On a Friday in response to a February inquiry from 11 US senators, Binance sent a letter denying that it directly processed transactions for Iran-based entities or dismissed staff for raising compliance concerns. The exchange argued that the Senate probe relied on media reports it called demonstrably false and said its internal investigation led to the removal of accounts allegedly linked to Iranian entities.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has submitted an interpretative proposal to the White House outlining how federal securities laws should apply to specific crypto assets and transactions. The guidance, framed as a "token taxonomy," could carry more authority than staff statements and is currently under review alongside a separate CFTC submission on prediction markets. The move comes as Congress considers a crypto market structure bill and both market regulators continue to operate with fewer than their full complement of commissioners.

At a Tuesday panel in Washington, DC, CFTC Chair Michael Selig said the agency is working to authorize true perpetual futures contracts for cryptocurrencies in the United States within "the next month or so." He and SEC Chair Paul Atkins also discussed prediction markets and an evolving digital asset market structure bill in Congress, which could reshape how both regulators oversee crypto products.

In a Monday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, MARA Holdings said it may sell some of the Bitcoin on its balance sheet from time to time starting in 2026, after already allowing sales of mined coins in 2025. The update comes as major mining firms face higher production costs, post large 2025 losses and increasingly redirect infrastructure toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing services.

In a Thursday notice, the US Department of Justice said it froze, seized and began forfeiture proceedings on more than $578 million in digital assets tied to criminal groups. The actions, carried out over three months by the District of Columbia's Scam Center Strike Force established by US Attorney Jeanine Pirro in November, target Southeast Asian crypto-related fraud.

On Thursday, Representatives Scott Fitzgerald, Ben Cline and Zoe Lofgren introduced the Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act to curb prosecutions of developers without custody or control of others' crypto assets by narrowing Section 1960. The Blockchain Association and the DeFi Education Fund backed the proposal, which they say could influence cases involving Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet.

In a filing in the Southern District of New York, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered U.S. prosecutors to answer Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new criminal trial by March 11. The former FTX CEO, convicted on seven felony counts and sentenced to 25 years in prison, argues that new witness testimony could change his case, while the White House has reportedly indicated that President Donald Trump is not considering a pardon.

In February 2026, the Dubai Land Department launched the second phase of its real estate tokenization pilot after roughly $5 million in property was tokenized into about 7.8 million tradable tokens. Infrastructure partner Ctrl Alt will issue Asset-Referenced Virtual Asset management tokens on the XRP Ledger, with Ripple Custody securing onchain transactions, while DarGlobal and Trump-backed World Liberty Financial plan to tokenize the development phase of a Trump-branded resort in the Maldives through Securitize.

On Wednesday, lawmakers and industry leaders are set to convene at Mar-a-Lago for a crypto policy forum organized by World Liberty Financial, co-founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Ahead of the gathering, WLFI climbed more than 23% to about $0.12 from $0.10, with 24-hour volume above $466 million, while President Trump was not slated to appear.