Binance will introduce three USDT-margined perpetual futures tied to WTI crude, Brent crude and natural gas on April 1, 2026, with listings rolling out from 09:00 UTC and leverage capped at 100x. The contracts include CLUSDT and BZUSDT (1,000 barrels each) plus NATGASUSDT (10,000 MMBtu), offering 24/7 long and short exposure with funding settled every eight hours.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown filed a civil lawsuit against KalshiEx LLC this week in King County Superior Court, arguing the platform's event contracts qualify as illegal gambling under state law. The complaint focuses on binary contracts priced from $0.01 to $0.99 that pay $1 to winners and $0 to losers, and seeks an injunction, restitution, disgorgement, and per-violation civil penalties.

American Bitcoin Corp. (Nasdaq: ABTC) said its corporate treasury exceeded 7,000 BTC on Sunday, after disclosing the milestone on Monday. With bitcoin near $67,500, the stash is valued around $473 million to $475 million, and the miner reported it has scaled to roughly 89,000 machines producing about 28.1 EH/s after buying 11,298 ASICs in early March 2026.

Bitdeer said its Norway unit has signed a build contract with Data Center Installations AS to convert the Tydal facility into a 180 MW AI co-location data center, with completion targeted for December 2026. The project is designed around Nvidia’s Vera Rubin GPU architecture and will use 100% carbon-free hydro power, immersion cooling, and heat reuse for nearby food production.

Aave has rolled out V4 on Ethereum mainnet, introducing a hub-and-spoke structure aimed at supporting real-world-asset collateral and fixed-rate credit products while keeping liquidity centralized. The update adds governance-controlled "spoke" markets with separate collateral rules and risk parameters, and launches with partners including Lido, EtherFi, Kelp, Ethena, and Lombard. Chainlink is the exclusive oracle provider, and Aave Labs also introduced Aave Pro as the primary interface for V4 markets at launch.

Bitcoin fell below $65,000 and printed an intraday low of $64,785 on Bitstamp, before rebounding to $66,778 by 8:25 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. Over the past 24 hours, 86,277 traders were liquidated for $278 million, including $234 million in longs, with more than $100 million in BTC longs and roughly $85 million in ETH longs wiped out. The broader crypto market slipped 0.58% to $2.28 trillion as U.S. stock futures turned lower and oil rose to $103.

As of March 29, 2026, 5 p.m. ET, the Pentagon has surged more than 50,000 U.S. troops across the Middle East while drafting contingency options for limited ground raids inside Iran, but no U.S. forces have entered Iranian territory. Polymarket's "US forces enter Iran by?" market shows $49.6 million in volume, with odds at 71% for entry by April 30 and 78% by Dec. 31, 2026.

Coin ATM Radar data dated March 29, 2026, shows the global crypto ATM fleet at 38,928 units after a 597 net decline in 2026 to date. The U.S. leads with 30,247 machines (77.7%), followed by Canada at 3,839 (9.9%) and Europe at 1,727 (4.4%). Bitcoin Depot remains the largest operator with 9,246 ATMs, while bitcoin is supported on nearly all machines and ethereum is listed at 22,200 locations.

Lido DAO approved a $60 million operating budget for 2026 and set a three-year plan to expand beyond liquid staking into yield vaults, institutional wrappers, and "real-business DeFi." The strategy follows staking yield compression, with base APRs cited at 3–5%, and includes Ethereum mainnet launches such as Lido V3 stVaults (Jan. 30, 2026) plus Lido Earn products EarnETH and EarnUSD.