On March 4, 2026, a senior official from Russia's finance ministry stated that Moscow wants to legalize stablecoin payments under a dedicated law while continuing to prohibit cryptocurrency as a means of settlement. The ministry intends to classify stablecoins, other crypto assets, and digital financial assets as different types of instruments, with fiat-pegged tokens treated as closest to standard money and regulated after a broader crypto framework is adopted.

Polymarket has archived a prediction market contract on whether a nuclear weapon would be detonated this year, after criticism over wagers tied to war and death. The market, which had multiple resolution dates and drew at least $650,000 in volume before being taken down, sparked concerns that such contracts on military actions could enable people with non-public information to profit.

Ondo Finance has listed 10 Ondo Global Markets digital securities for trading on Binance’s Multilateral Trading Facility regulated by the FSRA in Abu Dhabi’s ADGM. The offering includes tokenized exposure to companies such as Apple, Alphabet, Tesla and Circle, and follows prior approvals to distribute Ondo digital securities across the EU and EEA.

Binance plans to secure five additional operating licenses across the Asia-Pacific region by the end of 2026, according to a recent report. The exchange is pursuing a hyperlocalization strategy to comply with local security rules, with APAC already home to nearly 75% of global crypto holders and several license talks in advanced stages, including in Japan and South Korea.

COZ has released a suite of open-source AppKit adapters that let developers on Neo N3 and Neo X configure wallet connections through a single integration. The tools extend earlier WalletConnect infrastructure work and leverage Reown AppKit, which supports hundreds of wallets plus social login and multi-chain authentication features. A Connect Lab demo app is also available to help teams test and implement these adapters across supported networks.

Neo co-founder Da Hongfei has detailed a strategy that positions Neo X as a blockchain optimized for autonomous AI agents rather than direct human interaction, with GAS as the core utility asset. The approach emphasizes infrastructure for agent identity, coordination, storage, privacy, and instant finality, alongside Hong Kong's regulatory environment as an advantage for institutional-facing crypto and AI initiatives.

Coinbase's x402 protocol, launched in May 2025, is an open-source web payment standard that lets AI agents and human users pay with stablecoins directly over the internet. By embedding onchain payment requests into HTTP interactions, it enables fast, low-cost micropayments across networks like Base, Solana and Ethereum without traditional processors. Backed by firms including Cloudflare, Circle, Stripe and Amazon Web Services, x402 is already handling hundreds of millions of transactions for use cases ranging from pay-per-inference compute to metered web content.

Bybit reported that its AI-based fraud prevention framework intercepted and recovered $300 million tied to impersonation and other scams in 2025, protecting thousands of account holders. The exchange also said its models flagged hundreds of risky addresses, blocked more than 3 million credential-stuffing attempts, and structured scam response into a three-tier risk system.