Injective plans to support native issuance of USD Coin and connect to Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol to enable direct USDC transfers across supported blockchains. Native USDC is expected to serve as a core collateral and liquidity asset for Injective's trading-focused DeFi ecosystem, while Circle's burn-and-mint design aims to reduce bridge-related risks.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce told CNBC that companies developing tokenized instruments and new exchange-traded products should proactively discuss their plans with regulators. She reiterated that the SEC does not judge whether products are good or bad investments, but instead focuses on legal compliance, leverage limits, disclosures, and the operational and technical issues that arise as tokenization experiments expand.

According to a detailed account by reporter Emanuel Fabian, he received death threats after writing that an Iranian missile hit an open area near Beit Shemesh on March 10, in coverage of the conflict involving Israel, the U.S. and Iran. The messages appeared tied to a Polymarket prediction market that had more than $14 million wagered on whether Iran struck Israel on that date, while U.S. lawmakers are moving to restrict betting on war, deaths and government actions.

On Friday, the Ethereum Foundation released a mandate that formalizes its mission and the CROPS principles of censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security. The document frames the foundation as one steward among many in the Ethereum ecosystem and clarifies its focus on protocol research, security and other work without a natural home elsewhere.

On Thursday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission published guidance explaining how exchanges should list event-based prediction market contracts while Chair Mike Selig highlighted plans to define clearer "rules of the road." The advisory stresses that designated contract markets must ensure products are not vulnerable to manipulation, as platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket see record volumes and valuations reportedly approaching $20 billion each. It also flags heightened risks for narrowly defined sports and violence-linked contracts amid mounting ethical and legal scrutiny.

A federal magistrate judge in the Middle District of Alabama dismissed a terrorism-financing lawsuit against Binance entities and BAM Trading Services on procedural grounds, finding the amended complaint legally and factually deficient. The court gave the plaintiffs until April 10, 2026 to submit a new filing that separates claims, specifies which plaintiffs sue which defendants, and clearly links each defendant's alleged conduct to the attacks and injuries at issue.

In February, CleanSpark, Cango and BitFuFu together mined close to 1,250 BTC, with CleanSpark contributing 568 BTC, Cango 454.83 BTC and BitFuFu 227 BTC. The three bitcoin miners also detailed efforts to leverage their power capacity and data centers for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing as they seek new revenue opportunities beyond traditional mining.

Bitcoin briefly moved back above $74,000 on Wednesday as a broad crypto market rebound pushed BTC up about 8% in 24 hours and lifted ether more than 9%. Dogecoin and Zcash led gains among large-cap tokens, while shares of Coinbase climbed roughly 15% and Gemini jumped about 34% alongside the move.

U.S. banking trade associations have criticized the Federal Reserve's decision to grant Kraken Financial a limited-purpose master account, arguing it could expose the payment system to risk without traditional bank-level safeguards. The approval has intensified calls for the Fed to finalize and clarify its framework for so-called "skinny" accounts for nontraditional financial institutions. Some crypto industry participants view the move as a significant step toward enabling payment-focused firms that do not rely on conventional deposit-lending models.