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✖️ XRP Network Growing While Price Falls
Activity on the XRP Ledger has reached record levels despite the decline in token price.
XRP's value has dropped approximately 62% from its all-time high, creating a notable gap between network usage and the asset's price.

🇺🇸 Weekly War Expenses with Iran Equal Half of Bitcoin Reserves
The first week of the US war with Iran cost taxpayers more than $11 billion, which represents approximately half of the entire bitcoin reserve.
On average, 📌 $1.88 billion per day is spent on the war.
At this rate, the equivalent of the bitcoin reserve would be depleted in just over 12 days.

🟠 More Than Half of BTC is Mined Using Renewable Energy
📈 According to TheEnergyMag data, renewable energy sources, including nuclear, hydroelectric, and wind power, account for 52.4% of electricity consumption in bitcoin mining.
✅ Moreover, BTC mining played a leading role in revitalizing nuclear energy, which was considered unpromising.
However, now Microsoft, Amazon, META, Nvidia, and other companies are financing existing and experimental nuclear power plants to place their data centers next to them.

‼️ EF Declines "Government of Ethereum" Role
🔷 The Ethereum Foundation published a document described by the foundation as a combination of constitution, manifesto, and internal guidance, in which it reaffirmed Ethereum's core purpose.
This purpose is to ensure user self-sovereignty, enabling people to control their assets, personal data, and online activity without dependence on centralized intermediaries.
"Ethereum must, first and foremost, remain censorship-resistant, open-source, private, and secure," EF wrote in the mandate.
At the same time, EF does not claim the role of governing body

🍽 TRUMP Holders Promised Dinner with Trump Again
The TRUMP memecoin team has launched a new promotion: the largest token holders can receive an invitation to a private meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
📈 Following the news, the token surged more than 18% over the day and is trading around $3.38. However, despite the short-term momentum, TRUMP is still trading approximately 96% below its peak since launch and below key moving averages.

⚠️ FATF Warns of Offshore Crypto Services Risks
The international organization FATF stated that crypto platforms from offshore jurisdictions may create gaps in combating money laundering and sanctions evasion.
👮🏼‍♂️ Due to differences in regulation, such companies often operate across multiple countries simultaneously, which complicates oversight by authorities.
FATF also highlighted risks of P2P transactions with stablecoins and called on governments to strengthen supervision of crypto services operating from foreign jurisdictions.

#GateSquareAIReviewer 🇺🇸 Avalanche Staking ETF Launches on Nasdaq
Today, Grayscale's Avalanche Staking ETF listed on Nasdaq.
The fund provides investors with exposure to AVAX and staking yields through a traditional exchange-traded instrument.

🔥 Bitcoin Situation
Bitcoin $70,550. For the third consecutive day, BlackRock has been actively buying Bitcoin (arkham screenshot).
Actually, I want to write a post for the bears and especially for those waiting for Bitcoin to hit $0, all this is MMM, no real value, and everything else. Here's the point.
Right now in Dubai, everything is a mess, the airport is shut down, and all deliveries, including bread, were made by air. Trucks won't be traveling across the desert en masse.
And now, war has started, people are massively selling real estate. Why? Real estate in Dubai is still that MMM—pric

🪙 Bitcoin rises above $70 000 on Trump statements
Bitcoin has increased by 4% in the last 24 hours and surpassed the $70 000 mark, while Ethereum has risen above $2000.
⚔️ This happened after U.S. President Donald Trump stated that the war in Iran is close to ending.
“If you look, they have nothing left. In military terms, they have nothing left,” he emphasized.

🔥 Oil $120, Ruble 80₽ per dollar, SPX -2.5%, Nasdaq -2.5%, BTC $67,200 - Good morning. Surprised?
Oil reached $120 – the most severe energy crisis in modern history.
Since March 2, the outbound flow of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has almost completely stopped, traffic has dropped by 20-30 times, and there has been no improvement as of March 9.
Over the weekend, oil was $94, I was expecting it to go over $100 on Monday, but now it's already $120!!! And you're still sleeping, I'm posting this now because if I wait until lunchtime, the numbers might be completely different:))).
Bitcoin,

‼️ Starcloud plans to mine Bitcoin in space
🚀 The space startup Starcloud, supported by NVIDIA Inception program, announced plans to launch the Starcloud-2 satellite into orbit equipped with Bitcoin mining hardware.
🔼 Previously, the company launched the Starcloud-1 satellite with Nvidia H100 GPUs on board and began training a small AI model directly in space.
Experts say that space mining could revolutionize the industry, but there are also significant financial costs and technical challenges.

✅ Solana has surpassed Ethereum in the number of RWA wallets
Solana has become the leader in the number of wallets with tokenized assets (RWA).
There are 154,942 wallets registered on the Solana network (compared to 153,592 on the Ethereum network).
🔶 Meanwhile, Ethereum still maintains a leading position in institutional capital.

🇺🇸 Florida Passes Stablecoin Legislation
🚀 Florida has become the first state in the U.S. to pass a framework law on stablecoins.
➡️ It fully aligns with the previously enacted Genius Act, prohibits unlicensed issuance, and clarifies that some stablecoins are not securities.
The law also prohibits issuers from paying interest to stablecoin holders, but only "if such payment is prohibited by federal law."

📊 Kalshi and Polymarket may be valued at $20 billion
Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket are in preliminary talks with investors about new funding rounds.
The valuation of each company could reach $20 billion, roughly double the levels at the end of 2025.
👉 Kalshi was previously valued at approximately $11 billion after a funding round of the same amount in December 2025.
👉 Polymarket had a valuation of around $1 billion in October 2025.

🚨 The US stock market lost $800 million
📉 Major stock indices fell an average of 1%, and the combined value of American company stocks lost about $800 billion.
The cryptocurrency market is also experiencing turbulence: a decline of over 3%. Bitcoin is trading around $68 550, and ETH is at $1975.

🚨 38% of altcoins are trading near all-time lows
📉 CryptoQuant data shows that 38% of altcoins are trading near all-time lows, representing a deeper decline than after the FTX crash.
➡️ Analyst Darkfost describes this as "the biggest regression observed in this cycle," highlighting the ongoing structural pressure on assets that are not "blue chips."
The weakness of altcoins in this cycle is driven by a combination of low liquidity, stricter risk limits, and the flow of funds into BTC and ETH, which have captured the majority of inflows into spot markets and regulated products.