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LONDON, 13 March, 2026. Elliptic today announced it has added blockchain coverage for EDGE Chain, a high-performance blockchain that powers edgeX, a decentralized trading platform offering perpetual futures, spot and commodities trading through a central limit orderbook. This is Elliptic’s 64th blockchain integration.

Morph has recently announced that BlockSec is joining the Morph Payment Accelerator as its official audit partner. The partnership gives payment companies building on Morph direct access to professional smart contract audits and penetration testing, with a 20% discount on audit services exclusively for Payment Accelerator participants. 🔐 Security is foundational for real payment infrastructure.@BlockSecTeam joins the Morph Payment Accelerator as an official audit partner, helping teams launch secure, audited payment products on Morph.Built for payments. Secured for scale.Learn more ↓ pic.twitter.com/6kvo2Fhwrz— Morph (@MorphNetwork) March 13, 2026 For a program designed to scale real-world payment products on Morph mainnet, having…

Meta is gearing up for possible layoffs as it pours billions into AI, two senior employees familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Loading audio narration… The sources said that some managers have been asked to prepare cost-cutting plans but were not told their scope or timing.Reuters, which first reported about the potential layoffs on Friday, said that up to 20% of Meta employees could be let go. As of the end of 2025, Meta employed nearly 79,000 people, so a potential cut of 20% would mean roughly 16,000 jobs eliminated. That would be Meta’s most significant reduction since 2022,…

APIA, Samoa, March 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, announced that its TradFi (Traditional Finance) trading platform has exceeded $10 billion in trading volume for the first month, driven by unprecedented demand for tokenized gold and commodity contracts amid escalating geopolitical tensions. Gold-related instruments — including XAU (Gold) and PAXG perpetual contracts — accounted for a significant share of the volume surge, as traders sought safe-haven exposure through Phemex’s 24/7 trading infrastructure. The TradFi platform, which offers tokenized access to stocks, commodities, and indices alongside crypto assets, has seen a 340% increase in active users quarter-over-quarter. Its core…

ORBS makes strategic investments in category-defining companies, including OpenAI and Beast Industries Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine (NYSE: BMNR), joins board of directors to support ORBS’ long-term investment strategy ARK Invest joins ORBS as a partner, providing strategic advisory and private market intelligence; commits $25 million to ORBS Brett Winton, Chief Futurist at ARK Invest, will join as an advisor to ORBS’ Board Payward, the parent company of global crypto platform Kraken, commits $25 million to ORBS The Company is supported by a group of strategic and institutional investors including: Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), MOZAYYX, ARK Invest, Payward, World Foundation,…

Castries, Saint Lucia, March 12th, 2026, Chainwire PrimeXBT, a global multi-asset broker and crypto asset service provider, announced the launch of PXTrader 2.0, a major upgrade of its native trading platform that combines crypto with traditional financial markets, giving traders access to more than 350 instruments from a single account. The launch reflects PrimeXBT’s leading role in the growing convergence between crypto and traditional finance, supported by infrastructure designed to allow digital asset capital to move more freely across global markets. PXTrader 2.0 reflects a broader shift in how digital assets are being used within financial markets. Increasingly, crypto is…

Victoria, Seychelles, March 12th, 2026, Chainwire BYDFi announced the integration of its perpetual futures market data into TradingView, enabling traders to access real-time pricing and crypto market signals directly within TradingView charts. The integration supports more efficient workflows by bringing BYDFi derivatives data into a familiar charting environment used by traders worldwide for crypto futures analysis. Market Signals in View, Strategy in Sync With BYDFi perpetual futures data available on TradingView, users can monitor price action, volume dynamics, and market structure signals on TradingView while keeping their chart workflow anchored to BYDFi as the data source, ranging from BTCUSDT perpetual…

Strategy has found a new gear in its Bitcoin accumulation engine, and its STRC preferred stock equity is doing a growing share of the driving.The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, held 738,731 BTC as of March 8, up from 672,500 at the end of 2025. This represents an addition of 66,231 coins in 68 days, already surpassing its full-year net purchases in 2021, 2022, or 2023.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) Pace of Bitcoin Purchases Over Past Years (Source: Adam Argo)The pace of these acquisitions is striking by any measure, and what makes 2026 different is where the capital is coming from.For years,…

Key takeawaysNorth Korea-linked actors stole USD 1.92 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025. The February 2025 Bybit breach — attributed by TRM Labs to DPRK operatives — accounted for USD 1.46 billion of that total, or 51% of all crypto theft that year.Chinese-language escrow and underground banking networks have grown from approximately USD 123 million in 2020 to over USD 103 billion in 2025, functioning as core settlement infrastructure for cross-border illicit finance and sanctions evasion.Russia’s A7 network — a centrally coordinated sanctions-evasion architecture with documented ties to the Kremlin — shows at least USD 65 billion in direct on-chain volume…

DeFi tokens are crypto tokens that represent access to decentralised financial platforms and services built on blockchain technology. These tokens operate within automated, permissionless ecosystems that remove the need for traditional intermediaries, allowing users to interact directly with financial applications. Through DeFi tokenization, real-world and digital assets can be represented on-chain, enabling greater efficiency, transparency, and accessibility across financial services. DeFi tokens can be broadly categorised into areas such as lending and borrowing protocols, decentralised exchanges, stablecoins, prediction markets, and insurance platforms. Many of the best DeFi tokens also function as governance tokens, giving holders the ability to participate in…