STS Digital said it launched a global Structured Products platform on 25 March 2026 in Hamilton, Bermuda, aiming to deliver institutional-grade digital-asset strategies for banks, institutional investors, and family offices. The firm said the service provides risk-managed exposure to a subset of 400 tokens and is tied to its partnership with Kraken, which recently rolled out Dual Investment using STS Digital's yield enhancement capabilities for bitcoin and ether.

Startale Group said on March 26, 2026 it completed the second close of its Series A round, adding $50 million from SBI Group, Inc. to bring the total to $63 million. The raise follows a $13 million investment from Sony Innovation Fund in January 2026, with the company planning to use the capital to advance Strium for tokenized securities and expand work on the JPYSC yen stablecoin and related onchain settlement infrastructure.

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.

Turkey's central bank is weighing gold-for-foreign currency swap operations to increase FX liquidity and help stabilize the lira, with discussions described as ongoing as of March 24, 2026. The plan would use Turkey's roughly $135 billion in gold reserves, including an estimated $30 billion held at the Bank of England, alongside other steps taken during a period of high inflation and higher energy costs.

OKX has rolled out more than 20 equity perpetual swaps, letting eligible users trade major stocks around the clock while posting crypto as margin. Launched on March 24, 2026, the USDT-settled contracts are available across Asia, Latin America, Türkiye, and the CIS, and include exposure to the “Magnificent 7” and other large tech names. The products offer up to 5x leverage and support cross-margin using BTC and ETH as collateral.

On March 23, 2026, MoonPay released the Open Wallet Standard (OWS), an open-source, non-custodial framework aimed at helping AI agents store value and sign transactions across major blockchains without revealing private keys. The project supports eight chain families via an encrypted vault with policy-gated signing and local-first storage, and is backed by over 15 organizations including the Ethereum Foundation, Solana Foundation, and PayPal.

Capital B (The Blockchain Group) said on March 23, 2026 it completed an ATM-style capital increase and warrant issuances tied to capital raises totaling $4.05 million (€3.5 million). The company also purchased 44 BTC for $3.12 million (€2.7 million), bringing total bitcoin holdings to 2,888 BTC with an acquisition value of $309.34 million (€267.1 million).

H100 Group AB said it signed a non-binding letter of intent on March 23, 2026 to acquire Norway-based Moonshot AS and Never Say Die AS in an all-share, bitcoin-for-bitcoin structure. The transaction would lift H100's bitcoin holdings from 1,051 to approximately 3,501 BTC while keeping the listed parent structure intact. The company expects definitive agreements by April 22, 2026, with completion planned after the annual general meeting on May 21, 2026.