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Last month (March, 2019) brought some hope and confidence to the crypto community after a protracted bear market, with some digital currencies including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Binance Coin (BNB) and others, recording notable performances. All the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization (MC) are in green, also allowing for exclusion of the stablecoin.

The whole cryptocurrency community was expecting for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decision on Bitwise Bitcoin exchange-traded fund on April 1, 2019, the Commission has once again turned around and suspended the event to May 16.

Crypto "hodlers" just received a way to earn passive income from their cryptocurrency stakeholdings. DLease.io, a new Steem-based application, recently launched its professional-grade leasing platform, which allows STEEM token holders to earn additional coins through its peer-2-peer leasing program. With an average Annual Percentage Rate of double digits for the past 12 months in its closed community beta, the DLease app offers passive returns not common to the cryptocurrency industry.

The fast-growing broker with over 200,000 active traders worldwide aims at being the go-to app for the new generation of mobile-first traders. SimpleFX has just added three groundbreaking features to its award-winning WebTrader and promotes the improvements with a “March Madness” offer. For the whole month, traders can earn $500 with a 20% spread cashback.

Copenhagen-based furniture giant IKEA’s research laboratory Space10 has successfully created a small wooden village to exhibit how communities could craft their individual circular clean energy system. The project uses solar panels and blockchain to make an operational energy system through a neighbor-to-neighbor trading system.

The latest update from Cryptopia shows that a “read-only” site for all existing users will be live on Tuesday this week. According to the update, the current customers are advised to use the site in order to reset their passwords and 2FA credentials to get ready for the live relaunch of the crypto exchange platform. Existing users at this time can’t trade, deposit, or withdraw their funds.

Because of the abundance of self-proclaiming Satoshi Nakamotos surfacing lately, the market saw an App enabling anyone to become the bitcoin inventor.

Ethereum (ETH), the second bull cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, has a massive number of users but one of them is drawing out another mortgage following a charge of more than 2100 ETH in an attempt to send someone $14 worth of ETH. This fee is abnormal and appears as if it was a mistake, but the customer’s account is still active meaning that the possibilities of making such kind of a mistake is high.

The Italian Senate Committee legally approved an amendment on blockchain technology, but it still requires the approval of both Parliaments before being enforced. The Constitutional Affairs and Public Works – the 8th Italian Senate Committee recently approved a legal amendment on blockchain, which is the only real new industry legislative for Italy.