Rate Hike Fears and a Stablecoin Shakeup: March 30th Edition

Welcome to Chain Reaction for March 30th, 2026. Today we're covering a major shift in Federal Reserve expectations, with markets now pricing in rate hikes instead of cuts amid Middle East tensions and oil surging past one hundred ten dollars per barrel. Bitcoin holds above sixty-seven thousand dollars while Ethereum trades near two thousand. Standard Chartered predicts Ethereum could hit forty thousand dollars by 2030. We'll explore the stablecoin CLARITY Act debate threatening Coinbase's billion-dollar revenue stream, Aave's governance tensions, and why over 40 percent of altcoins are near all-time lows. Plus, Tokyo traders get a two-hundred-millisecond edge on Hyperliquid, the Ethereum Foundation stakes forty-two million dollars more, and institutional Bitcoin ETFs see massive outflows. All this and more on today's Chain Reaction by Capital Copilot.