Bitcoin dropped under $69K even as the SEC and CFTC create more clarity for crypto, and agentic commerce looks like it will reshape the sector. ---Thank you to our sponsor, MultiChain Advisors---Bitcoin dropped under $69K after the Fed, ECB, and Bank of England all held rates steady this week, while Australia hiked. Kaiko's Laurens Fraussen joins to explain what's actually happening beneath the surface, from collapsing liquidity to a quiet geographic shift in who's buying.He also makes the case that agentic commerce could reshape how crypto payments work entirely and we break down why the market mostly shrugged at the latest crypto guidance from the SEC and CFTC.Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Steven Ehrlich⁠, Host of Bits + Bips: The InterviewGuest: ⁠Laurens Fraussen, Research Analyst at KaikoLinks:Bitcoin, Markets, and the Iran ConflictBitcoin Holding at $70,000 as Iran War Stokes Inflation Concerns — BloombergThese 3 Charts Show Bitcoin’s War-Linked Selloff Keeps Shrinking as Iran Conflict Worsens — CoinDeskWhat Bitcoin’s Falling Hash Rate Might Mean for Prices — CoinDeskWhat’s Next for Bitcoin Price Amid Iran War and Oil Prices Surge — DL NewsCentral bank rate decisionsFed Interest Rate Decision March 2026: Holds Rates Steady — CNBCFed Meeting Recap: Powell Says Inflation Isn’t Coming Down as Much as ‘Hoped’ — CNBCBank Rate Maintained at 3.75%, March 2026 — Bank of EnglandECB, BOE, Swiss National Bank, Riksbank Interest Rate Decisions — CNBCECB Holds Rates, Predicts 2.6% Inflation for 2026 — Central BankingSEC/CFTC Interpretive GuidanceSEC Clarifies the Application of Federal Securities Laws to Crypto Assets — SEC.govJoint Interpretation From the SEC and CFTC on Certain Types of Crypto Assets — Free Writings & PerspectivesSEC Names Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and 13 More Crypto Assets Digital Commodities — FinTech WeeklyAgentic Commerce and PaymentsStripe-Led Payments Blockchain Tempo Goes Live With AI Agent Protocol — CoinDeskStripe and Paradigm’s Tempo Mainnet Goes Live for Machine Payments — Crypto.newsCoinbase-Backed AI Payments Protocol Wants to Fix Micropayments but Demand Is Just Not There Yet — CoinDeskGoogle Agentic Payments Protocol + x402: Agents Can Now Actually Pay Each Other — CoinbaseGoogle Debuts ‘Universal’ Protocol for Agentic Commerce — PYMNTSCoinbase and Cloudflare Will Launch the x402 Foundation — CoinbaseWorld Launches AgentKit With Coinbase-Backed x402 to Verify Human Identity Behind AI Agents — CoinDeskLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices