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Kraken announced this Wednesday (18) that it has acquired Magna, a platform that deals with token management. They did not disclose how much they paid, but the deal was finalized last Friday (13).
Magna helps crypto companies properly organize the distribution of tokens. When a crypto startup receives investment, it usually promises a portion of those tokens to investors, just like traditional companies do with shares. However, the more people get involved, the more complicated it becomes to know who has what, especially after the tokens start being traded in the market. To resolve this confusion, people turn to Magna, explained Arjun Sethi, co-CEO of Kraken, in a conversation with Fortune magazine.

Cryptocurrencies that stood out the most in rise and fall in the last 24 hours on Binance and in other market rankings:
📈 Cryptocurrencies on the Rise (24h)
- GRX Chain – rise above 50%
- Orca – also recorded more than 50% appreciation
- QuarkChain (QKC) – +22.03%
- Waves (WAVES) – +14.26%
- yearn.finance (YFI) – +7.75%
- Toncoin (TON) – +7.17%
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) – +6.76%
📉 Cryptocurrencies in Decline (24h)
- Bitcoin (BTC) – fluctuating between US$ 66 thousand and US$ 69 thousand, has accumulated a drop of almost 28% in 2026

Arthur Hayes, who is the co-founder of BitMEX, is saying that Bitcoin is already giving warning signs that traditional stocks have not yet noticed.
The most famous digital currency in the area has been falling since it hit its record back in October 2025, surpassing 126,000 dollars. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq 100 has remained somewhat stagnant, with no major changes. Hayes believes that this difference is related to job losses caused by artificial intelligence, and that this could lead to a significant dollar credit crisis.

On Tuesday (17), Elemental Royalty informed investors that they will be able to receive dividends in the form of Tether's XAUT token. It's quite a novelty because it opens the door for tokenized gold to fully enter Wall Street.
The idea is simple: to give the investor a direct piece of physical gold, coming from mining royalties. The company, located in Colorado, stated that the payment will be 12 cents, divided into quarterly installments. Those who wish can still receive cash in the traditional way. But the CEO, David Cole, said that supporting Tether's product is an innovative thing.

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has just activated a new feature called Permissioned DEX, registered as XLS-81. This allows the creation of a trading space within the network itself, but with controlled access.
Instead of being a completely open market, it is now possible to create a 'closed circle', where only those with authorization can enter. In other words, the platform can choose who can place offers and who can negotiate. This helps to meet rules such as identity verification (KYC – 'Know Your Customer') and prevention against money laundering (AML).

Vitalik Buterin, that guy who helped create Ethereum, released some different ideas. He said that this thing called 'hedge' in prediction markets could provide price stability similar to stablecoins, and that, if you’re not careful, there might no longer be a need for government currency.
In a lengthy tweet, the man explained how to make these prediction markets more useful. He commented that, despite already reaching a 'high level' of success, they are starting to generate a lot of 'corporate junk', which hinders more than it helps.

Oh, what a good thing, but it's not quite like that... The folks who deal with Bitcoin and think that the little thing has already hit the bottom of this cycle are going to end up disappointed, you see. According to a fresh report from CryptoQuant, you have to be patient, you know. A bear market bottom takes time to firm up, and they are saying that the true bottom of BTC is around 55 thousand dollars.
The report says that this executed price is like a historical floor that has held the market during other downturns. And when the value approaches this point, it usually stays around there for 4 to 6 months, like a car stuck in mud.

The investor and businessman Kevin O'Leary, known to the public from the show Shark Tank, won a good fight in court. Judge Beth Bloom ordered the YouTuber Ben Armstrong, more famously known as 'BitBoy', to pay him about 2.8 million dollars for defamation.
From that money, there are about 78 thousand for messing with his reputation, 750 thousand for emotional suffering, and another 2 million as punishment. BitBoy didn't even defend himself properly in the case.
It all started back in March 2025, when BitBoy posted some things on platform X saying that O'Leary and his wife were to blame for a boating accident that killed people in Canada in 2019. They never proved any of this. To make matters worse, he even released the investor's cell phone number.

The big player in oil has decided to jump on the technology wave and launched something different: an energy token that you can track everything through blockchain, with security and transparency.
This ENERTOKEN has already moved more than 800 million dollars in assets and has a chance to appear here in Brazil, especially now that ANEEL has opened the gates for innovation in the electric sector.
The one responsible for the novelty is the Argentine oil company YPF, along with its subsidiary YPF Luz. They created a digital platform that allows you to contract and manage energy in a very modern way: cost simulation, digital signing, consumption tracking, billing, and real-time reports. All of this running on the public XRP Ledger.

A Ripple $XRP , which is a reference in blockchain solutions for financial markets, decided to boost Ripple Custody. The company has closed some strategic partnerships that make the digital asset custody service even more robust and ready to serve large institutions.
Securosys and Figment joined the game, along with integration with Chainalysis and the acquisition of Palisade. With this, Ripple Custody has become easier to contract, faster to deploy, and provides security for regulated institutions to operate at scale without headaches.

ANDTech 2026 is entering its second edition already firmly established as the largest meeting in Brazil to discuss technology, innovation, and digital transformation in traffic and mobility. It will take place on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of March at the Anhembi Complex in São Paulo, bringing together the main public and private leaders in the field.
Organized by the National Association of DETRANs (AND) together with Detran-SP, ANDTech has become a strategic space where government, market, and technical institutions come together to think about modern solutions for traffic services.

The American Mark Moran, who was a prominent figure on the HBO Max reality show FBoy Island, decided to come up with a different approach to try to reach the Senate in the United States. The 34-year-old, who is competing in the Democratic primaries in Virginia against Senator Mark Warner, invented the idea of using a so-called memecoin as a campaign tool. Moran became known after appearing on the show in 2021.
In a conversation, he explained that he created the project called $MORAN to shake up the way political financing is done and to attract the attention of those involved in cryptocurrency. According to him, in addition to raising funds, this helps to generate buzz and engagement — even running the risk of attracting the attention of regulators and opponents.

The so-called platform X is about to release some new features in a few weeks. One of them is called “Smart Cashtags”: it will allow you to deal with stocks and cryptocurrencies directly on the timeline, without needing to leave the screen where you are reading tweets. It was the product chief, Nikita Bier, who mentioned this in a tweet on Saturday, the 14th.
In practice, it is like this: the person will be able to buy or sell assets right there, in the middle of the posts, without needing to open another tab or application. Nowadays, these cashtags — like $TSLA from Tesla or $BTC from Bitcoin — only serve to show market information, like a hashtag, but with a dollar sign instead of the hash. The difference is that now it will be possible to trade for real on the interface itself.

Oh good train, man! The cryptocurrency HOME is there on Binance making its little steps. In the last 24 hours, the price stayed around US$ 0.0277, rising a tiny bit, about 0.5%. People traded it with a volume of about 16.5 million dollars, and the market cap is around 97 million.
For those who like to know the numbers: there are already over 3.4 billion tokens circulating, but the cap is 10 billion. In other words, there is still room to grow.
And the context?
- The token is running on the BNB Chain, within the world of decentralized finance (DeFi).

Coinbase stumbled
On Thursday (12), Coinbase, which is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, went through a tough time. The people using the platform were unable to buy, sell, or manage their digital assets.
The company confirmed the problem on their official page and assured that customers' money was safe, they just couldn't access it during the instability. This ordeal lasted about an hour and a half until everything returned to normal.
What caused the confusion

Tokenized gold on the rise
Wow, things are getting serious: the tokenized gold market has already surpassed the $6 billion mark. This growth has been swift in recent weeks, with more than $2 billion entering just this year. The reason? People are rushing for safe assets, like precious metals, and the crypto infrastructure is making way for so-called RWAs (real-world assets).
Who calls the shots
In practice, two tokens dominate almost everything: Tether Gold (XAUT) and Paxos Gold (PAXG). Together, they hold nearly 97% of the market. There are already over 1.2 million ounces of physical gold represented on the blockchain through these assets.

Oh, what a good thing! Ripple, that finance company behind the so-called XRP token — which is already the fourth largest in the cryptocurrency market — could be worth a trillion dollars in the future. At least that's what its CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, truly believes.
In a meeting with the XRP fan community, the man said he is convinced that a crypto company will reach this mark, something that only big players like Nvidia, Apple, and Alphabet have achieved so far.
"There will indeed be a cryptocurrency company worth a trillion, I have no doubt," he said. "And if Ripple does everything right, along with the XRP ecosystem, it could be her."

The Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT), the company of U.S. President Donald Trump, decided to again request to launch some Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. This is after the SEC put a hold on several crypto fund proposals. This first fund was named Truth Social Bitcoin and Ether ETF.
This ETF brings together the two giants of the market, Bitcoin and Ethereum, and will allocate approximately 60% to BTC and 40% to ETH, tracking their performance.
In addition, Trump Media wants to launch another fund, the Truth Social Cronos Yield Maximizer, which will follow Crypto.com’s CRO token. This brokerage already has a long-standing partnership with the group and will handle the custody and liquidity of the assets.

Binance and Franklin Templeton decided to join forces and created a different thing: a guarantee program outside the brokerage, the so-called off-exchange. This allows the use of tokenized money market funds as collateral in trades, without needing to keep the money locked inside the exchange.
The idea is to reduce that counterparty risk that always worries large investors. The assets are held in regulated custody, outside the brokerage, but their value appears mirrored in the Binance system. This way, the person can trade calmly, without fear of having funds locked up.

Fenasbac, which is the federation of Central Bank servers, is opening another round to accelerate business. The Next program (Batch 8) is looking at startups that deal with financial innovation, and applications are open until Sunday, the 15th.
The idea is to take projects that solve real market problems using cutting-edge technology: blockchain, artificial intelligence, and sustainable finance.
The highlight of this edition is a challenge related to the infrastructure of the capital markets on the XRPL (Ripple) network. The call seeks companies willing to create Decentralized Finance (DeFi) solutions at an institutional level. The goal is to develop tools for custody, settlement, and tokenization of real assets, attracting the big players in the market to the crypto world. But it has to be something secure and capable of scaling.