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📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote OmniPact just closed big funding. The decentralized protocol focused on peer-to-peer asset transactions raised $50 million through a private round announced today, with plans to accelerate mainnet development and cross-chain features that could reshape how people trade without middlemen. A group of institutional investors and family offices backed the round, though they’re staying quiet about their identities for now. These backers said they’re betting on OmniPact’s tech roadmap and vision for secure transactions across Web4 and traditional markets. The funding came together pretty fast, wrapping up on March 7, 2026, according…

Utexo, a startup building Bitcoin-native stablecoin settlement infrastructure, announced a $7.5 million seed round co-led by Tether, Big Brain Holdings, and Portal Ventures.  The round also included participation from Franklin Templeton, Maven11 Capital, Fulgur Ventures, Alchemy VC, Ethereal Ventures, Auros Ventures, Arcanum Capital, Paper Ventures, Axia8, FlowTraders, Plan B, Gate Ventures, Sats Ventures, and strategic angels including operators from Ledger, Hyperion, BTC Turk, Echo, Legion, and SOLV. The company was founded to address a longstanding gap in the cryptocurrency ecosystem: enabling USDT to settle natively on Bitcoin with robust, production-ready payment rails. Tether’s  CEO, Paolo Ardoino, said that Bitcoin has…

Duabu, United Arab Emirates, March 8th, 2026, PlayNewswire As aviation disruptions continue in the Gulf region following reports of a drone strike near Dubai International Airport, global crypto platform 1win has organized a private evacuation operation for its VIP clients currently in the United Arab Emirates. “Safety first,” the Owner of 1win commented on X. “When airports in Dubai closed, and many were stranded, not knowing how to get out, in less than a day, we organized the evacuation of our VIP clients on all private jets, so they could return home safely without waiting for the situation to stabilize. We…

U.K.-based Smarkets has applied to become a federally regulated prediction market exchange in the U.S.London-based betting exchange operator Smarkets has taken a formal step toward launching a federally regulated prediction market platform in the United States.A new filing posted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s industry portal on March 4 shows Smarkets Board of Trade Exchange LLC applying to become a Designated Contract Market (DCM), the regulatory status that allows platforms like Kalshi, Crypto.com, and Polymarket US to offer event contract trading nationwide under federal commodities law. If approved, the designation would allow Smarkets to operate its own exchange and…

AI crypto trading bots are rapidly transforming the way people trade cryptocurrencies. Powered by quantitative finance, these automated systems allow investors to execute data-driven strategies without manually analyzing charts or placing trades. Instead of relying on intuition, traders can use algorithmic models to process large volumes of market data and identify potential opportunities in real time.Modern quantitative trading systems apply mathematical models and advanced algorithms to analyze price movements, manage risk, and execute trades automatically across multiple exchanges. This approach is especially effective in cryptocurrency markets, which operate 24/7 and are known for high volatility.As a result, automated trading tools…

The smart money allocating to bitcoin bought the panic last week. Then it sold the rally to everyone else.Whales holding between 10 and 10,000 bitcoin accumulated heavily between Feb. 23 and March 3, when bitcoin was trading between $62,900 and $69,600, according to Santiment. That window covered the worst of the Iran war sell-off and the early stages of the recovery. When bitcoin hit $74,000 on Thursday, those same wallets started taking profit and have since offloaded roughly 66% of what they’d just bought.Wallets holding less than 0.01 BTC have been steadily increasing their positions as bitcoin slipped back below…

A class action lawsuit has been filed against prediction market Kalshi, alleging that the death carveout in the “Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader” market was not properly disclosed to users and that the platform failed to pay out winning trades.The plaintiffs said that the death carveout policy was “not incorporated into the user-facing rules summary,” and was not displayed in a way that would notify a “reasonable consumer” of the policy or its effects.“Defendants, themselves, later acknowledged that their prior disclosures were ‘grammatically ambiguous,’” the lawsuit filing said. The class action lawsuit against Kalshi. Source: Court ListenerKalshi voided trading…

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index, one of the most widely used gauges of crypto investor sentiment, has fallen back down to “extreme fear” levels after briefly recovering on Wednesday.The Crypto Fear and Greed Index is at 18 at the time of this writing, down from the 20 recorded on Friday, according to CoinMarketCap. 20 signals “fear,” an atmosphere of caution among investors, but an improvement over rock-bottom market sentiment.Sentiment briefly spiked to 25 on Wednesday, but contracted as geopolitical tensions between the US, Israel and Iran continue to erode risk appetite and increase macroeconomic uncertainty among market participants. The…

The victim offered a 10% bounty for any recovered funds and asked exchanges and investigators to help trace the transfers. A crypto holder known online as Sillytuna said on March 5 that attackers stole about $24 million worth of tokens after threatening him with violence during a real-world robbery. The incident has renewed concern about so-called “wrench attacks,” a form of crime where perpetrators use physical threats to force victims to hand over control of their crypto wallets instead of attempting to hack them. Victim Describes Violent Coercion In several posts on X, Sillytuna said the theft involved armed attackers…

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