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A Los Angeles County jury has found former Los Angeles Police Department officer Eric Halem guilty of kidnapping and bitcoin robbery in a 2024 home invasion that targeted a teenage cryptocurrency holder. The verdict followed a two-week trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, where prosecutors argued that Halem, 38, and three alleged accomplices posed as police officers to gain entry to a high-rise apartment in Koreatown.  Once inside, they restrained a 17-year-old and his girlfriend and stole a hard drive containing private keys to roughly $350,000 in bitcoin. The victim, who testified under his first name, Daniel, told jurors…

CFTC chairman Michael Selig plans to enable US-listed crypto perpetual futures within weeks. Summary CFTC chair Michael Selig told attendees the agency aims to clear regulatory obstacles and launch “genuine professional” crypto perpetual futures in the US within about 4 weeks. The move is part of “Project Crypto,” a joint SEC–CFTC initiative that includes new guidance for DeFi, prediction markets, and tokenized collateral frameworks. BTC and major altcoins saw modest intraday gains while derivatives traders priced in potential onshoring of volume from offshore venues, with expectations for higher regulated futures open interest. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is…

James Ding Mar 03, 2026 20:24 NVIDIA releases cuTile.jl, enabling Julia developers to write high-performance GPU kernels using tile-based programming with near-parity Python performance. NVIDIA has extended its tile-based GPU programming model to Julia developers with the release of cuTile.jl, an open-source package that achieves up to 100% performance parity with its Python counterpart on compute-intensive workloads.The package, developed in collaboration with JuliaGPU, represents the latest expansion of CUDA Tile—what NVIDIA has called the most significant addition to CUDA programming since the platform launched in 2006. While Python developers gained access to the…

New York, United States, March 3rd, 2026, ChainwireThreshold Network, the decentralized blockchain protocol behind tBTC, has introduced an update to its decentralized application featuring an all-in-one Unified Bitcoin App that enables users to route Bitcoin across major chains through a single interface.This new unified routing interface brings minting, redeeming, bridging, tracking, and native BTC swaps into a single application: The Threshold App. Users can now move Bitcoin across ecosystems through a coordinated system, rather than stitching together multiple tools or navigating between different Decentralized protocols.This release simplifies how Bitcoin enters and moves across DeFi, offering a more user-friendly on-chain experience…

As major tech firms from traditional finance focus on building closed artificial intelligence (AI) systems, the BNB Chain is now releasing production-ready “skills” designed specifically for autonomous AI agents, enabling them to operate directly on blockchain infrastructure rather than through centralized intermediaries. These newly deployed capabilities allow AI agents to access live on-chain data, execute real transactions, manage wallets independently, and establish permanent on-chain identities using the ERC-8004 standard, or “Trustless Agents.”  BNB Chain Advances Agent Economy With these Ethereum-standard tools, AI agents can implement automated trading strategies, rebalance portfolios, participate in decentralized governance, and conduct continuous data analysis.  In…

The current XRP news is full of Ripple’s slow price performance as of late. The token has been holding onto its ground, as pressure continues to mount due to a variety of new reasons. From the Middle East conflict to the Fed’s rate cut stance, the entire cryptocurrency sector has been suffering as of late. But XRP is no ordinary token. It packs a broader spectrum of services, the ones that may activate at any given time, turning the tides of time to its own favor. Here’s how a $1000 investment in XRP may end up changing one’s fortune in…

The XRP price is flashing signals that traders can’t afford to ignore. Thirty-day realized volatility has just spiked to levels not seen since March 2025. Historically, when that happens, a massive XRP price move follows. Volatility doesn’t just wake up one morning and stretch like this for no reason. Something is building.But let’s be real, while volatility expands, price hasn’t been kind. XRP has fallen from $3 to $1.35. That’s not a minor pullback. That’s a structural unwind.XRP Price Volatility Sends WarningA spike in 30D realized volatility usually means one thing: compression is over. Every previous time this metric reached…

We have been following MegaETH for quite some time now.From the Fluffle NFTs to the ICO, we covered it all. We tracked the hype. We watched the mint. And we invested in the insane ICO oversubscription numbers.Now MegaETH mainnet is live.And that changes everything.Because when a hyped ecosystem goes live, one thing usually follows: Megaeth airdrops.That’s exactly why we’re here. We will track them. We will farm them. And we will break them down for you.Let’s dive in.Read our updated airdrop farming strategy for 2026.What Is MegaETH?MegaETH is a high-performance Ethereum-based blockchain focused on scalability and real-time execution.According to the…

XRP price is retesting range lows as open interest drops 70%, putting $1.30 support in focus. Summary XRP trades at $1.34, down sharply from its July 2025 high of $3.65. Open interest has fallen from $660M to $203M in five months, led by Binance. A daily close below $1.30 could open the door to $1.00, while $1.50 is key for recovery. XRP (XRP) is back near the bottom of its range amid continued selling pressure. At press time, the token trades at $1.34, down 4.4% in the past 24 hours. The seven-day range is between $1.28 and $1.48. XRP has…

Zach Anderson Mar 03, 2026 15:45 OKX Ventures research reveals how RWA perpetuals are capturing demand from $89T options and $30T CFD markets. Two competing architectures emerge. Real-world asset perpetuals are exploding. Daily trading volumes topped $15 billion in early March 2026, according to market data—a figure that would have seemed absurd just 18 months ago when RWA perps represented less than 1% of the derivatives market.OKX Ventures dropped a comprehensive research piece this week arguing these instruments aren’t just another DeFi experiment. They’re gunning for a slice of the $89 trillion monthly…