As of March 17th, Onchain Lens monitoring shows BlackRock has withdrawn 3,719 BTC ($274.41 million) from Coinbase and deposited 2,018 BTC ($124.88 million) over the past 9 hours.

March 17 (The Block) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce told CNBC in a Monday interview that the agency welcomes asset managers exploring tokenized financial instruments and new ETF structures, encouraging proactive engagement with regulators. “We genuinely want you to come talk to us about your plans. We want to work with you to explore how the market can test your products,” Peirce said. She noted attitudes toward blockchain have shifted in recent years, with more companies voluntarily proposing tokenization plans to the SEC: “People are coming to us saying they see real potential in tokenization.” On leveraged ETFs, Peirce clarified the SEC does not judge a product’s merits—its role is to ensure compliance with statutory leverage limits and disclosure rules. “If an issuer can show the structure meets securities laws, they may propose a plan that exceeds typical thresholds,” she added. For tokenization, Peirce revealed SEC staff are ex

Coinbase announced in an official March 17 statement that Perle (PRL) will be added to its listing roadmap. The token’s trading launch date will be disclosed separately once conditions are met.

On March 17, CoinDesk reported that the UK High Court last week greenlit a trial for a theft case involving 2,323 bitcoins—currently worth roughly $172 million—testing how UK property law applies to digital assets. UK resident Ping Fai Yuen claims in court filings that his estranged wife, Fun Yung Li, secretly obtained the mnemonic seed phrase for his hardware wallet via home surveillance cameras in August 2023 and transferred the bitcoins without authorization. At the time of the theft, the coins were valued at ~$60 million; they’ve since surged to ~$172 million at current prices. The funds were held in a PIN-protected Trezor cold wallet, but anyone with the 24-word seed phrase can reconstruct the wallet and move the assets. The transferred bitcoins have gone through multiple transactions and are now dispersed across 71 non-exchange blockchain addresses, untouched since December 21, 2023. Yuen said he installed recording devices at home after his daughter warned him his wife was

On March 17th, Bitcoin broke above $75,000, per market data from HTX, posting a 3.12% gain over the past 24 hours.

March 17 — Silicon Valley industrial robotics firm RoboForce has closed a $52 million oversubscribed funding round, pushing its total capital raised to $67 million. The round was led by YZi Labs, with Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang joining as a new investor. Existing backers—including Nobel laureate in economics Myron Scholes, Qiming Venture Partners founding partner Gary Rieschel, and Carnegie Mellon University—also re-upped their participation. The new funds will accelerate development of the company’s next-generation robot base model, scale its general-purpose Physical AI robots, and boost manufacturing capabilities ahead of commercial deployment. Industry context: The industrial sector is grappling with a worsening labor shortage. Many labor-intensive, repetitive, and safety-risky jobs still rely on an increasingly scarce human workforce, leading to longer project cycles and elevated safety hazards. RoboForce’s solution targets these high-risk, mundane tasks