Top Stories of The Week David Sacks’ 130-day term as Trump’s crypto and AI czar has ended David Sacks, a venture capitalist who became a special White House official under US President Donald Trump last year, has wrapped up his 130-day tenure as crypto and AI czar but will continue to shape policy in a …
Monthly archives: March 2026
Gnosis and Zisk Launch Ethereum Economic Zone to End L2 Fragmentation
TLDR: Gnosis and Zisk launched the EEZ at EthCC Cannes, co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation in March 2026. The EEZ framework enables synchronous composability between Ethereum mainnet and connected L2 rollups. Zisk’s real-time ZKVM can prove Ethereum blocks instantly, making cross-rollup composability technically viable. Founding members include Aave, Titan, Beaver Build, Centrifuge, and xStocks under …
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Linea Ends Direct EVM Arithmetization, Moves to RISC-V to Match Ethereum’s Proving Roadmap
TLDR: Linea’s shift to RISC-V reduces instruction complexity from EVM’s full opcode set to roughly 40 instructions. Every Ethereum hard fork previously forced complete rewrites of Linea’s ZK constraint modules under the old system. RISC-V enables Type-1 Ethereum compatibility automatically through standard compiler tooling, replacing manual constraint work. Linea retains zkC, Vortex, and Arcane in …
Ethereum Network Activity Rises as DeFi Liquidity and U.S. Regulatory Clarity Converge
TLDR: Ethereum’s total transaction count is rising sharply in 2026 despite price remaining largely range-bound in crypto markets. DeFi liquidity is returning to lending, stablecoin provision, and DEX trading after two years of capital outflows and declining yields. The U.S. CLARITY Act introduces a safe harbor for non-custodial developers, removing direct legal liability tied to …
Economist Steve Hanke Says US Is Losing Iran War and Is Financially Insolvent
Steve Hanke: Bond Vigilantes Are Turning on Trump as War Costs Mount, and Deficits Expand Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and a regular contributor to Fortune magazine, appeared on The David Lin Report this week, delivering a point-by-point breakdown of why the U.S. position in the Iran conflict is weaker …
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Bitcoin’s Price Coils Near Support With Indicators Flashing Mixed Signals
Bitcoin Chart Outlook On the daily timeframe, bitcoin showed a weakening structure following a rejection near the $76,000 region and a subsequent sequence of lower highs. Price stabilized in the $66,000–$67,000 zone, sitting just above a soft support band. Elevated volume during the decline suggested distribution rather than a shallow pullback, reinforcing a bearish-neutral bias. …
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Institutions are paying Bitcoin custodians for the privilege of added risk
Opinion by: Kevin Loaec, CEO of Wizardsardine For decades, institutions have followed a familiar pattern when managing assets. They choose a large, regulated custodian. Then, institutions transfer responsibility. Institutions rely on the assumption that scale, compliance and insurance equate to safety. In traditional finance, this approach holds. Transactions are reversible, central banks provide backstops and …
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Ethereum ‘flippening’ odds rise, but it won’t involve Bitcoin
Ether’s (ETH) grip on the cryptocurrency market’s number-two spot is weakening, not because it is getting any closer to overtaking Bitcoin (BTC), but because the stablecoin economy is booming. Key takeaways: Ethereum’s No. 2 ranking at risk in 2026 In the past five years, Ether has vastly underperformed its top competitors for the no. 2 …
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Onchain commodity trading is here to stay, but liquidity remains an issue
Onchain commodity trading is proving it’s more than a short-term spike, but limited liquidity continues to hold the market back from competing with traditional venues. Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 market recorded a new all-time high on March 23, with roughly $5.4 billion in perpetual futures volume across commodities and macro assets. Silver led the activity at $1.3 …
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Strong and Free Elections Act Proposal Tightens Rules on Crypto Donations in Canada
On March 26, 2026, the Government of Canada introduced for consideration the Strong and Free Elections Act, a proposed amendment to the Canada Elections Act (CEA) that would restrict political financing methods for federal parties, third parties, candidates and donors across Canada; the CEA is administered by the Chief Electoral Officer and enforced by the …
Kraken’s Tokenized Equities Platform Lists VCXx Offering Exposure to SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic and More
Kraken’s xStocks and Fundrise announced on March 27, 2026, that they are tokenizing the newly launched Fundrise Innovation Fund (NYSE: VCX) to create a single onchain asset, VCXx, giving eligible investors global access to a portfolio including SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic and Databricks. The tokenization will list VCXx on the xStocks platform in the coming days …
This Week in Crypto Law (Mar. 22, 2026)
This Week in Crypto Law The opinion editorial below was written by Alex Forehand and Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. This week in crypto law highlighted a growing reality: legal and regulatory uncertainty is no longer just a compliance issue. Rather, it is actively shaping markets, business decisions, and global policy. From stalled U.S. legislation impacting …
BNP Paribas adds six Bitcoin, Ether ETNs for retail clients in France
French multinational universal bank BNP Paribas is expanding its investment offering to include six crypto-linked exchange-traded notes (ETNs), giving retail clients in France access to Bitcoin and Ether exposure through regulated products. The new ETNs, indexed to the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), will be available from Monday via standard securities accounts, according …
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Future US governments could crack down on crypto without clear rules: Coin Center
Failing to pass the crypto market structure bill, known as the CLARITY Act, could leave the door open for a future less industry-friendly US government to crack down on crypto again, Peter Van Valkenburgh the executive director of advocacy group Coin Center says. In an X post on Friday, Van Valkenburgh argued that rejecting developer …
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Tezos Leads the Shift Toward User-Facing, Interactive Blockchain Summits
Bridging Code and Experience The Tezos ecosystem returns to Cannes, France, on March 30 for Tezdev 2026. This fifth annual free event gathers global developers and creators near the Ethereum Community Conference to showcase blockchain innovation. This year’s flagship addition is the XP Zone, an interactive environment designed to bridge the gap between abstract code …
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