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APIA, Samoa, March 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, announced that its TradFi (Traditional Finance) trading platform has exceeded $10 billion in trading volume for the first month, driven by unprecedented demand for tokenized gold and commodity contracts amid escalating geopolitical tensions. Gold-related instruments — including XAU (Gold) and PAXG perpetual contracts — accounted for a significant share of the volume surge, as traders sought safe-haven exposure through Phemex’s 24/7 trading infrastructure. The TradFi platform, which offers tokenized access to stocks, commodities, and indices alongside crypto assets, has seen a 340% increase in active users quarter-over-quarter. Its core…

ORBS makes strategic investments in category-defining companies, including OpenAI and Beast Industries Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine (NYSE: BMNR), joins board of directors to support ORBS’ long-term investment strategy ARK Invest joins ORBS as a partner, providing strategic advisory and private market intelligence; commits $25 million to ORBS Brett Winton, Chief Futurist at ARK Invest, will join as an advisor to ORBS’ Board Payward, the parent company of global crypto platform Kraken, commits $25 million to ORBS The Company is supported by a group of strategic and institutional investors including: Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), MOZAYYX, ARK Invest, Payward, World Foundation,…

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Castries, Saint Lucia, March 12th, 2026, Chainwire PrimeXBT, a global multi-asset broker and crypto asset service provider, announced the launch of PXTrader 2.0, a major upgrade of its native trading platform that combines crypto with traditional financial markets, giving traders access to more than 350 instruments from a single account. The launch reflects PrimeXBT’s leading role in the growing convergence between crypto and traditional finance, supported by infrastructure designed to allow digital asset capital to move more freely across global markets. PXTrader 2.0 reflects a broader shift in how digital assets are being used within financial markets. Increasingly, crypto is…

Victoria, Seychelles, March 12th, 2026, Chainwire BYDFi announced the integration of its perpetual futures market data into TradingView, enabling traders to access real-time pricing and crypto market signals directly within TradingView charts. The integration supports more efficient workflows by bringing BYDFi derivatives data into a familiar charting environment used by traders worldwide for crypto futures analysis. Market Signals in View, Strategy in Sync With BYDFi perpetual futures data available on TradingView, users can monitor price action, volume dynamics, and market structure signals on TradingView while keeping their chart workflow anchored to BYDFi as the data source, ranging from BTCUSDT perpetual…

Stock futures tumbled after hours on Wednesday, building on earlier losses for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, as crude-oil prices pressed higher.

Presearch (https://presearch.com/), the privacy-centric, non-profiling engine, today announced that its Series II Node NFT Auction sold out, generating more than 8.5 million PRE in total proceeds, which is more than double the nearly 4 million PRE raised in the inaugural auction, marking the largest deflationary event in PRE’s history. The auctions have distributed 418 Node License NFTs, with every node clearing above its reserve price despite reserves being increased by 50% compared with the previous sale. The event also drew 127 unique bidders, doubling participation from the first node auction and signaling accelerating demand for infrastructure supporting the Presearch network.…

After retreating back to the $69,000 area during early U.S. morning hours Wednesday, bitcoin BTC$70,754.92 has quickly spiked to nearly $71,000.Other crypto assets, including ether (ETH), solana (SOL) and XRP, saw the same sharp moves higher.The gains appeared to come as crude oil quickly reversed most of its session’s large gains, dropping $3 per barrel in a matter of minutes. At press time, WTI crude futures for April were at $85, up 2% for the day.Crude’s drop also benefited stocks, with the Nasdaq moving from a small decline to a gain of 0.5% in early U.S. trade.Crypto-related shares were mixed,…

I spend a lot of time talking to retirees about their spending plans. Many of them proudly tell me that they’re spending far less than the 3%-4% initial withdrawal amounts that are often bandied about in the context of safe spending rates. They tell me they’ve been good savers, they’re frugal, they don’t need more. Underspending seems to be part of their identities. Those are all laudable things. But they make me think of the interplay between underspending and the potential for leftover amounts at the end of life. The fact that underspending tends to lead to big residual balances…

Americans are opting out of the Affordable Care Act, and health insurance companies are taking a financial hit.