On March 24 in Washington, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the creation of an Innovation Task Force aimed at developing clearer regulatory expectations for emerging technologies, including crypto assets and blockchain. The group's scope also covers AI and autonomous systems, plus prediction markets and event contracts, and it is expected to coordinate with the SEC and other federal agencies.

Hyperliquid’s third-week-of-March recap highlighted three developments: the launch of an officially licensed S&P 500 perpetual contract, USDC support arriving on HyperEVM, and new activity highs across HIP-3 tokenized commodity markets. The update also referenced TradeXYZ figures showing a $5.6 billion 24-hour peak volume and about 45,300 daily unique traders, alongside a community ETHCC Cannes event scheduled for March 31.

Bitgo and Susquehanna Crypto have partnered to let institutional clients trade prediction markets through Bitgo Prime's OTC desk using existing crypto or stablecoin collateral. The firms said trades are executed bilaterally with typical ticket sizes of $100,000 or more, avoiding retail interfaces and asset liquidation. The rollout was announced Tuesday in New York.

TD Cowen said a set of U.S. bills introduced this month to restrict prediction markets is unlikely to become law in the current Congress. The bank’s Washington Research team said policy risk remains elevated and pointed to the 2028 presidential election as a key flashpoint as bipartisan concerns grow over event contracts potentially overriding state gaming rules.

Circle has submitted a request to the European Commission asking it to lower the market-cap thresholds in the EU's proposed Market Integration Package, arguing the current design blocks euro stablecoins from scaling. The company says euro-denominated e-money tokens such as EURC cannot be used for institutional settlement under the draft Central Securities Depositories Regulation unless they are already large. Circle's submission was dated March 20, and it frames the thresholds as a barrier to entry for on-chain securities settlement in Europe.

OKX has rolled out more than 20 equity perpetual swaps, letting eligible users trade major stocks around the clock while posting crypto as margin. Launched on March 24, 2026, the USDT-settled contracts are available across Asia, Latin America, Türkiye, and the CIS, and include exposure to the “Magnificent 7” and other large tech names. The products offer up to 5x leverage and support cross-margin using BTC and ETH as collateral.

On March 23, 2026, MoonPay released the Open Wallet Standard (OWS), an open-source, non-custodial framework aimed at helping AI agents store value and sign transactions across major blockchains without revealing private keys. The project supports eight chain families via an encrypted vault with policy-gated signing and local-first storage, and is backed by over 15 organizations including the Ethereum Foundation, Solana Foundation, and PayPal.

Aave's DAO voted Monday to advance the V4 protocol toward deployment on Ethereum mainnet, with more than 645,000 votes in favor and less than one vote against. The proposal is expected to move next to an Aave Improvement Proposal (AIP), a binding onchain vote to deploy and activate V4 on Ethereum.