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According to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin rose about 2% in March, ending a consecutive five-month decline, marking the first positive turn after the longest consecutive decline since 2018, with the market focusing on trend reversal signals. Historical data shows that similar rebounds often accompany strong recoveries after several months of decline.In 2019, there was an approximately 300% increase after consecutive declines, and some analysts believe that this round may have found a temporary bottom around the $60,000 mark. However, seasonal patterns indicate discrepancies in April's performance: since 2013, April has mostly seen gains, but in recent years, after a rise in March, the probability of a decline in April has increased, leaving short-term direction uncertain.In terms of price, BTC is currently trading around $68,000, with a key resistance zone between $69,000 and $70,000 above. Further up, attention is on the supply zone between $70,000 and $72,000. If it breaks through effectively, it may test $76,000 or even $80,000; conversely, if it faces pressure, the market may continue its oscillating pattern.

Digital asset service provider Keyrock has completed a Series C financing round, led by SC Ventures, the venture capital arm of Standard Chartered Bank, with existing investor Ripple participating. After the financing, the valuation reached $1.1 billion. This round of financing is still open, with a total scale of up to $100 million. Keyrock stated that the funds raised will be used to strengthen the balance sheet, expand the service matrix, and promote mergers and acquisitions.The company was founded in 2017 and currently provides services such as market making, asset management, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, and options, covering more than 80 centralized and decentralized trading venues, with over 200 employees globally. In terms of business expansion, Keyrock acquired Turing Capital, an alternative investment fund management company registered in Luxembourg, last September, and established an asset and wealth management department to focus on serving institutional clients and private investors.CEO Kevin de Patoul stated that by 2026, the company will continue to drive growth in services, customer base, and geographic coverage to expand market share and strengthen its industry position.

Google's research shows that future quantum computers may only need 9 minutes to crack Bitcoin private keys, which is 1 minute shorter than the average block time of 10 minutes for BTC.The study warns that memory pool attacks could become a real threat and urges an immediate transition to post-quantum cryptography.

Musk stated on the X platform that the core of AI development lies in video understanding and generation, and claimed that "photons are the highest bandwidth form of communication," with related technologies becoming important tools for achieving general artificial intelligence. He also pointed out that xAI's image generation tool Grok Imagine has achieved positive gross profit and is not a loss-making project.This statement comes in the context of OpenAI's recent shutdown of the video platform Sora. Public reports indicate that since its launch, Sora has generated approximately $2.1 million in revenue, with an average daily operating loss of about $1 million. Musk did not disclose specific revenue figures for Grok Imagine but previously stated that he would continue to increase investment, believing it has significant strategic value.

Bitfinex Alpha's latest report supports that the current Bitcoin trend is under dual pressure from weakening demand and a deteriorating macro environment, with the market's future direction gradually being dominated by ETF fund flows.Currently, after failing to break through the range high, Bitcoin has fallen back to near the monthly opening level. The recent rise has been driven more by short liquidations rather than support from spot buying, reflecting insufficient upward momentum.At the same time, there has been a noticeable change in institutional funds. The continuous net outflow of Bitcoin ETFs indicates that the market is actively de-risking, and the capacity to absorb funds has significantly slowed down, further suppressing price performance.

According to independent analyst Markus Thielen, Ethereum has broken through a key technical support level and is currently showing a bearish flag pattern, with prices touching around $2004. This pattern is highly similar to this year's trend, and caution is advised as this pattern may reoccur.On the funding side, market trading volume remains sluggish, with insufficient participation willingness. Ethereum ETFs have continued to see net outflows since last year, with no recent improvement. On the fundamental side, the new cycle of DeFi has not yet started, and there are no obvious signs of recovery in on-chain activity. Recently, the minting volume of USDC has significantly slowed down and turned into net outflows. The improvement in liquidity within the ecosystem is still not stable, and structural demand support remains limited.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated, "BTC has still not been able to regain the realized price after removing long-term inactive supply. Excluding Bitcoin supply held for over 7 years to more accurately reflect the actual circulating chips. Filtering out lost Bitcoins and long-term 'diamond hands' holdings. Under this adjustment, the Bitcoin realized price is about $72,500, which currently constitutes a resistance level. BTC has been below this price for about two months. In each previous bear market, BTC has maintained below this cost basis for 6 to 10 months, during which it failed to effectively recover this level. If this pattern repeats, BTC may still face pressure in the coming months, with a high probability of continuing to operate below $72,500."

According to Hurriyet Daily News, the Turkish parliament removed the tax provisions related to crypto assets during the review of the omnibus bill. The provisions had proposed a 0.3% transaction tax on crypto transactions conducted through service providers and imposed withholding tax on crypto gains.This adjustment stemmed from strong opposition from the opposition parties. Officials stated that the relevant content may be resubmitted in the form of separate legislation in the future.

Zhou Xiaochuan, former governor of the People's Bank of China, stated yesterday at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2026 that a good payment system is not a champion of a single technology or performance. Just like instant payment is not necessarily good, the most important thing is "adaptation." He pointed out that regulation needs to combat money laundering and prevent drug trafficking, cross-border gambling, telecom fraud, etc. Several central bank governors mentioned at the forum that digital currencies are now used in payment systems, but fraud also uses digital currencies, and "it is quite severe." Zhou Xiaochuan believes that the ability to combat fraud still needs to be continuously improved.When discussing the topic of regulatory adaptation, Zhou Xiaochuan mentioned stablecoins again. He said that now, as soon as the proceeds from telecom fraud arrive, they are immediately split into hundreds or thousands of accounts to evade compliance checks, which means it is quite difficult to recover losses afterward. "Stablecoins fundamentally bypass compliance checks; everyone needs to think clearly and not follow the trend." Zhou Xiaochuan also emphasized that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology can be explored, but it does not mean that "peer-to-peer" and "decentralization" are all positive. One cannot hastily conclude that using correspondent banks and SWIFT messages in the original backend systems is outdated; the key is to adapt to the user's experience.

According to Cointelegraph, Michael Selig, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated that bringing "real" cryptocurrency perpetual futures back to the United States is a key component of the agency's innovation policy agenda.

According to CoinDesk, Robin Vince, CEO of BNY Mellon, stated that large financial institutions will play a key role in the next phase of crypto adoption, serving as a bridge between traditional finance and digital assets.He pointed out that tokenization is one of the key areas, including the creation of digital tokens for money market funds and new classes of stocks. Vince emphasized that trust and regulation will determine the pace of industry growth, requiring clear rules. Vince mentioned that areas with current system inefficiencies, such as lending and real estate, may benefit first from tokenization.He also noted that the divergence between the crypto industry and traditional banks regarding the handling of stablecoin yields continues. He believes this transformation will be a long-term process of 5 to 15 years, depending on the coordinated progress of technology, regulation, and market participation.

Andrej Karpathy posted on the X platform that litellm has encountered a PyPI supply chain attack, where executing pip install litellm can steal SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure credentials, Kubernetes configurations, git credentials, environment variables, encrypted wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD keys, and database passwords.litellm has a monthly download volume of 97 million, and the risk can spread to all projects that depend on litellm, such as dspy. The version with the malicious code was online for less than about 1 hour, and it was discovered due to a flaw in the attack code that caused Callum McMahon's machine to run out of memory and crash. Andrej Karpathy stated that supply chain attacks are the most threatening issue in modern software, as each installation of dependencies can introduce tampered packages deep within the dependency tree, leading him to increasingly prefer reducing dependencies and using LLM to directly implement simple functions.

Robbie Mitchnick, head of digital assets at BlackRock, stated that institutional investors are concentrating their allocations of crypto assets on Bitcoin and Ethereum, with limited interest in most other tokens, believing they lack long-term value.At the same time, he pointed out that artificial intelligence will become a more important long-term driver than crypto assets, and emphasized that cryptocurrency, as "computer-native currency," has a natural synergy with AI's "computer-native data and intelligence."

According to the RootData calendar page, next week includes several important news items such as project updates, macroeconomic finance, token unlocks, incentive activities, and presale events. The details are as follows:March 23:Polymarket announces major news;AVAIL unlocks 20,913.19 million tokens, worth $849,700, accounting for 5.58% of the circulating supply;SOON unlocks 2,187.64 million tokens, worth $2,866,300, accounting for 4.749% of the circulating supply;ZORA unlocks 16,666.67 million tokens, worth $2,817,600, accounting for 3.728% of the circulating supply.March 24:NIL unlocks 11,865.18 million tokens, worth $5,614,300, accounting for 37.752% of the circulating supply;Japan's February core CPI year-on-year rate.March 26:SAHARA unlocks 7,239.58 million tokens, worth $2,027,100, accounting for 2.488% of the circulating supply;ALT unlocks 24,658.98 million tokens, worth $1,818,900, accounting for 4.338% of the circulating supply;soonBase L3 network ceases operations.March 27:WAL unlocks 38,833.33 million tokens, worth $31,024,700, accounting for 17.323% of the circulating supply;U.S. March one-year inflation rate expectation final value;Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Jefferson delivers a speech;2027 FOMC voting member and San Francisco Fed President Daly gives an opening speech at a conference on macroeconomics and monetary policy.March 28:XPL unlocks 8,888.89 million tokens, worth $857,160, accounting for 4.938% of the circulating supply;SIGN unlocks 9,666.67 million tokens, worth $460,290, accounting for 5.894% of the circulating supply.March 29:HYPE unlocks 991.67 million tokens, worth $399,245, accounting for 4.16% of the circulating supply;In addition, there is a button at the top of the RootData calendar page for generating image shares, allowing users to select important events for sharing.Risk warning: This calendar does not constitute any investment advice.

According to CoinDesk, the current trend of Bitcoin is highly similar to the price structure that ultimately triggered a drop to $60,000 between November 2025 and January 2026. From a technical perspective, since hitting the bottom in early February, Bitcoin has formed a narrow, slightly upward-sloping channel between two trend lines, mirroring the previous sideways movement after the drop from $100,000.At that time, the market also exhibited a slow, oscillating upward crawl, ultimately leading to a false breakout where the price plummeted straight from about $90,000 to nearly $60,000. Technical analysis refers to such patterns as "counter-trend rebounds," which are small recoveries that occur within a downtrend. The current rebound lacks explosive momentum, which is a typical signal of bull exhaustion; the market may just be catching its breath, waiting for bears to regain strength.$65,800 is a key support level. If Bitcoin falls below the current lower boundary of the channel at around $65,800, it would mean that bears have regained control; if it breaks upward through the channel, the downtrend may lose momentum, and bulls could be poised for a strong counterattack. Bitcoin is currently at a critical decision point, and the direction remains unclear.