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Ethereum Foundation stakes additional $42 million of ether
About 20,470 ETH, or roughly $42 million, flowed from Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets into the Beacon Chain in a series of coordinated deposits Monday, marking one of the largest visible batches in its ongoing staking rollout.

Yield-hungry bitcoin holders may be keeping BTC stuck in a sideways grind
Yield hungry investors seem to have influenced market flows such that they limit price swings.

Bitcoin recovers to $67,400 after dipping below $65,200 as Houthis enter Iran war
The conflict's fifth week brought its widest expansion yet, with Iran-backed forces opening a new front and U.S. ground troops arriving in the region.

Hyperliquid traders in Tokyo get 200-millisecond edge, Glassnode research shows
Hyperliquid’s validators cluster in AWS Tokyo alongside Binance, BitMEX and KuCoin, giving nearby traders a latency advantage, Glassnode data shows

Canada moves to ban crypto donations for election campaigns following UK
Bill C-25 follows years of warnings from Canada's Chief Electoral Officer about the risk that crypto donations could pose to electoral integrity.

Investors yank $171 million from bitcoin ETFs in largest single-day outflow in three weeks
ETFs show institutional demand for bitcoin is cooling after a strong start to the month.

Bitcoin macro risks spike as Ukraine messes with Trump's plan to stabilize oil markets
Ukraine’s disruption of Russian oil flows has added fresh uncertainty to already strained energy markets, complicating inflation outlooks and keeping pressure on risk assets including bitcoin.

Tether hires KPMG for USDT audit, brings in PwC as it gears up for U.S. expansion
FT identifies KPMG as auditor as stablecoin giant eyes fundraising and expansion under new U.S. rules

Bitcoin DAT trade is concentrating in Michael Saylor’s Strategy as treasury demand fades elsewhere
Strategy accounted for nearly all recent BTC digital-asset treasury purchases, with other firms’ share dropping from 95% to about 2%, CryptoQuant data show.

There's a huge $14 billion bitcoin options expiry this Friday and it points to $75,000 as price magnet
Bitcoin options worth billions of dollars will expire on Deribit this Friday at 8:00 UTC.

