The $1.7 trillion asset manager will absorb the 250 Digital team and all liquid crypto strategies previously managed by CoinFund, targeting pensions and sovereign wealth funds.
Franklin Templeton has agreed to acquire 250 Digital, an active crypto investment management firm spun out of venture firm CoinFund in January, establishing a dedicated division called Franklin Crypto aimed at institutional investors.
The deal, announced Wednesday, includes the full 250 Digital investment team and all liquid cryptocurrency strategies previously run by CoinFund. Franklin Templeton will also invest in those strategies as part of the agreement. The deal terms were not disclosed.
Notably, the transaction will include BENJI tokens — which represent shares in the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX) — as payment consideration. The company described the move as “an important and innovative step toward conducting M&A transactions using tokenized assets.”
FOBXX, launched on Stellar in 2021, was the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to use a public blockchain as its system of record. Franklin Templeton has since expanded the Benji platform across multiple chains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Solana, Avalanche, andBNB Chain.
Christopher Perkins, a financial industry veteran who previously served as CoinFund’s managing partner and president, will head Franklin Crypto. Seth Ginns, who led liquid investments at CoinFund, will serve as chief investment officer alongside Tony Pecore, a Franklin Templeton digital assets veteran. The trio will report to Sandy Kaul, the firm’s head of innovation.
Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson called the acquisition “an exciting addition,” according to a press release.
Institutional Crypto Push
The acquisition is the latest move in Franklin Templeton’s deepening commitment to digital assets, which dates back to the formation of its digital assets team in 2018. The division now numbers roughly 50 people and manages approximately $1.8 billion in global assets, according to the press release.
Franklin Crypto will target pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors with active crypto strategies, complementing the firm’s existing product suite. Franklin Templeton was among the first wave of issuers to launch spot Bitcoin and spot Ethereum ETFs in the U.S., later securing approval for the Franklin Crypto Index ETF alongside Hashdex, and filing for Solana and XRP ETFs.
On the tokenization front, the firm recently partnered with Binance to offer tokenized fund shares as off-exchange trading collateral, updated institutional money market funds to support stablecoin reserves and blockchain-based distribution, and partnered with Ondo Finance to tokenize five Franklin Templeton ETFs through Ondo Global Markets.
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There was a time when you could ignore how money actually worked.
You earned. You saved. Maybe you invested through a bank. And that was enough.
You didn’t need to understand markets — because the system was relatively stable, predictable, and slow. Money behaved in a way that didn’t force you to question it.
That time is over.
Today, money moves differently. Faster. Less predictably. And most importantly, it demands your attention.
Money Used to Be Passive. Now It’s Not.
In the past, financial literacy was about control:
Don’t overspend
Save consistently
Avoid bad debt
It was defensive.
Now it’s not enough to just “not lose.” Because even doing nothing has a cost.
Inflation quietly erodes value. Not dramatically overnight, but steadily — month after month, year after year. You don’t notice it in a single purchase. You notice it over time, when your money simply doesn’t stretch as far as it used to.
This creates a strange situation: you can do everything “right” and still fall behind.
The Illusion of Easy Access
At the same time, something else changed. Markets became accessible. Not just available — frictionless.
You can open an account in minutes. Trade instantly. React to global events in real time. What used to require capital, connections, and experience is now just an app on your phone.
This created a new reality: millions of people entered the markets at once.
But here’s the problem — access scales faster than understanding.
Everyone Is In the Market. Few Understand It.
Retail participation exploded.
People are trading, investing, speculating — often without a clear framework.
And the behavior looks similar everywhere:
Jumping between strategies
Reacting to price instead of planning
Confusing luck with skill
Chasing momentum without understanding risk
It feels active. It feels productive. But in reality, it’s often just noise.
The modern financial environment doesn’t punish ignorance immediately. It lets you feel confident first — and then slowly exposes the gaps.
Information Is Everywhere. Clarity Is Rare.
We live in the most information-rich financial era in history.
You can find:
Trading strategies
Market analysis
“Proven systems”
Endless opinions
But something interesting happens when information becomes unlimited: it loses structure.
Most beginners don’t lack knowledge — they lack the connection between ideas.
They know what a trend is. They’ve heard of risk management. They’ve seen indicators.
But they don’t know how it all fits together.
This is why random learning rarely works. It creates fragments, not systems.
And without a system, every decision becomes situational — and usually emotional.
This is exactly where more structured approaches began to gain traction. For example, platforms like Learny Corner focus less on isolated tactics and more on helping people connect the dots — turning scattered knowledge into something usable.
The Shift: From Participation to Navigation
The biggest change isn’t that people joined the markets.
It’s that now they have to navigate them. Before, you could rely on institutions:
Banks managed risk
Funds handled investments
Long-term growth was assumed
Now, responsibility is shifting toward the individual.
You don’t just participate anymore — you decide:
When to enter
When to exit
How much to risk
What to ignore
And without a framework, those decisions become chaotic.
Market Skills Are Not “Extra” Anymore
There’s a misconception that market skills are only for traders. They’re not.
At their core, they are decision-making tools:
Understanding probability instead of certainty
Managing downside before chasing upside
Staying consistent instead of reactive
Filtering noise instead of following it
These are no longer niche abilities. They are becoming part of modern financial survival.
Because today, mistakes are easier to make — and faster to compound.
Why Most People Stay Stuck
The interesting part is that most people feel something is wrong.
They notice:
Inconsistency
Lack of progress
Emotional decisions
But instead of fixing the structure, they look for better strategies.
A new indicator. A new setup. A new idea. But the issue isn’t the tool. It’s the absence of a system.
This is why jumping between random sources rarely leads to improvement. The knowledge doesn’t stack — it resets.
More structured learning environments, like at Learnycorner.com, try to solve this by building continuity — where each concept builds on the previous one rather than existing in isolation.
Because in markets, consistency doesn’t come from variety. It comes from alignment.
The Psychological Pressure Nobody Talks About
Another shift is less obvious, but just as important. Markets are now always on.
You see:
Constant price movement
Instant feedback (profit/loss)
Endless comparisons with others
This creates pressure. And pressure changes behavior:
You act faster than you think
You chase instead of wait
You react instead of plan
Without structure, psychology takes over.
And psychology, without control, leads to the same cycle: action → emotion → mistake → repeat
That’s why modern financial education is no longer just technical. It increasingly includes behavioral aspects — because understanding the market is only half of the equation. The other half is understanding yourself. This balance is something platforms like Learny Corner are increasingly emphasizing.
Where This Is Going
We’re at a transition point. Financial literacy is no longer about:
Saving money
Avoiding mistakes
It’s about:
Understanding systems
Navigating uncertainty
Making decisions under pressure
Markets are becoming part of everyday life — whether people actively trade or not.
And because of that, the gap between those who understand and those who don’t is growing.
Not dramatically overnight. But steadily. Just like inflation.
The New Reality of Money
Financial Literacy 2.0 isn’t about becoming an expert.
It’s about no longer being passive in a system that stopped being passive a long time ago.
Because today, the real difference is simple:
Some people interact with money blindly. Others understand how it behaves.
And in a world where money is constantly moving. That difference compounds faster than anything else.
Cango (CANG) is at risk of losing its NYSE listing after its shares traded below $1 on average for 30 consecutive days, triggering a compliance notice from the exchange and giving the bitcoin BTC$68,804.97 miner a six-month window to recover, the company said in a press release Wednesday.
The New York Stock Exchange flagged the company on March 10, warning that failure to lift its share price back above the $1 threshold by the end of the cure period could lead to suspension and delisting proceedings. Cango said it plans to monitor market conditions and explore options to regain compliance, while its shares continue trading in the interim.
Against that backdrop, the company is shoring up its balance sheet with fresh capital.
In a separate announcement, Cango said it has entered into a $10 million convertible note agreement with Hong Kong-listed DL Holdings, alongside issuing warrants to purchase shares at $2.70 apiece. The financing is paired with a non-binding cooperation framework that could see the two firms pursue additional joint investments tied to crypto mining and AI infrastructure.
Proceeds from the note are earmarked for upstream acquisitions and expanding Cango’s push into computing infrastructure, part of a broader pivot beyond bitcoin mining.
Cango’s recent fundraising comes as the company pivots beyond its roots in bitcoin mining toward a broader strategy centered on energy and AI compute infrastructure. The firm has been positioning its global mining footprint as a foundation for high-performance computing, aiming to repurpose or expand its power capacity to support data-intensive AI workloads, a shift that mirrors a wider industry trend of miners seeking more stable, higher-margin revenue streams.
The convertible issuance follows the closing of a $65 million strategic investment round led by entities controlled by chairman Xin Jin and director Chang-Wei Chiu. The deal, settled in USDT and completed March 31, saw the company issue more than 49 million Class A shares.
Together, the transactions underscore management’s effort to stabilize the company financially while betting on longer-term growth in energy and AI-linked compute, even as it faces near-term pressure to keep its NYSE listing intact.
Cango’s shares have slumped sharply this year, highlighting the urgency behind its latest capital raise. The stock is down more than 70% year to date, recently trading around $0.39 after starting January above $1.40, with sustained selling pressure pushing it below the NYSE’s $1 minimum listing threshold.
Read more: Cango is selling off its bitcoin stash to pay down debt and fund an AI makeover
The US Senate could soon hear testimony to confirm financier Kevin Warsh as the new chair of the Federal Reserve.
Warsh, who previously served on the Fed’s Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011, has criticized the central bank’s policies under current chair Jerome Powell. Warsh has called for “regime change” and lower interest rates.
Regarding crypto, Warsh has a somewhat nuanced approach. He hails Bitcoin as a sustainable store of value, but claims it doesn’t function as money.
Lower interest rates and a fairly open attitude toward crypto could be good news for digital asset prices, which most investors perceive as risk-on. But even if Warsh passes his nomination, there’s no guarantee he’ll affect the changes expected.
Warsh wants to lower Fed interest rates, but can he?
Warsh, a graduate of Stanford and Harvard, started his career at Morgan Stanley, where he eventually became a VP and executive director. He then served as an executive secretary of the White House National Economic Council under President George W. Bush.
Bush nominated him to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in 2006, where his hawkish views on inflation often differed from his colleagues. He was critical of the aggressive use of its balance sheet, which he said led to a period of “monetary dominance” that artificially depressed rates.
Some of this appears to have changed in recent years. In a November 2025 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Warsh criticized Powell’s leadership at the Fed, claiming that “inflation is a choice, and the Fed’s track record under Chairman Jerome Powell is one of unwise choices.”
He said “credit on Main Street is too tight” and that the Fed’s balance sheet, which is “bloated” due to past crisis-management efforts, “can be reduced significantly.”
Source: Polymarket Money
“That largesse can be redeployed in the form of lower interest rates to support households and small and medium-size businesses,” he said.
Plans for cutting interest rates come at an economically fraught time. The US and Israel’s joint attack on Iran, which could soon escalate into an invasion if US President Donald Trump so decides, has wreaked havoc on oil prices.
Increasing oil prices had a direct effect on the core inflation metrics the Federal Reserve uses when considering rate changes. This could put the damper on any plans for rate cuts, at least certainly under Powell.
Warsh told Barron’s that the “core theory of inflation that the Fed is using” is “mistaken.” He said that “we need to fundamentally rethink macro, which is a fundamental rethink of the core economic models that the Fed is using.”
In his accounting, rising wages and commodity prices are not to blame for inflation. Rather, “at the core, I think inflation comes about when the government spends too much and prints too much.”
Returning to monetarism, as well as dumping some of the debt held by the Federal Reserve, could help address inflation concerns, in his view.
Bankers and former Bush administration officials have congratulated Warsh on the nomination. Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the Fed would “benefit from his steady, principled leadership.”
“He understands the central bank’s key role for the United States and our allies around the world,” she said.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has also welcomed Warsh’s nomination. He said that he knew both Powell and Warsh well, and that “They’re both very qualified.”
Qualifications aside, Warsh may find it difficult to enact his preferred policies.
Roger W. Ferguson Jr., the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Maximilian Hippold, a research associate for international economics at CFR, wrote that Warsh won’t revolutionize the Fed.
They said that the chair alone does not make inflation rate decisions. “They are determined by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), a twelve-member body that includes seven Fed governors and five regional Fed presidents.” The chair can’t change policy without convincing a majority.
A Fed Board of Governors meeting in 2022 with Powell center. Source: Public Domain
Others argue that Warsh’s interest in lowering interest rates is a recent pivot and may not be a core conviction around which he will focus central bank policy. A December 2025 analysis from Deutsche Bank noted Warsh’s response to the global financial crisis in 2008, when he was a Governor at the Fed.
“His views while he was a Governor around the GFC [global financial crisis] at times skewed more hawkish than his colleagues,” the report read. “Although Warsh has argued for lower rates recently, we do not view him as structurally dovish.”
They further questioned Warsh’s plans to lower interest rates and cut assets on the Fed balance sheet. “This trade-off would only be feasible if regulatory changes are made that lower banks’ demand for reserves. While several Fed officials have made this argument recently, including Vice Chair of Supervision Bowman and Governor Miran, it is not obvious these changes are realistic in the near-term.”
“The chair has just one vote amongst a particularly divided committee.”
Warsh’s nomination and Fed independence
Commentators have also drawn attention to Warsh’s connection to the Trump administration. Warsh’s father-in-law, Ronald Lauder, is a classmate of Trump and a major donor to his political campaigns.
His relatively recent opinions on low interest rates also make him uniquely suited to the role, at least in Trump’s eyes. Ferguson and Hippold wrote, “Trump believes he has found a successor who will align with his economic priorities in Warsh.”
The president has long bemoaned Fed officials who supposedly promise rate cuts, but then raise them once in office. “It’s too bad, sort of disloyalty, but they got to do what they think is right,” he said in a speech at Davos last year.
Trump has long pushed for lower interest rates, claiming that they are needed to spur his economic development plans. Powell’s refusal to acquiesce to the White House’s request led to political scandal.
Last year, the Department of Justice (DoJ) opened a criminal investigation into Powell, alleging that he misappropriated billions of dollars for new offices for the Federal Reserve.
A federal judge recently quashed the DoJ’s subpoenas in the case. Judge James Boasberg wrote in a memorandum opinion, “A mountain of evidence suggests that the dominant purpose is to harass Powell to pressure him to lower rates. For years, the President has publicly targeted Powell because the Fed is not delivering the low rates that Trump demands.”
Boasberg noted Trump’s invective posts on social media. Source: US District Court for the District of Columbia
Regarding his pick, Trump said in a January press event in the Oval Office that it would be “inappropriate” to ask Warsh about his stance on interest rates. “I want to keep it nice and pure, but he certainly wants to cut rates, I’ve been watching him for a long time.”
Just a couple of weeks later, in an interview with NBC, Trump said Warsh understands that he wants to lower interest rates. “But I think he wants to anyway. If he came in and said ‘I want to raise them’ […] he would not have gotten the job.”
But Warsh hasn’t “gotten the job,” at least not yet. He will face tough questioning from Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee, possibly as soon as April 13.
In a letter lambasting Warsh’s role in bailing out banks in 2008, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who serves on the committee, said, “I have no doubt that you will serve as a rubber stamp on President Trump’s Wall Street First agenda.”
Warren expected written responses to this, and to Warsh’s opinion about Trump’s “witch hunts” against Powell and Fed Governor Lisa Cook, by April 2.
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BlackRock has moved forward with its Bitcoin premium income strategy, revealing a ticker for its upcoming iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said on X that the fund will trade under “$BITA” and noted that BlackRock has filed an amended S-1 registration statement for the product, describing it as a sequel to its existing Bitcoin ETF lineup.
He added that no management fee has been set, with his “over/under” estimate at 38 basis points. There is no official launch date yet.
The proposed ETF is designed to combine direct BTC exposure with an income-generating options overlay.
According to prior SEC filings, the structure is intended to hold BTC-linked assets, including shares of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT, while also writing covered call options on those holdings. The strategy aims to generate “premium income” while still tracking Bitcoin’s price performance, net of expenses.
The fund is part of BlackRock’s broader effort to expand institutional BTC products beyond passive exposure and into yield-focused strategies. It reflects growing demand from allocators who want BTC exposure but also seek portfolio income similar to traditional equity option-writing funds.
If approved and launched, the ETF would add another layer to the rapidly expanding Bitcoin ETF market in the United States, where asset managers are increasingly competing on structure and yield features rather than simple spot exposure alone.
Morgan Stanley is joining the Bitcoin ETF train
Earlier this year, Morgan Stanley moved closer to launching its spot Bitcoin ETF ‘MSBT’ after the New York Stock Exchange issued a listing notice. If approved, MSBT would become the first spot Bitcoin ETF issued by a major U.S. bank rather than an asset manager.
The trust is designed to provide direct BTC exposure through brokerage accounts by holding BTC in custody, with shares tracking the spot price.
Coinbase Custody is set to safeguard assets in cold storage, while BNY Mellon will handle administration, transfer agency services, and cash operations. The structure mirrors existing spot BTC ETFs in the United States.
Shortly after the listing notice, filings revealed a competitive fee structure. MSBT is expected to launch with a 0.14% annual expense ratio, undercutting rivals such as BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, which charges around 0.25%.
This low fee could accelerate adoption inside Morgan Stanley’s wealth management platform, overseeing trillions in client assets and thousands of financial advisors.
It would expand BTC access across traditional portfolios, potentially channeling institutional demand into spot markets if advisors allocate even a small percentage of client assets.
At launch, the fund is expected to be seeded with about 50,000 shares worth roughly $1 million. It arrives amid strong inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, which have attracted tens of billions since debut, while adoption remains a key growth frontier.
Luxor Technology Corporation has unveiled Commander, a new fleet management and profitability optimization platform designed to give Bitcoin mining operators a unified control layer across their entire infrastructure.
The Seattle-based Bitcoin mining software firm says Commander is built to consolidate fleet operations, energy management, and profitability optimization into a single system within its broader ecosystem, according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine.
Luxor, which already manages more than 1 gigawatt of Bitcoin mining and data center compute, positions Commander as a major step toward what it calls a “full-stack mining infrastructure,” integrating mining pool services, firmware, energy tools, derivatives, and fleet management under one platform.
At its core, Commander provides real-time fleet monitoring, bulk remote command execution, and automated optimization of mining profitability.
The system is connected to live hashrate and power markets through Luxor’s existing infrastructure, enabling operators to respond dynamically to changing market conditions.
Adjusted bitcoin mining based on real-time inputs
A key feature of the launch is Intelligent Miner, an automated optimization layer that adjusts mining operations based on real-time inputs.
When connected across Luxor Pool, energy services, and Commander, the system evaluates hashrate pricing and electricity costs every five minutes, then dynamically modifies miner power settings based on fleet composition and market conditions.
According to internal benchmarking shared by Luxor, Intelligent Miner can deliver between 8% and 14% higher profitability compared to traditional binary curtailment strategies, which simply switch machines on or off without finer control over power usage.
The company says this approach is particularly relevant as mining economics come under pressure.
With hashprice hovering near historically low levels and margins tightening across the sector, Luxor argues that operators with real-time market intelligence will gain an increasing advantage over those relying on manual fleet management.
“Every mining operation has fleet management. What separates the best-in-class operators is the intelligence layer on top,” said Jamie Gill, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Luxor. “Commander connects your fleet to live hashrate and power markets and makes automated decisions on how to maximize the profitability of our partners’ equipment within a set of parameters. Binary miners won’t be able to compete in this new paradigm.”
Beyond optimization, Luxor is also targeting operational simplification. Mining operators today often rely on multiple vendors for pool services, firmware, curtailment solutions, and financial tools—each adding complexity through separate dashboards and contracts. Commander aims to eliminate this fragmentation by centralizing control within Luxor’s platform.
The software is compatible with LuxoOS firmware as well as stock firmware from major ASIC manufacturers including Bitmain, MicroBT, and Canaan, allowing operators to integrate it into existing hardware setups without requiring full system overhauls.
Ethereum builders are pushing a new way to unify the ecosystem after years of fragmentation caused by the very networks designed to scale it.
On Sunday, veteran Ethereum builder Gnosis and zero-knowledge virtual machine project Zisk unveiled the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), a framework aimed at linking layer-2 rollups more tightly to the base network.
The proposal positions Ethereum as the central hub, with Ether (ETH) remaining the gas token and settlement layer. It also introduces a model where smart contracts can interact across mainnet and EEZ rollups with atomic execution.
The initiative comes as Ethereum reassesses its rollup-centric roadmap. After pushing activity to layer-2 networks, much of the economic value shifted away from the base layer. Rollups rely on Ethereum for security and final settlement, but in practice, end up capturing user fees and revenue, a relationship some critics have described as “parasitic.”
Similar attempts to unify fragmented blockchain ecosystems have been tried before, with mixed results.
The Ethereum Economic Zone is the latest to answer to the network’s liquidity fragmentation problem. Source: Ethereum Economic Zone
Ethereum’s fragmentation problem
In the latest crypto bull run, ETH performance disappointed many of its holders. It set a new all-time high near $5,000 last August, but it was only a marginal jump from its previous peak. It couldn’t keep up with Bitcoin (BTC), which flew higher than $120,000.
Many attributed Ethereum’s weaker performance to liquidity fragmentation and the overflow of layer-2 networks. On Tuesday, 23 rollups collectively secured $30.77 billion, according to L2BEAT.
Roughly a quarter of that value has been bridged from Ethereum’s base layer, while more than 45% originated from external blockchains. Source: L2BEAT
Related: Why institutions still prefer Ethereum despite faster blockchains
“Ethereum doesn’t have a scaling problem. It has a fragmentation problem,” Friederike Ernst, co-founder of Gnosis, said in a statement shared with Cointelegraph. “Every new L2 that launches with its own liquidity pool and its own bridge is another walled garden.”
She added:
The EEZ is designed to do the opposite. One Ethereum, not a hundred islands.”
In practice, that liquidity remains largely siloed on individual rollups, each with its own DeFi ecosystem. The result resembles a collection of parallel economies rather than a unified market.
Bankless co-founder Ryan Sean Adams compared the current state of Ethereum and its L2s to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), describing it as a “loose alliance of chains that opt in to shared security.”
The EEZ would shift that structure closer to a federated economic union of chains — similar to the US and its 50 states — without requiring a hard fork.
“I hadn’t seen much movement on this vision until now,” said Adams.
Bankless co-founder said EEZ could allow Ethereum to deliver on its promise. Source: Ryan Sean Adams
The proposal mainly impacts three groups. First, for Ethereum, it could improve liquidity circulation across the ecosystem by reducing reliance on bridges, which remain a major attack surface as funds are locked in contracts and exposed to exploits.
Second, for users, EEZ aims to enable seamless movement between Ethereum and its rollups by reducing friction and cost of moving assets. Users can do so without the need for constant bridging.
Finally, for protocols, it removes the need to manage bridges, wrapped assets and chain-specific deployments, simplifying operations across the ecosystem, according to the EEZ.
Ethereum isn’t first to try an “economic zone”
An example of an economic zone already exists. The “Atom Economic Zone,” or AEZ, was Cosmos’ attempt to link chains through a hub-and-spoke model built on “Interchain Security.” Chains could lease security from the Cosmos Hub in exchange for sharing fees and staking rewards with ATOM holders.
The concept drew renewed attention following the EEZ announcement, with early Cosmos contributor Zaki Manian noting that a similar idea introduced in 2023 didn’t find success.
“Most things fail and so the ecosystem inevitably [becomes] littered with corpses of failed projects and this inevitably leads to lack of confidence in the project as a whole,” Manian said.
Blockchain researcher Dankrad Feist questioned how that experience applies to Ethereum’s proposed economic zone. Manian responded that many projects building within the EEZ framework are also likely to “fail.”
“The Atom experience is that the broader public will interpret this as a failure of EEZ,” Manian added.
Cosmos is not as big as Ethereum. Source: Zaki Manian, Dankrad Feist
Related: How SocialFi, memecoins and AI pushed Base to the top of the L2 ladder
Cosmos is not quite Ethereum. It’s a framework and a networking layer, and the Cosmos ecosystem is a network of sovereign L1 chains.
Meanwhile, Ethereum is a layer-1 blockchain that has a clear hierarchy. Ethereum rollups are structurally dependent on Ethereum for settlement and security, aligning their incentives with the base layer.
Gnosis co-founder Martin Köppelmann pitched in to Feist and Manian’s discussion by pushing back at the comparison. He framed EEZ around synchronous composability and access to Ethereum’s state rather than shared security or revenue models.
The tradeoff is that rollups must follow Ethereum’s occasional chain reorganizations, adding complexity, but Köppelmann described those events as infrequent and manageable compared to the benefits.
“So yeah, I am happy to bet on the success of EEZ!” he added.
EEZ gains traction as Ethereum rethinks its scaling strategy
Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap was widely viewed as necessary when it was first introduced and did achieve its goal of easing the network’s congestion.
That may have come at a cost. Some market watchers argued it blunted a key price rally opportunity during the last bull cycle. They also warn that Ether risks losing its position as the second-largest cryptocurrency to Tether’s stablecoin, USDt (USDT).
Almost 60% of bettors expect Ether to lose its number-two spot, up from 17% in January. Source: Polymarket
It also follows criticism from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who said many L2s have not fully transitioned to a decentralized model.
“The original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path,” Buterin said in a February X post.
Though Ethereum’s pivot back toward scaling the base layer is recent, the EEZ has been a long time coming. An early version of the idea was described as an “Ethereum 3.0 vision” by Bankless co-founder Adams after listening to Köppelmann’s presentation on native rollups in 2024.
The EEZ has gained widespread attention thanks to backing from the Ethereum Foundation and its development team, which includes Gnosis, known for building the Safe multisig wallet and early prediction market infrastructure.
The EEZ has yet to reveal key details such as its technical architecture and performance benchmarks, but said these will be published in the coming weeks.
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At FTT Lending 2026, we asked the seemingly simple question, “How many valid forms of ID do you have?” the answers reveal a fascinating look at international mobility and personal documentation.
For many at FTT Lending 2026, the baseline is two, typically a passport and a driving licence, but for others, the count is significantly higher due to dual citizenship or residency in foreign countries.
Across various responses, we saw a wide range of counts. Some individuals carry as many as four distinct forms of identification. For instance, one attendee of FTT Lending noted having both an Irish passport and passport card, supplemented by a Finnish ID card and bank ID. Others manage multiple passports alongside their driver’s licences, with one person even claiming three passports in their collection.
However, the total number of IDs owned doesn’t always match what is carried daily. While many people possess two or three valid documents, it is common for individuals to only have one form of ID, such as a driving licence, on their person at any given time. Whether it is a single card or a collection of international documents, the diversity in responses highlights how individual circumstances and locations shape our portfolio of identity.
Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) looks set to restart its Bitcoin (BTC) accumulation engine after a short pause, with its STRC preferred stock likely funding fresh crypto purchases this week.
Key takeaways:
Strategy may purchase at least $76.25 million in Bitcoin this week.
Combined with a technical setup, Bitcoin may rise to $80,000 in April.
Strategy may buy at least 1,111 BTC this week
On Tuesday, STRC closed at $100.02, just above its $100 par value. Trading at or above par gives Strategy room to issue new shares, raise fresh capital and deploy the proceeds into Bitcoin.
STRC price and volume. Source: STRC.LIVE
Estimates from STRC.LIVE suggest Strategy had raised enough by Tuesday’s close to fund the purchase of more than 1,085 BTC, with the weekly total rising to over 1,111 BTC. That is equivalent to around $76.25 million.
This is a shift from the previous week, when STRC traded mostly below par and generated no estimated BTC purchases.
As of late March, the company held 762,099 BTC at an average acquisition price of about $75,694, according to its latest filings.
BTC rebounds as Strategy’s buying window reopens
The renewed buying window has coincided with a bounce in Bitcoin prices.
Since Tuesday, BTC/USD has climbed more than 5%, briefly reaching nearly $69,300. The move mirrors earlier gains seen during periods when Strategy was actively raising capital through STRC to buy Bitcoin.
BTC/USD weekly chart. Source: TradingView
One example came in the week ending March 15, when Bitcoin rose more than 10% despite weak broader risk sentiment. Over the same period, Strategy purchased 22,337 BTC worth about $1.57 billion.
The opposite dynamic emerged afterward. Bitcoin fell 14.55% over the next two weeks, roughly aligning with Strategy’s pause in purchases as STRC slipped below its $100 par value.
On March 23, Strategy unveiled a $44.1 billion capital-raising capacity to buy more Bitcoin via the sales of STRC and other preferred stocks, indicating that it would remain a meaningful source of Bitcoin demand in the coming months.
Bitcoin eyes $80K after bouncing from flag support
From a technical standpoint, Bitcoin’s rebound began after it retested the lower boundary of its prevailing bear flag pattern as support.
BTC could advance toward the flag’s upper trendline near $80,000 in April if the recovery gains further traction, particularly if boosted by renewed Strategy buying and signs of easing Iran war tensions.
The $80,000 upside target also aligns with the 50-period exponential moving average on the three-day chart, making the area a key near-term resistance zone.
Related: Bitcoin ETFs post $1.3B in March inflows, first monthly gain of 2026
Conversely, Bitcoin risks losing the flag’s lower trendline support and confirming the pattern’s typical bearish breakdown if those supportive catalysts fade.
In that scenario, the measured downside target would come in near the $49,000–$50,000 zone. That aligns with the downside projections shared by multiple analysts in the past.
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Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) to host a blockchain seminar and workshop under its Blockchain4Youth programme. The campus session brought together more than 280 students for a workshop focused on blockchain fundamentals, decentralized systems, and emerging opportunities in Web3.
Held on March 27, the event drew participants from leading institutions including the Indian Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT Delhi), Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), University of Delhi (DU) and other institutions across the capital. More than 650 registrations were recorded for approximately 300 seats, highlighting strong demand for structured blockchain education among Indian students.
Blockchain4Youth is Bitget’s global initiative dedicated to expanding blockchain literacy through campus engagements, workshops, and long-term support for young builders entering the digital asset ecosystem. India remains one of the most active regions for technical talent and early-stage blockchain participation, making university engagement an important part of long-term ecosystem development.
“India continues to stand out for the depth of technical talent entering blockchain,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. “What stood out at IIT Delhi was the curiosity students approached the discussions with. Blockchain4Youth is designed to create early access to knowledge and help young builders understand where decentralized technologies are moving beyond theory into practical infrastructure.”
Speakers at the event underlined the long-term importance of sustained ecosystem investment in Indian talent. Vinayak Kalra, founder of KaiFoundry, noted that the level of curiosity and ambition among students reflected how quickly India’s next generation of blockchain talent is emerging, adding that initiatives of this kind are important if leading Web3 organizations want to invest meaningfully in the country’s talent pool. The event also drew strong attention from ecosystem contributors present at the session. Sahil Thakur, founder of BlockseBlock, pointed to the turnout as evidence that blockchain interest on campuses is increasingly driven by long-term curiosity rather than short-term market cycles.
Bitget’s Blockchain4Youth programme continues to expand through partnerships with universities and educational communities worldwide, with a focus on expanding blockchain access and supporting the next generation of developers and entrepreneurs.
About Bitget Bitget is the world’s largestUniversal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.
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