PANews reported on March 26 that, according to Jinshi, despite Tehran's public rejection of US diplomatic initiatives and its new conditions for ending the conflict that has severely impacted the Middle East and global markets, the White House insists that peace talks with Iran are ongoing. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Wednesday, "The United States has been engaged in productive dialogue for the past three days. You are beginning to see the Iranian regime looking for a way out." Trump set a five-day deadline on Monday for Iran to negotiate an agreement to end the war. Now, half of that deadline has passed, and questions remain regarding the status of the negotiations and the likelihood of an agreement. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the United States has drafted a 15-point peace proposal, which was then passed on to Iran by Pakistan. Leavitt stated on Wednesday that the reported US proposal was "partially true," but cautioned against speculation about the anonymous plan. According to CNN, Vice President Vance may travel to Pakistan this weekend for talks on Iran. When asked to comment on the report, Leavitt said, "The situation is still dynamic, and speculation about the meeting should not be taken as a final decision before a formal announcement." With the war nearing its fourth week, both sides continue their attacks in renewed efforts to pressure each other for a solution. Iranian state television reported an attack on the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant. When asked if the new timeline indicated Trump's desire to end the war by that point, Leavitt stated that the administration "has consistently estimated that this conflict will last approximately four to six weeks."

BlockBeats news, March 26, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prepares to launch a tokenized asset innovation exemption program, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on "Tokenization and the Future of Securities: Modernizing Capital Markets" on March 25. Republican Representative Andy Barr stated that the tokenization of securities is an inevitable trend, and the U.S. needs to lead this process while protecting investors. Some Democratic lawmakers expressed concerns that the innovation exemption could weaken core securities regulation.SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said the agency will soon solicit public feedback on a series of issues related to future rulemaking, including a proposed innovation exemption that could serve as a regulatory sandbox for on-chain assets. Additionally, according to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, Paul Atkins indicated that the long-awaited tokenization innovation exemption may be introduced in the coming weeks.

BlockBeats news, March 26, Visa announced it will join the Canton Network, becoming the first major global payment company to serve as a super-validator. Visa will be one of 40 super-validators, helping banks and financial institutions move payment flows onto the blockchain.Rubail Birwadker, Head of Global Growth Products and Strategic Partnerships at Visa, stated: "Many banks view the lack of privacy as a critical barrier to moving meaningful activity on-chain. By operating as a super-validator on the Canton Network, we bring Visa-level trust, governance, and operational rigor to privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure, enabling regulated financial institutions to put payments on-chain without rethinking their operational approach."

Market Update | March 25, 2026 Key Takeaways: Market Shock: Circle (CRCL) shares tumbled 20% and Coinbase (COIN) dropped nearly 10% following news of a restrictive new draft of the U.S. Clarity Act. Regulatory Headwinds: The proposed legislation targets the core of stablecoin incentives, aiming to ban passive rewards and structures "economically equivalent to interest." Competitive Pressure: Tether is capitalizing on the moment, securing a Big Four accounting firm for a full reserve audit to aggressively capture institutional market share. A massive repricing event hit the stablecoin sector on Tuesday. Shares of USDC issuer Circle (CRCL) plunged 20%, snapping a blistering 170% rally that began in early February. The shockwaves extended to Coinbase (COIN), a key partner that derives significant revenue from USDC integrations, which saw its stock decline by nearly 10%. Circle Price Charts We identify the latest iteration of the U.S. Clarity Act as the primary catalyst for this sell-off. The draft legislation strikes at the heart of USDC's current adoption model by threatening to restrict yield generation on stablecoin balances. The End of the "Pass-Through" Yield Model? While the earlier GENIUS Act explicitly banned issuers from paying yield directly to retail users, companies quickly engineered workarounds. The dominant structure became a "pass-through" model: Circle accrues interest on the traditional assets backing USDC and shares a portion of that revenue with platforms like Coinbase, which then distribute rewards to their end-users. The Clarity Act aims to close this loophole entirely by banning any financial structure deemed "economically equivalent to interest." As Amir Hajian, a digital asset researcher at Keyrock, noted, this legislative move effectively "pulls the rug on the pass-through model that has been driving stablecoin adoption." Similarly, Shay Boloor, Chief Market Strategist at Futurum Equities, argued that stripping away yield limits USDC’s trajectory toward becoming a true store-of-value asset. Tether Moves to Widen the Gap Complicating the landscape for Circle is an aggressive credibility play by its primary rival. Tether, the issuer behind USDT, announced it has retained one of the "Big Four" accounting firms to execute a long-awaited full audit of its reserves. If this audit successfully demonstrates robust risk management, Tether is positioned to significantly bolster its image among institutional players, potentially cannibalizing USDC’s market share precisely when Circle is battling regulatory headwinds. Wall Street’s Verdict: Crisis or Overreaction? Despite the red on the charts, institutional analysts are cautioning against panic, suggesting the severe price drop may be amplified by the stock's massive recent outperformance. Underlying Growth Remains Strong: Dan Dolev, an analyst at Mizuho, pointed out that the recent outperformance in USDC transfer volume proves that "use cases are starting to proliferate, which is a positive for the long-term." The Coinbase Paradox: Dolev also highlighted a counterintuitive short-term benefit for Coinbase. Because USDC accounts for roughly 20% of Coinbase's revenue—much of which is paid out as user rewards—a forced halt to these payouts could actually boost the exchange's near-term profitability. Market Overreaction: Owen Lau at Clear Street categorized the sell-off as a classic case of the market acting on impulse. "The actual situation doesn’t appear to be as bad as the headline indicates," Lau stated. "The market tends to shoot first and ask questions later." Looking Ahead Is this the end of stablecoin incentives? Likely not. Ryan Rasmussen, Head of Research at Bitwise, emphasized that the market will adapt. "There will be workarounds," Rasmussen projected, pointing to loyalty programs as a potential alternative to direct yield. Despite Tuesday's drop, Circle remains up more than 30% year-to-date. The company commands a 30% share of a stablecoin market that is projected to grow 10x over the next four years. Trade with Perspective on Tapbit: Regulatory news routinely triggers volatility spikes. We advise our traders to manage risk carefully, avoid over-leveraging during periods of legislative uncertainty, and monitor the progression of the Clarity Act closely. Ready to navigate the market volatility? Start trading on Tapbit today and leverage our advanced charting tools to stay ahead of the curve.

BlockBeats News, March 25th, according to The Washington Post, court records reveal that a senior aide to U.S. Department of Justice official Jenny Piro acknowledged in a closed-door hearing this month that the Justice Department lacks evidence of misconduct in its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Powell regarding the renovation costs of the Federal Reserve building. (Jin10)

BlockBeats News, March 25 – The U.S. government has presented Iran, via Pakistan, with a 15-point conflict resolution proposal covering nuclear programs, missile capabilities, and regional issues.Reportedly, the main U.S. demands include: dismantling existing nuclear capabilities, committing to not developing nuclear weapons, prohibiting uranium enrichment on its territory, transferring approximately 60% of its stockpile of high-enriched uranium, dismantling nuclear facilities such as Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow, and allowing comprehensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).Additionally, the U.S. demands that Iran cease support for regional allied armed groups, prohibiting financial, command, and weapons assistance to them, and restrict the scale and range of its ballistic missile program to defensive purposes only, while ensuring the Strait of Hormuz remains open.In exchange, Iran may receive a comprehensive lifting of international sanctions, U.S. support for its civilian nuclear program development, and the removal of the 'snapback sanctions' mechanism. It is understood that the U.S. is considering pushing for a one-month ceasefire to facilitate further negotiations on these terms.This proposal is being promoted by Trump advisors, including Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.Separately, Israeli sources reported on the 24th that the U.S. intends to propose a one-month ceasefire to discuss a 15-point agreement aimed at ending the war with Iran. (CCTV)

The financial media loves the ongoing feud between Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan and Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour. They are fighting a brutal, zero-sum war over user acquisition, regulatory approval, and trading volume. But if you sit on a trading desk, you don't read Twitter beefs; you track wire transfers. And this week, regulatory filings revealed a massive anomaly: both of these rival CEOs quietly backed the exact same venture capital fund. The vehicle is 5c(c) Capital—a new $35 million fund named after the Commodity Exchange Act section that governs event contracts. Driven by early Kalshi alumni and backed by heavyweights including Marc Andreessen and a Millennium Management portfolio manager, this fund represents a massive shift in how smart money views event-driven trading. When two founders who despise each other financially align on a single entity, it is not a peace treaty. It is a mathematical realization that their sector's infrastructure is breaking. Here is our desk's read on why this fund exists, and what it means for the derivatives market. They Aren't Building Exchanges. They Are Building Plumbing. Prediction markets have officially transitioned from niche crypto experiments into multi-billion-dollar macro instruments. Kalshi and Polymarket are both pushing valuations near or above the $20 billion mark. Post-election trading volume has exploded, bringing retail giants like Robinhood and Kraken into the fray. But there is a severe bottleneck: the backend plumbing. 5c(c) Capital is not raising $35 million to build a third prediction market. They are building the picks and shovels. The fund plans to deploy capital into roughly 20 early-stage startups focused entirely on secondary infrastructure. This means: Specialized Market Makers: Traditional crypto market makers don't fully understand how to price binary event contracts. 5c(c) is funding algorithms built specifically for this liquidity. Decentralized Oracles & Data Layers: Secure systems that can resolve highly complex geopolitical or economic bets without relying on easily manipulated, centralized news sources. Compliance Engines: Tooling required to navigate the aggressive state and federal regulatory landscape. Coplan and Mansour invested their personal capital into 5c(c) because they desperately need these secondary companies to exist. Without independent market makers and robust liquidity engines, their multi-billion-dollar exchanges will choke on their own institutional order flow. They are funding the infrastructure for their own gold rush. Attention as a Liquid Asset Class This move confirms a thesis we have been trading on for months: Attention is now a liquid asset class. In traditional finance, you trade the reaction to an event. If the Fed cuts rates, you buy equities. Prediction markets allow you to trade the probability of the event itself. By funding the infrastructure layer, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are signaling that event-based trading is not a temporary fad—it is becoming a permanent derivative layer that sits parallel to options and perpetual futures. The Tapbit Execution Plan For the active crypto derivatives trader, prediction markets should no longer be viewed as a distraction. They are your ultimate tail-risk hedging tool. If you are running heavily leveraged crypto perpetuals on the Tapbit Exchange, your portfolio is highly exposed to macro news cycles. Professional traders are increasingly using Polymarket or Kalshi contracts to hedge that exact risk. By allocating a small amount of capital to a "Yes" contract on a specific macro event, you are essentially buying cheap insurance for your core margin positions. How to play this shift: Stop looking for the next exchange token: The alpha is no longer in the prediction platforms themselves. Watch the infrastructure plays—the oracle networks, data aggregators, and liquidity protocols that will power these markets on the backend. Separate your execution: Keep your heavy, high-frequency execution on a high-performance engine designed for crypto volatility. Use prediction markets purely as a supplementary risk-management layer. Before the next major macroeconomic headline hits the tape, log in to your Tapbit account to audit your margin health and tighten your stop-losses. If you need an institutional-grade platform that doesn't freeze when volatility spikes, register your free Tapbit account here. Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency markets and DeFi protocols carry extreme risk. Always conduct your own due diligence before executing trades or staking assets on Tapbit or any other platform.

If you are trading this Tuesday morning using a 1990s macroeconomic textbook, you are probably getting your account chopped to pieces. The legacy rulebook is simple: when geopolitical conflict escalates, you sell equities, buy crude oil, and blindly long gold as the ultimate safe haven. But if you look at the raw tape across global markets right now, that script is completely broken. Over the last 24 hours, the situation in the Middle East has severely deteriorated. With reports indicating that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are opening their airbases to U.S. forces, we are no longer looking at a contained, localized operation. We are looking at a massive, regional coalition war. The Strait of Hormuz is functionally bottlenecked, and Brent crude just violently spiked 4% to test the $104 mark. European shares are sliding. S&P 500 futures are bleeding. By every historical metric, gold should be printing all-time highs. Instead, gold is suffering its longest daily losing streak on record, completely collapsing under institutional sell pressure. Meanwhile, Bitcoin—the asset legacy finance dismisses as purely speculative—has shrugged off a weekend slide, bounced 3.1%, and is stubbornly defending the $70,352 level, dragging ETH and SOL up with it. Why is the 5,000-year-old safe haven in freefall while the volatile digital asset holds the line? Here is the unfiltered breakdown of the market mechanics from the Tapbit derivatives desk. The Gold Crash is a Margin Call ATM To understand Bitcoin's relative strength today, you have to understand exactly why gold is dying. A safe-haven asset crashing during an active war doesn't mean investors suddenly hate gold. Markets don't trade on pure sentiment; they trade on liquidity. Right now, massive multi-strategy hedge funds are watching their equity portfolios and European stock positions go deep underwater. When prime brokers issue margin calls to cover those bleeding equity positions, funds are forced to raise U.S. Dollars instantly. When you get a margin call, you don't sell your highly illiquid, losing positions. You sell your most liquid assets to raise cash. Because gold is deeply integrated into the traditional prime brokerage collateral system, it has become Wall Street's ATM. This unprecedented dump isn't a fundamental shift in gold's value; it is a forced, mechanical liquidity flush to prevent total portfolio liquidations. Why is Bitcoin Defending $70,000? While gold gets liquidated for USD cash, Bitcoin is acting like an absolute fortress. This divergence is the most disorienting signal in global finance today. Source: Coinmarketcap There are two ways we are reading this action on the desk: 1. The Collateral Isolation: Bitcoin and crypto assets are largely siloed from the traditional Wall Street prime brokerage networks. When a macro fund gets a margin call on their S&P 500 longs, their prime broker automatically liquidates their gold or treasuries. They don't typically have automated cross-margin access to spot Bitcoin to liquidate it. Crypto is surviving simply because it isn't part of the traditional collateral wrecking ball. 2. The True Digital Gold Test: We might actually be witnessing the real-time activation of the "digital gold" thesis. With the U.S. Dollar strengthening and physical gold proving vulnerable to Wall Street liquidity crunches, capital might be actively rotating into Bitcoin as a non-sovereign, unseizable asset that operates completely outside the legacy banking system. The Desk Execution Plan Do not let the green numbers on your crypto terminal make you arrogant. The macro environment is incredibly hostile. If Brent crude stays above $104, the Federal Reserve's inflation fight gets infinitely harder. Sticky inflation means interest rates stay higher for longer, which eventually suffocates risk assets. Furthermore, the five-day window Trump gave Iran expires this Saturday. A regional coalition fighting a direct war puts oil infrastructure on both sides of the Gulf at severe risk. Here is the playbook for the rest of the week: Crypto is the only market on earth that stays open 24/7. When the traditional equity and commodity markets close on Friday afternoon, they are locked until Monday. That means anykinetic military escalation that happens over the weekend will be priced entirely into Bitcoin's order book. Expect violent, erratic liquidity wicks this weekend as the market attempts to price in a war with limited liquidity. Log in to your Tapbit account right now and audit your open positions. If you are trading perpetual futures, tighten your leverage and ensure your hard stop-losses are firmly placed below structural support. If you want to trade this extreme volatility with institutional-grade matching engines that don't freeze when the market nukes, register your free Tapbit account here and get your limit orders set up before the weekend chaos begins. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) If war causes inflation, shouldn't both Gold and Bitcoin be pumping? In a vacuum, yes. But markets are currently dealing with an acute liquidity crisis, not just an inflation trade. Institutions are hoarding U.S. Dollars to cover losses elsewhere. When the Dollar Index (DXY) spikes, assets priced in dollars (like gold) get mechanically crushed. Bitcoin is currently outperforming because it has massive native retail and ETF support that isn't caught up in those specific Wall Street margin calls. Is this the start of a massive Bitcoin bull run decoupling from traditional finance? It is too early to call a permanent decoupling. While Bitcoin is showing incredible relative strength at $70,000, it is still operating within a known trading range. For a true decoupling to be confirmed, we need to see BTC break local highs while traditional equities continue to print lower lows. Until then, treat this as range-bound resilience, not a confirmed moonshot.

Deep Tide TechFlow news, March 24, according to Bitget data, the Nikkei 225 index on March 24 (Tuesday) opened up 894.86 points, a gain of 1.74%, at 52,410.35 points. The South Korean KOSPI index on March 24 (Tuesday) opened up 236.56 points, a gain of 4.38%, at 5,642.31 points.

PANews reported on March 24th, citing Bloomberg, that New York-based digital asset management firm ParaFi raised $125 million for its new fund in March, backed by KKR co-founder Henry Kravis. ParaFi stated that since the beginning of 2025, it has raised $325 million for its existing digital asset-related investment strategies. Currently, the company manages approximately $2 billion in assets. Founder Ben Forman stated that ParaFi is already an investor in projects such as prediction market giant Polymarket, asset management firm Bitwise, and crypto custody provider Anchorage, and is currently focusing on companies active in the stablecoin, tokenization, and institutional on-chain finance sectors.