The Solana Foundation announced the launch of the Solana Developer Platform (SDP) on March 24, 2026. This artificial intelligence (AI)-ready infrastructure aggregates best-in-class ecosystem tools into a unified interface, allowing institutions like Mastercard and Western Union to deploy tokenized assets and payment flows. The platform currently features live issuance and payment modules, with a dedicated …
Monthly archives: March 2026
European Central Bank Outlines Roadmap for Integrated European Digital Asset Ecosystem
Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone of the European Central Bank (ECB) addressed the House of the Euro in Brussels on 23 March 2026 regarding the future of tokenized finance. He detailed the transition of digital markets from exploration to production, noting that European issuers have placed nearly €4 billion in distributed ledger technology (DLT) instruments …
Coinbase Adds Little-Known Crypto Asset to Listing Roadmap for Spot Trading
The crypto giant Coinbase just added a little-known crypto asset to its listing roadmap. The exchange says it’s preparing to add Perle (PRL) to its platform for spot trading. Perle (PRL) is the native token of the Perle ecosystem, issued and governed by the non-profit Perle Foundation. Perle Labs is a Solana-based web3 AI platform …
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Tether Announces $184,000,000,000 Independent Audit With Big Four Accounting Firm
Tether has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct a massive independent financial audit. The company says the audit will cover reserves backing its USDT stablecoin, which holds a market capitalization of more than $184 billion and serves over 550 million users worldwide. Tether describes the review as one of the largest inaugural audits in …
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Indian court says ‘no case’ against CoinDCX founders in impersonation fraud
A magistrate court in Thane, India, has granted bail to CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Surendra Gupta and Niraj Ashok Khandelwal, ruling that no prima facie case was made out against them in a 71 lakh Indian rupees ($75,000) cheating complaint linked to a fake trading platform posing as the Indian crypto exchange. The court’s common order …
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Ripple joins Singapore sandbox to test RLUSD in trade finance
Financial technology company Ripple said Wednesday it had joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) BLOOM initiative with supply chain finance technology firm Unloq to test programmable cross-border trade settlement using the XRP Ledger and Ripple USD. The pilot will use Unloq’s SC+ smart-contract-driven trade finance infrastructure, which integrates trade obligations, settlement conditions and financing …
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Irish police open Bitcoin wallet years after keys were apparently lost
Irish national police say they have cracked one of 12 Bitcoin wallets linked to a convicted drug dealer, years after they were confiscated and their access codes were thought to be gone forever. Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) said in a statement on Tuesday that it had “gained access to and seized a cryptocurrency wallet” …
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Bitcoin exchange outflows show ‘genuine accumulation by investors’: Analyst
The net outflow of Bitcoin from exchanges over the past month suggests that investors have started to accumulate the cryptocurrency, according to a CryptoQuant analyst. March has been largely dominated by Bitcoin (BTC) outflows from crypto exchanges, aside from one spike in inflows just before the asset tapped a six-week high of $76,000 on March …
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Robinhood Board of Directors Authorizes New $1.5 Billion Share Repurchase Program
The Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD) Board of Directors authorizes a new $1.5 billion share repurchase program as of March 2026. This move follows previous buyback authorizations from May 2024 and April 2025, adding over $1.1 billion in incremental capacity to the firm’s existing strategy. The global brokerage firm plans to execute this $1.5 billion authorization …
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Report: Turkish Central Bank Considers Tapping Gold Reserves to Defend Lira
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) is holding private discussions to utilize its vast gold reserves to counter currency volatility linked to the ongoing war in Iran as of March 24, 2026. This potential strategy involves conducting swap transactions in the London market to bolster foreign currency liquidity and defend the lira’s …
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Everything Co-Founder: DeFi Can Rival TradFi Through Architectural Superiority, Not Risky Collateral
The Sovereignty Tax In the current market landscape, trading on a centralized platform feels like driving on a paved highway, while decentralized trading can often feel like navigating a series of disconnected toll roads. Centralized exchanges ( CEXs) benefit from unified order books, where all global buy and sell interest is concentrated in one engine. …
‘Lose Ground to MiCA’: Industry Expert Warns Against Further CLARITY Act Delays
The ‘Passive vs. Active’ Yield Pivot Representatives from the digital asset industry met with the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Monday, March 23, for a closed-door review of an agreement between the White House and a bipartisan Senate duo—Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)—regarding stablecoin rewards. The deal aims to unblock the CLARITY Act …
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Bitcoin to Hit $76,000 if Strait of Hormuz Flows Normalize: Wintermute
Crypto Rallies as Bitcoin Surges Past $70K While Gold Sees Historic Decline Crypto markets staged a sharp recovery at the start of the week, with bitcoin reclaiming the $70,000 level as easing geopolitical tensions lifted risk sentiment. The move followed a temporary pause in U.S. strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, which helped cool oil prices …
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Sen. Warren Questions MrBeast on Step Acquisition Amid Teen Crypto Concerns
Step Deal Draws Senate Scrutiny Over Teen Crypto Access Sen. Elizabeth Warren is turning up the pressure on Beast Industries after it acquired Step, a fintech app built for teenagers that once allowed minors to trade crypto with parental approval. In a letter dated March 23, Warren asked Beast Industries founder Jimmy Donaldson, widely known …
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Early Uber Investor Jason Calacanis Predicts 200x TAO Rally
Calacanis’s TAO Comments Land as Bittensor Gains a More Explicit Venture-Style Bull Case In the segment posted by TWiSTartups, Calacanis argues that TAO may have the kind of upside that could produce a 200x (from a $2.5 billion market cap), effectively labeling Bittensor as a long-duration, high-conviction AI infrastructure bet rather than a simple crypto …
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