The Senate Banking Committee announced it would hold its markup hearing for the Clarity Act on March 14.

Tokenization and digital asset-infrastructure stocks climbed as SEC Chair Paul Atkins signaled support for onchain finance rules.

Nearly 1,000 developers competed at the venue, from ecosystems like Base, Solana, and others arriving from companies like Microsoft and Google, most racing to build products around the theme of AI agents.

The SEC chair linked the rise of AI-powered financial systems with growing demand for blockchain-based market infrastructure and automated settlement.

Payward’s application would add a federally regulated trust company to the Kraken group’s existing Wyoming bank charter and Fed master account.

Price moved higher on a late volume burst, with traders watching whether compression near $1.39-$1.40 finally resolves into a larger move.

Internet Computer (ICP), up 5.8% from Thursday, was also a top performer.

The data comes ahead of what\\\'s expected to be a new Federal Reserve chairman taking the reins at the U.S. central bank later this month.

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Coinbase says the outage has been fully resolved but that it will investigate the incident fully.

BTC fell under $80,000 after U.S. strikes in Iran sent oil briefly above $100, triggering liquidations and a shift toward bearish positioning.

As Wall Street chases upside in stocks like never before, the implications for bitcoin appear bullish, though with an important caveat.

Screenshots showed BTC briefly far below global market prices, though it remains unclear whether any trades were executed at those levels or whether the move was a display issue.

Bitcoin no longer holds up as the cypherpunk-grade money it was meant to be, Zcash\\\'s Zooko Wilcox told an engaged audience.

DAO delegates approved releasing exploit-frozen ETH to an Aave-led recovery effort, though Arbitrum’s governance rules delay any transfer for at least eight days