On March 1, Bitrefill reported a cyber intrusion that led to the theft of cryptocurrency from certain hot wallets and misuse of its gift card supply flows. The company's investigation has identified indicators consistent with techniques attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus/Bluenoroff group, and traced the breach to a compromised employee laptop. Around 18,500 purchase records were accessed, while Bitrefill says financial losses will be covered from operational capital and most services have been restored.

On Wednesday, Fortune reported that prediction platform Polymarket acquired crypto payments startup Brahma for an undisclosed sum. Polymarket expects Brahma's DeFi expertise to enhance user experience and strengthen liquidity for smaller, thinly traded wagers. Brahma, founded in 2021, has processed more than $1 billion in transactions and aims to reduce friction around wallets, deposits and token redemptions on Polymarket.

SBI VC Trade, the digital asset arm of SBI Holdings, will start a USDC lending service in Japan on Thursday, allowing individual users to lend Circle's stablecoin to the platform under fixed-term contracts. Participants can apply to lend up to 5,000 USDC per offering, earning interest while bearing direct counterparty risk as SBI may re-lend the assets and user funds lack bank-style segregation protections.

On Wednesday, S&P Dow Jones Indices licensed the S&P 500 mark to Trade[XYZ] to support what it describes as the first officially licensed perpetual derivative contract tracking the index. XYZ will list this product for 24/7 trading on the decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid, which holds over 36% of DEX perps market share.

On 18 March 2026 in Tel Aviv, Playnance launched trading for its native GCOIN token on MEXC following the project's Token Generation Event earlier that day. The ecosystem now counts more than 300,000 GCOIN holders, supports over 10,000 on-chain games, and processes around 2 million on-chain transactions per day as the listing aims to broaden global access and user participation.

Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, has appointed RedStone as its oracle provider to power FX data and stablecoin pricing, including the first native feed for its pathUSD token. The integration will support local-currency pricing and settlement for Tempo applications, such as a global payroll platform and a financial institution testing tokenized deposits. RedStone's RED token traded around $0.13 at 13:00 UTC on Wednesday, while the oracle network reports securing over $8.5 billion in total value locked.

On March 17, AxLabs released two TypeScript SDKs for the NeoFS decentralized object storage network, adding native tools for JavaScript and TypeScript developers. The neofs-sdk-ts-core package offers shared cryptographic utilities, while neofs-sdk-ts-node delivers full NeoFS API coverage for Node.js, including container, object, and access control operations. Both libraries are open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and aim to make NeoFS more accessible for Web3 application development.

On March 16, Neo core developer and R3E Network founder Jimmy Liao announced the release of neo-js v0.1.8, a lightweight TypeScript-native SDK for Neo N3. The package focuses on core functionality like transaction creation, wallet support, and typed RPC access while depending on only two runtime libraries, including COZ's neon-core. It is positioned as a complement to the long-running neon-js SDK and is currently available under an MIT license on npm and GitHub.