traders Brace for Crude Rallies as Middle East Tensions Escalate

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Oil traders are suddenly pricing in a risk many desks had pushed to the background: what happens when the Middle East’s most important chokepoint becomes a frontline. Strait of Hormuz Jitters Fuel War Premium, Even as Some See Limits to $100 Breakout Crude rallied as the conflict involving Iran, the U.S., and Israel escalated, with […]

Bitcoin at a Crossroads: Compression Between $63K and $70K Nears Resolution

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Bitcoin trades at $67,361 per unit on March 3, 2026, with a market cap of $1.34 trillion and a 24-hour trading volume of around $62.67 billion. The session’s intraday range stretched from $65,380 to $69,850, reinforcing continued compression beneath the $70,000 threshold. Bitcoin Chart Outlook On the daily chart, bitcoin remains within a broader lower-high, […]

Cake Wallet Integrates Non-Custodial Lightning Payments

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Cake Wallet has launched a self-custodial Lightning Network integration using the Breez SDK and Spark to enable instant, private bitcoin payments. On March 2, 2026, Cake Wallet announced the integration of the Lightning Network (LN) into its multi-currency platform. By leveraging the Breez Software Development Kit (SDK) and Spark, a next-generation Bitcoin layer-two network, the […]

Anchorage Digital and Tether Release First USAT Stablecoin Reserve Report

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Anchorage Digital Bank and Tether’s U.S.-focused stablecoin venture released their first reserve report this week, showing the stablecoin token USAT fully backed by dollar-denominated assets with a modest surplus cushion as of Jan. 31. Tether’s U.S. Stablecoin USAT Posts Overcollateralized Reserves in First Report Anchorage Digital Bank, a federally chartered national trust bank regulated by […]

Samson Mow Sees Bitcoin Bearish Pressure Eroding as Strategy, Metaplanet, Fed Shift Market Dynamics

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Bitcoin’s 2026 bearish window is rapidly closing as corporate treasury accumulation accelerates and macro tailwinds build, tightening supply and reinforcing institutional demand, according to Jan3 CEO Samson Mow. Samson Mow Warns 2026 Bitcoin Bearish Window Is Closing Jan3 CEO Samson Mow shared on social media platform X on March 2 that he believes the window […]

‘Good, Sensible Outcome’ — Judge Dismisses Class Action Against Uniswap Labs in New York

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A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed with prejudice all remaining claims against Uniswap Labs and its CEO, Hayden Adams, delivering a decisive courtroom win for decentralized finance ( DeFi) developers accused of facilitating crypto scams. ‘Another Day, Another Precedent-Setting Ruling for DeFi,’ Uniswap Foundation’s General Counsel Says On March 2, 2026, U.S. District Judge […]