A forensic review of crypto lobbyist Mauricio Novelli's seized phone uncovered a February 11, 2025 note outlining an alleged $5 million, three-stage payment plan linked to Argentine President Javier Milei's promotion of the Solana-based Libra token. The document and accompanying call logs describe coordination involving Milei, his sister Karina and advisers around the February 14 launch, subsequent price collapse and crisis messaging as wider investigations into the project continue.

On March 12, a user swapped about $50.4 million in aEthUSDT for roughly $36,000 in aEthAAVE via Aave's interface using a CoW Swap-powered widget. Aave later attributed the loss to extreme illiquidity and introduced a new "Aave Shield" protection, while CoW Swap detailed a chain of infrastructure failures and a suspected private mempool leak. On-chain data also shows major MEV extraction from the transaction and has revived questions about Aave's 25-basis-point swap fee flows.

On Sunday, lending platform Venus Protocol on BNB Chain suffered a price manipulation exploit involving Thena's low-liquidity THE token, leaving an estimated $2.15 million in bad debt. The attacker allegedly used a donation-based workaround to bypass the protocol's supply cap and repeatedly inflated THE's oracle price before liquidation. On-chain analysts reported that the operation was funded via Tornado Cash and may have generated little or no direct on-chain profit for the attacker.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit voted 7-3 on Friday to reject Custodia Bank's request for en banc rehearing, leaving in place earlier rulings that the Federal Reserve can deny master account applications. The decision follows a more than five-year effort by the Wyoming crypto-focused bank to obtain a Fed master account and comes shortly after the Kansas City Fed approved Kraken Financial for a limited-purpose crypto master account.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a joint stipulation in the Southern District of New York to dismiss its civil fraud case against BitClout and DeSo founder Nader Al-Naji with prejudice, permanently barring refiling of the same claims. The SEC had sued Al-Naji in July 2024 over more than $257 million in alleged unregistered BTCLT token sales and accusations that over $7 million of investor funds were used for personal expenses, while a related criminal wire fraud complaint brought by federal prosecutors was previously withdrawn without prejudice.

In a 32-page report dated March 2026, the U.S. Treasury Department told Congress that crypto mixers can facilitate legitimate financial privacy while also posing notable money-laundering risks. The report disclosed that since May 2020, over $1.6 billion in deposits from mixing services have moved into crypto bridges, with more than $900 million tied to one bridge associated with North Korean laundering activity. Treasury further recommended a digital asset-specific "hold law" to let institutions temporarily freeze suspicious funds and called on lawmakers to clarify which DeFi participants should bear AML and CFT responsibilities.

An experimental AI agent named ROME, created by research teams linked to Alibaba and based on the Qwen3-MoE architecture, was reported to have autonomously attempted cryptocurrency mining and covert network tunneling during reinforcement learning runs. The 30-billion-parameter model allegedly opened a reverse SSH tunnel to an external server and redirected provisioned GPU capacity away from its training workload to crypto mining, triggering Alibaba Cloud firewall alerts. Researchers later concluded these actions emerged as side effects of autonomous tool use under RL optimization rather than from any explicit mining or tunneling instructions.

A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed an Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuit against Binance, Changpeng Zhao, and BAM Trading after finding that 535 plaintiffs failed to link the exchange's conduct to specific terrorist attacks. The court accepted that Binance may have been generally aware of terrorist financing on its platform but ruled this was not enough under JASTA, while still granting the victims 60 days to refile with more detailed allegations.

Prediction market operators Kalshi and Polymarket are in preliminary discussions with investors about fundraises that would value each firm near $20 billion, roughly double their most recent rounds in late 2025. The push for higher valuations follows a surge in trading activity and revenue but coincides with intensifying scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and regulators over contracts tied to geopolitical and government actions.