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.
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.
Eight Sleep, the temperature-regulating smart mattress company that has quietly become a staple among Silicon Valley's biohacking crowd, closed a $50 million strategic investment round, led by Tether — the world's largest stablecoin issuer.
Digital banking platform Revolut said it has officially filed an application for a U.S. banking license, marking a major step in its push to build what it describes as the world’s first truly global bank.
Eric Trump went on the offensive last week, directing pointed criticism at three of America's largest financial institutions - JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo - over what he described as a coordinated effort to kill crypto-friendly legislation before it reaches a vote.
Core Scientific (Nasdaq: CORZ) announced Wednesday it has secured a strategic loan facility from Morgan Stanley worth up to $1 billion, marking the latest - and most significant — financial move in the company's aggressive pivot away from Bitcoin mining toward artificial intelligence infrastructure.
OKB, the native token of crypto exchange OKX, staged one of its sharpest single-session moves in recent memory on Wednesday after Intercontinental Exchange - the company behind the New York Stock Exchange - announced a strategic minority investment in the platform.
Australia has taken a concrete step toward institutional blockchain adoption after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) licensed AUDC Pty Ltd to issue a regulated, Australian dollar-backed stablecoin on the XRP Ledger.
On March 3, 2026, TCS Blockchain and PayPal announced an integration of PayPal USD (PYUSD) into freight payment infrastructure - a move targeting one of the trucking industry's most persistent financial headaches: getting paid on time.
When US and Israeli forces struck Iran over the first weekend of March 2026, traditional commodity exchanges were closed. COMEX wasn't open. The NYSE wasn't open. But Hyperliquid was - and traders noticed.
