Crypto

Bitcoin price has again been knocked lower by an oil shock, higher Treasury yields, erased rate-cut expectations, and a massive Deribit expiry now due to land on top of that already-weakened market. Roughly $14.1 billion in BTC options were set to expire today, Mar.

Bitcoin fell back toward $65,000 on Friday as investors cut exposure to risk assets after another round of Middle East tensions kept oil prices elevated, pushed Treasury yields to their highest levels in months, and lifted the dollar. According to CryptoSlate’s data, BTC dumped nearly 5% to around $66,484, its lowest price since the beginning of the month.

Bitcoin is moving deeper into US household finance as homebuyers squeezed by high borrowing costs and limited supply look for new ways to fund a down payment without selling their digital assets. On March 26, Better Home & Finance and Coinbase launched a structure that lets eligible borrowers pledge Bitcoin or USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin to secure a separate loan for a down payment while still taking out a standard conforming mortgage on the home.

David Sacks leaves office with wins for crypto infrastructure, while Bitcoin holders are still waiting David Sacks is out of the formal White House crypto czar role after exhausting the 130-day limit attached to his special government employee status. The change closes the clearest window for a scorecard.

Bitcoin is heading into the weekend with broken near-term structure, elevated macro pressure, and a political catalyst that now sits close to the center of the market’s risk map. The technical setup has deteriorated in steps over the past two weeks.

Bitcoin price has never finished a year positive after a start this bad Bitcoin seasonality is one of those market narratives that stays alive because the average is easy to screenshot. The problem is that the average often hides the only thing that matters: the state.

Prediction markets spent years trying to present themselves as smarter, better, and more useful than straight-out gambling. Then sports arrived and did what elections, inflation contracts, and policy wagers never quite managed: it brought scale.

Wall Street spent years talking about tokenization, but never seemed to move beyond vague plans and pilot projects. This week, however, we’ve seen a culmination of various efforts and incentives that showed it’s finally taking things seriously.

For decades, the oil market moved on a very familiar and very predictable schedule. The biggest signals came from legacy futures venues; traders knew where the deepest pools of liquidity were and when they’d come alive.