Stablecoin transaction volume rose to $7.2 trillion in February, exceeding the $6.8 trillion handled by the US Automated Clearing House network. The comparison uses a 30-day adjusted rolling USD volume that excludes MEV and intra-centralized exchange activity. Artemis data for March also put stablecoin volume at $7.5 trillion, matching ACH over the same 30-day window.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed amending Rule 15c2-11 so that its over-the-counter broker-dealer reporting obligations apply only to equity securities, rolling back a 2021 interpretation that extended it to fixed-income instruments. The regulator has opened a 60-day public comment period to gather feedback on how the rule should define "equity security," whether and how it should cover certain crypto assets, and the potential creation of an "expert market."

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission released survey findings from late 2025 showing that 23% of Gen Z in Australia now own crypto and heavily rely on social media, finfluencers and AI for financial guidance. ASIC warned that high trust in these sources is driving riskier decisions, particularly when unlicensed influencers promote high‑risk products and AI tools offer what may amount to licensed financial advice.

On Wednesday, Eightco Holdings (ORBS) announced it had raised $125 million led by Bitmine, with additional capital from Ark Invest and Kraken's parent Payward, sending its shares up more than 11% by Thursday's close. The company said the funds will back new investments in artificial intelligence, blockchain infrastructure and digital consumer platforms, including a $50 million allocation to OpenAI and $25 million to MrBeast's Beast Industries.

On Monday, Tron’s DAO announced the network has become a member of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation and will sit on its governing board, alongside firms such as Circle and JPMorgan. Tron plans to help build open infrastructure and interoperable standards for agentic AI, as founder Justin Sun has said AI will be a core focus for the network in 2026.

Ethereum treasury firm Sharplink reported a $734.6 million net loss for 2025, mainly from a $616.2 million unrealized loss on its 868,699 ETH holdings and a $140.2 million impairment tied to staked Ether. Despite Ethereum's swing from $4,829 in August 2025 to roughly $3,000 at year-end, the company says it will keep accumulating ETH while boosting revenue and its Ether-per-share ratio.

Toward the end of 2025, finance and insurance job openings in the United States fell to a 13-year low, with vacancies dropping by 117,000 since December to 134,000. While the broader economy unexpectedly lost 92,000 jobs in February, the financial activities sector still recorded a net gain of 10,000 positions. Healthcare, information, transportation, warehousing and the federal government all registered notable job losses over the month.

On Thursday, the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency stated that tokenized securities will receive the same regulatory capital treatment as traditional securities. The guidance explains that banks do not need extra collateral for eligible tokenized securities and that related derivatives and financial collateral status follow the rules applied to non-tokenized instruments.

Blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin reported that OpenAI's EVMbench benchmark suffers from training data contamination and methodological issues in classifying smart contract vulnerabilities. The audit found that several AI models may have been pre-exposed to the underlying vulnerability reports and identified at least four cases labeled as high-severity that are not practically exploitable.