Crypto News. March 17, 2026
Metaplanet raised $255M (with $276M more in warrants) to fund target 210K BTC target.
Simon Gerovich@gerovich
Metaplanet has raised ~$255m from global institutional investors via a placement of new shares priced at a 2% premium, paired with fixed-strike warrants at a 10% premium that monetize our equity volatility for up to ~$276m in additional capital upon exercise. Up to ~$531m in
9:07 AM · Mar 16, 2026 · 479K Views
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Kimi Moonshot released Attention Residuals (AttnRes), a smarter way to connect layers in AI models that replaces the old fixed Transformers method (used since 2015) with learned attention that picks only the useful information from previous layers, making AI models more powerful, delivering ~1.25× compute efficiency
Kimi.ai@Kimi_Moonshot
Introducing 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔: Rethinking depth-wise aggregation.
Residual connections have long relied on fixed, uniform accumulation. Inspired by the duality of time and depth, we introduce Attention Residuals, replacing standard depth-wise recurrence with
3:03 AM · Mar 16, 2026 · 4.19M Views
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Microstrategy acquired additional 22,337 BTC at $70,194 per BTC, now holds 761,068 BTC.
Michael Saylor@saylor
Strategy has acquired 22,337 BTC for ~$1.57 billion at ~$70,194 per bitcoin. As of 3/15/2026, we hodl 761,068 $BTC acquired for ~$57.61 billion at ~$75,696 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC
strategy.com
Strategy Acquires 22,337 BTC and Now Holds 761,068 BTC
12:01 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 2.28M Views
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Ironlight raised $21M Series A to expand into US tokenized securities
The Block@TheBlockCo
Ironlight raises $21 million to expand regulated marketplace for tokenized securities
theblock.co
Ironlight raises $21 million to expand regulated marketplace for tokenized securities
3:20 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 3.72K Views
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Privy now allows users to transfer wallet balance into curated DeFi vaults to earn yield.
Privy@privy_io
1/ Earn on balances with Privy.
Connect app balances to curated DeFi vaults and expand revenue opportunities with just a few API calls.
Powered by vault infrastructure with @Morpho, with risk strategies from @SteakhouseFi and @gauntlet_xyz. Support for @aave and @kamino 🔜
4:36 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 53.8K Views
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SEC prepares proposal to eliminate quarterly reporting requirement.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Exclusive: The SEC is preparing a proposal to eliminate a requirement for companies to report earnings every quarter.
on.wsj.com
Exclusive | SEC Prepares Proposal to Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement
7:58 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 127K Views
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Kalshi introduced $1B Perfect Bracket contest.
Kalshi@Kalshi
The $1 Billion Kalshi Perfect Bracket Challenge
$1 Billion for a perfect bracket
$1 Million guaranteed to the top scoring bracket
$1 Million to charity and scholarships
See the full rules and submit your bracket: kalshi.com/billion-dollar…
No purchase or deposit required. SIG
7:03 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 6.21M Views
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OpenSea delayed SEA token launch amid market conditions
dfinzer.eth | opensea@dfinzer
an update on $SEA.
the team has been building at full speed, and the foundation had planned to kick off the first steps as part of our march 30th event. but @openseafdn is pushing back the timeline.
a delay is a delay. i’m not going to dress it up, and i know how it lands.
the
8:13 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 368K Views
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YZi Labs led a $52M round in RoboForce
YZi Labs@yzilabs
https://t.co/MG7FkIY2wX
8:49 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 297K Views
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Messari CEO Eric Turner stepped down, CTO Diran Li takes over as company pivots to AI research
Eric Turner@eric_turner
Today, I stepped down as CEO of Messari and handed the reins to Diran. This wasn’t an easy decision, but it’s the right one for the company’s next phase, and he has my full support.
It’s also a difficult day for the team as we say goodbye to many people who helped build Messari.
Diran Li @diran_li
Today I’m stepping into the CEO role at Messari. After conversations with Eric and the board, we agreed this is the right step for the company’s next chapter.
This transition also includes a difficult decision: we’ve parted ways with many teammates who helped build Messari into
8:28 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 36.1K Views
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Diran Li@diran_li
Today I’m stepping into the CEO role at Messari. After conversations with Eric and the board, we agreed this is the right step for the company’s next chapter.
This transition also includes a difficult decision: we’ve parted ways with many teammates who helped build Messari into
8:26 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 62.8K Views
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