BlackRock deposits 839 BTC and 14,802 ETH into Coinbase

On March 23rd, CoinShares reported that the market interpreted the Federal Reserve’s meeting as “hawkish unchanged,” causing net inflows into digital asset investment products to slow to $230 million last week. Data shows total inflows reached $635 million in the two days preceding the FOMC meeting, but approximately $405 million flowed out in the period after the gathering. Bitcoin (BTC) saw net inflows of $219 million, though short-BTC products still attracted $6 million in inflows—signaling intensified long-short divergence in the market. Solana (SOL) recorded net inflows for the seventh straight week, with $17 million this week pushing its cumulative total to $136 million. Ethereum (ETH), which had three consecutive weeks of inflows prior, posted a net outflow of $27.5 million this week.

March 23: Per HyperInsight monitoring, the individual nicknamed "Buddy" FOMOed into additional leverage Tuesday night and was liquidated again, leaving just $27,000 in account value. Around 7 p.m. ET amid a rapid market rally, the individual urgently added to their ETH long position, boosting it to $2.42 million with a liquidation price of $2,142. A subsequent market pullback triggered the liquidation of their long position.

On March 23, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported that the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated Donald Trump’s remarks were intended to drive down energy prices and buy time for the U.S. military plans. “While there has been a proposal for de-escalation, our response is that the United States should be the one engaging in dialogue—we are not the ones who started the conflict,” the ministry noted, per the report. (FX168)

On March 23, Strategy announced it had purchased approximately 1,031 bitcoins for roughly $76.6 million, at an average price of about $74,326 per coin. As of March 22, 2026, the company holds a total of 762,099 bitcoins, with an approximate total cost of $57.69 billion and an average holding cost of around $75,694 per bitcoin.

March 23 — Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported that the Strait of Hormuz will not revert to its pre-war status via psychological warfare.

On March 23, per market data, Backpack’s official token BP opened at $0.214, with a corresponding fully diluted valuation (FDV) of roughly $2.14 billion. ### Notes on American English adaptation: 1. **Date format**: Added "On" before the date (standard for news briefs in U.S. English). 2. **Monetary notation**: Used "$" instead of "US dollars" (common in financial/tech news for brevity). 3. **Abbreviation clarity**: Added the full term "fully diluted valuation" alongside "FDV" (U.S. readers often expect abbreviations to be defined on first mention). 4. **Lexicon**: Swapped "according to" for "per" (more concise and typical in U.S. market reports) and "about" for "roughly" (natural synonym in financial context). 5. **Flow**: Kept the sentence structure tight (matches the brevity of crypto news alerts).