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Lee Chan-jin, governor of South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), announced that the agency has completed its inspection into an erroneous Bitcoin payment incident at South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb and will proceed with sanctions after a further legal review. According to Digital Today, Lee said at a monthly press conference on March 26 that the inspection confirmed issues with the exchange's internal controls. He explained that the FSS is now conducting an additional legal review to determine whether there were violations of the act on virtual asset user protection. Lee also noted that the regulator is preparing broader institutional improvements for the digital asset market as a whole.

Binance leads all exchanges in order book liquidity for the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) spot markets, Cointelegraph reported, citing crypto information platform TokenInsight. Meanwhile, Bitget ranked highest for liquidity in the derivatives market.

Hong Kong-licensed crypto exchange HashKey Exchange announced the official launch of its Ethereum staking service. This allows users to participate in Ethereum staking on the platform using a node staking model.

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb announced that it will list Katana (KAT) for KRW trading at 10:00 a.m. UTC today.

Cross-border payments infrastructure platform Tazapay announced it has closed its Series B extension round, bringing its cumulative funding to $36 million. Participants in the round included Coinbase Ventures, Ripple, and CMT Global. The company plans to use the capital to expand its global licensing, build out its agentic payment infrastructure, and grow its market presence.

South Korean crypto exchange Upbit announced it will list Katana Network (KAT) for trading against the South Korean won (KRW), Bitcoin (BTC), and Tether (USDT) at 10:00 a.m. UTC today.

Shen Bo, co-founder of Fenbushi Capital, has offered a bounty of up to 20% for assistance in recovering hacked assets, Cointelegraph reported. In November 2022, he had $42 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen from his personal wallet, including USDC, ETH, USDT, and BTC. The renewed recovery effort is believed to stem from advancements in tracking technology that have made it easier to trace asset flows and transaction patterns. So far, $1.2 million of the stolen assets have been frozen with the help of on-chain detective ZachXBT and others. The bounty is scheduled to be paid as soon as the recovery is complete.

Crypto analyst and YouTuber Benjamin Cowen has warned that another sharp drop in Bitcoin's price could be imminent, arguing that recent price movements resemble the 2022 bear market. Speaking on his YouTube channel on March 25, Cowen noted that despite Bitcoin's historical tendency to perform well in March, the current trend is more bearish. He pointed out that Bitcoin has failed to reclaim its 21-week moving average and has simply experienced another decline. Cowen suggested that the next leg down could arrive much sooner than many anticipate, emphasizing that relying solely on the Relative Strength Index (RSI) to call a bottom is an incomplete analysis. A comprehensive review of on-chain metrics suggests that BTC has not yet found its floor, he added.

The Polygon (POL) community has submitted a governance proposal to distribute half of validator revenue to stakers. The core of the proposal is to regularly pay 50% of priority fees—the revenue earned by validators—to stakers, while distributing the remaining 50% more evenly among small and medium-sized validators. Priority fees are the additional costs paid to block producers when demand for block space is high.

Institutions are strengthening their Bitcoin buying while retail investors are selling off their holdings, according to on-chain analyst Axel Adler Jr. "Over the past 30 days, a net 63,000 BTC has flowed into spot BTC ETFs," Adler stated. He noted that current weekly ETF inflows are 2.6 times higher than the monthly average, suggesting that institutional buying has intensified this month. In contrast, Adler said short-term holders are selling at a loss at an average rate of 15,500 BTC per day. "Institutions are buying, but retail investors are capitulating," he concluded.

On-chain analyst ZachXBT, known for exposing wrongdoing to his 985,000 followers on X, has publicly criticized Kim Young-hoon, an individual who claims to have the world's highest IQ. Responding to a token sale post Kim made on X yesterday, ZachXBT questioned whether using religion to promote a cryptocurrency token sale is still a viable strategy in 2026. Kim's post had promoted a token sale website for a project named 'LAMB276,' stating the funds would be used to build churches around the world.

Noted Bitcoin skeptic and gold bull Peter Schiff has argued that the U.S. banking industry's lobbying power remains superior to that of the crypto sector. He predicted that this influence will result in stablecoin issuers being legally barred from paying interest within the United States. Schiff noted that while issuers would retain all interest income for themselves under such a rule, the ability to pay interest would have attracted a much larger customer base. He added that this situation provides another reason for investors to hold gold tokens, or tokenized gold. The comments come as both the banking and crypto industries are engaged in a lobbying competition over provisions related to stablecoin interest in a market structure bill, known as the Clarity Act, which is currently pending in the U.S. Congress.

Bitcoin is holding relatively firm despite the war in the Middle East and a surge in oil prices, but some indicators suggest its upward momentum could be stalling, CoinDesk reported. The Coinbase Premium is currently at its lowest level in a month, signaling a relative weakening of demand from U.S. investors. Additionally, inflows into spot ETFs, which represent institutional demand, have fallen short of expectations. While spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $1.53 billion in March, breaking a previous trend of outflows, the pace of these inflows has slowed sharply recently. The analysis concluded that more sustained and powerful inflows are necessary for Bitcoin to regain its upward momentum.

Honda Autobol, the official importer and dealer for Japanese automaker Honda in Bolivia, is introducing on-chain payment infrastructure through a collaboration with Polygon. Polygon announced on its official blog that as part of the collaboration, local digital wallet company Takenos will also run a campaign. The promotion offers a discount of 200 Bolivian bolivianos (around $29) to the first 200 customers who pay for vehicle maintenance using Takenos' on-chain system. Polygon added that this is a short-term campaign designed to show that low-cost blockchain payment infrastructure can provide tangible cost savings in everyday life.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 49.91% long, 50.09% short - Binance: 50.11% long, 49.89% short - OKX: 50.23% long, 49.77% short - Bybit: 50.95% long, 49.05% short

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $70,000. BTC is trading at $69,973.07 on the Binance USDT market.

The U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a bill to ban senior public officials, including members of Congress and the president, from betting on prediction markets, Cointelegraph reported. The legislation, known as the PREDICT Act, was co-sponsored by Representatives Adrian Smith and Nikki Budzinski. The bill would prohibit the president, vice president, members of Congress, and executive branch appointees from wagering on political and policy-related outcomes, extending the ban to their spouses and family members. Representative Budzinski stated that concerns are growing over the potential misuse of inside information, noting that traders have recently made substantial profits from events ranging from the possibility of war with Iran to the duration of government shutdowns.

Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, has warned that Bitcoin developers must urgently address the threat of quantum computing or risk falling behind Ethereum, which already has a quantum-resistance roadmap. According to Cointelegraph, Carter stated that Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), the mathematical foundation of Bitcoin's security, has effectively reached its limits and will inevitably need replacement within the next three to 10 years. This will require a complete system overhaul, he added. Carter explained that while Ethereum has begun to address the quantum threat, other projects remain frozen in fear. He suggested that a failure to adapt quickly could impact the market valuations of BTC relative to ETH.

Nasdaq-listed company Tron (ticker: TRON) announced it has purchased 160,835 TRX. The company now holds a total of 688.5 million TRX. It plans to continue buying TRX to enhance shareholder value and will disclose its real-time holdings through an on-chain wallet.

Primus Labs has announced it is building a privacy-preserving shared identity layer on BNB Chain. The project aims to introduce a real-world-based credit system to DeFi.

Milkyway (MILK) has announced the termination of its Layer 1 operations. The project explained that prior to the shutdown, it completed a network update to return all on-chain assets to their respective original blockchains. Users who held assets on Milkyway can now access them on their native networks. For example, TIA is now available on the Celestia chain.

Payy, a privacy-focused Ethereum Layer 2 solution, announced on X that it has raised $6 million in funding. The round was led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from DBA Crypto. The specific use of the funds was not disclosed.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) projects that tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) could generate an estimated 24 billion Australian dollars ($16.7 billion) in added value each year. According to Cointelegraph, RBA Assistant Governor Brad Jones stated that tokenized finance and infrastructure upgrades will bring revolutionary changes to the financial system. He emphasized that the question is no longer whether tokenization is the future of finance, but how it will be implemented. The RBA also revealed plans to establish a sandbox for testing and commercializing tokenization. This follows the bank's previous announcement of Project Acacia, a joint initiative with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre to study use cases for stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has announced a temporary suspension of all virtual asset deposits and withdrawals for a regular audit. The services will be halted for 10 hours, from 8:00 a.m. UTC to 6:00 p.m. UTC on March 31.

The following shows estimated liquidation volumes and position ratios for major crypto perpetual futures over the past 24 hours: - ETH: $54.60 million liquidated (70% shorts) - BTC: $48.40 million liquidated (69.89% shorts) - TAO: $7.32 million liquidated (62.25% shorts)