A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk and paused a directive that would halt federal use of its Claude chatbot. The order was issued Thursday by Judge Rita Lin and followed Anthropic's March 9 lawsuit challenging the designation, with a 90-minute hearing held March 24 and a ruling dated March 26.

Hyperion, a publicly listed U.S. DeFi company tied to Hyperliquid's HYPE ecosystem, said Q4 revenue increased 64% QoQ while adjusted gross profit jumped 87% and core operating expenses fell 30%. Over the last 24 hours, Hyperliquid recorded about $1.51 million in revenue that was used to buy back roughly 36,745 HYPE and remove them from circulation. HYPE was up more than 60% year-to-date, moving from under $25 to nearly $40 at the time of writing.

Meta Platforms (META) shares plummeted on March 26, 2026, dropping 7.92% to close at $547.75.() The sell-off erased roughly $120 billion in market value in a single session. The catalyst was a pair of back-to-back legal defeats in California and New Mexico that investors fear could be a Big Tobacco moment for social media, a fundamental shift in liability that could lead to multibillion-dollar settlements and forced product redesigns.

Unitas (UP) is one of the market's most volatile outliers today, Friday, March 27, 2026, surging 19.72% to trade at $0.1844. The token recently touched a new all-time high (ATH) of $0.1923, completely decoupling from a broader market weighed down by Bitcoin's 2.7% intraday dip. The primary driver is an unprecedented liquidity event on Binance, where UP's 24-hour trading volume reached a staggering $1.56 billion, roughly 58 times its current market capitalization.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs absorbed 62,986 BTC between February 24 and March 25, lifting cumulative ETF holdings to 1,326,874 BTC while BTC traded near the $70,000 area. Over the same window, short-term holders kept sending coins to exchanges at a loss, with loss-side flows at 15,500 BTC per 24 hours, as CoinGlass data highlighted resistance around $72.3k–$72.6k.

BitMine Immersion Technologies said it unveiled its Ethereum staking platform MAVAN on Wednesday, after reporting 3,142,643 ETH staked as of Tuesday, 24 March. The firm said it held 4.6 million ETH (about 3.8% of total supply) and plans to stake the full balance, citing a potential $300M in annual revenue at a 2.83% 7-day BMNR yield. It added that an extra 5 million ETH would still be needed to overtake Lido, which was reported to have nearly 9 million ETH staked.

Binance is in discussions with Nigerian authorities about resolving its tax case through an out-of-court settlement, and the Abuja High Court has adjourned the matter until May 12 for an update. Nigeria sued the exchange in February 2025, alleging $2 billion in unpaid taxes and seeking nearly $79.5 billion for alleged economic losses tied to operating without a license.

Firelight, an onchain DeFi protection protocol built on the Flare Network, said it has surpassed 50 million XRP staked after multiple whale-sized deposits of more than 1 million XRP each. The project also raised its vault deposit cap from 25 million FXRP to 65 million FXRP after the initial ceiling was filled within six hours, with the updated limit reported to be more than halfway taken.