According to DB News, the DOJ is cleared to sell 69,370 $BTC($6.58B) confiscated from Silk Road.

On March 13, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a post detailing his ties to the Future of Life Institute (FLI) and his stance on AI risk issues. In 2021, Vitalik passively received a large sum of meme coins (including SHIB), with their paper value peaking at over $1 billion. He donated half to CryptoRelief and the other half to FLI, expecting FLI to cash out no more than $10–25 million. However, FLI actually cashed out around $500 million (CryptoRelief faced a similar situation). Vitalik noted FLI later underwent an internal strategic shift, prioritizing large-scale political actions as its core approach—this marked a sharp departure from its initial plan. He expressed concerns, arguing that using a large fund pool to drive political action could lead to unintended consequences and potentially devolve into authoritarian practices (e.g., restricting open-source AI to prop up a single "correct" institution’s dominance). Such moves carry significant risk of backfiring.

On March 13, crypto analytics platform LookOnChain said in a social media post that the individual who swapped just 50.43 million aEthUSDT for 327 aEthAAVE may be a proxy for Garrett Jin, the so-called "BTC OG Insider Whale." On-chain sleuths uncovered that 13 wallets suspected of belonging to the "High Slippage Trade Whale (who lost $50 million)" all received USDC or USDT from Binance on February 16 and 20. These wallets reactivated today, funneling funds to two new wallets—one of which shares a Binance deposit address with Garrett Jin himself. Garrett Jin sold 261,024 ETH (valued at $543 million) and 11,318 BTC (valued at $761 million) on February 15 and 20, with the timing closely aligning with when those wallets withdrew stablecoins from Binance.

**Binance Unveils Simple Earn Campaign for Ripple’s Stablecoin RLUSD** Binance announced on March 13 that it’s launching a Simple Earn campaign for Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD. During the campaign, users who subscribe to RLUSD’s flexible savings product can earn up to 8% annualized interest. This return combines a real-time annualized rate and an exclusive tiered bonus annualized rate. **Campaign Period** March 13, 2026, 00:00:00 UTC – March 26, 2026, 23:59:59 UTC

March 13 — Data from Coinglass shows the cryptocurrency market rebounded this morning, with Bitcoin hitting $72,000 and Ethereum touching $2,148. Funding rates across major centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) exchanges signal easing bearish sentiment: rates for various trading pairs have returned to neutral after previously being negative. Rates for specific mainstream coins are available in the attached image. BlockBeats Note: Funding rates are fees set by crypto exchanges to keep perpetual contract prices aligned with underlying asset prices. They facilitate fund transfers between long and short traders—exchanges do not collect these fees. The mechanism adjusts the cost or profit of traders holding contracts to maintain parity with the underlying asset. A 0.01% funding rate is the baseline. Rates above 0.01% indicate broadly bullish sentiment, while rates below 0.005% signal broadly bearish sentiment.

March 13: Binance founder CZ commented on a user who incurred a slippage loss of over $50 million while purchasing AAVE, stating: "Very unfortunate—liquidity is the best user protection."

March 13: Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale wallet dormant for 10 months withdrew 1,870 XAUT from OKX 8 hours ago—valued at $9.54 million.