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Finance

Sam Altman’s World Network in Talks With Visa for Stablecoin Payments Wallet: Source

The move will make World Wallet into a "mini bank account" for anyone who wants it, according to a person familiar with the plans.

The worldcoin orb. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Spot Ether ETFs in the U.S. Shed $401 Million in March as Price Drop Deepened

Outflows from bitcoin ETFs were far more modest on a relative basis.

Price chart on an exchange (Nick Chong/Unsplash)

Policy

Coinbase CLO Critiques U.S. Treasury's Claim That Court Ruling on Tornado Cash Is Moot

Grewal warns that without a final court judgment, there's no assurance that Tornado Cash won't be re-sanctioned in the future.

Paul Grewal, chief legal officer of Coinbase (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Index Gains 4.9% as All Assets Trade Higher

Avalanche (AVAX) gained 15.6% and Solana (SOL) rose 11.8%, leading index higher.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2025-03-24:

Finance

Former Bittrex Execs Raise $40M in Bitcoin to Back Barbados-Licensed Insurance Firm

Barbados-regulated Tabit Insurance raised a $40 million insurance facility funded entirely by bitcoin (BTC).

Palm trees on a beach with the sun setting in the background.

Markets

DYDX Token Jumps 7% After Derivatives Exchange Protocol dYdX Starts Buyback Program

DYdX is allocating 25% of protocol fees to the program, with active governance discussions on an increase to 100%.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Markets

Strategy Added 6.9K Bitcoin for $584M, Bringing Stack to 506K Tokens

The company used proceeds from the sale of common stock for this latest purchase.

Strategy CEO Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De)

Markets

Bitcoin's Weekend Surge Forms Another CME Gap, Signaling Possible Drop Back

History suggests the gap, located in the $84,000–$85,000 range, is likely to be filled.

BTC CME Futures (TradingView)

Markets

Bitcoin Open Future Bets on Binance Increase by $600M, Suggest More Price Volatility

An increase in open interest alongside a rise in price is said to confirm the uptrend.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Market Maker DWF Labs Establishes $250M Liquid Fund

DWF Labs emerged as a prolific crypto investor in 2023, with investments involving buying several million dollars' worth of a project's token.

DWF Labs managing partner Andrei Grachev (LinkedIn)

Markets

Ether Supply on Centralized Exchanges Hits 9-Year Low

The number of ether held in wallets tied to centralized exchanges has dropped to the lowest since November 2015.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Markets

XRP, DOGE Rise, Ether Burn Falls to Record Low as Traders Eye This Week's U.S. Data

A risk-off mood persists but is weakened on Monday amid reports suggesting that U.S. tariffs, due on April 2, might be more measured than initially expected.

Computer screens show a security's price graph (PIX1861/Pixabay)

Markets

Metaplanet Adds 150 Bitcoin to Tally, Days After Eric Trump's Adviser Appointment

The company has hit a BTC yield of 68% so far in 2025.

Eric Trump

Markets

Trump Family-Linked World Liberty Snaps Up 3.54M MNT Tokens After Mantle's Hard Fork

Mantle Network integrated EigenDA last week to enhance scalability and ensure better compatibility with Ethereum's impending Pectra upgrade.

WLFI acquires MNT tokens. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Philippines' Largest Digital Wallet GCash Adds USDC Support

The country's largest digital wallet platform now offers support for stablecoins via USDC.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle (CoinDesk)