Daily Market Wrap | Mar. 16

Hot Topics

• Bitcoin briefly tops $74,000 as Ether gains up to 6-7% in Monday surge.
• Hana Financial Group signs MOU with Standard Chartered for global business and digital asset cooperation, including stablecoins.
• Australian Senate committee recommends passing Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Bill 2025 to license crypto platforms.

Market Updates

• Aave and CoW Swap publish conflicting post-mortems on $50M DeFi swap disaster caused by extreme slippage.
• ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees buys ~$56M in ETH (24,968 tokens) after a one-year hiatus, per on-chain data.