Shayne Coplan, CEO of prediction market platform Polymarket, didn't mince words at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last week.
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For the first time in U.S. history, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology have been formally designated as national assets worth protecting — not just regulating.
Prediction markets are no longer a fringe experiment. Kalshi and Polymarket are each in preliminary discussions with investors for funding rounds that could push their valuations to roughly $20 billion — a figure that would nearly double what either company was worth just months ago.
Binance's 40th Proof of Reserves report, drawn from a March 1, 2026 snapshot, shows a broad retreat in user-held assets - the latest sign that the crypto market's early-year turbulence has left a mark on even the world's largest exchange.
The "HODL" playbook that defined publicly traded Bitcoin miners through 2024 and into 2025 is dead.
When U.S. and Israeli strikes hit Iranian targets on February 28, 2026, the response wasn't just military. Within minutes, outflows from Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges surged by 700%. Within 48 hours, over $10.3 million had moved. Iran's war was playing out on the blockchain.
Cardano has secured a foothold inside one of Europe's most tightly regulated digital asset venues.
Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has moved against multiple entities operating under the KuCoin brand, ordering them to immediately cease all virtual asset activities in the emirate after finding they had been serving local residents without the required regulatory approval.
The days of buying almost any altcoin and watching it double during a crypto bull run may be finished. That's the assessment of Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management, who argues that the mechanics driving previous altcoin seasons have fundamentally broken down.
The numbers are hard to spin. According to the Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report, illicit cryptocurrency transactions reached at least $154 billion in 2025 - a 162% jump from the revised 2024 figure of $57.2 billion.
Kazakhstan's National Bank has carved out a portfolio of up to $350 million from its gold and foreign exchange reserves - now totaling $69.4 billion - for investment in cryptocurrency-linked instruments.
In mid-2025, TMTG deployed roughly $2 billion to build what it called a "Bitcoin Treasury," acquiring approximately 11,500 BTC at an average price somewhere between $115,000 and $118,000 per coin.