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Bitcoin briefly dropped below $66,000 as oil prices surged to their highest level since 2022 and geopolitical tensions intensified across the Middle East.

World Liberty Financial has introduced a governance proposal requiring WLFI holders to stake their unlocked tokens for at least 180 days or lose the ability to vote on protocol decisions.

Bitcoin dropped nearly 2% within 15 minutes on Sunday to around $65,725 as oil prices surged amid escalating tensions in the Middle East and fears of a global energy supply disruption.

Brazil’s central bank has expanded its Pix instant payments system to Argentina, allowing Brazilians living there to use the service for payments, transfers and purchases across both countries.

Michael B. Jordan has become the favourite to win Best Actor at the 2026 Academy Awards on prediction market platform Polymarket after his odds surged more than fourfold since early March.

Trump-linked American Bitcoin is expanding its mining operations with the purchase of 11,298 new ASIC machines expected to boost its hashing capacity by about 3.05 exahash per second.

A new competition is emerging to build payment infrastructure for AI agents, with Bitcoin’s Lightning-based L402 protocol facing off against Coinbase-backed x402 built on Ethereum-based stablecoin systems.

Ethereum traded near $1,939 on March 8, remaining below the key $2,000 psychological level as technical indicators across multiple timeframes signalled fading upward momentum.

West Texas Intermediate crude jumped to $115 per barrel on the decentralised derivatives platform Hyperliquid over the weekend as escalating Middle East conflict and sudden production cuts shook energy markets.

President Donald Trump has declared he will refuse to sign any legislation until Congress passes the SAVE America Act, adding new uncertainty to the stalled Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act.

The White House has for the first time identified cryptocurrency and blockchain networks as systems requiring national protection in a newly released seven-page cybersecurity policy document.

A former chief financial officer in Washington has been sentenced to two years in prison after secretly diverting $35 million from his employer into risky cryptocurrency investments.