The "Silver Helmet Air Force" partially took profit on long positions as BTC returned to the $71k integer level, with a total position size of $13.5 million

On March 25, European crypto exchange Bitpanda announced the launch of Vision Chain—a blockchain network developed in partnership with the Vision Web3 Foundation and Optimism. The network is designed to offer European banks and fintech firms a tokenized asset issuance and settlement infrastructure that complies with the MiCA regulatory framework. It will use a euro-pegged stablecoin for transaction fees to reduce cryptocurrency price volatility risks.

March 25 (CoinDesk) — Ripple is piloting its RLUSD stablecoin within the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) BLOOM sandbox. The pilot, in partnership with supply chain firm Unloq, will test automated cross-border trade payments triggered by goods verification on the XRP Ledger.

March 25 — The Guardian reports the UK government will formally release its political finance regulation review today, with measures to strengthen defenses against foreign funds (including crypto) interfering in democracy. Nathan Gill, ex-Welsh leader of the UK Reform Party, was sentenced to 10? years in prison for accepting crypto bribes. Core report provisions are expected to ban political parties from taking crypto donations, citing the currency’s anonymity and traceability hurdles — which could let foreign actors skirt existing rules to meddle in UK elections. The UK Labour government plans to fold the review’s findings into the upcoming Electoral and Democracy Bill to sharply tighten political donation rules.

March 25th – Per Hyperinsight monitoring (via its Telegram channel: https://t.me/HyperInsight), over the past hour: A whale wallet starting with 0x931 opened a 40x leveraged long position on BTC, with an initial average entry price of $71,023. The position holds ~105.6 BTC, valued at ~$7.5 million. Roughly 30 minutes later, the same address added ~$5 million to the position, with an average entry price of $71,441 for the additional holdings. After two rounds of accumulation, the total position size now stands at ~$12.5 million, with an overall average entry price of $71,190 and a liquidation price set at $73,103. Amid a slight pullback in BTC’s current price, the position is sitting on a small unrealized loss of ~$7,000 (-2%).

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March 25th — South Korea’s financial regulator has released new data showing crypto outflows from domestic exchanges to overseas platforms and private wallets hit roughly $60 billion in the second half of 2025, marking a 14% jump from the first half (about $52.5 billion, equivalent to 78.9 trillion KRW). Despite growth in user counts and deposits on local exchanges, overall profitability fell. As of the end of 2025, the number of crypto exchange accounts in South Korea reached 11 million, up 3% from June 2025. Deposits surged 31% to 81 trillion KRW (around $5.4 billion). However, that growth did not translate to higher profits. Operating profit for the country’s 18 exchanges totaled 380.7 billion KRW (≈$253.4 million) in H2 2025, a sharp 38% drop from the first half’s 617.8 billion KRW (≈$411.2 million). South Korea’s Financial Services Commission estimates the total crypto market value in the country stood at around 87.2 trillion KRW (≈$58 billion) at the end of 2025, down 8% fr