Google employee Michele Spagnuolo is accused of illegally using secret company data to make bets on Polymarket before Google revealed its predictions for 2025 search trends, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Bitcoin and Ethereum experienced the biggest losses during the recent market downturn, with $363 million worth of Bitcoin and $240 million worth of Ethereum being liquidated. The largest single liquidation order was a $15.34 million bet on Bitcoin increasing in value, which was closed on the Hyperliquid platform.
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As an analyst, I’ve been following the recent developments, and I can confirm Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC has received a license allowing them to operate with digital assets. What’s particularly noteworthy is that this approval comes under one of the most rigorous regulatory systems in the U.S., signaling a significant step forward for their involvement in this space.
The technical indicators aren’t looking good for buyers. Shorter-term moving averages are below longer-term ones, and the price is falling back below these averages, suggesting that any price increases are likely to be temporary. Additionally, the market’s upward momentum has stalled; instead of strengthening, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) has started to decline.
This document, addressed to the SEC Crypto Task Force at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, is marked as a sequel to a prior tête-à-tête between Ripple and the task force. According to the letter, Ripple engaged with the group on March 20, 2026, to discourse upon “the treatment of payment stablecoins and tokenized securities under the net capital and customer protection rules, and potential next steps for broader guidance.” One can only imagine the gravity of such a meeting, akin to a ball where the fate of many a fortune hangs in the balance.
Both short-term and slightly longer-term charts are showing increasingly strong downward momentum. Indicators suggest the price may soon be oversold, and widening Bollinger Bands confirm that the selling pressure is building.
In a galaxy not so far away, Coinbase decides it’s high time to bring back its Direct Deposit feature, letting folks send part of their paycheck-yes, the part you’d otherwise awkwardly scroll through a bank app-to their crypto wallet or its steady‑hand cousin, stablecoins.
Block’s Cash App is gradually enabling stablecoin payments for its nearly 60 million users, because apparently, people prefer not to lose their shirts when making transactions. The new feature allows users to deposit and withdraw USD Coin (USDC), moving value freely between external self-custodial wallets and their Cash App balances. It’s like having a dollar in your pocket, but digital.
In this Gogol-esque tragicomedy, we shall unravel the threads of this “duopoly,” a term so grand it could only be concocted by bureaucrats with too much time and too little humor. We’ll explore the daily delights users savor and the lurking vulnerabilities that threaten to turn this waltz into a chaotic kazachok.
