When SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce released her statement on February 21, 2025, titled “There Must Be Some Way Out of Here,” it didn't read like a typical piece of regulatory commentary.

While yields across major lending platforms have compressed significantly, innovation at the market's edges demonstrates DeFi's continued maturation and growth, says Ryan Rodenbaugh, CEO of Wallfacer Labs, the team behind vaults.fyi.

​Coinbase has filed a motion in the D.C. District Court to resume its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Changpeng Zhao burned four meme tokens valued at up to $3M from his public wallet. He avoided selling for BNB, as he did not want to crash the price.

WAIB Summit, the first and largest Web3 event in Monaco, is set to redefine the landscape of Web3 and AI in Europe. This event will unite visionaries, industry leaders, investors and high-net worth individuals (HNWIs) based in Monaco.

FTX's creditor payments begin in May 2025, as BitMEX's leadership, including Arthur Hayes, receives clemency after legal battles.

The malware was first discovered targeting people in Turkey and Spain, and uses debug language that appears to be in Turkish.

Opinion by: Genny Ngai and Will Roth of Morrison Cohen LLP Since taking office, the Trump administration has designated several drug and violent cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). US President Donald Trump has also called for the “total elimination” of these cartels and the like.

TL;DR Initia will distribute 50 million INIT tokens, representing 5% of the total supply, with 90% allocated to 194,294 users who participated in its testnets in 2024. The blockchain combines a Layer 1 with optimistic rollups and integrates multiple virtual machines like EVM, MoveVM, and WasmVM to optimize transactions in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Australian financial regulators have launched a crackdown on cryptocurrency ATM providers amid concerns about inadequate anti-money laundering controls. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) has launched a specialized task force to address potential compliance issues in the growing sector.

Brazil has officially barred a major category of pension funds from investing in cryptocurrencies, citing risk concerns and the need to preserve long-term financial stability. The country's top financial policy body, the National Monetary Council (CMN), announced the decision under Resolution 5.202/2025, published last week.

The agency is determined to treat crypto derivatives the same way it treats everything else.

Earlier this Monday, Nilton David, the director of monetary policy at the central bank of Brazil, rejected the idea of diversifying reserve assets with cryptocurrencies. Such a move would be inappropriate, according to David.

Cryptocurrencies and crypto-linked stocks have reportedly slumped alongside the S&P 500 Index amid traders' concerns about a global trade war and a possible recession. Bitcoin has lost more than 10% of its value and Ether has lost more than 45% since the beginning of the quarter, Bloomberg reported Monday (March 31).

In the realm of macro risks, this week is stacked with market-moving events — particularly relevant to risk assets.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is advocating for U.S. regulations to permit consumers to earn interest on stablecoins. Armstrong argued in an X post that allowing stablecoin interest would benefit consumers, expand financial access globally, and strengthen the U.S. economy.

Binance, the planet's biggest crypto exchange by volume, has released a new feature bridging its services to the decentralized finance (DeFi) world.

The market for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) is growing by the day, but contrary to belief, the biggest hurdle to broader adoption isn't regulation, but a lack of dedicated secondary markets for buying and selling tokenized securities, according to Prometheum founder and co-CEO Aaron Kaplan. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Kaplan drew attention to ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood's recent appearance at the Digital Asset Summit in New York, where she said that a lack of regulatory clarity is preventing her company from tokenizing its funds.

TL;DR Hut 8 acquires 80% of American Data Centers, a company backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., transforming it into “American Bitcoin”, a new entity focused exclusively on large-scale Bitcoin mining.

Figment, a staking infrastructure provider, is expanding into Latin America with a new office in São Paulo, Brazil. The company wants to support the region's growing blockchain ecosystem and increase its institutional staking services.

Abu Dhabi is set to make history as it hosts the world's first blockchain-powered electronic dance music (EDM) festival—Tribe O Crypto.

Miller Whitehouse-Levine, who previously led the DeFi Education Fund, is starting a new nonprofit focused on advocating for Solana in the nation's capitol.

Cambrian, a startup building infrastructure for AI agents with financial intelligence, has raised $5.9 million in a seed round led by a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator.

Coinbase is etching fresh regulatory wins as more states change their positions on staking. The latest win is Kentucky opting to drop its Coinbase staking lawsuit, a move that sees it join Vermont and South Carolina.

Bithumb reported $110 million in net profits for 2024 as South Korea's second-biggest exchanges eyes an IPO later in 2025.

TL;DR Over $46 million was stolen from Coinbase users in March through a wave of sophisticated phishing attacks, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT. The most severe case involved the theft of 400 BTC — nearly $35 million — in a single transaction. Coinbase reminds users it will never request passwords, 2FA codes, or direct transfers.

Gold price continued to diverge from the crypto and stock market this week as it soared to a record high of $3,125. It has soared for five consecutive weeks, making it one of the year's best-performing assets.

Japans Financial Services Agency (FSA) plans to reclassify cryptocurrencies as financial products under new regulations aimed at curbing insider trading within the digital asset market, according to a Nikkei report on Sunday. This move is part of a broader initiative to strengthen oversight of Japans rapidly growing cryptocurrency sector, which has seen an increase in fraudulent activities alongside rising adoption.

The crypto market has come under pressure this month, continuing a downtrend that began in the fourth quarter of last year.

As countries like the U.S. and El Salvador buy bitcoin, yours should too.

Circle Internet Financial, the issuer of USDC, is taking a major step toward its long-anticipated initial public offering.

TL;DR NFT sales dropped 63% during the first quarter of 2025, falling from $4.1 billion to $1.5 billion. Pudgy Penguins, Doodles, and Milady Maker grew despite the downturn, while CryptoPunks and BAYC suffered major declines. Bitcoin NFTs saw an increase in average price, but sales plummeted by 79%.

According to Beugelmans' Linkedin profile, he spent three years and eight months at the exchange.

Opinion by: Igor Zemtsov, chief technology officer at TBCC Following “Libragate,” memecoin prices crashed, with their market cap falling nearly 60% from 2025's highs. But meme tokens, dead?

Remember Mesh's Bam Azizi from our chat earlier this month, after his firm raised a whopping $82M?

Cryptomugging is on the rise: a man lost nearly $1 million when robbers snatched his unlocked phone from his hands. The post Man Loses £750,000 in ‘Cryptomugging' appeared first on Cryptonews.

The move contrasts with developments in other countries, such as the U.S. and U.K., where some pension funds have begun to experiment with crypto exposure.

The CEO of the Bitcoin (BTC)-focused exchange River says he has no interest in providing access to anything other than the flagship crypto asset.

Binance launches CEX to DEX trades, enabling decentralized token swaps directly from CEX funds.

Japan's financial watchdog is preparing to change how cryptocurrencies are handled under the law, with plans to classify them as financial assets starting in 2026.

Hashgraph, the developer behind the Hedera network, has announced the launch of HashSphere, a private, permissioned blockchain tailored for enterprises in regulated industries.

Japan's FSA plans to classify crypto as financial products by 2026. Japan had 7.34 million active crypto trading accounts as of January 2025.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe recently shared his thoughts on the settlement between Galaxy Digital and the New York Attorney General (NYAG), marking a notable departure from his usual support for minimal regulation.

With the rise of memecoin and the relentless race for their listing, many crypto exchanges are turning into a sort of “crypto-casino”. This is the warning issued by Alex Leishman, CEO of River Financial, a company that has made the Bitcoin-only approach its founding philosophy.

The team behind the Hashgraph network is launching a new private, permissioned blockchain geared towards institutions.

The increasing geopolitical tensions and global macroeconomic uncertainty are changing investment choices in the crypto sector: more and more investors are reallocating capital towards stablecoin and real-world assets (RWA). That is, real-world assets such as real estate, artworks, and financial instruments, digitized through blockchain technology.

We're heading into the second quarter of the year, and — as I wrote last week — this last quarter was a doozy.

Blockchain project Initia has announced a 50 million INIT token airdrop ahead of its upcoming mainnet launch.