Crude oil is surging - and the inflation conversation nobody wanted to revisit is turning up again.
Senator Cynthia Lummis sat down with CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig on March 5–6 to hash out a path forward for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 - legislation that would draw a long-contested line between federal regulators' authority over digital assets.
Russian authorities are pushing to overhaul the country's cryptocurrency landscape with a sweeping regulatory framework set to take effect by mid-2026 - one that would lock out foreign platforms and funnel billions in trading activity toward state-supervised domestic exchanges.
The Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the OCC have issued joint guidance confirming that tokenized securities will be treated the same as their traditional counterparts under U.S. bank capital rules.
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded a sharp reversal on March 5, posting $227.9 million in net outflows after a strong inflow day earlier in the week.
The total crypto market capitalization slipping to about $2.41 trillion as investors locked in profits following recent gains.
The European Central Bank finds itself navigating one of its more uncomfortable policy junctures in recent memory. A surging euro, a Middle East-driven oil spike, and an unpredictable U.S. trade regime have converged in the first weeks of March, leaving policymakers with few clean options.
The US private credit market, long insulated from the volatility that routinely hammers public markets, is now confronting something it has largely avoided since its explosive post-2008 growth: a genuine stress test. And Blue Owl Capital is where that pressure is most visible.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement with crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and the TRON ecosystem, resolving a case that had previously been paused by the regulator.
Zero Hash filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, seeking a national trust bank charter - a move that would place the digital asset infrastructure firm under a single federal regulatory umbrella and sidestep a patchwork of state-level money transmitter licensing requirements.
Switzerland's retail sector added another chapter to its crypto experiment on March 5, 2026. Cardano (ADA) is now a valid payment method at 137 SPAR supermarket locations across the country - a rollout spearheaded by the Cardano Foundation alongside Swiss fintech firm DFX.swiss.
Three of Japan's largest financial institutions are building a joint stablecoin infrastructure aimed at overhauling how corporations move money — a project that signals growing impatience with the inefficiencies of traditional cross-border settlement.



