March 16, 2026
Bitcoin

Bitfinex Simplifies Visibility of Tokenised Securities with Unified Account Structure

Bitfinex has eliminated the need for a separate Securities sub-account — customers can now view their securities in their master account. Existing Securities sub-accounts will be converted into regular trading sub-accounts, preserving all current balances, credentials, 2FA settings, and withdrawal permissions. Master account holders can now view their full portfolio — from crypto to tokenised

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Crypto

U.S. expansion, regulation-ready messaging, and AI upgrades are giving cloud mining a new narrative in 2026

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Cloud mining narrative shifts toward AI infrastructure as platforms like NOW DeFi attract renewed investor interest. Summary NOW DeFi introduces a simplified cloud mining model for hardware-free participation. NOW DeFi integrates AI optimization, automated

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Ethereum

Ethereum Foundation Grants Program Wave 5

The Ethereum Foundation Grants Program is an ongoing and continually improving experiment into how the EF can best invest the Ethereum community’s resources for the highest long-term impact on the Ethereum ecosystem. When the Grants Program began in early 2018, the core focus was on supporting scalability efforts. This focus later expanded to include security,

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Bitcoin

Token2049 Postponed: DC Blockchain Summit 2026 Is Now Center of Gravity

Token2049 Dubai has officially been postponed to 2027. That single scheduling change has shifted the entire industry’s focus to Washington, D.C., for the first half of 2026. The DC Blockchain Summit on March 17-18 is now the definitive signal for where crypto money is moving next. While other conferences focus on parties and networking, this

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Crypto

Ethereum Foundation publishes formal mandate to hard‑lock censorship resistance and privacy

The Ethereum Foundation’s new “EF Mandate” formalizes its role as steward of a censorship‑resistant, privacy‑first, open‑source base layer, signaling zero appetite for surveillance‑chain compromises. Summary The EF Mandate codifies the Foundation’s job as protecting Ethereum as a neutral, permissionless settlement layer, not a product chasing KPIs or short‑term metrics. It centers a CROPS‑style stack —

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Ethereum

Ethereum Constantinople/St. Petersburg Upgrade Announcement

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 7,280,000, which is predicted to occur on Thursday, February 28, 2019. The exact date is subject to change depending on block times between now and then and could be activated 1-2 days before or after. A countdown timer can be seen at https://amberdata.io/blocks/7280000.

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Bitcoin

Brazil industry giants representing 850 companies decry stablecoin tax threat

Brazil’s leading cryptocurrency and fintech industry groups have warned that expanding a financial transaction tax to stablecoin operations could harm innovation and violate existing law. In a joint statement shared with CoinDesk, industry associations ABcripto, ABFintechs, Abracam, ABToken and Zetta said recent discussions about extending a tax on financial operations (locally known as Imposto sobre

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Crypto

BlackRock says only Bitcoin and Ethereum attract investors

BlackRock digital assets head Robert Mitchnick said Bitcoin and Ethereum remain the only two cryptocurrencies attracting meaningful investor demand. Summary BlackRock says Bitcoin and Ethereum dominate investor demand. IBIT saw $26B inflows in 2025 despite Bitcoin’s price decline. ETH staking ETF aims to add yield to ether exposure. This comes as the asset manager evaluates

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Ethereum

Solidity Optimizer and ABIEncoderV2 Bug

Solidity Optimizer and ABIEncoderV2 Bug Announcement Through the Ethereum bug bounty program, we received a report about a flaw within the new experimental ABI encoder (referred to as ABIEncoderV2). Upon investigation, it was found that the component suffers from a few different variations of the same type. The first part of this announcement explains this

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Bitcoin

South African Utility Company Considers Cheap Power For Bitcoin Miners

Eskom, a South African electricity public utility,  is exploring plans to sell excess daytime electricity to Bitcoin mining companies as rooftop solar installations reduce grid demand during daylight hours. Speaking at the Biznews Conference 2026 in Hermanus, Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati said the utility is evaluating ways to monetize surplus power generated during the middle

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