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Russia has reason to be concerned about the possible loss of an important ally in the Iranian government, although certain aspects of the escalation in the Middle East play into the Kremlin's hands.

Month over month Bitcoin open interest continues to decline, while BTC options markets highlight balanced demand. Does the data point to reduced institutional investor activity? Key takeaways: Bitcoin futures demand has hit its lowest level since 2024, signaling that many institutional traders are staying cautious. Despite lower confidence from bulls, high CME open interest suggests that major institutions have not left the market. Read more

Во вторник, 3 марта, в Украине будут действовать графики почасовых отключений света из-за состояния энергосистемы. Однако кое-где электричество вообще не будут выключать.

Deși alegerile prezidențiale au trecut și România are un nou președinte ales democratic, pericolul reprezentat de partidele extremiste nu s-a disipat. Am analizat fenomenul cu Remus Ștefureac, directorul INSCOP Research.

Artistul Tudor Chirilă îl critică pe președintele Nicușor Dan, pe care îl numește „obedient” și îl acuză că nu a reacționat ferm în chestiuni esențiale pentru democrație.

Prosecutors are trying to recover over $327,000 worth of Tether's USDT stablecoin linked to a crypto romance scam from 2024.

Buterin proposes binary state trees and eventual RISC-V VM shift to improve Ethereum's proving efficiency and execution simplicity.

Riot Platforms topped revenue estimates as it reported earnings for the final three months of 2025.

De Britse dressuuramazone Charlotte Dujardin (40) ligt opnieuw onder vuur. De drievoudige olympische kampioene sloeg haar paard eerder liefst 24 keer met een zweep en werd voor een jaar geschorst. Nu moeten beelden uit Amsterdam aantonen dat Dujardin vorige maand weer een paard mishandelde. „Dit is een groot probleem voor een paard. En een ruiter wéét dat.”

Russian forces on Monday, March 2, attacked the central branch of the national postal service Ukrposhta in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region.

TD Securities' Reid Noch sees the exchange's tokenized-equities plan as a “market structure” moment, a sign that Wall Street is taking tokenization seriously. TD Securities, a major Canadian investment bank with operations across North America, says tokenization may be approaching an institutional turning point following the New York Stock Exchange’s push into tokenized equities. In recent commentary, TD Securities Reid Noch, vice president for electronic trading, said tokenization is beginning to carry real implications for market structure, pointing to the NYSE’s proposed tokenized equities alternative trading system (ATS) as a key development. The planned platform would enable 24-hour trading and near-instant settlement of tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), subject to regulatory approval. Read more

De Amerikaanse onderzoekscommissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden heeft de beelden van de getuigenissen van Bill en Hillary Clinton over zedendelinquent Jeffrey Epstein maandagavond vrijgegeven. Het echtpaar werd vorige week afzonderlijk van elkaar ondervraagd over hun banden met Epstein.

Amerikaanse beurzen open lager, maar sluiten redelijk vlak. De S&P 500-index sloot nagenoeg gelijk, de Dow Jones verloor 0,15% en techindex Nasdaq noteerde een plus van 0,34%.

Ethereum is approaching a milestone that few investors would welcome: its longest run of consecutive monthly losses since the 2018 crypto winter. Since September 2025, ETH has posted six straight monthly declines, a stretch that has cut its price by roughly 60% from its August 2025 record high of $4,953 to below $2,000. A losing […] The post Ethereum usage is at record highs yet ETH nears its longest monthly losing streak since 2018 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

De politie heeft maandagavond een opvallende stap gezet in het onderzoek naar de vermissing van Teresa Krug. Tijdens een uitzending van Opsporing Verzocht werd een foto van haar 49-jarige zoon verspreid. Rechercheurs vermoeden dat hij zijn moeder om het leven heeft gebracht of in elk geval betrokken is bij haar verdwijning.

Forțele aeriene ale Qatarului au doborât „cu succes” două avioane de luptă iraniene de tip SU-24, a anunțat luni Ministerul Apărării din Qatar, marcând o escaladare semnificativă a conflictului regional declanșat de atacurile Statelor Unite și Israelului asupra Iranului, relatează Al Jazeera.

Bitfinex Securities will restart USDt-denominated bond issuances on Bitcoin’s Liquid Network, following four previous tokenized offerings totaling $6.2 million since 2023. Bitfinex Securities said on Monday it will resume issuing tokenized bonds for Luxembourg-based securitization fund ALTERNATIVE, with future sales expected to exceed $10 million. The USDt-denominated bonds will be issued and settled on the Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain, with fundraising, coupon payments and principal repayments executed fully onchain. The move follows four prior tokenized bond issuances since 2023 totaling $6.2 million, three of which have matured and been fully repaid, representing about $1 million in principal returned to investors. Read more

Chainlink’s protocol enables Coinbase’s cbBTC to move from Base to Monad, boosting Bitcoin-backed liquidity into the layer-1’s DeFi ecosystem. Chainlink has enabled transfers of Coinbase’s wrapped Bitcoin token, cbBTC, from Base to the Monad blockchain using its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, enabling more than $5 billion worth of cbBTC to move into the Monad ecosystem. According to Monday’s announcement from Monad, the integration brings cbBTC into the Monad DeFi ecosystem, where a bevy of applications, including Curvance and Neverland, are adopting cbBTC markets. The move introduces Bitcoin-backed liquidity to lending, borrowing, and other decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on Monad, an EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain designed for high-throughput trading and financial use cases. Read more

Tensiunile din Orientul Mijlociu escaladează după ce Gărzile Revoluționare iraniene au anunțat închiderea Strâmtorii Ormuz.

The Pentagon deal sparked a mass exodus from ChatGPT—and pushed Anthropic's Claude to the top of the App Store. But the bigger story is in the contract language.