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Bitcoin clawed back to $70,000 on Tuesday after its recent dips as the war-driven economy grapples with massive deficits and macro fear. While volatility is at its peak, the crypto market continues to hold its ground.

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The Bitcoin network has officially crossed a historic threshold with 20 million BTC now mined, leaving just about 1 million coins remaining before the protocol’s hard cap of 21 million is reached. This milestone highlights Bitcoin’s programmed scarcity, one of the core features behind its long-term value proposition.

With each halving event reducing new supply, the pace of issuance continues to slow, making the remaining Bitcoin increasingly difficult to mine and potentially more valuable over time.

Bitcoin rebounds and climbs back to $68,000 on Tuesday after a turbulent weekend drop as the market reacts to the rising U.S.-Iran war tensions.

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Breaking: Nasdaq partners with Payward, the parent company of the U.S.-based crypto exchange Kraken, to design a 24/7 transformative gateway for seamless issuance and trading of tokenized stocks and ETFs.

The collaboration combines Nasdaq’s regulatory infrastructure and Kraken’s xStocks framework to develop a fluid gateway for regulated tokenized equities between permissioned institutional platforms and permissionless decentralized ecosystems.
Payward integrates mandatory KYC and AML regulations and ensures compliance with the relevant jurisdictions.

The partnership will help Nasdaq modernize its infrastructure for trading, settlements, and risk management for tokenized assets. Additionally, offer easy swap of equities and preserve issuer control within its existing regulatory norms.

Currently, Kraken’s xStocks has exceeded $25 billion in transaction volume and more than 85,000 users across supported chains and has emerged as a trusted infrastructure layer for tokenized equities.

The initiative follows Nasdaq’s tokenization proposal filed with the SEC in September 2025 (approval is pending). The full launch is expected in 2027.

👉 Also Read: Bitcoin-based funds lead $619 million in weekly crypto ETP inflows despite Iran-driven market volatility.

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The White House has officially released “President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America,” which includes explicit Federal support for the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.

The Trump administration published the National Cyber Strategy on Friday, March 6, to ensure that America remains “unrivaled in cyberspace.”

The document outlines six “Pillars of Action,” including measures to secure “Critical and Emerging Technologies,” such as cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence.

Additionally, it emphasizes adopting and deploying post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and safe quantum computing systems.

This comes at a critical juncture, where there are numerous ongoing discussions and debates about quantum computing risks and its potential impact on Bitcoin, blockchain technology, and digital assets.

Trump’s new Cyber Strategy addresses this looming threat with a key focus on building strategies to defend the digital assets industry from future quantum threats, cybercrime, supply-chain attacks, and protecting the privacy of decentralized platforms.

In Summary: The new strategy does not introduce any new crypto rules. Looking closer, it aligns with Trump’s pro-crypto agenda to combat cybercrime, prosecute cyber-enabled scams, and accelerate the growth of emerging technologies for the American economy.

👉 Also Read: Post-Quantum Shift Could Force Crypto Exchanges to Rethink Wallet Security.

The agentic AI space is rapidly evolving. It’s not just a traditional AI system that simply follows your orders and executes tasks. Agentic AI is like your virtual coworker who can think ahead, make decisions on their own, use external tools autonomously, and execute goal-oriented complex tasks with minimal or no human supervision.

So, where does ERC-8183 fit in?

ERC-8183 is a new technical standard launched by the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team in collaboration with Virtuals Protocol, built for agentic commerce.

As explained by Davide Crapis, AI Lead at Ethereum Foundation, it acts like an open, trustless, and “flexible escrow mechanism,” where two AI agents can interact on a job proposal, pay upon successful completion of the job, or even reject it if the job is not completed as per the pre-agreed terms.

This is how it works:

Just like Agentic AI systems, ERC-8183 automates the whole process, completes and submits tasks without any human intervention. It is an “agent-to-agent” economy, a trustless marketplace for the AI agents to interact and engage in commerce.

👉 Read More At Ethereum.

OKB, the native token of global crypto exchange OKX, soars 25% in 24 hours following the launch of “Orbit,” its new in-app social network.

OKX has recently secured a hefty $200 million investment from the NYSE parent company, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), valuing the exchange at $25 billion. The strategic partnership granted ICE a seat on the company’s board of directors.

Following the high-profile alliance with ICE, OKX announced the launch of its in-app social network, Orbit, on March 6.

The interface allows users to:

And all this without leaving the app…

The excitement surrounding the partnership and Orbit’s launch fueled the price rally, and OKB hit an intraday high of $117.60 before stabilizing around $97.53.

OKX’s alliance with traditional finance giant ICE and the recent launch of Orbit solidified OKX’s position as one of the leading crypto exchanges in the financial market.

👉  Also Read: Prediction market Kalshi sued over $54M Iranian leader bets after ‘death carveout’ invoked.

Crypto exchange Coinbase has rolled out trading of regulated Futures contracts for the first time to 26 European countries, including Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The feature will be available for Coinbase Advanced users through its MiFID-licensed entity. Traders can trade crypto futures on diverse crypto assets like Bitcoin, Solana, and Ethereum, along with equity index products like Mag7 + Crypto Equity Index Futures. Read More At Coinbase. 👉 Read More At Coinbase.

South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange, Bithumb, faces disciplinary action and a partial suspension for six months for violating AML and KYC obligations. South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) investigated Bithumb’s continued overseas transactions that breached AML/KYC regulations and inadequate customer verification processes. The suspension will only restrict virtual asset transfer for newly registered users and not existing users. FIU is scheduled to hold a sanction review committee later this month to finalize the penalty. 👉 Read More At CoinDesk.

Based on CoinMarketCap data, March 11, 2026, 2:29 AM, ET.