World Liberty Financial, a crypto project backed by Donald Trump and his family, is holding a governance vote from March 6 to March 13, 2026 on a proposal that links voting rights to staking WLFI tokens for 180 days. The plan introduces a lock-based voting formula, node tiers requiring stakes of 10 million and 50 million WLFI, and a 2% estimated annual yield, while critics highlight that early investors are forced to lock their only unlocked tokens and that team-linked wallets already control around 59% of voting power. The project has raised between $550 million and $590 million across two token sales, its USD1 stablecoin has roughly $4.7 billion in circulation, and Trump-related entities are entitled to 75% of net revenue.

On 8 March 2026, Stripe and Circle were highlighted for investing heavily in infrastructure that lets AI agents conduct autonomous payments using stablecoins. Around 40,000 on-chain agents currently handle about $50 million in transactions, a tiny share of the $46 trillion annual stablecoin volume, while forecasts see the AI agent market reaching tens of billions of dollars by 2030. This emerging "agentic economy" raises both competitive pressure on card networks and new risks, including a test agent that mistakenly moved $450,000 due to a logic flaw.

On 8 March 2026, US policy toward digital money stood clearly against a Federal Reserve–issued CBDC and in favor of tightly supervised private stablecoins. Following President Trump's January 2025 executive order halting federal CBDC work, lawmakers advanced multiple bills to lock the ban into law while the GENIUS Act of 2025 set strict reserve, reporting, and audit rules for dollar-backed stablecoin issuers. Supporters argue this path preserves the dollar's role in global payments without creating a state-run wallet that could expand government oversight of personal transactions.

On 6 March 2026, the Trump Administration released the seven-page American Cyber Strategy, which for the first time in U.S. history formally labels cryptocurrency and blockchain as strategic technologies to be defended. The framework, centered on sustaining technological superiority, shifts away from the Biden-era compliance focus while still enabling tougher actions against mixers, privacy coins, and crypto-enabled crime.

On 8 March 2026, Santiment's 30-day GitHub ranking highlighted MetaMask's mUSD stablecoin as the clear leader in crypto development activity, with Hedera, Chainlink and Internet Computer close behind. The list also features Starknet, Aztec, Aptos, Cardano, Avalanche and NEAR, which are advancing areas like tokenomics, payments, infrastructure and AI-linked use cases while overall market sentiment remains in fear territory.

On 6 March 2026, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe argued that crypto-native custodians have a built-in edge over traditional banks that combine trading and custody. BitGo derives over 80% of its revenue from custody and staking fees, holds $104 billion in assets for more than 4,900 institutional clients, and operates under a U.S. federal banking charter. Belshe positions BitGo as core infrastructure for digital assets, supporting products like SoFiUSD and tokenizing its own shares on Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain.

On 7 March 2026, analysis showed Iran had built a roughly $7.8 billion crypto market in 2025, with wallets linked to the IRGC responsible for more than half of Q4 inflows. After U.S.-Israeli strikes on 28 February 2026, outflows from Iranian exchanges jumped 700% within minutes, while U.S. authorities moved from targeting single wallets to sanctioning entire platforms. Ordinary Iranians, facing 40–50% inflation and a weakening rial, increasingly turned to Bitcoin and stablecoins, even as domestic regulators ordered exchanges to halt certain USDT-rial trades.

On 7 March 2026, a U.S. federal judge certified a class action against Tether and Bitfinex, allowing groups of spot and futures traders to pursue claims that the firms drove up Bitcoin and Ethereum prices using unbacked USDT during the 2017 bull market. The case, which follows earlier regulatory settlements totaling $61 million, now advances to discovery, where both sides must turn over evidence on alleged antitrust and commodities law violations.

On 7 March 2026, London-based Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital asset exchange in the UK, integrated Cardano's ADA into its institutional trading and custody platform. The move strengthens Cardano's role in real-world asset tokenization and follows network growth that lifted its DeFi total value locked to $450M by March 2025, while ADA trades near $0.27 amid cautious market sentiment and wide-ranging 2026 price projections.