Bitcoin strutted into the market like it owned the place, bouncing from a dip below $70,000 and marching back toward $74,000 as traders watched the charts the way reality TV fans watch a season finale — equal parts suspense, skepticism, and popcorn.

Blackrock has launched a new Ethereum staking ETF, ETHB, offering investors exposure to ETH along with staking rewards distributed as dividends. The fund debuted with over $100 million in assets and aims to combine institutional crypto exposure with yield generation.

Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to four straight days with $54 million in new capital. Ether funds also remained strong with a third day of inflows, while solana ETFs posted gains and XRP ETFs slipped into outflows.

Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) has raised more than $25 million in seed funding from major crypto investors to accelerate development of privacy-focused financial tools. The funding will support continued work on Zcash protocol upgrades and the expansion of its self-custodial wallet platform, Zodl.

Digital asset infrastructure firm Foundry Digital plans to launch a U.S.-based zcash (ZEC) mining pool in April 2026 aimed at institutional and publicly traded miners. The move signals growing interest in privacy-focused crypto and expands Foundry’s mining infrastructure beyond bitcoin.

Proof of reality platform, VeryAI, said it has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Polychain Capital to scale its infrastructure.

Solana’s next major protocol overhaul is edging closer to reality, and developers say it could dramatically reduce transaction confirmation times while simplifying the network’s core mechanics.

Brevis recently launched an end-to-end media authenticity system that allows images and videos to cryptographically prove their origins while protecting user data.

U.S. regulators move to tighten coordination as the SEC and CFTC launch a joint framework aimed at reducing regulatory conflicts, modernizing oversight, and shaping clearer rules for emerging financial markets, including crypto assets.

Corporate finance teams are beginning to view digital assets and stablecoins as practical tools for treasury management, vendor payments, and payroll, signaling a potential shift as Ripple leadership points to CFO offices as drivers of the next phase of blockchain adoption.

In a plot twist that reads like a cautionary tale from the School of Hard Knocks on Ethereum, a trader managed to vaporize roughly $50 million in seconds after reportedly clicking through a slippage warning on the Aave app—and the blockchain, as always, kept the receipts.

Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a regulatory sandbox framework under the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act.

Just when the TRUMP meme coin looked like it had fallen off a financial cliff, its promoters pulled out the old crypto playbook: throw another gala, invite the faithful, and hope the price chart stops screaming.

Wall Street finally warming up to bitcoin? Not so fast — U.S. regulators are about to drop a Basel III rule so punishing that banks eyeing the digital asset may suddenly remember they left the oven on.

A rapid wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) models in early 2026 — combined with the rise of autonomous “agentic” systems — is reshaping how companies deploy AI, as industry trackers show record-breaking release velocity and a growing shift toward practical, task-executing tools.