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03/25
Wednesday
08:06
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)
03/24
Tuesday
18:29
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.
16:04
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.
08:08
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.
08:07
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.
08:05
PANews reported on March 24 that, according to OKX market data, BTC has just broken through $71,000 and is currently trading at $71,004.80 per coin, a daily increase of 1.24%.
08:05
BlockBeats news, March 24th, according to HTX market data, Bitcoin has broken through $71,000, with a 24-hour increase of 4.66%.
08:04
BlockBeats news, March 24, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, two newly created addresses withdrew 10,137 ETH from Binance, equivalent to approximately $21.76 million. Among them:· Address "0x905" withdrew 7,164 ETH from Binance, valued at $15.37 million;· Address "0x703" withdrew 2,973 ETH from Binance, valued at $6.39 million.
03/23
Monday
17:19
If you’ve been trying to catch the knife on XRP this week, you are probably feeling the burn right now. For the better part of a month, the bulls fought tooth and nail to defend the $1.40 support line. But markets are ruthless when liquidity dries up. After a sharp wave of selling over the last 24 hours, XRP has officially printed a 3.7% drop, slicing straight through that defensive line to trade in the $1.38 zone. When a major psychological and technical floor breaks, the trading mechanics change instantly. That $1.40 floor has now flipped into a heavy resistance ceiling. Here is an unfiltered look from the Tapbit Exchange trading desk at what the tape is actually telling us, why the institutional bids disappeared, and where you should be placing your limit orders next. The Fundamental Drain: Where Did the Institutional Bid Go? You can’t look at this breakdown as just a technical failure; it’s a demand problem. Earlier this year, the narrative propping up XRP was the anticipation of heavy spot ETF inflows. But the actual data is painting a very different picture. Weekly ETF inflows for the asset just clocked in at a dismal $636,000. In institutional terms, that isn't just low—it’s essentially flatline participation. Without macro funds stepping in to passively absorb the daily retail sell pressure, every single relief rally is getting sold into. Since mid-March, every attempt to push the price back toward the $1.55–$1.60 macro resistance zone has faded. There simply isn't enough fresh capital in the order books to sustain a breakout. The Chart: A Textbook Distribution Channel Let’s look at the intraday structure. The breakdown below $1.40 wasn't a sudden flash crash; it was a slow bleed that we’ve been tracking for days. XRP Price Charts Following a high-volume push toward $1.4018 late last night, the buyers simply exhausted themselves. Price action has now locked into a clear descending channel between $1.38 and $1.42. If you look at the volume profile, we are seeing lower highs forming on declining volume. In trading terms, this is a classic distribution pattern. It tells us that larger holders are quietly offloading their bags into whatever thin liquidity pops up on the bid side. Any late bounce attempts—like the weak push toward $1.386 we saw recently—are immediately rejected. Momentum sits entirely with the sellers right now. The Trade: What Happens if $1.38 Breaks? As a trader, you have to trade the chart in front of you, not the one you hope to see. Right now, any bounce has to be viewed as a corrective dead-cat bounce until XRP can decisively close a daily candle back above $1.41. Here is how we are mapping the immediate future: The $1.38 Trench: This is the absolute line in the sand today. If the $1.38 to $1.40 zone stabilizes, expect brutal, choppy consolidation. It will chop up highly leveraged traders before making another attempt at the $1.41 resistance. The $1.30 Liquidity Void: This is the real danger zone. If $1.38 breaks on high volume, there is very little historical support directly below it. A clean break exposes the asset to a rapid flush down toward the $1.30–$1.32 zone. This is where the order book gets thicker, and where we expect major spot buyers to finally step back in. How to Position Your Tapbit Account Trading a descending channel requires extreme patience. This is not the time to hero-long the bottom with 50x leverage. If you are trading XRP/USDT perpetuals on Tapbit this week, the play is level-to-level: For the Bears: Look for low-volume relief bounces into that $1.40–$1.41 resistance zone to build short positions, keeping your stop-losses tight just above the channel to avoid getting squeezed. For the Bulls: Stop trying to front-run the reversal. If you are building a long-term spot position, log in to your Tapbit account and ladder your buy-limit orders down in the $1.30–$1.32 accumulation zone, where the risk-to-reward ratio actually makes sense. If you want to keep an eye on how XRP is bleeding relative to Bitcoin, keep our live Crypto Prices dashboard open. And if you are still trading on an exchange with high fees during this chop, register for your Tapbit account here to protect your margins.
17:03
Let’s throw the traditional finance textbook out the window for a minute. If you’ve been watching the macro charts over the past week, you already know the old "buy gold during a war" playbook is completely broken. We are currently witnessing a massive, structural divergence across global markets, and it is catching a lot of legacy traders off guard. Asian equities are sliding toward correction territory, and Brent crude has violently spiked to $113 a barrel. But the real shocker on the trading desk? Gold is experiencing a historic meltdown, while Bitcoin is stubbornly defending its macro support levels. Here is an unfiltered look at why the traditional correlations are snapping, what the smart money is actually doing, and how to position your portfolio for the fallout. The Wrecking Ball: $113 Crude Oil You can't trade crypto right now without keeping one eye on the energy sector. The 48-hour ultimatum regarding the Strait of Hormuz—and the subsequent threat to indefinitely shut down the waterway—has triggered absolute panic among global energy suppliers. With crude oil blasting past $113, Wall Street is now pricing in what could be the largest crude supply shock in modern history. Why does this matter for your crypto bags? Because $113 oil guarantees a massive resurgence of inflation. If inflation spikes, central banks cannot cut interest rates; they might actually have to hike them. The sudden realization that we are entering a "higher-for-longer" rate environment has caused global bond yields to soar, instantly draining liquidity out of the stock market. The Gold Flush: A Classic Dash for Cash This brings us to the biggest anomaly of the month. Gold, the supposed ultimate hedge against geopolitical chaos, just printed its ninth consecutive daily red candle. Tracking live commodities data, physical gold has plunged toward the $4,250 level. That is an 18% drawdown from its recent highs during a period of maximum global fear. So, why is the safe haven crashing? It’s a classic dash for cash. Over the past year, nation-states were systematically hoarding gold to decouple from the U.S. dollar. But when the oil shock hit and equity portfolios started bleeding, panic set in. In a true liquidity crisis, institutional players sell what they can, not what they want. They are dumping gold to raise USD, cover margin calls in the sliding Asian stock markets, and prepare for a harsh interest rate environment. The safe-haven trade was simply too crowded, and the exit door was too small. Bitcoin's Relative Strength: The $66K Trench War In a macro environment where virtually every asset class is being liquidated, Bitcoin is showing abnormal relative strength. If you pull up the live crypto prices on Tapbit, you'll see BTC took a minor hit this week—hovering around $68,300—but it has absolutely refused to break the critical $66,000 macroeconomic floor. This is the exact same support zone that has absorbed every single geopolitical panic-dump since late February. While major altcoins are feeling the burn (with SOL slipping toward the $86 range and Dogecoin bleeding out), Bitcoin is eating the sell pressure. Why is it surviving better than gold? Clean Derivatives: Unlike gold, which is suffering from massive state-actor dumping, Bitcoin's derivatives market is remarkably clean right now. Open interest has held steady, suggesting that institutional players are treating BTC as highly liquid, 24/7 accessible collateral rather than just a speculative tech stock. The Inflation Hedge Reboot: Smart money realizes that a long-term oil crisis will heavily devalue fiat currency. While they are forced to sell gold for immediate USD liquidity today, they are keeping their Bitcoin core positions intact as a frictionless, hard-capped hedge for tomorrow. How to Trade the Chaos on Tapbit We are trading in a purely headline-driven environment. Technical patterns on a 15-minute chart mean nothing when a single geopolitical update can swing the market by 5%. If you are actively trading on the Tapbit Exchange this week, here is the desk playbook: Watch the $66K Line in the Sand: For Bitcoin, $66,000 is the ultimate invalidation level. If daily candles start closing below this floor, expect a rapid liquidity flush across the entire altcoin market. If it holds, it confirms heavy institutional accumulation. Don't Catch Falling Knives: With volatility this high, let the market establish a clear trend before stepping in with heavy size. Log in to your Tapbit account and ensure your stop-losses are firmly set on all open perpetual futures. Preserve Capital: Sometimes the best trade is no trade at all. If you are sitting in USDT, keep your powder dry. If you haven't set up your portfolio for the incoming volatility, register your free Tapbit account to secure your assets and get your limit orders ready at major support levels. Disclaimer:Cryptocurrency trading involves significant risk of loss. Prices are highly volatile and can change rapidly. Protocol integrations, token utilities and roadmap timelines are subject to change. This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Always conduct your own research (DYOR) and never invest more than you can afford to lose completely.