Circle Internet Group ($CRCL) drew renewed attention on March 18 (ET) after disclosing a strategic partnership with Mastercard, a development investors took as a meaningful boost to the company’s global payments footprint...

Polymarket, the leading prediction markets platform, has acquired Brahma, a blockchain financial infrastructure company known for building real-time execution and settlement systems for high-volume digital asset...

The FTX Recovery Trust announced Wednesday that it will distribute approximately $2.2 billion to creditors on March 31, marking the fourth round of payouts under the companys Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan. The...

Cryptocurrency and gift card platform Bitrefill has attributed a sophisticated cyberattack on March 1, 2026, to the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group, also known as Bluenoroff. The breach compromised parts of the companys...

Bitmax (377030), formerly KOSDAQ-listed Maxt, is facing renewed scrutiny after an analysis of regulatory filings and on-chain data suggested its high-profile digital asset treasury push was financed through convertible...

Bitcoin (BTC) exchange reserves posted a short-term inflow but continued to trend lower over the past month, a mixed signal that points to persistent supply tightening even as day-to-day trading activity shifts sharply...

Aster, a decentralized perpetual exchange, has officially launched the mainnet of Aster Chain, a high-performance layer-1 blockchain engineered specifically for derivatives trading. The rollout follows a phased approach,...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2026 U.S. financial regulators handed the sports blockchain industry a long-awaited victory Monday, formally classifying fan tokens as digital collectibles and digital tools not securities in a...

Mastercard is making a bold move into the stablecoin space with its $1.8 billion acquisition of BVNK, a London-based blockchain payments firm operating across more than 130 countries. The deal marks a significant turning...

Some of Wall Street’s most powerful firms began quietly building positions in battered DeFi ‘governance tokens’ in Q1 2026—a move that looks less like a momentum trade and more like an attempt to lock in early exposure to...