This week could be an important one for the markets, including Bitcoin BTC$73,685.87The US Federal Reserve is among the seven major central banks set to announce interest rate decisions as war-fueled oil price rises threaten to reignite inflation in the global economy.

Most central banks are expected To keep interest rates steady, but hawkish comments from policymakers, fueled by inflation concerns, can trigger volatility in risk assets.

While reflationary environments have historically supported bitcoin, rising inflation expectations are driving bond yields higher and financial conditions tightening, Andre Dragoš, European head of research at Bitwise, told CoinDesk. These conditions generally make risky investments less attractive.

Still, geopolitical tensions currently dominate the market backdrop, according to Dragoš. Historically, such shocks fade quickly, and Bitcoin has often delivered above-average returns after geopolitical risk has risen.

“Investors should generally brush off these types of events and view them as short-term buying opportunities,” Dragush said.

Bitcoin is trading at what Dragosch calls the “biggest macro discount” on record, with sentiment near FTX-falling lows. “We’re probably closer to the bottom than the top,” he said.

What to see

(all times ET)

• Crypto
  • March 17: From Lava Network (LAVA). spread With 17 new chain integrations and nine new blockchain ecosystems.
  • March 19: The Walrus (WAL) Final deadline For Tusky users to transfer their data.
  • March 23: Bag Token generation event It happens250 million tokens (25% of the total supply) will be distributed.
• Macro
  • March 16, 8:30 am: Canada Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February YoY (Prev 2.3%)
  • March 17, 4:30 am: Reserve Bank of Australia interest rate decision estimated at 4.1% (previously 3.85%).
  • March 17, 10:00 am: US Pending Home Sales MoM for February (Prev -0.8%)
  • March 18, 6am: Eurozone Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February. MoM estimate 0.7% (previous -0.6%); Annual estimate 1.9% (previously 1.7%)
  • March 18, 8:30 am: US PPI for February. Annual estimate 3.7% (previously 3.6%); Core PPI annualized estimate 3.2% (previously 3.6%)
  • March 18, 9:45 a.m.: Bank of Canada interest rate decision estimates. 2.25% (previously 2.25%)
  • March 18, 10:00 am: US Factory Orders MoM for January (Prev -0.7%)
  • March 18, 2:00 PM: Fed Interest Rate Decision Estimates 3.50%-3.75% (previously 3.50%-3.75%); FOMC Economic Estimates.
  • March 18, 2:30 pm: Fed Chair’s press conference
  • March 18, 5:30 pm: Central Bank of Brazil Selic Rate Decision Est. 14.50% (previously 15%)
  • March 18, 11pm: Bank of Japan interest rate decision estimates. 0.75% (previously 0.75%)
  • March 19, 4:30 am: Swiss National Bank interest rate decision estimates. 0% (previously 0%)
  • March 19, 8 am: Bank of England interest rate decision Est. 3.75% (previously 3.75%).
  • March 19, 8:30 am: US initial jobless claims for the week ending March 14. 215K (previously 213K)
  • March 19, 8:30 a.m.: US Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index for March (previously 16.3)
  • March 19, 9:15 am: ECB interest rate decision for central refinancing rate. 2.15% Previous 2.15%
  • March 19, 4:30 pm: Fed balance sheet for week ending March 18 (ex $6.65T)
  • March 20, 8:30 am: Canada PPI YoY (ex 5.4%); MoM (previously 2.7%)

Earnings (estimates based on fact-set data)

• March 16: Bucket Holdings (BKKT), Postmarket, -$0.47
• March 16: Bitcoin Depot (BTM), premarket, -$0.47
• March 16: Cango (CANG), Postmarket, -$0.34
• March 17: CEA Industries (BNC), Postmarket, $0.69
• March 18: Bitforms (BITF), premarket, -$0.03
• March 19: Gemini Space Station (GEMI), Postmarket, -$0.91
• March 20: BitFuFu (FUFU), premarket, $0.01

Token events

• Governance votes and calls
  • March 17: Mantle (MNT) will host State. Mind Ep. 07discussing CeDeFi milestones and DeFi strategies.
  • March 18: Jupiter (JUP) to hold its own Weekly Planetary Call Community sessions with team updates.
  • March 18: Theta$0.1833 Head of Marketing and PR discuss Ecosystem Update.
  • Decentraland DAO is voting whether allow Registered users to customize the color of their avatar’s name tag and add a more accessible volume slider to the UI sidebar. Voting will end on March 16 and 17.
  • Voting on Convex Finance Curve and Frax. Weight distribution For the week of March 12, the vlCVX voting power directive in hundreds of liquidity polls. It is also being voted on. FXN gauge weight Voting for the same period ends on March 17.
  • Aavegotchi DAO is voting. Finalize Its 2026–2027 multi-sig signer elections, preserving the 5-of-9 limit and setting quarterly signer compensation. Voting ends on March 17.
  • Aavegotchi is DAO Ballot 3 is running. Seven of the remaining 10 nominees to be selected as multi-sig signers, completing the roster of nine signers for the DAO Foundation wallet. Voting ends on March 17.
  • Ora is finance. Voting Balancer gauge for the week of March 12 directs vlAURA voting power in balancer polls on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Gnosis, Base and Avalanche on weight allocation. Voting ends on March 17.
  • Shapeshift DAO is voting. to establish and funding a new international UX workstream for six months to maintain professional multilingual translations of the ShapeShift app and website. Voting ends on March 17.
  • Voting is happening on the WalletConnect Network. Allocation of 50 million WCT Tokens as rewards budget dedicated to WalletConnect Pay in 2026. Voting will end on March 18.
  • ENS is voting on a. One time transfer 900,000 USDC from the ENS Endowment to wallet.ensdao.eth to cover shortfalls in payments owed to ENS Labs. Voting ends on March 18.
  • Kratos DAO is voting. Extension Current mobile app reward standard deadline is 30th April 2026 for one month. Voting will end on March 19.
  • Lightchain AI is DAO Voting On the recommendation of a temporary 90-day team authority, which gives the core team temporary operational authority to make day-to-day and strategic decisions for 90 days. Voting will end on March 22.
• opens
  • March 16: Arbitrum (ARB) will open 1.78% of its circulating supply at $9.65 million.
  • March 20: LayerZero (ZRO) will open 5.64% of its circulating supply of $52.45 million.
• Token launch

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