✦ T-RIZE Group plans a $500M digital bond program on Canton Network, converting private credit assets into protected, fixed-income digital instruments.
✦ Meme coin market cap dropped to $36B, with most subsectors declining and overall market dominance decreasing in March.
✦ Lista DAO proposed LISTA 2.0, introducing a new tokenomics model that removes veLISTA, simplifies governance, and replaces rewards with a token buyback mechanism.
✦ Aster migrated to Aster Chain and launched transparent daily token buyback operations on-chain.
✦ Ripple proposed Confidential Transfers for XRP Ledger tokens to enhance privacy while preserving issuer control features.
✦ A study found over 210,000 suspicious trades on Polymarket, generating about $143 million in abnormal profits, likely involving insider information between 2024 and 2026.
✦ Major exchanges including New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced plans to adopt tokenization, signaling deeper blockchain integration in traditional finance.
✦ BitGo reported holding $81.6 billion in digital assets, with Bitcoin making up 49.2% of its custody portfolio.
✦ Whale positions on Hyperliquid reached $3.5 billion, split between $1.732 billion in long positions and $1.768 billion in short positions.
✦ United Nations Development Programme is implementing blockchain to improve public digital infrastructure, focusing on transparency, efficiency, and data sharing.
✦ Machi Big Brother deposited $500,000 USDC into Hyperliquid to boost leveraged long positions, including a notable 25x long on Ethereum worth $6.24M.
✦ The Bank of Japan estimates its neutral interest rate at 1.1%–2.5%, signaling possible future rate hikes.
✦ Ripple is piloting its RLUSD stablecoin in Singapore’s MAS BLOOM sandbox to automate cross-border settlements, though XRP Ledger integration details remain unclear.
✦ Four U.S. senators proposed a bill to ban federal officials from trading prediction markets using nonpublic information, with a minimum $500 penalty.
✦ Major banks are expected to lead the next wave of crypto adoption, acting as a bridge between digital assets and the traditional financial system, according to BNY Mellon CEO Robin Vince.
✦ Argentine President Javier Milei’s approval rating has fallen to a record low amid ongoing economic struggles and high inflation.
✦ The launch of the first ETF share class for a mutual fund signals a major shift, potentially merging features of mutual funds and ETFs.
✦ The U.S. Department of Defense is considering redirecting military aid from Ukraine to the Middle East due to shifting geopolitical priorities.
✦ Swiss private bank Banque Syz is facing internal conflict over its crypto strategy, leading to Marc Syz’s departure after disagreements on integrating a crypto vault firm.
✦ South Korea’s crypto trading volume fell 14% in H2 2025, with exchange profits dropping 38%, reflecting market challenges.
✦ Metaplanet plans to launch a Bitcoin cashback card this summer, offering 1.6% BTC rewards on purchases.
✦ A supply chain attack compromised the PyPI package LiteLLM, aiming to steal sensitive data, but was exposed due to a bug that crashed the attacker’s system.
✦ The updated U.S. Senate draft of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act proposes banning yield on stablecoin balances, introduced by Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Thom Tillis.
✦ The EU is advancing its digital euro initiative to address challenges in tokenized markets, aiming to improve accessibility, drive innovation in payments, and preserve monetary sovereignty.
✦ BlackRock CEO Larry Fink views asset tokenization as an emerging opportunity, emphasizing that its development is still in the early stages.
✦ Russia is proposing a new bill to allow domestic trading of major cryptocurrencies under strict conditions, with review by the Central Bank.
✦ Iran’s security forces arrested 35 individuals across nine provinces on charges of treason for allegedly collecting and sharing sensitive information with foreign entities.
✦ U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly considering strikes on Iran’s gas-powered electricity infrastructure, which accounts for about 80% of the country’s power generation.
✦ Nearly 65 million FF tokens were transferred from an anonymous wallet to BitGo, signaling notable on-chain activity.
✦ OpenClaw’s founder confirmed a critical WebSocket vulnerability that could allow attackers to bypass authentication and potentially crash or take control of the system.
✦ Worldcoin will host its World ID launch event “Lift Off” in Los Angeles on April 17, with Sam Altman expected to attend, marking a major milestone for the project.
✦ Speculation about a potential Shiba Inu ETF is rising after T. Rowe revised its ETF filing, signaling possible growing institutional interest in crypto.
✦ Kalshi’s March trading volume is projected to reach $12.6 billion, reflecting strong growth in platform activity.
✦ The SEC has postponed its decision on Grayscale’s spot Ethereum ETF application, highlighting continued regulatory caution.
✦ Binance has introduced Ethena (ENA) as the 50th Launchpool project, featuring a synthetic dollar protocol within the DeFi space.
✦ Bitcoin OGs sold over 1,650 BTC worth approximately $117 million following the Federal Reserve's hawkish decision to maintain interest rates and signal only one rate cut for the remainder of the year.
✦ The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially approved Nasdaq's move to support tokenized securities trading, marking a significant milestone in integrating blockchain technology with traditional financial markets.
✦ Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is set to repay approximately $2.2 billion to its creditors within this month, as part of the company's ongoing liquidation and recovery process.
✦ ETP market giant Flow Traders has launched a 24/7 over-the-counter (OTC) liquidity service for tokenized assets, including digital stocks, gold, and money market funds, enabling institutional risk management outside traditional hours.
✦ The crypto market is bracing for major events in March 2026, including a $34.8 million token unlock for Lombard ($BARD) and several high-profile token generation events (TGEs) for projects like Katana and Playnance.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.00T, up by 0.70% over the last day.
✦ According to Odaily, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says his U.S. sentence over the $40 billion TerraUSD collapse should be no more than five years.
✦ Visa (V.N) has partnered with AquaNow to speed up settlements using stablecoins.
✦ Ripple says its USD-backed stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), has been approved by Abu Dhabi’s FSRA as a “recognized fiat-anchored token.”
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.98T, up by 1.51% over the last day.
✦ Blockchain data shows that vitalik.eth recently moved 1,009 ETH, with 1,006 ETH sent to the privacy protocol Railgun.
✦ Polygon co-founder and Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said on X that many community members want the token code switched back from POL to MATIC, arguing that MATIC has stronger recognition.
✦ Arkham data shows that at 15:04, 5,012.95 ETH — about $14.74 million — was transferred from an anonymous address starting with 0x5962 to another starting with 0x8751.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.93T, down by -0.28% over the last day.
✦ The number of wallets holding at least 100 BTC has risen by 0.47%, adding 91 new large holders, while smaller wallets, especially those with 0.1 BTC or less have continued to decline.
✦ Arkham data shows that at 15:26, Fireblocks transferred 20,445.4 SOL about $2.81 million to Wintermute.
✦ A major Bitcoin whale address 0x5D2...9Bb7 closed 50 BTC in short positions over the past hour, locking in about $1.175 million in profit.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.94T, up by 2.56% over the last day.
✦ The Kobeissi Letter reports that since the U.S. Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) was created on January 20, U.S. federal debt has risen by $2.1 trillion — an average of $6.5 billion per day over 326 days.
✦ Data from DefiLlama indicates that the total market capitalization of stablecoins has been on a downward trend, decreasing by 0.33% over the past week. The current market cap stands at $302.837 billion, marking a drop of over $6 billion from its previous peak of $309 billion.
✦ Growthepie data shows the Ethereum ecosystem has hit a new TPS milestone, with a 7-day average of 364.52 TPS and a peak of 24,192.
✦ Trader 0x152e recently closed a ZEC long position with an $846,000 loss. After ZEC rebounded, the trader opened a 4,574.87 ZEC short worth $2.66 million at 5x leverage.
✦ Lookonchain has flagged a new wallet possibly tied to BitMine that received 21,537 ETH — about $59.17 million — from FalconX 16 hours ago.
✦ The Cardano network recently faced a brief chain split caused by a “malformed” delegation transaction. Although valid at the protocol level, this type of ADA-staking transaction can trigger code issues that disrupt network operations.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.87T, up by 1.35% over the last 24 hours.
✦ The Kobeissi Letter reported on X that crypto ETFs saw $2 billion in outflows last week — the biggest weekly withdrawal since February. It also marked the third straight week of outflows, totaling $3.2 billion.
✦ U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that he expects a sharp interest rate cut after a new Federal Reserve Chair is appointed in May next year.
✦ Lookonchain reports that a large Ethereum whale, known as 66kETHBorrow, has bought 114,684 ETH over the past two days, worth roughly $319 million. #linea$LINEA
✦ A major Aave user — address 0xd2a...2ec6 — was liquidated amid the market downturn, with total losses amounting to $3.88 million.
✦ JPMorgan has revised its outlook for the Federal Reserve and no longer expects a December rate cut.
✦ Mike Alfred, founder of Alpine Fox LP, claims institutions are aggressively using perpetuals and futures to push Bitcoin’s price down and scare investors into selling.
✦ Citibank and Swift have successfully completed a pilot project for Payment-versus-Payment (PvP) settlement between fiat and digital currencies.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.11T, down by -4.27% over the last day.
✦ Malaysia’s state power company, TNB, says it has lost about $1.1 billion (4.6 billion ringgit) to electricity theft tied to crypto mining from 2020 to August this year
✦ HSBC Holdings Plc is set to expand its tokenized deposit services to corporate clients in the United States and the United Arab Emirates by the first half of next year.