MoonPay released the Open Wallet Standard, an open-source framework for AI agents to manage funds and sign transactions across multiple blockchains. The standard provides a unified way to store keys, authorize payments, and interact with services without exposing private keys.
The initiative builds on MoonPay Agents, launched earlier as a non-custodial software layer for autonomous transactions. During development, the company identified fragmentation across agent tools, where each system used separate wallets and key management methods. The new standard addresses this by introducing a shared interface and secure local vault.
More than 15 organizations contributed to the launch, including PayPal, Ripple, the Solana Foundation, and the Ethereum Foundation. The code is available under an MIT license.
The standard integrates with emerging protocols such as x402, AP2, and MPP, which enable machine-driven payments but do not define wallet infrastructure. The Open Wallet Standard introduces a single encrypted storage layer and policy-based signing system, allowing agents to operate within defined limits.
Keys are encrypted and processed in isolated memory, with no exposure to applications or language models. The wallet supports multiple chains through one interface and runs locally without cloud dependency.
Bernstein, a leading asset management firm on Wall Street, has published a noteworthy assessment of Bitcoin. The company stated that the Bitcoin price has largely bottomed out and maintains its year-end target of $150,000.
According to Bernstein analysts, despite recent volatility, Bitcoin’s downward movement is largely considered complete. This view has strengthened expectations that a new uptrend may begin in the markets.
The report also included Strategy, one of the largest institutional Bitcoin investors. Although the company’s shares have fallen by approximately 50 percent compared to their peak levels, Bernstein noted that Strategy maintains its financially sound structure.
Analysts have described Strategy as a “high-beta” investment vehicle with high sensitivity to Bitcoin. They noted that the company follows a strategy of buying more BTC instead of reducing positions during market downturns. In this context, it was stated that Strategy has increased its Bitcoin holdings by raising approximately $7.3 billion this year alone.
It was also emphasized that the company holds approximately 3.6% of the total Bitcoin supply. This makes Strategy a significant player in the cryptocurrency market.
Experts say that institutional investors maintaining their long-term positions indicates continued confidence in Bitcoin and is considered a positive signal in terms of price expectations.
200 protesters marched from Anthropic to OpenAI and xAI offices in San Francisco.
Activists called on AI companies to pause development of new frontier AI models.
Organizer Michael Trazzi previously staged a multi-week hunger strike outside Google DeepMind.
Protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on Saturday, stopping outside the offices of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI to call for a conditional pause in the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence.
According to Stop the AI Race founder and documentarian Michael Trazzi, roughly 200 protesters participated in the demonstration. Participants included researchers, academics, and members of advocacy groups such as the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, PauseAI, QuitGPT, StopAI, and Evitable.
“There are a lot of people who care about this risk from advanced AI systems,” Trazzi told Decrypt. “Having everyone marching together shows people are not isolated in thinking about this by themselves. There are a lot of people who care about this.”
The march began at noon outside Anthropic’s offices, then moved to OpenAI and then to xAI. At each stop, activists and speakers from the participating organizations addressed protesters.
According to Trazzi, the protest aimed to push AI companies to agree to a coordinated pause in building more powerful AI models and create treaties with AI developers in other countries to do the same.
“If China and the U.S. agreed to stop building more dangerous models, they could focus on making the systems better for us, like medical AI,” he said. “Everyone would be better off.”
Stop the AI Race’s proposal calls for companies to stop building new frontier models and shift work toward safety, if other major labs “credibly do the same,” which Trazzi said makes protesting in front of AI labs’ offices more important.
Steady opposition
The protest is the latest in a series of efforts to disrupt AI development.
In March 2023, the Future of Life Institute published an open letter demanding a moratorium on further enhancements to the leading AI tool following the public launch of ChatGPT the year before.
Signers included xAI founder Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen. Since then, the “Pause Giant AI Experiments” open letter has garnered over 33,000 signatures.
In September, Trazzi staged a week-long hunger strike outside Google DeepMind’s London offices, while Guido Reichstadter held a parallel hunger strike outside Anthropic’s San Francisco offices.
Government officials and supporters of continued AI development argue that slowing research in the U.S. could give competitors abroad an advantage.
Last week, the Trump Administration published its AI framework to establish a national standard for laws governing AI development. The White House framed it as a commitment to “winning the AI race.”
“Even if you’re in China or any country in the world, nobody wants systems they cannot control,” Trazzi said. “Because we’re in this race between companies and countries to build the systems as fast as possible, we’re taking shortcuts and cutting corners on safety. There is a race that has no winners. What we have is a system we cannot control, and that’s why it’s called a suicide race.”
But even if AI developers agreed to pause development, verifying it may be easier said than done. Trazzi suggested one way to verify a pause would be to limit the computing power used to train new models.
“If you limit how much compute a company can use to build these systems, then you’re pretty much limiting developing new models,” he said.
Following the San Francisco protest, Trazzi said additional demonstrations could take place in other locations where major AI companies operate.
“We want to show up where the employees are,” he said. “We want to talk to them, and we want them to talk to their leadership and have things moving from inside,” adding that whistleblowers will have some amount of power because “they’re the ones building it.”
OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI did not immediately respond to Decrypt’s requests for comment.
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YieldNest, a DeFi infrastructure provider for yield strategies, has introduced ynRWAx, a vault designed to integrate real-world credit returns into decentralized finance. The product focuses on combining tokenized assets with lending mechanisms commonly used in DeFi, including leveraged looping strategies.
The vault targets an annual yield of about 11%, based on mortgage-backed private credit linked to residential real estate in Australia. The credit operations are managed by Kimber Capital, a licensed Australian investment firm specializing in structured lending. YieldNest delivers the on-chain architecture and integrations.
ynRWAx is structured as a yield-bearing asset that allows users to gain exposure to off-chain credit markets within blockchain-based systems. It follows the ERC-4626 standard, which supports compatibility with lending protocols and broader DeFi applications without requiring special permissions.
The vault currently holds more than $7.5 million in total value locked and operates across multiple networks, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Polygon. Additional integrations include Euler and Morpho for lending, as well as Pendle and Spectra, which enable separation of fixed and variable yield components. Incentive layers are provided through Merkl and Brevis Incentra, adding extra rewards alongside the base yield.
Bitcoin ($BTC) has experienced a correction of over 50% since peaking around $126,000 in October 2025.
During the current correction, Bitcoin fell to levels around $60,000, but is now trying to hold above $70,000.
While technically the bear market is still ongoing, investors are trying to catch the bottom for Bitcoin.
While there are various predictions for the bottom at this point, one CryptoQuant analyst said it could take two months for $BTC to reach its bottom.
CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn, in a statement from his X account, predicted that if Bitcoin follows its historical pattern, a potential bottom will occur in approximately two months.
The analyst based this prediction on the historical four-year halving pattern. According to the analyst, 703 days have passed since the last Bitcoin halving.
Historically, the market bottom typically begins to form around the 777th day after the halving, but the analyst suggested this could happen in about two months.
According to the analyst, if the four-year pattern in Bitcoin remains intact, a definitive bottom could occur in late May 2026.
In line with this analysis, CryptoQuant stated in its February analysis that Bitcoin had not yet fully surrendered and that on-chain indicators were still in a bearish phase. At that point, analysts drew attention to the price support levels that had been reached, pointing to $55,000 as the ultimate bottom for $BTC.
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE) is teaming up with tokenization specialist Securitize to help design the infrastructure behind tokenized securities trading, according to a Tuesday press release shared with CoinDesk.
Securitize is aiming to go public this year via a SPAC deal with Cantor Equitize Partners (CEPT). CEPT shares are higher by 6% premarket. ICE shares are flat.
The two firms signed a memorandum of understanding to build NYSE’s planned Digital Trading Platform. Securitize will serve as a design partner, focusing on how transfer agents — the entities that track ownership and handle corporate actions — operate when securities are issued and settled on blockchain rails.
Securitize, backed by large asset managers like BlackRock and Ark Invest and registered with the SEC as a transfer agent, is expected to be among the first firms eligible to mint tokenized versions of stocks and ETFs on the platform, subject to regulatory approvals.
The firm’s broker-dealer arm could also take part in trading, giving it a foothold across both issuance and market activity.
The move comes as traditional exchange behemoths like NYSE and Nasdaq are doubling down on tokenization efforts to bring blockchain rails into stock trading. That tech would enable around-the-clock trading and near-instant settlements, similar to crypto markets.
Recently, NYSE-parent Intercontinental Exchange invested in crypto exchange OKX to develop tokenized stocks and derivatives products. Rival exchange Nasdaq obtained regulatory approval for its tokenized stock trading framework and has tapped Kraken to distribute stock tokens globally.
“As we explore how tokenization can enhance capital markets, it is critical that new infrastructure is developed in a way that preserves the trust, transparency, and protections investors expect,” NYSE Group President Lynn Martin said.
Read more: Here is why Nasdaq and owner of NYSE are putting the $126 trillion equity market on blockchain
Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun, who is close to US President Donald Trump and is one of the biggest investors in the TRUMP token, and his team have made a new move.
Tron DAO announced it has expanded its AI and stablecoin funding to $1 billion.
Tron DAO announced in a post from its X account that it has increased its AI and cryptocurrency fund, which it first launched in 2023, from $100 million to $1 billion.
According to the announcement, the fund will invest in four areas: “1) AI agent identity projects, 2) Stablecoin-based payment projects, 3) Tokenization of real-world assets (RWA), and 4) Developer tools for autonomous financial systems.”
“TRON announced it is increasing its AI funding from $100 million to $1 billion. The fund will aim to invest in and acquire early-stage companies that are building the foundational infrastructure for an agent-based economy.”
The expanded fund, now at $1 billion, will focus on investing in projects that use artificial intelligence to improve blockchain scalability, security, and user experience. TRON’s initiative reflects the growing trend of leveraging AI capabilities within the crypto industry and demonstrates its ambition to be a leader in this field.
Tron is also just one of many cryptocurrency-based ecosystems aiming to invest in AI and target an agent-based payment economy, while Solana and Base are also taking steps to expand into this space.
Tron founder Justin Sun had previously stated in an interview that many use cases for AI agents involve small and frequent operations, and that these “require fast and inexpensive networks.”
Bitcoin climbed above $71,000 today, offering bulls their first glimpse of relief since February’s collapse.
At the same time, the price move has formed the same compressive wedge pattern that preceded Bitcoin crashes in October 2025 and January 2026.
On Myriad, traders are calling it a toss up on whether Bitcoin pumps to $84K or dumps to $55K first.
After a brutal February that took Bitcoin from the mid-$90,000s all the way down to a $59,000 low, the market finally has something to feel decent about. BTC is up roughly 4.65% today, trading around $71,013 and shaking off some of the fear that dominated the last several weeks.
The problem is, in doing so, Bitcoin has drawn an all too familiar pattern on its charts—and one that suggests a price crash could be in the cards.
The broader market, meanwhile, is still anticipating hard times. Stocks sunk to four-month lows after news of a delay to potential U.S.-Iran military strikes, pushing crypto alongside equities in a mild risk-on move. WTI crude dropped sharply, and the crypto market is once again in “extreme fear” territory, based on the Crypto Fear and Greed Index.
Despite this, some Bitcoin bulls believe this is a good time to buy, considering the last time Bitcoin had a similar spike was at the beginning of the month. So who’s right? Here’s what the charts say:
Bitcoin (BTC) price: by the numbers
Bitcoin is, indeed, having a nice start to the week: a 4.6% spike, going from $67,844 to a daily high of $71,811, before settling around its current price of $70,985. This movement is trying to break past the resistance of the average price of Bitcoin in the last 200 days, which is a real test of trend strength.
Bitcoin price data. Image: Tradingview
Dig deeper and the picture gets more nuanced. The ADX—the Average Directional Index, which measures how strong any trend actually is—sits at 19.1. That’s below 25, the threshold traders use to confirm a trend has real legs. At 19.1, it’s a sign of a weakening trend, which means bears are struggling to maintain the broader crash’s momentum.
The exponential moving averages, or EMAs, tell a similar story. The 50-day exponential moving average is still trading below the 200-day, which traders would interpret as the clearest signal of a bearish trend. Exponential moving averages smooth out price action over time to help identify where the price of an asset finds support or resistance. When the short-term average sits below the long-term one, it usually means the prevailing direction is still down, even during bounces.
The Relative Strength Index, or RSI, at 51.5 is also neutral. It is not screaming buy or sell, which makes sense. Bitcoin is in that in-between zone where it’s too early to celebrate and too soon to panic (again).
The Squeeze Momentum Indicator is on, with momentum reading a modest 0.26. This number tracks when a market is coiling up energy before a big move—like a spring being compressed or prices stabilizing after a major trend. It’s on right now, meaning the spring is loading. But with momentum still low, we haven’t seen a direction yet.
Fool me once…
Here’s what makes this moment more than a run-of-the-mill bounce: The chart is drawing a pattern it has now drawn twice before—and both times, it ended badly.
Bitcoin price data. Image: Tradingview
There’s a blue descending resistance line running from Bitcoin’s October 2025 peak, around $125,000, all the way down through the current price level. This is the roof. Bitcoin keeps trying to push up and the line keeps capping it. (That’s why it’s called a resistance.)
Below price action, there are three green dotted ascending lines, running parallel to each other. These are the supports. After each major crash, Bitcoin compresses: It bounces off the ascending green floor, climbs toward the blue ceiling line, and the range gets tighter and tighter until something breaks and the price crashes.
It happened after the October 2025 crash. Bitcoin recovered into that same wedge structure, touched resistance, and then broke down hard one month later.
It happened again after the January 2026 crash. Same wedge, same compression. Then the February 2026 wipeout to $59,000.
And right now Bitcoin is forming the exact same structure. The ascending support line is acting as the floor once more. The descending blue line is sitting just overhead, roughly around $70,000 depending on when it arrives. If the pattern holds, a third rejection somewhere in April or May 2026 would be on the table.
Bitcoin price data. Image: Tradingview
On Myriad, a prediction market built by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, the question on everyone’s mind is framed plainly: “BTC next move: Pump to $84K or Dump to $55K?”
Right now, traders are placing 51.4% odds on the bullish outcome. But that’s not a ringing endorsement of Bitcoin’s health—it’s a toss up, and likely a reflection of how extreme the $55K scenario feels.
Most traders probably can’t stomach betting on a number that low, not because they’re convinced BTC is going up, but because the downside seems too painful to price in. The gap between bulls and bears is tight and follows the market sentiment.
The one thing that could change the story
There is a scenario, though, where everything flips. If Bitcoin can break through that descending blue resistance with a strong, high-volume candle—not just touch it, but close decisively above it—followed by a series of candlesticks closing on top of the broken resistance, that would be a real signal. It would suggest the pattern has finally been broken, and that the market may have actually found a bottom around the $59,000–$64,000 range from early March.
If it respects its current support, the $80K zone becomes the next technical milestone to conquer.
That would be the kind of move that forces even skeptics to reconsider. Resistance lines that get convincingly broken tend to flip into support. (That’s just how these market dynamics work.)
But right now? The pattern is intact. Bitcoin may look nice in the short term. The immediate indicators look neutral instead of heavily bearish, the daily candle is green, and the shorts are hurting a little. None of that is reason to ignore what three data points of the same setup are telling us.
For bulls, the champagne will likely have to wait.
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Polymarket and Kalshi both made new moves to try and curb insider trading on their prediction market platforms.
Polymarket has introduced new integrity rules across its platform, clarifying the types of behaviors that are prohibited.
Meanwhile, Kalshi has created new policies and implemented preemptive screening to block individuals from certain markets.
Prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi are taking steps to remove insider trading from their platforms, announcing updates to rules and tooling, respectively, on Monday as scrutiny continues to build on prediction markets and their offerings.
For Polymarket, Monday’s steps included updating integrity rules and clarifying types of insider trading conduct, like trading on insider information or illegal tips, which are prohibited behaviors on the firm’s DeFi platform and its CFTC-regulated U.S. platform.
“These rule enhancements make our expectations abundantly clear for every participant across both platforms and highlight the compliance infrastructure we have already built,” Polymarket Chief Legal Officer Neal Kumar said in a statement.
“As Polymarket continues to scale,” he added, “we will build on our foundation with clear communication to Polymarket’s users to ensure our markets do what they do best—surface truth.”
The rules, and examples of prohibited behavior—like a coach trading on a sports contract using inside knowledge about a star player’s availability, or an ensemble performer buying shares in a market about which songs will be played at an event—can be found on the site’s market integrity page, accessible via its footer.
Polymarket said it uses a “multi-layered monitoring system” to detect potential violations of its insider trading rules on its DeFi platform, or its international version. On the U.S. side, it works with partners and a real-time control desk to “identify unusual or disruptive trading activity.”
It also recently announced that it’s working with Peter Thiel’s Palantir to create “systems for surveilling sports-focused prediction markets.”
Monday’s advances from Kalshi take a more proactive approach to squashing insider trading on the platform, like in the example of a coach trading on a sporting event they are tied to.
The firm announced it has established a new policy disallowing members connected to college or professional sports—like coaches or players—from trading markets “associated with the sports they are involved with.” A Kalshi representative confirmed to Decrypt that athletes and others in the sports industry can trade in markets related to other sports that they are not involved in.
The firm is also implementing preemptive screening for both athletic parties and politicians using screening lists it has developed, which will allow it to block trades before they even occur.
“These efforts, which have been in the works for months, proactively address the CFTC’s guidance and Congressional bill proposals to prevent insider trading,” the firm wrote.
Insider trading allegations on prediction markets have drawn considerable attention and scrutiny this year, highlighted by anonymous traders winning major sums in markets related to subjects like government actions.
For example, one trader won more than $436,000 on the January ousting of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, leading New York representative Ritchie Torres to draft a bill that would keep federal employees from using prediction markets when they have relevant inside information.
Two weeks prior to that, two Israelis were arrested in the country and charged with using classified information to make bets about military operations on Polymarket.
Potential violations of the insider trading rules on Polymarket can be reported to the platform via Discord or email, its updated rules say. Details on how the investigations unfold from there, or how many reports are being made are not immediately clear. Kalshi has also implemented whistleblower functionality directly into its market pages, allowing individuals to flag potential insider trading behaviors.
Representatives for Polymarket did not immediately respond to Decrypt’s request for comment.
Editor’s note: This story was updated after publication to include an additional detail confirmed by Kalshi.
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Bitcoin recently found support at a key onchain metric — the average realized price for a specific year — in this case the 2023 cost basis.
The 2023 average realized price currently sits around $63,700. During the local bottom in early February, when bitcoin dropped roughly 50% from its October all-time high, to roughly $60,000, price effectively tested and held this level as support.
This behavior mirrors the previous cycle. In early 2023, as the bull run began, bitcoin experienced several small corrections and repeatedly used the 2023 realized price as support. This can be observed in March, July, and September 2023, when price consolidated in the $20,000 to $26,000 range.
Looking at newer cohorts, the 2026 average realized price started the year near $90,000 and has since declined to around $77,000. With bitcoin currently trading just above $70,000, the average 2026 buyer is underwater. Notably, this cohort’s cost basis has also fallen below both the 2024 cohort at $81,500 and the 2025 cohort at $96,400.
Zooming out further, the aggregate realized price, which represents the average cost basis of all coins in circulation, is currently around $54,360. Historically, bitcoin has traded below this level in every major bear market, including 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2022.
So far in this cycle, bitcoin’s lowest price has been around $60,000. If that level fails, it becomes the next key support to watch, with the realized price at $54,000 acting as a deeper historical floor.
