This weekend, market watchers are fixated on a sizable whale on Hyperliquid who opened a $42 million long position on bitcoin using 40x leverage. It’s a high-wire act with no safety net, as a slip below $65,400 would trigger a full liquidation of the bet.

U.S. military strikes on Iran have jolted global energy markets, sending oil prices toward seven-month highs and injecting fresh uncertainty into inflation, central bank policy, and U.S. financial markets as traders brace for a volatile week ahead.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined an ambitious, years-long plan to make the Ethereum base layer faster, leaner, and eventually quantum-resistant, starting with shorter slot times and near-instant finality.

Bitcoin miners are back to business as usual after last month’s Arctic blast iced operations across the U.S., and the network’s hashrate has clawed its way back above the 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s) mark. Even so, mining revenue is painfully lean to start March at under $30 per petahash per second (PH/s), and difficulty is projected to climb yet again.

Bitcoin traded at $66,424 on March 1, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. EST, consolidating inside a defined $63,886 to $68,043 intraday range as the broader structure remained under pressure. While short-term charts show range stabilization, moving averages and momentum metrics continue to lean defensive across time frames.

Mahad Mohamed is a senior crypto tax and accounting specialist with over 25 years of experience in public accounting and tax advisory. His background includes work with Big Four firms and government tax authorities, giving him deep insight into regulatory review and enforcement.

Starknet has introduced strkBTC, a new wrapped bitcoin asset that enables users

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, a bill to criminalize crypto-linked foreign currency tax evasion surges in Brazil, El Salvador finalizes its Bitcoin Diploma 2.0 educational program, and Engie mulls adding bitcoin mining to its operations in Brazil.

According to a report by Lemon, an Argentina-based crypto exchange, Latin America increased its crypto user base at a rapid pace in 2025, growing adoption three times faster than the U.S. In total, the region’s users grew by almost by 20%, with Brazil leading in volumes and Argentina in active users.

Alchemy has launched a new “agentic” gateway that allows artificial intelligence

Washington’s newest crypto-fraud crackdown is starting to put real numbers on a shadowy ecosystem that has quietly drained innocent people’s savings for years. Federal prosecutors say the money trail is finally being cut off – and the amount seized is staggering.

Anthropic’s 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report makes a bold claim: software development is no longer about writing code — it’s about orchestrating AI agents that write it for you.

Alleged bitcoin extortion turned violent in Seattle as prosecutors say a suspect posed as a postal worker, forced entry into a home, and demanded cryptocurrency.

Artificial intelligence will widen wealth gaps and global conflict will deepen economic turmoil, Robert Kiyosaki warned, arguing that entrepreneurs who embrace AI will prosper while workers risk replacement amid rising geopolitical tensions.

Senate Democrats are urging a federal probe into Binance over alleged sanctions and anti-money laundering violations, intensifying scrutiny of the crypto exchange amid concerns its compliance failures could pose serious U.S. national security risks.