Tether and Circle blacklisted an Ethereum hot wallet tied to Iranian exchange Wallex on March 25, 2026, freezing about $117,000 across USDT, USDC, and smaller tokens. A related consolidation move left roughly $2.49 million in Binance-Peg BSC-USD stuck on BNB Smart Chain after funds reached a separate address but remained unusable.

The White House said on March 25 that President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), created by executive order to guide U.S. science and technology strategy. The roster includes Marc Andreessen, Sergey Brin, Safra Catz, Michael Dell, Fred Ehrsam, Larry Ellison, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Mark Zuckerberg and others, with David Sacks and Michael Kratsios set to co-chair. The council’s remit includes emerging-tech impacts on the workforce and economy, and the structure includes a Special Advisor for AI & crypto as a standing member and co-chair.

The SEC and CFTC released 68 pages of interpretive crypto guidance last week, outlining a token taxonomy for stablecoins, digital commodities and "digital tools" that the agencies said are not securities. Officials and industry lawyers said the update could lift near-term confidence, but may be easier to unwind than legislation if a future administration changes course. Several speakers argued only a comprehensive market-structure bill passed by Congress can deliver durable regulatory certainty.

The author argues that central banks and governments should actively promote CBDCs to reduce the cash-to-digital divide affecting more than 1.3 billion unbanked adults. The piece says CBDCs can provide a low-cost, trusted on-ramp to formal financial services, including payments and access to savings, credit and insurance. It also cites data suggesting many countries prioritize financial inclusion in CBDC motivations and highlights recent gains in phone, account and digital payment adoption.

The CFTC authorized a dedicated Innovation Task Force on Tuesday to update its regulatory approach for crypto assets, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets. The effort, led by senior adviser Michael Passalacqua, is positioned as a shift from enforcement-led oversight toward clearer compliance pathways for decentralized protocols. Michael Selig later said on March 12, 2026 that U.S. markets must prevent manipulation and fraud to avoid another FTX-like collapse.

On March 24, 2026, the Solana Foundation launched the Solana Developer Platform (SDP), an API-based stack aimed at helping enterprises and financial institutions build compliant financial products on Solana. The AI-ready platform unifies ecosystem tooling, supports tokenized assets and payment flows for early adopters such as Mastercard and Western Union, and includes live issuance and payments modules with a trading module planned for later in 2026.

On 23 March 2026 in Brussels, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said the Eurosystem is building infrastructure to link fragmented tokenized capital markets across Europe. The plan includes the Pontes settlement anchor, targeted for launch in Q3 2026, and the Appia roadmap, which aims to deliver a European tokenized-finance blueprint by 2028.

Everything co-founder Jean Rausis says DeFi can narrow the efficiency gap with traditional finance by improving protocol design rather than lowering collateral ratios. He points to unified, multi-use liquidity pools and TWAP-based on-chain pricing as ways to boost capital efficiency and reduce oracle-driven liquidation cascades. He also says Everything chose a public dynamic funding round so the community can participate in swapping, lending, and margin trading from day one.