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Bitcoin had been steadily rising for two days, moving from $66,000 to around $69,200. This upward trend was a recovery after several weeks of selling driven by global conflicts, and it brought the price closer to a key technical indicator, the 50-period Simple Moving Average. Trading volume increased, supporting the price rise, and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) showed improvement. For the first time in weeks, the technical indicators suggested a potential for further gains, especially as there were signs of easing tensions in the Iran conflict, giving traders a more positive outlook.

Ripple on Thursday introduced native digital asset capabilities inside its enterprise treasury management system, letting corporate finance teams hold, view and manage XRP and RLUSD alongside traditional fiat balances for the first time within a single platform. A triumph of modernity, or perhaps a very expensive party trick.

Bitcoin (BTC), the supposed king of the cryptos, saw its value plummet by over 4%, landing at a measly $66,250. The market is now anxiously eyeing the $65,000 mark, which some are calling the “last line of defense” before it all goes downhill. Yes, it’s just as dramatic as it sounds.

The matter, one cannot help remark, arrives at a moment when the United States regulatory sphere-under the auspices of the current administration-has shown a more benevolent tilt toward those enterprises of digital coin seeking shelter beneath federal banking charters.

In the theater of liquidations, it was not crypto that stole the show this week, but the black gold itself. Tokenized Brent oil futures on Hyperliquid claimed $46.6 million of the $403 million in liquidations, according to CoinGlass data. Oil, the third-largest liquidated asset, trailed only ether ($104.5 million) and bitcoin ($98.3 million). Solana, with $24.7 million, brought up the rear.

Our heroine, though beleaguered, clings to her crucial support zone with the tenacity of a barnacle to a shipwreck. MakroVision Research, those soothsayers of the charts, observe her price action compressing into a range so tight, one might mistake it for a corset laced by a particularly zealous Victorian. Yet, the bearish trendlines loom above, a guillotine awaiting its moment.

The analyst recounts a simple fact with the gravity of a sermon: Ripple’s modest deed, a billion-dollar acquisition of GTreasury, now reborn as Ripple Treasury, has opened the gates to a sprawling host of capital-over thirteen thousand connected banks and more than a thousand corporate clients, among them Volvo, Subway, and STIHL. A société of commerce, a chorus of accounts, all beating in rhythm to a single drum: a combined annual flow of twelve and a half trillion dollars. And yet, in the face of such abundance, he notes with a twinkle of irony that, as of this moment, not a single rouble of this vast torrent passes through any cryptocurrency-an opportunity, he implies, for XRP to be more than a curiosity on a screen. The world smiles politely at the idea that the river might someday choose a different path, while the ledger hums in the background, as old as men’s trust in what can be counted and stored.

For the first time since December 2025, Strategy reported no Bitcoin purchases during the week of March 23 to March 29, 2026. A filing that confirmed this break in routine-because who doesn’t love a good mystery? Before the pause, Strategy’s last purchase was 1,031 BTC, which is roughly 1,031 times more than my savings account. Aww, how cute.

In this grand farce of speculation, crypto analyst Luke Martin has unearthed a gem from 2010: a wry aside from the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto. When user “llama” fretted over quantum computers turning BTC into digital confetti, Satoshi replied with the poise of a man who’d already solved the problem in his sleep. His gist? A sudden quantum leap might spell trouble, but a slow creep of progress? Merely an opportunity for software upgrades and a brisk switch to stronger cryptography. How pedestrian.

Chambers was speaking at BeInCrypto’s Markets Intelligence Council, where he made the audacious claim that the industry is slowly but surely moving past its previous “let’s all get rich trading crypto” phase.