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Bitcoin defends $64K after U.S., Israel strikes on Iran as ETF flows return to center stageBitcoin traded through a weekend macro shock after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran sparked regional retaliation.The largest price swings occurred during low-liquidity hours, leaving spot BTC back near the mid-$64,000 area.The move reinforced a pattern that has become more visible in the ETF era: Bitcoin can function as a 24/7 pressure valve for macro risk.At the same time, the deepest marginal liquidity increasingly concentrates in weekday, regulated venues.That structural split is showing up in participation.Weekend activity has capitulated ever since spot Bitcoin ETFs joined…

Six Polymarket traders earned roughly $1 million after accurately betting that the United States would strike Iran before the end of February, triggering insider trading suspicions.The six wallets were all created in February and placed nearly all of their activity on contracts predicting the timing of a potential US attack, Bloomberg reported, citing data shared by analytics firm Bubblemaps SA. In several cases, shares were purchased only hours before explosions were first reported in Tehran, with some contracts acquired for around $0.10, per the report. The timing drew attention from onchain investigators, who said the pattern resembles behavior previously linked…

The CEO of AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has responded to the United States Department of Defense and the White House, ordering military defense contractors that do business with the Department of Defense to stop using Anthropic’s products.Anthropic objected to the use of its AI models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons that can fire without any human input, Amodei told CBS News on Saturday. He added that Anthropic was fine with all of the US government’s proposed use cases for its AI models, except for surveillance and fully autonomous weapons platforms. He said:“These are things that are fundamental…

Ethereum account abstraction, or smart accounts, will be shipped with the Hegota upgrade “within a year,” said Vitalik Buterin on Saturday.“We have been talking about account abstraction ever since early 2016,” said the Ethereum co-founder over the weekend. He added that now, “we finally have EIP-8141, an omnibus that wraps up and solves every remaining problem that AA [account abstraction] was intended to address (plus more),” and it is slated for deployment this year.  “Finally, after over a decade of research and refinement of these techniques, this all looks possible to make happen within a year (Hegota fork).”The core concept is “about…

Bitcoin prices have recovered from their dip following the US-Israeli air strikes on Iran and reports of the death of the Iranian Supreme Leader.Bitcoin (BTC) prices reached $68,200 in early trading on Sunday morning on Coinbase, according to TradingView.The asset has now recovered all losses from its dip to $63,000 on Saturday, adding $5,000 in less than 24 hours following the news that the United States and Israel had commenced air strikes on Iran. BTC is currently trading back at Friday’s levels, around $67,350 at the time of writing, but remains within a three-week range-bound channel. Over the past 24 hours, around…

Peter Zhang Feb 28, 2026 07:38 Litecoin trades at $52.63 after -5.73% decline, but technical analysts project LTC recovery to $62-65 range within 4 weeks if key support holds above $49. LTC Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $55-57 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $62-$65 range• Bullish breakout level: $57.92 • Critical support: $49.20 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Litecoin Recent technical analysis from blockchain analysts provides insight into Litecoin’s potential trajectory. Lawrence Jengar noted on February 26, 2026: “Litecoin trades at $56.24 with neutral RSI and proximity to resistance. Technical analysis suggests LTC could target $62-65…

An analyst has pointed out where Solana support levels could lie based on a Parallel Channel forming in the asset’s weekly price chart. Solana Parallel Channel Could Indicate Support At These Levels In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has discussed how support is looking for Solana from the perspective of a Parallel Channel that may be emerging in its 7-day price. The “Parallel Channel” is a pattern from technical analysis (TA) that forms whenever an asset trades between two parallel trendlines. There are a few different ways a Parallel Channel can be categorized based on the orientation…

Japan’s SBI Holdings will issue a ¥10 billion retail bond on March 24, but the story is the XRP perk dangled in front of buyers, conditional on opening an account at SBI VC Trade and completing receipt procedures by noon on May 11.Pricing drops on March 10, subscription runs from March 11-23, and secondary trading launches on March 25 on Osaka Digital Exchange’s START platform.The timeline shows SBI’s bond subscription window from March 11-23, 2026, with the XRP perk requiring account setup by May 11, 2026.The bond itself is a conventional three-year instrument. XRP is a marketing lever designed to…

Bitcoin neared $63,000 in Saturday trading after the U.S. and Israel launched military strikes on Iran, pushing the largest cryptocurrency down roughly 3% in a matter of hours and extending what had already been a difficult weekend for risk assets.The move brings bitcoin to its lowest level since the Feb. 5 crash, when the token briefly dipped below $60,000. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared an immediate state of emergency across all areas of Israel. A U.S. official confirmed American participation in the strikes, The Wall Street Journal reported.The sell-off follows a well-established pattern. Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day,…

Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of Mt. Gox, is calling on community support for a proposal to recover more than $5.2 billion stolen from his Bitcoin exchange more than a decade ago.On Friday, Karpelès submitted a proposal on GitHub to add a consensus rule that would allow the 79,956 Bitcoin hacked from Mt. Gox (currently sitting in a single wallet) to be moved to a recovery address without the original private key. “These coins have not moved in over 15 years. They are among the most well-known and publicly tracked UTXOs in Bitcoin’s history,” he wrote.  Source: Jameson LoppKarpelès said that…