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Dogecoin's market capitalization has grown to more than 8x the size of the entire NFT market, underlining its continued scale among major crypto assets. DOGE was trading around $0.106 at the time of writing, down about 4% over the past 24 hours, while its market cap sat near $26 billion. Separate on-chain and derivatives metrics also pointed to elevated whale activity, higher open interest, and recent liquidations.

At Consensus Miami on Thursday, OpenSea CMO Adam Hollander said the company is expanding beyond its NFT-marketplace image by building a single non-custodial app that supports NFTs, major tokens, meme coins and perpetuals across 26 chains. He said OpenSea rebuilt its stack about a year ago under OS2 and is preparing OpenSea Mobile with Apple Pay onboarding, citing over 1 million wallets in a recent rewards program and about 600 beta testers in one-on-one sessions.

Dmail Network said it will permanently end all services on May 15, 2026, bringing its decentralized email offering to a close after five years. The team cited unsustainable infrastructure expenses for decentralized storage, bandwidth, and computing, alongside an economic model that did not become self-sustaining. Users are advised to export their mail and other data and cancel accounts before the deadline, after which content, NFT domains, and points will be deleted.

Tezos is set to host Tezdev 2026 on March 30 in Cannes, France, bringing together developers and creators for a free, global ecosystem event. The agenda spotlights Tezos X scalability work, Etherlink confirmation-time improvements from about 500 milliseconds to under 50 milliseconds, and deeper AI tooling in the development workflow, alongside interactive experiences such as the XP Zone and Tezquest with a $7,000 prize pool.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is seeking details from Beast Industries after its acquisition of teen-focused fintech app Step, raising questions about whether crypto or NFT investing could return for under-18 users. In a March 23 letter, she asked founder Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast) and CEO Jeff Housenbold to explain the company's plans and to respond by April 3, 2026. Warren also highlighted Step's ongoing partnership with Evolve Bank & Trust and broader issues around protections for young users.

On Tuesday, the SEC and CFTC issued joint guidance that reclassifies most digital assets as commodities or "digital tools," narrowing the SEC's enforcement-heavy role. The shift has prompted conflict-of-interest concerns tied to World Liberty Financial, a DeFi project described as being controlled by the Trump family, as the new framework could reduce disclosure and registration burdens.

The US SEC and CFTC released new guidance on Tuesday outlining a five-part taxonomy for digital assets, including digital commodities, NFTs, digital tools, stablecoins and tokenized securities. Galaxy research head Alex Thorn said the shift to an interpretive rule could give the industry clearer expectations for about the next 30 months, while longer-term certainty would require the CLARITY market-structure bill to become law. Politico later reported a tentative White House–lawmaker deal to advance CLARITY, though details remain undisclosed.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the agency's new interpretation of how federal securities laws apply to crypto is meant to provide clarity but is "a beginning, not an end." He added the SEC would move away from "regulation by enforcement" and, if Congress passes a market structure bill, the agency would defer to it while using the interpretation as a bridge in the meantime.

On March 17, 2026, William M. Peaster explored how Ethereum-based infrastructure could support an experimental zine model called Combinatoria. The concept uses a Bread Cooperative-style yield vault and tools like Sablier and Splits to stream onchain income to 5–10 curated writers each epoch. A hypothetical $100,000 in deposits generating $6,000 in annual yield would pay writers more than many traditional literary magazines, without requiring patrons to spend their principal. The piece argues that such onchain assemblages could provide financial sustainability and independence for niche cultural communities beyond just this example.

Nonfungible token marketplace OpenSea has postponed the March 30 launch of its SEA token, saying current crypto conditions are too difficult and the token is not ready. The token, first unveiled in October as part of a shift toward a multi-chain "trade everything" app, was meant to power fee discounts, creator rewards and governance. OpenSea is ending its Waves rewards campaign and offering certain users fee refunds as the broader NFT market cap has dropped from $3.2 billion on Jan. 15 to $1.62 billion.