TD Cowen said a set of U.S. bills introduced this month to restrict prediction markets is unlikely to become law in the current Congress. The bank’s Washington Research team said policy risk remains elevated and pointed to the 2028 presidential election as a key flashpoint as bipartisan concerns grow over event contracts potentially overriding state gaming rules.

Circle has submitted a request to the European Commission asking it to lower the market-cap thresholds in the EU's proposed Market Integration Package, arguing the current design blocks euro stablecoins from scaling. The company says euro-denominated e-money tokens such as EURC cannot be used for institutional settlement under the draft Central Securities Depositories Regulation unless they are already large. Circle's submission was dated March 20, and it frames the thresholds as a barrier to entry for on-chain securities settlement in Europe.

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.

Aave's DAO voted Monday to advance the V4 protocol toward deployment on Ethereum mainnet, with more than 645,000 votes in favor and less than one vote against. The proposal is expected to move next to an Aave Improvement Proposal (AIP), a binding onchain vote to deploy and activate V4 on Ethereum.

TRON DAO said on Monday it expanded its AI fund from $100 million to $1 billion to invest in or acquire early-stage startups building infrastructure for the agentic economy. The program targets four areas: agent identity, stablecoin payment rails, tokenized real-world assets and developer tooling for autonomous financial systems.

Balancer Labs, the corporate entity behind the Balancer DeFi protocol, will wind down operations following a Nov. 3, 2025 exploit that drained an estimated $128 million. Co-founder Fernando Martinelli said the protocol will keep running through a restructured, "lean" model, with core contributors expected to move to a new entity, Balancer OpCo, pending a governance vote.

Balancer Labs will shut down following financial strain and a $116 million exploit in November, while executives propose that the Balancer Foundation and Balancer DAO take over ongoing operations. The team says the company has been running without revenue and spending heavily to attract liquidity, which it says diluted BAL holders. Balancer’s TVL has fallen from a $3.3 billion peak in November 2021 to $158 million, after dropping to $800 million by October 2025 and then sliding another $500 million in the two weeks after the hack.