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_MARA Holdings has expanded its 2026 BTC treasury policy to allow potential Bitcoin reserve sales. The move follows a volatile year marked by losses and rising costs._
MARA Holdings, the largest public Bitcoin miner by BTC held,

_ Transia-RnD proposes an XRPL sidechain for options and up to 200x leverage, drawing direct comparisons to Hyperliquid’s $9B chain. Here’s what’s in the pitch._
Transia-RnD has dropped a formal pitch for an XRPL options sidechain. Purpose-built. Not retrofitted. Denis Angell, the developer

_Core Scientific plans to sell nearly all its 2,537 BTC in Q1 2026 to fund AI colocation expansion and boost liquidity._
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific is set to liquidate nearly its entire Bitcoin reserve in the first quarter of 2026. 
According to Wu Blockchain, which reported on the company’s

_Machi Big Brother has lost nearly $74M in 6 months trading 25x leveraged ETH longs since September._
_His recent $250K USDC deposit to Hyperliquid dropped to about $8.5K after liquidation._
_Ethereum fell from $4.7K in September to around $1.9K during the period of his

February 2026 marked the first decline in prediction market activity since August 2025, yet trading volume remained high at $23.4 billion, indicating resilience and sustained interest despite a slowdown. Competitive market dynamics signal a shift towards stability.

_Brazil’s tax authority recorded R$242 million in XRP transactions last September, with 308,411 entries in hard official on-chain data._
Brazil’s own tax authority just handed the XRP community something no price chart can fake. Hard numbers. Official ones.
The Receita Federal, Brazil’s

_Judge Failla dismissed the Risley class action against Uniswap Labs with prejudice on March 2, setting a new legal precedent for DeFi open-source developers._
Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York dismissed all remaining claims in the Risley class action against Unisw

_Ripple Prime joins the NSCC directory, linking XRPL to U.S. clearing infrastructure._
_Hidden Road cleared ~$3T yearly for 300+ institutions before Ripple’s acquisition._
_Ripple plans to migrate institutional post-trade settlement flows onto XRPL._
Ripple expanded the role of the XRP

_Canton Network and TreasurySpring are making Fixed-Term Funds mobile on blockchain, targeting real-time collateral use for institutional treasury operations._
Fixed-Term Funds have always had one rule. Hold to maturity. That rule is changing.
Canton Network and TreasurySpring are now working t

_VanEck CEO Jan van Eck says Bitcoin nears bottom in 4-year cycle as 2026 price targets divide analysts._
Bitcoin may be approaching the end of its current bear market phase. VanEck CEO Jan van Eck said the price is forming a bottom. He expressed this view in an interview with CNBC on